I like the new Cottonbelly CD. He's produced downtempo / dub remixes of Noiseshaper, Gregory Isaacs, Cirque Du Soleil, Sade (my favorite track on the CD) and others for a decade+, and his new CD's a compilation of the lof of that. From a small label in NYC: Wrong Records (wrongrecords.net)

The new Ming + FS album is tops. Check your local indie/college radio station for that, as it comes out in a few weeks yet. They're also on a small label now - Spun-Records, whose website (spun-records.com) doesn't work at the moment.

Boom Bip has a new CD - "Corymb" - on the UK label Lex Records. It features remixes by other folks, new material + some tracks from his Peel Session.

Rather off from your list of top artists: Kid Spatula - "Meast." It's a side-project of Mike Paradinas, who is better known as the UK artist µ-Ziq.

tell me something.....what's new and hot. not that radio stuff either. any suggestion? fave music - king britt, jazzanova, sweetback, any music from overseas and underground nyc, philly and dc.

peace - sandi stone