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January: Six artists you need to check out this month
New year, new music
Col3trane
Col3trane’s music comes from a landscape indelibly marked by the work of Frank Ocean and Drake. The 18-year-old has been tipped for success by Dua Lipa and Jorja Smith and, like both artists, his take on principally US genres has a very British flavour. Of US and Egyptian parentage, Cole Basta made waves with a vocal on SG Lewis’s ‘Smart Aleck Kill’ earlier this year. Recent mixtape ‘Tsarina’ is a winding trip through soul and r’n’b flavours.
Col3trane’s self-released mixtape ‘Tsarina’ is out now
Lex Luca
Lex Luca has gone from producing shows for the likes of Heidi and Pete Tong on Radio 1 to making bouncing house bangers more than capable of capturing the Essential New Tune slot. A big remix of Jaguar Skills in March ’17 propelled him into the wider consciousness and hinted at a love for high impact 90s house. He’s released on Cr2, his own In Tune label and Roger Sanchez’s Undr The Radr, serving up emotive vocal stabs and slamming drums.
‘Can’t Take It/Jumpin’ EP is out now on In Tune
