Jul 24 2012

Estate’s new tune

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Here’s the new tune from Minneapolis Disco trio Estate. These guys have been pushing out a steady stream of quality Nu-Disco tunes and reMixes over the past few years, and their style just gets smoother and smoother. Vu Du is a dirty summer jam that will have you moving in the heat.

Vu Du rolls along with cut up samples and twisting synth lines. Equal parts funky and cosmic & magical, it’s a track that caters for all your needs. A deep walking bassline is the main weapon in this tune’s arsenal to make you move. undulating and infectious, it’s irresistible. Once you’ve succumbed to the power of the bassline, let the wall of synth sound fill your mind, swirling lead lines and waves of pads wash in and out of the track like waves of dreamlike noise. Half heard snatches of vocal samples ebb and flow throughout the track. It’s a heady listening experience.

♫ Estate – Vu Du

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Jul 24 2012

The Knocks & Fred Falke’s ‘Geronimo’ video

Boom! That’s the sound of one of the biggest tunes of the year, The Knocks & Fred Falke’s Geronimo, getting a video.

Director Daniel Pappas captures some pretty stunning footage here,. The premise is pretty simple, nut the cinematography is very nice indeed.

Geronimo is out now on Beatport and available everywhere else on 23rd July.

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Jul 24 2012

Chad Valley reMixes Mausi

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Three out of the four time was have features Newcastle Indie-Electro crew Mausi has been for their track Sol., they are certainly milking this track for every inch of mileage it holds. A dangerous tactic to be sure, coasting a whole year on one track, regardless of how good it is, has a chance of people burning out on it. Anyhoo, next in line to drop a reMix of the track is Oxford’s Chillwave don Chad Valley. His reMix, along with the original, is apparently getting released, again, next month.

On the upside, however, Chad works his lush, evocative electronic magic on the track. A swirling, comforting, wash of gentle synth sounds and relaxing percussion with a slight R&B flavour. In the kind of heatwave we in the UK are having right now, you just don’t want to do anything, Chad’s rEMix kinda’ give you an excuse. Just chill for a while with this tune.

♫ Mausi – Sol. (Chad Valley reMix)

Chad Valley’s reMix of Sol. is released 6th August.

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Jul 24 2012

Pet Shop Boys’ ‘Winner’ video

This is the video for Pet Shop Boys’ new single Winner. An epic SynthPop tune that is, completely coincidentally, about winning stuff, just in time for the Olympics.

Timing cynicism aside, this is the kind of thing only Pet Shop Boys can get away with. And Roller Derby would make a much better Olympic sport than running fast or throwing stuff. All inclusive too!

Winner is released on 6thAugust.

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Jul 24 2012

The C90s reMix The Egg

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British Indie-Dance outfit The Egg, of pre-Guetta Walking Away fame, released their Catch single earlier this month. It’s a nice mix of analog Disco and gangly Indie guitar stuff. The best thing about the single, though, is this reMix from London Disco duo The C90s. Complete flipping the track around, no longer tis there melodic abrasiveness, in it’s place The C90’s bring the smooth…and the cowbell.

Oh yes, it brings the cowbell, gets funky with it, filters some beats and drops a bouncy as hell analog bassline. It’s the prefect Disco combination. The shuffling hats give the rhythm a little twist, and seems to usher the track ever forward. And the point to track is driving toward is the final chorus, whit it’s the uplifting addition of a solo line that carries the track on it’s shoulder to new heights. This isn;t sa summery track in the same was the Tropical masses are, this is a late night, summer in the city, track. Hot urban Disco.

♫ The Egg – Catch (The C90s reMix)

The Egg’s Catch single is out now.

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Jul 23 2012

Android Automatic

Android Automatic is a Detroit based SynthWave project. His SoundCloud page is chock full of bouncy electronic tunes with a strong ‘80’s leaning. He;s just dropped a new double A-side single, available for free, Electric Nights & Starset.

Electric Nights shows the real complexity of Android Automatic’s work, not quite disco enough to be Nu-Disco, but more Disco than most SynthWave, AA’s tunes chug along on an Italo groove, a digital bassline that would make Moroder proud and doesn’t scrimp on the big retro synth chords. It’s an infectious slick of Electro Boogie that really gets under your skin, floaty vocoders and all. Starset has more of a cosmic Italo vibe to it, a track with an energetic drive to it, the on-beat bassline pushing the track ever forward, driven faster by shuffling hats. This two track single is a great introduction to Android Automatic, who is definitely one to look out for in future.

♫ Android Automatic – Electric Nights

♫ Android Automatic – Starset

While you’re here, check out our favouite of Android Automatic’s tunes, Dreaming In Color. A deep vocoded ElectroPop tune. It’s far too short, but in it’s two and a half minutes it delivers a rich Sci-Fi sound and an almost Indie quality to it. A longer version of this track could be epic.

♫ Android Automatic – Dreaming In Color

Electric Nights/Starset is out now.

