Kelly Green Vol. 1 [free album]

I admittedly went briefly insane during my very first Lemonada live show, deciding that it was a stone cold crime that the 21-year-old Dublin-based producer has yet to be snapped up by Drake, R. Kelly or some other R&B smoothster for a remix or collaboration. Hey, can you blame me for wanting to make the charts a groovier place? Anyway, this fresh-faced mystery man makes heavy, pulsing, occasionally tribal dub and hip hop-tinged electronica, rendered all the more impressive by a knack for using non-musical samples. Take ‘Namaste, Bitch’, the first track from his debut release, which samples the nursery rhyme ‘Three Little Kittens’, the Jim Reeves song ‘Welcome To My World’ and the voice of a thick-accented ballet teacher, all in just two minutes and seven seconds – I’m talking seriously head-spinning stuff, here. If you haven’t already guessed, Lemonada’s debut album Kelly Green Vol. 1, is the coolest free thing you’ll get all year.