Sep 26 2011

Shelby Grey’s new album

Shelby Grey

Today sees the release of Shelby Grey’s new album, ‘The Music Is On His Side’. Released on ‘the ever-awesome Holographic People’.

It’s actually an amazingly varied body of work, if you like the sound of a synthesizer then there will be something for you contained with this records ten tracks. From the opening ‘April’s Legacy’, a sweeping electronic epic that sets the tone for an album just as occupied with conveying emotion through music as it is with making you dance. The mood lightens immediately as we get into the album proper, lifted by the tropical flavours of Chains Of Love, although this track does retain an underlying melancholy. all that is blown away, though, by the first of two collaborations with Cavaliers Of Fun’s Ricco Vitali who helps Shelby get the party started on ‘Wild Youth’. From their the LP slides through different genres and moods from the deep groove of ‘Voce D Amore’ to the atmospheric soundscapes of ‘The Dream Is Always The Same’ and ‘La Nena’ stopping by the upbeat SynthPop of the first single, ‘Echoes, Dimensions & Waves’. After keeping the energy up with the storming title track the album closes on a couple of cinematic pieces, ‘Back To Bollebygd’ and ‘Soracci’, leaving you suitably released from the big room tunes. Whatever you’re looking for, whether Jarre-esque synth compositions and something to fill your Nu-Disco dancefloor, you’re pretty much guaranteed to find it within ’The Music Is On His Side’ .

♫ Shelby Grey (eat. Guzmán) – The Music Is On His Side

♫ Shelby Grey (Feat. Ricco Vitali) -Wild Youth

♫ Shelby Grey – April’s Legacy

‘The Music Is On His Side’ is out right now! You can stream the whole thing here.

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Sep 26 2011

Topless reMixed by Robots With Rayguns

topless

Topless are an ElectroPop duo from Holland who’s free ‘Topless’ EP is five tracks of pure retro Pop set firmly in the late ‘80’s and very early ‘90’s, complete with early House basslines and New Order-esque use of sampling. Add to this some insanely catchy songs and you have a very cool EP.

The lead track of the EP ‘Say You Love Me’ has been given the reMix treatment by LA ElectroPop dude Robots With Rayguns. Mr. Rayguns, Lucas Patrick Smith, takes the track further back in time a few years, to the early/mid ‘80’s, and seems to inject the tune with a little Electro-Soul from that period. He reels thins in from being frantic ElectroPop to being smooth SynthPop (yes, there is a difference, deal with it!) and in doing so give the track a bit more of a laid back summer vibe.

♫ Topless – Say You Love Me (Robots With Rayguns Mix)

♫ Topless – Say You Love Me

Pick up Topless’ début EP on their SoundCloud page.

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Sep 26 2011

Database reMix French Horn Rebellion

It should be no surprise to anyone that Database have reMixed French Horn Rebellion again. These guys are always up in each others business. Not that we mind, the results are always good for us.

Following on from the synthetic Disco awesomeness of their début EP, Database keep up their momentum with this fun, bass heavy, ElectroPop reMix. It’s got such a head nodding quality to it that this track could be a whiplash hazard after repeated listens.

♫ French Horn Rebellion – Broken Heart (Database reMix)

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Sep 26 2011

Northern Kind’s new video

Here’s a new video for SynthPop act Northern Kind’s track ‘Daggers’.

This version of the track is from their limited edition ‘53 Degrees North’ EP. The video very much captures the Scandinavian electro feel.

the full version of ‘Daggers’ will be available on Northern Kind’s forthcoming album ‘Credible Sexy Unit ‘.

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Sep 26 2011

Funerals reMix Burial Hex

Funerals reMixing Burial Hex. That all sounds a bit ominous, but the result is pretty epic deep Electro.
Otherworldly and dreamlike, Funerals capture the throbbing dread of the original but morph it into a hypnotic Bleep House odyssey that moves through various atmospheric soundscapes, including a synth part that resembles a haunting Morricone harmonica, with a relentless kick drum as your tour guide.

♫ Burial Hex – Book of Delusions (Funerals Lanakila reMix)

Funerals are gearing up to drop a new reMix album, featuring a bunch of people and Goteki.

Funerals reMix of ‘Book Of Delusions’ features on the bonus CD that accompanies Burial Hex’s new LP.

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Sep 26 2011

Flight Facilities X BeNi

Flight Facilities

Flight Facilities’s excellent ‘Foreign Language’ single has been about for about a month now, so if you haven’t bought it yet maybe we can tempt you to with the BeNi reMix?

The EP holds a whole host of sweet Disco mixes of the track, BeNi in particular gets his groove on with a killer bassline that bounces the track along nicely. This reMix just rolls out the speakers and oozes onto the floor it is so laid back and funky.

♫ Flight Facilities (Feat. Jess) – Foreign Language (Beni reMix)

‘Foreign Language’ is out now.

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Sep 26 2011

Going Old School: Humanoid – Stakker Humanoid

In 1988 Humanoid was well ahead of his time with ‘Stakker Humanoid’, but the again, he was in Future Sound Of London, so that kinda’ makes sense.

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Sep 26 2011

Ronika: that Fear Of Tigers reMix

Here’s the video for Ronika ‘s forthcoming new single ‘Only Only’.

Ron’s looking fly doing her early ‘80’s video thing, which she now has down to a fine art. Love the track, love the video, totally awesome, I wish I could talk about it more, but there’s something I need to chat about that’s been on my mind for a while now. See you after the vid:

OK, so anyone who follows us on Twitter (@electronicrumor) will know I’ve been gagging to play you this track for weeks now. It’s Fear Of Tigers’ reMix of ‘Only Only’, and it’s one of the best reMixes I’ve heard all year.

We love Ronika and we love Fear Of Tigers, so we were pretty destined to like this track, but I was blown away on my first listen and have been rockin’ it ever since, and I’ll tell you why. It reminds me of ‘Don’t Make Me Wait’ by Bomb The Bass, a track I have loved for over two decades, with extra helpings of B-Boy Electro. Fear Of Tigers have captured the mood of the song perfectly bringing in an ‘80’s Electro feel that is absolutely in line with what Ronika is doing. With old School beats, stabs, Simmons tom rolls and a bassline that would kill both on a Lino down the Underpass or in the Top Of The Pops studio, Ronika and Fear Of Tigers have brought together my two biggest, and longest standing, musical loves, Electro (of the breakin’ variety) and ElectroPop, with a hint of my Disco mistress, in a completely modern production that hasn’t left my MP3 player for over a month now, and for that I will love them both forever.

Apologies for gushing, but I REALLY FUCKING LIKE THIS TRACK!

♫ Ronika – Only Only (Fear Of Tigers reMix)

‘Only Only’, and it’s flipside ‘In The City’, is released October 12th, Ronika kicks off the EP with a lunch part at the Lock Tavern in Camden, London on the same day.

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Sep 24 2011

Cadillac’s ‘Dreams’

cadillac

Cadillac are a synth fuelled Australian DreamPop outfit who are gearing up for the release of their ‘Dreams’ single on Future Classic.

Featuring vocals work from Joel Bryne from Wolf & Cub, ‘Dreams’ is upbeat, fun and totally sun drenched. It’s Australian Indie-Electro enough to be recognisable so, but not samey enough to sound like everything else, which is a nice balance, as no-one does Indie-Electro like our Antipodean friends. The guitars never seem intrusive and just float over an array of late 70’s Disco synths and early ‘90’s Indie vocals, it’s an exciting, beach party, of a combination.