Good morning Electro fans!
As a aside this morning I’m asking my readers for a quick favour.
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Each month Topman pick a current, exiting, UK band to become Topman CTRL Controllers, giving them a chance to share some of their inspirations and current raves on the Topman CTRL site, their month culminating in a headlining gig with a line up hand picked by the band. This month they have really outdone themselves by handing over the helm to awesome ElectroPoppers CHEW LiPS.
Here at electronic rumours we’ve managed to get our hands on a pair of exclusive Topman T-shirts designed by CHEW LiPS to kick off their control of the Topman CTRL site, http://www.myspace.com/topmanctrl, in April.
As is the CTRL way, CHEW LiPS will be headlining a night of great bands and great music hand picked by the trio. Alongside themselves will be Party Horse, Ten Bears and DJ Dan Strange! All this will be going down 16th April at the Cardiff Arts Institute in, obviously, Cardiff.
For tickets and more details check out http://www.topmanctrl.com
To grab yourself one of these limited edition T-shirts you need to follow us (electronicrumor) on Twitter, then copy, paste and tweet the following:
Oh please @electronicrumor, please sort me out with a limited edition @topmanctrl T-shirt designed by the wonderful @Chew_Lips! I wanna win!
Simple as that! Everyone who Tweets will have their name, quite literally, put into my porkpie hat and the winner will be notified via Twitter. We’ll keep things going until Friday 30th April and get in touch with the winners soon after.
CHEW LiPS current album, ‘Unicorn’, is out now and the single ‘Karen’ was released last week.
Canadian Electro-House producers ¡borracho! is about to drop their début EP, ‘Anything To Declare…?’ on new digital label Rural Route Records Inc. Consisting mostly of some of the stellar reMixes they’ve given us in the last few months, the EP also includes an original track titled ‘Soviet Holiday’. If’s a full on, dancefloor destroying, banger and you can check the tune and accompanying video here:
Amongst the reMixes included on the EP is the brilliant Cavaliers Of Fun reMix, we’ve previously featured, for ‘Secret Galaxies’ and their take on Lady Gaga’s ‘Love Games’. Both reMixes throw the tracks straight on the dancefloor and rock out with soaring lead lines and hard distorted synths.
♫ Cavaliers Of Fun – Secret Galaxies (¡borracho! reMixx) (zShare) (MediaFire)
♫ Lady GaGa – Love Games (¡borracho! reMixx) (zShare) (MediaFire)
The ‘Anything To Declare…?’ EP is out soon, while you’re waiting show them some MySpace love!
French label InFiné have got in touch to show off their next release, the first proper EP from Spitzer, two brothers from Lyon who make sweet, intricate electronic music.
Track three of the ‘Roller Coaster’ EP is ‘Too Hard To Breath’ and features vocals from KiD A. It’s actually a really beautiful, chilled piece of electronica with nods to IDM, Trip-Hop and Dubstep with a vocal performance that is reminiscent of Björk with a hint of Martina Topely-Bird (and something else I can’t quite put my finger on!).
Great headphone listening!
♫ Spitzer (Feat. KiD A) – Too Hard To Breath (Edit) (zShare) (MediaFire)
The ‘Roller Coaster’ EP drops very soon!
Miami’s Panic Bomber has just released a new EP on Canada’s YYZ Records.
The ‘Discipline EP’’s title track is a genre crushing Nu-Disco/SynthPop/Acid Techno stormer. A hard and dark bassline propels the track forward and counterpoints the catchy vocals, and that’s before it goes crazy with Acid builds!
♫ Panic Bomber – Discipline (zShare) (MediaFire)
The ‘Discipline EP’ is out now.
Australian SynthPop heroes Parralox have débuted the video for their forthcoming single ‘Isn’t It Strange’. Like a female fronted, early ’90’s Depeche Mode, Parralox produce classic SynthPop, in the truest sense of the word. The new single is tinged with melancholy but a generally uplifting electronic Pop tune and this classy video works really well with the track.
I’ll tell you what, I’ve missed 90’s orchestral stabs!
‘Isn’t It Strange’ is released April 2010 on Conzoom Records.
Coming straight out of LA based SynthPop/Dreamwave collective Binary Records, NightWaves have been throwing out some awesome tunes recently. I’m still rockin’ to their cover of ‘In The Air Tonight’!
Next week they duo drop their new single ‘Sweet Carrie’ and continuing the evolution of the NightWaves sound they’ve dropped some subtle guitars into the mix which blend pretty well with their dreamy synths. The tracks is pure summertime cool which, frankly, makes you wish you were somewhere else (unless, of course, you are already somewhere chillin’ in the sun, in which case, here’s your soundtrack!) You can check the video here.
Along with a killer package, our good friend Beaumont has contributed his take in the tune to the mix. The Aussie producer turns in sweet laidback Electro-House mix that makes brilliant use of cut-up vocals and finds a voice all of it’s own.
♫ NightWaves – Sweet Carrie (Beaumont reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
As a bonus the guys are releasing the stems of the track for all and sundry to reMix! Download them here.
‘Sweet Carrie’ drops next Tuesday on dubFrequency.
The anticipation for a long player from Monarchy just grows and grows each time I listen to them and now not only do the make some of the best SynthPop around but they also have fantastic videos!
This new video is 4:31 of pure space-porn with a nice Sci-Fi narrative. In combination with the music I could watch this again and again…and I have!
‘The Phoenix Alive’’s video was directed by Nils Porrmann @ Dandelion & Burdock, the single drops 16th April.
So what happens when Poney Poney change their name and enlist Justice’s Xavier de Rosnay and Daft Punk’s sound Engineer Peter Franco to produce their album?
Jamaica, that’s what! They have just dropped this, their début track, ‘I Think I Like U 2’, which is a feel good, upbeat Indie-Electro fun jam complete with Daft-style solo.
♫ Jamaica – I Think I Like U 2 (zShare) (MediaFire)
Check the, pretty funny, video here.
Jamaica also have a track on the forthcoming 9th edition of the Kitsuné Maison series and a full length album due out in August.
Dr. Martins, British footwear provider to the Indie inclined for, well, forever, are celebrating 50 years in the boot business by commissioning a whole heap of artists to cover 10 classic tracks.
This is the track you’ll be particularly interested in. La Electro-Funk agitator DāM-FunK taking The Human League’s ‘The Things That Dreams Are Made Of’ to Moog heaven.
Like Barry White channelling Phil Oakey this is a really raw Funk, bass heavy version.
♫ DāM-FunK – The Things That Dreams Are Made Of (The Human League Cover) (zShare) (MediaFire)
You can hear the other tracks from 1st April at 50 Years Of Dr. Martins
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