Category Electro

Oct 10 2012

Leitbur release free reMix EP

Leitbur

Released earlier this year, Think Of Tomorrow from LA act Leitbur is one of the standout SynthPop releases of the year. Catchy and atmospheric, mixing classic SynthPop with a cool LA funk Leitbur delivered a driving tune with a massive, memorable chorus. The track has had a few reMix treatments over the months, and now Leitbur has collected them all into one EP, that’s available for your listening pleasure, for free.

There’s a lot of the EP, seven different versions of Think Of Tomorrow that range from Ryan Alli’s Dubstep interpretation to UD & Jowin’s big room take. Our picks of the EP (and it’s hard to pick favourites here) would have to be Kool Bandits version, a soundclash of early ‘90’s House and DiscoPop with an infectious bassline and the vocals keeps pretty much intact, resulting in something that would be perfectly at home on MTV circe 1992. Fletch’s Live & Loud reMix injects the track with a raw synthesizer groove while KiAh serve up a Deep House track, loaded with moody, atmospheric synths and dreamlike melodies. Portugal’s MAU turn in a reMix that seamlessly combines vintage SnythPop with some kind of dancefloor vibe. Out of all the remixes , it’s MAU’s that takes the most advantage of that big chorus, layering it think with lush synth work. Think Of Tomorrow is a stunning song, and these reMixes expand the experience of it.

♫ Leitbur – Think Of Tomorrow (Kool Bandits reMix)

♫ Leitbur – Think Of Tomorrow (MAU reMix)

♫ Leitbur – Think Of Tomorrow (KiAh reMix)

♫ Leitbur – Think Of Tomorrow (Fletch’s Live & Loud reMix)

Leibur’s Rethink: TomorrowEP is out now, for free.

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Oct 10 2012

Sohight’s ‘Fonk’

sohight

Russia is bringing the funk once again! After a crop of awesome SynthWave releases with his partner Cheevy, On The Fruit Records have snapped up the new solo offering from St. Petersburg resident Sohight. Fonk is the place where Sohight drops the Electro Boogie, hard.

There just isn’t enough turntablism in Nu-Disco and Boogie these days, we truly believe that, and Sohight redresses the balance with some retro cutting throughout Fonk. the scratching provides  a sweet rhythmic, sampled, accompaniment to Sohight’s thick Moog Funk and soaring synth solos. Fonk ends up being a heroic Frankenstein’s monster made of pieces of Disco, Funk , SynthWave and B-Boy Electro. A boogie monster that’s going to be slaying retro dancefloors.

♫ Sohight – Fonk (Original mix)

Sohight’s Fonk is released 22nd October.

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Oct 10 2012

Goin’ Old School The KLF, S’Express & Bomb The Bass

Goin’ Old School isn’t a trip down music memory lane, it’s a mugging in the dark alleyway of nostalgia:

Some late ‘80’s UK dance today kicking off with the original 1989 version of 3:AM Eternal  from The KLF.

And moving on to Mark Moore’s S’Express and the Acid Disco of Theme From S’Express from 1988.

Finally, Bomb The Bass with the ground-breaking Beat Dis from 1987 (The video features the US version of the track with the main sample changes for copyright reasons)

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Oct 10 2012

Cyclist’s October Bikeride Mixtape’ + new reMix

Cyclist

Cyclist – October Bikeride Mixtape = One of the real talents of the Toronto Disco and House scene, Cyclist has dropped a brand new mixtape that’s loaded with smooth grooves. Rocking some of the best Disco around, from retro to cosmic in one slick mix. There even some love for the Bedmo boys in there too!

♫ Cyclist – October Bikeride Mixtape

The tracklist:

01. John Davis & The Monster Orchestra – Up Jumped The Devil (6th Borough Project reMix)
02. Los Charly Orchestra – Feeling High (Juan Laya & Jorge Montiel Re Edit)
03. Walls – Gaberdine (Gerd Janson & Prins Thomas reMix)
04. Manuel Tur – Back To You (Dublin Aunts Love To Love Her Edit)
05. Hemingway – Ace Neptune (Cyclist reMix)
06. Los Amigos Invisibles & Dimitri From Paris – Glad To Know You (Ray Mang’s Flying Dub)
07. Adrian Giordano – Lost In Rome (Dicky Trisco’s Lost In Dance reMix)
08. Bedmo Disco – Startime
09. Moullinex – Kassette
10. Chewy Rubs – In The Middle
11. Andre Vii – Discoteca Clandestina (Bufi reMix)
12. Dave Nash – Lifetime (Original Mix)
13. Recloose – Don’t Get Me Wrong
14. Chaala – The Reason (Garrett David Mix)

While you’re here, check out this reMix of The Informations’ Lion’s Hand Cyclist has whipped up for their forthcoming single. Already getting support from the likes of  Fake Blood, Gigamesh, RAC, The C90s and Cassian it’s a deep Disco track, with a raw Funk to it that, plays nicely against the almost ethereal vocals. It’s constantly evolving analog groove is a hypnotising experience.

