Aug 14 2012

KIEZ BEATS’ ‘Synthwave Vol.1’ mix by Ryan Riot

Synthwave

KIEZ BEATS – Synthwave Vol.1 Mix By Ryan Riot = KIEZ BEATS are really knocking the compilation out these days. This time it’s a collection of some of the finest SynthWave around, loaded with electronic rumors alumnae. Check out this mix of the album from Mr. Ryan Riot.

♫ KIEZ BEATS Synthwave Vol.1 Mix By Ryan Riot

The tracklist:

01. Jolie Cherie – No Matter What
02. Mr. Gonzo – Dance On You
03. Ryan Riot – Loading Procedure
04. Pilotpriest – Xanadu
05. DigitalNativeDance – Rise Up
06. seipä – Sunset Highway
07. Tommy – Out Run
08. 80s Stallone – Out of the Water
09. D/A/D – Sky High
10. DYNATRON – The Pulsating Nebula
11. The Robot Scientists (Feat. Lisa) – Black Hole (Kid Machine Vocal Mix)
12. Thomas Barrandon – Absolute Magnitude
13. Cosmonauts – Stardust (Original Mix)
14. ST – Blue
15. Mindscramble – Upstart (2012 reMix)
16. Hot Hot Hawk – Cyrax
17. Jordan F – Last Night
18. Illapa – Spark
19. FlashBoy – Corvette
20. Alpha Boy – The Return of Norman Knight
21. Jowie Schulner – A New Day
22. ALEXINO – Asphalt
23. Ace Attack – In the Dark

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Aug 14 2012

Xtrafunk’s new tune

Here’s the new one from German smooth groove-meister Xtrafunk. Missing Words comes hot on the heels of his acclaimed reMix of Goldroom’s Fifteen and keeps the laid back Disco momentum going, adding a little Housey vibe to the mix.

Missing Words is the prefect antidote to any stresses in your life, there’s no way you can stay wound-up with this tune playing. It just lets you sink into it’s slick Disco licks, warm synths and relaxed House beat. With easy, breezy, beach Funk like this, you can practically feel the waves lapping at your toes. Lie back, crank it up, and let your worries drain right out of you. Smooth.

♫ Xtrafunk – Missing Words

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Aug 13 2012

Monsieur Adi’s ‘Youth’

Monsieur Adi

When French Nu-Disco/SynthWave genius Monsieur Adi dropped his new track, Youth, we weren’t sure if it was his reMix of Foxes’ Youth re-named. Luckily it turned out to be a brand new track. Not that there’s anything wrong with his Foxes reMix, we love it, but it;s always nice to have a new Adi track.

And this one’s surprising. Definitely more big room than we’re used to from Adi. There’s a lot less of Adi trademark excellent orchestration and a lot less of his synthesizer Disco. What we have hear is Adi trying his hand at a sunrise style tune that is ripe for Ibiza this summer. He still manages to work a fair does of his lush strings into the mix, but this one is all about the builds and big post-Euphoric Trance riffs. Should Adi want to continue down this road, he’ll be very good at it, one of the best, but we’ll miss the Disco a bit.

♫ Monsieur Adi – Youth

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Aug 13 2012

Citizens! reMix The Cast Of Cheers

The Cast Of Cheers

Irish Indie-Rockers, and part of the upcoming NME Generation Next tour, The Cast Of Cheers have one of the best band names in the world. They also seem to have good taste in reMixers, as they have got London Indie-ElectroPoppers Citizens! to make some beats and bash some keys for their track Human Elevator.

Citizens! take to track to a bass-heavy place, then liberally sprinkle biting melodies over their deep groove. This is a track with a nice combination of classic a SynthPop feel and dancefloor rocking sensibilities. Rough and ready gritty bass presents a rock steady back beat for piercing lead lines and sparsely, but perfectly, used snatches of the original’s vocals to dance around atop. It’s quite a sparse track, but everything in it is used to it’s fullest potential, it’s would also sounds awesome on a club system.

♫ The Cast Of Cheers – Human Elevator (Citizens! reMix)

Human Elevator is taken from The Cast Of Cheers’ album Family, out now.

