Get Familiar: Local Tracks You May Have Missed In May 2016

Each month we've been serving you up the latest joints from the most interesting, unique, and ground-breaking local artists out there, and our May edition features some impressive entries, particularly on the R&B tip.

In this installment, we run through releases from George Maple, Tkay Maidza, Vanessa Elisha, Trè Samuels and many more. You can check out the playlist for the month by scrolling below, and make sure to shoot back in June for the next monthly wrap-up.

While Sydney's own singer-songwriter George Maple is perhaps better known for her collaborations, here she steps out on her own for a self-professed strip club anthem that taps into the simmering sensuality of Aaliyah's "Are You That Somebody".

D.C. rapper GoldLink rides shotgun and drops a lively, leaning verse, while the co-production list features names like What So Not, Noah Breakfast, and Touch Sensitive, ensuring that this one was going to a be a banger from the beginning.

Tkay Maidza is one Aussie artist that seems to go from strength to strength, and it's been impressive to watch her star rise from our lowly position on Planet Earth, as she makes all the right moves time and time again.

Here, she's teamed up with Parisian DJ Martin Solveig–who has produced a number of stellar house joints over the years–and seems to be onto another winner with a jam that miraculously features just the right amount of cowbell.