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Oct 9 2012

Chad Valley’s ‘Tell All Your Friends’

Chad Valley

Oxford’s Chillwave master Chad Valley has announced a new single, and his début album to be released in November. The album, Young Hunger, sees Hugo Manuel hooking up with such luminaries as Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, El Perro Del Mar, Active Child and Twin Shadow from a whole album of his particularly dreamified strain of soulful synth music.

Preceding the album comes Chad Valley’s new single, Tell All Your Friends, a shuffling slice of hazy SynthPop and broken beats. Hugo’s gentle, but impassioned, vocals work really well layered this thick as he delivers a strong vocal performance that perfectly compliments his Lo-Fi R&B-Wave. It’s a confident track, well chosen to signpost the album, and has us more eager than ever to give it a listen.

♫ Chad Valley – Tell All Your Friends

Chad Valley is also embarking on a UK tour, details here.

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Oct 9 2012

L’Equipe Du Son’s new EP

L’Equipe Du Son

Dutch master of all things retro Electro, L’Equipe Du Son releases a new EP this week. It’s a collection of tracks from earlier in the year and serves to tide us over while we wait for the man’s second album, The Odyssey Project, to be released in December.

Indian Laserdisco is the title track of the EP, and it’s a massive mixture of early ‘90’s House and ‘80’s Electro Boogie. With an infectious hook and some huge, piecing synths, Indian Laserdisco places a House beat next to Electro Funk percussion and bassline with a House riff and choppy samples that will stick in your head. Magic Johnstien keeps the House vibe going with a relentless piano riff that revolves around the track and it’s Disco samples until it burns itself onto your brain. All-in-all more Housy than we are used to from L’Equipe Du Son, but additively funky nonetheless.

♫ L’Equipe Du Son – Indian Laserdisco

♫ L’Equipe Du Son – Magic Johnstien

L’Equipe Du Son’s Indian Laserdisco is out now,.

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Oct 9 2012

New Mixtape from Reflex

Reflex

Reflex – Mixtape #15 = Mixtapes from French ElectroPop duo Reflex are becoming something to really look forward to. This mighty hour contains some of the best ElectroPop, Indie-Electro and Disco in recent months. Another Stormer!

♫ Reflex – Mixtape #15

The tracklist:

01. The New Sins – Don’t Break My Heart (Tronik Youth reMix)
02. Alison Valentine – Peanut Butter (Moon Boots reMix)
03. Plastic Plates (Feat. Simon Lord) – Things I didn’t Know I Loved
04. Pompeya – Power (Zimmer reMix)
05. Kimbra – Two Way Street (Aeroplane reMix)
06. Jupiter – Juicy Lucy (Needs a Boogieman) (Punks Jump Up reMix)
07. Lindstrom – Re-Ako-St (Todd Terje Edit)
08. Kill The Hero feat. MK De Monde – Surrender (Reflex reMix)
09. Rüfüs – This Summer (JBAG reMix)
10. Yuksek – the Edge (Aeroplane reMix)
11. DJ Cam – Uncomfortable (Reflex reMix)
12. Hot Chip – How Do You Do (Todd Terje reMix)
13. Citizens! – True Romance (Gildas reMix)
14. Emil & Friends – Royal Oats (Dubka reMix)
15. Anthony F – Frienzy (Eyeflash reMix)
16. Love is Raining Down (Wilbur reMix)
17. St Lucia – September (Punks Jump Up reMix)
18. Revolver – Let’s Get Together (Ryan Riot reMix)
19. Moullinex – Take My Pain Away (Gigamesh reMix)
20. Live Element – Be Free (Oliver reMix)

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Oct 9 2012

Shelby Grey Edits Patrizia Pellegrino

Patrizia Pellegrino

Spanish Dreamwaver Shelby Grey has taken time out from his usual productions to bring us this edit Patrizia Pellegrino’s 1982 Italo classic Musica Spaziale. Originally a double A-side with her hit Matta-Ta, it’s hard it imagine anything able to make the track more Italo, but Mr. Grey manages it with ease.

Kicking off with some nice filtering, you instantly notice that Shelby has actually slowed the track down a little, maybe that’s the right decision, dancefloors are a little smoother than the tracks early ‘80’s NRG origins. All the synths have been thickened up to, and there’s a nice build mid-way too. Brining the classic Euro SynthPop sound into a place where it sits well with contemporary, albeit retro, Disco, Shelby has created a mighty DJ tool here.

♫ Patrizia Pellegrino – Musica Spaziale (Shelby Grey Edit)

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Oct 9 2012

All Night Shoes’ ‘Hello Jupiter’

All Night Shoes

Here’s a new slice of laid back late night Funk from Californian producer All Night Shoes. Eschewing his LA beach-party Disco sound for something a little more organic sounding, he new tune, Hello Jupiter, has got more of an urban Jazz Funk feel to it.

