Jun 23 2010

Røyksopp grow old

Røyksopp are gearing up to release the flip side of last years utterly amazing ‘Junior’ album.

‘Junior’ not only made our top 20 albums but also had an inclusion in our top 20 songs of 2009 so if the duo are busting out the synths once more that cam only be good news!

Slated to be more instrumental, more freeform (maybe akin to their earlier works) than ‘Junior’, the new album, titles ‘Senior’ was conceived with each individual track being just one part of the whole.

In Røyksopp’s own words: “The two albums (‘Junior’ and ‘Senior’) have a kinship, in that they represent Røyksopp’s two very different artistic expressions. ‘Junior’ – with emphasis on vocals, accessible melodies and harmonies, has the energy, the inquisitive temper and confident “hey-ho, let’s go!”-attitude of youth, whereas ‘Senior’ is the introverted, dwelling and sometimes graceful counterpart – brimful with dark secrets and distorted memories, insisting “I’m old, I’ve got experience…”. Senior’ is furthermore an album about age, horses and being subdued – with devils breathing down your neck.”

Check the amusing trailer, there is nothing like a fake beard!

‘Senior’ is expected to drop 13th September

Jun 23 2010

Robots With Rayguns

Robots With Rayguns is Lucas Patrick Smith, a 80’s influenced dancey ElectroPop producer who has gained quite a few blog inches for himself in recent months with his awesome reMixes of Lady GaGa, Chromeo and NightWaves.

His latest output is ‘Sugarbaby’, an storming piece of retro Electro, skilfully straddling the line between ElectroPop and Nu-Disco, it’s like a poppier Grum (if you can imagine that!). TSTR provide a high octane Dreamwave mix that rocks it’s way through numerous 80’s musical references.

♫ Robots With Rayguns – Sugarbaby

♫ Robots With Rayguns – Sugarbaby (TSTR reMix)

You can check out more of Robots With Rayguns’ work on his SoundCloud.

Robots With Rayguns @ SoundCloud

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Jun 23 2010

THISISNOTANEXIT’s summer sampler

You’ve gotta’ love THISISNOTANEXIT records really. If you’re into any kind of interesting electronic music they have something for you. Whether you dig straight ElectroPop, Space Disco or something a little more experimental or eclectic they have you covered.

This week they are releasing the ‘THISISNOTANEXIT Summer Sampler EP 2010’ showcasing the varied talent on their roster.

Amongst the EP you will find Faze Action adding some badass analog Disco to Hatchback’s ‘Jetlag’, featuring some of the funkiest synth bass you will ever hear. Indie-Electro troupe Detachments drop a reMix of their well known track ‘The Flowers That Fell’ by Urlaubshits who bring a dark dance element to the table and New York ElectroPop dude The Dark Esquire teaming up with Club Silencio for a dirty, deep and gritty track titled ‘You Got To Look’

♫ Hatchback – Jetlag (Faze Action reMix)

♫ Detachments – The Flowers That Fell (Urlaubshits Minimal Rave Mix)

♫ Club Silencio (Feat.The Dark Esquire) – You Got To Look

Currently available as a digital exclusive at Juno the EP hits other download stores in two weeks.

Not keen on mp3’s, fancy a bit of flat black plastic with a hole in the middle? Well, THISISNOTANEXIT are trialling a scheme where folks who want the EP on vinyl can pledge to pay £10 for the release. If 100 people all pledge £10 then they will have a limited edition of 100 12”s pressed for those that wanted it (if they don’t get 100 pledges then the pressing doesn’t go ahead and no one gets charged). Register your interest at this link:

http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/thisisnotanexitsummersample

The EP can currently be downloaded from Juno, it’s a good starting point to investigate what THISISNOTANEXIT has to offer.

THISISNOTANEXIT @ Beatport

THISISNOTANEXIT @ Juno

THISISNOTANEXIT @ 7Digital

THISISNOTANEXIT @ Amazon

Jun 23 2010

Murder Mystery

You may remember Murder Mystery from last years blog-around ‘Love Astronaut’, they are a New York based Indie Pop act who make heavy use of synthesisers in their decidedly summery tunes.

Rubbing shoulders with their lush, reverb washed, electronics are bright, sparkling guitars and danceable drums to create an intimate, almost Lo-Fi sound.

The band are giving away these two track to let the world know what they’ve been up to sing releasing their critically acclaimed début album last year. ‘I Am (If You Are)’ in particular, being more electronic, brings to mind a more Indie Freezepop or Venus Hum. This is music that doesn’t charge up to you and get in your face, it simply saunters up and introduces itself with a handshake, maybe offers you a drink, and on a hot day like this it’s just the ticket.

♫ Murder Mystery – Change My Mind

♫ Murder Mystery – I Am (If You Are)

Murder Mystery’s début album is available now.

Murder Mystery @ Amazon

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Jun 23 2010

Housse De Racket; it’s that ‘Oh Yeah!’ time again!

Parisian Electro-House/Indie-Electro act Housse De Racket are releasing yet another reMix package for their much hammered, much reMixed party anthem ‘Oh Yeah!’.

