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For Big Boi and Kelly Rowland, reflecting on what their mothers told them necessitates returning to the up-to-the-minute styles of the '80s. "Mama Told Me," a track from Big Boi's upcoming Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors that we've already heard in both Rowland- and Little Dragon-assisted versions, draws on svelte, rubbery-synthed '80s R&B like that of Bobby Brown, who gets a lyrical name-check. The video, too, reaches back for flashy graphics that would've looked like the future in a Tron-era video arcade. The OutKast rapper and former Destiny's Child singer never quite appear to be in the same shot, but both have a sophisticated look about them: Big Boi in dapper hat and glasses, Rowland in a feathery coat. There's gratuitous cognac product placement, and an equally gratuitous dancing pyramid with legs. That's the one your mother warned you about.

Big Boi also unveiled the official track list forVicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors, now due out on December 11 via Def Jam. We've already been to not one but two listening sessions for the album, so the credits don't offer much in the way of surprises, but yeah: Wavves, Phantogram, and Little Dragon all appear on Big Boi's new album. Holy indie bands, Batman!

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Big Boi's Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors track list:

1. "Ascending" 2. "The Thickets" feat. Sleepy Brown 3. "Apple of My Eye" 4. "Objectum Sexuality" feat. Phantogram 5. "In the A" feat. T.I. and Ludacris 6. "She Hates Me" feat. KiD CuDi 7. "CPU" feat. Phantogram 8. "Thom Pettie" feat. Little Dragon and Killer Mike 9. "Mama Told Me" feat. Kelly Rowland 10. "Lines" feat. A$AP Rocky and Phantogram 11. "Shoes for Running" feat. B.o.B and Wavves 12. "Raspberries" feat. Mouche and Scar 13. "Tremendous Damage" feat. Bosko 14. "Descending" feat. Little Dragon

Deluxe 15. "Higher Res" feat. Jai Paul and Little Dragon 16. "Gossip" feat. UGK and Big K.R.I.T. 17. "She Said OK" with Theophilus London and feat. Tre Luce

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New Strut anthology compiles 20 years of Cajmere/Green Velvet and friends

Despite electronic music's ostensibly futurist bent, house music in 2012 sounds overwhelmingly like 1992 all over again: All tracky drum grooves, stabbing pianos, and staccato bass lines, with the odd wailing diva thrown in for good measure. That's hardly a bad thing if it ain't broke, etc. but the most encouraging side effect of house music's current retro fixation has been the way that it has helped to shine a spotlight on some of the genre's pioneers.

Enter Chicago's Curtis Jones, better known under his aliases Cajmere and Green Velvet. House music was already deeply ingrained in Chicago by the time that Jones started making music in 1990, with just a drum machine, a Yamaha synthesizer, and a Tascam 4-track recorder. But he and his Cajual label, founded in 1992, helped pump fresh energy into the scene, turning out raw, skeletal, faintly unhinged machine funk shaded with classic soul.

A new compilation from the U.K.'s Strut label, Only 4 U: The Sound of Cajmere & Cajual Records 1992 2012, surveys some of the best music to appear on the label in the past 20 years. (Despite the title, the vast majority of the material on the double-disc comp is from the period between 1992 and 1997.) Alongside obvious, enduring hits like Cajmere's "Percolator" and Cajmere and Dajae's "Brighter Days," there's plenty more to discover here: Johnny Fiasco's organ-soaked jack track "Taurus," Gemini's psychedelic carnival jam "Le Fusion," and, particularly, Adam's "Moments in Time," a disorienting whirl of syncopated drums and off-beat arpeggios that suggests the off-kilter approach that Chicago's Jamal Moss would take in his own work as Hieroglyphic Being. From the soulful to the seriously twisted, all of house music's essential elements are here in this anthology.

To promote the comp, Cajual artist Johnny Fiasco put together a 37-minute mini-mix featuring some of his favorite tracks from the label's catalog. Check it out below, and read more about Only 4 U on the Strut website.

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