This week’s capsule of Synthesizer Zen, to carry you into the weekend, comes from a demo of a 1976 model Roland SH-5.
Video courtesy of YouTube user AnalogAudio1.
Monthly Archives: July 2013
[MP3] Paulie’s ‘Want You’
The new track from Cosmonaut Paulie, his follow up to the incredibly well received Spread Love. Showing off a totally different style to Spread Love, Paulie proves himself to be no one-trick-pony. The singe gets a proper release, with reMix package, in the coming weeks but for now you can grab the original in all it’s glory for free.
Paulie draws on his background in Cosmic Disco for the spaced out and Dubby Want You. Whereas with Spread Love you were wrapped in deep, hypnotic, House sounds, Want You is an airy slice of vintage Disco with a solid analog-esque Italo groove and an extra layer of subtle, but potent Dubby effects. On top of all this rides a slowly building vocal track that begins blending vocal snatched with a rich vocoded topline and ends up with a powerful vocal crescendo. This one’s going to do the biz, can;t wait for the full single release.
Paulie Want You is out soon.
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[Audio] Coloureds’ new single
Are you sitting comfortably? Then I’ll begin. This week Oxford based Disco terrorists and convicted synth abusers (seriously, they’re on the register) Coloureds release their new single, Pop Forlorn. It;s been a while since we heard anything from these guys and in the past few months the have spawned a new Coloured. Green now joins Blue and Yellow in their brutal Electro-House oddessy.
Pop Forlorn is at once relentless and funky. Terminator basses ride roughshod over a cacophony of synths that belies a solid groove in what is possibly Coloured’s tightest, and more dancefloor friendly, track to date. Cut-up samples battle it out with pulsating digital sounds to see who can make you move more, just give in to it. The B-side, Automate, is where things start to get really Coloureds-esque, as they bring out their trademark chainsaw synths and set about carving up Disco and putting it back together to create some kind of compelling, groovy Frankensteinian best. The release come backed with reMixes from Sshh! The Deaf Have AIDS, Kenji Run and Tiger Mendoza, of which Kenji Run;s is the standout. Pick this shit up and kick off your weekend in style.
♫ Coloureds – Automate
Coloureds Pop Forlorn is out today.
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[Audio] frYars’ ‘Cool Like Me’
It’s been while since we’ve heard from London based Indie-ElectroPopper frYars (yup, we’re still writing it like that, believe), and with his new track, Cool Like Me which dropped this week, he’s taken on a decidedly Disco groove for the summer. A surprising poolside vibe for these hot weather days from a surprising source.
Loaded with wicked little Disco licks and sumptuous space-age vocoder action, Cool Like Me, has all the elements of a Tropical Disco floorfiller, but with added frYars Indie-Pop cool. With a tongue-in-cheek vocal set amidst Disco bass and swirling strings, this tune gets both Disco and Pip just right. Whether this is an indication of a shift in sound, or just a one off, we don’t know, but we would certainly welcome more summery, feel-good, tunes like this one in future.
♫ frYars – Cool Like Me
frYars’ Cool Like Me is out now.
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[Video] Blondes’ ‘Elise’
Brooklyn based experimental Electro duo Blondes recently unveiled their new, second, album, Swisher, to an unsuspecting world by way of a full album stream on YouTube. Here’s the video for the album;s first single, the eight-minute shuffling electronica of Elise.
The clip is a brainwashing hypno-clip put together by Greg Zifcak, the man responsible for the album stream visuals too, in broken VHS style.
Blondes’ Swisher is released 6th August.
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[Audio] The Soft’s ‘Prana’
This new slice of atmospheric, left-field electronics from Suffolk outfit The Soft turns out to be surprisingly funky. Prana, their second single, dropped this week ahead of forthcoming release of their Uncanny Valley EP, both on Ceremony, and it’s a luscious mix of Chillwave, Minimal Synth and Deep House.
Imagine if the singer from some post-Punk band wandered into a German House producers studio mid-recording and started giving it some mic. Now imagine all of this was being committed to tape with a psychedelic stepped, reverb happy, Chillwave producer behind the mixing desk, and you’re halfway there. It’s all very stripped down but spacey, with a solid groove and an emotional lament from The Soft’s vocalist. If you want to get lost in something, you could do worse than this.
♫ The Soft – Prana
The Soft’s Prana is out now.
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[MP3] Black Magic Disco edits Joey Musaphia’s ‘I Miss You’
UK ex-pat and all round slick producer of House and Disco, Black Magic Disco, has put together this little re-edit of House and Garage legend Joey Musaphia’s I Miss You. Originally taken from his now sought after Cover Ups Vol. 1 EP and itself a radical reworking of Hard Drive’s Deep Inside, the track is a club classic and BMD brings it right to 2013’s dancefloors.
This track is summer nights incarnate (although not really as music doesn’t have form, but you get the gist). Six minutes of shuffling Garage beats and warm synths gliding along like there was nothing smoother in this world. Snippets of vocal are played around with, big sweeps are indulged in and the crowd are left in a state of hypnotic euphoria. Download and add to your crate.
♫ Joey Musaphia – I Miss You (Black Magic Disco Edit)
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[Video] Tesla Boy’s ‘Undetected’
Russian ElectroPoppers Tesla Boy’s The Universe Made Of Darkness is pretty much the album of the year so-far for us, and although the excellent Undetected isn’t due for single release it;s gone and got itself a shiny new video.
Directed by Noriko Okaku based on photos by Vladimir Vasilchikov it’s a cavalcade of retro animation.
Tesla Boy’s new album The Universe Made Of Darkness, is out now.
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[Audio] ATTAR! reMixes Body Language’s ‘Well Absolutely’
On Tuesday we introduced you to Brooklyn Indie-DiscoPoppers Body Language’s new single, Well Absolutely. The single is out now and features a tasty reMix from Belgian analog groover ATTAR! who adds to our summer house trip with a slink little Chicago number.
Completely eschewing Disco, these days, for deep House vibes ATTARI! draws on bouncy, yet moody, synth bass and slowly evolving dark future tones to create smothing that bridges the gap between Chicago 1987 and Los Angeles 2019. Taking the length of the track to build up some dancefloor tension, ATTAR! uses warping lead lines to coax the dancer into a trance. Eerie rain soaked Cyberpunk atmospheres with a nostalgic dance groove? Yes please.
♫ Body Language – Well Absolutely (ATTAR! reMix)
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[Video] Lindstrøm’s ‘Vōs-Sākō-Rv’
Norwegian Disco guru Lindstrøm’s Vōs-Sākō-Rv, taken from his Smalhans album, an amazing slice of synthetic weirdo Funk, is finally able to present itself in video form.
A simple, but engaging, clip, the video is as Scandinavianly quirky as Lindstrøm’s music. Directed by Kristoffer Borgli.
Lindstrøm’s Vōs-Sākō-Rv and Smalhans are out now.
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