I don’t think singer songwriter Melati Melay was being entirely serious when she posted "ghettotech" as her genre on Myspace. In fact, of the three genres listed, only "tropical" seems somewhat descriptive of her music and… life. Malay, originally from Indonesia, lived in Australia, Singapore and a whole bunch of other places before finally settling in New York, and the international influence resonates throughout her tracks. The songs we hear on her myspace profile are quite clearly split in two: rather traditional, intimate but tense ballads with bluesy overtones on one side, and more orchestrated, lush and sophisticated tracks like "Big Potential" on the other – we guess this is a new direction in her sound, which we like a lot. All her music though conveys this overwhelming feeling of an intensely sunny day with a breeze…albeit a breeze with a bite. Windbreaker weather. – allison levin