Sarah Ruba is a singer/songwriter/international fashion model.  Adam Pavao is the lucky asshole that got to marry her and make music to go along with her dope voice.  Together they make up the band New Look and play kickass future-pop music.

New Look - Nap on the Bow (Download)

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Maybe we'll meet at a bar
He'll drive a funky car

...I'll go ahead and say this one's hard to like without good headphones.  

Machinedrum - Updowndownup (Download) 

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Letta Mbulu is a South African jazz singer who started making music in the 60s. There's something about her song Nomalizo that makes me pucker my lips and swing my head side-to-side everytime I hear it, contagious disco at it's finest. 

Letta Mbulu - Nomalizo (Download)

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via Feel My Bicep!

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Unfortunately this track is only available if you buy the 12" from LuckyMe records, so for now the youtube version will have to do because goddamn this song is sexy.

If you're feeling pretty happy about what you have achieved in your life so far, Sydney producer Flume is here to make you question that. He's only 19 (maybe 20) and he is producing all kinds of quality tunes like this remix of Ta-ku's "Higher". It's a hip hoppy electronica number that feels like summer (not the "I think I'm melting onto the subway platform" part of the season, the nice breezy part) and might remind you of The Avalanches.

Look out for a Flume album later this year, coming through the always reliable Future Classic.

Ta-ku - Higher (Flume Remix) (Download)

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For the weekend.

Treasure Fingers - Rooftop Revival (Kastle Remix) (Download)

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Dutch artist, NSFW, struck gold with this one.  The steamy bassline and sultry vocals make for one sexy tune.  I can't help but shake my goods in ways that most definitely are NSFW.  For the sake of both you and your boss, wait until you're home to listen to this one.  The single is out now on This Is Recordings with a choice remix by Kraver.

If there is anything I know about myself, it's that I move through music too quickly.  I fall hard for one song, listen to it on loop for a day, and then never want to hear it again.  At first, I thought Waterfall was just another quick fix until I heard it again after an extended hiatus.  I now have a much greater appreciation for everything about this song, from its reliable backbeat to its brilliant crescendos.  

With a classic ELO sample, Knightlife has managed to create his own classic tune that I know will find its way onto all of my party playlists.

Knightlife - Waterfall (Download)

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Just in case you missed it, this one is important: Damon Albarn and Richard Russell are co-producing an album with Bobby Womack that is set to come out in June.  Following the success that Jamie XX had reinterpreting Gil Scott-Heron's work last year, this album will hopefully continue to prove that R&B still has more to contribute to the future of the music industry.

Bobby Womack - Please Forgive My Heart (Download)

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I like crescendos. I guess it's the build up that does it, right? That is its purpose. The lead-in groove, the prelude...queue areas - all designed for the same function: build anticipation. Take our first song, a remix by Electric Fitness. The opening 'tinman heartbeat' swells until ultimately it gives way to a more playful melody of childlike clanging. It's the clamber that evokes our well-wishing Nostradmus - What could be over that peak? What landscapes await?

Either way, it's a nice effect for a sleepy sunday.