Category Archives: Dreamwave
Mental Minority’s new track
The Mental Minority is back, and by that we mean the enigmatic German SynthWave producer had dropped another track. This time he’s ramped up the ‘80’s teen movie soundtrack quota considerably, if such a thing is possible ( I would have thought it wasn’t, and the ‘80’s teen movie soundtrack quota was already pretty full, but Mental Minority has proved me wrong).
‘Take My Hand’ sails along on beams of ‘80’s-synth light. A mid-paced jam that’s loaded with lush chords and shimmering, chiming lead sounds. Underneath all that sparkly nostalgia is are these deep strings, almost like a Gregorian chant, that adds a somewhat hypnotic quality to the track, giving it more depth and richness than just the leads impart. This really is top quality SynthWave and Mental Minority is coming on in leaps and bounds, even bringing something a little different to the table.
♫ Mental Minority – Take My Hand
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Justin Faust’ Le Coup De Foudre’ Mixtape
Justin Faust – Le Coup De Foudre Mixtape = Justin Faust doesn’t do nearly enough mixtapes for our liking. Still it makes it a good day when he does, and this one is awesome. Loaded with massive Disco tracks, I can see this being on repeat well into next month.
♫ Justin Faust – Le Coup De Foudre Mixtape
The tracklist:
01. Justin Faust – Untitled
02. A.N.D.Y. & Vicente – El Barrio (Jay Lamar & Jesse Oliver reMix)
03. Matt Mendez – Square (Alec Carlsson reMix)
04. Pitchben – Soda (Lorenz Rhode reMix)
05. James Curd – Guide Me (Gigamesh reMix)
06. Just Kiddin’ – Mammal (Kosmetique reMix)
07. His Majesty Andre – Spades (Broke One reMix)
08. Ben Mono & Idiotronic HOT – 1992 (Justin Faust reMix)
09. Jessie Ware – Running (Disclosure reMix)
10. Chilly Gonzales – You Can Dance (Robotaki Instrumental reMix)
11. Medina – Forever (Tagteam Terror reMix)
12. Pimpsoul – Rock you
13. That Peruvian Boy – The Jive (Original Mix)
14. Swivel Hips – Cheaters
15. NAPT (Feat. Fireflowerz) – Italian Spiderman
16. Kosmetique – IIIe
17. Timo Juuti & Hector 87 – Cheap Bad Moves
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This weeks Fear Of Tigers’ ‘The Guestlist’
Fear Of Tigers – The Guestlist 25/05/2012 = Oh you can tell the summer is coming, Fear Of Tiger’s The Guestlist is back as our regular Friday start to the weekend. Some huge tunes this week and a guestmix from the crew from micromix.fr.
♫ Fear Of Tigers– The Guestlist 25/05/2012
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Tesla Boy’s ‘Fantasy’
This week the new single by one of our favourite acts, Muscovite retro SynthPop act Tesla Boy is released . Hopefully this signposts the lead in to their new album, although their début full length record, Modern Thrills’ still get’s a hell of a lot of play around these parts, it’s definitely time for a new one.
Tesla Boy are one of a seriously tiny handful of bands who have successfully merged SynthWave, Nu-Disco and ElectroPop, in that they write proper Pop songs but I can think of few other vocal Pop artists who’s tracks sound like Nu-Disco tracks, or Dreamwave tracks. How they haven’t gain more attention if a mystery to me. ‘Fantasy’ is a smooth, perfectly Tesla Boy track. The deep funk synth bass is there playing against the choppy New Wave guitar, the Disco beat and vintage synth work. But the centrepiece of any Tesla Boy track is Anton’s trademark impassioned croon. This new track is just as catchy and warm as we’ve come to expect from Tesla Boy, who really are one of the best ElectroPop bands in the world today. Hopefully this years releases will seem them reaching the wider audience they deserve.
♫ Tesla Boy – Fantasy
‘Fantasy’ is out now on Gorby Regan Records with hints of a new EP on the horizon.
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The Magician’s ‘Magic Tape Twenty-Three’
The Magician – Magic Tape Twenty-Three = i was starting to get withdrawal symptoms, but the The Magician hit me up with a new ‘Magic Tape’ fix. It;s that time of the month to play guess the storming Disco & House tracklist, I’m please to hear some Final DJs (Justin Faust mix) in there.
♫ The Magician – Magic Tape Twenty-Three
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Taryn Manning’s ‘Moonwalk’ video
You know how yesterday I finally posted the Leisure Council produced Taryn Manning track, ‘Moonwalk’ and mentioned there was an awesome video I wasn’t allowed to post? Well apparently I am, so here it is.
Shot by the man with the eye, Paul Nguyen, the clip features Mr. Nicky Savage as a top fashion photographer, Jeremy rocking his bass and his will to live far too close to the edge of a rooftop and Sam living the Slash dream in some of most impressive axe work ever committed to film wile Ms. Manning generally lives it up. Also, someone needs to make an animated .gif of Fiero Leisure Council jumping through a roof into a pool!
Make sure you check out yesterday’s post about the track, as we’ve added a download!
‘Moonwalk’ is hopefully released soon!
