I’m still in two minds about the forthcoming Orbital comeback album, but their new single, ‘New France’ with Zola Jesus is growing on me.
It’s definitely a step in the right direction, I have been a massive Orbital fan in the past, but am concerned they might struggle to stay relevant. If the whole album is like ‘New France’ my fears may be unfounded.
‘New France’ is released 19th March.
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Parisian producer DJ Cam is a bout to release the single ‘Uncomfortable’ on Inflammable Records/Studio !K7, a downtempo, dramatic track with an excellent reMix package.
Amongst those featured are James Curd who picks up the tempo and drops the listener onto his robotic dancefloor. The bulk of the reMix is made up of classic House moments but Curd gives them his own unique Electro twist, a real tune for synthesizer lovers. Second Date go the opposite direction on drop a slick late-night slow jam, full of early ‘90’s R&B tropes and a silky smooth vibe.
♫ DJ Cam (Feat. Chris James) – Uncomfortable (James Curd Radio reMix)
♫ DJ Cam (Feat. Chris James) – Uncomfortable (Second Date reMix)
‘Uncomfortable’ is out 19th March and also includes a reMix from one of our current favourite acts, Reflex.
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I suppose you have to take a trip to find out where home is. maybe that’s what happened to Jordan F, who recently shed his name to dabble with a smoother sound under the moniker Countach, however he found he missed Jordan F too much, and y’know what, so did we.
So Jordan F, or as we like to call him the man in desperate need of new press photos, is back and announcing his return with ‘Jordan’s Theme’, his synthesizer manifesto. The track itself is a smoothed out, solo infused version of the title track of his ‘Definitely Miami’ EP, a little slicker n the production, a little more mature sounding, and rocking some serious leads. But more than the music, it’s a marker, a point that Jordan F can move forward from and take us all on his crazy retro synth ride.
♫ Jordan F – Jordan’s Theme
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with the whole world eager for a taste of their new album, Hot Chip have dropped a video to their new single ‘Flutes’.
Shot in their studio it;s an epic seven minutes that showcases a track which promises an album that is intricate and complex, deep and soulful.
Hot Chip’s new album, ‘In Our Heads’ is released this summer.
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What happens when you get more than one band with an exclamation point in their name together? Is that like dividing by zero? Well, hold on to something just in case 50% of mustang, ATTAR!, is reMixing London Indie-ElectroPop crew and Kitsuné’s new darlings, Citizens!. !!!.
There’s a nice meeting of two things that are a perfect fit going on here. First there is Renaud Deru deep, analog sounding, stripped down Disco, which draws it’s groove DNA from ‘80’s dance, then there is Citizens!’s singer Tom’s slick ‘80’s vocal style, part Gary Numan, part Peter Murphy. The meeting of the two seems like a match made in heaven. This is glorious retroPop at it’s finest.
♫ Citizens! – Reptile (ATTAR! reMix)
‘Reptile’ is released today on Kitsuné Music.
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Kris Menace has enlisted legendary buzzsaw producers and VJs Hexstatic to produce the visual video for his latest single, the KoweSix featuring “eFeel”.
Based around a train journey from Osaka to Tokyo, Hexstatic’s style words really well with Kris’ lush dancefloor euphoria.
‘eFeel’ is taken from Kris’ forthcoming album ‘Electric Horizon’, out 16th April on Compuphonic.
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BeNi, an artist that never stops, is releasing his new single, the Prince Terrence featuring ‘Last Night’ next month and the reMix package looks like it’ll be storming.
The highlight of the single could well be this low down dirty reMix from Brodinski, who’s been killing it lately. Pulsating synthetic Disco meets a dark Techy edge on this mix with Brodinski busting out his best robotic march and sprinkles the tune with harsh Industrial bass and a hint of Acid. It makes an awesome contrast with the soulful vocals. The rEMix will feature alongside tracks from Oliver $ and Waifs & Strays on the single.
♫ BeNi – Last Night (Brodinski reMix)
‘Last Night’ is released late April on Modular Recordings, it;s taken from BeNi’s album of last year, ‘House Of Beni’.
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Here’s the first video from LA based Minimal Synth duo Violet Tremors’ ace album of last year, ‘Time is The Traitor’.
Alex Smith directed the clip which features the girls coming on like a female Cabaret Voltaire, an angry cloud and some dogs. Even if we’re not sure what’s going on it looks really slick and really captures Violet Tremors perfectly.
‘Time Is The Traitor’ is out now.
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PNAU’s new album ‘Soft Universe’ is out later this month. But wait, isn’t it already out? Why, yes, yes it is. The album was first released to the world last summer, then got picked up by Ministry Of Sound and released digitally by them now, at the end of March, MOS are releasing ‘Soft Universe’ on CD.
I’s an awesome, euphoric record that we talked a lot about last year and if, like us, you still have a massive soft spot for a physical release, it’s definitely an album that warrants the real deal. Crammed full or rousing, emotionial and massive sounding ElectroPop floorfillers. ‘Soft universe’ has already spawned a couple of huge singles. I expect you’ve already got this record, but if you haven’t check out some of the highlights below and the grab yourself a copy soon, at least in time for summer.
♫ PNAU – Unite Us
♫ PNAU – Solid Ground
♫ PNAU – The Truth
‘Soft Universe’ is out on CD on 26th March via Ministry Of Sound.
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Last month we featured Hungarian SynthWave dreamer Malibu B’s new single ‘Engame’, well not it;s getting a proper release, courtesy of Binalog Productions with the EP including a new dark rework from Binalog Frequency himself.
Binalog’s ‘Return To LA’ version takes the aspects of ‘Endgame’ most suited to spinning on your back on a peice of lino and runs with them. This is kind of dark, moody, Electro that flourished through the likes of Juan Aitkin’s Cryotron briefly before Hip Hop hit the big time and still lurks in the Electro shadows. The Jan Hammer-esque lead line of ‘Endgame’ takes on a whole new dystopian feel when coupled with Binalog’s 808 percussion. All this is driving by a growling, relentless machine beat. If the original is Miami Vice, then this is The Terminator.
♫ Malibu B – Endgame (Binalog’s Return To LA version)
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