May 16 2011

Short Circuit’s début EP

More Short Circuit! This week he’s the hardest working man in RoboPop™!

I can’t believe this is his début EP! Short Circuit tracks have been a staple in my mp3 player for what seems like years now but nonetheless here it is. The ‘Late Night Drive’ EP is six tracks of the kind of Electro vocoder Funk that we’ve come to expect from SC and it’s only when presented with a collection like this that we realised how eager we’ve been for fresh Short Circuit material. The EP kicks of with the LexiconDon collaboration ‘Nothing’s On The TV’ which we first heard on LexiconDon’s ‘The Secret’s Out’ mixtape last October, it’s a amped up chant-along ElectroPop tune with sets up the listener for Short Circuit’s particular style of smooth Electro-Disco with a raw, or edgy, production quality that gives it that unique SC sound. Following on is ‘Get Up’, which takes a Rock arrangement and applies that to a string tinged ElectroPop tune to powerful effect. We were hoping that ‘How We Speak’ would put in an appearance on the EP, featured briefly in this live video that premiered last week and seems to be the spiritual successor to Short Circuit’s now classic ‘Let Go’ with similar strong bassline and Andrew’s RoboVox™ that get stuck in your brain, this time with added cowbell!

♫ Short Circuit – How We Speak

‘Keep It Together’ draws things back to a laid back tempo for some heavy vocodered Electro-Funk before ‘Charmed’ reminds you where Short Circuit came from, being the quintessential Binary dancefloor tune. The title track, ‘Late Night Drive’ ends the EP on an epic retro-Electro note and seems to nicely sum up the EP, more heavy bass and vocoded vocals leading into soaring synth leads with an almost cinematic feel. Overall the EP is exactly what we wanted from Short Circuit but at the same time a lot more diverse than we were expecting. ‘Late night Drive’ is satisfying, and pleasantly surprising.

‘Late Night Drive’ is released 23rd May on Binary Entertainment.

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May 16 2011

Ladytron’s new single, ‘White Elephant’

In advance of their eagerly awaited new album, ‘Gravity The Seducer’, ElectroPop legends Ladytron are releasing a new single, ‘White Elephant’.

More chilled and reverb heavy than their recent offerings, ‘White Elephant’ is probably a good representation of the new album which the band promised was going to be “more ethereal and melodic, a touch more abstract in places”. Retaining the trademark Ladytron bombast mixed with introspection the new single makes me wonder how much of an influence Ladytron were to the Chillwavers of this world, certainly the new album will probably go down a storm with them, and with anyone else who likes their ElectroPop intelligent, thoughtful and melodic.

♫ Ladytron – White Elephant

Ladytron’s new album, ‘Gravity The Seducer’ is released 12th September.

the band are currently on tour in Europe, check the dates:

02nd June – Siesta! Festival @ Hässleholm, Sweden
03rd June – Selector Festival @ Kracow, Poland
08th June – The Forum @ London, UK
09th June – The Arches @ Glasgow, UK
10th June – Saint Georges Hall @ Liverpool, UK
11th June – Tripod @ Dublin, Ireland
16th July – Hegyalja Festival @ Tokaj-Rakamaz, Hungary

I’ll be catching them in London, Ladytron aren’t a band to miss live!

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May 16 2011

Cosmonaut Grechko’s new EP

Cosmonaut Grechko’s new EP, ‘Alaska 2100’ is out this week and is a pretty stunning electronic masterpiece.

Grechko hits the ground running with track one, ‘Singin’’, with Joywave, it’s the prefect meeting of Dreamwave and Indie-Electro, like a spaced-out-Disco Passion Pit. It’s catchy but still maintains a summery mellow groove. ‘All I Hear’ is up next with some help from She’s The Queen (I’m writing about She’s The Queen on a day other than Thursday, feels weird) that tasks Emily’s vocals out of the normal DancePop environment and slides them into some laid back, almost Chillwave, reverb washed Disco. As with ‘Singin’’, ‘All I hear’ is incredibly listenable, Grechko’s organ riffs intertwining with the big retro synths to create an intricate, yet effortlessly cool, jam. ‘Coloreye’ and the title track are both more tradition Disco fare, both mellow and upbeat, that show Grechko still has the skills to flat out rock the dancefloor and they lead into a selection of reMixes including these two by Electronic Rumors faves Show Your Shoe and Blue Satellite. Show Your Shoe takes on ‘All I Hear’ and proves why he’s the man to watch when it comes to smooth Electro-Funk cuts with some crazy Moog action while Blue Satellite turns ‘Singin’ into a massive upbeat DiscoPop track.

