Janelle Monáe – Tightrope (featuring Big Boi) – MP3 (2010)

Presenting your left-of-centre house-party-floor-filler. Follow it up with an OutKast classic.

Download: Janelle Monáe – Tightrope (featuring Big Boi) (Track) – MP3
Buy: Janelle Monáe – The ArchAndroid (Album)

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James Blake – CMYK (Track) – MP3 (2010)

Soul futurism, post-dubstep – call it what you want. Blake’s jerky red-coat refrain is contagious and the world’s forward-thinking musical slicers and dicers should be working it into their mixes right now. Bullion?

Download: James Blake – CMYK (Track) – MP3
Buy: James Blake – CMYK (Album)

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