Kamp! are a Polish SynthPop act who have just released their new single, ‘Heats’, on Brennessel.
The single is an impassioned classic SynthPop tune with a touch of Nu-Disco in it’s bassline. ‘Heats’ is an intricate retro styles Pop song with a little hint of Spandau Ballet about it. The B-side, ‘Distance Of The Modern Hearts’ is more upbeat and an awesome collision between classic, pure 80’s Pop and Nu-Disco. Defiantly a band to keep an eye, or ear, on!
This track has been sat in the electronic rumors inbox all weekend, I initially wasn’t going to write about it but then found I was listening to it over and over, so here it is!
sevdahBABY is a Serbian Electro-House producer and this track he has dropped, ‘Don’t Look Back’ is (to me anyway) pretty addictive. Both it’s broken beats and it’s mixture of Electro sounds and sounds reminiscant of early 90’s Bleep House just hit the right spot! This is the kind of dance music I get lost in…
Danish duo Dato dabble with both ElectroPop and Electro-House with interesting effects.
A while back we first introduced you to their track with Danny Andersen, ‘I Don’t Wanna’’ which we quite liked, it was a pretty energetic dancey ElectroPop track with some nice old school sounds. Now the guys are gearing up for the release of their first album next month and have dropped another track on us to wet out appetites. Featuring the vocals of Jannie Linnebæk, ‘How Many Times?’ is slightly more Housey but still wears it’s SynthPop influences in it’s sleeve. It’s a relaxed, dancey piece of electronic pop that makes really subtle use of a vocoder to create a smooth vocal effect.
Congratulations to Twitter users @disco_naivete, @theconceptmk, @Greenelk. @sophiarichards and @glme, they’ve won our competition in association with We Have Band and Topman CTRL. Limited edition T-Shirts designed by the band are on it’s way to them!
The TopmanCTRL Student tour has drawn to a close now, but keep an eye of http://www.topmanctrl.com for news of future events!
This afternoon HURTS appeared on Jo Whiley’s ‘Live Lounge’ on BBC Radio 1, as well as well as an epic acoustic performance of their current single ‘Better Than Love’ the guys also covered Diana Vickers’ recent single ‘Once’.
Citing an underlying sadness in the Cathy Dennis & Eg White penned track as the reason for their choice of cover, the band (complete with, not only their opera singer, but cello and violin) belted out an intense rendition. The song had previously sent Diana Vickers (who has also worked with Ellie Goulding and Starsmith) to number one in the charts.
The band also talked about summer festivals, influences and not having a title for the August released album yet.
OMD’s Andy McClusky and Paul Humphries will be chatting to Mark about getting involved with electronic music, their influence on the charts and their forthcoming album, ‘History Of Modern’ and in the final hours Nu-Disco master Grum will be busting out a special 80’s influenced mix of SynthPop new and old.
To wet your appetite check out OMD’s classic ‘Bunker Soldiers’ and Grum’s blog destroying 2009 monster ‘Runaway’:
ceo is Modular’s new SynthPop signing and one half of Modular licensed Swedish ElectroPop act The Tough Alliance.
It’s so good to here some new, interesting Electro coming from the Modular house and the half of TTA that is Eric Berglund has carved a unique niche for himself in the ElectroPop field. Creative use of samples sets ceo’s music apart from the pack and the mysterious visuals will certainly keep people intrigued. Keep an ear our of ceo in the coming months.
While in the studio in Jamaica, Electro-Dancehall masters Diplo & Switch A.K.A. Major Lazer put together a mixtape for La Roux, dubbing it ‘Lazerproof’.
Consisting of 14 mash-ups of La Roux’s SynthPop gold with various Dubplates, Blends and Diplo & Switch’s beats featuring the likes of Amanda Blank, Candi Redd and Matthew Hemerlein. If you’ve ever wanted to hear a Dancehall/Electro/Dub/ElectroPop/Hip Hop/SynthPop/Dubstep/Ska collision album then this is the one for you. The whole album works amazingly well and handled masterfully by Major Lazer and all given to you for free via ‘Lazerproof’s mini-site. It’s defiantly different and a perfect way to kick off the summer, in fact in the first 24 hours of release 200,000 seemed to agree and crashed Diplo’s label, Mad Descent’s servers forcing the label to backup the album download at this zShare link!
