Goin’ Old School isn’t a trip down music memory lane, it’s a mugging in the dark alleyway of nostalgia:
From 1989, Bernard Sumner and Johnny Marr’s Electronic project, here’s featruing Pet Shop Boys’ Neil Tennant with Getting Away With It….
Pretty much Mantronix’s best tune, 1987’s Who Is It? Here on The Tube, as there’s no video.
Here’s Electribe 101 & Bille Ray Martin’s 1988 début, Talking With Myself.
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NTEIBINT’s Time EP, released late last month on Kitsuné Music, is the prefect call-back to the 2007/08 glory days of the pioneering French label. It;s that very specific mixture of organic Disco grooves, Indie-Electro sensibilities and Electro-House noise. This track could have quite easily been on Maison 3!
Time combines all those elements into one rolling French Electro tune that has got an instant classic feel to it, the EP comes loaded with reMixes from the likes of The Subs and Fabrizio Mommarella, and this edit from Kirsuné head honcho Gildas, who serves up the kind of dancefloor interpretation you’d expect. Increasing the ‘pump’ factor by 11, Gildas strips the track down to it’s body moving essentials and shines a spotlight (via a mirrorball) right on them, taking the track more in the Electro-House direction, Gildas doesn’t loose the Disco feel, but cranks up the un-ignorable hook until you are in it;s thrall.
♫ NTEIBINT – Time (Gildas Edit)
NTEIBINT’s Time is out now.
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Future Screens are a Indie flavoured SynthPop outfit from Brooklyn (where else?) who don’t have many track out just yet, but the work they have made public shows a rich pallet of styles and a knack for catchy riffs and emotional tunes.
Here’s two of their best. Don’t Stop is very Brooklyn. It’s got that post-Chillwave combination of the raucous and raw, synth music done live, and hazy, introspective vocal delivery. Future Screens grasp this sound and hit the ground running, Don’t Stop would rock and Indie dancefloor with it’s raw drums and synth bass playing against an infectious melody and husky vocals. All My Daydreams has more of an Indie cool to it, as opposed to Don’t Stop’s jump up IndiePop. It’s a lush, electronic, wall of sound as a buzzing bassline and shuffling beat power the track along while reverby vocals and tides of synths crash against the track like waves. Future Screens are definitely a band we’ll be keeping an eye on in future.
♫ Future Screens – Don’t Stop
♫ Future Screens – All My Daydreams
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HiFi Brown is a German producer with a leaning toward big bassy Boogie and buzzing analog synths. He just released his début album, Cancer, which you can get a taste of right here with the lead track, My Own Nothing.
My Own Nothing is a deep grooved Disco monster. Equal parts Cosmic and Urban Boogie, My Own Nothing slinks along powered by an infectious bassline, repetitive and hypnotic, the bassline draws you into the track where you are treated to space-age, shimmering, synths flying left and right. HiFi Brown cuts right to the heard of the Funk and distils groove down to it’s purest form, ready to move your body and mind.
♫ HiFi Brown – My Own Nothing
HiFi Brown’s Cancer is out now.
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Here’s a nice mid-week pick-you-up from one of Australia’s most underrated producers, Mr. Ren Riz. Long-time staple on these pages, Ren always delivers pounding Electro tracks that seems to have more soul than many of his contemporaries.
Goodbye is no exception, it’s a smooth mixture between solid dancefloor drums and quite laid back, emotional music. The track is based on the gradual build and layering of rich, warm synths and pulsating electronic bass with echoing snippets of processed vocals set amidst them. Around the four minute mark that building reaches it’s climax as the beat drops and powerful leads kick in, raising the energy of the track, but keeping the reflective mood going.
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Here’s the video for the second single from Pet Shop Boys new album, Elysium. Both the track and the clip are classic PSB.
Classy, black & white, and amazingly British. The video, along with the track, sum up everything about Pet Shop Boys we love.
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It’s like The Knocks fortnight! Not only have they recently dropped their amazing reMix of Haim’s Forever and the release of their The Feeling EP, complete with a multitude of reMixes. One of the one we were most looking forward to was the work of Edwin Van Cleef, who whips up the title track into a deep and funky retro House track.
