For those of you who missed last night’s début performance from Monarchy at London’s Electrowerkz.
Sold out for a first performance ain’t bad!
Thanks to YouTube user tensoul.
Category Electro
La Roux guests for Skream
Dubstep innovator Skream will be releasing his second album, ‘Outside the Box’ on Tempa later in August and after he helped propel La Roux into dancefloor superstardom it seems only fair that they return the favour by appearing on one of his tracks.
‘Finally’ is a deep string led moody track with a vaguely eastern feel to it. I gotta’ say, heavy sub works really well with Elly Jackson’s voice, the highs and lows really complimenting each other.
♫ Skream (Feat. La Roux) – Finally
‘Outside The Box’ drops 9th August.
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Rosanna & Fear Of Tigers
Swede Rosanna’s début single, ‘Runaway/Waterfall’ will also be the début release for the almighty Popjustice’s brand new record label, PopJustice Hi-Fi.
There’s absolutely no one better in the world to pick quality Pop tunes (they have also signed electronic rumors fave Bright Light Bright Light) and they’ve picked a blinder to kick off with!
The original of ‘Waterfall’ is pretty sweet, it’s an ace Pop tune with a surprisingly noise drum track but it’s this Fear Of Tigers reMix that is the seriously good shit. Once again Ben from FoT makes everything sound a) like an American High School in the 80’s and b) like everything’s gonna’ be alright. It’s those layers upon layers of uplifting, retro sounding, synths that do it!
♫ Rosanna – Waterfall (Fear Of Tigers reMix)
‘Runaway/Waterfall’ is released 22nd August, until then show the girl some MySpace love!
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Daft Punk’s Tron: Legacy soundtrack
Two slices of awesomeness hit the internet in the last few days. First up, soon after the Tron: Legacy panel at San Diego ComicCon, yesterday, the new theatrical trailer for Tron Legacy débuted online.
And it looks rad as hell!!!
Secondly, in the last couple days a few people have sent me tracks from Daft Punk’s soundtrack to the movie. These are defiantly legit, as many of the six tracks contain sections from the trailers we have seen. After some digging around, I think these have been ripped out the backend of the official Disney site.
I was debating putting all six tracks up here but then thought, ‘well, I wouldn’t put up six tracks of any album so why is this any different?’. If you really want all six they’ll be all over the internet by now but I wanna’ try and save myself hearing any more until I can hear it in 320kbps or CD quality because those tracks I have heard are amazing! Serious contender for best electronic soundtrack since BladeRunner. The way the orchestration and electronic meld together is truly masterful, even in so much as Daft Punk’s choice of sounds that seem to flow out of the strings.
This, I believe, is the title track.
♫ Daft Punk – Tron: Legacy Soundtrack- Track 1
Tron: Legacy hit cinemas 17th December.
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Pacific!; first track from Narcissus
Swedish duo Pacific! are returning in September with a concept album inspired by (an named after) the Greek myth of Narcissus.
Looking like it will me something deeper, more mysterious, musically, than what we are used to from them with trailers for the project ranging from epic dance tracks to atmospheric soundscapes.
The first official track from the album to drop is ‘Venus Rising’, a Prog-Space-Disco journey that is, in equal parts, dark and brooding, and optimistic and frantic.
You get the feeling the album is going to be something special.
‘Narcissus’ drops 13th September on Alan Braxe’s Vulture label.
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New Dragonette track!
New Dragonette in the electronic rumors inbox is never a bad thing!
Their new single, ‘Our Summer’, is released later this month followed by ‘Mixin’ To Thrill’, an album of reMixes from the past year.. ‘Our Summer’ is a stompin’ good Electro party tune that will surely whip the crowd into a frenzy on their forthcoming US tour. Defiantly more straight Electro than the band have released before, I’d go so far as to say it’s pretty Electro-Punk!
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‘Our Summer’ drops 27th July and ‘Mixin’ To Thrill’ is released August 3rd both digitally and in a limited edition physical package available exclusively through dragonette.com.
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Ali Love drops ‘Smoke & Mirrors’
We posted the Villa reMix of Ali Love’s forthcoming single ‘Smoke & Mirrors’ a while back, it was just one more reason to get exited about his, should-be-out-an-time-now, new album, ‘Love Harder’.
