Dec 22 2010

G.L.O.V.E.S. reMix Bag Raiders’ new single

It’s got cool ElectroPop, Dancefloor sensibilities, and a monkey in the video. I get the feeling Bag Raiders’ forthcoming new single ‘Sunlight’ is gonna’ do well.

The reMix package has got one or two gems contained within too. Check this mix by fellow Australians G.L.O.V.E.S.. You know the G.L.O.V.E.S. name is a mark of quality and what you get here is no exception. Smooth Nu-Disco sounds to while away the night with a shuffling beat. this is the stuff to make you forget about the cold and dance in the snow!

♫ Bag Raiders – Sunlight (G.L.O.V.E.S. reMix)

‘Sunlight’ is taken from Bag Raider’s album, out right now on Modular and the single will be released early 2011!

Bag Raiders @ Beatport

Bag Raiders @ Juno

Bag Raiders @ 7Digital

Bag Raiders @ Amazon

Dec 22 2010

CHEW LiPS’ X-Mas present to you

CHEW LiPS have had an amazing year.

Right at the start of 2010 their début album was released and it’s been twelve months of promotion and gigging since, and I can vouch for that having seen their awesome live show a few times this year myself.

As an X-Mas present to their fans for making their 2010 what it was Tigs and the guys have recorded a special X-Mas song for free. ‘When You Wake Up’ is one of the more X-Massy X-Mas songs I’ve heard this year, it’s all sleigh bells, plucked strings and fireside imagery. I reckon if they had released this for money it would have had a shot at X-Mas number one!

♫ CHEW LiPS – When You Wake Up

CHEW LiPS are looking to release their second album late next year.

Dec 22 2010

Kap10Kurt reworks Pet Shop Boys’ ‘Suburbia’

Fresh from mixing duties on Erasure’s re-release of ‘A Little Respect’, ElectroPop/Nu-Disco innovator Kap10Kurt has turned his attention to a whole crop of classic 80’s tracks making them prime fodder for an DJs set.

The man has kindly let us share with you his awesome take on Pet Shop Boys’ ‘Suburbia’ (my personal favourtie PSB track!). Like all good reworks of songs this legendary it keeps the song srtucture pretty much intackt, after all it’s something ingrained in the popular psyche, but brings it crashing into the 21st century with a kicking new beat and bassline and washed with some lush retro synths. Add in a few edits and cuts here and there and what you’re left with is a storming dancefloor track that’s also a classic anthem. That’s a win/win all round!

♫ Pet Shop Boys – Suburbia (Kap10Kurt Rework)

You can find the rest of his 80’s reworks on his SoundCloud page.

Kap10Kurt also has a, slightly terrifying, message for electronic rumors readers:

The Kap10’ is currently gearing up for the release of his new single, ‘Speed Demon’, which drops in January 2011 on Kris Menace’s label Work It Baby and features reMix skills from none other than Justin Faust. If that has you salivating, check out Kap10Kurt’s previous singles:

Pet Shop Boys @ Beatport

Pet Shop Boys @ Juno

Pet Shop Boys @ 7Digital

Pet Shop Boys @ Amazon

Dec 22 2010

Echoes’ Footprints in the snow

We’re hoping 2011 holds big things for London ElectroPop act Echoes, they’re one of a handful of new bands in the UK who have the talent to take next year by storm. I really think the post-Little Boots/La Roux, post-HURTS, world is ready for this kind of smoother SynthPop.

The guys, full of X-Mas cheer, have recorded a festive tune for this holiday season and it’s proper X-Mas SynthPop stuff. Rousing and uplifting in sound but with a strain of melancholy in the lyrics, it’s got all the elements that an ElectroPop track should have at X-Mas. Bell like synths, tom driven beats, 80’s bassline, and the footprints in the snow imagery is pure genius. This is the kind of X-Mas song we want to hear, the kind of X-Mas song we miss.

Enjoy.

♫ Echoes – Footprints

On a side note, I’m starting to wonder if the men of mystery have at least some kind of industry history or backing. Listening to the production on this track, either someone is throwing money at them or they really are that talented. Either way, they’ve giving you an X-Mas present, you are socially obliged to do the same, may I suggest a large helping of your Facebook love.

Echoes @ Facebook

Dec 22 2010

Fenech-Soler Vs. Drums Of Death

The reMix package for January’s release of Fenech-Soler’s ‘Demons’ single is nothing short of stunning.

