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Feb 4 2013

[Audio] New tune from Daze

Daze

French Electro Disco producer Daze is gearing up for the release of his latest EP, to be titled Solar, which is apparently in progress. In the meantime he has dropped this previously unreleased tune to tide us over and it;s got us really looking forward to the EP.

Thinking About You is French Disco done right. Funky as all hell and build from massive sounds. A sweet vocoded vocal hook give the track structure in a track that harkens back to Daze’s Foundations EP. It’s the arrangement here that really shines though, wich drops and builds in just the right places and innovative fills to transition between the two. A definite floorfiller, roll on the EP.

♫ Daze – Thinking About You

Daze’s new EP is released soon.

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Feb 4 2013

[MP3] Pelifics reMixes Liebe

Liebe

Amazing Swedish SynthWave producer Pelifics has dropped this new reMix of Greek duo Liebe’s Strangers. The track is part of Leibe’s Somewhere In Time album and has just got the single treatment with a release last week. Pelifics is the prefect guy to give it a lush retroPop sheen.

The reMix hits all the right notes for a huge chunk of Boogie with a bouncy 80s bassline and vintage drum machine beat. It swaps the original ElectroPop’s tune Piano House flavour for a deeper, nostalgic vibe. Vocoders and cowbells round out the mix, and there even some of our beloved orchestral hits in the mix if you listen carefully. Pelifics turns a big slice of ElectroPop into an even bigger slice of evocative period Pop.

♫ Liebe – Strangers (Pelifics reMix)

Liebe’s Strangers is out now.

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Feb 4 2013

[News] Kavinsky’s London launch party

With SynthWave master Kavinsky’s album just around the corner, due for a February release, the man himself is set to visit London for what promises to be a full-on night of blistering Electro in celebration of the record’s release.

The Dead Cruiser descends on a secret London warehouse location 2nd March for one of the hot tickets of the year so far.

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Find the latest details here.

Kavinsky’s début album, Outrun, is released 25th February.

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Feb 4 2013

[Mixtape] Nude Disco’s 8th mixtape

nude disco

Nude Disco – Vern’s Nude Disco 8 = Here’s the latest synth laden Disco mixtape from Nude Disco. Featruing some of the biggest tunes from the past few months, it’s a cracking hour. Make sure you get yourself down to the next Nude Disco club night, at the Electric Social in Brixton.

♫ Nude Disco – Vern’s Nude Disco 8

The tracklist:

01. Toby Tobias – The Feeling (Nude Disco & Paul Harris reMix)
02. Visitor – Coming Home (Viceroy reMix)
03. 360 – Run Alone (’96 Bulls reMix)
04. Lindstrom & Todd Terje – Lanzarote
05. Gigamesh – Don’t Stop (Version 2.0)
06. Yuksek – The Edge (Aeroplane reMix)
07. Black Van – Inside (Oliver reMix)
08. MNDR – Feed Me Diamonds (RAC reMix)
09. Edwin Van Cleef – Nala (Summer Best Friends reMix)
10. RAC (Feat. Penguin Prison) – Hollywood (Cassian reMix)
11. The Gossip – Perfect World (RAC reMix)
12. Moullinex – Take My Breath Away (Gigamesh reMix)
13. Van She – Idea Of Happiness (Robotaki reMix)
14. Bit Funk – The Long Road Ahead
15. Richard Marx – Should Have Known Better (FM Attack 2012 reMix)

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Feb 4 2013

[Audio] Arvo Prime

Arvo Prime

Some heavy and melodic Electro now from relative newcomer Arvo Prime. In the past few months this German producer has racked up a fairly impressive volume of tunes on his SoundCloud. Obviously influenced by Ed Banger Records and the French Electro scene, it’s rare for an up-and-coming artists to be able to stand shoulder to shoulder with their inspirations, but Arvo Prime does just that with ease.

Lin is his latest tune and, as with all his tracks, the lazy thing to do would be to compare him to Justice, which I’m sure will happen to this guy a lot. But many time he out-Justices Justice on sheer musicality of his tunes and production style. Lin is an epic, baroque, Electro tune, crammed full of complex melodies and a pounding Electro groove. Au Château is out favourite of his tunes. Powered by a Moog Funk bassline and more of his piercing baroque lead lines this could have easily been on any number of Ed Banger Releases. Proper medieval Electro gold.

