Flight Facilities’ excellent, and surprising, return this month, the Christine Hoberg featuring Clair De Lune, had it’s video premièred this week.
Dave Ma directs this clip, which is a beautiful narrative shot in California’s San Fernando Valley.
Clair De Lune is out now.
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These guys have traded reMixes in the past, but now San Francisco’s funkiest export Viceroy and New York Disco Pop outfit Ghost Beach have teamed up on a new original tune that really does proove that Viceroy is correct, it’s “summertime, all the time”.
Even if it is deep in November, this tune will knock the chilly cobwebs out of your skull and get you moving like you’re at a pool party. Boasting layers and layers of funky synths, raging from a pumping digital bass to some rich, stabbing, chords, that all provides the grooviest of backings for Ghost Beach to belt out some summer anthem style vocals. Bringing back the sun! The track is available to buy very soon, we can;t wait to see who’s in the reMix line-up.
♫ Viceroy (Feat. Ghost Beach) – While We’re in Love
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Released later this month is Cast Away, the new single from Australian Indie-ElectroPop outfit Strange Talk. The bombastic, catchy tune is backed by a host of cool reMixes, we’ve already had a listen to Plastic Plates take on the tune, so now it’s time for one of our favourite French double acts, Reflex, to flex their reMix muscles and step up to the plate.
This tune is washed in exactly the kind of fun, slightly quirky electronics. Suited both for the dancefloor, and just to cheep yourself up. Reflex, more than many others in their field, have a real character to their music, even the instrumental stuff. It’s ElectroPop with a very specific personality. The original’s hushed vocals are paired up here with Relfex’s Disco beats, sweeping synths and idiosyncratic melodies. It’s all uplifting and charming stuff, but then Reflex’s tracks always are.
♫ Strange Talk – Cast Away (Reflex reMix)
Strange Talk’s new album is expected to drop next year.
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We’re still jamming to Hercules And Love Affair’s new tune, Release Me, taken from their new DJ-KiCKS album. It’s definitely one of the highlights of the tail end of 2012.
The track’s video has just premiered, directed by Mo Stoebe, and comes loaded with retro video effects.
Hercules And Love Affair’s DJ-KICKS is released 29th October on Studio !K7
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Goin’ Old School isn’t a trip down music memory lane, it’s a mugging in the dark alleyway of nostalgia:
In 1981 Jean–Michel Jarre continued to break new ground, both in synthesizer music, and chart music, with his hit Magnetic Fields II.
The amazing Anne Clark’s 1984 breakthrough Our Darkness. Pioneering electronics.
D-Mob with Cathy Dennis, before she penned one of the greatest British Pop songs of all time, hitting the charts with House-lite and C’Mon And Get My Love in 1989.
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Ladies and gentlemen, it’s the first X-Mas single of the year! jumping the gun slightly in early November (is it time to feel X-Massy yet?), but still wining the prize is Canadian ElectroPop noiseniks Dragonette, who have managed to be seasonal and ‘down with tha kids’ by combining a bittersweet X-Mas tune with text messaging. Nice!
Merry Xmas (Says Your Text Message) has got bells in it, we should make that clear from the start, and choir sounds. Oh and copious amounts of the work “Fuck”, which is pretty special for an X-Mas song, also pronouncing X-Mas, “X-Mas” is appealing too. So, as you can probably gather, this is the anti-X-Mas love song set the traditional seasonal Pop that’s has had a few rounds in Dragonette’s grinding machine, sounding in-your-face but still holing on to some of that sparking X-Mas tune hopefulness and majesty. The best of all worlds really.
♫ Dragonette – Merry Xmas (Says Your Text Message (Explicit Version))
Dragonette’s Merry Xmas (Says Your Text Message) is released 20th November.
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Can this really live up to expectations? Lifelike and A-Trak together on one track? That’s a lot of anticipation that’s been built ever since we heard this track was on it’s way. French Touch pioneer Lifelike has really bringing his A-game to his collaborations recently, so the thought of him teaming up with A-Track, someone who tends to push the boundaries of Disco, had us eager to hear the result.
And the track, released today exclusively on Beatport, really does sound like a Lifelike and A-Track collaboration. By that we mean you can pick out the Lifelike bits and the A-Track bits in it, it actually sounds like the sum of it’s parts. There’s the arpeggios and continental stabs you’ve expect from Lifelike and a bit of scratching and some funky use of vocal samples, A-Trak’s forte. The result ends up big a huge Disco-House tune that you instinctively put on repeat. Look out for the single which boasts reMixes from Gigamesh, Mauvais Cliché, and The Bloody Sisters.
♫ Lifelike (Feat. A-Trak) – Don’t Stop (Club Mix)
The Don’t StopEP is out now on Beatport and drops everywhere else 26th November on Kitsuné Music.
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Frankmusik’s back with some new sounds for us. His new track, Far As I Can, sees Vince returning to the big, complex, ElectroPop he shines at.
Here’s the video for the track, with Vince very much looking like the Londoner in LA. Frankmusik’s back y’all!
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Here’s the video for 4AD’s Purity Ring’s Lofticries. The duos glitchy ElectroPop album, Shrines, is sure to make more than a few ‘best of 2012’ lists and this track is one of the reasons why.
The clip is a fascinating montage of character and location, directed by AG Rojas who seems to make the pact work with the track.
Purity Ring’s ‘Shrines’ is out now.
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French ElectroPop duo Juveniles are about to drop their Through The Night EP, which appears to be just a re-release of their-self titled EP from June this year. It was an awesome release, which most of you have already picked up, particularly the Yuksek reMix of Through The Night which we featured back in the summer. the re-release of the EP will be out on AZ/Universal, so it’s nice that the guys have major label backing now.
Here’s the Edward Housden directed video, which you have also probably already seen (nope, major label backing doesn’t get you a new video apparently), it’s very French.
The guys hit the UK later this month, definitely one not-to-be-missed:
20 Nov – Blind Tiger, Brighton
21 Nov – Shacklewell Arms, London
22 Nov – Soup Kitchen, Manchester
Juveniles’ ‘Through The Night’ EP is released 26th November.
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