ELECTRONIC | Debuts by Sarah Weis and Supreme Cuts
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Last week newbie NYC label Small Plates announced it would release Trouble, the debut EP from Chicago electronic smooth-jam act Supreme Cuts (right). Mike Perry and Austin Keultjes have worked together for close to two years (they were both in Dirty Diamonds too), but Supreme Cuts started out making sample-based hip-hop tracks, none of which they formally released. The duo grew tired of that style and set off in a direction that Perry jokes was determined by two songs: Ginuwine’s “Differences” and Keith Sweat’s “Make It Last Forever.” That said, their first tune, “Amnesia” (which they started recording at Perry’s apartment during February’s blizzard), sounds more like Burial’s moody dubstep than traditional R&B. Supreme Cuts’ four-song EP will come out digitally and on vinyl in July, accompanied by a DVD of four music videos.—Leor Galil
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