Sometimes I get the feeling people don’t really know what to do with an artist like Little Jinder.
Take her forthcoming single, the big bass and little voiced ‘Keep On Dreaming’, I wouldn’t be trying to sell this to the UK Funky or Dubstep crowd, I’d shop this to the eclectic Indie-Electro listeners. It’s a really good track that might not get the recognition it deserves if it’s stuck in a pigeon hole.
‘Keep On Dreaming’ is out 13th March on Trouble & Bass.
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Here’s another new video from Russian SynthWave newcomer Pteez.
It’s another track from his forthcoming EP, ’When Night Falls’. Shimmering synths incoming!"
Check out more from Pteez on SoundCloud.
Moullinex’s latest awesome Disco workout is a reMix of Swedish singer/songwriter and synth fiddler Karin Park’s ‘Fryngies’.
It;s the second single from her forthcoming new album ‘High Wire Poetry’ and Moullinex goes all out to wash the icy, Dubby, ElectroPop with a low-down groove. You wouldn’t have immediately though that the chilly, razor sharp synths of the original could be given such a warm Tropical make-over but Moullinex brings in a Funking bassline, a shuffling beat and some chiming synths and take Karin to the beach, whether she likes it or not!
♫ Karin Park – Fryngies (Moullinex reMix)
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Woo-hoo! It’s new Ronika single time! Ron’s been really busy recently, running all over the place doing stuff for, amongst others, the Red Bull Music Academy, Shook and Me, how she’s crammed in the time to get her groove back on with a new EP I have no idea. The girl’s a workaholic, or a grooveaholic if you will.
‘Automatic’ is PopJustice song-of-the-day today, PJ claims Ronika isn’t from the ‘80’s but I’m not convinced. Frankly I’m not sure what is actually more likely, that someone can make tracks this good, and this authentically ‘80’s DiscoPop or that someone could have invented a time machine in secret sometime around 1983/84. With ‘Automatic’ Ron has dropped a massive slab of Pop-Funk with an addictive bassline, a catchy chorus and a solo that flies. It’s not all retro goodness though, there’s enough modern elements in the track to keep it sounding contemporary, inn fact, it sounds like a Nu-Disco edit of ‘80’s Pop hit. Also 5 Star.
♫ Ronika – Automatic
Ronika is stepping out in the next couple of months, catch her here:
22nd March – Manchester @ The Castle
23rd March – Nottingham @ Bodega Social Club
24th March – Bristol @ The Thekla
10th April – London @ The Old Blue Last (Single Launch)
21st April – Glasgow Death Disco @ The Arches
17th June – London @ Lovebox Festival
You can pre-order the pay-what-you-want ‘Automatic’ EP here.
Ronika also appears on ‘electronic rumors Volume 1′, out now!
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London SynthPop troupe Strangers are back with their first single of 2012, and they are kicking off the year in bombastic style.
Like their previous works, ‘Shine On You’ encapsulates that particularly ‘80’s contradictory mix of deep melancholy and uplifting hopefulness. Everything about Strangers’ sound is getting bigger and bigger, more euphoric. Powerful drums, huge chords and sparkling synths make up this giant SynthPop anthem. Whereas to date Strangers could have easily draw comparisons to HURTS, now it feels like there is something of The Sound Of Arrows in the mix, and the combination of the moody Dark Pop and the explosion of optimistic childlike wonder makes for a really compelling, emotional and satisfying music experience. this could easily be Strangers’ mainstream breakthrough.
♫ Strangers – Shine On You (Radio Mix)
Strangers’ ‘EP 3’ is out now., ‘Shine On You’ is out 16th April on Killing Moon Limited/Beatwolf Records.
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I’m really not sure where to start with newcomer Tako Tomago. there’s not much avenue to put his music into words, all I know for definite is that it’s pretty damn enjoyable to listen to.
So here goes…it’s kinda’ like Glitchy Chillwave with elements of French Disco & Electro and Dub basslines, made out of R&B samples with the end result being played to you when you’re half asleep. It’s a dreamlike swirling of beats, basslines and half heard vocals. It’s music that does take some commitment to listen to, there a lot going on in these tracks and it’s stuff that isn’t always immediately apparent, but if you give it the time it deserves you;ll get a lot out of it. It’s chilled, with out being laid back, it’s loose and floaty whilst retaining a pretty solid groove and once you dive beneath the surface, there are some moments of musical and production genius to be found within these tracks.
♫ Tako Tomago – Late Night Craves
♫ Tako Tomago (Feat. Laura Scheiber) – Into Thin Air
♫ Tako Tomago (Feat. Avery Moore) – Lizzy
Check out more from Tako Tomago on SoundCloud.
Goin’ Old School isn’t a trip down music memory lane, it’s a mugging in the dark alleyway of nostalgia:
ZZT experimentalists The Art Of Noise teamed up with the best thing on TV in 1986, Max Headroom, and released ‘Paranoimia’, an ode to Max’s insanity.
Future basslines and vocoding in Eurythmics ‘Sexcrime (Nineteen Eighty Four)’, the soundtrack to the movie adaptation of Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, in, well, 1984.
Sommerville era Bronski Beat best tune, 1984’s ‘Why?’.
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Here’s the latest track from Jonna Lee’s iamamiwhoami, ‘Drops’.
Hot on the heels of the single ‘Server’ iamamiwhoami present another slice of icy and majestic Scandinavian ElectroPop and another brilliant white video.
‘Drops’ and the recently released ‘Server’ singles are out now.
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Brooklyn based electronic Rock outfit Bear In Heaven’s new single ‘Reflection Of You’ is a awesome head-on collision between NYC Indie-Electro and Dreamwave. It’s got the passion of Indie and the big synth chords of the LA retro sound, and the two make good bedfellows.
The video has just premièred on Vice’s Noisey YouTube channel and was directed by art collective, PFFR. I can help but think it would have been better if they had got, y’know, a good video director to do it instead. I think the zooms are supposed to be in time with the track.
‘Reflection Of You’ is taken from Bear In Heaven’s new album ‘I Love You, It’s Cool’ out this summer.
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[Via Vice]
Jowie Schulner has started the week with a serious treat for all fans of synthesizer music. He’s dropped a new track, ‘Suspicious’, and it it would make Jean Michel-Jarre proud.
Mixing up an laidback Italo groove with some fantastic lead playing, Jowie has put together a track for long summer nights, sunrises over the city and intense introspection. Basically, go sit on the top of a building in an urban jungle, at sunrise, and brood about something you regret with just a hint of hopefulness…this track will be the prefect soundtrack to that. Or you could just go and dance to it, y’know, whatever. Jowie sure does know how to make a synth sing!
♫ Jowie Schulner – Suspicious
Check Jowie Schulner’s music on SoundCloud.
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