Casio Social Club – Nu Disco Treats Vol. 2 = The latest mix from Mullet Records main man Justin Winks kicks off with Sare Havlicek (and MC Winksy)’s hilarious and funky Bipolar Duality. From there on it it’s over an hour of serious boogie, taking in Disco and B-Boy Electro and everything in-between.
♫ Casio Social Club – Nu Disco Treats Vol. 2
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Purveyors of perverted Disco In Flagranti return this month with a new single on Codek. Aside from desperately needing some kind of web presence (MySpace page is all that’s working? Really guys?) In Flagranti have been responsible for some of the most infectious tracks in the past five years. This new single, Interdisciplinary, sees the Swiss duo heading in a deeper, more synthetic, direction.
Built around a sample from Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra’s classic ‘Don’t Don’t’ from 1980, Interdisciplinary, still has that In Flagranti Disco pump but folds into it a, dare I say it, old school EBM metallic twang alongside some of the best use of vocal samples you’ll hear in a while. Originally released in 2011 after loads of play and a spot on the Gildas’ Kitsuné Club Mix album the track finally sees a decent release with a packed reMix collection. Included in the line up are MODE, who turn the track into a late ‘70’s Disco epic, all wicked licks and big dramatic piano. I’d say Renkas’ mix was most up our street. It’s a deep synth heavy DiscoPop track with added deadpan ElectroClash vocal. It almost sounds retro now! Marius delivers the cosmic end of Disco that works the vocal samples to theatrical effect and builds his reMix to a funky crescendo. Bear Damen’s reMix is, well, lets face it, its’ actually an EBM track, a pretty good one too. Heavy 242 basslines and electronic noodling ahoy! The single also includes word from the likes of Jaguar Trax and is a surprising slice of dark Disco from these guys, but very welcome.
♫ In Flagranti – Interdisciplinary (Original Mix)
♫ In Flagranti – Interdisciplinary (MODE Mix)
♫ In Flagranti – Interdisciplinary (Renkas Mix)
♫ In Flagranti – Interdisciplinary (Marius Mix)
♫ In Flagranti – Interdisciplinary (Bear Damen Mix)
In Flagranti’s Interdisciplinary is released 25th June.
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Madeon – Minimix (Annie Mac Radio 1) = So, give 17 year old wunderkind 5 minutes and he’ll give you more than most DJs with twice or three times his years experience. This 5 minute minimix for Annie Mac BBC Radio 1 show is pretty much Pop Culture part 2. Just jaw dropping.
♫ Madeon – Minimix (Annie Mac Radio 1)
The tracklist (not 100% in order, and I’m pretty sure there some stuff in there that isn’t listed):
Madeon – Shuriken
The Beatles – A Day In The Life
M83 – Intro.
Surkin – Ultra Light
Groove Armada – Look Me In The Eye Sister
Madeon – Icarus (Minimix Edit)
Røyksopp – Happy Up Here
The M Machine – Immigrants
Daft Punk – Outlands
Julian Perreta – Wonder Why (DatA reMix)
Ellie Goulding – Starry Eyed (Russ Chimes reMix)
Phonat – Set Me Free
Justice – New Lands (A-Trak reMix)
Skrillex (Feat. The Doors) – Breaking A Sweat (Zedd reMix)
Yuksek (Feat. Amanda Blank) – Extraball
Foster The People – Pumped Up Kicks (Gigamesh reMix)
Oliver – Dirty Talk
Sebastian – Greel
Anoraak – Nightdrive With You (Grum reMix)
Martin Solveig – C’est La Vie
BWO – Sunshine In The Rain
Knife Party – Tourniquet
Para One – Wake Me Up
Feed Me (Feat. Gemini) – Whiskers
Michael Gray – The Weekend
ABC – The Look Of Love
Woodkid – Iron
Gorillaz – Feel Good Inc.
