A couple of days ago Designer Drugs released their second single for Iheartcomix Records, a double A-Side featuring the tracks ‘Riot’ and ‘Drop Down’.
‘Drop Down’ is a frantic party banger, ominous chords and wailing synths build the tension ‘til the track slides into it’s noisy electro groove.
Guaranteed to slay on the dancefloor!
♫ Designer Drugs – Drop Down (zShare) (MediaFire)
‘Riot/’Drop Down’ is out now!
Matt Van Schie, of Van She fame, has dropped this solo effort onto an unexpecting interwebz and it’s a really nice little ElectroPop jam, it’s kinda’ late 70’s/early 80’s post-punk sounding track. Like a (more) retro Van She.
♫ Matt Van Schie – Saturday Night (zShare) (MediaFire)
Also, this cover version of Blue Öyster Cult’s ‘(Don’t Fear) The Reaper’ by Van She proper has surfaced. It’s from Australian radio station Triple J and it’s huge sounding with massive synth stabs.
♫ Van She – (Don’t Fear) The Reaper (Radio Rip) (zShare) (MediaFire)
I really hope this gets properly released!
London’s finest, CHEW LiPS, are currently holding down a residency at The Fly Bar and each month they are giving away a free promo CD of a track from their forthcoming album. The day after the show the tracks will be up for free download on their official website.
The first of these is also their next single, released in January 2010, ‘Seven’ and today they débuted the video for the track.
It’s pin picture-tastic!
It’s a fantastic track and just makes the album even more eagerly awaited, although it’s out in January I have a feeling it will be one of the best records of the year.
♫ CHEW LiPS – Seven (zShare) (MediaFire)
Keep checking CHEW LiPS Official Site for future downloads!
More from the Valerie crew!
One year on from the Valerie and FreeDanger double A-side release by The Outrunners and College it’s time to do it again.
Stephen Falken (named after the creator of Falken’s Maze from the 1983 Broderick-a-thon ‘WarGames’) had teamed up with fellow Valerie staples Maethelvin to bring us another double A-Side 7’”. Falken’s contribution is ‘Crusing’, a laidback retro nightdrive groove with a particularly sweet riff.
♫ Stephen Falken – Cruising (zShare) (MediaFire)
Stephen Falken/Maethelvin’s ‘Crusing’/’The Last Escape’ can be ordered from the Valerie store and is released today!
Stephen Falken @ Valerie Store
Fenech-Soler’s ‘Lies’ is a sweet Indie-Electro jam with a noisy chorus that synth rocks! For the upcoming single release The Phantom’s Revenge have given the track a Filter-House/Disco workover to stand alongside Stardust or Deft Punk. Pure dancefloor gold!
Fenech-Soler really are receiving a lot of, justified, attention these days!
♫ Fenech-Soler – Lies (The Phantom’s Revenge reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
Lies’ is released on ‘Moda Music on 2nd November. A limited edition 12” will be available October 26th.
The American countryside is littered with musical icons then?
Fan Death are back (and about time too!) with, this, the headline track of their forthcoming EP ‘A Coin For The Well’. ‘Reunited’ is Fan Death maintaining their prefect track record for off-centre Indie-Electro that manages to sound ominous yet uplifting at the same time.
The video is just genius and follows Dandi traversing the last 30 years of pop after her car breaks down. It was directed by Dandi herself.
And the tune’s just a good without the video! The video features an extended cut of the track (to fit all the cameos in!).
♫ Fan Death – Reunited (zShare) (MediaFire)
‘A Coin For The Well’ will be released by The Pharmacy Recording Co. .
Coming from the LA based stable, Binary, NightWaves (A.K.A. Kyle Petersen and Josh Legg) owe just as much to pure SynthPop as they do to heavy 80’s influenced Electro-House.
Heavily emotive vocals with an early Depeche Mode style isn’t always the first thing you expect from a band associated with the current crop of Disco-House (or what they are calling Dreamwave) acts, you normally expect something lighter, floatier, but it works so well and lends NightWaves an extra slice of power in their music.
The upcoming single ‘Fascination’ is original taken from the fantastic Binary compilation ‘LA Lights’ and has been given the reMix treatment by a number of artists in the last few months. amongst them Sweden’s ODahl turn the Disco-House up to 11 while We Plants Are Happy Plants make the track more of an deep epic highlighting the feeling in the vocals. Fellow Binary crew Keenhouse’s mix is probably my favourite version (other than the original!) with pure electro beats and an almost poppy synth riff.
