May 10 2011

Hana Yori Kichou Na’s new EP

Luxembourg based Nu-Disco hero Hana Yori Kichou Na dropped a new EP this week with Shiny Disco Club, it’s all for free so you have no excuse not to grab it.

The ‘Inside Me’ EP contains five tracks of smooth, filtered, Disco-House for a producer who has constantly been getting better and better, both in his original productions and his reMixes. This EP is pure smooth dancefloor grooves, check out the title track ‘Inside Me’, a vocoder Disco workout and ‘Extase’ with it’s cut-up licks and heavy filtering for a taste of what to expect.

♫ Hana Yori Kichou Na – Inside Me

♫ Hana Yori Kichou Na – Extase

You can pick up the whole, full quality, EP here.

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May 9 2011

Jungle Fiction reMix Two Door Cinema Club

ReMixes of slightly old songs don’t always grab you but this mix of Two Door Cinema Club’s ‘Something Good Can Work’ by Icelandic Nu-Disco crew Jungle Fiction made me sit up and take notice.

Big, big, synths and a whole lot of groove dominate this mix. Building on the sound of their début EP the trio of young producers keep on expertly riding the line between pedal-to-the-metal Electro-House and smooth melodic Dreamwave with the kind of skill that easily ranks them up there with the Dangers and Kavinsky’s of the world.

♫ Two Door Cinema Club – Something Good Can Work (Jungle Fiction reMix)

Jungle Fiction’s début EP is out now.

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May 9 2011

Ellie Goulding’s cover of ‘Heartbeats’ given the Cosmonaut Grechko treatment

Ellie Goulding’s live cover of The Knife’s ‘Heartbeats’ is the only cover I can tolerate (i.e. I love the original and hate Jose Gonzalez generic, uninspired, snorefest). Ellie’s voice, with it’s slight rasp, adds something to the song nicely. Wonderful news the that Russia’s coolest producer, Cosmonaut Grechko, has editied the hell out of it.

Dropping a nice chilled beat and some spaced-out synths in the background turns a nice cover into something pretty special. Grechko has actually turned the backing track into something a bit reminiscant of The Postal Service. It’s very easy to stick this track on the headphones and get lost in Grechko’s programming and Ellie’s voice.

Enjoy:

♫ Ellie Goulding – Heartbeats (Cosmonaut Grechko Edit)

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May 9 2011

More Futurecop! ‘Starworshipper’ reMixes

With Futurecop!’s ‘Starworshipper’ reMix competition over, and congrats to MPM for the win, we thought this would be a good time to let you check out some of the awesome ‘also rans’.

We’ve already posted the MPM winning entry and Sferro’s smooth mix, but up there as a serious contender for the crown is Ren Riz’s perfect slice of Dreamwave DancePop that compliments and builds on the original with style. Silenx’s ‘Sunrise reMix’ injects a little synthesizer emotion into the track with his big retro chords and little additional melodies that nicely layer up the track. For those of you wanting something to beef-up the tune check Owl Vision’s, ahem, bang0r, that takes your face and slams it into the dancefloor.

Amazing work by everyone involved.

♫ Futurecop! – Starworshipper (Ren Riz reMix)

♫ Futurecop! – Starworshipper (Silenx Sunrise reMix)

♫ Futurecop! – Starworshipper (Owl Vision reMix)

MPM’s winning entry will feature on Futurecop!’s next release.

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May 9 2011

Zimmer’s Half Moon Bay (May Mixtape)

Zimmer’s Half Moon Bay (May Mixtape) = An insane amount of good tracks on this hour of some of the best smooth synthesizer music and Disco grooves around.

♫ Zimmer – Half Moon Bay (May Mixtape)

The tracklist:

