This track hit all the right buttons!
Philidelphia based, but worldwide staffed, Electro collective CSLSX have just dropped this downtempo Disco jam ‘Keep On Shining’. It appeals to every bit of the electronic music lover in me. It’s driven by a mid-tempo solid rhythm section with a head nodding bassline, Cosmic synth work and hit of Dub influence. This is a tune to be played on repeat on long, hot, summer nights.
Keep an eye on CSLSX at their Facebook page.
Ace Disco-House label Champagne Records’ latest free release is Hardtopronounce & BlackOut Disco’s ‘Monique’ single.
You should go get it, kick off your weekend is cut-up Disco style. ‘Monique’ is one smooth slab of filtered goodness with a funky ass vocal sample throughout and a cute little running flute riff. Labelmates Vostok-1, drop a sweeping blissed-out Nu-Disco reMix as part of the single with cranks up the effects to take you on your journey to planet Disco. Play it loud!
♫ Hardtopronounce & BlackOut Disco – Monique
♫ Hardtopronounce & BlackOut Disco – Monique (Vostok-1 reMix)
Download the whole single for free at Champagne Records SoundCloud page.
It’s not the weekend just yet, but here’s a little tune that’s sure to get you in the partying mood.
Hailing from Nottingham, Ronika is a retro DiscoPop whirlwind here to blow the cobweb out of your 21st century brain. Musically this is real authentic sounding early 80’s Pop, particularly reminiscant of that period of American Pop that was on the tail end of Disco and the emergance of SynthPop. Think early Madonna or Blondie’s flirtation with Disco (and Hip Hop), the lead line on ‘Forget Yourself’ is pure B-Boy Electro while the squelchy synth bass is loaded with funk. Yet amongst all the nostalgic American musical awesomeness is a Modern British singer with tongue-firmly-in-cheek and an English sense of irony that would make Pet Shop Boys proud.
A one hundred percent DIY operation, Ronika releases her second EP ‘Forget Yourself’/’Wiyoo’ next month backed with reMixes from Mirrorzisland and herself. I can’t help but feel that this is how Pop sounds if people who love Pop are left to make it unsupervised (by people who want to make money). Or, at least, this is how it should sound!
♫ Ronika – Forget Yourself
‘Forget Yourself’/’Wiyoo’ drops 13th June on Ronika’s own label, RecordShop, her début EP is out now.
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B-Xentric! have reMixed up a storm on Honom’s new single.
The London duo have ElectroBoogie of the original, pinned it down, and beat it around the face with their massive analog Disco. Big chords and percussion are the driving factors in this reMix, oh and a demon synth bass sound that’s got the funk with a bite to it.
Wait until they kick it up to 10 by dropping the House piano! Crazy!
♫ Honom – Shape (B-Xentric! Rmx)
Honom’s ‘Shape EP’ is out soon.
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This week deep Electro Disco dude Com Truise released his new EP, ‘Fairlight’ on Ghostly International.
‘Polyhurt’ is taken from that EP, it’s a spaced-out, blissed-out jam loaded with analog synth Disco goodness and a smooth night time groove. This guy’s really leading the pack in the field of synthesizer funk. With some epic playing that would make Jarre proud, a rolling bass, and some seriously cosmic lead lines this track is retro futuristic gold!
The ‘Fairlight’ EP is out now with Com’s début LP, ‘Galactic Melt’ following on 5th July.
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MiGHty mOUse – Mousecast 04 (reMixes, Edits And Originals (Part 2)) = Two epic hours of synth Disco ranging from Cosmic to Jazzy and everything in between.
♫ MiGHty mOUse – Mousecast 04 (reMixes, Edits And Originals (Part 2))
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This is the first single from the new improved MiGHty mOUse, as a band.
‘Between The Pavement And The Stars’ is a smooth upbeat DiscoPop (heavy on the Disco) track with a bit of an original Heaven 17 feel to it. With Natalie Lewis huge voice and the electronic funk (and mention of the word ‘pavement’) I can’t help but think of H17’s ‘Penthouse And Pavement’, not that MM’s new single sounds anything like it, it’s got a sweet sound of it’s own. I’m defiantly liking everything I’ve heard from the new ‘proper band’ MiGHty mOUse’s so far, defiantly looking forward to their new EP in June.
♫ MiGHty mOUse – Between The Pavement And The Stars
There are reMixes of the track from the likes of Mario Basanov, Edwin Van Cleef, Blamma! Blamma!, Cosmonauts, Tronik Youth, Matt Van Schie and more to come.
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Mustang – April ‘11 Mixtape = An hour of smooth forward thinking retro Disco.
The tracklist:
01. Locussolus – Next To You (Original Mix)
02. Golden Bug – Sex Beat (Mustang Instrumental reMix)
03. Coma – Fameless
04. Sia – Cloud (Plastic Plates rEMix)
05. Azari & III : Hungry For The Power (Art Department reMix)
06. Golden Bug & Mustang – Soap Opera (Hannulelauri rEMix)
07. Mitzi – Morning Light (Softwar Dub)
08. Casio Social Club – The Running Man
09. Cassian – Nobody (Mitzi reMix)
10. In Flagranti – Worse For Wear (Punks Jump Up reMix)
11. Egyptrixx (Feat Trust.) – Chrysalis Records
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Holy Ghost!’s new video for their single ‘Wait And See’ stars Misters Millhiser and Frankel senior. As in Holy Ghosts! Nick Millhiser and Alex Frankel’s respective fathers.
Directed by Ben Fries the video sees the Holy Ghost! elders living the NYC lifestyle, going clubbing, getting a band rehearsal down, chatting online with Classixx. I think Nick’s dad has pulled?
‘Wait And See’ is out now on DFA, it’s an awesome slice of NYC flavoured Indie-Disco.
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The Magician is on a total roll recently. Killer reMix after Killer reMix. Maybe Aeroplane splitting up was a good thing after all?
Taking Yuksek’s forthcoming new single Stephen Fasano has transformed it into a bouncy, Moog heavy, Nu-Disco groover with some amazing 90’s piano and just the right amount of cowbell. Both The Magician and Vito’s new Aeroplane have done some amazing work this year and, after all, two act is better than one! We’ll also be very interested to hear the new Yuksek album, ‘Living On The Edge of Time’. We really enjoyed the last one, let’s see if he can do it again.
♫ Yuksek – On A Train (The Magician reMix)
The ‘On A Train’ EP is out 2nd May with a reMix from Gucci Vump as well.
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