Sep 9 2010

Danger Vs. La Roux

I get the feeling ‘In For The Kill’ is due for a rerelease. La Roux has been chatting about filming a new video for it on her Twitter feed and now we have this gem. It’s only bloody Danger reMixing La Roux init!!!

Danger and La Roux is an awesome combination, and it doesn’t disappoint. It does, however, surprise. It’s a mid-tempo, bass heavy, almost Dubsteppy in places jam that drops in bits and pieces of familiar Danger style melody. It works amazingly well and comes off as a kinda’ 80’s Dubstep track. New genre anyone?

♫ La Roux – In For The Kill (Danger Ocean reMix)

No release date for the rereleased ‘In For The Kill’ yet, looks like soon though.

Sep 2 2010

The Sound Of Arrows synth up The Naked & Famous

Sweeden’s kings of SynthPop, The Sound Of Arrows, have worked serious wonders with Neon Gold‘s The Naked & Famous and their recent single ‘Young Blood’.

A few new reMixes of ‘Young Blood’ are starting to come in but it’s the Swedish duo’s that really stands out mixing the New Zealand Indie-Electro with some hardcore synths which gives a whole new energy to the vocals. For something a little more chilled, try Pink Ganter’s traditional Japanese Dubstep mashup.

♫ The Naked & Famous – Young Blood (The Sound Of Arrows reMix)

♫ The Naked & Famous – Young Blood (Pink Ganter reMix)

‘Young Blood’ is out now.

The Naked & Famous @ Neon Gold

The Naked & Famous @ Amazon

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Aug 23 2010

Monsieur Adi reMixes Paper Crows

Paper Crows are a UK duo who incorporate elements of Dub, Trip-Hop, Electronica and Dubstep to create a haunting and atmospheric, yet soulful, sound.

Which, of course, is taken apart and put back together with strips of ElectroPop and Nu-Disco by the awesome Monsieur Adi for their forthcoming début single ‘Stand Alight’. Adi, who literally makes the track sound like a different song, manager to work the melancholic ballad into an upbeat floorfiller.

♫ Paper Crows – Stand Alight (Monsieur Adi reMix)

♫ Paper Crows – Stand Alight

‘Stand Alight’ is released October 11th, until then check out Paper Crows at their MySpace.

Paper Crows @ MySpace

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Jul 23 2010

La Roux guests for Skream

Dubstep innovator Skream will be releasing his second album, ‘Outside the Box’ on Tempa later in August and after he helped propel La Roux into dancefloor superstardom it seems only fair that they return the favour by appearing on one of his tracks.

‘Finally’ is a deep string led moody track with a vaguely eastern feel to it. I gotta’ say, heavy sub works really well with Elly Jackson’s voice, the highs and lows really complimenting each other.

♫ Skream (Feat. La Roux) – Finally

‘Outside The Box’ drops 9th August.

Jun 25 2010

modual

modual are a Swedish duo who describe their music as ‘Popstep’, which is a pretty apt description.

Mixing elements of Dubstep, Drum & Bass and Garage with Pop songwriting and chord structures they create a sound which is both Dubby, danceable and poppy. It makes for some smooth listening, the music combines bits of deep, dark, Dubstep and more Jazzy D&B (a la Roni Size) which make a refreshing backing for proper Pop songs.

This is going straight on my mp3 player!

♫ modual – Waltz

♫ modual – Shadows Play

♫ modual – Deeper Than This

Download modual’s EP from Bandcamp:

modual @ Bandcamp

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Jun 15 2010

I.D.

Dubstep man of the moment I.D. released his new EP, ‘Mustang’ this month on SubSlayers.

His first solo effort outside of his partnership with Baobinga, the title track rides a deep Dubstep bassline over intricate breaks. The warping bass creating a musical tension skilfully broken buy strings and effects. Defiantly one for a dimly lit club at 3am

♫ I.D. – Mustang

The ‘Mustang’ EP is out this month.

I.D. @ Beatport

I.D. @ Juno

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May 27 2010

Major Lazer & La Roux partner up to release mixtape

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While in the studio in Jamaica, Electro-Dancehall masters Diplo & Switch A.K.A. Major Lazer put together a mixtape for La Roux, dubbing it ‘Lazerproof’.

