Chromeo have premiered the video for their smooth-as-silk new single ‘Don’t Turn The Light’s On’ and it’s a pretty creepy looking clip, all eyes and teeth!
Directed by Keith Schofield the video has a weird 80’s crazies thing going on with some pretty humorous moments. Check it out:
‘Don’t Turn The Lights On’ is out this week and taken from the album ‘Business Casual’ which is released 14th September. You can pre-order the album here.
The two hot girls in the picture are Moneypenny, a Chicago based ElectroPop duo who are continuing the ElectroClash tradition but bringing it into the 21st Century.
I always felt there was something lacking in ElectroClash (aside from it being a parody of itself), but Moneypenny seem to hand pick the best elements and wrap them up in some contemporary ElectroPop. The end result is sassy, sexy and straight up dancefloor.
Check out their latest track, ‘Cool & The Gang’, which has that ElectroClash feel but musically combines elements of ElectroPop, French Electro-House, Electro Funk and even a little Acid up in there to create something that feels a lot more relevant than ElectroClash ever did.
♫ Moneypenny – Cool & The Gang
You can download the track for free by heading over to their MySpace and signing up to their mailing list, an email address is a small price to pay for tunes like this!
UK Instrumental Electro producer Little Loud has been racking up a few big name reMixes under his belt in recent months, Memory Tapes, Au Revoir Simone and HEALTH have all been giving the Little Loud treatment.
As well as just completing an awesome reMix for Yeasayer , in which he turns ‘Madder Red’ into a cosmic Disco epic, Little Loud is right now working on his original, solo, material. One of the first fruits of this work is this instrumental cover of Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Dancing In The Dark’. Little Loud’s intricate, bright, synth work is pretty standout, the guy is defiantly carving out a unique sound for himself.
♫ Little Loud – Dancing In The Dark (Bruce Springsteen Cover)
♫ Yeasayer – Madder Red (Little Loud reMix)
Little Loud is working on releasing a mixtape of his reMixes and original work in August/September.
Champagne Riot are a Danish duo, comprised of Caspar Bock and Anders Reuter, who make wonderful melodramatic Electro Indie-Pop.
Their début single is being released in September and if you give it a listen (128kbps previews below) you will find a swirling mass of 80’s sounding Pop. Uplifting and bombastic in that way only 80’s Pop ever was, there’s more than a little Erasure in these tracks, the production and arrangement is incredibly sophisticated. Most of all though, Champagne Riot are fun Pop music, but intelligent in a way that makes you forget about any rubbish chart music ever released and reinstates your love of the pure Pop song.
♫ Champagne Riot – A Friend Of A Friend
The ‘Heart Stab’/’A Friends Of A Fried’ double A-side is released 27th September, until then go show them some MySpace love!
New Single ‘The Writer’ isn’t the first time Welsh Indie-ElectroPop outfit Friends Electric have reMixed Ellie Goulding. Their Mix of ‘Under The Sheets’ made our top 20 songs of 2009 and they have come on in leaps and bounds since then, both in popularity and production.
Their new mix couldn’t have been easy, it’s an awesome song but I can’t imagine it lends itself well to reMixing. But the lads have risen to the challenge and dropped this chilled summery dance track, almost Balearic in places (this is a real sunrise tune!) that still highlights Ms. Goulding’s stunning vocals.
♫ Ellie Goulding – The Writer (Friends Electric reMix)
‘The Writer’ single is released 9th August.
Those crazy Chicago kids Midnight Conspiracy are at it again! So soon after their Crystal Castles reMix and just in time for his Lollapalooza performance they turn in this synthtastic reMix of Tiga’s hit of last year ‘What You Need’
This is pure retro brilliance that takes a completely different tack to the multitude of similar noisy Electro-House reMixes out there, and indeed the distorted synths of the original. Rather that churn out another huge banger Midnight Conspiracy have made a masterpiece of pure 80’s ElectroPop that is much more fitting with the chilled vibe of this summer and actually compliments the vocals better than any of the other reMixes…or the original.
This is how it should have sounded all along!
♫ Tiga – What You Need (Midnight Conspiracy ‘Summer Of ’87’ reMix)
Check out more of Mc at their MySpace.
SynthPop duo Night Gallery are about to release their début album ‘Constant Struggle’. Made up of Golden Birthday’s Adam Griffiths and Aaron David Ross from ace Electronica act GATEKEEPER, who brings some of GATEKEEPERS moodiness to the tracks, this Chicago based outfit
It’s a really 80’s affair. Without nods to current retro fads, Night Gallery create quite an authentic retro Pop sound which dispute the minor chords and brooding sounds manages to be quite uplifting (in the same way that martin Gore’s songs seem to be). Their press release compares them to Clan Of Xymox, which is actually a pretty good description, albeit with a lot less guitars, slightly less gothyness and a lot more contemporary sounding.
♫ Night Gallery – Constant Struggle
♫ Night Gallery – Fever Dreamer
‘Constant Struggle; is being released on Rainbow Body Records next month on limited edition vinyl (numbering 500) and even limiteder(?) edition cassette (only 100).
Night Gallery @ Rainbow Body Records
Faded Paper Figures are a trio from LA who make some of the quaintest ElectroPop you’ll ever hear.
Like a slightly more Indie Freezepop, cheap drum machines and toytown synths are the order of the day here. Faded Paper Figures have an immediate charm about them that is helped, in no small part, by both male and female vocals which, rather than duel, compliment and intertwine around each other. Occasionally you can hear bit of The Postal Service creeping into things, maybe some Passion Pit too, but for the most part Faded Paper Figures have a pretty unique sound of their own, one that sounds honest and heartfelt.
It’s ElectroPop that makes you feel like everything is, in fact, going to be OK!
They have just released their second album ‘New Medium’, check out two of the tracks from it:
♫ Faded Paper Figures – Invent It All Again
♫ Faded Paper Figures – Small Talk
‘New Medium’ is out now.
I’ve never heard of London Soft Rock band Goldhawks before, listening to the tracks on their MySpace they sound a little generic, but you’re not interested in that are you? They have a new single coming out called ‘Keep The Fire’ and it’s backed up with a totally monster reMix package!
Here we have two of the best, Italian Nu-Disco producers Reset! and the always excellent Justin Faust both take, what is essentially a good song, out of the murk of AOR and onto the dancefloor. Reset! completely demolish the original and build it up into an Italo/Balearic deathmatch while Mr. Faust’s epic Dreamwavey mix brushes the track with a bit of French Touch.
♫ Goldhawks – Keep The Fire (Reset! reMix)
♫ Goldhawks – Keep The Fire (Justin Faust reMix)
Also on the single is an electro/Dubstep mix from Bar9 and a chilled mix by Softwar. The whole package is defiantly worth your investigation.
Futuristic Retro Champions are a Glasgow based Indie-Electro four piece who are gearing up for the release of their début double A-side, ‘May The Forth’/’Settle Down’.
And, frankly, it’s pretty rad. These three girls and one guy’s particular brand of ElectroPop, with it’s heavy Indie-electro pounding counterpointed with sparkling 80’s sounding lead lines, is catchy as hell and toped of with vocals with an adorable Scottish twang. The production is pretty huge too, allowing these cute little ElectroPop tracks to evolve into epic, emotive power tracks.
Check ‘em out:
♫ Futuristic Retro Champions – May The Forth
♫ Futuristic Retro Champions – Settle Down
‘May The Forth’/’Settle Down’ drops 5th August as a limited edition CD or as a download from the band’s Bandcamp.
Futuristic Retro Champions @ Bandcamp
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