The ‘Alaska 2100’ EP shows a real maturing of Cosmonaut Grechko, musically. An evolution of his music that will surely place him at the forefront of Indie-Electro and Nu-Disco.

♫ Cosmonaut Grechko (Feat. Joywave) – Singin’ (Radio Edit)

♫ Cosmonaut Grechko (Feat. She’s The Queen) – All I Hear

♫ Cosmonaut Grechko (Feat. Joywave) -Singin’ (Blue Satellite reMix)

♫ Cosmonaut Grechko (Feat. She’s The Queen) – All I Hear (Show Your Shoe reMix)

The ‘Alaska 2100 EP’ is out now:

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May 16 2011

Yuksek’s ‘On A Train’ video

Here’s the brand new video for Yuksek’s pretty awesome comeback EP, ‘On A Train’.

The video features Yuksek, on a train. How do they come up with these crazy ideas!

The alien attack bit is pretty cool!

‘On A Train’ comes from Yuksek’s amazing new album ‘Living on The Edge Of Time’ released 23th June

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May 16 2011

Short Circuit mixes up some Freelance Whales

Binary’s Short Circuit, the king of RoboPop, just dropped this reMix of Freelance Whales’ ‘Hannah’ on an unrespecting world.

Apparently it was for some Freelance Whales reMix contest, it didn’t win, which is odd, but then again if you look at this picture of Freelance Whales they seem a little simple. I mean, you’ve got to have a few difficulties if you pass up a deep synthin’ jam like this. It;’s got a bit of funk in it’s bass and a bit of the cosmic in it’s lead and is, generally, really easy on the ears.

♫ Freelance Whales – Hannah (Short Circuit reMix)

Short Circuit’s (long awaited I might add) new EP should be out very soon!

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May 16 2011

La Roux & Fear Of Tigers!!!

What a massive tune to kick off the week!

If you had dug deep last month and supported Fear Of Tigers’ awesome entry into the London marathon raising money for the WSPA you would have been gifted with a link to this track, and we who donated have been rocking to this all month.

This is Fear Of Tigers’ reMix of La Roux’s ‘Bulletproof’, officially commissioned but (for some bizarre reason) not used, it’s a massive ElectroPop monster. If you know me in real life you’ll know that I speak my mind, I’m not a sycophant, I’ll tell people (and producers) if I don’t like something. So understand it’s not because I’m a fan of FOT, it’s not because he had me on his The Guestlist show a couple of weeks ago, and it’s not because he is letting me premiere this track right here that I say that this is easily the best reMix of ‘Bulletproof’ I have heard. This is the huge, retro influences but modern production, Fear Of Tigers that we’ve come to know and love, and sometimes you just know Elly’s voice was crying out for a bit of uplifting euphoria. With a Big Room sound this reMix will slay wherever it is dropped!

If the rumours are true, and La Roux are in the studio with a well known Indie rock band recording their second, “we’re not an Electro act”, album this might be you’re last slice of ElectroPop La Roux. Well, if that’s the case we salute you ElectroPop-La-Roux and thanks’ to Fear Of Tigers you’re going out on a high!

♫ La Roux – Bulletproof (Fear Of Tigers reMix)

You wouldn’t have been able to escape the information that Ben from Fear Of Tigers ran the London marathon this year to raise money for WSPA (World Society for the Protection of Animals). We’d like to extend our congratulations to Ben for an amazing job, you can read about it in this blog post, and hitting his target of raising £1500 for an excellent cause!

