Check the brand spankin’ new video by Empire Of The Sun for ‘We Are The People’:
Directed by Josh Logue of Mathematics. As crazy as Empire Of The Sun are!
Italio-Electro-Synth-Pop goodness!
Get yourself some mint imperials:
Category Electro
Heartsrevolution, back…and on Kitsuné
This week Heartsrevolution release their first offering on Kitsuné Music (previously having either Self Released or been on Iheartcomix Records or Isomorph Records), ‘Ultraviolence’.
‘Ultraviolence’ is a crazy good tune, and with remixes by Streetlife DJs, Vitalic, Château Marmont and a Spank Rock version, the whole package is well worth your attention.
Like their previous single ,’C.Y.O.A. (Choose Your Own Adventure)’, ‘Ultraviolence’ is a almighty soundclash of melody and…well…funk, with 8-bit noise and Lo’s distorted vocals.
ElectroPunk this is!
I like bands that have got the whole package and Heartsrevolution have certainly got that, from the image to the merchandise to the Heartschallenger, the pink ice cream truck they drive to parties.
Have a butcher’s at a couple of tracks from ‘Ultraviolence’, I know you’re gonna’ want the whole thing!
♫ Heartsrevolution – Ultraviolence (Original) (zShare) (MediaFire)
♫ Heartsrevolution – Ultraviolence (Vitalic reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
Bonus points for last years ‘C.O.Y.A. (Choose Your Own Adventure)’.
♫ Heartsrevolution – C.Y.O.A. (Original Mix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
You know your new years resolution was to buy more music?…well start here!
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New Røyksopp!!!
‘Happy Up Here’, that’s the name of the first single from Røyksopp forthcoming album. The album, according to rumours, will feature contributions from the likes of Lykke Li and The Knife.
Here’s the title track of the single:
♫ Røyksopp – Happy Up Here (zShare) (MediaFire)
I like it, it’s got that ‘Eple’ vibe. Røyksopp always sound like “summer in Camden” to me. I might buy the album when it comes out in March but not listen to it for a few months, ’til the sun comes out.
But you lot should buy stuff now!
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Rex The Dog
The video for Rex The Dog‘s, Yazoo sampling, ‘Bubblicious’ has started knocking round the web.
I do like Rex The Dog videos, always something interesting.
It’s a cool track, and off of a wicked album ‘The Rex The Dog Show’, but I don’t think anything on the album touches the greatness that was ‘Circulate’.
Still, I like that he makes quite complex, deep Electro-House injected with a Pop edge, and I love the all the merchandising and stuff. That’s a serious vision of how to get on in the post 2K music biz.
The ‘Bubblicious’ single is released Feb 23rd.
♫ Rex The Dog – Bubblicious (zShare) (MediaFire)
I just can’t sign off without dropping ‘Circulate’!
♫ Rex The Dog – Circulate (zShare) (MediaFire)
Remember kids, a dog is for life, not just X-mas!
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Little Boots (+Designer Drugs)
Hey, another post topic decided on by gig tickets!
I just managed to get hold of tickets for Mystery Jets as part of the NME tour, I had thought they were sold out but after a bit of digging I managed to get hold of some. I’m not at all bothered about Mystery Jets, I want to see the support act, Little Boots.
So now seems a good time to blog about Little Boots because soon she is going to be huge and blogging about her will be far too passé 😉 .
Little Boots is Victoria Hesketh, ex of Dead Disco, (with a little help from Hot Chip‘s Joe Goddard) who is fast on her way to becoming one of the finest electronic songwriters this country has ever produced.
The focus of a recent article in The Guardian about women in electro, Little Boots connects with her fans by uploading videos to YouTube of her performing covers suggested to her by her channels viewers. The cover versions proove just how talented she is, she’ll just sit there with her piano, a Stylophone and her Tenori-on and knock them out! And, boy!, what this girl can do with a Tenori-On…completely made me change my mind about the device!
Little Boots covering Hot Chip’s ‘Ready For The Floor‘
Little Boot’s ‘acoustic’ version of her own track ‘Meddle’
Anyway, the forthcoming album is eagerly anticipated! Here’s something to keep you going:
♫ Little Boots – Stuck On Repeat (zShare) (MediaFire)
♫ Little Boots – Meddle (Designer Drugs 80’s Coke Jame reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
While we’re on the subject of Designer Drugs…
♫ Designer Drugs – ZOMBIES! (zShare) (MediaFire)
C’mon people…Little Boots gotta’ eat!!!
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Birdy Nam Nam
The bizzarley named Birdy Nam Nam are releasing their album, ‘Manual For Sucessful Rioting’, in the next 10 days or so. I’m pretty interested to hear it as this French act are that most rare of things, an an Electro Turntablist group, which is a genre we could do with hearing more from!
With tracks produced by Justice and Yuksek I’m expecting great things indeed!
There are some tasters of what to expect on their recent EP ‘Worried’.
The title track…
♫ Birdy Nam Nam – Worried (Album Version) (zShare) (MediaFire)
…and a new version of their 2007 tune…
♫ Birdy Nam Nam – Trans-Boulogne Express (Album Version) (zShare) (MediaFire)
If you like what you hear, send some of that ‘hard earned’ Birdy Nam Nam’s way, you won’t regret it!
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La Roux (+Lily Allen)
Where to start, where to start?
Ideally I’d be wanting to write about new music and stuff, but there’s also so much from the last six months or so that I want to share. I have no idea where to begin.
This morning my tickets to see La Roux (supporting Lily Allen) in Shepherd’s Bush showed up, so I guess that is a good enough place to start…
London’s La Roux, the latest signing to the mighty Kitsuné Music, is an odd beast. I think it would be fair to say La Roux is a bit like Marmite, you’ll either love it or hate it. I wasn’t so sure when I first heard it but it has very much grown on me, I kinda’ have a thing for female vocalists with quirky voices though.
So grab yourself some of Elly Jackson’s unique, to say the least, voice over some addictivly funky SynthPop…
…and the track:
♫ La Roux – Quicksand (zshare) (MediaFire)
On top of that you HAVE to check out this massive reMix by autoKratz, possibly one of my favourite reMixes of the moment:
♫ La Roux – Quicksand (autoKratz Drags To Riches Mx) (zShare) (MediaFire)
Seeing as how La Roux is going to be supporting Lily Allen I’ll throw you this unofficial reMix of her forthcoming single, which I picked up from PrettyMuchAmazing!, too:
♫ Lily Allen – The Fear (Christian Vorbau ‘We Are King Kong’ reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
I’m interested in hearing Lily’s new album now she’s gone all ElectroPop. ‘Female vocalists with quirky voices’ and all….
So, the music industry’s a sinking ship. If you like the songs, throw the artists a lifeline:
…and at 7Digital you can pre-order Lily Allen’s new album for £5!!! You can’t even get a pint for that these days, can you?
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Testing with Kavinsky
So, I’m just wanting to see how embedded video and linking look in this thing.
Move along, nothing to see here…
But if you are looking…here, have some Kavinsky…
…and here’s the track:
♫ Kavinsky – Testarossa Autodrive (zShare) (MediaFire)
If you do happen to read this, and you do like it (how could you not?) then do yourself a favour and show the artist some love by buying the release!
Testing complete…………………….
