Mar 8 2012

Curxes new track

Hello, did someone order a heavyweight slab of ElectroPop with a side order of rapid fire Industrial percussion? Curxes will be over shortly with your order.

Curxes latest offering , ‘Haunted Gold’, is like a big ol’ slab of Post-Punk without all that tedious mucking around with guitars. Kicking off with a true Einstürzende Neubauten style riff on the bass washing machine, the track is dominated by a jump-up beat, if jump-up beats were made by tank drivers, and Roberta’s finest Siouxsie intensity. Industrial, real Industrial, is quite a feat, production wise, but Curxes have pretty much nailed it with ‘Haunted Gold’ and produced an vivid and haunting track that is only sweetened but some awesome little synth riffs and a really nice ‘80’s drop.

♫ Curxes – Haunted Gold

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Mar 8 2012

World Tour’s new EP

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April will see the release of Sweedish three peice eclectic outfit World Tour’s third EP, ‘Believe’, on the home of all things Chilly, Wavey, Interestingy and Left-Field Poppy, Cascine.

This new EP is comprised of four tracks worth of chilled beats and slow-mo Piano House riffs and impassioned wailing from the tundra. An intricately crafted mix of introspective Indie and synth happy electronica, the ‘Believe’ EP is geared toward those times when you need to just stop and take everything in, this isn’t music for those in a hurry. The title track of the EP mixes up wrong speed House and a slightly oriental slant for an end result that makes everything go a bit hazy.

♫ World Tour – Believe

The ‘Believe’ EP is released 10th April on Cascine.

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Mar 8 2012

Lovefoxxx & Steve Aoki

OK, so I’m really not a fan of Steve Aoki, I find his music mostly pretty tedious. Derivative and simplistic I have no idea how he got famous, it seems generally from ‘knowing people’ rather than ‘being good at music or DJing’. However, I flippin’ love Lovefoxx and thankfully Mr Aoki hasn’t made something completely terrible in ‘Heartbreaker’, their collaboration.

It’s a surprisingly good, pretty funky, Electro Disco tune that’s actually catchy as hell which I’m loving more each time I listen to it. It comes with an ace video too! You’ve earned yourself a temporary reprieve Mr. Aoki, but we’re watching you.

‘Heartbreaker’ is taken from Steve Aoki’s album, ‘Wonderland’, out now.

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Mar 8 2012

Futurecop!’s ‘Dancing In Dreams’ mixtape

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Futurecop! – Dancing In Dreams = It;s a brand new mix from Futurecop! and this one’s epic! Eighteen tracks crammed into an hour of soaring emotional electronic sounds. This one’ll have the hairs on the back of your neck standing up.

♫ Futurecop! – Dancing In Dreams

The Tracklist:

01. We Are The Future Intro.
02. Mille – Stellar Velocity
03. StardonE – Love Fighter
04. Phonat – Set Me Free
05. M83 – OK Pal
06. Futurecop! – Wolf
07. Kavinsky (Feat. Lovefoxxx) – Nightcall
08. Daze – Tokyo 1984
09. Renegade – Threshold
10. Fear Of Tigers – I Can Make The Pain Disappear
11. Whitney Houston – I Wanna’ Dance With Somebody (RWR reMix)
12. Futurecop! – Into The Future (Sammy Bananas reMix)
13. Follow Me – Beyond The Horizon
14. D/A/D – Sky High
15. beaumont – Skyline (Fiero reMix)
16. MPM Soundtracks – Party Up
17. Hole – Unsatisfied (Replacements Cover)
18. College (Feat. Electric Youth) – A Real Hero

‘Futurecop! The Movie’ is out now via Keiz Beats.

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Mar 8 2012

The Penelopes reMixed by The Flight (& Edwin Van Cleef)

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Quirky French ElectroPop duo The Penelopes release their new single at the beginning of next month. ‘Sally In The Galaxy’ is an uplifting, catchy track with a package that comes loaded with ace reMixes.

