Oct 23 2012

Arcadis’ ‘London Lights’ EP

Nu-Disco label Pole Position Recordings latest release come from German producer Arcadis who drops an awesome collection of blissed out Urban Disco tunes. Soft focus Funk for hot nights in the city. Having impressed earlier this year with some dreamy Nu-Disco jams, it’s time for this German producer to show his mettle on the EP front.

The EP kicks off with it;s title track, and in our opinion the releases highlight. London Lights is a pumping slice of Nu-Disco. Hazy vocals drift across a sea of funky bass, hypnotic arpeggios and stabbing House piano, all with the kind of inner-city cool that only comes naturally. Elsewhere on the EP you’ll find Hidden Sunset, a sunrise Disco tune with nothing but laid back good times on it’s mind. It’s a track with a slightly different sound to it’s contemporaries due to a kind of machine element to the rhythm, which gives the format a nice twist. Lazuli & Viper Strike whip up the track Waitress, into a summery Tropical festival jam, full of wood blocks and squelchy bass. the original of Waitress isn’t actually on the EP, but Pole Position have made it available for download, it’s a big pumping synth disco tune, that is slightly more ElectroPop than the others on the release, but makes a nice companion to the EP. Alongside these tracks on London Lights, you’ll find the slow-jam of Lost Days and a soaring SynthWave reMix from Silver Disco. Another fine release from the Pole Position people.

♫ Arcadis – London Lights

♫ Arcadis – Hidden Sunset

♫ Arcadis – Waitress (Lazuli & Viper Strike reMix)

♫ Arcadis – Waitress (Original Mix)

Arcadis’ London Lights EP is out now.

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Oct 23 2012

Edwin Van Cleef’s October Mixchart and brand new tune

Edwin Van Cleef – October Mixchart 2012 = Cleef’s back with a bran new mixtape for October. This one’s jam packed with modern classics. Some upfront tunes and some stormers from the last couple of years are all present and correct in this killer hour.

♫ Edwin Van Cleef – October Mixchart 2012

The tracklist:

01. Monitor 66 – Triscuits (Roberto Rodriguez reMix)
02. Edwin van Cleef – All I Think About Is You
03. Aeroplane feat. Jamie Principle – In Her Eyes (Tiger & Woods reMix)
04. Strange Talk – Cast Away (Plastic Plates reMix)
05. Lindstrøm – Rà-Àkõ-st(Todd Terje Edit)
06. Gossip – Move in the Right Direction (Classixx reMix)
07. RAC – Hollywood (The Magician reMix)
08. Two Door Cinema Club – Sun (Gildas reMix)
09. The Human League – Never Let Me Go (Aeroplane reMix)
10. Cut Copy – Take Me Over (Mylo reMix)
11. St Lucia – September (Alex Metric reMix)
12. Mariah Carey – Touch My Body (Cyril Hahn reMix)

Edwin has also dropped a brand new tune, the infectious All I Think About Is You. Moving Cleef further and further into House territory, All I Think About Is You still retains one or two Disco elements, if you listen closely enough, but more than anything All I Thin About Is You is a deep dancefloor monster that is guaranteed to get the floor moving.

♫ Edwin Van Cleef – All I Think About Is You

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Oct 23 2012

Patrick Baker gets Spooky

Just in time for Halloween American retro SynthPop superstar Patrick Baker has dropped a new slice of sinister Pop. Appropriately titled Spooky the track, in the vein of Michael Jackson’s Thriller, channels the best 80s Halloween Pop.

Spooky hit all the right notes for a fun, funky, seasonal hit. It’s got the nice FM minor chords, funky plucked guitar, and a big horn section. Patrick really shows of hit vocal range as he belts out the kind of fun horror narrative so common in the charts around the end of October in the 80s. Spooky is catchy as hell to and is so pitch perfect that if you play it at your Halloween bash your friends will swear it;s a track the recognise from the 80s.. We could have waited until next week to feature this tune, maybe we should have, but you can sit of awesomeness like this! Just wait until the organ breakdown and build, pure class.

♫ Patrick Baker – Spooky

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Oct 23 2012

Emeron & Fox reMixed by Monitor 66

Here’s a reMix of Brooklyn SynthWavers Emeron & Fox’s latest single, the pretty awesome Nightmares, with those haunting vocals from Bit, that didn’t quite make the reMix package. Swedish Nu-Disco trio Monitor 66 already had one reMix included in the release, but in addition to that they cooked up this moody Techno version of the tune.

Monitor 66 choose a good medium to convey the mysterious feeling of the tune, in fact this version of the song is even more enigmatic than those found of the single. The deep, hypnotic bass and shuffling Techno beat intertwine with Bit’s ethereal vocal to creature something truly dreamlike. A Swirling synthetic Nightmare with an infectious groove.

♫ Emeron & Fox – Nightmares (Monitor 66 ‘Goes Techno’ reMix)

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Oct 23 2012

Black Magic Disco’s ‘Mixtape 002’

Black Magic Disco – Mixtape 002 = This month Black Magic Disco is serving up extra helpings of classic sounding House in this month’s hour long mixtape. Take a journey from the Funky to the Deep and back again.

