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Jun 20 2012

Engarde’s ‘Firebird’

Engarde

Here’s the latest offering from Swiss Discoy SynthWave producers Engarde. It’s called ‘Firebird’, and it’s going to be your surprise hit of the week. The duo has been pretty quite since last years ‘Fresh 80’ on Moonbootique, hopefully the recent dropping of tunes indicated a new release coming.

‘Firebird’ is a track that’s smooth as hell, but Funky with it. Taking cues from Filter Disco and Dreamwave, ‘Firebird’ kicks in a way we haven’t heard much of this year, taking us back to those massive Disco mixes during the summer of 2010 from the likes of Russ Chimes and Grum, but with a nice little 2012 twist. Engarde have totally got the pumping DiscoPop thing down pat, we’re looking forward to more from them in the coming months.

♫ Engarde – Firebird

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Jun 20 2012

Jupiter reMixed by DiscoRazor

Jupiter

The Jupiter momentum just doesn’t quit, it seems like every other day we have something awesome about the French ElectroPop duo to write about. In this instance fellow Frenchman and master of Disco and SynthWave DiscoRazor has turned his reMixing attentions to Jupiter’s ‘Hula Hoop’ from the recently released eleven tracks of pure awesome they call ‘Juicy Lucy’.

The original is pretty indicative of Jupiter. ElectroPop with a Disco flavour with a slight Indie vibe and some melodically chopped up vocals. DiscoRazor strips out the Indie guitar and replaces it with some seriously smooth Disco with a bit of a House edge to it. DiscoRazor shows his SynthWave side in the track too, with a twisted synth solo that leads right into a slick piano breakdown. DiscoRazor has delivered a slick carefree tune packed with Funk that perfectly compliments Jupiter’s original whist making it slightly more palatable to late night dancefloors. You could od a lot worse than investigating DiscoRazor’s recently released ‘Golden Night’ EP.

♫ Jupiter – Hula Hoop (DiscoRazor reMix)

Jupiter’s début album ‘Juicy Lucy’ is out now, read out review here.

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Jun 20 2012

Surrender!’s ‘Volute’

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Turkish producer Surrender! is about to drop a brand new single in advance of his forthcoming album. Coming out next month on the consistently Funky La Bombe, ‘Volute’ and it’s B-Side ‘Fast Days’, show off two different facets of Surrender!’s infectious groove.

‘Volute’ is a twisting, cosmic, number. With heavy, pulsating, Funk foundations a spacey mixture of Italo and Cosmic Disco play around the track, arpeggios flying, to create something that is both dancefloor addictive and space-age atmospheric at the same time. The flip side, ‘Fast Days’ breaks out the House piano and some massive synth stabs. It’s a driving mixture of Disco and House which is pure uplifting party starter. Both tracks have got a nice grunge o their production, they’re not too clean, not too polished, which (in our opinion) always works better on the dancefloor. Get down and dirty with these tunes! Surrender!’s already getting some play from major names including being part of Digitalism’s new DJ-KICKS album. We’d definitely predict big things for this guy.

♫ Surrender! – Volute (Radio Edit)

♫ Surrender! – Fast Days (Radio Edit)

Surrender!’s ‘Volute’ single is out 2nd July on Beatport.

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Jun 20 2012

Goldroom’s ‘Verano Mix’

Goldroom

Goldroom – Verano Mix 2012 = Josh’s latest mix is the perfect summery hour. there’s some really exciting tunes in this collection including (I believe) the first public outing of Ride The Universe’s reMix of rodent chomper Jane Badler’s ‘Yesterday’s Tomorrows’, alongside some sweet Xtrafunk, some new Van She and Freak You’s reMix of Goldroom’s own ‘Fifteen’.

♫ Goldroom – Verano Mix 2012

The tracklist:

01. Goldroom – Trains
02. Van She – Coconuts
03. The KDMS – Your Love Is Right
04. Xtrafunk – Lazy Sunday
05. 6th Borough Project – Just A Memory
06. Goldroom – Catalina (Small Pyramids reMix)
07. Tropical Monsoon Season – Green On Blue (Moon Boots reMix)
08. Alec Carlsson – Euphoria
09. Cosmonaut Grechko – Headphone Girl
10. Ben Browning – Feels Like
11. Charlotte Gainsbourg – Paradisco (Rex The Triangle reMix)
12. Peaches & Munk – You Can’t Run From My Love (Classixx reMix)
13. Dino Soccio – Dream On…
14. Bonar Bradberry – Loose Grip
15. Madi Matilda – Day Dreams (MyKill reMix)
16. Jane Badler – Yesterday’s Tomorrows (Ride The Universe reMix)
17. Flight Facilities – With You (MAM reMix)
18. Ulrich Schnauss – As If You’ve Never Been Away
19. Goldroom – Fifteen (Freak You reMix)

Goldroom’s EP is out now.

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Jun 20 2012

Todd Terje’s ‘Inspector Norse’ video

Here’s the brand new video for Todd Terje’s crazily infectious ‘Inspector Norse’.

The video is actually a clip from the short film ‘Whateverest’ about rave nutter Marius Solem Johanso A.K.A. Inspector Norse by KristofferBorgli.

Todd Terje’s ‘It’s The Arps’ EP is released 16th January on his own Olsen imprint.

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Jun 20 2012

Ex-Neon Indian, Ronnie Heart, reMixes Keith Canisius

Keith Canisius

American born Dane Shoegazer Keith Canisius, once of Dream-Pop duo Rumskib, made some waves in the music blog world late last year with his ‘This Time It’s Our High’ album. It seems he’s gearing up for something new as he’s delivering this reMix of his track ‘Where Did You Go All These Years?’ by Ronnie Heart, ex-of Neon Indian fame.