Fear Of Tigers @ Just Giving

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May 14 2011

Justin Faust’s ‘Pre Party Jamz’ Mixtape

Justin Faust – Pre Party Jamz Vol. 120 = Fifty awesome minutes of Nu-Disco and retro synth House to slide your weekend into just the right mood. Starting chilled and building, slowly and surely, to a dancefloor climax and a Disco comedown.

♫ Justin Faust – Pre Party Jamz Vol. 120

The tracklist:

01. StewRat – Disagreements
02. JNL – Beausejour
03. Oliver – All Night
04. Hemingway – Hemisphere (Demo.)
05. Show Your Shoe – Pandi (Extended Mix)
06. Pierre De La Touche – Song Of The Sirens (Louis La Roché reMix)
07. Fare Soldi – Cassa Forte
08. Melee – No Love Lost
09. Xinobi – Hawaii
10. Blende – Egypto
11. Nightdrugs – My World
12. The Phantom’s Revenge & So Gold – Toasted
13. Le Knight Club – Nymphae Song
14. The Phantom’s Revenge – Mr. Fahrenheit (Justin Faust reMix)
15. Broke One – Go Go Go (Treasure Fingers reMix)
16. LaZebra- Piano Dancin’
17. J Paul Getto – Just for You
18. Chris Malinchak – It’s Your Life
19. Moonchild – You And Nothing Else
20. Lars Moston & Ben Mono – Can’t Stop

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May 14 2011

Broke One’s ‘Go Go Go’ reMixes from Russ Chimes & Treasure Fingers

The big tunes for your weekend start right here!

Last week Broke One released his new EP, ‘Stop Making Sense’, which features some storming reMixes of the lead track ‘Go Go Go’. Russ Chimes (oh my god, did you hear the preview of his new EP?) drops this reMix that mashed up equal amounts of Funk and Rave. I’ve never heard Chimes sounding so Ravey but the natural groove running through the man’s veins make for the most Disco sounding Rave ever and fitting those Rave sounds and riffs into a solid groove is a stroke of genius. This is guaranteed to get you moving. Treasure Fingers’s mix treats us to a healthy does of Old School House with abrasive 909 beats tempered by smooth Disco strings and a return of the ‘It Takes Two’ break and some classic House samples.

♫ Broke One – Go Go Go (Russ Chimes’ Gunman reMix)

♫ Broke One – Go Go Go (Treasure Fingers reMix)

Broke One’s ‘Stop Making Sense’ EP is out now:

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May 13 2011

Cosmonaut Grechko rolls up to Fear Of Tigers’ ‘The Guestlist’ this week

Fear Of Tigers – ‘The Guestlist’ 13/05/2011 = Russian Nu-Disco guru Cosmonaut Grechko stops by for a chat with Feat Of Tigers and to show off his new track alongside all the best ElectroPop, Dreamwave, Nu-Disco and big room tunes this week.

♫ Fear Of Tigers’ ‘The Guestlist’ 13/05/2011

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May 12 2011

Queen Of Hearts Vs. Daft Punk…on the Grid!

Singing over a Daft Punk track is a brave move, could be good, cloud be cheesy, could be sacrilege! Thankfully ElectroPop goddess Queen Of Hearts pulls it off with class and style.

Taking Daft Punk’s ‘End Of Line’ from their Tron: Legacy soundtrack The Queen gets all deep and majestic with a smokey vocal that not only show off her vocal chops but quite a knack for arrangement too. ‘The End Of Nothing’ is incredibly listenable. Does it imporve on a Daft Punk song? Er…kinda’…but I’m not going to admit it!

You may remember recently I questioned The Queen’s authenticity. I’m taking that back now, she recently tweeted this: “If it ain’t electro, I don’t wish to know.x”, which kinda’ sold me. The more I hear about her the more I an convinced she is a genuine ElectroPop lover, not some manufactured, blog friendly, product. I don’t mind admitting I was wrong, and I was. I’m now looking forward to following her career with interest, and my dancing shoes on.