Late last month Australian/Swedish sisters Say Lou Lou finally released their long awaited Better In The Dark single. Here’s the just premièred video for the track.
It’s a beautiful looking clip, directed by Magnus Härdner. It’s all nicely filtered, it’s like a fancy Instagram video.
Say Lou Lou’s Better In The Dark is out now.
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Ooo cheeky! You may recall we had all but promised that we had closed the door on featuring more reMixes of Goldroom’s blissful Embrace. Then Dutch Disco duo Keljet come along with this bad boy and despite out better judgement we can’t help but feature it. Keljet are on such a roll right now, storming track after track and really making a name for themselves. A well deserved name too, and a reputation this reMix does nothing to quash.
Keljet bring the hypnotic House vibes to the track this time around. it;s a well established science fact these days that Embrace has got an awesome vocal, and in the right hand it can be an amazing thing. Keljet’s hands are up to the job as they weave the vocal in and out of a slightly Tropical, pumping, tune that’s not exactly laid back, but not exactly upbeat either, just a nice groovy middle ground. Totally intoxicating.
♫ Goldroom – Embrace (Keljet reMix)
Goldroom’s Embrace EP is out now.
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We’ve been kept mightily amused by the Budgies over the last couple of months. That being the mundane adventures of a couple of giant budgie headed Curxes types. Have a gander at their Instagram account if you have no idea what we’re talking about. To soundtrack this searing insight into the parakeet world, the Brighton/Portsmouth Electro-Industro-Pop duo have released a new single, Avant-Guarded.
In contrast to their last single, the haunting Further Still, Avant-Guarded relentless noise assault. But unlike many forays into the realms of the experimental, Curxes manage to combine a left-field musicality with some surprisingly catchy ElectroPop. Post-punk in places, vocally, and musically a bit R&B at times, Avant-Guarded is a strange beast. Although with a title like that it;s probably to be expected. There’s an amazing sonic pallet being worked with here, new synth sounds and rhythms to keep you interested on repeated listens. What Curxes have done here, is take the far to often po-faced and taking-itself-seriously world of experimental electronics and made it fun. Quite the achievement.
♫ Curxes – Avant-Guarded
Curxes’ Avant-Guarded is out now.
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I Got You is to be the next single from one of this years breakout stars, Duke Dumont. The Duke rolled up to the Annie Mac show over the weekend to début the track and although it’s not in any way summer, this one will put a little holiday groove in your heart. Featuring vocals from Jax Jones with a little help from Whitney Houston, I Got You is due out next year.
We say it’s summery, because it’s filled to brimming point with Tropical sounds, both the purcussion and the synths instil the track with Island vibes. The combination of vocals (live and sample) would seem on paper to be strange bedfellows, but it all works out swimmingly. Throw in a deep, deep, grumbling bassline and some hard hitting piano stabs and you’ve got all the trappings of a future floorfilling classic.
♫ Duke Dumont (Feat. Jax Jones) – I Got U (Radio Rip)
Duke Dumont’s I Got You is due out next year.
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Ahead of the forthcoming release of German House superstar Tensnake’s début album Glow, set for the first quarter of next year. It’s an album that will be boasting a host of collaborators such as Stuart Price, Jamie Lidell, Jeremy Glenn and MNEK alongside frequent vocaliser Fiora and the one and only Mr. Nile Rodgers. It’s Fiora and Rodgers who appear on the albums first single, Love Sublime. Check it out.
Love Sublime is slick as hell. On the surface it appears to be another slice of throwback Disco, but it;s a lot more complex than that. There’s hints of Italo, of 80s Pop and Soul. If anything this feels more Top Of The Pops than 70s Mirrorball. Bouncy synth basslines and multi layered vocals with a breathy delay give it a very mid-80s feel (think: Imagination) with shuffling hi-hats. It’s an excellent choice for a single, but if you can;t wait that long Tensnake has dropped another new tune, which is available as a free download, in the form of the deeper and Housier strobe light epic, No Relief.
♫ Tensnake (Feat. Nile Rodgers & Fiora) – Love Sublime
♫ Tensnake (Feat. Fiora) – No Relief
Tensnake’s Love Sublime is released in March equipped with remixes from Duke Dumont, Ewan Pearson and Le Youth.
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Brooklyn’s resident Disco Dons Chordashian have followed up their glorious DiscoPop collaboration with Freedom Fry on Skyscraper Souls with a brand new slice of feel-good dancefloor bliss. This time it’s just the duo at the controls and they deliver Keep On. It’s a free download too!
If you like bright, high energy, Piano driven Disco-House tunes then you’ve come to the right place. ‘Cos that’s exactly what Chordashian deliver here. A fun and carefree tune with a hard-to-resist bassline, an array of synth zaps and pops flying all over and an uplifting vocal sample, Keep On is a solid floorfiller with enough of a contrast between it’s euphoric highs and it;s mysterious breakdown to keep things interesting.
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Here’s the second video from Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories, an album that was to have no music videos made from it. It’s for the Julian Casablancas featuring Instant Crush. Maybe because Daft Punk aren’t actually in it, that’s what they meant by ‘we aren’t making any videos’?
The video is actually quite good, a tale of waxwork love and ridiculous posers with fingers. Warren Fu directs, in a brave 4:3 ratio.
Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories is out now.
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This week’s capsule of Synthesizer Zen, to carry you into the weekend, comes in the form of a documentary about the evolution of the synth and how we make music.
Video courtesy of YouTube user Katey Dawson.
Kaohsiung Christmas is, amazingly, actually Fear Of Tigers’ début single! This exhilarating slice of big room sounds, and ElectroPop overtones, comes from a forthcoming three track release, the first of many leading up to his March 2014 sophomore album.
The video was directed by Chia Yi Lin and takes place in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, where Christmas is celebrated as a festival of love.
Fear Of Tigers’ Kaohsiung Christmas is released 16th December.
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Torontonian Cosmic Disco master Hemingway is back with a brand new reMix. Welsh experimentalists Man Without Country are his latest target as he morphs their hazy slice of Indie-DreamPop, Catfish, into a space funk oddessy, loaded with that thick, thick synth bass we’ve come to love from this guy.
With a nice vintage brush, Hemingway paints an epic masterpiece of twisting leads, starlight keys and that in-your-face bass. Sounds swirly around your head as melodies intertwine and curl sound each other. the whole hazy, Sci-Fi Funk works perfectly with the original tunes vocals, making them sound like some distant message from the starts. Hemingway really is one of the best in the business right now.
♫ Man Without Country – Catfish (Hemingway Mix)
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