Yesterday the excellent Melbourne based SynthPop/Dreamwave act Miami Horror unleashed their new video for the track ‘Moon Theory’.
It’s a chilled groove full of interesting synth sounds with a video produced by Pharm productions that features some kind of space cowboy and, er, other stuff…
Swedish/US Electro-Indie loons Miike Snow have announced not only a brand new single, ‘The Rabbit’, but also a special deluxe edition of their self titled début album, both next month.
The brand new single, produced by Les Rhythmes Digitales/Zoot Woman main man Stuart Price, will also feature on the re-released album along with some of the best reMixes from the past year’s singles.
The band have premiered the video for ‘The Rabbit’, it’s more straight-up ElectroPop than their previous offerings, it’s clean and slick and really quite awesome!
The video was directed by Andreas Nilsson and shot in Kingston, Jamaica with a small child with a bears and a three legged dog.
The ‘The Rabbit’ single is released 5th July while the new album edition drops 12th July.
As a follow up to our post earlier in the week featuring a Radio Rip of the Holy Ghost! reMix of Monarchy’s amazing forthcoming single, ‘Love Get Out Of The Way’, we can now preview for you the whole song.
There are whispers that the reMix wasn’t supposed to be played as it may have been rejected, but now with the blog hype the track gained this week it may make the cut! This is just rumour though.
Check the original post to hear us going on about Moog funk, and listen to the whole track below.
The Human League have confirmed the schedule for their UK tour later in the year. To promote their forthcoming new studio album, on Wall Of Sound the ElectroPop legends will be hitting the road for the first time since the 2008 Steel City tour, and for the first time in a long while will include new music in their set.
The League are slick as hell live so it would be in your best interest to check them out them when they pass near you, here’s the dates:
29th Nov – Norwich @ UEA
30th Nov – Halifax @ Victoria Theatre
01st Dec – Sheffield @ City Hall
03rd Dec – Bristol @ The Colston Hall
04th Dec – Wolverhampton @ Civic Hall
5th Dec – St. Albans @ Alban Arena
6th Dec – Folkestone @ Leas Cliff Hall
7th Dec – Liverpool @ Philharmonic Hall
9th Dec – Stoke @ Victoria Hall
10th Dec – London @ The Royal Festival Hall
11thDec – Cambridge @ Corn Exchange
13th Dec – Gateshead @ The Sage
14th Dec – Edinburgh @ Picture House
15th Dec – Manchester @ Academy
17th Dec – Lincoln @ The Engine Shed
18th Dec – Leicester @ De Montfort Hall
electronic rumors will be front and centre for the Bristol show, maybe catch you there?
Celebrate this exiting news with this track from a few years back, Richard Stone’s reMix of the classic ‘The Things That Dreams Are Made Of’:
Today saw the release of Vancouver’s finest Space-Disco export FM Attack’s new EP, ‘Astrowave’, picking up the cosmic synth journey where last years album ‘Deamatic’ left off.
‘Old Skool Daze’, from the EP, is a vocoder laden synthesizer epic that takes in influences from B-Boy Electro, Moroder-esq Electro Disco and the synthesizer skills of the likes of Jean Michele-Jarre. It’s exactly how I like my Nu-Disco, intricate, layered and musical but with a heavy beat, the vocoders are just the icing on the cake.
London’s SynthPop rising stars Visitor’s Diamond Cut produced forthcoming single ‘Los Feeling’ is being eagerly anticipated by anyone with even a passing interest in electronic music.
The ex-Cobra Dukes produce, with this single, a perfect balance of the retro and the new, as if modern equipment and production techniques were transported back to the 80’s. ‘Los Feeling’ is powerful and passionate with node to both the intimate ElectroPop of Pet Shop Boys and OMD to the stadium rock of Simple Minds or U2. The much anticipated Alan Braxe reMix has been on Youtube for a while now and has had more than a few repeat listens. Braxe really takes the track to another level creating an intense, multi-layered Nu-Disco track that deserves to blasted loud on a summer’s night!
With more reMixes from Designer Drugs, Fear Of Tigers and Monsieur Adi, waiting for this single to be released is almost painful, until then give the guys some massive MySpace love!
New Yorkers Holy Ghost! have really gone to funky town with Monarchy’s forthcoming single ‘Love Get Out Of My Way’.
Premiered on Annie Mac’s BBC Radio 1 Show last Friday the reMix is a massive slice of Moog Funk. You can hear little elements of the component parts creeping in here and there. Little bits of Monarchy and little bits of Holy Ghost!’s NYC Disco all presided over by a huge Moog riff.
Funkier than we are used to with Monarchy? Yes. Awesome as hell? Yes!
Last time Kitsuné Music collaborated with one of Richard Mortimer projects on a CD the end result was ‘Kitsuné/BoomBox’. Mixed by, both Kitsuné resident and resident at Mortimer’s legendary BoomBox club, Jerry Bouthier, the album brought together Electro-house and underground ElectroPop to amazingly capture the summer of 2007 for anyone listening to that type of music or going to those types of clubs. it was easily the soundtrack to the year.
This summer Kitsuné are partnering up with Mortimer’s current business, the London based Fashion/Music/Culture webzine PonyStep, to produce another compilation. Mixed, once more, by one half of JBAG, Bouthier, the track list is already impressive. Featuring the likes of Róisín Murphy, Bag Raiders, Adamski, Lindstrøm, Lo-Fi-Fnk, David E Sugar and Das Pop to name a few. BeatauCue’s reMix of Florrie’s ‘911’ makes an appearance in the form of a JBAG edit. As does Two Door Cinema Club’s previous single ‘I Can Talk’ as reMixed by French Horn Rebellion. With a line up like that, and Jerry Bouthier’s prowess at putting together an awesome electronic Pop mix this album should really be something special!
Minitel Rose, those purveyors of the smoothest of French SynthPop & Dreamwave, are finally gearing up to drop their second album ‘Atlantic’ this June, and that (if you didn’t know) is an exiting thing! Their 2008 début ‘The French Machine’ still gets weekly play here and was an important record in terms of introducing a smoother French Electro sound to the masses and drawing wider attention to the Dreamwave movement being spearheaded by the Valerie Collective.
Listening to ‘Wild Birds’, the first track from the album, just wets the appetite even more. Their Electro-House tinged Disco SynthPop is in full effect on this energetic, anthemic track. It’s retro synth chords and uplifting vocals seriously bode well for this album being the soundtrack to the summer. electronic rumors fave Barretso give the track a shot of adrenaline with his reMix, busting out his best pumping percussion and shimmering synths to create a powerhouse of a reMix. Kolt13 brings a Disco/Chiptune soundclash to his version, and intricate mixture of Nintendo madness and Discoball funk.
Minitel Rose look like they are going to release an awesome album, with some awesome remixes. Can’t wait!
Zoot Woman, that bastion of UK slick, ultra-stylish, ElectroPop release a new single today, titled ‘Just A Friend Of Mine’.
The single, from Stuart Price’s sometime band, is supported with reMixes by Dinamics, The Penelopes and SomethingALaMode and it’s the SALM mix that we can preview for you here. Melding dirty Electro with dramatic orchestration births a unique dancefloor tension, the distorted synths and violin clashing to create a nervous energy that really works as a counterpoint to the Poppy vocals.
