Dec 18 2012

[Audio] Ryan Riot reMixes Passion Pit

Swiss Dreamwaver Ryan Riot is topping of his year with this classy reMix of Passion Pit’s Carried Away. As the reMix contest for this track draws to a close we’re sure to be inundated with version of this tune for the next couple of weeks. Damn reMix competitions. Still, Ryan is onto a winner here as he injects the track with a playful Disco groove.

Keeping the structure of the track intact, Ryan gets funky with it and has a good time with a popcorn riff and pounding, infectious, bass hook. the track perfectly the captures the spirit of Passion Pit, that summery Indie goodness, but drags it kicking and screaming onto the dancefloor. Surely this track is a winner, we can’t imaging a more fitting Passion Pit reMix than this, this is how all Passion Pit reMixes should sound.

♫ Passion Pit – Carried Away (Ryan Riot reMix)

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Dec 17 2012

[Audio] Tesla Boy’s’ Split’

Russia’s Dreamwave superstars Tesla Boy are easily one of our favourite acts to emerge in the last decade. Ranging from nostalgic Dreamwave to catchy ElectroPop, Anton and crew always inject their tracks with so much soul it’s hard not to get sucked in. Their 2012 album, Modern Thrills is an actual masterpiece of Disco tinged SynthPop, and that might sound like hyperbole, but just listen to it, you’ll see.

This week they release a brand new single, which we have been very much looking forward to. it’s called Split and it doesn’t disappoint. No-one quite does, what is essentially vocal SynthWave, quite like Tesla Boy. Split has a big, powerful sound but keeps it personal with the vocals. Huge retro synths chords and arpeggiated bass dominate the chorus and before the track brings it back down low for the verse, just to build you up again. With the prefect tempo for a laid back groove, not too fast, but not to chilled either, Split is a huge, and welcome, return for Tesla Boy. It’s B-side, Another Light mixes up a little Indie and a tiny bit of a Tropical sound into Tesla Boy’s Synth repertoire before going large for the sing-a-long chorus. reMixes on the single come from Pioneerball, SoundSAM and St. Petersburg Disco outfit 7th Myriads, who deliver a piano House infused, summery Disco, version of Split, with a beach party vibe. Hopefully this single is the precursor to a new album, which would be an awesome start to 2013.

♫ Tesla Boy – Split

♫ Tesla Boy – Another Light

♫ Tesla Boy – Split (7he Myriads reMix)

Tesla Boy’s Split is out now.

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Dec 17 2012

[Audio] Röyksopp’s new single

Recently débuted on Norwegian Music TV show Lydverket, this is the long, long, long awaited new single from Röyksopp. Röyksopp are massive favourites of ours, and in the current climate, wintery cold but sunny as hell, their music just seems to fit. It’s been three years since the amazing junior, and two since it’s more experimental companion Senior, and Running To The Sea, featuring the vocals of Susanne Sundfør is a epic return to the world of Pop.

This track just reminds us how incredible Röyksopp are. Sweeping and dramatic, loaded with emotive piano and rousing drums, it’s a track that you can’t help but feel something for. Like the best Röyksopp tunes it’s kinda’ understated and effortlessly sounds majestic without trying to hard. Sundfør’s powerful vocals are a perfect match for Running To The Sea. There’s not much else to say. Amazing.

♫ Røyksopp & Susanne Sundfør – Running To The Sea

Running To The Sea is available to buy in Norway, or you can pick it up at Röyksopp’s online store.

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Dec 17 2012

[Audio] The C90s’ new track

We’ve Got Love is the new track from London Disco duo The C90s. We’ve been pretty eagerly awaiting some new material from these two for a while, recently their efforts have been concentrated on mixtapes and some storing DJ spots, but Danny and Jamie are now back with this infectious slice of Indie-Disco.

