Jun 5 2013

[Audio] French Horn Rebellion’s new single

New York DiscoPop duo French Horn Rebellion really are going from strength to strength this year. After a pretty long period of quiet, so far they have hit us with Poster Girl, Girls and Friday Nights, all badass tracks, all in the space of a few months. Well, they’re not letting up yet with this, the release of their new single Dancing Out, featuring Jody Watley & Young Empires.

Dancing Out picks up where their previous singles left off. One again it’s all about good-time and no-worries. Injecting a little more of a retro SynthWave flavour into their funky Pop tunes, French Hoorn Rebellion bring the nostalgia along with their carefree dancefloor sound. Watley and Young Empires’ call-and-response vocals are cute, the beats are strong and the synths bounce along in a pleasingly 80s way. Another top tune from French Horn Rebellion.

♫ French Horn Rebellion (Feat. Jody Watley & Young Empires) – Dancing Out

French Horn Rebellion’s Dancing Out is released 11th June.

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Jun 5 2013

[Video] Joe Goddard’s ‘She Burns’

We introduced you to Hot Chip’s Joe Goddard’s new single, the Mara Carlyle featuring She Burns last month. A deep and soulful vocal House track that gets under your skin.

Here’s the video, in which Carlyle is, well, dead, and given the embalming treatment.

Joe Goddard’s Taking Over EP is due out later this year.

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Jun 5 2013

[Audio] Patchy’s début album

We served up London based new ElectroPop artist Patchy’s Picnic video earlier this year. Picnic was her début single, and she’s already unleashed a whole album of material on the world. Released this week, Illuminations runs the gauntlet of electronic music influences and them packages them all up in a sweet Pop parcel.

Dreams, the albums opened delivers on this perfectly, from it’s shuffling beats to it’s big post-Dubstep warbling, it’s all made accessible by Patchy’s quirky and inviting voice. The bubbling and infectious single Picnic gives way to the almost Kraftwerkian beats and electronic pulses of Brixtonia and the magical garden Dub of Solutions. By this point in the album you’re beginning to fall into Patchy’s groove. Truly ecclectic and interesting electronic music with a Pop sugar coating that it quite a refreshing combination. The vocals are sweet and catchy and slightly introverted in a way that makes them appealing, but the music shows off some really intricate programming and arrangement and draws on a myriad of underground styles. There are, of course, big Pop moments, such as the sweeping Happy Dark Spirit but as the album serves up it’s final third it’s all complex and atmospheric synths, robotics beats and vocals that get more and more brooding. The tension is broken though as the record plays out on Starting Now, a track that injects Patchy with a Disco swing and a catchy piano hook. It;s a confident début for this young artist, a name we’ll be keeping an eye on form now on.

♫ Patchy – Starting Now

Patchy’s Illuminations is out now.

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Jun 5 2013

[Mixtape] Black Magic Disco’s ‘Mixtape 005’

Black Magic Disco – Mixtape 005 = Black Magic Disco is gearing up for the release of his long awaited new EP, a collection of reMixes of his awesome First Avenue from the Downtown EP. To tide us over until it’s release, he’s dropped this storming deep and funky House mixtape. This one for late nights.

♫ Black Magic Disco – Mixtape 005

The tracklist:
01.Golfclap – Another Way (Animist reMix)
02.Ross Couch – What’s Going On
03. Squarehead & Mella Dee – Get Together
04. Paul Sirrell & Swing Kings – Dub No.2 (Original Mix)
05.Harry Wolfman – Booty Call
06. Screwface – No Other (Original Mix)
07. Copy Paste Soul – Rum & Bass
08. Hector Couto – My Love Is Underground (Original Mix)
09. Gorgon City & Yasmin – Real
10. Disco Kid – Deeper Love (Original Mix)
11. Ejeca – Jump
12. Pablo Fierro – Surprise (Original Mix)

While you’re here, check out this new Black Magic Disco freebie. We say freebie, it;s actually about four years old, but nonetheless is a spot on Dubby, Downtempo tune for relaxing in the sun to. That’s our day sorted.

♫ Black Magic Disco – I Believe in Music

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Jun 5 2013

[Video] Goin’ Old School: Madonna, Front 242 & Taylor Dayne

Goin’ Old School isn’t a trip down music memory lane, it’s a mugging in the dark alleyway of nostalgia:

Some pure Pop with an EBM filling today, starting with Madonna’s Into The Groove from 1985.

