Jul 30 2012

Lenno’s Summer Mix part 1

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Lenno – Summer Mix 2012 Pt. 1 = Finland’s finest, Lenno, drops his first summer mixtape. It’s just under an hour of frantic, big room, Nu-Disco and House sounds. Lenno in full-on party effect keeps the energy going the whole time. Big tunes all the way.

♫ Lenno – Summer Mix 2012 Pt. 1

The tracklist:

01. Dilemn – No More
02. Those Usual Suspects (eat. Jay Sebag ) – Give It To Me (Russ Chimes reMix)
03. The Whip – Secret Weapon (Alex Metric reMix)
04. TheFatRat – Do Be Do Be Do
05. The Knocks & Fred Falke – Geronimo (Lenno reMix)
06. Heavyweight – Butterknife
07. NAPT (Feat. FireFlowerz) – Italian Spiderman
08. PrototypeRaptor Vs. Wolfgang Gartner – Drive Space Junk (TheFatRat Mashup)
09. Zedd – Spectrum (Magna reMix)
10. Dirty South & Thomas Gold (Feat. Kate Elsworth) – Eyes Wide Open (Lenno reMix (Festival Edit))
11. ID
12. Miike Snow – Paddling Out (Carli reMix)
13. Justice – New Lands (A-Trak reMix) + Nari & Milani – Atom
14. BeatauCue – Disque Oh! (Eumig & Chinon reMix)
15. Dirty South & Thomas Gold (Feat. Kate Elsworth) – Alive (Lucky Date Bootleg)
16. Lenno & Jesse Oliver – Ylistys Helsingille + Dirty South & Those Usual Suspects (Feat. Erik Hecht) – Walking Alone (Acapella)

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Jul 30 2012

Sneaky Sound System’s ‘Friends’ video

Here’s the video for Sneaky Sound System’s, catchy as hell, current single Friends.

Directed and filmed by Miss Connie herself, the clip features Black Angus. Although you wouldn’t know it as he wanders over Tokyo in a variety of animal masks.

Sneaky Sound System’s Friends is out now.

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Jul 30 2012

alloapm’s ‘LCY Likes Pineapple’

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Madcap Tokoy ElectroPopsters alloapm are at it again. Dropping a brand new track on SoundColud, LCY Likes Pineapple, the band once again invites us into their funky, strange, world.

LCY Likes Pineapple hits like a wall of synth noise. If you listen carefully, amongst the mix there is layers and layers of synths, from gritty buzzsaws to toytown plinks. It’s a track that’s much rawer than alloapm’s pervious output, but keeps a crazy groove and ends up being totally catchy. This is the kind of tune we’d love to see live, with two drummers and an orchestra of keytar players covering the multi levels of percussion and melody. Gritty, ballsy, infectious ElectroPop from Japan once again.

♫ alloapm – LCY Likes Pineapple (Demo.)

alloapm’s Gorilla Slighly single is out now.

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Jul 30 2012

Felix Cartal’s ‘Higher’ video

Hey look! We haven’t featured Felix Cartal on these pages for literally years, yet here he is, with the video for his new single Higher featuring New Ivory.

Look at all that urban stress!

[Via Vice]

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Jul 30 2012

Cygnus’ ‘Newmark Phase’

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Deep Electro beats abound on Dallas, Texas based Electro outfit Cygnus début release. It’s the first release of new Sheffield imprint Central Processing Unit that joins the dots between B-Boy Electro and the myriad bass heavy electronic experimentalisms that have come out of South Yorkshire, from Cabaret Voltaire to LFO. Although American, Cygnus create a robotic, analog, groove that fits perfectly with a label based in the Steel City, with their album, titled Newmark Phase.

