May 19 2011

New music from Baby Monster

It’s been quite a while since we heard anything from the Baby Monster camp, but they are back with news of their début album.

Slated for a June, release the La based duo’s album is a pretty long awaited affair. Their previous singles ‘Ultra Violence and Beethoven’ and ’She Comes Alive’ gained them quite an online following but then things seemed to go silent. However ‘The Fear Of Charlie Sunrise’, a taste of what to expect from the long-player, shows the guys haven’t just been sitting around. It’s a beautiful piece of Indie-Electro, crazy with lush layers of synths and emotive vocals. We’re really looking forward to this album ‘round here!

♫ Baby Monster – The Fear Of Charlie Sunrise

Baby Monster’s self-titled début album is due out 27th June.

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May 18 2011

Housquare

You can stop debating if the 90’s are back now. They are. Housquare have made it official.

Actually, Housquare have as much late 80’s House wrapped up in their sound as early 90’s. This is a revival of proper old school Chicago house with heaps of Acid and heaps of Soul. On The Fruit Records are playing their cards close to their chest with this one but if you miss orchestral stabs and burbling Acid badsslines the you’ll be wanting to pay attention to Housquare with interest!

♫ Housquare – Chicago (Original mix)

Keep your ears peeled!

May 18 2011

The Magician’s Magic Tape Eleven

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The Magician– Magic Tape Eleven = The Magician drops an eclectic mix of modern Indie-Electro and Disco sounds.

♫ The Magician – Magic Tape Eleven

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May 18 2011

More new music from Beaumont

Australian producer Beaumont continues his journey into the deeper, more atmospheric, side of electronica with his latest tune, ‘Oblivion’.

‘Oblivion’ sees Beaumont playing more with Disco and Dreamwave sounds at mid-tempos allowing him to express himself and his musicality to a greater, and more emotionally resonating, level. The intertwining of piano and synth strings evoke feelings of introspection and thoughtfulness with a streak of hope running throw-out. Reminiscent of Vangelis and Tangerine Dream in it’s use of sweeping sounds Beaumont keeps his connection to Electro with a solid beat and driving bassline.

♫ Beaumont – Oblivion

Beaumont’s début EP is scheduled for release very soon!

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May 18 2011

Moscow Youth Cult

Moscow Youth Cult create a rich, grainy, electronic soundscape in which to wrap their typically British Indie-Pop songs.

The band, who hail (unsurprisingly) for the East Midlands, draw from the wealth of the Sheffield area’s electronic music history to create abrasive, yet strangely beautiful, ElectroPop that fits in perfectly with the musical heritage of that part of the country. Just signed to LoAF Recordings, MYC are celebrating with a free EP. The two original tracks on the EP are surprisingly dancefloor friendly for such dense anti-Pop. ‘Girls Of Boredom’ mixes up relentless beats and a cacophony of 8-bit sounds and noisy synths with the kind of Indie vocals reminiscent of (We Are) Performance. ‘Sakura Sakura’ is a power Electro track as chaotic as a Tokyo wall of neon, yet within the chaos lies layers of beautiful synth work.

♫ Moscow Youth Cult – Girls Of Boredom

♫ Moscow Youth Cult – Sakura Sakura

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May 18 2011

Publicist’s new EP

Out this week is the new EP from Publicist on Discotexas.

Publicist is Sebastian Thomson, sometime drummer for Trans AM, who like to mix things up live by sequencing, drumming and vocoding in the middle of the dancefloor. The tunes on ‘Proffessional Show Business Pt.1′ are a unique brand of deep, hypnotic synth Disco. Owing as much to late 80’s and early 90’s House as they do to Nu-Disco, there’s even a little Cabaret Voltaire in there! The two tracks on the EP are also re-editied by Disco stars Moullinex and Zimmer, that’s right, not reMixed but re-edited. Both track play with the originals for more of a dancefloor vibe.

♫ Publicist – Come to My Senses (Moullinex Edit)

♫ Publicist – Make Ends Meet (Zimmer Edit)

‘Proffessional Show Business Pt.1′ is out now.

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May 18 2011

Gwaiiu (ex-of CHEW LiPS) reMixes Thomas Tantrum

Thomas Tantrum are a Southampton based Indie-Pop outfit who’s new single, ‘Hot Hot Summer’, has been reMixed by Gwaiiu.

Gwaiiu is none other than Will Sanderson, ex member of CHEW LiPS, who applies his ElectroPop skills to the track to create an awesome mid-tempo head nodder. Driven by electronic burbling and chirping and a solid beat and more than a little Dubstep influence. It’s actually like a Dubstep early Gary Numan track with female vocals. Interesting stuff!

Check it out:

♫ Thomas Tantrum – Hot Hot Summer (Gwaiiu reMix)

‘Hot Hot Summer’ is 5th june.

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May 18 2011

Cassian reMixes PNAU’s new single

‘Solid Ground’ is the next single from PNAU’s forthcoming album ‘Soft Universe’ and gets the reMix treatment from Housemaister Cassian.

Cassian lay on the Sci-Fi Disco thick with this reMix, full of laser gun electro toms and raging Moog basslines. Elevating the vocal track to levels of pure funk euphoria Cassian had dropped a killer this time!

♫ PNAU – Solid Ground (Cassian reMix)

‘Solid Ground’ comes from PNAU forthcoming album “Soft Universe” is due out 1st July on etcetc.

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May 17 2011

Russ Chimes’ Expressway Mix Pt.3

Russ Chimes – Expressway Mix Pt.3 = Ahead of the release of his eagerly anticipated new EP, Mr. Chimes treats us to an hour of the freshest big tunes with one or two classics thrown in too.

♫ Russ Chimes – Expressway Mix Pt.3

The tracklist:

01. Russ Chimes – Aurora (Intro.)
02. Style Of Eye – Sexx (Russ Chimes Expressway Re-Work)
03. Russ Chimes – Helix
04. Moonchild – Lovebirds (Russ Chimes reMix)
05. Alex Metric & Steve Angello – Open Your eyes (Style Of Eye reMix)
06. High Powered Boys – Work + Arno Cost – Apocalypse (Sebastian Leger reMix) + Adam Kesher – Hour Of The Wolf (Lifelike reMix)
07. Tong & Spoon – Muchness (Kink reMix)
08. His Majesty Andre – Clubs + C&C Music Factory – Gonna’ Make You Sweat
09. Nightriders – Get Hooked (Grum reMix)
10. HURTS – Better Than Love (Burns Dub Mix)
11. Funkabit – Root Beer
12. Kevin McKay – Body Talk
13. Proff – Interstellar + Modjo – Lady
14. ZZT – Zzafrica (Light Year & Finger Prince reMix)
15. Loops Of Fury – We Unfold
16. Para One – Animal Style
17. Broke One – Go Go Go (Russ Chimes reMix)
18. Zombie Nation – Chickflick (Boris Dlugosch reMix)
19. Alex Metric – Raveageddon
20. Jaymo & Andy George – Tension
21. Slice & Soda – Year Of The Dragon (L-Vis 1990 & The Neon Dreams reMix)

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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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