May 18 2011

Moscow Youth Cult

Moscow Youth Cult create a rich, grainy, electronic soundscape in which to wrap their typically British Indie-Pop songs.

The band, who hail (unsurprisingly) for the East Midlands, draw from the wealth of the Sheffield area’s electronic music history to create abrasive, yet strangely beautiful, ElectroPop that fits in perfectly with the musical heritage of that part of the country. Just signed to LoAF Recordings, MYC are celebrating with a free EP. The two original tracks on the EP are surprisingly dancefloor friendly for such dense anti-Pop. ‘Girls Of Boredom’ mixes up relentless beats and a cacophony of 8-bit sounds and noisy synths with the kind of Indie vocals reminiscent of (We Are) Performance. ‘Sakura Sakura’ is a power Electro track as chaotic as a Tokyo wall of neon, yet within the chaos lies layers of beautiful synth work.

♫ Moscow Youth Cult – Girls Of Boredom

♫ Moscow Youth Cult – Sakura Sakura

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May 18 2011

Publicist’s new EP

Out this week is the new EP from Publicist on Discotexas.

Publicist is Sebastian Thomson, sometime drummer for Trans AM, who like to mix things up live by sequencing, drumming and vocoding in the middle of the dancefloor. The tunes on ‘Proffessional Show Business Pt.1′ are a unique brand of deep, hypnotic synth Disco. Owing as much to late 80’s and early 90’s House as they do to Nu-Disco, there’s even a little Cabaret Voltaire in there! The two tracks on the EP are also re-editied by Disco stars Moullinex and Zimmer, that’s right, not reMixed but re-edited. Both track play with the originals for more of a dancefloor vibe.

♫ Publicist – Come to My Senses (Moullinex Edit)

♫ Publicist – Make Ends Meet (Zimmer Edit)

‘Proffessional Show Business Pt.1′ is out now.

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May 18 2011

Gwaiiu (ex-of CHEW LiPS) reMixes Thomas Tantrum

Thomas Tantrum are a Southampton based Indie-Pop outfit who’s new single, ‘Hot Hot Summer’, has been reMixed by Gwaiiu.

Gwaiiu is none other than Will Sanderson, ex member of CHEW LiPS, who applies his ElectroPop skills to the track to create an awesome mid-tempo head nodder. Driven by electronic burbling and chirping and a solid beat and more than a little Dubstep influence. It’s actually like a Dubstep early Gary Numan track with female vocals. Interesting stuff!

Check it out:

♫ Thomas Tantrum – Hot Hot Summer (Gwaiiu reMix)

‘Hot Hot Summer’ is 5th june.

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May 18 2011

Cassian reMixes PNAU’s new single

‘Solid Ground’ is the next single from PNAU’s forthcoming album ‘Soft Universe’ and gets the reMix treatment from Housemaister Cassian.

Cassian lay on the Sci-Fi Disco thick with this reMix, full of laser gun electro toms and raging Moog basslines. Elevating the vocal track to levels of pure funk euphoria Cassian had dropped a killer this time!

♫ PNAU – Solid Ground (Cassian reMix)

‘Solid Ground’ comes from PNAU forthcoming album “Soft Universe” is due out 1st July on etcetc.

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May 17 2011

Russ Chimes’ Expressway Mix Pt.3

Russ Chimes – Expressway Mix Pt.3 = Ahead of the release of his eagerly anticipated new EP, Mr. Chimes treats us to an hour of the freshest big tunes with one or two classics thrown in too.

♫ Russ Chimes – Expressway Mix Pt.3

The tracklist:

01. Russ Chimes – Aurora (Intro.)
02. Style Of Eye – Sexx (Russ Chimes Expressway Re-Work)
03. Russ Chimes – Helix
04. Moonchild – Lovebirds (Russ Chimes reMix)
05. Alex Metric & Steve Angello – Open Your eyes (Style Of Eye reMix)
06. High Powered Boys – Work + Arno Cost – Apocalypse (Sebastian Leger reMix) + Adam Kesher – Hour Of The Wolf (Lifelike reMix)
07. Tong & Spoon – Muchness (Kink reMix)
08. His Majesty Andre – Clubs + C&C Music Factory – Gonna’ Make You Sweat
09. Nightriders – Get Hooked (Grum reMix)
10. HURTS – Better Than Love (Burns Dub Mix)
11. Funkabit – Root Beer
12. Kevin McKay – Body Talk
13. Proff – Interstellar + Modjo – Lady
14. ZZT – Zzafrica (Light Year & Finger Prince reMix)
15. Loops Of Fury – We Unfold
16. Para One – Animal Style
17. Broke One – Go Go Go (Russ Chimes reMix)
18. Zombie Nation – Chickflick (Boris Dlugosch reMix)
19. Alex Metric – Raveageddon
20. Jaymo & Andy George – Tension
21. Slice & Soda – Year Of The Dragon (L-Vis 1990 & The Neon Dreams reMix)

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May 16 2011

Short Circuit’s début EP

More Short Circuit! This week he’s the hardest working man in RoboPop™!