01. Siobhan Wilson – Getting Me Down (Anoraak Rework)
02. Tronik Youth – A-Freeka
03. Disco Deviance – You Know How I Feel (Social Disco Club Edit)
04. The Canyons – My Recue (Stallions Festival Version)
05. Lamont Dozier – Back To His Roots (Kiwi Edit)
06. Sharon Brown – I Specialize In Love
07. Alexander Holland – The Best Of Me
08. Golden Bug – Sex Beat (Mustang Instru reMix)
09. Kolombo – Passin’ Me By
10. Casio Social Club – The Running Man
11. Tyson – Die On The Dancefloor (Mickey reMix)
12. Yuksek – On A Train (The Magician reMix)
13. The Swiss – Bubble Bath
14. The Beatrabauken – Puppet Disco
15. Young Digerati – The Dauphin (Ride The Universe reMix)
16. Jacques Renault – Look At You (GRVRBBRS reMix)
17. ODahl – Out Of Control (Justin Faust reMix)
18. Homeboi & OhYeah! – Côte D’Azur
19. Broke One – Go Go Go
20. digitalfoxglove – Someone Else
21. Drop The Lime – Devil’s Eyes (Classixx’s B-Live Mix)
22. Lou Teti – Get Away (Drop Out Orchestra Rework)

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May 9 2011

Candy Apple Blue

Like a raw, punky version of Roxette, Pittsbergh based Indie-ElectroPop twosome Candy Apple Blue create music that sounds like a DIY take on 80’s stadium Pop.

Their new single ‘Tricks’ could easily be on the soundtrack to an 80’s Teen dramedy, maybe something Schumacher. I don’t really like using the term ‘New Wave’, I’m not sure it exists, or if it ever did (I’m of the opinion that is was invented just so Geffen could sell British SynthPop artists to the US rock market packaged with UK Post-Punk imports) but Candy Apple Blue are pretty New Wave. In the sense that they combine elements of SynthPop, Post-Punk Indie and 80’s Songwriting into a catchy sing-along package, which is actually a style that not many people are doing these days, sure there are loads of 80’s sounding ElectroPop acts but the likes of Candy Apple Blue are far to rare. We will be watching them with interest.

♫ Candy Apple Blue – Tricks

Candy Apple Blue’s ‘Tricks’ EP is out 4th July and promises a host of reMixes!

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May 9 2011

Hey Champ!’s new single

Chicago’s finest ElectroPop export Hey Champ! have released the title track from their forthcoming new single.

‘Anything At All’ is out this week and it’s a fun ElectroPop jam with an Indie twist. Just as bouncy and catchy as ‘Cold Dust Girl’ or ‘Neverest’ the track just shows that Hey Champ! haven’t lost anything that made their album so special, if anything they are getting better. Imagine that!

♫ Hey Champ! – Anything At All

Hey Champ!’s ‘Anything At All’ EP is out tomorrow, their awesome début album, ‘Star’ is out now.

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May 9 2011

CSLSX

This track hit all the right buttons!

Philidelphia based, but worldwide staffed, Electro collective CSLSX have just dropped this downtempo Disco jam ‘Keep On Shining’. It appeals to every bit of the electronic music lover in me. It’s driven by a mid-tempo solid rhythm section with a head nodding bassline, Cosmic synth work and hit of Dub influence. This is a tune to be played on repeat on long, hot, summer nights.

♫ CSLSX – Keep On Shining

Keep an eye on CSLSX at their Facebook page.

CSLSX @ Facebook

May 9 2011

Gigamesh & Foster The People

What a tune to come back from the weekend too! Gigamesh smashes this reMix of Foster The People’s ‘Pumped Up Kicks’ right out of the park!

With just the right mix of Indie-Electro and Disco Gigamesh has revamped FTP’s over-remixed ‘hit’ into a piano and electro tom laden summer anthem. A new lease of life for the track was defiantly needed for this song to get some of the summer play it so desperately wanted and Gigamesh has done just that.

♫ Foster The People – Pumped Up Kicks (Gigamesh reMix)

Foster The People’s album ‘Torches’ is out 24th May.

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May 6 2011

Fear Of Tigers’ ‘The Guestlist’ this week with College and you know who!

Fear Of Tigers – ‘The Guestlist’ 06/05/2011 = The week Fear Of Tigers’ special guest is Valerie Collective head honcho, and the man behind College, David Grellier and in a fit of insanity Fear Of Tigers invited me back on the show to pick my big tune of the moment, which had to be Ride The Universe’s reMix of Chromeo’s ‘Hot Mess’, alongside the usual best of ElectroPop, Dreamwave and Nu-Disco around.

♫ Fear Of Tigers’ ‘The Guestlist’ 06/05/2011

As you probably know Ben from Fear Of Tigers ran the London marathon a while back 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 there’s still time to get in with a quick sponsorship if you’re feeling charitable, check out his Just Giving page.

Fear Of Tigers @ Just Giving

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