Here’s the latest single from Indie-Electro staple IAMX. The raw and gratingly catchy I Come With Knives is the second single previewing Chris Corner’s forthoming fifth studio album, out later this month.
Check out the clip, directed, shot and edited by Michel Briegel and shot in Joshua Tree National Park.
I Come With Knives is taken from IAMX’s forthoming new album, The Unified Field, due out 22nd March.
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Boston’s resident Australian Indie-ElectroPop princess Betty Who has just released a reMix collection honouring her single Somebody Loves You. The packages is the result of a reMix competition, and, although we normally like to steer clear of those, of note here is the winner was none other than Canadian SynthWaver extraordinaire FM Attack, and rightly so his reMix leads the release.
FM Attack works his magic here. The original is an upbeat, guitar and synth fuelled slice of raucous Pop which we see here transformed into a spacey, impassioned, retro synth monster. The combination of FM Attack’s nostalgic synthesizer wizardry and Betty Who’s catchy refrain results in perfect 80s Pop. The maths is simple, add these two things together and you have every element needed to deliver a tune that, even when hearing it for the first time, feels recognisable and comfortable. I’m not sure if Betty Who was trying to come across like an 80s Popstar when she originally recorded the track, but in FM Attack’s hands that’s exactly the persona her vocals takes on. With chiming keys and a bouncy bassline, FM Attack really knocks it out of the park with this mix. A well deserved win.
♫ Betty Who – Somebody Loves You (FM Attack reMix)
Betty Who’s Somebody Loves You remix collection is out now.
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Uncomfortable was a single from French legend DJ Cam we featured around this time last year. At the time the release was slated to include a reMix from one of our favourite bands in the world, fellow French ElectroPoppers Reflex, but it never showed up (not in any official capacity anyway). Now, a year later Cam is bringing out a remix album, succinctly titled reMixed, and low and behold here’s Reflex’s work.
Reflex utilise their penchant for buzzing, funky, synths to it’s fullest here dropping a bucket load of raw analog Disco goodness. Mixing up Chris James’ soulful vocals with Relfex’s galactic synthetic soundtrack results in something a little more exciting than previous reMixes. Arpeggios fly left and right, amid swirling clouds of thick synth tones as Reflex’s SynthPop meets a groove laden Disco bassline. it’s so good I can’t even remember the others.
♫ DJ Cam (Feat. Chris James) – Uncomfortable (Reflex reMix)
DJ Cam’s reMixed album is released 18th March.
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This week saw the release of the new single from ecclectic Oxford based singer/songwriter Mr. Fogg. Headlock is the latest single from Fogg’s last summer second album, Eleven, following on from his acclaimed 2010 début Moving Parts. To celebrate the single’s release Mr. Fogg is giving away a reMix of the track from London producer Graphics.
Headlock is a heady cocktail of elements rolling over a metronome beat and VL-1 snare. Traditional instruments, cello, glockenspiel, play up against both dark, grinning electronics and bright, breezy, synths. Mr. Fogg’s introspective croon over the top give the track an air of grandiose BedroomPop. this is what you call real interesting Pop music. The Graphics reMix takes the track by the hand and leads it to some dingy warehouse party. Stripped down, but funky, House. Sparse beats and world percussion mix with rounded square basslines and for a track that is every bit as enigmatic as the original.
♫ Mr. Fogg – Headlock (Single Edit)
♫ Mr. Fogg – Headlock (Graphics reMix)
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Stockholm’s unsung ElectroPop/Bass queen Little Jinder’s new single Whatever 4ever is a more sweetly rebellious SynthPop affair than her previous, more Bass heavy offerings, and show a maturing of her sound, but thankfully not her attitude.
Directed by Anders Abrahamsson, the clip is basically Josefine and her mates getting wasted while a dude with a ginger beard mimes the song. I think that just about covers it.
Little Jinder’s Whatever 4ever is released 13th March.
