Strangelove from 1987’s ‘Music For The Masses’ by Depeche Mode, arguably (or at least, I will argue it with you) their finest album.
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Yearly Archives: 2011
Hypnolove’s ‘Holiday Reverie’ EP
French analog synth Disco crew Hypnolove are back this month with a new EP produced by Ed Banger’s Mickey Moonlight.
The ‘Holiday Reverie’ EP mixed up some pretty eclectic influences and instrumentation from Disco to Dub to Experimental to ElectroPop with the title track being a funky, weird, summery, Pop tune. Head nodding basses and muted guitar amongst the warm synths are the deal here while ‘Midnight Cruising’ is a cowbell laden, harp solo wielding SynthPop track. there’s also a Mickey Moonlight Dub of each track.
♫ Hypnolove – Midnight Cruising (Mickey Moonlight Dub)
The ‘Holiday Reverie’ EP is out now on vinyl and digitally on the 17th on Record Makers with an album following in October.
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Metronomy’s ‘The Bay’ video
Metronomy’s ‘The Bay’ finally gets a music video.
Directed by David Wilson the clip was filmed in exotic Torquay.
‘The Bay’ is out 4th July, Metronomy’s third album, ‘The English Riviera’ is out now.
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FM Belfast’s new album
After signing to Morr Music and re-releasing their ‘Underwear’ single earlier this year the Icelandic ElectroPop nut-house that is FM Belfast have just released their new album, ‘Don’t Want To Sleep’. It’s a record full of exactly the kind of SynthPop insanity you’d expect from this lot.
Get your eyes and ears ‘round the video for the first single ‘I Don’t Want To Sleep Either’, directed by Árni Rúnar Hlöðversson, it’s time to be scared and intrigued.
And check out ‘New Year’, taken from the album for some Korg bothering, quirky, Indie-ElectroPop.
FM Belfast’s ‘Don’t Want To Sleep’ album is out now.
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Fabian reMixes Short Circuit’s ‘How We Speak’
LexiconDon Quarter and Binary solo artist Fabian has given fellow Binarian Short Circuit’s ‘How We Speak’ a late night going over.
His reMix is a crazy mash-up of everything that works on the dancefloor. There’s some Breaks, some Electro-House riffs, some nice 90’s House keys and some smooth Nu-Disco & Dreamwaveyness in the background. Taking Short Circuit’s vocoded vocals and turning them into a hypnotic mantra Fabian has crafter a mix designed to do one thing and one thing only, get you dancing, and once the false finish kicks back in it’ll have you going crazy.
♫ Short Circuit – How We Speak (Fabian reMix)
‘How We Speak’ is taken from Short Circuit’s ‘Late Night Drive’ EP, out now on Binary Entertainment.
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Chad Valley’s new video (+ TEED reMix)
Chad Valley’s new track ‘Now That I’m Real (How Does It Feel?)’ has dropped in video form.
The video was directed by Lucy Bridger and is quite a cure clip for the track from Chad’s forthcoming ‘Equatorial Ultravox’ EP
And while you’re here check out his reMix of TEED’s latest single ‘Trouble’ for a surprisingly 80’s groove coming from CV.
♫ Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs – Trouble (Chad Valley reMix)
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Lo-Fi-Fnk’s new single
Stockholm Indie-ElectroPop duo Lo-Fi-Fnk seem to have vast periods of being really quite and then unexpectedly dropping something pretty awesome.
‘Boom’ is their new single, taken from the forthcoming ‘Last Summer’ album, and it’s a catchy, synth workout that for a track from an album called ‘Last Summer’ is amazingly summery. Go figure!
♫ Lo-Fi-Fnk – Boom
‘Boom’ is released 27th June, their new album ‘Last Summer’ is out on on August 17th
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Ride The Universe reMixes AXXE
Here we have another incoming reMix of Canadian ElectroPopsters AXXE’s ‘Sweet Stuff’, this time the worldwide phenomenon that is Ride The Universe are going to show us what’s what.
I’ve been waiting a while to hear some RTU with sultry female vocals, it seems to me to be the perfect combination and the boys just go nuts with the opportunity. In what is probably the most retro of their productions so far, their reMix of ‘Sweet Stuff’ is washed thick with 70’s Disco and Funk. Layering a solid, body moving, groove with euphoria inducing Disco lead lines is a heady combination. The union of AXXE and RTU is music so sexual that if AXXE release a Disco tune in nine months time I think we can safely assume what happened.
This is the tune of the month, easily!
♫ AXXE – Sweet Stuff (Ride The Universe reMix)
How many more awesome AXXE reMixes can we take?
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Beaumont’s ‘Skyline’
Hot on the heels of his last offering, ‘City Meets Soldier’, Melbourne producer Beaumont keeps his momentum going with a brand new single, ‘Skyline’.
In a kind of evolutionary cycle Beaumont started out producing Disco and Electro tunes, then he applied his skills in their area to more atmospheric, soundtrack-like pieces, and now with ‘Skyline’ he brings the beat back but retains the epic and evocative nature of his recent tunes. ‘Skyline’ is almost a feel-good antidote to ‘City Meets Soldier’’s intensity. It’s the hope for the future in the face of adversity, the picking yourself up after a fall, the sunrise after a night spent chewing your face off. It’s got some corking reMixes too!
♫ Beaumont – Skyline (Beaumont reMix)
Show Your Shoe and Fiero step up to the plate for reMix duties with Show Your Shoe getting his extreme Funk on in a way that will surely solidify his reputation as one of the most talented producers of Electro/Disco/Funk around, while the Firero boys round of the EP by bringing more smooth than you can handle with some seriously majestic Dreamwave sounds.
♫ Beaumont – Skyline (Show Your Shoe reMix)
♫ Beaumont – Skyline (Fiero reMix)
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Bright Light Bright Light reMixes James Yuill
As premiered on last weeks Fear Of Tiger’s ‘The Guestlist’ show this is Bright Light Bright Light’s reMix of James Yuill’s ‘Crying For Hollywood’.
Light and breezy ElectroPop is the order of the day here. Piling on the world’s most feel-good 90’s House piano riff in amongst dreamy arpeggios lifts James’ vocals and lets them do their job perfectly. The sun’s come back out this morning.
♫ James Yuill – Crying For Hollywood (Bright Light Bright Light ‘Red Carpet’ Mix)
‘Crying For Hollywood’ is taken from James’ new album ‘Movement In A Storm’/
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