If you like you’re basslines Chicago flavoured and your dace tracks loaded with catchy refrains then you are in luck right here. Cleef delivers the EPs standout mix. Using the original’s anthemic vocal to it’s sing-a-long fullest this reMix pushes a severe level of energy and feel-good part vibes. It’s just a pity that the weather is starting to turn nasty, and this reMix is a month or so too late, to fully appreciate it’s summery charms.
♫ The Knocks – The Feeling (Edwin Van Cleef reMix)
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Hot on the heels of their reMix of Two Door Cinema Club’s Sleep Alone (alongside the release of their own The Feeling), those purveyors of the finest New York style Disco, The Knocks, have turned their attention to much-hyped LA Indie girl-trio-and-a-dude-drumming Haim.
The Knocks take that 90’s R&B shuffling quality Haim’s vocals display and run with it, weaving Forever into their summery, pool party Disco sound. The New York based duo indulge a little of their Tropical side, mixing an LA Dreamwave feel into their usual NYC Disco. I know this will be a controversial opinion on the music blogosphere but Forever works so much better with The Knocks laid back dance sound than it does with it’s original stripped down groove Rock.
♫ Haim – Forever (The Knocks reMix)
Haim’s Forever is out now.
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Another new track from Australia’s reigning SynthWave heavyweight champion Jordan F hit the streets this weekend. Certain corners of the SynthWave scene are unfortunately getting a bit bogged down, as quantity over quality rules and tracks are released unmastered, or mastered by a mate, or unfinished, resulting in a barrage of tinny, mid-range, half hearted productions that are a danger of drowning the cream of the scene. Luckily, Jordan’s tracks, mastered or not, always rise to the top as he takes his time with productions, allowing his natural talent, both musically and in production, room to shine.
Under The Sun is a reflective synth track. In a timely way it feels like a farewell to the summer. Which is appropriate, coming a couple of months after Jordan’s last track Bikini Girls. A mid-tempo tune, full of rich and deep synth sounds and dreamy melodies. Nostalgic, without out being sad. Pensive, without being depressing. Jordan’s emotional electronic music waves goodbye to the partying months and looks forward to next year. While you;re here, check out this reMix of Jordan’s Aurora, by Italian SynthWave newcomer Vincenzo Salvia, who delivers some piercing lead work and a multi layered sound.
♫ Jordan F – Aurora (Vincenzo Salvia reMix)
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Zimmer – September Tape ‘Cinematic’ = It;s Disco on all Planes these days from Belgian groovemeister Zimmer. With his September line-up he brings some seriously smooth grooves in his Horizontal Disco hour.
♫ Zimmer – September Tape ‘Cinematic’
The tracklist:
01. Jessie Ware – Night Light (Perseus reMix)
02. Robin Thicke – Lost Without You (Dublin Aunts Daytime Sex Mix)
03. Inigo & Future Feelings – Cosmo Voyage
04. Fishing Vest – First Standard
05. Jean Claude Gavri – Non Stop
06. Luke Million – Ice Ice Arnie (Cool Party)
07. Bufi – Take It & Feel It
08. Spagna – Easy Lady (Lady Jane & Simon Le Saint Edit)
09. Mirror People – Kaleidoscope
10. Escort – Starlight (RAC reMix)
11. Walker & Royce – Little Things (Dub Mix)
12. Emeron & Fox – Nightmares (Monitor66 reMix)
13. Moonwalk – Girl For You
14. Good Guy Mikesh & Filburt – No Other (Instrumental)
15. Hot Chip – Night & Day (Bufi Dub)
16. Dana Begquist & Peder G – Survive
17. Jonas Rathsman – W4W
18. Jupiter – Juicy Lucy (Zimmer reMix)
19. Chic – Everybody Dance (Zimmer Rework)
20. The Victoria’s – Tendresse (Acid Washed reMix)
21. Beacon – Feeling’s Gone (Fort Romeau’s Shibuya Edit)
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