Nov 8 2013

[Download] Zimmer’s ‘Galapagos’

It seems like ages since Parisian Horizontal Disco innovator Zimmer released a new track. Aside from a series of excellent mixtapes, and a handful to top reMixes,, we haven’t heard a new tune since, we think, the actual Horizontal Disco EP. Mr. (Le) Crayon steps up to help out with drum duties on Galapagos, a suitably evocative title for this Tropical meets Chicago House jam.

Galapagos, delivers a nice line in pitched down vocals and chilled House groove that Zimmer has chosen to pair with Tropical purcussion and an Island lead line. The whole affair end up being bizarrely warehouse, with the Tropical lead somehow morphing into a classic Rave hook in Zimmer’s deft hands. We guess the track would work equally well by the pool or in the crowd, it’s adapted for either situation. For us though, we’re going to take the chilled route with this one.

♫ Zimmer – Galapagos

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Nov 8 2013

[Video] Bright Light Bright Light’s ‘An Open Heart’

London SynthPopper Bright Light Bright Light’s new single, An Open Heart, which we played you a few weeks ago, is due out at the end of this month. In advance of the release here’s the brand new video for the track.

Gavin Leisfield directs the clip, which sees Rod imagining how he’s going to furnish his swanky new flat, or maybe not.

Bright Light Bright Light’s In Your Care EP is released 24th November.

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Nov 8 2013

[Audio] Goose’s ‘Falling’

We’ve alluded to it before, but we now think it’s about time that someone sat down with the current crop of post-Electro Techno producers and explained to them, that they are just making EBM. The only difference between a lot of modern EBM and Eleccy Teccy producers is the publications they get written about in and the venues they are booked to play. Case in point, Belgian Electroheads Goose, who, admittedly, have always had Electro-Rock leanings and always been more than a little EBM anyway, but who now are primed to jump on board with the likes of Gesaffelstein in gruff arpeggio world-domination.

Check out their latest single, released next week. Falling’s open-hi-hat-on–beat 4/4 rhythm is pure Industrial stomp and it’s juggernaut arpeggiated hook is dancefloor twisted 242 magic. The track was mixed by French legend Alex Gopher and sets it’s self apart from the crowd not in it’s beats or basslines, but in it’s mastery of energy. The gradually rising, simplistic, vocals become a mantra guiding you through the highs and depths of the track. It’s a deceptively minimal tune that is always in complete control. More sophisticated than 99.9% of modern EBM? Yes definitely, but sonically right in the same boat.

♫ Goose – Falling

Goose’s Falling is released 12th November.

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Nov 7 2013

[Audio] Say Lou Lou’s ‘Beloved’

New Say Lou Lou tracks seem to be coming thick and fast these days. Only last month did we introduce you to the girls new single Better In The Dark, which is release at the end of this month with reMixes from Tiger & Woods, Hygrade and Andrea, and now you can check out the epic B-side, Beloved.

The sisters get their cinematic SynthPop on for this tune. It walks a nice tightrope between it’s optimistic, almost uplifting synths and a deep melancholy in the vocals, making the track a two sided affair, but one that feels lit a narrative complete. Shimmering keys and pounding drums underpin the girls vocal laments. This could have easily been a single in it’s own right, but it makes a stunning B-side.

♫ Say Lou Lou – Beloved

Say Lou Lou’s Better In The Dark is released 25th November.

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Nov 7 2013

[Audio] Grum reMixes Martin Garrix’s ‘Animals’

OK kids, pencils down and pay attention, there’s a new reMix from Mr. Grum on the scene. This time around Grum’s subject matter is young Dutch producer Martin Garrix, who in suitably Dutch producer fashion is a purveyor of all things big room, Prog Housey, Trancey, and cheese filled. Taking Garrix’s ‘hit’, Animals, Grum proceeds to make things a bit slicker, a bit more sophisticated, without loosing any of the dancefloor euphoria.

Grum loads up on big swirling synths for this one. By this time Grum has amassed enough experience with a wide variety of dancefloor styles that he can effortlessly meld them into one monster whole. Crisp lead lines, burbling basses, and the perfect build, all lead into a 303 tweaking finale that sees Grum in new Acid-Techno territories. A massive floor destroyer that we fully expect is going to get caned over the coming months.

♫ Martin Garrix – Animals (Grum reMix)

Martin Garrix’s Animals is out now.

