Yearly Archives: 2011

Oct 23 2011

Kris Menace & Rex The Dog’s ‘POW!’

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It’s Rex The Dog‘s team up with Kris Menace! ‘POW!’

Unlike Rex’s reMix, which  was pure Rex, you can really hear the meeting of styles with this original version, which actually works well. What you have here is a big dancefloor drone of a track, a tune that builds such nervous energy that when it finally breaks the crowd are gonna’ go mental. Personally I can’t wait to hear this in a club, it’s gonna’ go off!

♫ Kris Menace & Rex The Dog – POW!

Kris Menace & Rex The Dog’s ‘POW!’ is our later in October.

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Oct 23 2011

Yuksek & Peter & The Magician (hold on, two of those are the same!)

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Yuksek’s newest single will be reMixed by Yuksek again alongside Stephen Frasano, the ex-half of Aeroplane in their awesome Peter & The Magician, guise.

‘Always On The Run’, gets the honour of being the first released Peter & The Magician reMix, after their amazing ‘Twist’ EP on Kitsuné. And what a way to kick off a reMixing career. Flawless synthesizer DiscoPop is the best way to describe it, Both of these guys really are at the top of their game and have crafted something bewilderingly likable here. there’s nothing about this track that disappoints, from the bouncy bass to the maddeningly infectious melody this tune is a winner.

♫ Yuksek – Always On The Run (Peter & The Magician reMix)

‘Always On The Run’ is out tomorrow, Yuksek’s second album, ‘Living On The Edge Of Time’ is out now.

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Oct 23 2011

Quasars And Lovinsky’s new tune

Quasars And Lovinsky

Russian producers Quasars and Lovinsky have teamed up again for another of their smooth retro synth workouts.

Heavy on the movie samples (1984’s Danceploitation flix ‘Heavenly Bodies’ (yes, I did just invent the movie genre Danceploitation)) and shimmering synth sounds this mid-paced burned is full of cinematic emotion played out on lush electronic sounds. These two are really starting to shine a light on the Russian SynthWave scene and make good standard bearers for their contemporaries.

♫ Quasars And Lovinsky – Aerowave

Check out more from Quasars And Lovinsky on their SoundClouds.

Oct 23 2011

Mindscramble’s new tune

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Mindscramble, one of the Manchester Electro massive (and I do mean massive, there’s loads of them!), has dropped a new track on an unsuspecting public.

the track is apparently still in demo form, but you wouldn’t know that from giving the beat driven Sci-Fi soundscape a listen. Firmly in the Dreamwave./Synthwave camp, Mindscramble manages to get across a real sense of narrative with this tune, the arrangement almost follows chapters of some story known only to the man himself, but there are definite ‘acts’  to the seven minute track and Mindscramble successfully conveys a different emotion for each one. Musically he’s got the Italo-influenced-‘80’s-movie-theme thang down pat with a good feel for retro synth sounds and a good ear for a melody that works, just take the leads on ‘Save Me From Myself’, they are almost haunting, which makes a nice stark contrast to the driving FM bass.

♫ Mindscramble – Save Me From Myself

Check out more from Mindscramble on SoundCloud

Oct 23 2011

Duran Duran & Drop Out Orchestra

Putting the funk back into Duran Duran comes Drop Out Orchestra.

Their edit of the Duran’s 1981 hit ‘Girls On Film’ morphs all the best bits into a lick laden Disco stormer that really highlights and bass and percussion of the original. this track’ll get the dancefloor jumping for all the right reasons. Good work by both the Durans and the Drop Outs.

♫ Duran Duran – Girls On Film (Drop Out Orchestra Rework (Edit))

This edit will be coming out on vinyl next month.

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Oct 23 2011

Charli XCX’s new single

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Out this weekend is the new single from London’s resident ElectroPop nutcase Charli XCX.

Having come a long way in the last few years Charli has really hones her sound, that is carved out a sound for herself. A lot darker now than she used to be, her new single ‘Nuclear Seasons’ is a moody and edge peice of ElectroPop backed by tribal percussion and buzzsaw synths while Charli wails about, in her own words “…about a sense of decay. Whether it be the decaying of love, the decaying of life or the decaying of a period of time. Its about being lost and frozen and surviving. Its about being on your own and feeling magic alive when you come through the other side.” Charli XCX’s transition from madcap bubble-gum to something deeper looks like the making of a seriously interesting artist. Check the singer here and head over to her website to download for the price of an email address.

♫ Charli XCX – Nuclear Seasons

‘Nuclear Seasons’ is out now on Asylum Records.

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Oct 23 2011

Zimmer’ ‘Looking At You’ video

Here is the video for ‘Looking At You’, The lead track from synthetic Disco producer Zimmer’s new EP, ‘Horizontal Disco’.

Directed by Quentin Chevrier & Fabrice Starzinskas, the city streets of Paris at night are the prefect accompaniment to the hazy sax Disco.

‘Horizontal Disco’ dropped this weekend on Discotexas.

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Oct 23 2011

Louis La Roché’s ‘Los Angeles’

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Hot on the heels of his current proper single, the double A-sided  ‘Gimme Gimme’/‘The Wall’ Mr. Louis La Roché is in such a good mood he released another new single for free on his SoundCloud.

‘Los Angeles’ is pure Nu-Disco gold. La Roché shows off his flair for picking and manipulating samples here at it’s finest with a wicked vocal hook and some blazing horns. All backed up by LLR’s shuffling synth Disco groove. There’s even a special B-side edit that mixes in a little bit of something very familiar…

♫ Louis La Roché – Los Angeles

♫ Louis La Roché- Los Angeles (Louis’ DP Edit)

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Oct 23 2011

Silenx reMixes The Tapeaters

The Tapeaters

The Tapeaters and Silenx. Two of the more interesting act to emerge in the last couple of years.

So for Silenx to work his Nu-Disco excellence on The Tapeaters retro DiscoPop is a bit of a treat. The track ‘Don’t You Dare’ is the Russian duo at their ElectroPop finest and Silenx adds his bright synthy sheen to the tune. The track has a smooth, laid back vibe despite being pretty upbeat, the thick , warm sounds that Silenx uses gives his reMix an little soft Funk, even Yacht, flavour in amonget the kickin’ Disco beats.

♫ The Tapeaters – Don’t You Dare (Silenx reMix)

The Tapeaters’ album ‘Visions’ is out now.

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Oct 23 2011

Lost Years’ new track

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Here’s a new tune from the awesome Lost Years.

It’s only been a couple of months or so since we last wrote about Lost Year’s but he’s been knocking out tracks at an alarming rate in the meantime. ‘The hunt V1’ is his latest, an effortless meeting of Dreamwave and Italo and a track that wouldn’t have been out of place on European dancefloors in the mid ‘80’s. Like all his tracks it’s a rich and densely layers affair, for that really full SynthWave sound but with a nice Italo twist in the bassline.

♫ Lost Years – The Hunt V1

Check out more from Lost Years on SoundCloud.