Monthly Archives: April 2011
Young Galaxy reMixes Johan Agebjörn & Le Prix
We already dropped Johan Agebjörn collaboration with Le Prix and Lake Heartbeat a couple of weeks ago.
Check out this reMix of the track, ‘Watch The World Go By’, that doesn’t appear on the single. It’s by Young Galaxy and it ditches the banging Nu-Disco and Dreamwave of the original and it’s reMixes in favour of a chilled, Indie, sound that just proves the song itself is so strong it can ride any genre, and tempo. A lazy Sunday track this reMix turns ‘Watch The World Go By’ into a reverb washed Chillwave epic.
♫ Johan Agebjörn & Le Prix (Feat. Lake Heartbeat) – Watch The World Go By (Young Galaxy reMix)
‘Watch The World Go By’ is out now on Lo Recordings.
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Cosmonaut
Space-age DiscoPop trio Cosmonaut jumped into our consciousness with a track on the forthcoming Kitsuné Maison volume 11. We’ve already featured their track ‘Say What You Want’ with it’s organic, analog synth laden, Cosmic sound, so let’s hear a little more from this Australian three piece.
Frankie Barretso got his hands on ‘Say What You Want’ and introduced these three Cosmonauts to an alien machine society with an arpeggio driven track that eschews the live feel of the original for pure robo Funk. ‘Jupiters’ and ‘Terminator Sky’, two original tracks from the trio, are both the same kind of live ElectroPop jam as ‘Say What You Want’. The Sci-Fi subject matter and electronic nature of the music given a human feel and a rawness that makes it feel, at the same time, more accessible yet more epic.
This truly is the soundtrack to your voyage home!
♫ Cosmonaut – Say What You Want (Barretso reMix)
‘Say What You Want’ appears on the ‘Kitsuné Maison 11 ‘The Indie-Dance Issue’’ followed by the ‘Cosmonaut EP’ release on Young Mine. Cosmonaut also have a double A-side single, ‘One Dancefloor’/'Erroneous Monk’, incoming on Bang-Gang Twelve Inches.
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Holy Ghost!’s ‘Wait And See’ video
Holy Ghost!’s new video for their single ‘Wait And See’ stars Misters Millhiser and Frankel senior. As in Holy Ghosts! Nick Millhiser and Alex Frankel’s respective fathers.
Directed by Ben Fries the video sees the Holy Ghost! elders living the NYC lifestyle, going clubbing, getting a band rehearsal down, chatting online with Classixx. I think Nick’s dad has pulled?
‘Wait And See’ is out now on DFA, it’s an awesome slice of NYC flavoured Indie-Disco.
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Yuksek Vs. The Magician
The Magician is on a total roll recently. Killer reMix after Killer reMix. Maybe Aeroplane splitting up was a good thing after all?
Taking Yuksek’s forthcoming new single Stephen Fasano has transformed it into a bouncy, Moog heavy, Nu-Disco groover with some amazing 90’s piano and just the right amount of cowbell. Both The Magician and Vito’s new Aeroplane have done some amazing work this year and, after all, two act is better than one! We’ll also be very interested to hear the new Yuksek album, ‘Living On The Edge of Time’. We really enjoyed the last one, let’s see if he can do it again.
♫ Yuksek – On A Train (The Magician reMix)
The ‘On A Train’ EP is out 2nd May with a reMix from Gucci Vump as well.
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Kitsuné Maison 11 ‘The Indie Dance-Issue’ Minimix
The inevitable minimix by JBAG’s Jerry Bouthier for the forthcoming ‘Kitsuné Maison 11 ‘The Indie-Dance Issue’’ has arrived.
Showcasing what to expect from the album the minimix is a window into the cream of today’s Indie-Electro artists. there are some real monster tracks on the album.
Check the track list:
01. – Let’s Go All The Way (Early Version)
02. Alexander Dexter Jones – Phantastic Phone Call”
03. Housse De Racket – Roman
04. Polarsets – Sunshine Eyes
05. Gallops – Miami Spider (Ponciau edit)
06. Cosmonaut – Say What You Want
07. Creep (Feat. Romy Madeley-Croft From The XX) – Days (Azari & III reMix)
08. Is Tropical – The Greeks
09. Peter & The Magician – Twist
10. The Touch – Sermon
11. Logo X Icona Pop – Luvsick
12. Beat Connection – Silver Screen
13. Nightbox – Pyramid
14. Guards – Resolution Of One
15. Fiction – Big Things
16. Exotica – Conte D’Eté (Afrofunk Version)
♫ Kitsuné Maison 11 ‘The Indie Dance-Issue’ Minimix By Jerry Bouthier
Kitsuné Music release Maison 11 on 16th May.
