Here’s a brand new song and video from Arcade High, Blacktop Rendezvous. It’s taken from the forthcoming Beauty Queen EP and sounds like an 80’s SynthWave version of The Postal Service. And that’s amazing!
Arcade High’s Ryan Boosel himself directed this video, loaded with youthful exuberance.
Arcade High’s Beauty Queen EP is released 21st August.
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The mysterious Jupiter Gang has returned with two new tracks this week. The shades wearer had dropped a couple of massive slices of Electro Boogie. One new track and a reworked version of the tune that originally caught our eye.
The new tune is Starz, and all-too-short slab of massive Electro Funk. Bouncy digital bass and big ‘80’s R&B twisting hook. There are few who get this kind of retro Electro Soul right, and Jupiter Gang is easily one of them, he’s a robo funk master. We’re really hoping that this gets expended into a full six minutes of head spinning amazingness. Eighties Sun Movers is an expanded and reworked version of Movers, a track we’ve posted previously. It’s a Moroder-esque Disco groove with hint’s of DiCola style soundtrack work. And sounding better than ever.
♫ Jupiter Gang – Starz
♫ Jupiter Gang – Eighties Sun Movers
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Here’s the new video for Notts Indie-Electro outfit Moscow Youth Cult’s Love>Lore. It;s a track we’ve featured before and we do love it when tracks we like get nice videos.
Hayley Watchorn directs this study of interesting bits travelling that seems strangely fitting.
Moscow Youth Cult’s Happiness Machines is out now.
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One of Germany’s best SynthWave producers Mental Minority has not one, but two, new tracks for us. Both are something a little new form this guy, but still keeping the ‘80’s synth flavour. Two tracks, two moods, check them out.
So This Is For You is a drawn-back slice of synthesizer romanticism. Bringing the tempo down slightly and turning over the Italo beats and bassline to shimmering chords and bell-like chimes, Mental Minority crafts the kind of track that would hit the emotional beat in that ‘he finally gets the girl’ bit of an ‘80’s teen movie. These Old Photographs All Show Me Wearing Black is kinda’ a sentiment I can relate too as well as being a robo funk homage to the original Futurists. Channelling a bit of Kraftwerk and the likes of The Normal and Cabaret Voltaire Mental Minority has even added the hiss of old vinyl amongst the biting analog synths and cheap drum machine sounds. It;s a hunting Minimal Synth piece that just shows the depth of influences MM has, and how creative he can get with a synth.
♫ Mental Minority – So This Is For You
♫ Mental Minority – These Old Photographs All Show Me Wearing Black
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This week’s capsule of Synthesizer Zen, to carry you into the weekend, comes a Dell/Vice Motherboard report on Moby’s Analog Drum Machine and Synth collection.
Video courtesy of YouTube user geroin31337.
Louis La Roché is back with a new reMix. This time the man has gone all Sci-Fi Disco with his version of Noisettes forthcoming single Winner. The track is taken from their new album Contact, both released later in August.
The reMix sees La Roché in a deeper, synthier, place that we have seen him before, and it works so well. Eschewing the originals Indie riffs for lush, Vangelis-esque synths and a low down digital groove. Turning the soulful vocal into the crux of a dark future epic, La Roché up the drama and tension of the track whilst keeping it funky in an almost Italo vein. Oh if Louis want’s to continue down this synthetic Disco route we’d be very happy people indeed.
♫ Noisettes – Winner (Louis La Roché Extended Mix)
Noisettes’ Contact is released 27th August.
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Dutch musical genius Shook is at it again. Teaming up this time with American singer Pumashock, the Funkateer lays down his thick Moog Funk with sexy summer times in mind.
Just listening to this track is enough to get you sweaty, regardless of local climate. Pumashock’s sultry croon glides over Shook’s ‘70’s Funk. there is always something about shook’s musical talent that blows us away every track, this time it’s the piano as the Dutchman lets his fingers fly on the keys in a Jazzy solo that will leave your smiling. Add all that to Shook’s trademark thick synth bass and retro stabbing leads and you have one hot hot tune.
♫ Shook (Feat. Pumashock) – Summerheat
Summerheat is out now.
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Fin is back in the house! And about time too! The UK’s finest ElectroPop producer Starsmith has dropped his first new original tune since Lesson One, this time last year, with only a couple of reMixes in-between. Sure he’s probably hunkered down in the studio with the next big thing in Pop, but since his album is in some kind of ridiculous limbo we should be happy we’re getting at lease something form it.
Zeroes is the big tune you expect it is. With a rolling synth bassline this track is pure Starsmith. Just the kind of thing you could imagine him putting together in one of those studio videos he used to do. All the trademarks of his style are present. The dense layering, the attention to detail, the command of a repeating, hypnotic, funky riff. Building and building toward the finale, Zeroes has so many awesome, intertwining, synth riffs you want to listen to it over and over again to hear every detail.
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Here’s a fun little mix that Swiss SynthWave producer Ryan Riot put together of Indie kings Blur’s Ibiza anthem Girls & Boys. Straying from his usual retro synth sound, Riot goes for a straight up dance jam here, and has fun with it.
There’s not a awful lot you can sat about this. It’s Blur’s Girls & Boy with a burbling synth baseline and a kickin’ beat. Blurring the line between reMix and Edit this track is just a DJ friendly rework with added sweet synth line. If you liked the original than this is probably the track you are after right now, and it’d go down a storm on the dancefloor.
♫ Blur – Girls & Boys (Ryan Riot reMix)
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Swedish funky electronic act boerd’s third EP was released this week. A side-project of Stay Ali’s Bård Ericson, boerd allows him to experiment with electronic sounds, bouncy grooves and atmospheric textures outside of the confines of traditional song arrangements.
The Velocity EP is the prefect nexus of all things boerd so far, effortlessly combining the experimental, the ambient, and the hella funky into four blissful tracks. The EP kicks off with the smooth other-planet-beach-chill-fest of Wavelength before descending into Shuttle, a track that layers electronic R&B beats with space-age, alien, synthetic textures and stabbing retro melodies. It’ll soon have you feeling misty eyed nostalgia for a future you only imagines in the ‘80’s. Flimmer bring things back a little, allowing the cosmic chill-out to continue amidst broken beats and haunting electric piano. Ericson once again plays to his strengths here, deep grooves and melody. And he knows melody! The EP plays out on it’s title track, Velocity, which adds a little Dub flavour into the mix before building toward a crashing saxophone finale. It’s a beautiful, space-age, musical trip boerd has conjured up. Artwork by DW Design too, which is always nice to see.
♫ boerd – Shuttle
♫ boerd – Flimmer
♫ boerd – Velocity
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