after a string of classy videos, Queen Of Hearts has seriously outdone herself with her new one.
The clip for ‘Neon’, directed by Between Man and Beast, is pretty a stunning journey though light and shade. it;s moody and beautiful and awesome stuff.
Queen Of Heart’s ‘Neon’/’Tears In The Rain’ single is out 14th May. Out now is ‘electronic rumors Volume 1’ on which Queen Of Hearts features.
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A few years ago Saar & Sky were, briefly, one of the best Electro acts in London. A melting pot of Italo, SynthPop and the emerging Dreamwave and SynthWave styles with an energetic live show and some seriously catchy songs. Then distance divided this duo and Saar & Sky were no more. We all mourned. It was dark times.
So it was a pleasant surprise to find a new Saar & Sky EP incoming. Born of late night phonecalls this isn’t really a return for these guys, more of a decision that they had too many good songs on ice not to release them in some form or other. The result is the ‘Maria’ EP, a collection of five of their best unreleased tracks. Much of this you might already know, either from live or from their MySpace page (yes, it was that long ago), which make it doubly nice to now have the good quality studio recordings of these songs available. The great, and unique, thing about Saar & Sky was always their combination of styles. On the one had you have Logan Sky’s very Italo influenced Electro sounds, robotic grooves and big power stabs, and on the other there’s Saar soulful, almost R&B vocals. That combination of machine beats and smooth songs was way ahead of it’s time in terms of the surge of vocal Nu-Disco. The tracks on the EP, surprisingly, haven’t really dated much. ‘Maria’, the lead track is a rich, haunting slice of retro Pop, all dreamlike riffs and electro tom rolls alongside Saar’s impassioned vocals and sets the tone for the EP. Saar & Sky slide from the harder dance tracks like the insanely catchy ‘Confessions’ to to the more eclectic end of Italo found on tracks like ‘Falshback’ throughout the EP, never afraid to try something new within their vocal SynthWave framework. If this is the epilogue to Saar & Sky it’s a fitting tribute, kinda’ hoping it’s not though.
♫ Saar & Sky – Maria
Saar & Sky’s ‘Maria’ EP is released 15th May.
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With the release of the second part of Sweedish synthmeister Pelifics two part ‘Lifetime’ EP series imminent Brilliantine are giving us out first listen to the second track off the EP. The first part featured the awesome Electric Youth and Human Life, and we’ve already been treated to the second part’s lead track, featuring AXXE, now it’s time for German Italo darling Miss Plug Inn and Le Tigre’s JD Samson to jump on board for some Smooth Euro DiscoPop and party Disco.
‘The Beach Tonight’ is a laid back combination of Italo and Beach Disco. With that slight streak of melancholy found in the best Italo and some spacy synths Pelifics conjures up a nice Mediterranean sunset track. Deep and warm digital bass and floaty arpeggios create a familiar, comfortable sound that draws you in and envelopes you. Miss Plug Inn’s Germanic vocal adds that touch of Euro class. ‘Spray-Painted Knuckles’ on the other hand is a rowdy, jump-up, Disco, the combination of Pelifics frictionless Disco and Samson’s rough and ready vocals make for a track that has groove, but balls too (girl-balls that is).
♫ Pelifics (Feat. Miss Plug Inn) – The Beach Tonight
♫ Pelifics (Feat. JD Samson) – Spray-Painted Knuckles
The ‘Lifetime Pt 1’ EP is out now with part 2 coming in later in April on Brilliantine.
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St. Lucia has dropped the new video for his track ‘Before The Dive’, from his self-titled début EP.
The clip was co-Directed by Elliot Sellers and Carlos Lopez Estrada, be warned, it get’s weird. Lovely looking, but weird.
St. Lucia’s self-titled EP is out now.
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So we know London based Dubby Dark Indie-ElectroPop duo Paper Crows have good taste in reMixers, you might remember their ‘Stand Alight’ single being reMixed by Monsieur Adi. Released this week was their ‘Changing Colours’ single featuring a new mix from none other than Grum. having been so quite for a while them three mixes released at once you have to wonder if someone is orchestrating things at castle Grum?
‘Changing Colours’ is a beautiful, Kate Bush-esque piano driven piece that the Scottish big room producer manages to keep the core feeling of, despite layering it think with his immense dancefloor sounds. There’s only so much happy that you can pour into a Gothtronica outfit so Grum rightly reins in his hands-in-the-air moments in favour for some deep, tribal, hypnotic dance grooves. As Grum’s leaning toward big classic Trance tracks continues, rolling tracks like this really do pick the best of what made those tunes great and works it for contemporary dancefloors.
♫ Paper Crows – Changing Colours (Grum reMix)
‘Changing Colours’ is taken from Paper Crow’s ‘Build EP’, out now.
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Hot on the heels of the clip for ‘Starworshipper’ here’s the latest clip from Futurecop!, for the forthcoming, Keenhouse featuring ‘The Only Way’, which was ‘Dreams’ before that (being Futurecop! must get confusing).
