Brenmar‘s Cassie remix starts as an unambiguous house track with vocals that come off as expected. But pretty quickly he flips a bunch of layers that open it up to numerous possible associations, making it more widely accessible and interesting. The sound palette is subtle enough to allow its own unique categorization too. Low frequency pop melodies mixed with triple XL house stabs ride over conga, clapper, and tambourine polyrhythms while Cassie’s voice readily lets you know how good things could be. Someone needs to throw this joint on Youtube over the original video. (Image by Tom Bagshaw.)

With Grenadier‘s black lit fingerprints still evident, plucked anchor lines wind upright with a lock in their step alongside nameless Indian instrumentation. Shigeto finds ample common ground between the two and proves confident enough to allow an end result its triumph over process. So in the midst of exhaustively established intent, a childhood joystick is recalled and shortly layered with glittering metallophone snowflakes. Sci-fi campers danced cautiously but content to his ideas in Brooklyn last weekend as earthly fire rose behind them and burlesque dancers swung from the rafters high above. Jump in at about the 45 second mark. Yea, it’s free. (Image by Gnesa.)

This joint could probably be flipped in most dancehalls, whether it’s packed with hip hop heads, electro headbangers, or dubstep skankers. It’s a remix of Drake’s “Over” by Damon Alexander of De Tropix. And it’s a big improvement over the original, which sounds a bit like one long build with no drop. Alexander reinterprets a lot of the elements from Boi-1da’s beat, rearranging and updating them. The skittery high hats (very underused in that version) are a main feature of this remix. The hypnotic part is also reused, but the simple pin drops are replaced with bigger synth stabs that morph a few times and are dusted with subtle melodies. The violin and guitar get trashed entirely in favor of longer sections of treaded bass in the second half. Jumps off at like 35 seconds in. Although they never signed with Warp, Cherry of De Tropix is featured on “XXXO” alongside Jay Z, which is the lead single for MIA’s upcoming, Galactus rivaling new album. (Painting by Franceso LoCastro.)

Joell Ortiz, Bushwick’s biggest rapper right now. Also, check his other recent video with Jim Jones, AKA “I eat pizza in rap videos.”

Sands of time blow along a cracked and deserted highway, recently traveled by two embarking on a search for inspiration and meaning with some composition of another as guide. Bright stars of distant minds reflect shining and timeless melodies in the chrome of their vehicle, which pours forth warm baritone encouragements in harmony. Their previous discussion rings on – now unspoken – in the star lit interior, one pressing the arts, the other an infinite reminder. A knowing guitar is strummed unseen, a guiding hand for the sojourners’ pace. Records are kept of the journey, but their knowledge is privileged to only a few. Acolytes can still, however, find details in the cloud. Subatomic Sound also provides serial dubwise insight on the matter at Brooklyn Radio. (Artwork by Gabriel Moreno via Koi Koi Koi.)

Cumbia Cosmonauts enjoy performing zero gravity remix experiments on desert scorpions provided by Radiokijada. They pull the original “Agua e Nieve” out of it’s loungey settings and drop it dead center of a slow jam at a grimy basement club with rickety furniture and stacks of Turbo subwoofers. Mothra-sized bass kicks rattle the teeth, loosening them for a gringo version on the quijada, which retains it’s presence – albeit color enhanced by something like early cathode tube ray technology. High noon guitar melodies stand off against lazer pointers, morse code basslines, and autotuned nonsense. Roy Dubb (one half of Radiokijada) posted an aiff file of this free download on his Soundcloud hearth, so we converted it into an MPFree for y’all over here. Last week, the Russian referencing, Melbourne based, Latin music making spacewalkers put together a mixtape of thorough remixes for the Scatterblog family. It features “Jungle Chichatón,” which we’ve jocked for a minute now. (Painting by Ciaran Duffy.)

If you want New York beats and bass, DJ Still Life‘s got you. His Worldwide Smash radio show casts it’s gaze onto the instrumental hip hop steelo and whatever’s good in bass through EVR‘s storefront studio window in the East Village. While the sounds from Still’s decks spill out into the street, guests like Hank Shocklee, Alex Incyde, and CassetteNYC squeeze into the copper-tinted-mirror covered booth and bless the listeners with piles of unreleased gems. The Cali transplant has been doing his thing on the former pirate radio station for nearly a year now. Although the station’s archives are a bit frustrating, he recently dropped a crispy little tropical mixtape that reps the Worldwide side of the show’s title. It leans a bit heavily on the Latin tip for a tropical mix, but no one’s complaining because it’s all fire and we’re fellin’ that stuff anyway. He put this together for the homies over at Taste NYC. Tracklist after the jump. (Photo by Troy Paiva.)

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