Soul is the Goal: Electric Wire Hustle

Remember when Digable Planets Reachin’ and Blowout Comb made you feel cooler than a polar bear’s toenails. There’s something about jazzy funksoul that gives you an air of confidence – not one that’s arrogant or overbearing, but one that’s level-headed and relaxed. It’s the same feeling that New Zealand’s Electric Wire Hustle will give you.

Whereas Digable Planets is more boom-bap, Electric Wire Hustle skews on the soul side, and keeping cooler than cool – ice cold. They’ve only been around a couple years, but their sound shows how they’re well studied in the John Coltranes, Sam Cookes, George Clintons, and even the J Dillas, DJ Premieres, and Just Blaze’s of the world. It takes the best of what we love and fuses it all together, like a suicide soda. Actually, that’ll probably make you sick. It would be more like a Cherry and Coke Slurpee. If you’re down with our Mayer Hawthorne post a while back, I think you’ll dig this.

Electric Wire Hustle – They Don’t Want mp3 via Daily Beatz

Hit the jump for a video, another track, and a playlist to make this winter cold match your state of mind.

Check out this track from their debut and grab the full-length here.

Head over to the soul section of 22 tracks for another dope track called “Chaser” and a bunch more music curated by Full Crate and FS Green.

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