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Would you like some of that Disco stuff? I hope so, ‘cos here comes Dutch Disco don Auxiliary Tha Masterfader with another track from his forthcoming Music For Discotheques EP. We already heard the Phunktastike’s reMix of the EP’s lead track Rule The Night, now we get a chance to hear more from the release with the hilariously camp and infectiously funky Sweaty Disco Night, you can download it too!
Big, big, synth bass and retro stabs rule this track. Punchy, with an irresistible groove, the bassline give the track a real gritty vibe and make it hard not to move to. While this is going on samples of folks talking about Studio54 and a huge choral anthem play out over the top, raising the track’s fabulous factor to eleven. This one is strictly mirrorballs and feather boas. Loads of fun and showing off Aux’s production, which just gets better and better.
♫ Auxiliary Tha Masterfader – Sweaty Disco Night (Vocal Mix)
Auxiliary Tha Masterfader’s Music For Discotheques EP is out this spring.
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If you were anywhere our Google+ page last night you would have seen us get all excited about this teaser trailer for Australian Indie-ElectroPoppers Empire Of the Sun’s long, long, long awaited second album, Ice On The Dune.
The clip it titled Discovery, heralds the duos follow up to 2009’s amazing Walking On A Dream. The and is suitably cinematic trailer has a taste of what to expect, musically, in it’s closing moments. It sounds awesome.
Empire Of The Sun’s Ice On The Dune is due to drop in June.
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Now that we’ve gotten used to the fact that awesome LA Disco duo Classixx are well and truly back, we are ready for some now music. And here it is. Borderline is the B-side to their new single, Holding On, and is just a spot-on little treat to keep us going until Classixx’s album release, just days away now. As an added bonus, Borderline features the vocal stylings of fellow LA resident Jesse Kivel from ElectroPop outfit Kisses (who’s own forthoming, Cascine released, album is awesome BTW).
Borderline is the swirling, dreamlike, antidote to Holding On’s storming Disco credentials. The prefect chillout track, a largely beatless groove is based a pulsating arpeggio complimented by lightly struck snyths and percussion drifting, ghostly, in and out of the tune. Mostly centred around the rhythmic bass and Kivel’s heartfelt vocal, the track manages to be both infectiously catchy and completely relaxing. We’re really looking forward to the album, I think it’s going to surprise a lot of people.
♫ Classixx (Feat. Jesse Kivel From Kisses) – Borderline
Classixx’s Holding On is out now with remixes by Lifelike and Jerome LOL amongst others with their album following 14th March.
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We featured Compuphonic’s Marques Toliver featuring Sunset and it’s reMixes early last month it’s a really nice tune and a solid reMix package. The track’s now got itself the cutest video too.
Lisbon based film producers Salon Alpin have put together a painstakingly animated clip in which bookmarks can have fun too. We can’t help but wonder why Get Physical Music couldn’t have held off the release of the EP a month and used this beautiful video in the Sunset’s proper promotion, rather than unleashing it now, weeks after, which makes it feel a little like an afterthought. Which is a bit sad. Watch and enjoy though.
Compuphonic’s Sunset reMixes are out now..
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Sit back, put your feet up, relax, grab a JD & Coke, there’s a new tune from Germany’s king of the laid back, smooth grooves Xtrafunk. Every time, Xtrafunk delivers the finest dreamy chilled vibes and his new one, Seek. is no exception, so prepare to melt into your speakers. Right now a Siberian wind has hit the UK (like, actually a cold front from Siberia), so we’ve been hit with snow and ice, but this is exactly the tune to warm us up and make us think of sunnier days.
Seek. slowly build’s itself throughout it’s five minute run. Starting you off gradually with a lazy Funk bassline and some mellow electric piano before starting to bring the Disco with a sparkling lead line and vocal snatches. Layers of Cosmic snyths are piled on until the track breaks into a sweet vintage string riff, albeit with odd timing, to usher the song to it’s finale. Grab your shades from the back of the wardrobe (unless you live in a country that has actual nice weather this time of year, or are a poser) and get this on.
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