Rusko - Hold On Subfocus Remix (featuring Amber Coffman) (free download)
The best Dirty Projectors songs tend to be the ones not sung by Dave Longstreth. The group's boss is one of the smartest music-makers out there but he must sometimes envy his other singers' voices. Best known as one of the DP's lead vocalists, Amber Coffman lends her soft croon to this electronic smash that takes her out of intellectual experimental rock and places her in DJ music. A successful juxtaposition in a brand of music that exists exclusively in headphones and concert filler. Which is a shame because we just can't imagine hearing this on a night out in meatpacking.
Rox - I Don't Believe (Don Diablo Remix)
Roxanne Tataei (aka. Rox) is a Jamaican-Iranian soul singer from London, and Don Diablo is a heavy-handed Dutch electro DJ. Production of past Rox singles feels like Mark Ronson spun piano-groovy pop, which befits Rox's shades of Winehouse. I appreciate the remix form, but don't enjoy the earbud slamming swoops and lasers that come from the most electronic of DJ's. Ubiquitous synthesizers and iPod samples are great, but that doesn't mean I don't draw the line somewhere. This is that line.
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