Chicago’s Love Concept are a weird one, they sound kinda’ like a garage SynthPop band. The songs themselves are very 80’s, in line with the current crop of Dreamwave or Chillwave bands, but there’s something really raw about the recording that sets them apart from the crowd. Like a real synth jam session, it’s a refreshing sound.
♫ Love Concept – Quarter Century Boy (zShare) (MediaFire)
Go give Love Concept some props over on their MySpace:
Hey! Ellie Goulding has finally dropped a real video for ‘Starry Eyed’! The song’s been around for a while but it’s finally getting a single release.
So, here’s the clip:
‘Starry Eyed’ will be released on 22ng February, followed by Ellie’s album ‘Lights’ on 1st March
So, what happens when you mix prolific Electro artist and reMixer Drop The Lime with Cutting Crew’s 80’s power balled ‘(I Just) Dies In Your Arms)?
This does:
♫ Cutting Crew – (I Just) Died In Your Arms (Drop The Lime reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
All cut up vocals and warp bass, it’s got a real Breakdance feel but has an appropriately huge breakdown!
It’s getting late, I don’t think I can cope! 😉
Indie-electro darlings Dragonette have roped in the talents of Michael Di Francesco of Van She fame under the alias of Arithmatix! for a pumping Nu-Disco killer remix.
Loaded with Italo influences and a Disco groove this reMix is gonna’ ram the dancefloors!
♫ Dragonette – Pick Up The Phone (Arithmatix! Mix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
I’m insanely jealous of those living in the US right now as Dragonette are touring the states alongside Little Boots and Fan Death. Now that’s gonna’ be a hell of a night out!
Man, I absolutely adore Jupiter’s reMix of CHEW LiPS ‘Salt Air’, it made number three in electronic rumors’ top 20 songs of 2009 so I was all up in this reMix of Two Door Cinema Club’s brilliant new single ‘Undercover Martyn’.
Jupiter brings the perfect Electro Disco flavour to the track. Digital slap bass, distorted analog synths and leads that fly out of the tune are all present and correct. Jupiter seems to be able to do no reMix wrong!
♫ Two Door Cinema Club – Undercover Martyn (Jupiter reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
‘Undercover Martyn’ is out shortly on Kitsuné Music.
Two Door Cinema Club @ Beatport
Two Door Cinema Club @ 7digital
Sting’s kid Eliot Sumner, also known as I Blame Coco, has been getting a lot of blog inches recently, especially with the forthcoming release of her début single ‘Caesar’ which features Scandinavian SynthPop queen Robyn.
What’s interested me is this reMix by one of our favourite acts Miike Snow (who she’s also working with) as they drop heavy beats and a really deep Electronic sound.
♫ I Blame Coco (Feat. Robyn) – Caesar (Miike Snow reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
‘Caesar’ is released as a limited edition 10” on 1st February.
No sooner had The Knife dropped the first track from their evolution opera ‘Tomorrow, In A Year’, we recited this reMix of the track ‘Colouring Of Pigeons’ by relative newcomer dAi.
He’s done wonders with the track, somehow keeping the abstract and theatrical vibes but making them conform to a steady dancefloor groove. It shouldn’t work, but it does! It’s something really different to hear that 80’s Electro beat and with the avant-garde percussion and operatic vocals.
♫ The Knife (In Collaboration With Mt. Sims And Planningtorock) – Colouring Of Pigeons (dAi Refix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
‘Tomorrow, In A Year’, the album, will be released on Rabid Records on1st March.
Massive Attack’s long awaited new album, ‘Heligoland’, drops on 8th February. Normally a new Massive Attack album is something to look forward to, but I think I am more so this time as it features a couple of tracks featuring vocals by Martina Topley-Bird, one of my favourite vocalists.
‘Girl I Love You’ isn’t one of them, but it has been given a heavy, heavy, Dub reMix by She Is Danger, who we have featured a couple of times before. Our favourite Dubstep girls play an almost flawless Dub game with slight Industrial overtones. Horace Andy’s recognisable vocals just ride what could be and old school Massive Attack track itself (albeit slightly more Electronic sounding). London? Are we sure these girls aren’t from Bristol?
♫ Massive Attack – Girl I Love You (She Is Danger reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
If you’re into heavy beats and bass in any way She Is Danger are defiantly one outfit to keep an eye on!
It been almost a year since we wrote about Canadian Keytar queen LIGHTS, and what a busy year it has been for her. A couple of EPs and her full length CD, ‘The Listening’, were released on Sire and she is currently touring to globe with Owl City.
Late last year she released a series of motion comics titles ‘Audio Quest: A Capt. LIGHTS Adventure’ which even ended up being played on MTV.
A motion comic, for those who don’t know, is something both Marvel and DC are dabbling with right now. Not quite animation but more kinetic than a comic book panel, both comic giants have experimented with turning some of their bigger existing comic titles into moving images. Just watch the thing, you’ll see what I mean!
Anyway, LIGHTS, a comic and Sci-Fi fan, released four episodes of this little musical Sci-Fi adventure last year and in honour of the release of episode five, exclusively on MySpace we thought we’d show you the previous four chapters.
Enjoy!
Episode five can be seen right now here on MySpace!
What’s not to like about LIGHTS? Cute girl with Keytar, makes ElectroPop, into Sci-Fi, Comics and Gaming. It’s like she was made from science!
New York rockers Yeasayer seem to get quite a few mentions in the electronic music press, not only did singer Chris Keating appear on Simian Mobile Disco’s ‘Audacity of Huge’ but they seem to be reMix fodder supreme!
German reMix factory MMMatthias completely warps their single ‘ONE’ into a cut-up Electro banger that must have taken days hunched over a sampler, twisting guitar riffs into Electro lead lines.
♫ Yeasayer – ONE (MMMatthias reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
Go visit MMMatthias’ MySpace and show some love!
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