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Nov 7 2013

[Mixtape] Du Tonc’s ‘Mixtape 2’

Du Tonc – Mixtape 2 = Ho! It’s the second mixtape from MiGHty mOUse and Matt Van Schie’s Du Tonc juggernaut. Expect a tight-as-hell hour of left-field Disco and Cosmic sounds mixed up with a little island swing and some surprise Italo. The duo have also decided to give away their début single from January this year, Darkness, here, and their second single, Surging Memories, is getting a re-release with a full reMix package just in time for X-mas.

♫ Du Tonc – Mixtape 2

The tracklist:
01. Campion – Another Day (Original Mix)
02. Beard In Dust – Revolution In Mordor
03. Beard Science – The Philly Bus Stop (Bead Science Disco Dub)
04. Drop Out Orchestra – Come Home 2013
05. Crusaders – My lady (Purple Disco Machine Re Edit)
06. Art Of Tones – I Don’t Think That’s Music
07. Rayko – Excitation
08. Dinosaur Jr. – Feel The Pain (Leo Zero Edit)
09. Matis Aguayo – Menta Latte (Prins Thomas Diskomiks)
10. Kolsch – Goldfisch
11. The Magician – Enchanted Land
12. Kolsch – Zig (Original Mix)

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Nov 7 2013

[Video] Marsheaux’s ‘Inhale’

Here’s the video for Greek ElectroPoppers Marsheaux’s Indie tinged Inhale. Taken from the album of the same name, Inhale is a break from Marsheaux’s traditional SynthPop sound, displaying something more like mid-era Ladytron.

Johan Andjerson directed the clip, making good use of limited budget and retro video effects to produce something pretty slick. Looks like an early 90s shoegaze band’s video.

Marsheaux’s Inhale is out now.

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Nov 7 2013

[Audio] Data/Debt’s ‘Dead Pixel’

We’ve been eager to write about this one for a couple of weeks. It’s the next release on London’s Heavy Disco label and it comes from San Francisco based producer Data/Debt (who you may remember mixing up Ali Jamieson’s Four Thirty) in collaboration with Nu-Disco producer Allen Walker on Bass. Dead Pixel is his début release, check it out.

Dead Pixel is a rolling party starter who’s gruff groove is disguised amidst a cheeky line in samples. There’s just no way you can stop your head nodding to this one. You can’t stop smiling either. Thick with broken snatches of vintage Disco records and driving bass, Dead Pixel delivers a nice winter Disco vibe, this one isn’t for poolsides, this is for sweaty backroom clubs and everlasting Funk.

♫ Data/Debt (Feat. Allen Walker) – Dead Pixel

Data/Debt’s Dead Pixel is released 11th November.

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Nov 6 2013

[Download] Avec Sans’ ‘Shiver’

Yay! There’s a new song from Avec Sans! The glorious London duo are back with their third, or fourth single (it’s hard to tell what is and isn’t a single these days, but we’re gonna’ go ahead and count Heartbreak Hi, The Answer and Hold On as singles, so fourth then…) of lush ElectroPop goodness. Shiver was released this week as a free download, you you’d better get involved.

Probably Avec Sans’ most polished Pop tune to date, Shiver will appeal to both hardcore Avec Sans fans and new listeners alike. Catchy, but in an intelligent way, the tune is a cavalcade of buzzing synths and dance beats. Ms. Fox’s vocals sound more epic than ever, set to a sweeping, driving, slice of ElectroPop gold. I’m sure with Avec Sans gaining more attention, and the use of vocal samples in a rhythmic way in Shiver, that some reviewers will tediously compere them to Chvrches, we’re calling that out right now as just lazy critiquing. The two are wildly different bands, albeit ones that will probably appeal to the same audience, Avec Sans’ sound is much more rooted in the history of SynthPop than Chvrches, loaded with big, Depeche Mode style choruses. We literally cannot wait for a full length release form these two.

♫ Avec Sans – Shiver

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Nov 6 2013

[Audio] Luke Million reMixes Sterling Silver’s ‘Sweet Talk’

Here’s a little mid-week bounce-fest coming straight from the heart of Australia. Well, not the heart, that’s just a figure of speech, the heart would be way too hot, more lie straight from one of the edgy bits of Australia. Anyway, Luke Million, Italo-Disco player and undisclosed parts of The Swiss has gone and delivered a huge slab of vintage Boogie in the for of his new reMix for fellow Aussie (presumably also from an edgy bit) Sterling Silver.

From the opening, cinematic, analog synth warbling you know you’re in for a treat. A retro space-age workout that deftly merges the groovier qualities of Italo and 80s ElectroPop in a slick package that both loaded with nostalgia and fit for contemporary dancefloors. Razor sharp synths mix with thick stabs and the occasional vocoder drop to keep things upbeat and breezy. A proper retroPop epic, authentic as hell without being trite. The sound of yesterday, today.