We are proud to present our 5th edition of Best You’ve Never Heard, which features 18 songs from up-and-coming artists in a variety of genres that we love. We set stricter guidelines this time in choosing emerging musical talents, only selecting artists who, as of December 28 2011, have less than 5,000 facebook fans. We also made sure to select artists that very little to none of our friends liked and knew about, to further strengthen the idea that these 18 tracks are the Best You’ve Never Heard.

Without further ado, DOWNLOAD Best You’ve Never Heard 5 (Alternate DOWNLOAD). Stream the 18 track playlist/mix below.

Click more for the full tracklisting, including links to previous features on the artists featured on Best You’ve Never Heard 5. Shout out to Hunter Reece for the cover art!
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Last night at The Echo in Silverlake, I saw a slew of awesome musicians. K.Flay, Lesands, The Chain Gang of 1974 and Tic Tic Boom! all rocked the place with style. The show was special in the fact that it consisted of artists and groups on a wide range of genres and not one specific type of music and it was Chain Gang’s last night of their residency at The Echo.

It varied from a female rapper with great electronic beats, indie and alternative rock, and more. Even though it was on a Monday night and the crowd wasn’t as large as I expected, the show was still amazing. Enjoy my favorite tracks from the show below!

K Flay – “Party” [Download]

Lesands – “Pretenders” [Download]

The Chain Gang of 1974 – “Stop!” [Download]

Tic Tic Boom! – “Bees” [Download]

Tags: "Prentenders", "Stop!", K. Flay, Lesands, party, The Chain Gang Of 1974, The Echo, Tic Tic Boom!

Today a real treat of an album came out from French electro/rock duo Justice. The album, Audio, Video, Disco is a mix of synths and electronic rock that are pumping with energy, banging with rhythm and overall having a consistenly awesome sound with various genres interlaced including electro, arena rock, disco-house and much more.

I enjoy almost every song on Audio, Video, Disco, there’s such an epic kind of sound apparent in many of the songs on the album with an almost cinematic production applied.

Here’s my five favorites from the latest Justice album that we haven’t posted yet.

DOWNLOAD ”Horsepower”

DOWNLOAD ”Ohio”

DOWNLOAD ”Canon”

DOWNLOAD ”Parade”

DOWNLOAD ”New Lands”

Previous: Justice – “Helix”

Tags: album, Audio Video Disco, Justice

Shout out to Freedzy for turning me onto Boulder, Colorado electronic artist, Robotic Pirate Monkey. Recently RPM’s management sent us “Rio de Fuego” the first single off their upcoming project to be released on Halloween! I just love the instrumentals which incorporate various elements not common with most electronic songs. “Rio de Fuego” isn’t one of those songs filled with synths but sounds real natural.
Rio De Fuego by RoboticPirateMonkey

Previous: Robotic Pirate Monkey – “Spliffton Doobinski” ft. Richie Spice

Tags: boulder, colorado, robotic pirate monkey, upcoming project

Electronic rock or French electro, not sure how to categorize the latest Justice track, “Helix”. Either way, “Helix” is another banger from the French electronic music duo. Shouts to TSIS on the find.
Justice – Helix
Previous: Justice – Audio, Video, Disco

Tags: Audio Video Disco, french electro, Justice

For genre on iTunes, I put Awesome for this because after hearing it, you feel awesome or you think the song is awesome. Tyson‘s retro-futuristic sound is real catchy and I look forward to more from him. Download: Hulkshare / Mediafire
Fight by TYSON
Shout out to BoomD who played “Fight” for me last week.

Tags: Awesome, electronic pop, retro-futuristic, Tyson

New hip-hop over electronic rock beats with Ninjasonik‘s latest song, “Mosh Pit”. A hip-hop banger to rage to! Seriously if you are not following Ninjasonik on facebook and twitter, do that now and download this upbeat jam. “Mosh Pit” is the first single off Ninjasonik‘s upcoming 2nd album, Peter Pan Syndrome, due out September 20.

Bonus: Heard this recently although it came out a few months ago. DJ Skeet Skeet remixes, “That Your Girl” an electro-pop song featuring Ninjasonik and originally by Mattie Safer. I love the beats Skeet Skeet throws onto it, turning it into a more dance-style club remix.

Tags: DJ Skeet Skeet, electronic rock/hip-hop, Mattie Safer, Ninjasonik

With their upbeat electronic rock Anamanaguchi have this perfect video game music sound. Well that’s selling it short, as its much better than that! A brief bio:

We are Anamanaguchi. We make hyper-active, hyper-positive 8-bit jams that epicly wail with guitars and drums.

Anamanaguchi considers their music a mix of 8bit, punk and fast power pop: overall it makes for a cool retro video game style Below are two of their recent songs, “My Skateboard Will Go On” is a must-download if you like upbeat electronic/rock music that sounds too good for somebody to lay vocals on.

“My Skateboard Will Go On”

“Mess”

“Helix Nebula”

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Tags: 8-Bit, Anamanaguchi, electro-rock, electronic/rock

French electronic duo Justice are so talented. We heard “Civilization” a while back as part of an Adidas commercial then the full song was released building even more buzz on the latest from Justice. Justice has created an immense amount of excitement based on a single track, building the anticipation over a course of months, not weeks.

Today they dropped the official music video and I was surprised by how stunning the visuals are as the backdrop for such an epic dance/electronic tune.
Justice – Civilization
Official music video after the jump.
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Tags: Adidas commercial, Audio Video Disco, France, Justice

StartYourOwnRebellion is a alternative/hip-hop quartet that recently started getting much attention with their song featuring J. Cole. They are also being pushed by J. Cole’s Dreamville imprint, which means a lot to most hip-hop heads considering J. Cole is one of the best up-and-coming artists out there.

I found out SYOR put out a mixtape, LP3020 (download), which uses production from Ratatat. Also they did a music video for one of my favorite songs, “Right Here”, which uses interesting Japanese anime, real cool. Below is a few of my favorites and after the jump you can find their music video for “Right Here”.
Right Here
If You Want To
I Know

Below is the official music video to “Right Here”.

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Tags: Electronic Pop Hop, LP3020, StarYourOwnRebellion