I can’t believe this is his début EP! Short Circuit tracks have been a staple in my mp3 player for what seems like years now but nonetheless here it is. The ‘Late Night Drive’ EP is six tracks of the kind of Electro vocoder Funk that we’ve come to expect from SC and it’s only when presented with a collection like this that we realised how eager we’ve been for fresh Short Circuit material. The EP kicks of with the LexiconDon collaboration ‘Nothing’s On The TV’ which we first heard on LexiconDon’s ‘The Secret’s Out’ mixtape last October, it’s a amped up chant-along ElectroPop tune with sets up the listener for Short Circuit’s particular style of smooth Electro-Disco with a raw, or edgy, production quality that gives it that unique SC sound. Following on is ‘Get Up’, which takes a Rock arrangement and applies that to a string tinged ElectroPop tune to powerful effect. We were hoping that ‘How We Speak’ would put in an appearance on the EP, featured briefly in this live video that premiered last week and seems to be the spiritual successor to Short Circuit’s now classic ‘Let Go’ with similar strong bassline and Andrew’s RoboVox™ that get stuck in your brain, this time with added cowbell!

♫ Short Circuit – How We Speak

‘Keep It Together’ draws things back to a laid back tempo for some heavy vocodered Electro-Funk before ‘Charmed’ reminds you where Short Circuit came from, being the quintessential Binary dancefloor tune. The title track, ‘Late Night Drive’ ends the EP on an epic retro-Electro note and seems to nicely sum up the EP, more heavy bass and vocoded vocals leading into soaring synth leads with an almost cinematic feel. Overall the EP is exactly what we wanted from Short Circuit but at the same time a lot more diverse than we were expecting. ‘Late night Drive’ is satisfying, and pleasantly surprising.

‘Late Night Drive’ is released 23rd May on Binary Entertainment.

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May 16 2011

Ladytron’s new single, ‘White Elephant’

In advance of their eagerly awaited new album, ‘Gravity The Seducer’, ElectroPop legends Ladytron are releasing a new single, ‘White Elephant’.

More chilled and reverb heavy than their recent offerings, ‘White Elephant’ is probably a good representation of the new album which the band promised was going to be “more ethereal and melodic, a touch more abstract in places”. Retaining the trademark Ladytron bombast mixed with introspection the new single makes me wonder how much of an influence Ladytron were to the Chillwavers of this world, certainly the new album will probably go down a storm with them, and with anyone else who likes their ElectroPop intelligent, thoughtful and melodic.

♫ Ladytron – White Elephant

Ladytron’s new album, ‘Gravity The Seducer’ is released 12th September.

the band are currently on tour in Europe, check the dates:

02nd June – Siesta! Festival @ Hässleholm, Sweden
03rd June – Selector Festival @ Kracow, Poland
08th June – The Forum @ London, UK
09th June – The Arches @ Glasgow, UK
10th June – Saint Georges Hall @ Liverpool, UK
11th June – Tripod @ Dublin, Ireland
16th July – Hegyalja Festival @ Tokaj-Rakamaz, Hungary

I’ll be catching them in London, Ladytron aren’t a band to miss live!

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May 16 2011

Cosmonaut Grechko’s new EP

Cosmonaut Grechko’s new EP, ‘Alaska 2100’ is out this week and is a pretty stunning electronic masterpiece.

Grechko hits the ground running with track one, ‘Singin’’, with Joywave, it’s the prefect meeting of Dreamwave and Indie-Electro, like a spaced-out-Disco Passion Pit. It’s catchy but still maintains a summery mellow groove. ‘All I Hear’ is up next with some help from She’s The Queen (I’m writing about She’s The Queen on a day other than Thursday, feels weird) that tasks Emily’s vocals out of the normal DancePop environment and slides them into some laid back, almost Chillwave, reverb washed Disco. As with ‘Singin’’, ‘All I hear’ is incredibly listenable, Grechko’s organ riffs intertwining with the big retro synths to create an intricate, yet effortlessly cool, jam. ‘Coloreye’ and the title track are both more tradition Disco fare, both mellow and upbeat, that show Grechko still has the skills to flat out rock the dancefloor and they lead into a selection of reMixes including these two by Electronic Rumors faves Show Your Shoe and Blue Satellite. Show Your Shoe takes on ‘All I Hear’ and proves why he’s the man to watch when it comes to smooth Electro-Funk cuts with some crazy Moog action while Blue Satellite turns ‘Singin’ into a massive upbeat DiscoPop track.

The ‘Alaska 2100’ EP shows a real maturing of Cosmonaut Grechko, musically. An evolution of his music that will surely place him at the forefront of Indie-Electro and Nu-Disco.

♫ Cosmonaut Grechko (Feat. Joywave) – Singin’ (Radio Edit)

♫ Cosmonaut Grechko (Feat. She’s The Queen) – All I Hear

♫ Cosmonaut Grechko (Feat. Joywave) -Singin’ (Blue Satellite reMix)

♫ Cosmonaut Grechko (Feat. She’s The Queen) – All I Hear (Show Your Shoe reMix)

The ‘Alaska 2100 EP’ is out now:

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May 16 2011

Yuksek’s ‘On A Train’ video

Here’s the brand new video for Yuksek’s pretty awesome comeback EP, ‘On A Train’.

The video features Yuksek, on a train. How do they come up with these crazy ideas!

The alien attack bit is pretty cool!

‘On A Train’ comes from Yuksek’s amazing new album ‘Living on The Edge Of Time’ released 23th June

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May 16 2011

Short Circuit mixes up some Freelance Whales

Binary’s Short Circuit, the king of RoboPop, just dropped this reMix of Freelance Whales’ ‘Hannah’ on an unrespecting world.

Apparently it was for some Freelance Whales reMix contest, it didn’t win, which is odd, but then again if you look at this picture of Freelance Whales they seem a little simple. I mean, you’ve got to have a few difficulties if you pass up a deep synthin’ jam like this. It;’s got a bit of funk in it’s bass and a bit of the cosmic in it’s lead and is, generally, really easy on the ears.