Yearly Archives: 2011

Sep 7 2011

Site News: Be right back!

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Right, so, we’re shutting up shop for a little while. Don’t worry, it’s not too long, just a week and a bit.

I’m off to Bestival on the Isle Of Wight to see some amazing artists including Arthur Baker, Hercules And Love Affair, Santigold, Blancmange, Richard X, OneTwo, Mark Jones, Magnetic Man, Chromeo, Public Enemy, Boys Noize, Groove Armada, Skrillex, Feed Me, Mogwai, Patrick Wolf, Mount Kimbie, Cut Copy, Breakage, Fenech-Soler, SBTRKT, Sound Of Rum, Jungle Brothers, Modestep, Stopmakingme, Maya Jane Coles, Filthy Dukes, Frankie Knuckles, A Guy Called Gerald, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Ulrich Schnauss, The Cure, Crystal Castles, Grandmaster Flash, Katy B, Clare Maguire, Diplo, Annie Mac, Fake Blood, Carte Blanche, Toddla T, L-Vis 1990, LFO, Skream & Benga, Dan le Sac Vs. Scroobius Pip, Nero, Metronomy, Tom Vek, Oh Land, CocknBullKid, Busy P, D/R/U/G/S, Jaymo & Andy George, Burns, Mylo, Black Devil Disco Club, Retro/Grade, Bright Light Bright Light, Wolf Gang, Bjork, James Blake, Robyn, Kelis, The Drums, The Cuban Brothers, Fatboy Slim, DJ Shadow, Hi Tek Soul: Starring Kevin Saunderson & Derrick May, Zola Jesus, HEALTH, Modeselektor, Jacques Lu Cont, Tensnake, Erol Alkan, Niki & The Dove, Joker & Nomad, Modular Soundsystem, Roska, Bag Raiders, DJ Derek, Feeling Gloomy DJs, Horse Meat Disco, Joy Orbison, Julio Bashmore, Sneaky Sound System, 2 Bears, A-Trak, Crystal Fighters, Gypsy & the Cat, Mirrors, The Japanese Popstars….and probably loads I have forgotten. Then I’m off to London for a few days for stuff.

I reckon I’m gonna’ be back and blogging around Monday 19th September, If I can I’ll try to get in a sneaky post here and there if the hangovers allow it, but don’t count on it. Stay tuned to our Twitter account (@electronicrumor) for vague wafflings about various bands and how much it’s raining.

So, I’m gonna’ be having an awesome time! if your sat there with nothing to do, missing the hell out of my posts then you could do a lot worse than check out some of these blogs:

Binary Entertainment

Harder Blogger Faster

Remix86

Sloth Boogie

LOOSE LiPS

Tracasseur

Stoney Roads

Vitalic Noise

The Synthesizer Sympathizer

And I’ll see you lot in just under two weeks!

Cheers!

Sep 7 2011

Justice’s ‘Audio, Video, Disco’ video (+download)

Here it is! The video for Justice’s new single ‘Audio, Video, Disco’.

Directed by Ed Banger visuals man So Me the clip is a seamlessly edited wander around a studio wonderland.

And now you can grab the Video Edit of the track for free!

♫ Justice – Audio, Video, Disco (Video Edit)

Justice’s new album, ‘Audio, Video, Disco’ is out soon on Ed Banger.

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Sep 7 2011

Goin’ Old School: The Shamen – Move Any Mountain

Alright, so The Shamen’s ‘Move Any Mountain’ is borderline 1989-1990. Here we go anyway, hold tight.

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Sep 7 2011

Bodi Bill’s ‘What?’ video

Bodi Bill’s new video, for the single ‘What?’ was written and directed by Stephane Leonard and Martin Eichhorn.

It’s kinda’ fun, and kinda’ dreamlike and well Indie.

The ‘What EP’ is out now, and is the ‘What?’ album.

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Sep 6 2011

Last roundup of Fear Of Tigers’ Pippi reMix competition.

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As Fear Of Tigers’ ‘The Adventures Of Pippi Longstrump’ reMix competition draws to a close here is our sixth and final round up of some of the better entries we have missed so far.