The album comes in two forms, a ten track digital release and a three track 12”. It’s hard to know what order to review the album in, as the tracklist is both in alphabetical order and numbered in binary, but the binary starts at 0000, or zero, for track number (we presume) one. So you end up with the eighth track on the album numbered 0111 (or seven), the ninth numbered 1000 (or eight) and the tenth 1001 (or nine). I think we’ll just stick with alphabetical for now…these crazy Electro kids these days, eh? So, the album kicks off with Atari Lovers and it’s the prefect introduction to what you’ll be treated to for the next hour. Deep kicks, snapping snares, robot rock beats and a sheer revelling in synthetic sounds. Most of the album revolves around old school Electro beats, layered with rich tones and atmospherics that are sometimes complimented, sometimes juxtaposed with gritty, piercing lead lines and ringing melodies. This is best exemplified on tracks like Bedroom Activities, Icasean Mutant Police or Red District Girls, but there are occasion when Cygnus veers off into Minimal Techno in the likes of Hungry DJs gets close to SynthWave on track such as the haunting District Nights. The title track is one of the standouts and available on both versions of the album, a machine led science fiction soundscape, evocative of urban dystopias. The combination of body pooping beats and strange, otherworldly melodies is at once both unsettling and comforting, like Incunabula era Autechre. Also one of the highlights is Private Feelings, a relentless yet warm analog workout and a joy for fans of synthesizer music. If you like your B-Boy Electro, or your atmospheric electronics, or happen to need a soundtrack for your dark future, then look no further and get your ears round Cygnus.

♫ Cygnus – Private Feelings

Cygnus’ Newmark Phase is released 24th September on vinyl and digital.

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Jul 27 2012

Keenhouse’s ‘Where I Belong’

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Keenhouse has a new album on the way! Just take my word for it, this is pretty exciting news. Saying Keenhouse is one of the most musically gifted members of the Binary collective feels mean on the rest of them, we’re not trying to say they are less able, there is some amazing musical talent amongst the LA crew, but Keenhouse is just a wizard in front of a keyboard.

Where I Belong is the first single from the LP, a dreamy electronic trip with an almost psychedelic feel. it’s a track that really feels like the start of something special. we haven’t heard the album yet, but Where I Belong gives us the impression that the full length record will be more of a musical journey, each track flowing into the last, than a collection of club tunes. So, if this tune starts us off on out trek toward the album, it’s a gently start. Eastern percussion and smooth jazzy electric piano intertwine with swirling synths and a distant vocal as the track builds up to a danceflor synthesizer wig-out. If the album plays out like we think it will (read: amazing), it almost seems a shame to listen to the track outside of context, but it;s still the perfect tune for hot, lazy day.

♫ Keenhouse – Where I Belong

Keenhouse’s Four Dreams album is released 4th September on Binary.

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Jul 27 2012

F3’s ‘Magnificent’

Hot on the heels, and we mean hot on the heels in the same month, as their last single Congo Bongo Tel Aviv production duo F3 are releasing Magnificent next week via Cardiff’s Pole Position Recordings. It’s already out on Beatport but hits other outlets on Monday with a reMix package chock full of awesomeness.

Magnificent is a blissful slice of Disco House. F3 mix up some mix House riffs and retro synths with a low-down dirty groove, but what really lifts this track is the suitably used vocal samples and the drifting, haunting saxophone. Washing in and out of the track amongst the 80’s riffs it really gives this track a smooth late-night feel. Our boy ODahl’s take on the track lifts the party mood as he drops in his trademark squelchy funk bass energetic lead lines. Dutchman Nathan Swiss also lends his weight to the reMix package by upping the Funk quota considerably. The Swiss reMix lays this a deep, complex Funk bassline and extra helpings of retro synth stabs. Featuring additional reMix work from Phunktastike and Matt Prehn, the whole single package is nostalgic summer grooves and deep sexy beats. Definitely one to play late into the night.

♫ F3 – Magnificent (Original Mix)

♫ F3 – Magnificent (ODahl reMix)

♫ F3 – Magnificent (Nathan Swiss reMix)

Magnificent is out now on Beatport, everywhere else on 30th July.