♫ Arvo Prime – Lin

♫ Arvo Prime – Au Château

Also check out his entry in the reMix contest for What You Want, one of the only listenable tracks on the new Boys Noize album. This slab of Industrial Funk was rated as one of his favourites by Ridha himself.

♫ Boys Noize – What You Want (Arvo Prime reMix)

Check out more from Arvo Prime on SoundCloud.

Feb 1 2013

[MP3] Computer Magic

Computer Magic

One of out favourite artists hailing from Brooklyn (and that is no mean feat, we’re pretty sure that when you move to Brooklyn you get given a complimentary analog synth) is Computer Magic. We’ve written about Danielle Johnson’s music a fair bit over the past couple of years, but thinks have been pretty quite since last summer. No fear though, she’s back with a brand new single, A Million Years, due out in march and it’s everything we’ve been missing.

Mixing up a hazy Indie-Electro vibe with a solid Disco groove, A Million Years, pumps along to a hypnotic Moog bassline and spacious, atmospheric, buzzing synths, wrapping the listener in a blanket if electronic comfort while Danielle’s quirky lament sounds a lot more cheerful than the songs subject matter would suggest. If you like interesting, quite introspective, Indie-ElectroPop you’ve come to the right place.

♫ Computer Magic – A Million Years

You can pre-order the A Million Years 7” single from Computer Magic’s store, here.

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Feb 1 2013

[Audio] Gigamesh’s ‘Enjoy’

Gigamesh

We raved about this track on Twitter the other day, now a bit more of it has hit SoundCloud we can present it right here. Straight up, this is probably our favourite Gigamesh track to date, not least because it samples the hell out of Wham!’s 1982 début single, and ode to being unemployed, Wham Rap (Enjoy What You Do). This is a full-on party starter.

Even ignoring the vocal samples, this tunes is loaded with big Italo sounds. The huge synth bassline will suck you straight into the tune. This direction, which seems to be becoming increasingly common amongst producers, of injecting frantic Italo into Nu-Disco (in post Dreamwave world) is one we wholeheartedly support, and the likes of Gigamesh and Punks Jump Up are leading the charge. Enjoy is everything we’d want from a Disco tune. Synth heavy (and we mean heavy), doesn’t take itself to seriously, very moreish. We’re really feeling Gigamesh on this one, the single also holds a reMix from Oliver, we can hardly contain ourselves.

♫ Gigamesh – Enjoy

Gigamesh’s Enjoy is released 12th Feb as a Beatport exclusive, and 26th March elsewhere on Nurvous Records.

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Feb 1 2013

[Audio] Aminova’s new tune

Aminova

Representing Wales amongst the Dreamwave crowd is one of the UK’s most underrated producers, we think so anyway, Aminova. Last years Variants EP cemented Aminova’s reputation as one of the leading lights of the second wave of SynthWave producers, and with this new tune, he’s showing us he has no intention of letting up.

Coconut Hologram sounds like a bizarre title for a track, but when you think about it it’s perfectly apt. The track weaves in a few tropical influences into it’s Sci-Fi sounds, resulting in a 31st century Disco tune with an extra layer of atmosphere. There a bit of Nu-retro-House in there too, which leaves you with a track that could be slotted, quite nicely, into almost any set. A Disco beat, and Italo bassline, big SynthWave leads and Tropical and House hooks, what more could you want to start the party?

♫ Aminova – Coconut Hologram

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Feb 1 2013

[Video] Depeche Mode’s ‘Heaven’

So the big news this week, as you’ll probably guess from our Twitter and Google+ feeds, is the new single from one of our all-time faves Depeche Mode’s forthcoming 13th (and probably last) studio album Delta Machine, Heaven.

Heaven is a pretty unsurprising. An epic ElectroPop track injected with Dave and Martins blues influences The B-side, however, All That’s Mine, is a fantastic, moody, synthetic opus that harks back to late-80s Mode. Check the video for Heaven, directed by Timothy Saccenti, who revels in Depeche Mode’s religious iconography.

Depeche Mode’s Heaven is released 5th March

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