Pendulum – Hold Your Colour
Chic – Stage Fright
La Roux – In For The Kill (Danger Ocean reMix)
Dirtyloud – Needle
Black Kids – Boyfriend (The Twelves reMix)
Kanye West (Feat. Rihanna & Kid Cudi) – All Of The Lights
Justice – Let There Be Light
Sub Focus – Rock It
Kill The Noise – Talk To Me
Capsule – More More More
Justice – Helix
Kavinsky – Nightcall
Madeon – For You
Radiohead – Paranoid Android
Porter Robinson – Say My Name
Muse – Hysteria
Sebastian Ingrosso & Alesso – Calling (R3hab & Swanky Tunes Mix)
Daft Punk – Da Funk
Zedd – Slam The Door
Volta Bureau – Alley Cat
Alan Braxe & Fred Falke – Intro
Wolfgang Gartner – Flexx
The Ting Tings – Shut Up And Let Me Go
Justice & Simian – Never Be Alone
Michael Jackson – Beat It
Rihanna – Russian Roulette
Clock Opera – Once And For All
The Paradise – In Love With You
Clock Opera – Belongings
Madeon – Finale
Lifelike & Kris Menace – Discopolis
Deadmau5 – Raise Your Weapon (Madeon reMix)
Queen – We Will Rock You
Michael Jackson – Billie Jean
Miike Snow – The Wave (Thomas Gold reMix)
Martin Solveig – The Night Out (A-Trak reMix)
Lady Gaga – Bad Romance
Yelle – La Musique
Metronomy – The Look (Camo & Krooked reMix)
Danger – 3h11
Nari & Milani – Atom
Unicorn Kid – Lion Hat
Daft Punk – Short Circuit
Yuksek – On A Train
Kylie Minogue – Get Outta My Way (Penguin Prison reMix)
Martin Solveig – The Night Out (Madeon reMix)
Stardust – Music Sounds Better With You
The Killers – Bones
Russ Chimes – Back 2 You
Madeon – Icarus (Original Mix)
Chic – You Are Beautiful
Perfume – Take Off
Earth Wind & Fire – Let’s Groove
Deadmau5 & Wolfgang Gartner – Animal Rights
Frankmusik – Confusion Girl (Russ Chimes reMix)
Wolfgang Gartner – Illmerica
Daft Punk – Revolution 909
Calvin Harris – The Rain
Mylo – In My Arms
Kanye West – Power
The Killers – This Is Your Life
Kanye West ft. Jay Z – H.A.M
Green Day – Are We The Waiting
The Killers – A Dustland Fairytale
Green Day – 21 Guns
The Clash – London Calling
Alphabeat – What Is Happening
Let’s not forget the astounding Pop Culture itself.
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The Jupiter momentum just doesn’t quit, it seems like every other day we have something awesome about the French ElectroPop duo to write about. In this instance fellow Frenchman and master of Disco and SynthWave DiscoRazor has turned his reMixing attentions to Jupiter’s ‘Hula Hoop’ from the recently released eleven tracks of pure awesome they call ‘Juicy Lucy’.
The original is pretty indicative of Jupiter. ElectroPop with a Disco flavour with a slight Indie vibe and some melodically chopped up vocals. DiscoRazor strips out the Indie guitar and replaces it with some seriously smooth Disco with a bit of a House edge to it. DiscoRazor shows his SynthWave side in the track too, with a twisted synth solo that leads right into a slick piano breakdown. DiscoRazor has delivered a slick carefree tune packed with Funk that perfectly compliments Jupiter’s original whist making it slightly more palatable to late night dancefloors. You could od a lot worse than investigating DiscoRazor’s recently released ‘Golden Night’ EP.
♫ Jupiter – Hula Hoop (DiscoRazor reMix)
Jupiter’s début album ‘Juicy Lucy’ is out now, read out review here.
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Turkish producer Surrender! is about to drop a brand new single in advance of his forthcoming album. Coming out next month on the consistently Funky La Bombe, ‘Volute’ and it’s B-Side ‘Fast Days’, show off two different facets of Surrender!’s infectious groove.