♫ The Informations – Lion’s Hand (Cyclist reMix)

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Oct 9 2012

Clancy reMixes Little Dragon

Little Dragon

Break out the big synths, Clancy is back with a brand new, and deep as hell, reMix of Little Dragon’s Little Man. Rich has been working on it for a few months now, constantly tweaking like a mad musical professor, and now he’s ready to share it with the world. We’re definitely likes the progression Clancy is making as he glides from big beach-party Dreamwave tunes, to something a bit deeper, a bit more ‘90’s, as he hasn’t left behind his retro synth stylings, just folded them into a different sound, and the result is always rad.

This mix of Little Dragon rides on a deep hypnotic groove and mood setting organs. Yukimi’s vocals sound so much more soulful in Clancy’s hands, I’d even go so far as to say the beginning to take on an almost Gospel tone,  as he creates a gently building track, full of subtly increasing layers washing over a thick synth bassline. It’s a true rapturous House track.

♫ Little Dragon – Little Man (Clancy’s Deep Haze reMix)

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Oct 9 2012

Chad Valley’s ‘Tell All Your Friends’

Chad Valley

Oxford’s Chillwave master Chad Valley has announced a new single, and his début album to be released in November. The album, Young Hunger, sees Hugo Manuel hooking up with such luminaries as Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, El Perro Del Mar, Active Child and Twin Shadow from a whole album of his particularly dreamified strain of soulful synth music.

Preceding the album comes Chad Valley’s new single, Tell All Your Friends, a shuffling slice of hazy SynthPop and broken beats. Hugo’s gentle, but impassioned, vocals work really well layered this thick as he delivers a strong vocal performance that perfectly compliments his Lo-Fi R&B-Wave. It’s a confident track, well chosen to signpost the album, and has us more eager than ever to give it a listen.

♫ Chad Valley – Tell All Your Friends

Chad Valley is also embarking on a UK tour, details here.

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Oct 9 2012

L’Equipe Du Son’s new EP

L’Equipe Du Son

Dutch master of all things retro Electro, L’Equipe Du Son releases a new EP this week. It’s a collection of tracks from earlier in the year and serves to tide us over while we wait for the man’s second album, The Odyssey Project, to be released in December.

Indian Laserdisco is the title track of the EP, and it’s a massive mixture of early ‘90’s House and ‘80’s Electro Boogie. With an infectious hook and some huge, piecing synths, Indian Laserdisco places a House beat next to Electro Funk percussion and bassline with a House riff and choppy samples that will stick in your head. Magic Johnstien keeps the House vibe going with a relentless piano riff that revolves around the track and it’s Disco samples until it burns itself onto your brain. All-in-all more Housy than we are used to from L’Equipe Du Son, but additively funky nonetheless.

♫ L’Equipe Du Son – Indian Laserdisco

♫ L’Equipe Du Son – Magic Johnstien

L’Equipe Du Son’s Indian Laserdisco is out now,.

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Oct 9 2012

New Mixtape from Reflex

Reflex

Reflex – Mixtape #15 = Mixtapes from French ElectroPop duo Reflex are becoming something to really look forward to. This mighty hour contains some of the best ElectroPop, Indie-Electro and Disco in recent months. Another Stormer!

♫ Reflex – Mixtape #15

The tracklist:

01. The New Sins – Don’t Break My Heart (Tronik Youth reMix)
02. Alison Valentine – Peanut Butter (Moon Boots reMix)
03. Plastic Plates (Feat. Simon Lord) – Things I didn’t Know I Loved
04. Pompeya – Power (Zimmer reMix)
05. Kimbra – Two Way Street (Aeroplane reMix)
06. Jupiter – Juicy Lucy (Needs a Boogieman) (Punks Jump Up reMix)
07. Lindstrom – Re-Ako-St (Todd Terje Edit)
08. Kill The Hero feat. MK De Monde – Surrender (Reflex reMix)
09. Rüfüs – This Summer (JBAG reMix)
10. Yuksek – the Edge (Aeroplane reMix)
11. DJ Cam – Uncomfortable (Reflex reMix)
12. Hot Chip – How Do You Do (Todd Terje reMix)
13. Citizens! – True Romance (Gildas reMix)
14. Emil & Friends – Royal Oats (Dubka reMix)
15. Anthony F – Frienzy (Eyeflash reMix)
16. Love is Raining Down (Wilbur reMix)
17. St Lucia – September (Punks Jump Up reMix)
18. Revolver – Let’s Get Together (Ryan Riot reMix)
19. Moullinex – Take My Pain Away (Gigamesh reMix)
20. Live Element – Be Free (Oliver reMix)

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Oct 9 2012

Shelby Grey Edits Patrizia Pellegrino

Patrizia Pellegrino

Spanish Dreamwaver Shelby Grey has taken time out from his usual productions to bring us this edit Patrizia Pellegrino’s 1982 Italo classic Musica Spaziale. Originally a double A-side with her hit Matta-Ta, it’s hard it imagine anything able to make the track more Italo, but Mr. Grey manages it with ease.

Kicking off with some nice filtering, you instantly notice that Shelby has actually slowed the track down a little, maybe that’s the right decision, dancefloors are a little smoother than the tracks early ‘80’s NRG origins. All the synths have been thickened up to, and there’s a nice build mid-way too. Brining the classic Euro SynthPop sound into a place where it sits well with contemporary, albeit retro, Disco, Shelby has created a mighty DJ tool here.

♫ Patrizia Pellegrino – Musica Spaziale (Shelby Grey Edit)

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