Ronnie’ ‘Creaming’ is a brooding affair that is a bit of a contradiction, a contradiction that somehow seems to work. On the one hand it’s reverb washed Chillwave roots shine though. Floating and dreamlike, both the vocals and the layers of synth sounds, ebb and flow in and out of the track. On the other hand there’s this big post-Kraftwerk Industrial machine beat and tough bassline. It probably shouldn’t work together, but Ronnie Heart makes it work and inadvertently creates Power Chillwave. Not bad for a days work.

♫ Keith Canisius – Where Did You Go All These Years? (Ronnie Heart (Ex-Neon Indian) Creamix reMix)

Keith Canisius’ ‘This Time It’s Our High’ is out now.

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Jun 20 2012

Goin’ Old School: Thompson Twins, Pamala Stanley & Vangelis

Goin’ Old School isn’t a trip down music memory lane, it’s a mugging in the dark alleyway of nostalgia:

Some TOTP to start with, Thompson Twins with ‘Love On Your Side’ from 1983.

Pamala Stanley’s Italo fuelled DiscoPop from 1983,  ‎’Coming Out Of Hiding’.

OK, so it’s not a music video, but it is the first two minutes of the greatest movie ever made with the greatest soundtrack ever written. Vangelis’ ‘BladeRunner Main Titles’ from 1982 (although not properly released, not counting the New American Orchestra version, until 1994).

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Jun 20 2012

Drop Out Orchestra’s ‘The Edits’

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Wednesday seems like a kinda’ off the wall day of the week to release an album, but Swedish Disco duo Drop Out Orchestra have never been a pair to shy away from the off the wall. Take their new release, a who album of disco edits, mostly of ‘80’s Pop songs. there’s some real genius in that.

Brushing aside the legality of releasing an album of, essentially, reMixes of other people songs, which we’re not even going to think about, Drop Out Orchestra’s ‘The Edits’ is an awesome collection of Funked out version of tunes we all know and love. Much of the time these track go way beyond the remit of an ‘edit’, often played live in the studio with four or five musicians. The album plays like a tour through the catchier side of the ‘80’s on a bus full of drunk disco musicians. Sterling Void & Paris Brightledge’s House classic ‘It’s All Right’ gets a speedy update that keeps the vocal and piano hook intact but layers think new slabs of Boogie and a fast fingered bassline. Other highlights of the record include a smoothed over version of Robyn’s ‘Hang With Me’, which becomes a shiny lazy Disco groove. Duran Duran’s ‘Girls On Film’ is morphed into a wicked riffed, dubbed out, cosmic jam and off-the-wall-est of all Bros’ ‘When I Will I Be Famous?’ in a Moog laden Acid tweaking collision with a guitar solo. Drop Out Orchestra obviously had a lot of fun putting these tracks together, and we certainly had a lot of fun listening to them.

♫ Drop Out Orchestra – Pounds Sterling (Sterling Void & Paris Brightledge – It’s All Right (Drop Out Orchestra reMix (Edit)))

♫ Drop Out Orchestra – Hang Out (Robyn – Hang With Me (Drop Out Orchestra Rework))

♫ Drop Out Orchestra – Famous (Bros – When Will I Be Famous? (Drop Out Orchestra Rework (Edit))

♫ Drop Out Orchestra – Girls On Dub (Duran Duran – Girls On Film (Drop Out Orchestra Rework (Edit))

Drop Out Orchestra’s ‘The Edits’ is released today on Juno.

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Jun 20 2012

LIGHTS covers Talk Talk

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Our girl LIGHTS is back with something old and something new. The Canadian ElectroPop princess  has teamed up with London dubby production outfit Darkstars to put together this cover version of Talk Talk’s 1986 hit ‘Living In Another World’.

The track is being released as part of a Talk Talk tribute album, ‘Spirit Of Talk Talk’, curated by none other than Alan Wilder. Darkstars and LIGHTS hooked up when former Talk Talk keyboardist Ian Curnow heard LIGHTS cover and happened to be managing Darkstars. Convenient. It’s a deep Dubby track with a lush ominous tone to it. LIGHTS voice is really highlighted and sounds amazing as ever and alongside the plucked strings have a real emotional urgency to them. It would be kinda’ interesting to hear LIGHTS’ original as some of the track gets a bit clichéd Dubstep wob toward the end, but it’s not a big deal and doesn’t overpower the track. All in all very enjoyable stuff, we’d love to hear LIGHTS working with someone a little more original though.

♫ LIGHTS (Feat. Darkstars) – Living In Another World (Talk Talk Cover)

‘Spirit of Talk Talk’ is released 3rd September on Fierce Panda Records with proceeds benefiting the conservation organization BirdLife International.

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Jun 19 2012

AlunaGeorge reMixed by Bobby Tank

AlunaGeorge

In this weeks amazing surprise track one of our long time favourite avant-Pop acts AlunaGeorge get reMixed by London MofoHiFi Disco master Bobby Tank. The result is pretty special. AlunaGeorge have just released their ‘You Know You Like It’ EP, but apparently their is still a stock of reMixes waiting to wow us. To be honest, they are going to have a hard time topping Mr. Tank’s.

Those staccato stabs. Oh those staccato stabs. That right there is pure Disco Funk, with a touch of B-Boy beats. Like the best, rich, ‘80’s dance music this is a track to appeal to groovers and Breakers alike, and to that Aluna’s sweet, and catchy, vocal and you’re on to a winner. Bright shining synths with a nostalgic feel glide over synthetic percussion and a solid Disco beat and the whole thing sounds like it’s one big crescendo. But it all comes back to those synth stabs, retro Disco gold.

♫ AlunaGeorge – You Know You Like It (Bobby Tank reMix)

AlunaGeorge’s ‘You Know You Like It’ EP is out now.

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