This is the video for Joakim’s new single ‘Forever Young’.
It’s a nice bit of summer Indie-Electro introspection, Joakim says the track is “a song for all the 30-something-year old people out there”.
‘Forever Young’ is taken from the forthcoming album ‘Nothing Gold’, released 20th September on Tigersushi.
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Straight from 1984, here is both Laura Branigan and co-wirter Raf’s versions of ‘Self Control’, both blew up in Europe that year but only Branigan’s made any impact across the Atlantic. I can never decide which version I prefer but both are definitely better than the subsequent covers.
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New York Minimal Synth duo Xeno & Oaklander’s released their new single, ‘The Staircase’, this week. An arpeggio fuelled synthesizer lament, the analog electronics conveying just as much frustration as the lyrics. Still, the track isn’t nearly as cold as the outfit’s previous offerings, ‘The Staircase’ is almost warm and dreamlike, if a little edgy.
The Taryn Waldman directed video is a grainy, stark, haunted journey through an 19th-century Brooklyn tenement building.
‘The Staircase’ is taken from Xeno & Oaklander’s forthcoming new album, ‘Sets and Lights’, which drops 11th October via Wierd Records.
♫ Xeno & Oaklander – The Staircase
‘The Staircase’ single is out now.
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Cordova, that is a project from Nu-Disco genius U-Tern and friends.
In his own words the track is “…a song I wrote with my friends AJK and Roxy, we never got around to releasing it officially, enjoy!”, my words for the track would be ‘fucking awesome’. Despite being a year old this track is so fresh, the perfect blend of Nui-Disco and ElectroPop. Literally the best thing I have heard all week, lush vocals and dirty vocoding over a solid Discofied Pop track, what more could you want?
If you dug that, check out more from U-Tern.
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Aeroplane – June 2011 Mix = Vito gets it on for a whole hour with some massive Nu-Disco tunes and reMixes. Penguin Prison/Goldroom and The Human League/Plastic Plates in the mix!
The tracklist:
01. Tricksky – Beginning
02. Juan Soto – ISS 2015
03. Out of City – Galactica
04. The Human League – Sky (Plastic Plates reMix)
05. Moon Runner – Cultural Track One
06. Mario Basonov _ Lonely Days
07. Penguin Prison – Fair Warning (Goldroom Dub)
08. Nonoman – Phase 2 Edit
09. Djuma Soundsystem & diskJoKKe –
10. The Supermen Lovers – Keep the Funk Alive (Cytizen reMix)
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Thompson Twins, sorely overlooked heroes of 80’s music, to often considered a flash-in-the-pan, they awere actually around for years with a string of successful records, one of those being 1984’s ‘Doctor! Doctor!’, here performed on Top Of The Pops.
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Here is Justin Faust’s Moroderfied reMix of Worship’s ‘Find You’/
Released next month on On The Fruit Records, the track sees Justin in a light ElectroPoppy mood with an arpeggiated Disco bassline and some cute lead lines. This version of ‘Find You’ is some seriously uplifing future boogie that should put a kick in your day.
♫ Worship – Find You (Justin Faust reMix)
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Fear Of Tigers – The Guestlist 24/06/2011 = You’re listening to The Guestlist, your weekly music podcast with him, Fear Of Tigers. FoT goes solo this week pulling some massive tracks from his record box, dropping the likes of Umek, Edwin Van Cleef, St Etienne, Lifelike and more.
♫ Fear Of Tigers – The Guestlist 24/06/2011
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The first time I heard Portland duo Soft Metals I was instantly enamoured with their blend of Minimal Synth and 90’s House and Techno. Next month they finally release their début, self titled, LP.
Their highly acclaimed EP, ‘The Cold World Melts’ was a five track synth music lovers dream. Analog machine music tempered with soaring melodies and haunting vocals, and surprisingly funky too. The forthcoming album promises a full ten tracks of the same. Check out ‘Psychic Driving’ the sweet electronic ballad the record opens with.
♫ Soft Metals – Psychic Driving
Soft Metal’s début album is released 19th July on Captured Tracks.
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I’ll confess I’m new to Swiss producer Water Lilly, who has had a long and full career releasing over twenty EPs since ‘99 on labels such as Gigolo and Lasergun. Somehow she has flown under my radar, but these two tracks have really caught my attention.
This is electronic dance music at it’s purest, the funkier successor to Kraftwerk. Taken from her new album, ‘Gosshammer’, these tunes mix up Techno, Electro, ElectroPop and a little Disco groove in a package that owes much to the simple melodies of Kraftwek, 80’s SynthPop and 90’s Techno. I defy anyone who digs synthesizer music not to find something to love within these songs. Whether the melodic 80’s Techno Funk of ‘Lovebeat’ or the harder EBM-esque ‘Arpenter’, these two offerings are masterpieces, meticulously crafted by someone with a genuine love of synthesizers. That’s the way to our heart!
Water Lilly’s ‘Gosshammer’ is out now on Mental Groove Records
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