Makoto: "Summer Nights"

This Makoto cat has it in him to be the Japanese Nicolas Jaar, not in terms of a copycat sound but just bringing an enormous amount of technical expertise and sense of space to his work. The whole breezy, chill out summer thing has been done to death but I'm making one more exception for "Summer Nights" because homeboy knows how to program beats.

The Another Generation EP is out August 13 on Apollo.

Jacques Greene: "Ready"

This is the last of my post-Portland vacation catch up tunes. Coincidentally, there's a lot in this video to remind one of the PDX: cable cars, wrought iron bridges, funhouse escalators... actually the latter probably just seems like something every Portland mall would have. At this point I'm really just burnt out riffing on artist bios and label release dates. Chew your food and STFU.

Filterwolf: "Brooklyn Via Montmartre" [Altered Natives Remix]

The original mix was pretty tight but Altered Natives made a smooth ass road trip out of the motherfucker. The differences are subtle yet notable: the virtually unprocessed analog piano of the original has been compressed into a more suitable deep house thrum, the bass accentuated and the jazziness made more dancefloor friendly. Filterwolf's third LP - in a genre that almost openly disdains the long play format - is regrettably entitled Viva La Rave and there doesn't seem to be a release date, but the single is available on Beatport.