We’ve already unleashed the Yuksek reMix on you, now check out this pretty minimal mix from London’s Drums Of Death. Walking a like between minimal Techno and 90’s House the track builds up a pretty irrisiatable groove and provides an very different, but interesting, task on one of the best tracks from Fenech-Soler’s début album.

♫ Fenech-Soler – Demons (Drums Of Death reMix)

Fenech-Soler release the ‘Demons’ single on 24th January, their self-titled album is out now.

Fenech-Soler @ Beatport

Fenech-Soler @ Juno

Fenech-Soler @ 7Digital

Fenech-Soler @ Amazon

Dec 21 2010

DFA’s Tim Goldsworthy reMixes Cut Copy

If you’re a fan of ElectroPop and haven’t been living under a rock for the last 5 hours you’ve probably already heard this, it’s a reMix of Cut Copy’s ‘Take Me Over’ by DFA man Tim Goldsworthy in his Thee Loving Hands guise. Tim was producer on Cut Copy’s ‘In Ghost Colours’ and has given the track a deep electronic workout that really kicks things up a gear halfway through.

I’m still on the fence about the new Cut Copy material. It’s not bad, what I’ve heard so far isn’t quite as exiting as their previous tracks, to me anyway. I could be completely blown away but the new album though, I’ll have to wait and see. Either way I’m defiantly looking forward to finding out and, like this Thee Loving Hands track, you can be sure there will be some amazing reMixes in the coming months.

♫ Cut Copy – Take Me Over (Thee Loving Hand reMix By Tim Goldsworthy)

You may have noticed we’re mucking around with a different player and different file hosts, let us know if you have any problems, also I’m trying to wean myself off strictly using letterbox images, I don’t know why I started cropping pictures like that, I just liked the aesthetic. But they got thinner and thinner, and harder and harder to find landscape promo shots of bands so I’m forcing myself to use bigger images whist trying to keep to the overall design.

Anyway, the new Cut Copy album is due out 4th February in Australia, 7th in Europe, and 8th in North America.

Dec 20 2010

Bag Raiders’ ‘Sunlight’ video

Bag Raiders are dropping the second single from their self titled début album, on of the best albums of the year, and it’s going to be ‘Sunlight’ .

So check the video, it’s a Bag Raiders tune and it’s got a monkey in it. Honestly, what more do you need?

It was directed by Fleur&Manu.

‘Sunlight’ is taken from Bag Raider’s album, out right now on Modular!

Bag Raiders @ Beatport

Bag Raiders @ Juno

Bag Raiders @ 7Digital

Bag Raiders @ Amazon

Dec 20 2010

Mmmatthias reMixes Phonat

Our friend MMMatthias has hooked us up with his latest reMix, it’s of Phonat’s ‘Ghetto Burnin’’ and it’s another quality tune from the German producer.

Mixing up a touch of the Baleric into this Tropical Nu-Disco mix MMMatthias creates something fun and funky so we (or at least, we in the northern hemisphere) can forget this nightmare weather! The track has more Tropical and less of his usual retro synth work, but maybe that just what we need right now!

♫ Phonat – Ghetto Burnin’ (Mmmatthias Mix)

Mmmatthias’ reMix is featured on the ‘Ghetto Burnin’ reMix package, out now, and you’ve got to check out his ‘Chords: Best Of 2010’ mixtape here.

Dec 20 2010

David Lynch Vs. Boys Noize (yes, you read that right!)

It gets weirder and weirder!

So, we introduced you to David Lynch’s new ElectroPop single a couple of weeks ago. Now, not only do you get the mindfuck that David Lynch has made an (actually really good) ElectroPop record, but now there is a Boys Noize reMix of it.

That’s right, Boys Noize reMixing an ElectroPop track by David Lynch. How often does that happen?

♫ David Lynch – Good Day Today (Boys Noize reMix)

‘Good Day Today’/’I Know’ is being released by Sunday Best with an Electro album coming next year.

David Lynch @ 7Digital

David Lynch @ Amazon

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Dec 20 2010

Logo – BAAB

Here’s a nice slice of free cosmic Electro thanks to the folks at Kitsuné Music.

Hot on the heels of their acclaimed single ‘La Vie Moderne’/’Juniocide’, Logo have dropped this free “not an X-mas song” as an X-mas present to you all. It’s called ‘BAAB’ and it’s a pulsating, hypnotic jam that reminds me (in a good way) of Electro parties in 2008 it’s got that big post-Acid Electro bass going on, Just the kind of pumping electronics we don’t hear enough of these days.