With a played sounding beat and some Jazzy instrumentation, this vocal sample fuelled track sets itself apart from the pack with some really interesting use of sounds and samples. there’s something raw about the production, like garage Disco, that gives the track a kind of live energy which is pretty compelling. All Night Shoes productions are coming on in leaps and bounds, we look forward to more.

♫ All Night Shoes – Hello Jupiter

Hello Jupiter is released 11th October.

Check out more from All Night Shoes on SoundCloud.

Oct 8 2012

Monsieur Adi’s ‘Dystopia’

Monsieur Adi

Monsieur Adi continues to prove he’s one of the best producers in the world today. Not only does every new release impress, but it always surprises too, and that’s a rare and exciting thing. Take his latest track, Dystopia, the first to feature the vocals of Adi himself, and moody SynthPop track with a French touch.

Dystopia truly is a beautiful and involving track, filled with nuances of sound. Atmospheric and brooding, yet with a strong wave of optimism, mainly delivered by Adi’s gently vocal. One again Adi coveys pure emotion with his music, with comforting effected drums and rich synths that swirl around your head. this is all accompanied by Adi’s orchestration, we’ve commented before about the quality of Adi’s string arrangements and here they shine like never before, helped with a hint of a choir. It’s a stunning piece of work, and one that demands repeated listenings to fully appreciate.

♫ Monsieur Adi – Dystopia

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Oct 8 2012

The New Sins’ ‘Don’t Break My Heart’

The New Sins

London outfit The New Sins newest release is dropped last month on Tigersushi, it’s a slick 80s DiscoPop tune that sees the duo of New Young Pony Club’s Lou Hayter and Nick Phillips taking on a UB40 classic and giving it a 303 based Boogie going over.

The New Sins’ version of Don’t Break My Heart glides out of the speakers like liquid audio. With a laid back, vintage, beat and a burbling Acid bassline underpinning the track, the silky pads and Lou’s sultry vocal shimmy across the tune with an effortless cool. Quite Minimal, but never sounding like it, this is smooth ElectroPop at it’s best. Add a few nice Dubby touched, a nod to UB40’s Reggae version and you’ve got a winner, even more so with the Dubbed out B-side version. Alongside finishing up The New Sins’ album, Lou has also embarked on another project, teaming up with AIR’s JB Dunckel called Tomorrow’s World, which should produce some exciting results.

♫ The New Sins – Don’t Break My Heart

Don’t Break My Heart is out now on Tigersushi Records.

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Oct 8 2012

Cordova’s ‘Paradigm’ released!

Cordova

Well, this kinda’ slipped out without telling anyone. I sort of think the label missed a trick here. One of the best loved Dreamwave tracks of recent years, Cordova’s Paradigm, has finally got an official release, with a bunch of reMixes in tow too, where was the fanfares? Where was the spotlight? Where was any promotion at all? It’s a pity, as Paradigm is a killer track !

Even by the time it hit the internet mid-last year it was already a year old, now over twelve months later it’s out , and sounding fresher than ever. Cordova is the meeting of U-Tern (Vaughn Oliver, making massive waves this year as one half of Oliver themed double act Oliver) and his buddy AJK, with Roxy on vocals, and Paradigm is so good it made it into the top five in our twenty best songs of 2011 and in our post on the track we used the words “fucking awesome”.  It’s a massive slice of Dreamwave boogie with husky vocals and Sci-Fi vocoding. Nearly two years after it’s creation it hold up and kicks it’s contemporaries arses! And now there’s reMixes too! Broke One gets a look in with a shuffling House mix that mixes a Chicago vibe with an almost UK Garage feel, keeping it smooth. British DJ Fingerman whips up something a little more synth Disco with his mix, pacing choppy synths against Tropical percussion for a funky, airy, groove. All that’s left to say is how glad we are that this if finally out, and how bewildered we are that the label decided not to tell anyone about it.

♫ Cordova (Feat. Roxy) – Paradigm

♫ Cordova (Feat. Roxy) – Paradigm (Broke One reMix)

♫ Cordova (Feat. Roxy) – Paradigm (Fingerman Rework)

Cordova Paradigm is out now.

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Oct 8 2012

Strangers reMix Kimbra

kimbra

I think New Zeland songstress Kimbra’s appearances on electronic rumors come along like busses. Just before she broke we featured her tracks and reMixes quite a lot, then there was a period of quite here, but now with some good mixes coming along all at once, the last being Aeroplane’s mix of Two Way Street, she’s becoming a staple feature again. Next up is this mix of Posse from London’s SynthPop finest, Strangers.

Pulsating electronics abound in Strangers’ mix of Posse. Underpinned by a deep throbbing bass, Strangers drop Cabaret Voltaire style Dubby stabs and Industrial noise on the track, providing an enigmatic electronic backing for Kimbra’s husky vocal. If your out and about in London on the 15th November, you can catch Strangers live headlining an amazing night of deep SynthPop, details here.

♫ Kimbra – Posse (Strangers reMix)

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