Feb 27 2012

Aeroplane’s February mix

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Aeroplane – February 2012 Mix = Vito’s top tips for February are in and once again he’s put together an awesome collection of the freshest tracks. This is how you should start every week!

♫ Aeroplane – February 2012 Mix

The tracklist:

01. This is A Recording – Southern Neon Lights (Gazeebo’s Northern Funk reMix)
02. Charlotte Gainsbourg – Paradisco (Joakim Dub reMix)
03. Days of Funk – Dance School
04. PBR Streetgang – Downstroke
05. Videodrome – Tempation’s Daughter
06. Mam – Modern Heat
07. Cosmonauts – Stardusts
08. Lisa Shaw – Honey (David Hernandez Dub)
09. Arsenal – Melvin (Diskjokke reMix)
10. H.O.S.H. – What do you want me to say
11. The Mekanism – Can’t Believe (Mario Basonov reMix)
12. Gucci Vump – Feeling

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Feb 27 2012

Flow Machines’ new album

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Manc ElectroPop crew Flow Machines have just released their new album , ‘Hi-Res’, at the startlingly good price of whatever-you-want pounds and whatever-you-want pence.

With a touch of fellow Manchester residents (We Are) Performance about them, but with a lot deeper roots in electronic music, Flow Machines draw on everything from Acid House to ‘90’s DancePop, from SynthPop to IndiePop on this new album and the end result is pretty impressive records. This, their second full length album, is a definite must-listen for SynthPop fans. Including the recent acclaimed single ‘Any Other Day’ this is a solid collection of tracks that has us wondering why Flow Machines haven’t broken a wider audience yet. If you like your ElectroPop a bit interesting, a bit introspective and a bit unique then today is your lucky day.

♫ Flow Machines – So Long

♫ Flow Machines – Silent Disco

♫ Flow Machines – Analog Dialog

‘Hi-res’ is out now.

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Feb 24 2012

Monsieur Adi’s ‘Fire Fire Fire’ EP

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As you’re probably aware, the full length version of French Disco renaissance man Monsieur Adi’s ‘Fire Fire Fire’ EP was released this week. It’s been eagerly anticipated, and well worth the wait.

We got the single version of ‘Fire Fire Fire’ last year, but that was only a taste of the awesomeness contained in this package. Adi is the master if orchestration, the man can score an orchestra like no one else making dance music today, maybe even ever, so it’s fitting that the EP’s intro, ‘Praeludium’ is a swelling, string ensemble, peice with a hint of sadness and a hint of anticipation that lease into the siren signifier of ‘Fire Fire Fire’, French Touch at it’s finest and a track we rated in our top 20 of 2011, kickin’ beats and soaring lead synths dominate your brain when this track is on. ‘Blood’ is up next, another track we raved about last year, from it’s harpsichord led baroque introduction to it’s full-on challenge to Daft Punk at their best. ‘Last Stand’ is next, a track that back in May last year when we first wrote about we everyone thought would be the EP’s lead. Gary Go lends a layer of vocal ElectroPop to Adi’s slick Nu-Disco a creating a nice Poppy mid-point to the EP before the ride sends you toward the deep, emotional, retro Funk of ‘Requiem’, a powerful track that makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up. The EP plays out with ‘In Caelis’, a final orchestral movement which is both rousing and a slightly bitter end to the EP. Monsieur Adi is, above all, a musician and composer before producer, and that’s what makes him stand head and shoulders above his peers. and y’know what, if Daft Punk never release anything else, I think I’d be happy for Adi to take up their torch.

♫ Monsieur Adi – Fire Fire Fire

♫ Monsieur Adi (Feat. Gary Go) – Last Stand

♫ Monsieur Adi – Requiem

The ‘Fire fire Fire’ EP is out now and comes highly recommended.

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Feb 24 2012

Collins’ new single

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We featured Collins a few times last year and really liked what we heard, so we’re dead pleased for him that he’s been picked up by Boombar Music and about to drop his début single.

The single’s a double A-Side featuring ‘Secret Admirer’ and ‘Loverboy’, two awesome slices of SynthWave with a deep Disco twist. ‘Secret Admirer’, whist I wouldn’t exactly say it was ‘dark’, definitely has a ominous tone to it. Musically it’s a slick combination of Jan Hammer grooves and cotemporary Electro flourishes which a really smooth sheen to it. We’ve featured ‘Loverboy’ before, we loved it then and love it now. We can resist anything that injects a little B-Boy Funk into SynthWave. This is going to be one of March’s most solid releases.

♫ Collins – Secret Admirer

♫ Collins – Loverboy

‘Secret Admirer’/‘Loverboy’ is released 19th March.