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Aug 13 2012

Todd Terje & Lindstrøm

Lindstrøm

A couple of weeks ago Norwegian Housemeister Todd Terje released a couple of extended edits of Lindstrøm’s recent A-Side Eg-Ged-Osis/Ra-Ako-St. Fellow Norwegian Lindstrøm had already roped Terje in to mix the tracks anyway, so whipping up a couple of Edits seems thing the thing to do. What results is some seriously epic, sweeping, atmospheric Disco.

Eg-Ged-Osis is the more hypnotic dancefloor trance inducer of the two. An undulating, repeating, Acidic groove runs through the track. It takes elements from Balearic and euphoric Trance, but works then in Disco, and strangely Scandinavian, ways. Building and building and building, whipping any dancefloor into a frenzy, Eg-Ged-Osis is relentless in it’s hands-in-the-air groove. Ra-Ako-St is more dramatic and majestic. Rooted in Cosmic Disco the track kicks off with a gritty Italo bassline that soon gives way to more House and Disco oriented tropes and a whole layer of Sci-Fi synths. It’s a space-age voyage through uncharted galaxies, cinematic, but funky as hell. This double A-side might just be the surprise hit of the year in certain dimly lit Disc haunts in the capital.

♫ Lindstrøm – Eg-Ged-Osis (Todd Terje Edit)

♫ Lindstrøm – Ra-Ako-St (Todd Terje Edit)

Eg-Ged-Osis/Ra-Ako-St is out now.

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Aug 13 2012

Christianoshi début single

Christianoshi

London based SynthPop artist Christianoshi’s 21st century Erasure anthem Trust, finally sees release today as his début a single proper. It’s well deserved and a long time coming for this hard working singer who’s been knocking out top tracks for a year or so now. Trust comes loaded with reMixes from Kryn & Krügen and long-time Christianoshi collaborator Trademark.

Trust is the epitome of Christianoshi’s style. Part Erasure, part Marc Almond, part Bronski Beat with a slightly updated production style. It’s classic ElectroPop stuff really, dominated by a pulsating Electro bassline and Christianoshi belting out, full of drama and a massive ‘80’s chorus. Kryn & Krügen bring a ‘90’s tribal dance flavour to the track while Trademark’s slick Pet Shop Boys Disco sound lifts the track right up to the dancefloor. Their Electro Boogie bassline and big synth stabs are hard not to move to and work perfectly with Christianoshi impassioned vocal. the single feels like a manifesto for Christianoshi, this is him telling the world what he’s about, and that seems to be bringing traditional SynthPop kicking and screaming into contemporary music. We eagerly await his next release.

♫ Christianoshi – Trust

♫ Christianoshi – Trust (Trademark reMix)

Christianoshi’s Trust is out now.

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Aug 13 2012

Garth Knight

Garth Knight is a SynthWave producer from Glasgow. Named, of course, after Garthe Knight, the Hoff’s villainous doppelganger in Knight Rider. He’s been dropping a bunch of new track over the past few days that really have seen him upping his game. Is Garth Knight ready to go from SynthWave newcomer to SynthWave master?

This new crop of tunes thankfully eschew Knight’s previous tendency to slather everything in wailing guitar and sticks to everything that’s great about SynthWave. With a beautiful grasp of melody knight crafts synthesizer mood that effortlessly carry you along with them. Time the Healer is a perfect example of this. Haunting and subtly the moody Italo backing playing off against the more optimistic melody. Both the use of sound and the use of melody in this track has a Jarre-esque quality to it and just shows how lilting SynthWave can be without loosing any of it’s toughness. City Streets brings things back to a rapid fire Italo place. This tune must be soundtracking some high speed chase in a dystopian future, all flaying arpeggios and piercing synths fizzing, like rain on neon bulbs. Headstart makes for the best of both worlds, upbeat and poppy with a jump-up Italo bassline and some amazing playing with arpeggios. Garth Knight is definitely a name we want to hear more from in the future, just so long as he keeps a step back from the six-string.