‘Volute’ is a twisting, cosmic, number. With heavy, pulsating, Funk foundations a spacey mixture of Italo and Cosmic Disco play around the track, arpeggios flying, to create something that is both dancefloor addictive and space-age atmospheric at the same time. The flip side, ‘Fast Days’ breaks out the House piano and some massive synth stabs. It’s a driving mixture of Disco and House which is pure uplifting party starter. Both tracks have got a nice grunge o their production, they’re not too clean, not too polished, which (in our opinion) always works better on the dancefloor. Get down and dirty with these tunes! Surrender!’s already getting some play from major names including being part of Digitalism’s new DJ-KICKS album. We’d definitely predict big things for this guy.
♫ Surrender! – Volute (Radio Edit)
♫ Surrender! – Fast Days (Radio Edit)
Surrender!’s ‘Volute’ single is out 2nd July on Beatport.
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Wednesday seems like a kinda’ off the wall day of the week to release an album, but Swedish Disco duo Drop Out Orchestra have never been a pair to shy away from the off the wall. Take their new release, a who album of disco edits, mostly of ‘80’s Pop songs. there’s some real genius in that.
Brushing aside the legality of releasing an album of, essentially, reMixes of other people songs, which we’re not even going to think about, Drop Out Orchestra’s ‘The Edits’ is an awesome collection of Funked out version of tunes we all know and love. Much of the time these track go way beyond the remit of an ‘edit’, often played live in the studio with four or five musicians. The album plays like a tour through the catchier side of the ‘80’s on a bus full of drunk disco musicians. Sterling Void & Paris Brightledge’s House classic ‘It’s All Right’ gets a speedy update that keeps the vocal and piano hook intact but layers think new slabs of Boogie and a fast fingered bassline. Other highlights of the record include a smoothed over version of Robyn’s ‘Hang With Me’, which becomes a shiny lazy Disco groove. Duran Duran’s ‘Girls On Film’ is morphed into a wicked riffed, dubbed out, cosmic jam and off-the-wall-est of all Bros’ ‘When I Will I Be Famous?’ in a Moog laden Acid tweaking collision with a guitar solo. Drop Out Orchestra obviously had a lot of fun putting these tracks together, and we certainly had a lot of fun listening to them.
♫ Drop Out Orchestra – Hang Out (Robyn – Hang With Me (Drop Out Orchestra Rework))
♫ Drop Out Orchestra – Famous (Bros – When Will I Be Famous? (Drop Out Orchestra Rework (Edit))
♫ Drop Out Orchestra – Girls On Dub (Duran Duran – Girls On Film (Drop Out Orchestra Rework (Edit))
Drop Out Orchestra’s ‘The Edits’ is released today on Juno.
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This week London’s king of groove MiGHty mOUse releases his new EP. The long awaited follow up to 2010’s ‘Disco Battle Weapons’, the cunningly titled ‘Disco Battle Weapons (Volume 2)’ is a return to straight up cosmic Disco after all that mucking around with being a Pop band (and releasing one of our favourite tunes of 2011). MiGHty mOUse has already had an amazing year with his ‘Disco Circus’ mix selling like hotcakes, but now it’s time to get down to the nitty gritty and bust out some space age Disco as only MM can.
It’s hard for us to pick out favourite track on the EP, it’s a toss-up between ‘Moments In Space’ and ‘Rocket’. ‘Moments’ is a galactic journey made audio, a SciFi story for the dancefloor. Raw beats and otherworldly arpeggios weave in and out of the track while you mind id dominated by a piercing alien melody. Intricately crafted and immediately infectious, ‘Moments’ is a new tough, cosmic Disco MiGHty mOUse, and we love it. ‘Rocket’ is the spiritual descendant of Herbie Hancock’s classic of the same (well, similar) name, and it models itself on the same era of electronic Funk and Disco whilst never moving one foot from the harder dancefloors of today. A growling bassline and a nod to B-Boy Electro is all we need. ‘Kid In Space’ is the brightest track on the EP, a cute robotic melody loops around this tune, which is just the ticket for livening up the dancefloor. The hypnotic lead line and bass give the track room to play around with percussion and LFOs, who are the real starts of the track. ‘Electric Moonshine’ seems to be the big, classic Nu-Disco, offering from the EP, but the inclusion of slightly staccato Violin give this track a complete uniqueness. Couple that with a huge, emotion breakdown, and MiGHty mOUse new retro future groove and you’ve got the track that’ll be killing the clubs in the coming months. ‘Disco Battle Weapons (Volume 2)’ is a very welcome return to original track for MiGHty mOUse, and one that’s going to be on repeat ‘round these parts for a while.