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Jul 27 2012

Lueur Verte reMixes Arcade High

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The Maddie Ardillo featuring Crush was one of the highlights of Pittsburgh’s SynthWave export Arcade High’s recent album The Art Of Youth. As seeing as how it’s was an all round excellent album that’s really saying something. So good was it that French retro Electro master Lueur Verte couldn’t keep his hands off it and delivers a stunning, hazy, rework of the tune.

Lueur Verte brings all his skills to the table here, crafting a delicious dream of a track. Sweet vintage synth lines crash against the Italo beats like waves of nostalgia. Each wash conjuring the mood of decades gone by. The synths sparkle, the bassline bounces along, the chords are rich and emotive, Lueur Verte plays to his strengths and works the vocal to bring out a new kind of passion in the performance. Uplifting and euphoric. There are some who are right at the top of the 80’s synth scene, Lueur Verte is definitely one.

♫ Arcade High (Feat. Maddie Ardillo) – Crush (Lueur Verte reMix)

Arcade High’s The Art Of Youth is out now.

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Jul 27 2012

Evokateur’s ‘Chime Hours’ EP

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London gloomy ElectroPop duo Evokateur are about to release their new EP. Chime Hours is the follow up to the awesome Crow’s Wedding record. The new release joins the dots between Evokateur’s Gothy beginnings and their more Poppy recent output. Not only that, but there is a reMix by my friend and yours, the one and only, Mr. Fear Of Tigers.

Chime Hours kicks off with 1684, a swirling, lush tune that neatly sits in a place between robotic and ethereal. Hector laying down his usual beats, arpeggios and Industrial flourishes whist Sarah delivers an dramatic, gothic vocal. this opening track is actually pretty straight forward ElectroGoth, but Post, which follows, is a track with a lot more depth, both musically and vocally. There’s less pomp and more feeling in the vocal in Post, and the music is more surprising, more intelligent. The arrangement is actually quite Rocky, but the eclectic use of sounds and a quiet authenticity in Sara’s voice really lift this tune. White Horses, with all it’s EBM distortion and Glitchy, hides a powerful song underneath it’s Numanoid sheen. An infectious stom underpinning a really catchy tune. The cinematic lament of How Long plays out the EP, leaving room only for Fear Of Tigers’ reMix of White Horses. Is there anything Ben has touched that didn’t turn to gold? This time the Fear Of Tigers treat comes in the form of a Indie tinged Dreamwave tune that digs the song out of White Horses and lets it find it’s feet. Lifted by Fear Of Tigers rich layers of synth nostalgia the vocals are lifted to a whole new place. Ending the EP on a euphoric high. We kinda’ get the feeling that, right now, Evokateur is in danger of going from something quite special, to being another ElectroGoth band. And that’ll probably be the last we hear from them. It hasn’t quite happened yet, Chime Hours is a beautiful, immersive listening experience, and one we would recommend, but the warning signs are there. We have out fingers crossed that that doesn’t happen.

♫ Evokateur – White Horses

♫ Evokateur – White Horses (Fear Of Tigers Rmx)

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Jul 27 2012

Olivaw

What is it with Russia right now? They are cleaning up the SynthWave and of Nu-Disco and claiming it for their own. There is so much stuff to have come out of that part of the world in the past year, and almost all of it is so good it puts much of the rest of the world to shame. Olivaw is next in line. Hailing from Arkhangelsk in northern Russia, Olivaw is quietly making some of the grooviest Outrun you’ll hear in a while.

His latest track, Summer Breeze, is a buzzing, swirling, intoxicating tune. A no-worries nostalgic vibe that carries you along with it, embraced by warm retro synths and buzzing lead lines. Olivaw has got a handle on the Outrun beat perfectly, Italo influenced but not to overpowering, just right to drive the track along. His older tunes include the massive Disco tinged SynthWave of Sleepless Nights, a track that piles on layer after layer of melodic, soloing madness and The Guardians Of Time a punchy classic ‘80’s soundtrack inspired jam, all big beats and rousing synths. In unusual for a new SynthWave artist to hit the ground running in such a slick, polished style, but Olivaw has marked himself as one to watch. The denizens of Russia nail retro synth once more.