Four entries today. First up Portugal’s Cut Slack sets the bar pretty high with a storming Nu-Disco mix that swaps the euphoric riff for some smooth licks. Follow Me’s galactic rock jam is a power drum workout with a growling bassline that only occasionally gives way to some sweet Disco. Collins does a pretty good job of updating the original with an ear for ‘80’s synthesizer melody with epic and uplifting production while Cuica submit a laid back, Flute infused, beach Disco take on the track.

♫ Fear Of Tigers – The Adventures Of Pippi Longstrump (Cut Slack reMix)

♫ Fear Of Tigers – The Adventures Of Pippi Longstrump (Follow Me reMix)

♫ Fear Of Tigers – The Adventures Of Pippi Longstrump (Collins Eternal Youth reMix)

♫ Fear Of Tigers – The Adventures Of Pippi Longstrump (Cuica reMix)

Do you have a favourite for the lot? We do…

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Sep 6 2011

Fabian’s début album

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Yesterday saw the release of long time electronic rumors favourite Fabian’s début full length album hot of the back of the highly acclaimed ‘last Flight’ single and a storming reMix for The Magician’s new Kitsuné record.

The album, ‘Say Goodbye’ feels like a culmination of everything Fabian has learn in the past few years of solo productions, DJing, and as half of the founders of LexiconDon, during the emergence of Dreamwave and the LA ElectroPop scene. Alongside classic Fabian tunes like ‘Heatwave’, one of the tracks Dreamwave was built on and the latest single ‘Last Flight’ which has everyone in the know going crazy, ‘Say Goodbye’ hold a whole host of killer tunes that span Fabian’s range. From smooth ElectroPop to dancefloor shaking Electro to Funked up Disco tunes. The album is liberally sprinkled with shimmering synths, vocoders, and just about everything you want from and electronic album, there’s a track for every mood. Most of the time, though, your mood after slapping on this album will be ‘get up and dance’.

♫ Fabian – Dreams To Wishes

♫ Fabian – This Night

♫ Fabian – Starlight Love

‘Say Goodbye’ is released this week on Binary Entertainment.

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Sep 6 2011

Kamp!’s ‘Cairo’ video

Here’s the video for the new Kamp! single ‘Cairo’.

We’ve already raved about the single, now check out director Marcel Sawicki’s visuals.

‘Cairo’ is released 9th September on DIscotexas with reMixes from Social Disco Club, JBAG and Moullinex.

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Sep 6 2011

Daze reMixes Chromeo

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Better late than never Daze turns up to the ‘Hot Mess’ reMix party with his take on the Chromeo tune.

As well as bringing a bottle Daze comes loaded with thick 70’s synths and squelchy basslines. It’s pretty hard to stand out from the pack in the game that is reMixing ‘Hot Mess’ but Daze does his job by producing a Disco tune that is that tiny bit more retro than everyone else. This is a late night jam.

♫ Chromeo (Feat. Solange) – Hot Mess (Daze reMix)

Chroemo’s ‘When The Night Falls’ single is out now and taken from their amazing ‘Business Casual ‘ album.

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Sep 6 2011

LIGHTS’ new video

This week Canadian ElectroPop goddess LIGHTS premiered the video for her new single ‘Toes’, the first proper single from her forthcoming sophomore album ‘Siberia’.

What’s not to like?

‘Toes’ is out this week.

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Sep 6 2011

Can love be a synth?

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Photographer Katja Ruge has snapped some of the great of SynthPop and post-punk in her almost legendary carrier and still is the go to girl for portraits of some of the lading lights in electronic music.

Alongside her LoveGang artist/DJ collective have been throwing ‘Kann denn Liebe Synthie sein?’ (‘Can love be a synth?’) SynthPop parties (as well as their LoveGang parties) to which Katji also added and photography/design exhibition based around classic analog synths. Giant tiled tributes to the synths that rock our world, photographed from Sunny and Frank’s SynthesizerStudio in hamburg, are on display at Achteinhalb Store in Berlin.

Katja Ruge

To celebrate the success of the show Katja and crew are going out with a closing day party on the 10th September when you can enjoy the work, listen to some tunes and get the chance to walk home with a synth peice of your own.

If you’re in the Berlin are, you can find all the info right here.