And unexpectedly cropping up is one of EBM pioneers Front 242 finest moments, 1986’s Quite Unusual.

Back to the Pop to finish up, from 1987 it’s Taylor Dayne big moment, Tell It To My Heart.

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Jun 5 2013

[MP3] Crystal Coast’ ‘Symphonie Des Grauens’

Back in February we introduced you to new Chillwave outfit Crystal Coast. Coming out of Tennessee and Georgia, this duo serve up a whole mess of swirling, hazy synth sounds. They’ve just dropped a brand new track, Symphonie Des Grauens, as a precursor to their forthcoming new EP.

Symphonie Des Grauens is in equal parts haunting and funky. A soft focus, downtempo, R&B beat underpins a tune full off ebbing and flowing synthesizers and buzzing drones. Coming together to to create a dreamlike musical haze, the track’s ethereal vocal weaves in and out of the soundtrack like a ghostly lament. Crystal Coast are quietly putting out some seriously good stuff, you should be paying attention.

♫ Crystal Coast – Symphonie Des Grauens

Crystal Coast’s EP is out soon.

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Jun 4 2013

[Audio] Dato’s ‘Give It Up’

Danish Nu-Disco ElectroPop duo Dato have just released their latest offering, the Give It Up EP. It’s been a while since we featured these guys on electronic rumors, the sometime Mullet Records releasers have steadily been churning out some of the funkiest emotional sound coming out of Scandinavia in the past few years, and this new three track release is no exception.

The EP’s lead, and title, track, is a silky smooth three and a half minutes of Disco tinged ElectroPop brilliance. Dato, skilfully, combine slick, subtly, Disco licks with chatty ElectroPop synths and the dreamiest of sax solos, and rolls them all up into a late night summer jam that oozes cool. With an infectious vocal and an irresistible groove this one is prime for urban dancefloors, the sound will drift across the city. Elsewhere on the EP you’ll fine the upbeat DiscoPop of Into The Fire and If We Ever, a Tropical slice of poolside sounds. If you need something to chill to this summer, day or night, then this EP is highly recommended.

♫ Dato – Give It Up

Dato’s Give It Up EP is out now.

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Jun 4 2013

[Audio] Hey Champ’s ‘Celebrate’

It’s another new release from Chicago ElectroPoppers Hey Champ. Following Cliché and Comet in recent months comes Celebrate, and we’re really hoping things are working themselves toward a new album. With this track they’ve upped their stadium ElectroPop quota significantly.

Celebrate is a slight departure from the Hey Champ we’re used to, seeing the duo stretch their Indie-Electro and Classic SynthPop muscles over Nu-Disco/Dreamwave-esque sound, and the result is a warm slice of retro Pop with a huge, lighter-waving, chorus. The end result is kinda’ like a more contemporary American Indie Depeche Mode, in that it’s a big Anthemic slab of electronic Pop with a glistening of guitar.

♫ Hey Champ – Celebrate

Hey Champ’s Celebrate is released today.

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Jun 4 2013

[Video] Kate Boy’s ‘The Way We Are’

Here’s the video for Stockholm ElectroPoppers Kate Boy’s new single The Way We Are. A modern EBM ScandiPop monster.

Kate Boy directed the video themselves, which continues their love of stark, monochrome visuals that work so well with their icy music.

Kate Boy’s Northern Lights EP is out now.

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Jun 4 2013

[Audio] Pet Shop Boys’ ‘Vocal’

Vocal is the second full track to see daylight from SynthPop legends Pet Shop Boys’ highly anticipated forthcoming new album, Electric. The Stuart Price produced LP will be the duo’s thirteenth studio album and from all accounts eschews your usual PSB ballad tracks for a short, sweet, collection of dance tracks.

What we’ve heard so far from the album has been pretty modern Italo sounding. No so with Vocal, this drags Pet Shop Boys SynthPop into Euphoric Trance territory and as such is unsurprisingly being championed by Armin Van Buuren. Neil Tennant’s ode to vocal dance tracks glides over a backing of big stabbing synths and warbling lead lines. Proving once and for all the Pet Shop Boys can still crank out a blistering, relevant, Pop song, Vocal is a fine precursor to the album. reMixes are on their way.