Dec 2 2010

It’s HURTS and all their friends, playing in the snow!

Did you think we’d leave you without anything festive today after the deluge of X-mas tunes over the last two days?

Well, after dropping HURTS X-mas single on you two days ago we can now premiere the particularly X-massy video for it.

Just as the song is reminiscant of the ‘proper’ X-mas singles of the 80’s, the video, too, is quite an 80’s X-mas video.

So, as the chick from ‘Stay’, the crazy dancing lady, the mourners and the ballet dancer & her androgynous admirer say farewell to 2010 we have to wonder what characters HURTS have in store for us in 2011.

Look! The guys are even wearing red! Must be a special occasion.

The single is available as a free download from 14th December.

Dec 2 2010

New tracks from Preston Park

Remember, literally, years ago we wrote about a MySpace find called Preston Park?

We dug his funky ElectroPop way back then so when he turned up in the electronic rumors inbox we were pretty interested to hear what he was producing these days.

Two tracks graced our mailbox. The first, ‘Little Bottle’ (which is a collaboration with Young Monday) is our favourite of the two, it’s an upbeat SynthPop track with a touch of Soft Cell around the drum programming and some nice vintage synth sounds. Sitting somewhere between Minimal Synth and Lo-Fi SynthPop, ‘Little Bottle’ is a confident Pop song that harkens back to to days of the Futurist pioneers. The atmospheric ‘Falling’ is more of a lament than a ballad, being borderline Spoken Word over an evolving Synthesizer backing. The French lilt of the vocals creating evocative imagery.

♫ Preston Park (Feat. Young Monday) – Little Bottle

♫ Preston Park – Falling

Check Preston Park’s MySpace for more.

Preston Park @ MySpace

Dec 2 2010

Douze – We Got The Love

‘We Got The Love’ is the latest track from Frenchman Arnault Douze Esteve A.K.A. Douze.

A protégé of Kris Menace and collaborator of the one-and-only Alan Braxe, Douze creates an amazing amalgamation of French-Touch, Disco, ElectroPop and talk box Funk. This is the smoothest slice of Disco that has landed on the electronic rumors desk in a while and just when you’re getting into the groove with the body moving bassline and lush pads the track hits you with a devastating solo! Awesome stuff.

♫ Douze – We Got The Love

Douze’s EP, ‘Doxology’, is out 6th December on Work It Baby.

Dec 2 2010

Fare Soldi reMixes Duran Duran’s Rio

Italian masters of all things crazy Italo Fare Soldi have got their funky hands on Duran Duran’s ‘Rio’. This can only end well (or badly, depending on your position).

Spotlighting the tune’s mental bassline over a 909 beat whist dropping in bits of the song over the top is the path to true Italo enlightenment. Fare Soldi always manage to keep thing fresh and he they do a spot-on job or working the retro and the contemporary into a dancefloor slaying package.

♫ Duran Duran – Rio (Fare Soldi ‘Sposerò Simon Le Bon’ reMix)

Fare Soldi have just dropped their ‘Vigorilla’ EP, check it out:

Duran Duran @ Beatport

Duran Duran @ Juno

Duran Duran @ 7Digital

Duran Duran @ Amazon

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Dec 2 2010

David Lynch makes an ElectroPop record…really!

So, I’ve always had a love/hate affair with the movies of David Lynch. I’m a massive Twin Peaks fan and love the films where he warps normality and makes you look at the world differently. However, he pisses me off when he just gets weird for the sake of it, like it he feels he has to live up to being ‘David Lynch’. His music, on the other hand, has always interested me.

So, why is he here on electronic rumors? He’s only gone and released an ElectroPop record hasn’t he!

If you’ve ever wanted to know what David Lynch would sound like vocodered over a machine beat and Disco chords then you’re in luck! This little slice of Indie-Electro is surprisingly good, pretty minimal, and gets boarderline 8-bit crunchy in places.

♫ David Lynch – Good Day Today

‘Good Day Today’/’I Know’ is being released by Sunday Best with an Electro album coming next year.

David Lynch @ 7Digital

David Lynch @ Amazon

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Dec 2 2010

My Favorite Robot’s ‘Birthday Song’

Those Canadian meisters of Experimental ElectroPop Electronica My Favorite Robot have breathed new single into the world.

‘Birthday Song’ will take you deep deep down, everything about it seems designed to put you in a dream likes state on the dancefloor. From it’s drone organs to it’s ethereal vocals all pined down with a hypnotic sub-bass. This is serious ElectroPop/Deep House with just a touch of Acid warbling.

♫ My Favorite Robot – Birthday Song

My Favorite Robot @ Beatport

My Favorite Robot @ Juno

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Dec 2 2010

Mix Chopin’ & Ghosts Of Venice reMix Burns & Fred Falke

Remember that video we posted a while back with all the dogs? For Burns & Fred Falke pretty ace collaboration ‘Y.S.L.M. (you Stopped Loving Me)’?

Well, the single is now out, exclusively on Beatport, backed up with reMixes from Treasure Fingers, Linus Loves, and Rynecologist in an awesome reMix package. Ghost of Venice and Mix Chopin’ are celebrating the release by giving away their smooth French-Touch/Disco epic version of the single. Perfect for the long summer nights…pity it’s freezing outside!

♫ Burns & Fred Falke – You Stopped Loving Me (Mix Chopin’ & Ghosts Of Venice reMix)

‘Y.S.L.M. (You Stopped Loving Me)’ is out now.

Fred Falke @ Beatport

Fred Falke @ Juno

Fred Falke @ 7Digital

Fred Falke @ Amazon

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Dec 1 2010

:kinema:’s X-mas present to you all

:kinema:, those Brightonian purveyors of funky ElectroPop are headed down the chimney with their free slice of X-mas cheer for you all.

‘3 Wolf Moon’ is their present to you this X-mas. It’s been a while since there was any new :kinema: material so it’s a well though out present indeed! The kings of British FunkPop give you something a little smooth for the holiday season. With it’s slick synths and Disco guitars ‘3 Wolf Moon’ is just the track to get a little weird to at the office party.

♫ :kinema: – 3 Wolf Moon

Check out :kinema:’s previous singles at out retailer of choice, they’d make for great X-mas pressies!

Dec 1 2010

The Golden Filter’s X-mas tune

New York’s DiscoPop king and queen, The Golden Filter have thrown their X-mas track into the mix. I love it when bands give your presents!

The duo’s contribution to ‘the season’ is a cover of Genesis P.Orridge’s Psychic TV’s eerie winter hymn ‘White Nights’. It sounds kinda’ different with the sleigh-bells and Penelope Trappes’ sweet vocals, but instantly X-massy, even with it’s X-mas nightmare bridge!