Consisting of 14 mash-ups of La Roux’s SynthPop gold with various Dubplates, Blends and Diplo & Switch’s beats featuring the likes of Amanda Blank, Candi Redd and Matthew Hemerlein. If you’ve ever wanted to hear a Dancehall/Electro/Dub/ElectroPop/Hip Hop/SynthPop/Dubstep/Ska collision album then this is the one for you. The whole album works amazingly well and handled masterfully by Major Lazer and all given to you for free via ‘Lazerproof’s mini-site. It’s defiantly different and a perfect way to kick off the summer, in fact in the first 24 hours of release 200,000 seemed to agree and crashed Diplo’s label, Mad Descent’s servers forcing the label to backup the album download at this zShare link!

Here’s some of our favourites from the mixtape:

♫ Major Lazer & La Roux (Feat. Matt Hemerlein) – Bulletproof (Nacey reMix)

♫ Major Lazer & La Roux – Colourless Artibella

♫ Major Lazer & La Roux (Feat. Amanda Blank) – Quicksand (Mad Decent 2010 Rerub)

♫ Major Lazer & La Roux (Feat. Candi Redd) – Independent Kill

Oh, and the mix has an awesome cover featuring an Iron Man armour clad Elly!

Head on over to the Lazerproof mini-site to pick up the mixtape.

Major Lazer @ Beatport

Major Lazer @ Juno

Major Lazer @ 7Digital

May 25 2010

Massive Attack & Martina Topley-Bird’s ‘Psyche’ reMixed

It looks like ‘Psyche’ might have been chosen as the next single from Massive Attack’s ‘Heligoland’ album.

Good choice too, Martina Topley-Bird is one of my favourite vocalists. Here she is stepping in on vocal duties on ‘Teardrop’ during Massive Attack’s US TV début on Jimmy Kimmel Live:

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And here’s the video for ‘Psyche’.

♫ Massive Attack (Feat. Martina Topley-Bird) – Psyche (Van Rivers And The Subliminal Kid reMix)

‘Heligoland’ is out now!

Massive Attack @ Beatport

Massive Attack @ Juno

Massive Attack @ 7Digital

Massive Attack @ Amazon

May 18 2010

La Roux reMixes

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Is it time for a new La Roux album yet? Or are Elly and Ben still gallivanting ‘round the world promoting the last one?

Oh well, it’s gonna’ be while before they’re back in the studio I expect so the occasional trawl of the internet for unheard reMixes may sometimes be in order, sometimes you can find some real gems like these two!

No Roux No, out of nowhere, has dropped what may be one of my favourite reMixes of ‘Bulletproof’, like a stripped down Nu-Disco track the whole song revolves around the ever evolving lead line, it’s well worth a listen. Mr. TinoForever, however, drops a dubstep reMix of ‘In For The Kill’ to rival Skream’s, with some heavy, heavy synths.

♫ La Roux – Bulletproof (No Roux No reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)

♫ La Roux – In For The Kill (Mr. Tinoforever reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)

Interestingly, La Roux were on BB2’s documentary about Heaven 17 last night and Elly was joined by Ben for the interview, does this mean he’s stepping out of the shadows? (he probably just has a lot to say about Heaven 17, but who wouldn’t?).

May 18 2010

Radiant Dragon

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We were recently digging Radiant Dragon’s reMix of Egyptian Hip-Hop’s ‘Wild Human Child’ but we hadn’t heard and of his original material so when the German Londoner email us we sat up and paid attention.

Radiant Dragon’s music is hard to describe, there’s a touch of old 4AD darkness about it and it’s experimental but musical. Rather than, as experimental music tends to do, create soundscapes RD takes an experimental approach and writes an actual song with it. With some surprising instrumentation and and almost magical mix a spacey, atmospheric piece of ordered chaos is produced. Entrepreneurs take an equally experimental approach with their reMix, only they graft it onto some bass shaking Dubstep.

♫ Radiant Dragon – Preseli (zShare) (MediaFire)

♫ Radiant Dragon – Preseli (Entrepreneurs’ Neuromancer reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)

‘Preseli’ is released in October on Cloud Factory, until then check the man’s MySpace.

Radiant Dragon @ MySpace