The most played track this summer has got to be James Blake’s “CMYK.” Having been released only a few months back, it seems the blogosphere world can’t get it out of their system and neither can we. The track is masterstroke and described as this year’s Hyph Mngo.

Since the mid-90s, when the Hardkiss clan was particularly prodigious in terms of hype and musical output, the glow of that eclectic west coast tribal thing has dulled. However, the hardcore shall prevail, especially the talented and Scott Hardkiss has shown his ability to survive any permutation of electronic music. He made the jump to New York a while ago, but his ethos remains decidedly left coast and on his last God Within full-length it shows. He has also shown his continued relevance by enjoining a bevvy of remixers…

Miguel Atwood-Ferguson has truly put his fingerprint on the most adventurous, meaningful sounds: the meta-talented composer, arranger, and instrumentalist has worked with everyone from John Cale to Rihanna, Outkast to Flying Lotus, Dr. Dre to Mulatu Astatke.

“Cryptic Motion” sounds like Gary Numan attempting a cover of Stevie Wonder’s “Superstition,” with someone from France wearing a robot suit sitting in on vocals; in other words, it’s “FREAKING GREAT AND ALL MUSIC SHOULD SOUND LIKE THIS!!!!!!”

Adam Freeland has taken on many guises. First the legendary U.K. DJ/producer was a breakbeat dude; then he kinda mixed rock with fat dance jams. These days, it seems, he just does whatever sounds great, and the genre classification can go to hell. Case in point: Freeland’s new remix of “Searching” by Om Unit.

Can there be anything more anticipated than new Lil Wayne material? Ever since the New Orleans lyrical gangsta who’s disputably rap’s MVP got incarcerated last year, hip-hop heads (and a lot of other people, too) have been curious about what his next move would be. Well, now we know that he’s going to be dropping an e.p. on Wayne’s birthday, September 7th, and that the track “Right Above It” is the first thing leaked from it.

Really Love how CHLLNGR’s productions hits the perfect balance of soulful dub, deep electronics, and fetching vocals– music that sounds very right now! His debut single “May 3” is out later this month. Be the first to hear it here.00

Today’s Track of the Day comes from an obscure German left-field reggae artist named Patrice. It’s a cover of a great, vintage track by Nina Simone. Patrice indeed puts his own stamp on the song: instead of recalling Simone’s smoky, tortured vocal that reeks of the struggle, Patrice instead evokes Tribe Called Quest performing the soundtrack to Hair on a helium binge.

The monolith, the haze, the riff, the drawl of Black Mountain are set to return after a three-year gap this fall with Wilderness Heart, and we for ones are looking mighty forward to this long player,

When is neo-soul really just…. Soul? Alecia Chakour answers that question on “Hard Times,” a leak from her upcoming e.p. apparently of the same name.

That Yacht have chosen to cover “Nausea” is another stroke of genius for the Portland-based duo, who released one of the best albums in ages, 2009’s See Mystery Lights, released on the mighty DFA label.

Urban music has become a global bazaar, as this witty mash-up by West Coast electronic-music legend Kraddy makes clear. On it, Kraddy—a founding former member of the Glitch Mob and one of the most deft proponents of forward California bass music—fuses two decidedly regional grooves: the dubstep of England and classic hip-hop from Northern California.

The video is awesome! Like destructively, explosively, politically incorrectly awesome. It features a young woman basically getting revenge on… Everything. Nothing is spared. Please do not try this at home…

When we first “Hood Pass Intact” on Dâm-Funk’s mindblowing 2009 album Toeachizown, we were hooked: this was real funk electro boogie, yet from today’s mindstate—you could as much hear up in that as much as you could Snoop Dogg. And it was sooooo instant-classic Cali sounding, the way Roger Troutman’s synthetic swing sounded so at home on, say, “California Love,” when it was in fact just representing the United States of Funk.

A trio of dubstep super-OGs—Skream, Benga, and Artwork—comprise Magnetic Man, and with such low-end tweaking talent all in one zone, much is expectedly hyped about this collective. It’s clear from “I Need Air” that Magnetic Man are up for pushing the sonics into new zones, even if that zone might’ve once been occupied by Britney Spears’ android double.

It’s amazing that the best Air song in years belongs to MGMT, and vice versa. For MGMT’s latest track release off their controversial Congratulations album, the idiosyncratic Brooklyn duo enlist an equally idiosyncratic French duo, and the results… Well, c’est magique!

It’s weird, sometimes, when a remix comes out before the original version of the song. Then again, when a remix is as banging as Etienne De Crecy’s electro-fied “Frech touch” re-rub of Adam Freeland’s “How To Fake Your Own Life,” we’ll live with the weirdness.

“Futures,” Carl Craig’s recent remix for chill-out kings Zero 7, is another one to add to his pantheon of genius.

Okay, Mark Ronson has long been a sage of dopeness—dude made Amy Winehouse a star, nah mean? But this video for a song “Bang Bang Bang” from his upcoming album takes his levelz to a new level.

When it comes to freaking the beats, Kode9 is the man. As the major domo behind the Hyperdub label, he’s expanded the world of dubstep—and electronic and beat/bass-driven music in general, spanning Burial to Joker to Flying Lotus to Ikonika. “You Don’t Wash” is the latest solo joint from Kode9, first appearing in its original form on his brilliant new DJ Kicks mix, and it doesn’t disappoint in its idiosyncrasy.