Little Boots’ forthcoming single ‘New In Town’ has been given a total reMix overhaul by the wonderful Emil & Friends.
This dramatic reworking is actually really cool. Broken beats, screaming solos and vocoder overdrive…what more could you ask for?
♫ Little Boots – New In Town (Emil & Friends reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
‘New In Town’ is released May 25th.
No shit, Sherlock!: A chance to enthuse about music from the last few years that pre-dates electronic rumors, this stuff has probably already been blogged to death years ago, but we need a chance to get how much we love it off our chests. We already love it, you already know and love it…and are probably bored of it, but we’re going to blog about it anyway…
Zombi’s Steve Moore’s side project Lovelock received a bit of blog attention late last year, particularly for his track ‘Burning Feeling’. The hype was well deserved.
Lovelock’s epic, sonically sprawling, retro SynthPop is serious 80’s teen movie soundtrack stuff. Just like we like it!
The production on these tracks is, at times, staggeringly good. The layering of either Steve’s smooth vocals, or the guest vocalists, with the driving electronics that sometimes verges on early industrial, with ‘Burning Feeling’ and sometimes glides across the dancefloor, as with Maybe ‘Tonight’, is so slick it’s a joy to listen to.
Check out this lot, pure 80’s goodness!
♫ Lovelock – Burning Feeling (zShare) (MediaFire)
♫ Lovelock – Love Reaction (zShare) (MediaFire)
♫ Lovelock – Maybe Tonight (zShare) (MediaFire)
Lovelock’s only release so far has been on Eskimo Recordings ‘Cosmic Balearic Beats Vol. 01’ CD, expect more soon though!
Sandi Sirocco is the name of a band, not a person, and it’s a name you should remember because it one you will be hearing lots about in the coming year, these three guys and one girl based in London going to blow up, seriously!
They are one of those bands that just has you gobsmacked to learn they are unsigned. You can just tell there will be much Sandi Sirocco hype in the coming months and they will soon be fighting labels off.
The melting pot of a half-Spaniard, a Russian-Ukrainian, a Georgian and a Scot create a sound quite unlike and other Electro act out there
Their high energy Synth Disco combines analog ElectroPop of the very early futurists with the musical theatricality of early Soft Cell.
I’m gonna’ make you put in the effort and head over to their MySpace to check the music. So while you’re there, play nice and show Sandi Sirocco some love!
This has really made my day!
The almighty Alice In Videoland have dropped a new track, the first new material since 2008’s ‘She’s a Machine’, and it’s classic AiV! ‘Psychobitch’ see a return to the electronic Pop-Punk of the ‘Outrageous!’ album over the more EBM influenced last album, and that is no bad thing!
With heavy bass, screaming synths and some really punky vocals from Toril, its good to have this riotous, Electro rockin’, badass AiV back!
I don’t want to repeat myself but Alice In Videoland really put other bands who call themselves ‘ElectroPunk’ to shame.
AiV have been kind enough to allow me to share the new track with you lot!
♫ Alice In Videoland – Psychobitch (zShare) (MediaFire)
Read about how much electronic rumors loves AiV here, then go buy some stuff!
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The Faint easily rank up there as one of my favourite bands ever so any hint of new material is exiting for me, even a new reMix.
Here, Las Vegas based duo, Afghan Raiders take an already aggressive song and create a noisy, angry, nightmare of sound that somehow manages to retain it’s groove.
It’s powerful stuff:
♫ The Faint – Mirror Error (Afghan Raiders reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
Some of Afghan Raiders’ original tracks can be heard on their MySpace, and buying The Faint’s back catalogue should be on your agenda (if you already haven’t got them1)
Is there time for just one more reMix of ‘In For The Kill’ before La Roux’s next single, ‘Bulletproof’ is released?
Of course there is!
Saving the best ‘til last comes Lifelike. His really 80’s SynthPop, with a dance beat, take on the track has it vying against Heartbreak’s reMix for the position of my favourite version.
♫ La Roux – In For The Kill (Lifelike reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
Here’s your chance to pick up ‘In For The Kill’ before the ‘Bulletproof’ reMix flood begins!:
Something a bit different for this holiday Monday. The 80’s was a time of looking to the future (‘cos everything was a bit shit then) and this was reflected in glossy, futuristic T.V.. Of course, futuristic T.V. shows had to have futuristic theme songs, and that meant Synthesizers!
So here’s a small collection of some of the best to fuel your nostalgia.
Beginning with possibly my favourite TV theme of the 80’s, Tangerine Dream’s theme from ‘Streethawk’ (also on their own ‘Le Parc‘ album), taking in the classic theme’s from ‘Airwolf’ and ‘Knight Rider’ and ending up with the proto-Daft Punk-esq theme from the cartoon ‘Ulysses 31’.
Most of these are really crappy quality, as if some kid in the 80’s held a Tandy tape recorder to the T.V. speaker to tape the music….just like I used to do!
Enjoy!
