electronic rumors fave, Penguin Prison, has reMixed Indie/alternative singer Jack Peñate’s track of last year ‘So Near’ and effortlessly made it his own.
Creating a funky, soulful, ElectroPop gem, this could be a PP track. It so different from the original whilst keeping the song structure and making it sound like it was always written to be an ElectroPop track. Genius!
♫ Jack Peñate – So Near (Penguin Prison reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
Penguin Prison has such a huge year ahead of him!
Chinese Christmas Cards are a duo of breakthrough artists from Barcelona who won Levi’s Unfamous Music Awards 2009.
They produce some infections and quirky Indie-Electro-Folk-Pop that’s almost like a Spanish The Postal Service, without all the moping around. ‘Welcome To Life’ is their new single and it’s four minutes of uplifting, interesting songwriting based around cheap synths and acoustic guitar. It’s well worth a listen if you’re in a whimsical mood!
♫ Chinese Christmas Cards – Welcome To Life (zShare) (MediaFire)
Go check out CCC on MySpace:
Chinese Christmas Cards @ MySpace
Bangers ahoy!
Over at Dirty Disco Tracks they are giving away (yes, giving away!) the first volume of their ‘We Love Dirty Disco Tracks’ compilation.
The album contains seven of Dirty Disco Tracks biggest tunes from 2009 and includes the likes of Dirty Disco Youth, The Disco Villains, Suds ‘N’ Soda and FutureFlashs. Check these two tracks from the album for some straight-up, noisy, Electro, danceflor massacring!
♫ Dirty Disco Youth + Mad N – Idiotekk (zShare) (MediaFire)
♫ The Disco Villains – We Just Came To Get The Party Started (LAZRtag reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
Get the compilation now from DDT’s website:
We Love Dirty Disco Tracks Vol. 01 @ Dirty Disco Tracks
‘Nibiru’ is the title track of the forthcoming second EP by French dreamy ElectroPoppers Château Marmont.
The track sounds like a mash-up between current Dreamwave sounds and 80’s B-Boy Electro, spacey retro synths and arpeggios share the space with 808 claps and robo vocodering creating a fantastic hybrid!
♫ Château Marmont – Nibiru (zShare) (MediaFire)
‘Nibiru’ is out soon on Institubes.
Congratulations to Twitter user @markyd_photo, the winner of our competition in association with New Young Pony Club and Topman CTRL, a limited edition T-Shirt designed by the band is on it’s way to him.
For the rest of you here’s Rory Phillips reMix of the forthcoming single ‘Chaos’.
♫ New Young Pony Club – Chaos (Rory Phillips Mix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
New Young Pony Club’s second album ‘The Optimist’, released 8th March.
New Young Pony Club @ Beatport
New Young Pony Club @ 7Digital
Late Of The Pier return next month with a double A-side single, one side of which will be ‘Best in The Class’, a brilliant 8-Bit Disco/Indie guitar mashup.
Here’s the video, directed by Sam Potter & Steve Glashier:
The single is released 1st March on Zarcorp
Last night Depeche Mode performed a one off show at London’s Royal Albert Hall in aid of the Teenage Cancer Trust and come encore they were joined on stage by the one and only Alan Wider.
This the first time he has joined his ex-bandmates since leaving the band in June 1995, and forming Recoil. These couple of poor quality videos of the performance of ‘Somebody’ can be your solace for not being there!
All they need now is to convince him to produce the next album and we’re good to go!
Silver Columns, slightly less of a mystery than last time we featured them, also slightly less French! LOL Turns out to be Scots Adem and The Pictish Trail (who we had heard rumors it was) making some really interesting ElectroPop.
Their forthcoming single, ‘Cavalier’ has, here, been given a version by The Time And Space Machine, also known as Richard Norris from Beyond The Wizard’s Sleeve, who provide a spaced out, prog Electro take on the tune balancing otherworldly synths with a down to earth piano line. Good stuff!
♫ Silver Columns – Cavalier (The Time And Space Machine reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
You can buy the previous single, ‘Yes, And Dance’ , now at Boomkat.
Russ Chimes is back again to wreck shop! This time he turns his attention to Australian Electro-Indie outfit Cassette Kids and looks set to stop a hole in music blogland once again!
Just how the man manages to keep up the pace of pushing out huge mix after huge mix is a mystery. The width of the reMix is immense with layer upon layer of vocals and soaring synths tied together with Russ’ trademark Disco beats and basslines. Big House reMix is a pretty apt description!"
♫ Cassette Kids – Spin (Russ Chimes Big House reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
Cassette Kids forthcoming album ‘Nothing On TV’ has been produced by Van She’s Michael DiFrancesco! the ‘Spin’ single is out 8th March and also features reMixes from Bang Gang, Cassian, Cassette Club and The Vanish!!!
Just released by Destined Records is the new 12” by producer Matt Schwartz A.K.A. Dada. The track, ‘Majestic 12′ (Feat. The Other) gets this superb French house workout by Londoners Super Mal, a duo known for keeping it straight to the dancefloor.
Rolling basslines an gorgeous synth chords push this track along it’s dreamy course!
♫ Dada (Feat. The Other) – Majestic 12 (Super Mal reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
You can pick the single up now on Beatport.
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