Mar 12 2011

Ellie Goulding covers The Knife’s ‘Heartbeats’ in the Live Lounge

This afternoon Ellie Goulding was featured in the Live Lounge on Jo Wiley’s BBC Radio 1 show, on top of performing her new single ‘Lights’ she also covered The Knife’s ‘Heartbeats’.

It was a pretty sweet acoustic cover too, the song lends itself well to Ellie’s voice. I’m probably going to get a bit hypocritical here though ‘cos I absolutely hate Jose Gonzalez’s dull-as-shit version of a song I love, but when Ellie does it acoustically I quite like it. Maybe I just hate Mr. Gonzalez’s dreary voice, or maybe I just love Ellie’s. Either way, I enjoyed this cover.

♫ Ellie Goulding – Heartbeats (The Knife Cover (Live @ BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge))

You can listen to the whole show here, and Ellie releases ‘Lights’ as a single 11th March.

Ellie Goulding @ Neon Gold

Ellie Goulding @ 7Digital

Ellie Goulding @ Amazon

Mar 11 2011

Viceroy

The weekend starts here!

Courtesy of the awesome Shiny Disco Club we have two tracks to promote ‘In The Sky’, the début EP from Viceroy, to get you in the mood for the weekends partying. Viceroy is Californian Austen Afridi who started out making Dubstep, to some acclaim, before diving head first into the waters of French House and Nu-Disco. Neither of these tracks are on the EP (‘Free Flow’ is a blog exclusive!) but give you a perfect taster of Viceroy’s funked up sound and will probably have you gagging for the EP. ‘Free Flow’ is pure party jam, cut up horns and vocals flying all over the place to a solid, solid, groove. ‘Oh Yeah’ shows off some more of the young producers skills for chopping and editing over a some tropical flavoured beats.

♫ Viceroy – Free Flow

♫ Viceroy – Oh Yeah

Viceroy’s EP, ‘In The Sky’ is out now:

Viceroy @ Juno

Mar 11 2011

You! & Walter Sobcek

It was only a couple of days ago that we posted the first round of reMixes of Parisian duo You!’s ‘Heart’, well looks like they are saving the best ‘til last. There’s an eagerly awaited Edwin Van Cleef mix on the way and this track by awesome French, yet International, duo Walter Sobcek!

This mix is SO good, it’s interesting what that usually chilled Walter Sobcek do with the faster pace of the You! track. The end result is a beat that is as smooth as the smoothest Dreamwave but also full of driving energy. Like a massive 80’s rock track covered by a Dreamwave act, complete with solo in the finale, the track is a Jekyll & Hyde of laid back Miami nights and peak time in a sweaty rave.

Well done Misters Sobcek!

♫ You! – Heart (Walter Sobcek Rmx)

Also, it’s amazing the amount of people who spell Walter Sobcek wrong, and think it’s one dude! LOL

We’ll have the Edwin Van Cleef reMix coming up for you soon, You!’s self titled début album is out now.

Mar 11 2011

Rimer London’s ‘Love Dagger’

Rimer London (A.K.A Le Le’s Rimeroni Vumani) is back with more of his Synthesized Italo Disco, this time featuring the voice of Cata.Pirata.

‘Love Dagger’, Rimeroni’s forthcoming single, is probably the pinnacle so far of his deep analog take on Disco. With unmistakable Italo influences and a little bit if that funk underneath. UI gotta’ say, I really like the way Cata’s vocals are working with the space Disco sounds.

The video was directed by Sandder:

Slightly depressing video there. Still, the music has got me eager for Rimer’s long awaited full length record!

♫ Rimer London (Feat. Cata.Pirata) – Love Dagger

Rimeroni’s début album is out soon on Magnetron.

Rimer London @ Beatport

Rimer London @ Juno

Rimer London @ 7Digital

Rimer London @ Amazon

Mar 11 2011

Jungle Fiction reMix Entrepreneurs

Our favourite Icelandic export Jungle Fiction are unstoppable! I’m still on the fence about Entrepreneurs, I can take them or leave them at the moment, but this reMix of their ‘Bubblegunk’ is pure Dreamwave dope!

Jungle Fiction take the original, strip out some of the contrived garageness of the original, keep the vocals and mash it into the kind of tune that is playing at the prom in any 80s’s teen movie, but with added balls. I love the way they ripped the guitar solo from the original turned it into 80’s epicness. This reMix soars!

♫ Entrepreneurs – Bubblegunk (Jungle Fiction reMix)

Entrepreneurs release the ‘Bubblegunk / F**k Tactics’ single on Fear & Records 4th April

Entrepreneurs @ Beatport

Entrepreneurs @ Juno

Entrepreneurs @ Amazon

Mar 11 2011

Nite Jewel’s ‘Am I Real?’, video + Classixx reMix

This is the new video for an old Nite Jewel track. ‘Am I Real?’ was released last summer on the Nu-Funk-tastic ‘Am I Real?’ EP last summer but has only just got itself a clip.