Check them out:
♫ NightWaves – Fascination (zShare) (MediaFire)
♫ NightWaves – Fascination (WPAHP reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
♫ NightWaves – Fascination (ODahl reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
♫ NightWaves – Fascination (Keenhouse reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
For more info keep an eye on Binary’s blog and go grab yourselves some NightWaves:
I’ve been meaning to post about Cinnamon Chasers for a while now. Their album, released digitally earlier this year, ‘A Million Miles From Home’ has been one of my soundtracks of the past few months, particularly for lazy Sunday afternoons.
Brilliantly crafted dreamy electro pop that lets light arpeggios and atmospheric synth riffs float atop disco laden beats and basslines, capped of with Russ Davies’ almost ethereal vocals. It’s a pretty chilled and emotional record but that doesn’t stop it occasionally veering into dancefloor territory with the likes of ‘Adored’.
The standout track has to be ‘Jetstreams’, which is a combination of all the best aspects of the album, and damn catchy too!
Anyhoo, the video for ‘Luv Deluxe’ is getting the big screen airing at a few London film festivals. ‘Luv Deluxe’ is a sweet track that drags you along in it’s groove, which makes this video the prefect accompaniment for it (watch it and you’ll see).
I love videos that tell a story, and this one is a cute, if fucked up, little tale.
Clock it on the big screen here:
October 29th @ Village Underground
Future Shorts’ ‘Beats From Above’ Festival
November 6th @ London Transport Museum Friday Late
‘Luv Deluxe’ is directed by Saman Keshavarz.
And get this in your MP3 player, I guarantee you’ll want more!
♫ Cinnamon Chasers – Luv Deluxe (zShare) (MediaFire)
‘A Million Miles From Home’ is available now from the following stores:
It’s that time again!
November sees volume 8 of Kitsuné Music’s Kitsuné Maison series released. This one’s subtitled ‘The Chic And Nice Issue’.
It looks like there will be some pretty exiting stuff on here, the likes of CHEW LiPS, Heartsrevolution and Le Corps Mince De Françoise are always welcome. Two Door Cinema Club and Delphic are massive right now, both have albums out on Kitsuné soon and the new Midnight Juggernauts single is on there too, bonus!
Clock the tracklisting:
01. French Horn Rebellion – Up All Night
02. The Drums – Let’s Go Surfing
03. Siriusmo – High Together
04. Le Corps Mince De Françoise – Something Golden
05. Midnight Juggernauts – This New Technology
06. Heartsrevolution – Dance ‘Till Dawn
07. Logo – Junocide
08. Two Door Cinema Club – I Can Talk (Moulinex reMix)
09. Slagsmålsklubben – Brutal Weapons
10. Beni – Maximus (Harvard Bass reMix)
11. AMWE – Friction Between The Lovers
12. Jolie Charie – Star
13. CHEW LiPS – Salt Air (Alex Kapranos reMix)
14. Delphic – This Momentary
15. Memory Tapes – Bicycle
16. Parallels – Find The Fire
17. Nottee – Control
18. Encore
19. Crystal Fighters – I Love London
20. My Tiger My Timing – I Am The Sound
So, as is standard with Maison releases, top ElectroPop gurus JBAG have thrown together a MiniMix to showcase the compilation, it’s short but sweet and really wets the appetite for ‘The Chic And Nice Issue’.
Bring it on!
♫ Kitsuné Maison 8 MiniMix By JBAG (zShare) (MediaFire)
While you’re waiting for November 30th when volume 8 hits the stores why not check out some more of JBAG’s mixes and reMixes:
Seriously! Ever since these two reMixes of Marina And The Diamonds forthcoming single, ‘Mowgli’s Road’ (Originally the B-side of ‘Obsessions’), dropped into the electronic rumors inbox I haven’t been able to stop listening to them.
And don’t make me pick between the two, I couldn’t do it. Mille’s rework is upbeat with a bouncing bassline. It’s arpeggios and strings brilliantly capture the epicness of the original while Valerie man Russ Chimes brings his 80’s styled disco funk to the track and then hits you with massive electro breakdowns.
Two seriously good reMixes:
♫ Marina And The Diamonds – Mowgli’s Road (Mille reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
♫ Marina And The Diamonds – Mowgli’s Road (Russ Chimes reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
Check the original too, in all it’s quirky brilliance!
♫ Marina And The Diamonds – Mowgli’s Road (zShare) (MediaFire)
‘Mowgli’s Road’ drops on November 16th and can be pre ordered at PureGroove, it comes B-sided with a cover of Late Of The Pier’s ‘Space And The Woods’.
Marina And The Diamonds @ PureGroove
Marina And The Diamonds @ 7Digital
Marina And The Diamonds @ Amazon