With a strong New York Disco/DFA groove, We’ve Got Love is their first original track since 2010’s Shine A Light (although both Danny and Jamie have produced as other projects, most recently Earl Grey for Danny) and shows that they haven’t been wasting their time. Honing their skills and sliding toward a smooth sound that is part Disco, part introspective Indie with heaps of retro cool. The beats in this track are almost B-boy and give tune a solid base for a pulsating bass, magical synths and a hushed vocal, all intersected by a funky Superstitious lead line. We’d definitely like to hear more like this please.

♫ The C90s – We’ve Got Love

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Dec 14 2012

[Zen] Synthesizer Zen

This week’s capsule of Synthesizer Zen, to carry you into the weekend, comes in the form of Howard Jones, Stevie Wonder, Herbie Hancock and Thomas Dolby. Four synthesizer legends getting their synth jam on.

Video courtesy of YouTube user endlessdrifter.

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Dec 14 2012

[Audio] Mitch Murder reMixes Karl X Johan

Karl X Johan are a Sweedish duo who have been making a few ripples in the waters of hype in recent months. This Stockholm twosome like mixing it up with shuffling Hip Hop drums, Chilly synths and introspective songs. They have also roped in fellow Swede, and king of SynthWave Mitch Murder on the reMix.

Taken from the forthcoming reMix edition of Karl X Johan’s Do You Remember?/Get It All EP, the Mitch Murder mix of Do You Remember? is a smooth-as-hell slice of summer nostalgia. A shimmering pallet of retro drums, Mitch’s emotive digital bass, and playful little melodies lay out a laid back vintage groove which, when added to Karl X Johan’s reverb washed vocal, ends up sounding almost Chillwavey. But a really 80s Chillwave. This is going to be sorting me out for the rest of the day.

♫ Karl X Johan – Do You Remember? (Mitch Murder reMix)

♫ Karl X Johan – Do You Remember?

Karl X Johan’s Do You Remember?/Get It All EP is out now, with the reMix EP out in January.

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Dec 14 2012

[MP3] Mau’s ‘Cheetah’

Here’s the new track from Portuguese DreamPop outfit Mau. We last was Mau reMixing Leitbur’s Think Of Tomorrow and have been eager to hear more from this Indie-Electro five piece and they haven’t disappointed, releasing four minutes of dreamy ElectroPop goodness.

Cheetah is a rich soundscape of swirling synths and hazy vocals. A shuffling beat and haunting chords dance around the track intersected by spikey synth riffs creating an atmosphere if machine-like beauty whist an impassioned voice laments in the distance. Part Chillwave, part Dreamwave, part ElectroPop, Mau deliver top quality synthetic dreams.

♫ Mau – Cheetah

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Dec 14 2012

[News] HURTS’ new album announcement

The UK’s finest exponents of melancholy ElectroPop HURTS have just announced the release of their long awaited second studio album. To be titled Exile, the record is due out in March 2013. If you pre–order the album now, you’ll get a sneak preview track, The Road, absolutely free.

The duo trumpeted the news with this video featuring a hint of The Road and some post-Dubstep grinding industrial sounds.

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Dec 14 2012

[Video] MNDR’s ‘Feed Me Diamonds’

Feed Me Diamonds is the nest single from NYC ElectroPop duo MNDR, and also the title track from their stunning début album.

The video, directed by Peter LaBier, features the drag queen Raven standing in for Amanda.

MNDR’s Feed Me Diamonds is out now.

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Dec 14 2012

[MP3] French Horn Rebellion reMix Harts

Australian Indie-rocker Harts sure knows how to pick his reMixers. First he has the amazing Diamond Cut reMix his début single, all Too Real, now he’s got French Horn Rebellion on the case. Apparently Harts stepped in as drummer for FHR when they played down-under, so when it came tome for Harts reMixes, FHR were an obvious choice.

French Horn Rebellion drop a pumping Indie-Disco version of All Too Real, keeping much of the guitary feel of the track, but bestowing it with an added infectious Disco groove. The bassline stomps it’s way toward your heart like humming mind-control leaving tons of room for the rest of the track to a breezily lay down it’s fun summer grooves and Disco hooks.