♫ Tangerine Dream – Le Parc (L.A. – Streethawk) (zShare) (MediaFire)
♫ Midge Ure – Max Headroom T.V. Theme (zShare) (MediaFire)
♫ Jan Hammer – Airwolf Theme (zShare) (MediaFire)
♫ Glen A. Larson & J.A.C. Redford – Theme From Automan (zShare) (MediaFire)
♫ Dennis McCarthy – ‘V’ The Final Battle: Main Title (Version 1) (zShare) (MediaFire)
♫ Barry De Vorzon – ‘V’ The Final Battle: Main Title (Version 2) (zShare) (MediaFire)
♫ Glen A. Larson & Stu Phillips – Knight Rider Theme (zShare) (MediaFire)
♫ Jan Hammer – Crocket’s Theme (Miami Vice Theme) (zShare) (MediaFire)
♫ Lionel – Ulysses 31 (zShare) (MediaFire)
I would have included ‘Doctor Who’ themes, but I may save them for another post…
Also, If I got any of the artists wrong, I apologize, whatever…
Well, after a couple of name changes (they had to stop using the last name for legal reasons) this Leeds based ElectroPop act have settled on their moniker; Detronik, and in doing so added impetus to their production schedule.
The trio, consisting of John Steed, Richy Spence and Liana Stokes, are currently working on their début album which they promise will be out October/November but we can give you a taster of what to expect in the form of a demo version of ‘My Girlfriend Likes Girls’, which is a brilliant slice of upbeat ElectroPop and shows off Detronik’s dry sense of humour, ‘My Girlfriend Likes Girls’ is genuinely funny.
♫ Detronik – My Girlfriend Likes Girls (Demo.) (zShare) (MediaFire)
Detronik don’t seem to conform to either Clubby ElectroPop or Indie-Electro, rather they seem to walk a line between the two.
Show them some MySpace love as you wait for the album release!
The Vault: The classics of Electronic Music. The influential and the groundbreaking. The pioneering and the music we grew up on…
It’s 1986, this blogger is 11 years old. Up until this point my musical world has consisted of chart music and SynthPop (also chart music) inherited from my older brother. Then me and my mates discovered Graffiti, Breakdancing and Electro.
At the weekend we’d go down the underpass with a Hitachi boom box, a piece of old lino and a couple of spraycans for some poppin’, lockin’ and tagging. We’d clumsily practice our windmills and caterpillars to a soundtrack of mixtapes that came from who knows where; traded amongst older kids and eventually passed down to us.
One of these tapes changed my life.
It was a cassette of a pirate radio show, I didn’t know (and never found out) any more about it but amongst the likes of The Kartoon Krew and Mantronix was a track that blew my young mind.
That song, although I wouldn’t find out what it was called or who it was by until years later, was ‘R-9’ by Cybotron.
Everything I has ever heard up until that moment was, for want of a better word, poppy. Even the Electro Hip-Hop we were listening to was upbeat, party music and the darkest of SynthPop was still a verse-chorus-verse-chorus pop tune. ‘R-9’ was strange and dark with washes of eerie synthetic tones and an infectious Electro Funk bassline.
I Loved it!
Here was something that I hadn’t heard on the radio, hadn’t been played to me by someone else. I had discovered a band, and song, no one else around me knew about (admittedly, neither did I really!) and I enthused about it to anyone who would listen. And, so, my mind was opened up to the world of music out there that exists out there beyond the Top 40 and peer’s tastes.
I never stopped seeking out new music.
Cybotron was an early project from Detroit Techno pioneer Juan Atkins, with Richard “3070” Davis. Formed in 1980, taking influences from American Funk, European synthesizer music and English SynthPop, Cybotron became incredibly influential themselves. Juan Arkins, along with Derrick May and Kevin Saunderson, is generally credited with originating Techno.
Cybotron were an experimental inspiration to many electronic musicians that you could break boundaries, yet keep it on the dancefloor.
Hear for yourself why:
♫ Cybotron – R-9 (zShare) (MediaFire)
♫ Cybotron – Cosmic Cars (zShare) (MediaFire)
♫ Cybotron – Techno City (zShare) (MediaFire)
♫ Cybotron – Alleys Of Your Mind (zShare) (MediaFire)
♫ Cybotron – Clear (zShare) (MediaFire)
♫ Cybotron – Enter (zShare) (MediaFire)
Cybotron didn’t really release that much, re-releases can still be picked up, as can a couple of Greatest Hits albums,
The week in Bangers: While electronic rumors isn’t strictly an Electro-House blog, we do cover a lot of Electro-House that crosses over in to our realm. So many good club tunes and reMixes surface each week we can’t (and wouldn’t) cover them all, so this is a round up of some of the best from the week that we didn’t have time to dedicate individual posts to…
What’s in the bag this week? Well, we start off with Empire Of The Sun’s almighty ‘Walking On A Dream’ as reMixed by The Bloody Sisters and Database & Bonde Do Role’s ‘Miami’, the MMMathias version. The much hyped Polly Scattergood gets a working over by New York Disco heroes The Golden Filter and the clash of Tiga and Mr. Oizo is exactly as you’d expect!. Noisy SynthPopster Avian X is morphed into an Electro Banger by Kolt 13 and we have the dream pairing of FischerSpooner and D.I.M.. New Canadian retro synth act FM Attack build things up for us to be left with the almighty ‘We Are You Friends’ by Justice Vs. Simian as reMixed by The Disco Villains.
♫ Empire Of The Sun – Walking On A Dream (TBS reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
♫ Database (Feat. Bonde Do Role) – Miami (MMMatthias 1981 reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
♫ Polly Scattergood – Please Don’t Touch (The Golden Filter reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
♫ Tiga – Shoes (Mr. Oizo reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
♫ Avian X – Dark Circles (Kolt 13 reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
♫ FischerSpooner – Supply & Demand (D.I.M. Dub reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
♫ FM Attack – Disco Attack (zSahre) (MediaFire)
♫ Justice Vs. Simian – We Are Your Friends (Disco Villains reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
Most of these artists can be picked up here:
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