♫ Black Magic Disco – Mixtape 002

The tracklist:

01. Homework – Ask Yourself (Audiojack`s Chemical Rewind)
02. Julio Bashmore – Au Seve
03. Hunter Game – Don’t Feel The Presence (Original Mix)
04. Saint Petersburg Disco Spin Club & Lipelis – I Need It (Lovebirds Mix)
05. 24 Hour Experience – Allnighter (Original Mix)
06. Fabo – Where I Stand (Karmon reMix)
07. Country Club – In The Air
08. Bufi – Take It & Feel It
09. Jonas Rathsman – W4W
10. Tyson – Mr. Rain (Mario Basanov Remake)

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Oct 23 2012

Pat Lok inspects something

It was played everywhere, all summer, and it obviously got deep inside Canadian groovster Pat Lok’s brain. So while the rest of us were slowly going mad having Todd Terje’s Inspector Norse stuck in out heads, Pat decided to exorcize his demon and make the track his own.

So, here’s is Pat Lok’s homage to the tune, Inspect A Horse. This isn’t a piss-take, or a cheesy cover, though (although you get the feeling it may have started out that way), this is a sweet House tune all on it’s own. Pat takes the atmosphere if the original and makes it his own, loading on the electric piano hooks and Disco strings. Although ‘Terje Unapproved’, the tune is getting support from the likes of RAC, Jeremy Glenn, Cosmo Baker, Sammy Bananas and Bufi.

♫ Pat Lok – Inspect A Horse (Terje Unapproved)

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Oct 23 2012

Chromatics’ Looking For Love’ video

Hot on the heels Chromatics Kill For Love album come three new shiny Italo Pop tracks on Italians Do It Better’s forthcoming After Dark II compilation.

Here’s the video for Looking For Love, it;s a five minute version cut down from the tracks original seventeen minutes. Alberto Rossini directs once again.

After Dark II is released soon.

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Oct 23 2012

Tempogeist’s ‘Transatlantic’ EP

Transatlantic is the new EP from Belgian Disco duo Tempogeist. Out now on Shiny Disco Club the EP contains three original tracks and a host of reMixes by some of the best talent around. It’s a release chock full of big synth Boogie and smooth Disco sounds.

We Need Lovers is a slick late-night jam. With an effortless cool Tempogeist lay down right vintage synth sounds and a laid back Disco vibe. The track is complimented with a velvet male vocal and some gentle female MCing with an early Bronx feel. That feel is carried over into Romeo, which is the EPs highlight for us. A solid Boogie track with a sing-song old school rap that just flows with the track so well. a laid back party starter. Hold On picks up the pack a little and moves proceedings into a more DiscoPop territory, layering Tempogeist’s wickedly silky vintage Disco sounds with a catchy upbeat vocal. this track gets the bulk of the remix treatment, with work from Prometones, Rogue Vogue and this track from Germany’s Satin Jackets, who deliver a squelchy bassed slab of electronic funk. Also available, but not on the EP, is this version of Romeo from Swedish SynthWavers Monitor 66. their take on the tune adds severe amounts of piano and space, but interesting use of the vocals to create a spacey and melodic House track.

♫ Tempogeist (Feat. Nidia) – We Need Lovers

♫ Tempogeist (Feat. Lisa Dank) – Romeo

♫ Tempogeist (Feat. Samuel) – Hold On

♫ Tempogeist (Feat. Lisa Dank) – Romeo (Monitor 66 reMix)

♫ Tempogeist (Feat. Samuel) – Hold On (Satin Jackets reMix)

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Oct 22 2012

LexiconDon’s ‘Pretending’

LexiconDon singles are coming thick and fast now, hopefully this means the album is on the horizon the latest track, Pretending, is a freebie. The track shows another side to LexiconDon, set against the three other recent singles. Single four is probably a good time to bring in a different mood ahead of the album.

Haunting and atmospheric? No, I prefer dreamy and hazy. Pretending is like the musical equivalent of waves lapping on a beach. A warm and moody ElectroPop track that is loaded with lush sounds and rich chords that intermix with distant effected vocals. At time the track seems in danger of slipping into Chillwave territory, but never fully crosses the line, the steady kick and LA vibe keeping in firmly in the land of groove. It’s good to know that the new album will be soothing the soul as well as bringing the party.

♫ LexiconDon – Pretending

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Oct 22 2012

Kamp!’s ‘Sulk’

The last we heard of awesome Polish ElectroPoppers Kamp! was last November, so we’re pretty pleased that now, a year later, they are readying their début album. Set for release next month on Brennnessel, the album is preceded by this new single, Sulk.

Sulk kicks off with an air of those introspective moments in a John Hughes movie. Haunting and yet Poppy. Combining dreamy retro Pop with a slick Nu-Disco bassline, Kamp! bring a New Wave feel to the Disco. Sulk ends up being smooth as hell ElectroPop tune that carries you along like waves. With a warm production and Bowie-esque crooning vocals the track suitably reproduces the comfortable sound of American Mid-‘80’s Pop as the track builds and builds to it’s anthemic crescendo. We’re really looking forward to the forthcoming album.