Mar 24 2011

MNDR Vs. Hervé

Green Label Sound sure love giving away great tracks for free!

Having already released MNDR’s ‘Cut Me Out’ for free on their official website they now take the same approach with this reMix from UK Rave master and Cheap Thrills head-honcho Hervé. Be prepared for some rough and ready digital dance music. Bass heavy and in your face, Hervé’s reMix is the kind of track that makes you forget where you are on the dancefloor, until the big breakdown kicks in.

♫ MNDR – Cut Me Out (Hervé reMix)

You can pick up the full quality version of ‘Cut Me Out’ and this reMix for free over at Green Label Sound.

MNDR @ Green Label Sound

MNDR @ Juno

MNDR @ Amazon

Mar 24 2011

She’s The Queen

So, it looks like electronic rumors favourites Cosmonaut Grechko and Robots With Rayguns have gone and joined a gang! It’ll all end in violence, I know it!

Until everyone’s demise in a pointless turf war you can check out their new crew, The Night Moves Collective, in which they have enlisted the likes of P Martell and Signals into their ElectroPop mafia, as well as She’s The Queen. who I discovered browsing the NMC blog. This New York based duo pump out some top quality power ElectroPop. That kind of ElectroPop that makes you forget about the world outside.

Just take ‘All You’ve Got’. Epic, uplifting and full. Really full! The combination of Andrew Kuryloski’s multi layered, clean production and Emily White’s powerful vocals fill the speakers ‘til bursting point. Although She’s The Queen’s music makes various nods to ElectroPop of old their sound is very much in the now. Electronic music with tons of energy and emotion, the essence of ElectroPop

♫ She’s The Queen – All You’ve Got

They have even got our good buddy Ren Riz to reMix up their track ‘Waiting Game’, the man works his toytown synthesizer funk all over the track to awesome effect.

♫ She’s The Queen – Waiting Game (Ren Riz reMix (Radio Edit))

Check out more of She’s The Queen’s music and give them a big ol’ ‘like’ over on Facebook.

She’s The Queen @ Facebook

Mar 24 2011

Bag Raiders hit Europe!

Australian Nu-Disco.ElectroPop geniuses Bag Raiders are finally gracing Europe with a string of live shows!

For those of us in this part of the world this is pretty exciting and pretty eagerly awaited. Both the album and the track ‘Way Back Home’ made it into out top 20 albums and tracks of 2011, so the prospect of seeing the duo with their full live show has us itching with impatience.

Check them out near you:

29th Apr      London, England @ XOYO
30th Apr      Holland @ Festival De Schuit
30st Apr      Barcelona, Spain @ Razzmatazz
05th May       Munich, Germany @ Baby Club
06th May       Saarbrucken, Germany @ Blau Night Club
07th May       Berlin, Germany @ Magnet
12th May      Zurich, Switzerland @ Hive Club
13th May      Brighton, England @ The Great Escape
19th May      Stuttgart, Germany
20th May      Athens, Greece @ Anorak Festival @ Club Mylos
21st May      Stockholm, Sweden @ Debaser Medis
16th July     London, England @ Main Stage @ Lovebox
22nd July     Huntingdon, England @ Secret Garden Party

In the meantime get your ears ‘round these two reMixes of ‘Sunlight’ we haven’t featured before byArmand Van Helden and TieDye, both take an amazing track straight to the dancefloor, the don’t even bother to buy it a drink!

♫ Bag Raiders – Sunlight (Armand Van Helden reMix)

♫ Bag Raiders – Sunlight (TieDye-Mix)

‘Sunlight’ is taken from Bag Raider’s album, on Modular, out now:

Bag Raiders @ Beatport

Bag Raiders @ Juno

Bag Raiders @ 7Digital

Bag Raiders @ Amazon

Mar 24 2011

MiGHty mOUse’s new EP

It’s all go at MiGHty mOUse HQ! For a start May sees the release of their new EP, titled ‘The First EP’.

The first track to see the light of day from the EP is ‘Wheel Of Fortune’ which sees the usually introspective Disco kings go flat out DiscoPop to awesome effect. Having teamed up with a new singer the new team MiGHty mOUse produce an uplifting groove that’s worthy of a hit single.

♫ MiGHty mOUse – Wheel Of Fortune

On top of that, MM are planning their first ever live show at XOYO in London on the 15th April alongside Rob Da Bank and the likes of Edwin Van Cleef, and B-Xentrix!. Details here.

If all that’s not enough then round off your dose of MiGHty mOUse with this reMix they’ve dropped of Shades Of Rhythm’s classic ‘Sweet Sensation’. Some deep analog Disco there!

♫ Shades Of Rhythm – Sweet Sensation (MiGHty mOUse Alt Moog Mix)

MiGHty mOUse’s ‘the First EP’ is out 2nd May.

