Jessie Ware - 110%

                               Your words alone could drive me to a thousand tears...

Jessie Ware has been knocking around on the underground dance scene in London for a while now. She has provided guest vocals for the likes of Joker and SBTRKT and also teamed up with the electronic soul man known as Sampha, but now it seems the London based songbird is heading out on her own and personally I’m glad she has.

Maybe a month or two ago Jessie released the video for Running, an absolute beauty of an R’n’B tinged slow jam produced by Bristol’s own Julio Bashmore. Unlike most R’n’B you hear these days the sugary sweetness is nowhere to be seen as Running is drenched in heartache with Jessie’s vocal floating through spacious synths and the thudding of the kick drum.

Now Jessie has returned with another Julio Bashmore produced track 110% apparently recorded around two years ago (according to Bashmore) and it seems that once again this partnership has struck gold. Upping the tempo slightly from her previous releases this track is one for the warm up DJs as it’s sure to get people moving on the dancefloor before the party properly gets started.

I believe the key to Jessie’s success is the people she is choosing to work with and she is definitely choosing wisely. If she carries on working with the likes of Sampha and Julio Bashmore she is sure to get some brilliant results. At the moment Jessie is making some of the most beautiful, soulful and heartbreaking electronic music I have heard for a long while. There is obviously a lot more to come from Ms. Ware and if she carries on this rich vein of form her album Devotion is set to be something truly special.

Listen to 110% below:

Everything Is Borrowed - Vol. 2

Everything is Borrowed, Vol. 2 by London Fields Radio on Mixcloud

“Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.”

The latest edition of Everything Is Borrowed is now available for your listening pleasure, take a listen above.

Episode 2 of Everything Is Borrowed is a further exploration into the depths of musical manipulation. Trudging through the worlds of Hip-Hip, House, Electronica and beyond.

Tracklist:

Madvillain - Great Day (Four Tet Remix)
El Michels Affair - Shimmy Shimmy Ya
Quakers - Fitta Happier (Instrumental)
Ahu - Contact
Alpines & Maya Jane Coles - Why
Alice Smith - Love Endeavour (Maurice Fulton Remix)
Arthur Russell - This Is How We Walk On The Moon (Labyrinth Ear Rework)
Gil Scott Heron & Jamie xx - I'm New Here
Eliphino - I Just Can't (VIP)
Dusk Vs. Kowton - Looking At You
Ifan Dafydd - Miranda
Florence & The Machine - Shake It Out (Weeknd Remix)
Niia - BTSTU
Christian Scott - The Eraser

Jai Paul - Jasmine

I know I've been gone a long time, I'm back and I want what is mine...

Two days ago the internet was lit up by the return of the man known as Jai Paul. Although only having official released one single via XL Recordings the incredible BTSTU, when your first track is that good you only need one release.

Although it's been a long time coming Jasmine seems to be a sure fire hit with it's deep metallic bass line coupled with Prince inspired guitar licks and Jai's soulful falsetto voice. This is deep electronic music for the late night/early morning sessions. I personally listened to this track around 10 times yesterday and it looks like a lot of people did the same thing with the track hitting around 112,000 plays in two days. It also seems that other musicians are glad to see Jai is back with Jessie Ware, Mount Kimbie and Disclosure all heralding his return yesterday.

No release details yet but it looks like it will be released by XL recordings, let's hope it's sooner rather than later.

Stream Jasmine below: