Seema Farswani’s single, ‘Got My Mojo Working’ featuring Dem-C, has been looping in my head, and it feels less like a track and more like a beautifully vexing predicament set to a very groovy beat. The premise is so disarmingly human, isn't it? This notion of possessing a potent personal magnetism, a kind of everyday folk magic that bends the world just so, only...

From the German city of Delmenhorst, DJ Snudi has dispatched "Sugar Daddy," a single that lands with the curious thud of a velvet-wrapped brick. The track presents itself as a straightforward club banger, but listening to it is like trying to have a serious conversation in a room where someone keeps changing the lighting from sterile white to a pulsing, humid red. It’s disorienting,...