This is the brand new video for Strange Talk’s ‘Eskimo Boy’. The track is taken from their awesome self-titled EP.
Director Garth Badger turns the soft-focus summery vibe up to eleven with a group of paradise castaways, a look that goes really well with Strange Talk’s brand of Indie-ElectroPop.
Strange Talk’s self titled EP is out now.
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Yesterday saw the release of Joypopp’s début EP, ‘Ecstatic’, on Binary Records.
It’s an EP bursting at the seems with four original tracks and three reMixes. We’ve already covered two of the original tunes on the EP, ‘Desire’ and ‘Volupté’, both of which really whet our appetite for more Joypopp. ‘Nostalgic’ and ‘Six To Six’ are more of the same top quality analog ElectroPop from the French duo. With their big Sci-Fi soundtrack synths and sweet female vocals, the Joypopp combination is defiantly a winner. ReMixes on the EP come courtesy of Night Drugs and these two from Girlfriend Records head honcho Sferro and Binary’s RoboPop™ main man Short Circuit. Sferro turns in a suitably retro slice of ElectroPop with a laidback groove, deep bass and awesome 80’s melodies. Short Curcuit’s reMix takes the track in the opposite direction, it’s a heavy mid-tempo club track that sees SC moving towed an almost Justice mix of rock riff-esq chainsaw synths and Disco drums.
♫ Joypopp – Desire
♫ Joypopp – Volupté
♫ Joypopp – Volupté (Short Circuit reMix)
♫ Joypopp – Volupté (Sferro reMix)
Joypopp’s ‘Ecstatic’ EP is out now.
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It has been suggested to me that I was less than complete with my selection of entries in Futurecop!’s ‘Starworshipper’ reMix contest, so let’s put that right!
Sarah from Holographic People rightly pointed out to me that the Young Digerati mix easily deserved recognition. And she’s so right, I don’t know how I left it out, if you go and look at the SoundCloud page for the track you’ll see me raving about it when it was first released so how I forgot it I don’t know. Mind like a sieve! It’s an amazing piece of work that just proves Young Digerati are on their way ‘up’!
Commenter Larry sent me in the direction of the second reMix here, by Lenno, who is a just 16! Seriously! Which kinda’ blows my mind. I hadn’t heard this mix before and I am so glad I have now. This slick Dreamwavey mix will defiantly have me checking out more of Lenno’s stuff.
♫ Futurecop! – Starworshipper (Young Digerati reMix)
♫ Futurecop! – Starworshipper (Lenno reMix)
MPM’s winning entry will feature on Futurecop!’s next release.
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Mr. Alpha Boy has dropped off his new tune, and it doesn’t disappoint in an 80’s way.
‘Walking On Light’ sees the German producer getting orchestral and epic atop his retro synth patterns. Adding a baroque touch to his music with strings and harpsichord takes the track to a new dimension that gives an otherworldly feel to the 80’s influenced synth work. Still, Alpha Boy keeps up the energy with a full-on 80’s Pop Electro rhythm section which nicely juxtaposes with the rest of the instrumentation.
♫ Alpha Boy – Walking On Light
Alpha Boy’s ‘Douce Folie’ EP is out now.
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OK, this is a bit of an odd one for us, Torpedo class themselves as “Krautrock influenced…Electronic Alternative Rock”, which would normally make me run a mile (or delete the email immediate) but I gave it a listen, and it;s really grown on me.
I have no idea what their other tracks sound like but never would I have described ‘Islands In Eternity’ as “Electronic Alternative Rock”. There’s a definite Krautrock” influence going on but there’s very little Rock in this (thankfully!). What it actually is, is a cosmic, almost Proggy, electronic track that…actually, no, I see their point, it is pretty hard to describe. Suffice to say that of you like synthesizers and a big epic feel to your music you should give this a listen. ReMixes come from, amongst others, Wahlström & Valiant who turn the track into a big room Electro-House tune laden with ‘wohoop’ sounds and giant stabs!
It surprised me how much I likes this track, but I did, check it:
♫ Torpedo – Islands In Eternity
♫ Torpedo – Islands In Eternity (Wahlström & Valiant reMix)
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Luxembourg based Nu-Disco hero Hana Yori Kichou Na dropped a new EP this week with Shiny Disco Club, it’s all for free so you have no excuse not to grab it.