It’s a reverb drenched electronic dream. Synth melodies and tones intertwine and fade in and out while mere snatches of the original vocal are used to ethereal effect. It’s a dark and moody track, as you’d expect from RD, but with chord progressions and melodies that suggest some underlying hope. I think it’s my favourite Radiant Dragon piece to date, I think maybe ‘cos amongst the darkness there is some really beautiful synth work and an, almost, 80’s fantasy/Sci-Fi soundtrack vibe going on.
When Sarah McIntosh A.K.A. The Good Natured first came to our attention last year we could tell something special was going on. Not flash-in-the-pan, overhyped, special, but something of substance. The kind of special that grows and lasts.
The young singer/songwriter creates something that appeals, not only to a love of electronic dance music, but also to the intimate and atmospheric. Her introspective and heartfelt presentation on record is complimented with a live show that sees Sarah commanding the stage with eclectic outfits and a passionate performance that is only increasing as her confidence grows. Set apart from her contemporary left-field popsetresses, such as Marina or Ellie, by a uniqueness and individuality that can only come from an honesty in everything she does, The Good Natured sprinkles a hint of darkness over female fronted ElectroPop and makes the genre a more interesting place.
The lead track on her début EP of last year, ‘Your Body Is A Machine’, gets a full single release next month with the backing of the mighty Kitsuné Music .With a beautifully shot video and reMixes that are already setting the blogs on fire it’s sure to be a summer hit. Sarah took some time out of her busy schedule promoting the single to drop a little knowledge on us:
ER: We’ve featured you on our website a few times but although there are many electronic elements to your music, I wouldn’t strictly call you an Electro or ElectroPop artist. How would you *like* your music described and (gun to the head) what genre do you feel most comfortable being associated with?
SM: That’s quite a hard question, I don’t really think about what genre I am, I just consider my music a form of self expression and art. I guess it is electronic pop, but I like to think its got a darker side.
ER: Who, musically, has been an inspiration on you and who inspires you out of your contemporaries?
SM: David Slyvian, Robert Smith, Siouxsie Soux.
ER: You must be exited about the re-release of Your Body Is A Machine on Kitsuné, having one of the world hippest labels champion you must be flattering?
SM: Yes, it is very flattering!
ER: How did you approach the re-recording of the track, was there stuff you weren’t happy with on the EP recording?
SM: It wasn’t that I wasn’t happy with the EP recording, it was great, but I felt it could be better, and we have made it sound bigger and more epic, so I am really pleased.
ER: You’ve done quite a bit of solid gigging in the past few months, have you found anywhere you really enjoy playing? (Kudos points for saying Bristol!)
SM: Well Start the Bus in Bristol was really fun actually! There was free cake so that was a mega plus. We all really enjoyed playing the great escape in Brighton, there was a great atmosphere there and it was packed.
ER: Do you prefer songwriting/recording or playing live?
SM: I don’t think you can compare the two. I love them both in different ways, performing is so much fun, but songwriting more emotional, depends what you are in the mood for!
ER: Any crazy rock ‘n’ roll tour stories?
SM: Yes actually! One time we got chucked out of our own gig in Reading because we were too young! Another time in Brighton the soundman bottled the promoter. Nice.
ER: You’ve been known to wear some pretty eye-catching outfits and put on some pretty crazy performances, is that the real Sarah or is The Good Natured a persona?
SM: Its me!
ER: From the backcombed black hair to the atmospheric videos there’s quite a bit of Goth going on ’round your way, are you a secret Goth?
SM: Yes I think so. My skins pale enough isn’t it?
ER: Now for the gear geek question! What’s in Sarah’s studio? Do you have a favourite bit of kit. I’ve heard there is a particular Yamaha keyboard you’re very fond of?
SM: Yes, my beloved Yamaha my Grandma gave me, a few of the keys have stopped working it’s so old but I love it dearly. Apart from that there’s a couple of synths and many fairy lights.
ER: How does the average The Good Natured song take shape, lyrics or music first?
SM: Depends,sometimes words sometimes music! What generally happens is I get a musical idea, then I open my lyric book and chose some words to go over the top!
ER: Cereal or Full English Breakfast? Would your answer change the day after a gig?
SM: Coco-Pops or Crunchy Nut. Deffo a Full English after a gig!
ER:Cheers Sarah!
While you’re waiting for the single release check out the mega talented Baby Monster’s new reMix of ‘Your Body Is A Machine’ which drags Sarah squarely into the middle of the dancefloor!
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