MiGHty mOUse @ Beatport

MiGHty mOUse @ Juno

MiGHty mOUse @ 7Digital

MiGHty mOUse @ Amazon

Mar 23 2011

Show Your Shoe’s début EP

Show Your Shoe jumped into our consciousness with an awesome reMix contribution to Futurecop!’s ‘Dreams’ single, which made quite an impression, and this week he releases his début EP on Teenage Gang Records.

From the moment the opening track ‘Pandi’ kicks in, you have to wonder where this kid has been hiding. The one-man project of Swiss producer Nico Müller, Show Your Shoe effortlessly (and smoothly I might add) slides from one end of the Nu-Disco spectrum to the other, whether it’s the cut-up edits of ‘Pandi’, the slick synthesizer funk of ‘Azur Indigo Prisma Safran Marmor’ or ‘Technik City – Arrival’ or the more post-Daft Punk Electro leanings of ‘Technik City – Jet Skiing’, Nico’s clean production and ear for the groove easily make the ‘Technik City’ EP on of the most impressive Nu-Disco débuts to drop in a while.

The EP also includes two reMixes of ‘Technik City – Jet Skiing’, one from Italian DJ Gabriell, a bass heavy Italo-Disco workout and this track by another of our favourite new artists, Druma Kina, who turn in a really nice, arpeggio driven, retro synth mix which revels in it’s synth horns!

♫ Show Your Shoe – Technik City – Jet Skiing (Druma Kina reMix)

The ‘Technik City’ EP is out now!

Show Your Shoe @ Teenage Gang Records

Show Your Shoe @ Beatport

Mar 23 2011

LIGHTS’ new ‘My Boots’ reMix

Canadian SynthPop goddess LIGHTS has reMixed herself, for chuckles apparently.

Her last single, ‘My Boots’, was probably the most Disco tune she’s done to date, so for this reMix she’s run in the other direction and gone darkside on the track. ‘Re:Boots’ centres around some heavy, almost Industrial, rapid fire drums and wall of sound production give the tune a new edge. It’s not quite got the groove of the original, but replaces that with a live feel and rawness.

♫ LIGHTS – Re:Boots (My Boots reMix)

LIGHTS is holed up right now working on her sophomore album.

LIGHTS @ Juno

LIGHTS @ 7Digital

LIGHTS @ Amazon

Mar 23 2011

The Knocks reMix Jon Fratelli into an Electro beast

Jon Fratelli, who is, unsurprisingly, a member of Indie Rockers The Fratellis, is about to release his first proper solo single, titles, ‘Santo Domingo’.

‘Why should you care?’ I hear you ask. I’ll tell you why, ‘cos this reMix by The Knocks is stunning, even worth the cost of the single. Fratelli’s Rock ‘N’ Roll swagger is prefect fodder for the NYC duo to work some piano Disco/Electro-Rock magic on this track. It’s a driving, powerful track that keeps the guitar riff subtly in the background to underpin some massive 90’s style dance chords and some heavy bass synth. It’s a pity that this kind of tune mostly turns up in reMixes. There are a few bands I can think of that make this kind of stuff but they are few and far between, it generally only occurs when really talented reMixers meet proper Indie-Rockers. So enjoy it whilst you can!

♫ Jon Fratelli – Santo Domingo (The Knocks reMix) (Master)

‘Santo Domingo’ is released 18th April on Island.

Jon Fratelli @ 7Digital

Jon Fratelli @ Amazon

Mar 22 2011

Jupiter’s ‘Saké’ video

Parisian ElectroPoppers Jupiter’s ‘Saké’ single is pretty amazing. Amazing track, amazing reMix line up, and now amazing video.

Stupid, but amazing!

Directed by TU SAIS QUI and Elsa Blayau, the pair seem to perfectly capture the essence of Jupiter.

Jupiter’s ‘Saké’ is out now on Kitsuné Music.

Mar 22 2011

Metronomy’s new video

‘The Look’ is Metronomy’s new single, leading into their new Album coming in April, and it’s gone and got itself a video.

The video is directed by Lorenzo Fonda, it’s got seagulls and stuff.

‘The Look’ is taken from Metronomy’s forthcoming new album ‘The English Riviera’, out 11th April onBecause Music.

Mar 21 2011

New CHEW LiPS track!!!

Oh CHEW LiPS, how you’ve been missed! Sometimes it takes reconnecting with a thing it realise how much it was missed.

And this new demo CHEW LiPS have just dropped have really made me realise how much I have missed them. Or, to put it a better way, made me remember what it is about them I love so much. I have missed the stripped down production that still manages to sound huge, missed the layers of toy-town synths, missed Tigs’ sassy, soulful vocals that bring an instant warmth to the tracks and missed the sing-along choruses.

Their second album is still a long time coming, but if this demo is anything to go by, it has everything I have missed by the bucket load.