There is a specific kind of quiet you find in the Midwest, and listening to Derby Hill and his self-titled release, "Derby Hill", feels like stumbling into that quiet after a long, noisy shift. It’s not the silence of emptiness; it’s the silence of after. After the argument, after the paycheck clears, after the sun goes down over the Detroit skyline or a Chicago...

There is something deeply satisfying about hearing a song you already love wearing an entirely new set of clothes. Salatiel, the Cameroonian hitmaker and founder of Alpha Better Records, has taken his 2018 fan favourite "Weekend" and rebuilt it from the ground up with an Amapiano pulse. The "Weekend Amapiano Remix" feels like a conversation between two eras of African music, one rooted in the Afrobeat...