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Kid Cudi may have pushed back his collaborative album with Dot Da Genius, WZRD, from January 31 to February 28, but he did release a new single from the album, the Drive soundtrack-sampling “Teleport 2 Me, Jamie.” The atmospheric jam is almost entirely void of the riffage Cudi and Genius threw on other WZRD track “Brake”. It would actually fit effortlessly within Kid Cudi’s hazy oeuvre – somewhere between “Pursuit of Happiness” and “Mr. Rager.” Whether or not this is a bad thing depends entirely on you; we’re digging it.

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You know the details of Air’s upcoming Le Voyage Dans La Lune – the French electro duo were asked to score a restored version of George Melies’ original sci-fi film of the same title, and their project quickly evolved into a full album that includes vocal contributions from Beach House’s Victoria Legrand and others. We’ve caught some of the band’s excellent cuts from the score, including “Parade,” which NPR premiered a snippet of late last year alongside restored footage from the film. Now you can hear the complete psychedelic instrumental jam with some attendant topical visuals. Le Voyage Dans La Lune is out on February 7.

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We briefly got really excited that Sean Paul had sampled New York electro-rave standards The Rapture on his comeback single “How Deep is Your Love?” He doesn’t, but the song’s such a delicious and prematurely summery slice of dance floor-filling islandy pop that we can’t be mad for too long.

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The Flaming Lips are kicking off 2012 with a typically obtuse, psychadelic mini-release you’ll only have a week to check out. “Now I Understand,” just uploaded to the band’s SoundCloud for a few days, features vocal contributions from frontman Wayne Coyne’s Siri iPhone 4s app alongside the mystical stylings of Erykah Badu and a reversed Biz Markie sample. The end product is surprisingly listenable for all its strange disparate parts – we just wish Siri always sounded like Erykah Badu, whose haunting pipes perfectly ground the spacey strangeness of everything else. Check it out while you can.

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As expected, M.I.A’s new single “Bad Girls” premiered online this morning. An early version of the track was originally included in Maya’s Vicki Leekx mixtape last year. The single will be available at online retailers tomorrow, Jan. 31, and a video is coming in early February. Check out the full “Bad Girls” below:

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Frank Ocean, who in our opinion has long outgrown his Odd Future cohorts, is busy working on what has got to be one of the most anticipated albums of 2012. Like he did a few weeks ago, the crooner has shared a short new song on his Tumblr page, possibly called “Voodoo.” The song is not 100 seconds long, but that is all Ocean needs to melt you with his golden falsetto and meditations on marriage – a subject he memorably contemplated on his mixtape, Nostalgia, ULTRA. Listen to “Voodoo” below, and hope Ocean keeps us this much in the loop as he records his album.

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