Brandon Dermer directs this amazingly ‘80’s video, which is an awesome fun mini-movie.
‘The Only Way’ features on ‘The Adventures Of Starpony’ EP, out now.
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This past Friday, the best start to the weekend Annie Mac premièred the forthcoming new single from UK bass legend Hervé and our very own Madonna Of The Midlands™ Ronika. Strap in for some heavy as hell, euphoric dancefloor gold.
‘How Can I Live Without You? (Make It Right)’ is a bass heavy stomper with some serious early ‘90’s Rave overtones. Just the sound of those keys takes me back over a decade and invokes such a good feeling. The track is both nostalgic and upfront with some killer bass in the mix, perfect for when the party is hitting it’s peak. Ron’s vocal line just add the icing on the cake, I know she would have had fun singing a Rave line like that and it really sounds like it. I can’t wait until this tune goes off at the summer festivals. The UK is gonna’ jump.
♫ Hervé (Feat. Ronika) – How Can I Live Without You? (Make It Right) (Club Mix) (Radio Rip)
‘How Can I Live Without You? (Make It Right)’ is released in the coming months.
Update: According to Hervé, this is in fact the Club Mix, and there is indeed a full vocal version coming, a fact that just gave me goosebumps.
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It’s been a while since we heard from The Golden Filter, always one of the most innovative and interesting Disco acts around, since their soundtrack second album and accompanying film ‘Syndromes’, so for them to be breaking back into our consciousness reMixing one of our all time favourites, Saint Etienne, it a thing of pure awesome.
The New York duo’s version of ‘I’ve Got Your Music’ is a stripped down, moody, dancefloor tune built up on Moroder-esque basslines, warm synths and ‘70’s electronic toms. Completely changing the mood of the track, from euphoric ode to DancePop into something more mysterious, more enigmatic, The Golden Filter leave their calling cards all over these six minutes. Just check out the drop mid-way, the silence only broken by an eerie held note leading to tribal drums and magical arpeggios before dropping right back into to the groove. Drawing on vintage Disco and Italo, this reMix is more reminiscent of the likes of ‘Solid Gold’ than The Golden Filter’s newer output, I wonder what this bodes for the future of the twosome?
♫ Saint Etienne – I’ve Got Your Music (The Golden Filter reMix)
‘Words And Music By Saint Etienne’ is released 21st May.
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The founding father of Dreamwave and all round purveyor of good time vibes Josh is back with a brand new Goldroom tune. This time he’s brought a vocalist, Australian singer/songwriter Chella, for his most accomplished track yet.
‘Fifteen’ finally brings to Goldroom what NightWaves did so well, evoking a sense of nostalgia, even if it’s nostalgia for something you’ve never experienced. Not nostalgia for a decade, or a cultural period, but just simple, honest, nostalgia for the good times you’ve had, or wished you’d had. There’s an innocence, although not naïveté, to Josh’s work and although ‘Fifteen’, with it’s laid back bass and chilled beach party groove, continues the Goldroom journey through the smoothest of Disco, from an philosophical point-of-view it’s a return to the Dreamwave he helped create. Or the perfect meeting of the two, the groove of Disco and the soul of LA Dreamwave. Whatever it is, it’s perfect, and it captures everything I’ve ever loved about the Binary scene.
♫ Goldroom (Feat. Chela) – Fifteen
Head over to Goldroom’s Facebook page to download the track for free.
Goldroom’s EP is out now.
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Drop Out Orchestra – Mixtape May 2012 = Celebrating the forthcoming release of their new single later this month Drop Out Orchestra have dropped a brand new mixtape and it;s crammed full of killer tunes. Not only can you sample the Moullinex and Punks Jump Up reMixes of their ‘It Will Never Be The Same Again’, the new single (as featured on Aeroplane’s In Flight Entertainment) but also The Supermen Lovers reMix of A.N.D.Y. & Vicente’s new track.
♫ Drop Out Orchestra – Mixtape May 2012
The tracklist:
01. Drop Out Orchestra (Feat. The Reverb Junkie) – Sun Machine
02. NSFW – Let U Go (Dropouts Gonna Beat Dis Edit)
03. A.N.D.Y. & Vicente – El Barrio (The Supermen Lovers reMix)
04. Drop Out Orchestra – It Will Never Be The Same Again (Moullinex reMix)
05. Zombies In Miami – Heartache
06. Astrolabe – Cave Disco (Discotexas Edit (Hot Rod Mash-up By DOO))
07. Gossip – Perfect World (Rory Philips reMix)
08. Dato – Set Me Free (Drop Out Orchestra reMix)
09. Debonair – Your Love
10. Dublin Aunts – Heartbreak Reputation (Drop Out Orchestra reMix)
11. Shit Hot Soundsystem – Charlotte
12. Drop Out Orchestra – It Will Never Be The Same Again (Punks Jump Up reMix)
13. Just Kiddin’ – Paloma (Bit Funk reMix)
14. Punks Jump Up – Mr Overtime (Club)
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