The package is seriously top quality, here are just three examples of what to expect. Hidden Cat turn in a brilliant space Disco mix that keeps the killer riff but layers it will analog noodling. Jensen Sportag brings us quite an eclectic summer chiller but the highlight so far has to be Walter Sobcek’s slick retro Pop mix which is, one one word, epic!

♫ Housse De Racket – Oh Yeah! (Hidden Cat reMix)

♫ Housse De Racket – Oh Yeah! (Jensen Sportag Pop Mix)

♫ Housse De Racket – Oh Yeah! (Walter Sobcek reMix)

4th July is the street date for the ‘Oh Yeah!’ reMix EP, out on Kuskus.

Housse De Racket @ Beatport

Housse De Racket @ Juno

Housse De Racket @ 7Digital

Housse De Racket @ Amazon

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Jun 23 2010

Holiday For Strings

Thieves Like Us’ Pony has given us the heads up about his new project Holiday for Strings, with John from Peter Bjorn & John.

The Swedish six piece have just dropped their second record, a collection of reMixes from their album, ‘Favorite Flavor’. Driven by some awesome, Hooky influenced, bass playing the No-Disco/Indie-Electro tracks have a real New York Disco feel to them but while they are the kind of tracks guaranteed to get the party started there is an added layer of intelligence going on, both musically and lyrically.

♫ Holiday For Strings – Two Of You (Dance Mix)

♫ Holiday For Strings – Unwilling/Not Able (Dance Mix)

The band have also just premiered the video for ‘Two Of You’, apparently there was fire department involvement, haha! check it here.

Both Holiday For Strings’ album and the reMix EP are out now.

Holiday For Strings @ Juno

Holiday For Strings @ 7Digital

Holiday For Strings @ Amazon

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Jun 23 2010

VeemanJanssen

You may remember a while back we featured the solo efforts of Le Le’s Rimeroni Vumani as Rimer London, well now the guy’s back and about to drop and EP for Instant Reply with his new project, VeemanJanssen.

With his recording partner, designer Janssen A.K.A. Parra, their deep love for all things Disco and Italo shine through in this smooth as silk summer jam. I’m just sitting here at the keyboard, sun shining through the window, loving the deep analog bassline in this track, I have a feeling this is gonna’ be on repeat most of the afternoon!

♫ VeemanJanssen – Put The Freeze On

The EP is released 16th July, keep an eye on Instant Replay for news.

VeemanJanssen @ Instant Replay

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Jun 21 2010

Monarchy news, in video form

Last Saturday London’s awesome stargazing SynthPop act Monarchy, usually men shrouded in mystery, made a rare, and their début, live appearance.

And where was this gig? You might ask. Well, fittingly for the band it pretty much took place in space. Performed at the NASA Planetarium at Cape Canaveral, Florida in from of 20 witnesses the show gained the band the honour of being the first band to broadcast live into space!

Check the trailer below, it looks like it would have been quite an experience to attend. Monarchy are promising more video soon.

At least if there is life out there we’ve got our musical ambassadorship covered.

Also just premiered is the video for their forthcoming new single ‘Love Get Out Of My Way’ spanning a cosmic Disco fantasyland. Lots of space-ballet, a space-unicorn, a space-pillar and possibly a space-love story, can’t quite tell. Looks nice though!

‘Love Get Out Of My Way’ drops very soon with reMixes from Holy Ghost!, Sinden, and Treasure Fingers amongst others.

Monarchy @ Beatport

Monarchy @ Juno

Monarchy @ Amazon

Jun 17 2010

Painted Face

Painted Face is the superhero identity of DC based singer/songwriter Allie Alvarado.

Veteran of the Brooklyn Art-Rock scene, having been part of Telepathe and Blood Lines, her current output comes of a collaboration with producer Alvin Risk and is a captivating combination of intricate electronic music and soulful vocals. The music seems to effortlessly capture that elusive sweet spot that mixes the nuanced and emotive with the danceable without loosing any of either.

The moment the beat kicks-in on ‘Undreamt’ it has already hooked you to the groove, but beyond that it’s the layers upon layers of sound and Allie’s voice (with something fresh and raw about it) that seem to reach into every part of you. It’s gonna’ get more exposure, I guarantee it, and it’s one of those tracks that’s going to give you goosebumps when the DJ drops it.

♫ Painted Face – Undreamt

Check out Painted Face’s SoundCloud for more music and show Allie much MySpace love!:

Painted Face @ MySpace
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Jun 17 2010

Overthrill

Overthrill probably isn’t a new name to many readers of electronic rumors. Having dropped some awesome EPs (and killer Mixtapes) in the last couple of years, German producer Sebastian Bentler joins the dots between the Valerie crew’s melodic, smooth Dreamwave sound and the Ed Banger posse’s Noisy French Electro.

And the point in the middle of those dots is pretty epic!

One a duo, now solo, Sebastian is pretty prolific when it comes to releases, with four EPs and a handful of singles under his belt in the last few years (Sebastian handles all the artwork too) and more in the pipeline Overthrill have somehow managed to consistently knock out banger after banger. Pleasing both the blogs and the clubs.

Overthrill’s most recent EP, ‘The Upper Worlds’ is a prime example of their head on collision between Disco and Distorted Electro, funky and in-your-face at the same time.