Billie Black With influences including a host of jazz greats (she studied at the Guildhall School of Music) to sadface electronic singer James Blake and downcast R&B crooner Sampha, 19-year-old Billie Black makes the kind of breathy, modern soul that sounds simultaneously welcoming and strangely unnerving.
In 2008, Irish electronic singer Róisín Murphy paid homage to Divine in the music video for her song "Movie Star" by reenacting the attack by Lobstora from Multiple Maniacs.
His newest collaboration, "Blame" with Toronto duo Zeds Dead and Swedish electronic singer Elliphant, sees him once again straddle those aforementioned lines with a track that's pop-leaning yet suitable for giant festival stages.
That said, Radio 1's current playlist includes electronic singer-songwriter James Blake, whose opaque music is no one's idea of a sure commercial thing.
Regardless, it's a truly exceptional party best enjoyed in the company of farsighted D.J.s; this month the soul-inclined electronic singer-songwriter-producer James Blake, an early bearer of the post-dubstep genre stamp, mans the decks.
The overwhelming impression, though, is of an electronic singer-producer with her sextant set to the mainstream, like the XX-chromosome version of 2016 toast Jack Garratt, give or take a guitar.
James Blake was mystifyingly mislabelled as "dubstep", but the 22-year-old Londoner was actually an electronic singer-songwriter whose superb self-titled debut had more in common with Robert Wyatt, John Martyn and Secret Life of Plants-era Stevie Wonder than with Nero or Magnetic Man.
Since then, the pianist, producer and electronic music singer-songwriter has worked with SBTRKT and Solange Knowles, Koreless and Lil Silva, Jessie Ware - on her 2011 track Valentine - and Drake, producing and singing on two tracks from the Nothing Was the Same album: the Motion and Too Much.
Sampha, a soulful electronic producer and singer, pairs seamlessly with a sample of Curtis Mayfield on the album's lead single, "Close But Not Quite," and its live rendition was just as well-pronounced.
"My Machines" featuring British electronic composer and singer Gary Numan is taken off Battles' recent album Glass Drop.
The song "My Machines," featuring British electronic composer and singer Gary Numan, is taken off Battles' recent album Glass Drop.
