It looks like ‘Psyche’ might have been chosen as the next single from Massive Attack’s ‘Heligoland’ album.
Good choice too, Martina Topley-Bird is one of my favourite vocalists. Here she is stepping in on vocal duties on ‘Teardrop’ during Massive Attack’s US TV début on Jimmy Kimmel Live:
And here’s the video for ‘Psyche’.
♫ Massive Attack (Feat. Martina Topley-Bird) – Psyche (Van Rivers And The Subliminal Kid reMix)
‘Heligoland’ is out now!
Vice recently teamed up with Intel to unleash The Creators Project onto an unsuspecting world. Set up to showcase creative innovation and to facilitate content creation form some of the hippest music and arts creators around right now.
Electro maniac Peaches gets the spotlight at http://www.thecreatorsproject.com/en-uk/creators/peaches discussing art and technology. Well worth a watch!
♫ Peaches – Show Stopper (Tommie Sunshine Reverser Edit)
[Via Vice Magazine]
There’s still time to pick up a FREE ticket for tonight’s Back To The Phuture event.
As a warm up to their series of live events over the summer, culminating in the opening night of Bestival 2010, Wall Of Sound boss, BBC Radio 6 SynthPop head and all round electronic guru Mark Jones and crew have put together this little line up headlined by a DJ set from Heaven 17’s Martyn Ware! Joining him will be Howard Jones playing a live set, and Mark himself DJ alongside one half of Visage, and the legendary Blitz club’s decks man, Rusty Eagan. Indie-Electro newcomers Kids On Bridges complete the bill with a live set of their poppy Synth Indie.
♫ Kids On Bridges – Check Your Head
Pick up a FREE ticket here, and check Kids On Bridges on MySpace!
After teasing us on Twitter, London SynthPop masters Monarchy have finally dropped their reMix of Kelis recent smash ‘Acapella’!
From the offset you can tell it’s something special, instantly transporting you to Planet Monarchy as the duo effortlessly work their futuristic synth magic for their take on the track. Actually, ‘Acapella’ is a really fitting song for Monarchy to reMix, the vocal track itself has a kinda’ 80’s space-age Disco feel to it so when combined with the music of these two stargazing ElectroPoppers it becomes this amazing soundtrack to the best 80’s Sci-Fi movie you never saw.
I’d love to see a video for this cut out of bits from ‘Battle Beyond The Stars’ or something!
♫ Kelis – Acapella (Monarchy Urania Club Mix)
Kelis’ ‘Acapella’ single is out now:
Another classic ElectroPop act hitting the road this year is Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark who will, in last October and November, take in most of the UK and a big chunk of Europe.
The ‘History Of Modern’ tour will feature the classic line up of Andy McCluskey, Paul Humphreys, Martin Cooper and Malcolm Holmes and will showcase the bands forthcoming new album, again, titled ‘History Of Modern’ which Andy McCluskey has called “our best album since ‘Architecture And Morality’”.
Here’s one of our favourite OMD tunes, ‘Electricity’:
♫ OMD (Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark) – Electricity
The tour will take in a gruelling 17 nights in November across Europe.
UK
29th Oct – Brighton @ Dome
31st Oct – Bristol @ Colston Hall
01st Nov – Nottingham @ Royal Centre
02nd Nov – Glasgow @ Concert Hall
04th Nov – Liverpool @ Arena
05th Nov – Ipswich @ Regent
07th Nov 11 – London @ Hammersmith Apollo
08th Nov – Birmingham @ Symphony Hall
EUROPE
11th Nov – Cologne @ E-Work
12th Nov – Hannover @ Capitol
13th Nov – Leipzig @ Haus Auensee
15th Nov – Stuttgart @ Theatrehaus
16th Nov – Munich @ Tonhalle
18th Nov – Berlin @ Tempoddrom
19th Nov – Hamburg @ Docks
21st Nov – Luxembourg @ (venue TBC)
22nd Nov – Brussels @ Ancienne Belgique
23rd Nov – Amsterdam @ Paradiso
25th Nov – Casino De Paris
It’s not Lady GaGa’s best song, but it is her new single, and it is elevated to the lofty heights of ‘fucking awesome’ by Swedish SynthPop masters The Sound of Arrows.
