Trumpets blaring for sample merchants Yell’‘s ‘Vicious Games’ from 1985.
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Monthly Archives: November 2011
Orangewood
What happens when LexiconDon crooner Alex Koons teams up with producer Brandon Light and gets drunk? Orangewood, that’s what. A new dimension of groove.
Orangewood’s EP is available on Bandcamp, and it’s an eclectic affair. there’s a lot going on within the four tracks, a lot of influences and a lot of experimentation, but the duo never let’s things get out of hand. They’re going with the flow, but keeping it funky. The opening track, ‘Dick Daniel’ is like a Shoegaze guitarist jamming out over a Disco influenced ‘80’s TV Theme and provides a nice set up for the rest of the EP as you start to get a handle on what to expect. Following on from that the EP starts to bring in strands from everything from Cosmic Disco to R&B to Dancehall to Dub. ‘Too Long For A Good (A Childhood Medley)’ stands out as the ‘hit’, the only track with vocals all the way though, but don’t be expecting a LexiconDon-a-like, ‘Too Long’ is a strange combination of the Tropical and New York Indie, and even a little very early Smashing Pumpkins run through all the fun the studio can offer. There’s pretty much something for everyone on the EP, and at the amazing low price of free, you can’t really not dip your toe into the world of Orangewood.
♫ Orangewood – Too Long For Too Good (A Childhood Medley)
Orangewood’s ‘Dick Daniel’ EP is out now.
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Monsieur Adi & Blue Satellite reMix Kylie
Official releases are a strange thing. So often I hear remixes from artists I love that were officially commissioned and then shelved in favour of generic PopHouseTrance from the likes of Freemasons or Stargate, despite being more interesting, more musically adept, and having more groove than the throwaway versions that end up on the single.
Such is the case here with reMixes of Kylie Minogue’s summer hit ‘Put Your Hands Up (If You Feel Love)’ from a couple of amazing producers Monsieur Adi and Blue Satellite. I won’t bother talking about the competent, but ultimately generic dross that made the release, but they aren’t a patch on Adi’s impressive, multi-layered, edgy Electro track that throws a bit of everything into the mix, all kept in check by Adi’s mastery of his music. Or Blue Satellite’s track, which would have been a perfect summer Disco anthem, I can’t help feeling Kylie’s label missed a trick there (I’m not sure if BS’s was actually commissioned, but either way they still missed out).
♫ Kylie Minogue – Put Your Hands Up (If You Feel Love) (Monsieur Adi reMix)
♫ Kylie Minogue – Put Your Hands Up (If You Feel Love) (Blue Satellite reMix)
Kylie’s ‘Put Your Hands Up (If You Feel Love)’ single is out now.
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Billie Ray Martin’s ‘Twisted Lover’
Billie Ray Martin’s ‘Twisted Lover’ originally appeared on the ‘BRM New Demo’s 2003’ album in it’s ‘Old Version’ form. Now the lovely Ms. Martin has seen fit to give away this brand new version of the track.
What was once a Deep-House flavoured SynthPop track has now upped the tempo and upped the analog Disco. Racing Moroder-esque arpeggios drive the track along and seem to morph Billie’s vocals from the soulful lament of the original to a huge diva performance. Add to that some infectious synth melodies and you have a huge ol’ track!
♫ Billie Ray Martin – Twisted Lover (Master)
Billie Ray Martin and Robert Solheim’s The Opiates project’s album ‘Hollywood Under The Knife’ is out now.
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Pearl Fiction’s new video
Pearl Fiction is one third of now defunct Sweedish ElectroPop outfit Zeitgeist .
His new single, ‘Run’, is a nice nostalgic Pop track with a suitably mid-‘80’s stylish video.
Pearl Fiction’s debut album, ‘Painted Wolf’, is due for release on 25th January.
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Cosmonauts reMix Moby
See Moby in this picture? Doesn’t he look sad? Well he is!
He’s sad because his record label saw fit to deem this dub version of Cosmonauts reMix of his forthcoming single ‘The Right Thing’ not ‘on the single ‘material. We’d be sad too, although the vocal version of the mix will be on the single, this dub is an awesome instrumental Disco groove with an Italo bassline..
♫ Moby – The Right Thing (Cosmonauts Unreleased Dub)
‘The Right Thing’ is out 12th December.
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Niki & The Dove X Goldroom
Goldroom, A.K.A. Binary and NightWaves main man Josh, is just going from strength to strength with each release, and gathering a momentum and reputation that I can’t remember happing this quickly for a while.
Well deserved too, his beach party Disco sound is finding fans all over for its smooth grooves and attention to detail. His latest reMix, from Niki & The Dove is a soundclash between a chilled peice of Tropical and a ‘90’s House anthem that I can’t help but think was released a few months too late. This one could have been the sound of the summer.
♫ Niki & The Dove – Mother Protect (Goldroom reMix)
‘Mother Project’ is taken from Nikki & The Dove’s ‘The Drummer’ EP, out now.
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Goin’ Old School: Furniture – Brilliant Mind
Sombre SynthPop today from Furniture with 1986’s ‘Brilliant Mind’.
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Marsheaux reMix Mylène Farmer
The queens of Greek SynthPop Marsheaux have reMixed French artist Mylène Farmer’s ‘‘N’Aie Plus D’Amertume’, from her slightly ElectroPop influenced last album ‘Bleu Noir’.
The downtempo ballad is transformed into a kicking, upbeat, SynthPop beast complete with Marsheaux’s trademark icy digital synths cutting through the mix. Once again Marsheaux provide us with another clean, crisp synthetic slice of Electro quality.
♫ Mylène Farmer – N’Aie Plus D’Amertume (Marsheaux reMix)
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Tesla Boy’s ‘In Your Eyes’
Later this month the raining champions of Russian ElectroPop, Tesla Boy, crash back into the ring with a new track on the forthcoming twelfth edition of Kitsuné Music’s ‘Maison’ compilation series.
‘In Your Eyes’ is pure smooth Tesla Boy and a welcome return. A mid-tempo Dreamwave groover that perfectly bridges the gap between SynthPop and Nu-Disco. Not sparing the funk in the bass department, ‘In Your Eyes’ also has the crooning excellence of an early ‘80’s ballad. Fellow Mullet Records alumni Satin Jackets step up for reMix duties, bringing their brand of soulful Disco to the tune in their percussion lead late night version.
♫ Tesla Boy – In Your Eyes (Radio Edit)
♫ Tesla Boy – In Your Eyes (Satin Jackets reMix)
Kitsuné Maison 12 ‘The Good Fun Issue’ is released 21st November.
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