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Toddla T’s new single
Toddla T’s new single is highly addictive. ‘Take It Back’, featuring Shola Ama and J2K, has been hammered by Annie Mac recently and kinda’ wormed it’s way into my head. It’s got smooth vocals, an infectious hook and a lush 90’s house pianos. That’s a recipe for a tune that gets in your head.
Check the video.
And give Dillon Francis’ wobble bassed reMix a spin
♫ Toddla T (Feat. Shola Ama & J2K) - Take It Back (Dillon Francis reMix)
Toddla’s new single will be ‘Cherry Picking’ featuring the amazing Róisín Murphy, give this radio rip a sampling.
♫ Toddla T (Feat. Róisín Murphy) - Cherry Picking (Radio Rip)
Toddla T’s ‘Take It Back’ is out now.
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autoKratz’ new video with Peter Hook
This is the video for autoKratz’ new single ‘Becoming The Wraith’ which features, both on the track and in the video, the Bass talents of New Order/Monaco/Joy Division’s Peter Hook.
‘Becoming The Wraith’ is the most straight -up ElectroPop track autoKratz have dropped to date and Hooky’s playing just adds that Indie quality to the track. It’s pretty hard for anything with Hooky on not to sound a bit like New Order, but it is nice to see him slinging his bass low on ElectroPop tracks again rather than having a barny on Twitter with Indie tosspots.
‘Becoming The Wraith’ is defiantly the most accessible the autoKratz have ever been, and possible the best.
‘Becoming The Wraith’ is out soon on Studio !K7
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Depeche Mode reMixed by Røyksopp
I’m a massive Depeche Mode fan but have always been disappointed by their reMixes, or rather their choice of reMixers. From about 1990 onward they just seemed to pick self-indulgent Techno artists who wouldn’t know a tune if it hit them in the face. But after the blisteringly good ‘Personal Jesus 2011’, especially the Alex Metric reMix, I am very excited about the forthcoming ‘reMixes 2: 81-11’ album.
Just looking at the line-up of talent is like a breath of fresh air as far as Depeche Mode reMixes are concerned. We have the likes of M83, Eric Prydz, Jacques Lu Cont, Digitalism, UNKLE, Karlsson & Winnberg (Bloodshy and Avant from Miike Snow) and this track from Røyksopp.
The Norwegian duo have chosen to rework ‘Puppets’, from 1981’s ‘Speak & Spell’ and really have made it their own. It’s got that Røyksopp, cute SynthPop, sound which seems to fit the original’s vocals more than the original track, if that’s possible. If this, alongside the Personal Jesus 2011 tracks, is the standard of reMixes on the album than we are in for a treat indeed!
♫ Depeche Mode – Puppets (Røyksopp reMix)
‘reMixes 2: 81-11’ is released 6th June on MuteReprise.
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More new Beaumont
Blimey Beaumont’s been busy this week! This is the second fresh track this week!
I think we’re starting to see a pattern emerging in Beaumont’s more recent releases, he’s defiantly favouring a more mid-tempo, melodic groove these days. Which kinda’ makes sense, having spent the last few years cutting his teeth and honing his skills producing big dance tracks to now apply that knowledge to more epic, moving, tunes is a good call. Not that we would mind more of the pounding Beaumont tracks, but these majestic, almost soundtracky (yup, I’ve decided ‘soundtracky’ is a word), productions where the Electro sounds and techniques are brought back to a more chilled out and emotional place are pretty musically spot-on.
It Is possible that Beaumont is working on some soundtrack in secret, or is just soundtracking his own life…
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Watch The Electro Wars, for one week only.
One week ending 27th April that is, soz!
It’s been doing the round of limited one-off showings for the last year, now you can finally watch the whole thing.
That’s right, you can finally see the documentary The Electro Wars, it’s streaming right now over on Pitchfork until the 27th.
It’s an cool film that, for the most part, captures a time, but feels a little dated now and features a wealth of bad, or at least debatable, information, I wish much of it had been researched a bit better. Rather than a film about the evolution of electronic dance music, as the filmaker’s claim, it really is a film about how the US mainstream discovered ElectroHouse four years ago, and the documentary is centric to that point of view. Still, it’s a fun watch that provides some good nostalgia for the parties of the time.