‘Alejandro’ is given a complete, smooth SynthPop makeover the way only The Sound Of Arrows can becoming a slice of pure 80’s Pop with the lightest touch of Nu-Disco!
♫ Lady GaGa – Alejandro (The Sound Of Arrows reMix)
The Sound Of Arrows reMix is currently available on ‘The reMix’ and is part of the ‘Alejandro’ single, released 15th June.
Hot on the heels of the successful performance of their seminal album ‘Penthouse And Pavement’ in Sheffield (and accompanying BCC documentary), ElectroPop Legends Heaven 17 are taking the show on the road.
Taking in eight cities performing, arguably, their best album in its entirety (plus a few extras), fans in the UK can get a taste of what to expect as the BBC recording of the Sheffield début of the show is available to watch on iPlayer. The tour will expand from that performance to include a six piece band and LED banks showcasing artwork, specially commissioned, from top UK design houses inspired by the classic 1981 album.
Also still available on iPlayer is the documentary screened in conjunction with the gig, ‘Heaven 17: The Story Of Penthouse And Pavement’, it’s a fascinating watch with some great contributions.
To get you in the mood here’s Heaven 17’ 1981 début, and still awesome, ‘(We Don’t Need This) Fascist Groove Thing’:
♫ Heaven 17 – (We Don’t Need This) Fascist Groove Thing
The tour kick off late December in Edinburgh.
22nd Nov – Edinburgh @ Edinburgh Picture House
23rd Nov – Glasgow @ Glasgow ABC
25th Nov – Manchester @ Manchester Ritz
26th Nov – Birmingham @ Birmingham Institute
28th Nov – London @ London Forum
29th Nov – Oxford – Oxford Academy
30th Nov – Brighton @ Brighton Corn Exchange
01st Dec – Bristol @ Bristol Academy
All this to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the album’s release! And there’s more! EMI are putting together a ‘special luxury edition’ of the record for release later in the year!
Swiss producer Worship is, not only responsible for some of the best reMixes of the last year or so but also a purveyor of mighty fine Space-Synth tinged Dreamwavey Electro-House.
He recently dropped a new tune, ‘Starcrash’ which, as the name suggests, is a cosmic analog odyssey that soars along at light speed to the timing of a solid House beat. Those retro synth hits and screaming lead lines are irresistible!
Check out one of his older tracks too, ‘Cosmic Roller Girls’ is an alien Disco jam of the kind that would make Buck Rodgers (in the 80’s) get his groove on!
♫ Worship – Cosmic Roller Girls
You can pick up Worship’s ‘The Dome’ EP now:
LIGHTS had dropped the video for her forthcoming single ‘Second Go’ off of her ‘The Listening’ album.
Apparently filmed all in one take! I gotta’ say, I love the 80’s-esq riff in this track.
She’s touring in the UK right now, next weekend sees her Bristol début at the Dot-To-Dot festival. Good times!
‘The Listening’ is out now.
We first featured 10 Rapid on electronic rumors way back when, naming him as “one to watch” for his wicked reMix of Cagedbaby’s ‘Forced’.
Now the man is back with a brand new three track single, out this week on Exceptional Records, here’s the title track, it starts off as a disjointed, cut-up Electro track before evolving into a big riffed, big sounding, Electro-House monster guaranteed to get you moving.
♫ 10 Rapid – Not Everything Sounds The Same
The rest of the single is pretty aggressive, in your face Electro that demands your attention.
‘Not Everything Sounds The Same’ is released this week exclusively on Beatport and drops elsewhere in a couple of weeks.
‘
electronic rumors 