Monthly Archives: June 2011
Breakbot’s Lazy Sunday Selecta mixtape
Breakbot – Lazy Sunday Selecta Mixtape = So many tracks crammed into this smooth, chilled half hour of Disco heaven! A self-billed “mixtape for the sun”.
♫ Breakbot – Lazy Sunday Selecta Mixtape
The tracklist:
01. MFSB – Something For Nothing
02. Latoya Jackson – A Taste Of You
03. Count Coolout – Rhythm Rap Rock
04. Mr. Flash – Domino Part A
05. John Gary Williams – Honey
06. Surface – Falling In Love
07. Linda Lewis – Class Style
08. Gene Dunlap – There’s Talk
09. BB&Q Band – Hard To Get Around
10. Kashif – I Just Gotta’ Have You
11. Conway & Temple – Love Lights
12. Kwick – Nightlife
13. Prince Charles And The City Beat Band – Bush Beat
14. Breakbot (Feat. Ruckazoid) – Fantasy (Acapella)
15. Ron Richardson – Ooh Wee Babe
16. The Nick Straker Band – A Little Bit Of Jazz
17. Logg – Dancing Into The Stars
18. Dino Terrell – You Can Do It (Leroy Burgess Edit)
19. Fela Kuti – Water No Get Enemy
20. Cardell Funk Machine – Shoot Your Shot
21. Carly Simon – Why?
22. Willie Hutch – Mother’s Theme (The Mack OST)
23. Saint Tropez – Belle De Jour
24. J Dilla – Don’t Cry
25. Soul Mann And The Brothers – Bumpy’s Lament
26. Zapp & Roger – Dancefloor
27. Exile – Never Gonna’ Stop
28. Gap Band – Yearning For Your Love
29. Gary Glenn – Cause I Love You
30. Lamont Dozier – Why? (Ain’t My Love Enough?)
31. DeBarge – Stay With Me
32. Amii Stewart – Friends
33. Brenda Russell – A Little Bit of Love
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Bright Light Bright Light’s ‘Disco Moment’ video
Bright Light Bright Light’s long (really, quite long) awaited new single ‘Disco Moment’ looks like it’s finally here with the premiere of the video.
It’s a really good choice for a single, upbeat ElectroPop with a hint of melancholy and the Jody Wilson directed video serves as a really good introduction to Rod Thomas for the masses who missed out on ‘Love Part II’.
‘Disco Moment’ is released 19th September.
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Goin’ Old School: Yellow Magic Orchestra – Rydeen
Yellow Magic Orchestra have been making boundary pushing electronic music and ElectroPop since before you know what a synthesizer was. Show some respect! ‘Rydeen’ is from 1980, by which time they were already comfortable making big Electro jams while much of the rest of the world was on Tomorrow’s World complaining that synthesizer music wasn’t somehow real.
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Van Go Lion’s Johnny Hates Jazz cover
Portland ElectroPop duo Van Go Lion have only gone and done a cover of 80’s smooth Pop boy’s Johnny Hates Jazz’s smash hit ‘Shattered Dreams’ ain’t they!
It’s actually really weird to hear a song you know inside out sung by someone else, but Van Go Lion tune in a brilliant updating of the tune. It seems the Jazzers (or the Johnnies?) themselves like the track too, making this statement “25 years since Shattered Dreams was originally a worldwide hit, and after nearly three and a half million airplays in the US alone, its great that the song is reaching a new generation of music fans. We celebrate Van Go Lion’s innovative new recording, and have no doubt that it will add to this continuing success.”. Good job!
♫ Van Go Lion: Shattered Dreams (Johnny Hates Jazz cover)
Van GO Lion’s singles ‘Body Moves’ and ‘We Don’t Miss A Beat’ are out now.
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New track and reMix from Echoes
London’s SynthPop bright hopes Echoes , today, treat us all to a brand new track.
‘Thousand Suns’ is a beautiful ballad that is compelling and enveloping. Awash with Echoes, now trademark, mixture of melancholy and hope the epic seven minutes is an emotional journey of longing with a suitably uplifting conclusion as the beat kicks in. Narrative music, you gotta’ love it!
Echoes have also recently wrapped up reMixing Matt & Kim’s new single ‘Block After Block’ giving the track a bit of a Balearic feel, perfect for sunrise moments. Artists who can convey emotion musically as well as Echoes are all to rare, we can’t wait for their first proper release.
♫ Matt & Kim – Block After Block (Echoes Club mix)
Matt & Kim’s ‘Block After Block’ is released 11th July on Different Recordings.
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33hz’s new single
Liquid summer gold drips from the speakers when you put on 33hz new single ‘Under The Sun’.
The New York Disco duo are releasing a new album in the Autumn and coming in just before that is this single. A smooth, soulful ,beach jam with an early 90’s electronic R&B flavour. Prins Thomas is on the mix with fun, cosmic, Balearic groove in one of his classic Diskomikses. Both sides of the record are pure crusin’ music. Enjoy.
♫ 33hz – Under The Sun (Prins Thomas Diskomiks)
‘Under The Sun’ is out now, you can pick it up here.
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Miroir on the club mix
If you haven’t already purchased Clancy and Build’s Miroir project’s début EP ‘So Fewer Particles Scatter’, what are you waiting for?
Released last month on ‘the ever-awesome Holographic People’, the EP is one of the beat Nu-Disco/Dreamwave/Retro Synth releases of the year so far, check out what we said about it here. If you still need convincing, get your ears around this club mix of ‘Night Sky’, it’s epic synthesizer dance at it’s finest.
♫ Miroir – Night Sky (Miroir Club Mix)
Miroir’s ‘So Fewer Particles Scatter’ EP is out now.
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Goin’ Old School: Man Parrish – Hip Hop Bebop (Don’t Stop)
Man Parrish is an absolute electronic music legend, helping to shape Hip Hop, ElectroPop and Italo throughout the years. ‘Hip Hop Bebop (Don’t Stop)’ was 1982. 1982! insane.
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Cavaliers Of Fun reMixes Britney Spears
In advance of their first EP release for ‘the ever-awesome Holographic People’, The awesome Cavaliers Of Fun has dropped this ElectroPoptastic reMix of Britney Spears’ ‘Til The World Ends’.
Bringing it down to the bassline and retro synth work, Mr. Ricco Vitali’s tune slides onto the dancefloor and is so slick that when the electric piano kick in it’s got the groove locked down so tight. Let the synthesizers carry you ‘til the world ends.
♫ Britney Spears – ‘Till The World Ends (Cavaliers Of Fun reMix)
Cavaliers Of Fun’s EP should be ready in September.
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LIGHTS on this week’s Epic Meal Time
If you like bacon, and let’s face it who doesn’t?, you’re probably already watching Epic Meal Time. This week’s show combines two of my favourite things. Hot girls who make ElectroPop and meat as the crew are joined by Canada’s queen of SynthPop LIGHTS.
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