♫ MiGHty mOUse – Moments In Space
♫ MiGHty mOUse – Rocket
♫ MiGHty mOUse – Electric Moonshine
♫ MiGHty mOUse – Kids In Space
MiGHty mOUse’s ‘Disco Battle Weapons (Volume 2) is out now on Cheap Thrills
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The mysterious Jupiter Gang is another awesome surprise we’ve had in out SoundCloud dropbox this week. This is where we would normally write something about the artist, but we literally know fuck all about Jupiter Gang. Look, he’s got short hair, and shades, he’s a shades wearer! OK..on to the music.
If I had to guess something about Jupitergang, I would say he likes a bit of Moroder, like a bit of late ‘70’s electronic Funk and Disco, probably is into Keytars, and might have a fondness for funky electronic soundtracks of the ‘80’s such as the works of Vince DiCola. That’s what I get from ‘Movers’, a huge slab of synthesizer Funk with just the tiniest hint of SynthWave and the tiniest hint of Italo. ‘Moves’ powers along on it’s synth bassline like a funk juggernaut, aided by cheeky licks and lush retro chords and those staccato stabs that epitomise ‘80’s electronic Funk. We’ll definitely be keeping an eye on Jupiter Gang.
♫ Jupiter Gang – Movers
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Lifelike – Mixtape June 2012 = Here’s French Touch legend Lifelike’s latest mixtape. it’s full of filtered summery grooves, which is perfect timing seeing as (here in the UK) it has finally stopped raining. Bring on the sun!
♫ Lifelike – Mixtape June 2012
The tracklist:
01. Pitchben – Soda (Lorenz Rode reMix)
02. Pitchben – Stand Up (Tiger & Woods reMix)
03. Scandal – Just Let Me Dance (Maxxi Soundsystem reMix)
04. Kris Menace & The Kiki Twins – We Are (PWNTIAC reMix)
05. Dionigi – Italo Girls 80 (Original Mix)
06. Sébastien Tellier – Cochon Ville (The Magician reMix)
07. Cabaret Voltaire – Easy Life (Original 1990 Mix).
08. Mason – The Kickoff (Original mix)
09. Brazen – Wishing Heart (Fonzerelli Big Hair reMix)
10. Van She – Idea Of Happiness (SebastiAn reMix)
11. Mr. Gonzo – Dance On You (Tagteam Terror reMix)
12. Mickey & Monarchy – Love For Sale (Safari reMix)
13. Popular Computer – Popheart (Lifelike reMix)
14. Bonar Bradberry – Loose Grip (Original Mix)
15. Sébastien Tellier – Cochon Ville (Original Mix)
Lifelike & Popular Computer’s ‘Getting High’ is out now.
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We all got hold of the surprising B-side to French groover Breakbot’s new single a while back. Now we can check out the singles lead track which sees Breakbot back together with Irfane and sounding a bit more like the Breakbot we all know and love.
‘One Out Of Two’ is a gorgeous slice of late ‘70’s synthesizer Funk which, like the B-Side, Programme’ sees Breakbot working some interesting instrumentation into his tracks. It’s some seriously smooth, lazy Disco with a uplifting catchy chorus. Also it sounds like a wacky late ‘70’s sitcom theme. The standout of the single is easily the reMix from LA Oliver themed duo Oliver, who consistently blow us away with each new track. Here they bring a sexy late night vibe to the track with that mix of Disco and Dreamwave that Oliver do best. Wicked Disco licks and strings sit next to bouncy retro synths as Oliver work the vocal and make it even more catchy than the original.
♫ Breakbot (Feat. Irfane) – One Out Of Two (Oliver reMix)
♫ Breakbot (Feat. Irfane) – One Out Of Two
‘One Out Of Two’ is out today.
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