Well, ‘Smoke & Mirrors’ drops this week and right here you can check out the original, which is a funkin’ cool Disco-Pop jam that has the potential to propel Mr. Love chartwards. Bottin, who always captivates with his deep synth mixes, pushes things over to the cosmic side of Disco making Ali’s smooth funk sound like a robot invasion from the 70’s.
It’s all good…
♫ Ali Love – Smoke & Mirrors (Radio Edit)
♫ Ali Love – Smoke & Mirrors (Bottin reMix)
‘Smoke & Mirrors’ is out this week, Ali’s forthcoming album, ‘Love Harder’ should be dropping in August.
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Sunday Girl’s ‘Self Control’
Jade Williams A.K.A. Sunday Girl’s second single will be a cover of Laura Branigan’s 1984 hit ‘Self Control’. For a well covered track, Sunday Girl doesn’t do a bad job of making it her own, haunting and slightly otherworldly, and the Acid bassline is a nice touch too.
I predict we may be seeing a lot more reMixes of this track in the months to come. Right now we have this pretty awesome upbeat ElectroPop reMix from Popmeisters Snapd who just highlight the 80’s-ness of the tune. Azari & III, on the other hand, go deep and dark with their 3am reMix.
♫ Sunday Girl – Self Control (Snapd reMix)
♫ Sunday Girl – Self Control (Azari & III reMix)
‘Sunday Girl’ is out 2nd August with more reMixes from Young Empires, Fenech-Soler.
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Jump Jump Dance Dance – Modern Eyes
‘Modern Eyes’ is the latest single from LA Indie-Electro duo Jump Jump Dance Dance, it’s a catchy, glitchy guitar track that goes well 80’s in the chorus.
Check the clip directed by Clemens Habicht.
There’s some nice reMixes floating around, each with it’s own dancey take on the tune. Beni brings an almost Fidget style to his Electro reMix while Bit Funk turn in (probably) our favourite of the mixes, it’s a smooth Nu-Disco, organ fuelled, floorfiller. Vindata’s mix also has a place in our harts, all 80’s arpeggios and vocoders, what’s not to love?
♫ Jump Jump Dance Dance – Modern Eyes (Beni reMix)
♫ Jump Jump Dance Dance – Modern Eyes (Bit Funk reMix)
♫ Jump Jump Dance Dance – Modern Eyes (Vindata reMix)
‘Modern Eyes’ is out soon, Jump Jump Dance Dance’s previous single, ‘Show Me The Night’ is out now:
Jump Jump Dance Dance @ Beatport
Jump Jump Dance Dance @ Amazon
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Victoria & Jacob
I stated on both Twitter and Facebook that I couldn’t be bothered to blog today ‘cos I had too much to do, my band is playing at a festival 5 hours away so I have to pack and stuff, and have too much to do in the real world.
Then an email lands in the electronic rumors Inbox. I almost didn’t read it, but I did. The music sounded interesting so I clicked the MySpace link only to find there was no music there. At this point I almost gave up, I have a bunch of synths and keyboard stands to dismantle and pack, but somehow I found my way to the band’s SoundCloud.
And, man, am I glad I did.
Victoria & Jacob are a Lo-Fi Indie-Electro/ElectroPop act from London who’s intimate toytown synth sound is slightly akin to BedroomPop but made grander by Victoria’s vocals soaring optimistically over the somewhat melancholy music. the immediate comparison in my head is to Venus Hum, but with more Englishness and less god.
The band are gearing up for the release of their second single (after a couple of self-released EPs), ‘Nighttime’, which promises to be more up tempo, we’ll bring you more on that when we can, until then do your self a favour and check out the duo’s last single ‘With No Certainty’, which is possibly the most beautiful piece of music I have heard all year.
♫ Victoria & Jacob – With No Certainty
One of the reMixes for the single is by electronic rumors favourite Bright Light Bright Light (who’s just been snapped up by PopJustice’s new label, nice one!) who produces an epic slice of Pop.
♫ Victoria & Jacob – With No Certainty (Bright Light Bright Light Uncertain reMix)
Zaflon bring the track to the dancefloor with their kick heavy reMix.
♫ Victoria & Jacob – With No Certainty (Zaflon reMix)
I wasn’t going to blog today………
‘With No Certainty’ is out now.