The ‘Inside Me’ EP contains five tracks of smooth, filtered, Disco-House for a producer who has constantly been getting better and better, both in his original productions and his reMixes. This EP is pure smooth dancefloor grooves, check out the title track ‘Inside Me’, a vocoder Disco workout and ‘Extase’ with it’s cut-up licks and heavy filtering for a taste of what to expect.
♫ Hana Yori Kichou Na – Inside Me
♫ Hana Yori Kichou Na – Extase
You can pick up the whole, full quality, EP here.
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ReMixes of slightly old songs don’t always grab you but this mix of Two Door Cinema Club’s ‘Something Good Can Work’ by Icelandic Nu-Disco crew Jungle Fiction made me sit up and take notice.
Big, big, synths and a whole lot of groove dominate this mix. Building on the sound of their début EP the trio of young producers keep on expertly riding the line between pedal-to-the-metal Electro-House and smooth melodic Dreamwave with the kind of skill that easily ranks them up there with the Dangers and Kavinsky’s of the world.
♫ Two Door Cinema Club – Something Good Can Work (Jungle Fiction reMix)
Jungle Fiction’s début EP is out now.
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Ellie Goulding’s live cover of The Knife’s ‘Heartbeats’ is the only cover I can tolerate (i.e. I love the original and hate Jose Gonzalez generic, uninspired, snorefest). Ellie’s voice, with it’s slight rasp, adds something to the song nicely. Wonderful news the that Russia’s coolest producer, Cosmonaut Grechko, has editied the hell out of it.
Dropping a nice chilled beat and some spaced-out synths in the background turns a nice cover into something pretty special. Grechko has actually turned the backing track into something a bit reminiscant of The Postal Service. It’s very easy to stick this track on the headphones and get lost in Grechko’s programming and Ellie’s voice.
Enjoy:
♫ Ellie Goulding – Heartbeats (Cosmonaut Grechko Edit)
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With Futurecop!’s ‘Starworshipper’ reMix competition over, and congrats to MPM for the win, we thought this would be a good time to let you check out some of the awesome ‘also rans’.
We’ve already posted the MPM winning entry and Sferro’s smooth mix, but up there as a serious contender for the crown is Ren Riz’s perfect slice of Dreamwave DancePop that compliments and builds on the original with style. Silenx’s ‘Sunrise reMix’ injects a little synthesizer emotion into the track with his big retro chords and little additional melodies that nicely layer up the track. For those of you wanting something to beef-up the tune check Owl Vision’s, ahem, bang0r, that takes your face and slams it into the dancefloor.
Amazing work by everyone involved.
♫ Futurecop! – Starworshipper (Ren Riz reMix)
♫ Futurecop! – Starworshipper (Silenx Sunrise reMix)
♫ Futurecop! – Starworshipper (Owl Vision reMix)
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Zimmer’s Half Moon Bay (May Mixtape) = An insane amount of good tracks on this hour of some of the best smooth synthesizer music and Disco grooves around.
♫ Zimmer – Half Moon Bay (May Mixtape)
The tracklist:
01. Siobhan Wilson – Getting Me Down (Anoraak Rework)
02. Tronik Youth – A-Freeka
03. Disco Deviance – You Know How I Feel (Social Disco Club Edit)
04. The Canyons – My Recue (Stallions Festival Version)
05. Lamont Dozier – Back To His Roots (Kiwi Edit)
06. Sharon Brown – I Specialize In Love
07. Alexander Holland – The Best Of Me
08. Golden Bug – Sex Beat (Mustang Instru reMix)
09. Kolombo – Passin’ Me By
10. Casio Social Club – The Running Man
11. Tyson – Die On The Dancefloor (Mickey reMix)
12. Yuksek – On A Train (The Magician reMix)
13. The Swiss – Bubble Bath
14. The Beatrabauken – Puppet Disco
15. Young Digerati – The Dauphin (Ride The Universe reMix)
16. Jacques Renault – Look At You (GRVRBBRS reMix)
17. ODahl – Out Of Control (Justin Faust reMix)
18. Homeboi & OhYeah! – Côte D’Azur
19. Broke One – Go Go Go
20. digitalfoxglove – Someone Else
21. Drop The Lime – Devil’s Eyes (Classixx’s B-Live Mix)
22. Lou Teti – Get Away (Drop Out Orchestra Rework)
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