Mar 8 2009

Death To Sexy

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Straight outta’ Canada come Death To Sexy describing themselves as ‘Punk-infused Electro’, I’m hearing a dash of early 80’s ‘dirty’ SynthPop, a sprinkling of old school EBM, a spoonful of ElectroClash and a healthy helping of modern Electro.

Dirty bass and dancefloor beats sit underneath vocalist Kelcy Clark’s brooding lyrics.

Check out the hypnotic bassline of their track ‘Operation Housewife’:

♫ Death To Sexy – Operation Housewife (zShare) (MediaFIre)

And ‘Pick Up Line’ from the band’s début album.

♫ Death To Sexy – Pick Up Line (zShare) (MediaFIre)

The ‘I Am A Whore EP’ is available on Beatport, whilst the album ‘Fall Of The Prom Queen’ can be purchased from CDBaby (or downloaded free on the bands MySpace page)

Death To Sexy @ Beatport

Death To Sexy @ CDBaby

Mar 8 2009

Pet Shop Boys: New album track

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OK, so most of the British tabloid press isn’t worth wiping your ass on, the likes of The Star and The Sun are lowest common denominator, often scary, mob mentality rubbish but as far as pure, spiteful, hate filled bile goes, The Daily Mail has to take the prize.

What possessed Pet Shop Boys (or rather, their record label) to use The Mail On Sunday to promote their forthcoming album I will never understand. Today’s paper contains a free Pet Shop Boys CD retrospective which also features a new track form the ‘Yes’ album.

‘The Hate Mail’ is notorious for is bigoted, right-wing, reactionary opinions and scare-mongering and would probably be the first in line to jail PSB for being “poofs”, so whoever thought this was some good cross-branding needs to reconsider their career!

So..we’ve taken the bullet…jumped on the grenade…bought right-wing crap so you don’t have to…

The song itself is very good, real classic PSB. Actually, I get a bit of a New Order feeling from the track too. See what you think:

♫ Pet Shop Boys – Did You See Me Coming? (From Yes) (zShare) (MediaFire)

Don’t give a penny of your money to ‘The Hate Mail’, but spend loads on Pet Shop Boys:

Pet Shop Boys @ 7Digital

Pet Shop Boys @ Amazon

Mar 7 2009

More Build reMixes

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A while back, here, we blogged about London Indie-Electro producer Build’s reMix of Cut Copy’s ‘Hearts On Fire’, which we really liked. Build has been busy, he also has two more reMixes to share with the world Both are of Indie-Electro modern classics. ‘Feeling Better’ by French Indie/SynthPop mob The Teenagers and Ladyhawke’s oft-reMixed ‘Back Of The Van’, of which Build’s reMix more than holds it’s own!

♫ The Teenagers – Feeling Better (Build reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)

♫ Ladyhawke – Back Of The Van (Build reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)

If you like what you hear go give Build some MySpace lovin’:

Build @ MySpace

Mar 6 2009

G.L.O.V.E.S. ‘Changes’ Van She

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Over on the ModBlog, those nice people at Modular Recordings have been in a generous mood and given away the reMix of ‘Changes’ by Aussie Indie-Electro stars Van She that they had G.L.O.V.E.S. (one half of Damn Arms) do.

♫ Van She – Changes (G.L.O.V.E.S. reMix) (zShare) (MediaFIre)

The reMix has been knocking around since late last year but it’s worth posting anyway, it’s a Disco funker with some great synth noodling, as is this old gem, one of my favourite Van She tracks mixed by one of my favourite reMixers, Lifelike:

♫ Van She – Kelly (Lifelike reMix) (zShare) (MediaFIre)

There’s four of them, they gotta’ eat, y’know! Buy stuff:

Mar 6 2009

Sébastien Tellier reMixed by A-Track

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A-Track has dropped this reMix of French chilled SynthPop guru Sébastien Tellier’s ‘Kilometer’ over on the Tumblr site for his forthcoming ‘Infinity+1’ album.

A-track has defiantly got his groove on with this bassline heavy Disco rework.

♫ Sébastien Tellier – Kilometer (A-Trak Extended Dub) (zShare) (MediaFire)

While we’re on the subject, here’s another couple of reMixes of ‘Kilometer’ by Ted And Francis and Moulinex for your listening pleasure.

♫ Sébastien Tellier – Kilometer (Ted And Francis reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)

♫ Sébastien Tellier – Kilometer (Moulinex reMix) (zShare) (MediaFIre)

The man’s about more than just Eurovision y’know! Check it out:

Sébastien Tellier @ Beatport

Sébastien Tellier @ Juno

Sébastien Tellier @ 7Digital

Sébastien Tellier @ Amazon

Mar 5 2009

Little Boots Vs. Phil Oakey clip!!!

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Last week we reported that The Human League’s Phil Oakey would be lending his vocals to a track on Little Boots début album. Well, now you can have yourself a tiny teaser of what that will hold.

♫ Little Boots (Feat. Phil Oakey) – Symmetry (Edit) (Clip) (zShare) (MediaFire)

There’s not much to hear, it cuts off before the chorus, but it is just fantastic to hear Victoria and Phil in the same song. Exiting stuff indeed!

Over on Little Boots’ blog she has posted her thoughts regarding the track listing for the album, which currently stands at:

‘Stuck On Repeat’
‘Meddle’
‘Earthquake’
‘New In Town’
‘Click’
‘Tune Into My Heart’
‘Symetry’ (Feat. Philip Oakey)
‘Not Now’
‘Hearts Collide’

‘Love Kills’ is no great loss but I would like to see ‘Mathematics’ in there.

Little Boots @ Beatport

Little Boots @ 7Digital

Little Boots @ Juno

Little Boots @ Amazon

Mar 5 2009

Another day, Another Ladyhawke reMix

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Ladyhawke’s ‘Paris Is Burning’ is re-released this week, canine cover an’ all, so before you click on over to your favourite .mp3 emporium check this reMix Alex Metric has dropped turning ’Paris’ into a driving Electro growler.

♫ Ladyhawke – Paris is Burning (Alex Metric Mix) (zShare) (MediaFire)

For the last hour or so I have had the track on repeat, lovin’ that synth riff!

You can also grab yourself a chance to win exclusive Ladyhawke tour merchandise here.

‘Paris Is Burning’ is, as they say, in the shops now and comes highly recommended.

Ladyhawke @ Modular Store

Mar 5 2009

Daft Punk to score Tron 2.0

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Upcoming Film Scores have had it confirmed to them by Walt Disney Pictures that French Electro giants Daft Punk will be providing the score for Tron 2.0 (or TR2N), the sequel to 1982’s cyberspace blockbuster.

It seems to me that this could be absolutely perfect. Daft Punk have dabbled in film before but this will be their first full score for a major movie, if they can pull it off I really see this being something special!

I just hope they get David Warner back as the Master Control Program!

Mar 4 2009

New Little Boots reMixes (in town)

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‘New In Town’ is possibly my favourite Little Boots song, especially live, so I’m pleased to see some reMixes starting to rear their heads.

Here we have two mixes First up is Fred Falke who turns in a fast Disco House rework, maybe a little to sped up if I’m honest. The second attempt is by Institubes’ Drop The Lime who turns up the bass to 11.

♫ Little Boots – New In Town (Fred Falke reMix Vocal) (zShare) (MediaFire)

♫ Little Boots – New In Town (Drop The Lime Dub) (zShare) (MediaFire)

Catch some Little Boots at one of the links below:

Little Boots @ Beatport

Little Boots @ 7Digital

Little Boots @ Juno

Little Boots @ Amazon