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Feb 24 2012

Timo Juuti & Hector 87’s new EP

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Here’s the latest release from Italian label La Valigetta to get you in the mood for the weekend. Timo Juuti & Hector 87 provide some truly infections tunes for their ‘Woo Chicks & Disco Wobbelz’ EP.

‘Disco Wobbels’ took me completely by surprise, we get sent a lot of mediocre Electro-House and Nu-Disco, it takes a lot for something we’ve never heard of to grab our attention, but ‘Disco Wobbelz’ did, it’s got a load of elements we’re starting to tire of, but it’s so well done, so funky, so blissed out you can help but get really into it. It’s a track that does a fantastic job of revitalising something that was in need of it. ‘Woo Chicks’ falls more into the Funky cut-up Nu-Disco camp and is a big peak time tune. The EP is crammed full of more originals and reMixes including this cut from Ghosts Of Venice, who bring some of his smooth grooves to ‘Woo Chicks’ for a more intimate version.

♫ Timo Juuti & Hector 87 – Disco Wobblez

♫ Timo Juuti & Hector 87 – Woo Chicks

♫ Timo Juuti & Hector 87 – Woo Chicks (Ghosts Of Venice reMix)

‘Woo Chicks & Disco Wobbelz’ is out 5th March.

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Feb 24 2012

Goin’ Old School: Camouflage, The Rock Steady Crew & Tracy Spencer

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

Camouflage’s dark Pop classic from 1987, ‘The Great Commandment’.

‘Uprock’ was The Rock Steady Crew’s 1984 follow up to the amazing ‘(Hey You) The Rock Steady Crew’

From 1985 here’s some big Italo-Pop from Tracy Spencer’s ‘Run To Me’.

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Feb 24 2012

Beyoncé reMixes; don’t ask again.

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Have you ever seen that episode of hit-and-miss medical comedy Scrubs where the main characters see a report on TV about some new health scare and all simultaneously let out a groan of exasperation as they know that the hospital, where they work, is now going to be flooded with needy members of the public buying into the latest medial panic? Well that’s how it feels to be a music blogger when a big name, such as Beyoncé, announces a reMix competition.

That said, here’s some reMixes of ‘End Of Time’ we have liked. Monsieur Adi’s mix is unsurprising stunning work. A deep, majestic, euphoric big room jam that’s got to be a god bet for winner. Max Action delivers a top quality buzzing, cut-up, Electro mix. The reMix from Final DJs sees them getting a bit more of their Funk on than usual, mixing it up with their bright SynthWave to smooth effect. Ren Riz take a shiny Disco approach with some huge chords and gets every last drop of groove out of those horns. Lastly Big C serves up an ‘80’s Pop jam, which is actually a pretty good approximation of what this track would have sounded like if it was releases in 1986.

Right, don’t expect any more.

♫ Beyoncé – End Of Time (Monsieur Adi reMix)

♫ Beyoncé – End Of Time (Max Action Rmx)

♫ Beyoncé – End Of Time (Final DJs NuDisco reMix)

♫ Beyoncé – End Of Time (Ren Riz Re-Edit)

♫ Beyoncé – End Of Time (Big C reMix)

You can vote for the tracks here, or something.

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Feb 23 2012

Cinnamon Chasers’ ‘The Day That Never Came’ video

Cinnamon Chasers, easily one of my favourite artists, possible of all time, is back with a brand new single in March, and as expected it comes with a beautifully shot video.

‘The Day That Never Came’ is quite dark SynthPop for Cinnamon Chasers and comes from his brand new album coming this summer. The video is a simple premise but amazing to look at with a strong narrative.

‘The Day That Never Came’ is released March 5th

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Feb 23 2012

Two new cuts from Mitch Murder

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Mitch Murder, one of our favourite producers, whether SynthWave or not, has dropped a couple of new tracks on SoundCloud. Followers of Mr. murder on YouTube will probably already recognise these tunes but I’m glad he’s making his archive available on SC, much nicer for just listening to music.

First up is ‘Metro City Breakers’, a soundtrack to what goes on on the streets of Metro City when Cody & guy aren’t tearing it a new one. it’s the ultimate ‘80’s homage jam, to the point the when Mitch has exhausted his own intricate synth riffs he busts into some Herbie Hancock and Knight Rider. This track is spot-on Electro-Funk to make envy the most hardened B-Boy happy, it’s also the soundtrack to the bit in a poorly judged ‘80’s move where our wholesome heroes encounter a ‘street gang’. Mr. T’s Fashion Show has long been considered something of an ‘80’spop-culture anomaly (like a lot of things Mr. T did), but it has also always sounded good, and makes for perfect fun cover material. More than anything, these two tracks show how much Mr. Murder loves doing what he does, and we love him for it.