The Japanese House: Clean

19-year-old Amber Bain, performing under the moniker The Japanese House, releases “Clean,” a downtempo electronic pop track with her lower-register, stirring voice as the driving force. It’s impossible not to compare Bain’s love for the vocoder to Imogen Heap’s harmonizing technique in “Hide and Seek,” but it’s a compliment in the best way. Bain experiments with pitch-shifting even further to create beautifully subtle textures on …

Tame Impala: Let It Happen (Soulwax Remix)

Unusually for a rock song, Tame Impala’s “Let It Happen” is a dancefloor jam in and of itself. But Soulwax turns down the lights and gets the disco ball spinning with drum machine breakdowns, arpeggiated synths and more—extending the song even further than its original eight minutes into a deep, sexy burner of a remix. The Belgian brothers behind Soulwax (and 2manydjs) also announced the …

Kelley Stoltz: Cut Me Baby

San Francisco-based DIY bard and multi-instrumentalist Kelley Stoltz shares “Cut Me Baby” off of his upcoming album In Triangle Time, a collection of “future classics” that will release in November by Castle Face Records. The lo-fi, soft rock tune shows off Stoltz’s home recording and production prowess and, of course, his captivating quirkiness. And that’s not all: Stoltz will be releasing two other albums in …