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Jul 23 2012

Joy Division reMixed by Christian Strobe

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Generally, going anywhere near Post-Punk icons Joy Division with your reMixing intentions is a very brave, and normally doomed, move. Having a crack at Love Will Tear Us Apart seems like a bit of a futile move. Christian Strobe, however, puts in a valiant effort that deserves, at the very least, recognition.

The German producer’s take on the classic drops a bit of a Tropical and a bit of a Balearic sound into the mix. Which, admittedly, isn’t the first vibe we think of when we consider Joy Division. But Strobe seems to make it work, the big room House tone actually flows reasonable well with the song. Strobe even makes the chorus pretty euphoric. Despite being a match made in hell, the Christian Strobe reMix of Love Will Tear Us Apart works, it shouldn’t, but it does. I guess that just something we’re all going to have to live with from now on.

♫ Joy Division – Love Will Tear Us Apart (Christian Strobe reMix)

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Jul 23 2012

Moscow Youth Cult’s ‘Happiness Machines’

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Moscow Youth Cult have graced these pages a few times since their inception. The Nottingham based Indie-Electro experimentalists have drawn us into their Sci-Fi world on more than one occasion and now with the forthcoming release of their début long player, Happiness Machines, we get to spend a whole hour amongst their post-Industrial funky soundscapes.

After the buzzing, and strangely emotional, atmospheric intro of Shimmer Star has allowed your mind to wander to distant, fantastical, places, the pounding kick of Love>Lore shakes you right back to reality and drops you firmly in the middle of a swirling cloud of sound roped together with an unusual future funk. As the record continues, with a few tracks you might have heard before, Iris, Phase IV, Survivasm, it feels like a fresh take in Moscow Youth Cult. Together in a full length album you get more of a sense of MYC than you did in the singles an EPs. Amongst the Cabaret Voltaire noise there are some blissfully euphoric songs, with an almost Chillwave tone to them. Actually, this whole record sounds a bit like if Sarah Connor from Terminator was actually Chillwave, and Chillwave was being chased by the Terminator, but then got all badass at the end in a factory, or something. What we are trying to say, is that if you add the reverb washed Dreamlike laments of Chillwave, those beautiful moods, add add them to the relentless march and sonic adventurousness of midlands post-Industrial, you get Moscow Youth Cult (who you occasionally get the feeling have been hanging out with Disco). Does a melting pot like this work? Well, if you listen to tracks like Happiness Machines, the title track, with it’s distant, space age, funk or the factory Pop of Break-In Work-Out the answer is a resounding ‘yes’. And there are time when it feels like it shouldn’t, but it really does. Moscow Youth Cult’s Happiness Machines is definitely worth checking out.

♫ Moscow Youth Cult – Survivasm

♫ Moscow Youth Cult – Love>Lore

♫ Moscow Youth Cult – Phase IV

♫ Moscow Youth Cult – Iris

Happiness Machines is released 30th July.

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Jul 20 2012

Leisure Council reMixes Touch Tone

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The reMixes of Touch Tone’s anthemic Home Away From Home keep coming. There’s just something about that vocal, something about the groove of the track, that had made it one of the few track we haven’t got bored with multiple reMixes of. I can see why people want to reMix it, it’s a huge tune. Next up to the plate is our boys Leisure Council, so you know this is going to be special.

And special it definitely is. Can you say ‘Electro Boogie’? Leisure Council’s reMix is pure synthetic Funk, sprinkled with ‘80’s magic and sent through a wormhole from 1985. From he moment the beat kicks in, you are treated to the kind of post, B-Boy Electro, electronic R&B groove that was so prevalent in the mid-‘80’s. Funky, and slightly mechanized, like a breakdancing robot. Which is layered with rich, buzzing, synth pads, ringing chords and twisting lead lines. Vocoding Andrew’s vocals, subtly, just adds to the slightly otherworldly vibe and lets this space boogie soar. Leisure Council are killing it once again. Whether in Ride The Universe, or as a trio, these guys just know groove.

♫ Touch Tone – Home Away From Home (Leisure Council reMix)

Touch Tone’s ‘Home Away From Home’ is out now on Binary.

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Jul 20 2012

Final DJs’ ‘Just Be Free’

Final DJs

So, this weekend marks the *coughiest* *cough* birthday of Mr. Basti from Germany’s finest SynthWave duo Final DJs. These guys have come so far in the past two years, we’ve been following them since their first productions to where they are now, their Gossip Country EP was massive and generally everything the release is pretty killer.

In celebration of Basti’s birthday, Final DJs have dropped a new tune, and if, like us, you have a soft spot for Michael McDonald’s Sweet Freedom then you’re going to love this. Just Be Free is a big French Touch tune, thick with groove. Heavy with retro synths and warm filtering, this is a tune in the mould of the classics of French House. The perfect synthetic Disco to move dancefloors late into the night and Michael McDonald’s smooth-as-silk vocal is just the icing on the cake, the birthday cake if you will. We suggest you join us in wishing Basti a happy birthday and hoping he has an awesome weekend.