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Touch Tone’s début single (pssst, it’s Short Circuit!)
‘Home Away From Home’ is the first single from Touch Tone, the new alter ego of Andrew Verner, better known to you lot as Binary staple Short Circuit. Whether this draws a line under his Short Circuit work and represents a new era for Mr. Verner or if this is just a side project we are yet to find out, we’ll have to bug him about it, but it does showcase a big new sound.
A couple of years ago we referred to Short Circuit as RoboPop, with ‘Home Away From Home’ Touch Tone shrugs off that vibe and comes storming back with a huge, emotionally resonant ElectroPop sound. Like Josh Legg’s recent more Goldroom work Touch Tone seems to be getting back to the core of what Dreamwave was supposed to be about, not necessarily musically, but in an atmospheric sense. ‘Home Away From Home’ captures that nostalgic optimism that the original Dreamwave releases professed. It’s an insanely catchy, anthemic, ElectroPop track with a cool Indie vibe and some nice ‘90’s House elements. The passionate vocals flowing effortlessly over the smooth LA vibe, this is a track that feels so comfortable with itself, and could be the one to break Verner to a wider audience. I’m sure a Goldroom reMix could be arranged, that would be sick.
♫ Touch Tone – Home Away From Home
Touch Tone’s ‘Home Away From Home’ is released today on Binary.
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Jules Schimmer reMixes alloapm
One of Manchester’s finest exports, Mr. Jules Schimmer, has been working his retro synth magic once again, this time on Tokyo based DreamPop outfit alloapm. I almost called alloapm an ‘avant-garde DancePop outfit’, as they can get a little weird, but in a good way, and they never stop bringing the Disco, so we’ll just stick with ‘DancePop outfit’ for now and see how the post unfolds.
Anyway, Schimmer is riding high right now with a string of really top quality reMixes, and the on-going development of a bigger and bigger sound, bringing some hands-in-the-air to it’s ‘80’s core. Unfortunately most of the time it’s buried away on SoundCloud. Seriously, more people need to hear JS’ tracks, I think the word underrated really does apply here, the word on Schimmer needs to get out. Just take this new track, like I said, hands-in-the-air with an ‘80’s core. And over the bouncy retro bassline the epic stuff gets really epic. Beautifully orchestrated strings that weave in an out of a piercing lead line lift the track up to such heights and play around the highly effected vocals to produce a track with a huge scope. nostalgic and majestic at the same time. Jules Schimmer, like an ‘80’s movie, brings laughter, tears and eventual triumph in just under five mins of uplifting ElectroPop.
♫ alloapm – Di Di Di Da Da Da (Jules Schimmer reMix)
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Leisure Council produces Taryn Manning
I’ve been sat on this track for so long, moths and months, that I was beginning to think it was never going to be released. Back when the Leisure Council (at the time still Firero) guys played me the track I didn’t really know who Taryn Manning was. Essentially, if someone has said “it’s Cherry from Sons Of Anarchy” I would have been right there, but I think as a recording artist (of quite good ElectroPop I have since discovered!) she’s not really that known outside America. Anyway, Nicky, Jeremy and Sam produced the hell out of her track ‘Moonwalk’, there’s even and awesome video, featuring Mr. Savage in fashion photographer mode and Sam channelling Guns & Roses’ Slash, that I’ve never been allowed to post. record label red-tape is really depressing sometimes.
‘Moonwalk’ is a seriously dreamy slice of what Fiero Leisure Council do best. Thick LA Funk and smooth Dreamwave combined. Talk Box laden grooves layer with huge, lush, synths and some of the sweetest sing-along vocals you’ll hear in a while. Taryn and Leisure Council seems like a match made in heaven. Not only are they a great musical match but both seem to embody a Californian party vibe that suits them and the track. I hope this gets released some, and I hope the label make some wise choices with the reMixes.
♫ Taryn Manning – Moonwalk (Produced By Leisure Council)
‘Moonwalk’ is released soon, i hope. if not there’ll be hell to pay!
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Moustache Machine’s ‘Pluton Part II’
Parisian producer of all things Frenchy and Touchy, Moustache Machine, had just dropped an absolute stormer of a track. It’s a follow up to one of the tracks from his ‘Miami 1986’ EP of last year and whist that EP was an awesome excursion into tough French Disco, this new track is a different beast entirely.
The first ‘Pluton’ was a post-Daft Punk, Post-Justice heavy Electro Disco stomper, but ‘Pluton Part II’ some off a nice new combination of LA Dreamwave and driving Italo sounds. From the opening bars of the track, and that powerful arpeggiated bassline you know things are getting a bit retro. The big filtered Moroder-esque bass and the lush synth chords, playing out a riff so ‘80’s they need a cop show of their own, happily juggernaut along for half the songs six minute length. Then Moustache Machine’s true French epicness gets to shine with some seriously soaring solo work see everything into the finally where Funk synth, majestic piano and layers upon layers of cosmic sounds culminate in an impressive crescendo.
♫ Moustache Machine – Pluton Part II
While you’re hear, check out the original ‘Pluton’ from last year too.
You can download ‘Pluton Part II’ for free from Moustache Machine’s Facebook page in exchange for a ‘like’.
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