Directed by Jose Wolff and Delaney Bishop, the video is pretty out there…but then again, I suppose Nite jewel is too:

Also, check out Classixx’s brand new disco spaceout of the track:

♫ Nite Jewel – Am I Real? (Classixx TPS-L2 reMix)

The ‘Am I Real? EP is out now:

Nite Jewel @ Beatport

Nite Jewel @ Juno

Nite Jewel @ 7Digital

Nite Jewel @ Amazon

Mar 10 2011

Mason & Róisín Murphy reMixed by Human Life and Oliver $

Mason and Róisín Murphy’s ‘Boadicea’ is finally out! It seems like ages it’s been slated for release.

The reMix package for the single boasts an awesome line up, including the amazing Evil nine and this killer mix by some of our favourite LA ElectroPoppers Human Life, who appear to have gone for the full on Chicago House workout, complete with massive stabs and acid burbling. If anything can be said about this reMix it’s that it’s fun as hell and commands you to move your feet!

♫ Mason (Feat. Róisín Murphy) – Boadicea (Human Life Dub)

While Oliver $’s reMix is a deep, deep, deep techy House track that is aimed squarely at late night dancefloor action.

♫ Mason (Feat. Róisín Murphy) – Boadicea (Oliver $ reMix)

‘Boadicea’ is out now and taken from the album ’They Are among Us’

Mar 10 2011

Parralox’s ‘I Sing The Body Electric’ video

Here we have the brand new video for Australian SynthPop torch bearers Parralox’s current single ‘I sing The Body Electric’.

There more than a couple of suggestions of Depeche Mode’s ‘Enjoy The Silence’ in the track and the video is similarly cloaked royalty and landscape based. However, Parralox blanket their influences with their own mark making both the track and video their own.

In fact, the way they have taken queues from ‘Enjoy The Silence’ and make it contemporary and distinctively Parralox sounding is actually a lot more impressive than the Myriad Depeche Mode sound-alikes that have dominated the Modern SynthPop scene for the last three decades.

‘I Sing The Body Electric’ is out now.

Parralox @ Conzoom Records

Parralox @ Amazon

Mar 10 2011

Adam Kesher’s ‘Challenging Nature’ album

Despite the fact that we’ve featured Adam Kesher a few times on electronic rumors over the years, and I know it’s a band, I can’t help seeing the name and thinking it’s a dude!

If you’re new to Adam Kesher then, no, it’s not a dude, its’ five French guys making energetic ElectroPop & Electro-Indie who’s second album ‘Challenging Nature’ finally sees a release, after long delays, this April.

The album hits the ground running immediately, having been produced by Chromeo’s Dave 1 and mixed by Dave’s Brother A-Track, Zdar from Cassius and Pierrick Devin (Alex Gopher, Cassius, Cut Copy). With that production tem behind you, you can’t go wrong.

So, what does the album sound like? Involving for a start, it’s the kind of album that envelops you while listening. With a sound akin to Fenech-Soler, in that they have that Indie tinged, post Nu-Rave, ElectroPop sound. Infused with a hint of funk, I presume Dave 1’s doing, Adam Kesher compliment their synthesisers with a variety of instruments, sometimes used in unexpected ways and being French, of course, there is a suggestion of Phoenix in the songs too.

♫ Adam Kesher – Hour Of The Wolf

Adam Kesher have made a French Indie Rock record with synthesizers that get increasingly Disco as it progresses, what they have also made is the prefect record for the time, this is a real 2010/2011 record, distilling what’s happening right now in Disco and Indie into ten tracks designed to get you jumping around.

♫ Adam Kesher – Gravy Train

If you like your ElectroPop to have an Indie slant, or if your a Fenech-Soler fan you defiantly need to check out Adam Kesher.

Adam Kesher @ Beatport

Adam Kesher @ Juno

Adam Kesher @ 7Digital

Adam Kesher @ Amazon

Mar 10 2011

Munk’s ‘The Bird And The Beat’

Last week saw Gomma release the third album by Disco genius Munk, ‘The Bird And The Beat’, and has been locked in here at electronic rumors towers for a while now.

Organic Disco with a twist would be a good way to describe the album. Muck lays down his beats, bass and riffs in true Disco king style but peppers the tracks with bit of Italo, bits of Hip-Hop, bits of Chicago House and bits of B-Boy Electro, creating a unique album that, whilst flowing from track to track, give you something fresh everytime the track number changes.

♫ Munk – Violent Love

Playing every instrument on the record himself has allowed Muck to create a cohesive vibe from the chaos of influences throughout. Whilst moods on the album swing from party tracks to chilled tempo tunes the album retains a summery Disco theme that makes ‘The Bird And The Beat’, at it’s core, a feelgood album.

That doesn’t meant it’s a piece of throwaway dancefloor tat though. Munk has let himself get experimental and creative, never taking the easy route in his melting pot of styles. Every now and then there is a hint of his Berlin heritage with suggestions of EBM or Krautrock, an underlying darkness, but he still manages to make all his musical whims funky as hell.

♫ Munk – Keep My Secret

Despite, occasionally, slipping into Teutonic power synth territory, this is the album you want to be playing while getting ready to go out, it’s set you up for the night ahead perfectly.

‘The Bird And The Beat’ is out now.