♫ Garth Knight – Time the Healer

♫ Garth Knight – City Streets

♫ Garth Knight – Headstart

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Aug 13 2012

Bedmo Disco and Awon

Bedmo Disco

The Bedminster Disco collective Bedmo Disco recently released a new split EP with fellow Bristolian Awon, it’s four tracks of full on Boogie. Just in-case someone didn’t notice, the chaps are giving away a free new track, Take A Bow, to draw attention to the B-Funk EP.

Take A Bow is the result of a back and forth collaboration between Bedmo Disco and Awon. In their own words; “Said track was produced by Awon. It was re-edited by Bedmo Disco, then re-produced (after the original files got lost) by Awon. We’ve been playing it on and off in our sets for about six months and it always goes down well.”. It’s a big, undulating, slice of deep funk with a body shaking Disco bassline and some sweet, piercing retro synth work. The B-Funk EP itself hold four tracks of modern Electro Boogie flavoured Disco. The début original tunes from both Awon and Bedmo Disco, all four tracks are supremely confidently produced and the record is loaded with squelchy synth Funk basslines and stabbing nostalgic synths. The highlights have to be Awon’s, Startime, a track rolling in cosmic groove and wicked Disco licks, and Bemo Disco’s own Illusion. Illusion is a nice head-on collision between analog Disco and B-Boy Electro. Keeping it sexy on the dancefloor bit injecting it with just a little Electro-Funk flavour in the leads. Four track well worth your attention.

♫ Awon And Bedmo Disco – Take A Bow

♫ Bedmo Disco – Illusion

♫ Awon – Startime

Bedmo Disco and Awon’s B-Funk EP is out now.

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Aug 13 2012

He Met Her

OK, so it’s taken us the weekend to decide whether to write about LA based ElectroPop duo He Met Her. There’s a couple of things about them that is a little annoying. Firstly, they are billed as “A Tumblr-savvy duo” with a “GIF-animated EP”. Which is fine, you can see the ‘Gif Animated’ version of their new EP ‘Crime Novela’, here. Which, despite being mostly HTML5 and Flash, is quite a nice way to present an EP, of that there is no doubt. But doing that, and then making a big deal about it, and how it makes you savy and down with the current buzz social network is toe curlingly cheesy and sounds amazingly contrived. It sounds more focus-group than creative, I’m sure He Met Her could have released their EP like this, without promoting it with bandwagon jumping rhetoric, just fine. The other slightly annoying thing is, He Met Her is a dual vocal outfit, and whilst the female vocals are sweet as hell, the male vocals are a tiny bit irritating. A bit smug sounding, not enough to really detract from your enjoyment of the songs, but enough to bother you in the back of your mind.

That said however, the songs are very good. a relentlessly infectious combination of an LA pool party Disco vibe and early ‘90’s ElectroPop. With a raw production style, and the aforementioned male/female, call and response, vocals He Met Her’s music is pure sing-a-long fun. The Crime Novela EP hold five tracks of unswervingly shiny, sexy, electronic Pop music. The record flows quite effortlessly from the upbeat, on tracks like Take Me Tonight, to powerful anthemic stompers in the form Believe In Me. Packed with 90’s Dance-Pop and R&B references, Crime Novela is a great, if slightly jumbled début. There definitely some magic going on with these two, perhaps it needs time to mature though? Either way we look forward to watching the progress.

♫ He Met Her – Okay

♫ He Met Her – Take Me Tonight

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Aug 10 2012

Chew Lips reMixed by XXXY

Chew Lips

In the build up to the release of their awesome new single, Hurricane, Chew Lips (feels weird writing it like that) have release yet another shiny reMix of the track. This time stepping up to the reMix plate id London House guru XXXY. Time to get bassy.

XXXY’s reMix is totally Chicago House fun, and strikingly Chew Lips track, particularly Tigs’ vocals fit that perfectly. It’s all deep square wave basses, ‘90’s House piano, there might even be a little accordion in there, and while this hypnotic groove might seem antithetical to Chew Lips’ chaotic liveness, it actually all works so smoothly. We always knew what a classic, powerful voice Tigs’ had, but with a ‘90’s House backing, her voice seems to go into full-on diva mode.