Producers of the original version, The Flight, who apparently have zero web-presence, drop their ‘Galactic’ reMix and it’s a fittingly title slab of Cosmic Disco. Weighing in heavy with their vocoders and sweet soaring synths The Flight, who still apparently have zero web-presence, strip the gangly Indie side of the track out, layer on their own Sci-Fi funk and what remains is a smooth beach Disco track fit for chilling on the Shores of Orion. It’s a nice contrast to the original’s fuzzy French Indie/Disco soundclash Pop sound. Both are equally infectious.

♫ The Penelopes – Sally In The Galaxy (The Flight Galactic reMix)

♫ The Penelopes – Sally In The Galaxy

While you’re here, check out Edwin Van Cleef’s version which we neglected to post a while back so we’re glad to get the opportunity to here in all it;s ‘90’s Deep House glory.

♫ The Penelopes – Sally In The Galaxy (Edwin van Cleef reMix)

‘Sally In The Galaxy’ is released 18th April on Pour Le Monde Records.

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Mar 7 2012

The Ghosts’ ‘Ghosts’ video

The biggest tragedy we’ve had to report on here on electronic rumors was the premature passing away of Où Est Le Swimming Pool singer Charlie Haddon, it was a shocking time for ElectroPop fans and I imagine a tough time for his bandmates.

Où Est keyboard player Alex is gaining a bit of attention with his new project, The Ghosts, who are just about to release their second single, ‘Ghosts’. A wonderfully catchy slice of Indie-Electro that shares some obvious Où Est DNA but carves out a sound of it’s own. With it’s heavy synths played against some distant gangly Indie guitar it strikes exactly the right balance for success. Check out the Alex Kyrou directed video which is nicely spooky and tongue in cheek.

‘Ghosts’ is released 8th April on Pocket Records with The Ghosts’ début album released the following week.

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Mar 7 2012

New music from Parallels

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Oh hell yeah! Toronto’s finest, Parallels, are back in the game!

The Canadian SynthPop duo have announced the June release of their second album, ‘XII’, the follow up to their stunning début, ‘Visionaries’. The first track to see the light of day from the album is ‘Moonlight Desires’, actually a cover of Canadian ‘80’s artist Gowen, a bright, shiny SynthPop dream. Apparently the new album won’t be as dark as ‘Visionaries’, but if this track is anything to go by it’ll be awesome. The shimmering synths in ‘Moonlight Desires’ are more ‘80’s and Playful than in the slightly more aggressive tracks on ‘Visionaries’ but we think that’ll make for a nice companion album.

♫ Parallels – Moonlight Desires

‘XII’ is due out 26th June.

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Mar 7 2012

Ladyhawke & Treasure Fingers

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Ladyhawke being reMixed by Treasure Fingers? Oh, it’s just like the good old days, or at least 2008, when Pip ruled all and TF reMixed everyone!

So this nostalgic team up actually delivers the goods. Leaning very much in a ‘90’s House direction, Treasure Fingers drops beats, breaks and House Piano liberally only keeping the chorus and the tiniest bit of synth from Ladyhawke’s original. Although much more retro House than he used to be you can still tell a Treasure Fingers production, just like you can always tell Pip’s vocals. Ahh, the memories…

♫ Ladyhawke – Black, White And Blue (Treasure Fingers reMix)

‘Black, White And Blue’ is out now on Modular Recordings.

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Mar 7 2012

Kann Denn Liebe Synthie Sein? at SXSW

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SynthPop fanatic, member of the LoveGang mafia, friend of electronic rumors and photographer to the stars extraordinairé Katja Ruge is taking her amazing exhibition of synthesizer images, Kann Denn Liebe Synthie Sein? (Can love be a synth?), to SXSW this year. Well, I say this year, I actually mean this weekend!

So, if your in Austin of SXSW you should definitely pop along and check out Katja’s work, it’s an absolute must for synth-heads! The show is running from the 9th ‘til the `18th of March at the AMOA-Arthouse at the Jones Center in Austin, TX as part of Samsung Mobile Presents: #FEED powered by Twitter (which is quite a mouthful!). If you’re alt all interested in electronic music of the history of the synth the Katja’s collection of giant tiled photograph of analog synths from SynthesizerStudio’s collection will be sure to put a smile on your face.

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