The two hot girls in the picture are Moneypenny, a Chicago based ElectroPop duo who are continuing the ElectroClash tradition but bringing it into the 21st Century.
I always felt there was something lacking in ElectroClash (aside from it being a parody of itself), but Moneypenny seem to hand pick the best elements and wrap them up in some contemporary ElectroPop. The end result is sassy, sexy and straight up dancefloor.
Check out their latest track, ‘Cool & The Gang’, which has that ElectroClash feel but musically combines elements of ElectroPop, French Electro-House, Electro Funk and even a little Acid up in there to create something that feels a lot more relevant than ElectroClash ever did.
♫ Moneypenny – Cool & The Gang
You can download the track for free by heading over to their MySpace and signing up to their mailing list, an email address is a small price to pay for tunes like this!
Moonchild is a producer from Sydney, Australia who is beginning to make waves in the Nu-Disco scene there.
Having spend years writing Hardcore and Punk tunes, Antoine “Moonchildatronique” Lubidineuse joined the ranks of the glitterball masses and turned his attention to Disco-House. And the world is a better place for it to. His début release, ‘Girls’, is a deep and funky synth Disco epic that gives France’s Filter-house output a run for it’s money.
When Sarah McIntosh A.K.A. The Good Natured first came to our attention last year we could tell something special was going on. Not flash-in-the-pan, overhyped, special, but something of substance. The kind of special that grows and lasts.
The young singer/songwriter creates something that appeals, not only to a love of electronic dance music, but also to the intimate and atmospheric. Her introspective and heartfelt presentation on record is complimented with a live show that sees Sarah commanding the stage with eclectic outfits and a passionate performance that is only increasing as her confidence grows. Set apart from her contemporary left-field popsetresses, such as Marina or Ellie, by a uniqueness and individuality that can only come from an honesty in everything she does, The Good Natured sprinkles a hint of darkness over female fronted ElectroPop and makes the genre a more interesting place.
The lead track on her début EP of last year, ‘Your Body Is A Machine’, gets a full single release next month with the backing of the mighty Kitsuné Music .With a beautifully shot video and reMixes that are already setting the blogs on fire it’s sure to be a summer hit. Sarah took some time out of her busy schedule promoting the single to drop a little knowledge on us:
ER: We’ve featured you on our website a few times but although there are many electronic elements to your music, I wouldn’t strictly call you an Electro or ElectroPop artist. How would you *like* your music described and (gun to the head) what genre do you feel most comfortable being associated with?
SM: That’s quite a hard question, I don’t really think about what genre I am, I just consider my music a form of self expression and art. I guess it is electronic pop, but I like to think its got a darker side.
ER: Who, musically, has been an inspiration on you and who inspires you out of your contemporaries?
SM: David Slyvian, Robert Smith, Siouxsie Soux.
ER: You must be exited about the re-release of Your Body Is A Machine on Kitsuné, having one of the world hippest labels champion you must be flattering?
SM: Yes, it is very flattering!
ER: How did you approach the re-recording of the track, was there stuff you weren’t happy with on the EP recording?
SM: It wasn’t that I wasn’t happy with the EP recording, it was great, but I felt it could be better, and we have made it sound bigger and more epic, so I am really pleased.
ER: You’ve done quite a bit of solid gigging in the past few months, have you found anywhere you really enjoy playing? (Kudos points for saying Bristol!)
SM: Well Start the Bus in Bristol was really fun actually! There was free cake so that was a mega plus. We all really enjoyed playing the great escape in Brighton, there was a great atmosphere there and it was packed.
ER: Do you prefer songwriting/recording or playing live?
SM: I don’t think you can compare the two. I love them both in different ways, performing is so much fun, but songwriting more emotional, depends what you are in the mood for!
ER: Any crazy rock ‘n’ roll tour stories?
SM: Yes actually! One time we got chucked out of our own gig in Reading because we were too young! Another time in Brighton the soundman bottled the promoter. Nice.
ER: You’ve been known to wear some pretty eye-catching outfits and put on some pretty crazy performances, is that the real Sarah or is The Good Natured a persona?
SM: Its me!
ER: From the backcombed black hair to the atmospheric videos there’s quite a bit of Goth going on ’round your way, are you a secret Goth?
SM: Yes I think so. My skins pale enough isn’t it?
ER: Now for the gear geek question! What’s in Sarah’s studio? Do you have a favourite bit of kit. I’ve heard there is a particular Yamaha keyboard you’re very fond of?
SM: Yes, my beloved Yamaha my Grandma gave me, a few of the keys have stopped working it’s so old but I love it dearly. Apart from that there’s a couple of synths and many fairy lights.
ER: How does the average The Good Natured song take shape, lyrics or music first?
SM: Depends,sometimes words sometimes music! What generally happens is I get a musical idea, then I open my lyric book and chose some words to go over the top!
ER: Cereal or Full English Breakfast? Would your answer change the day after a gig?
SM: Coco-Pops or Crunchy Nut. Deffo a Full English after a gig!
ER:Cheers Sarah!
While you’re waiting for the single release check out the mega talented Baby Monster’s new reMix of ‘Your Body Is A Machine’ which drags Sarah squarely into the middle of the dancefloor!
Vice recently teamed up with Intel to unleash The Creators Project onto an unsuspecting world. Set up to showcase creative innovation and to facilitate content creation form some of the hippest music and arts creators around right now.
Wow! Here’s two bands we’ve been pretty vocal about digging, and it’s just awesome it when two artists we love come together!
It was a couple of months ago we raved about Montreal Electro-sleazesters AXXE, we really dug their take on low down dirty ElectroPop, without going into comedy, faux sleaze, ElectroClash embarrassing territory and Cavaliers Of Fun have dropped some of our favouritetracks of recent months. His work on AXXE’s ‘S.A.T.U.R.D.A.Y. Night’ is not exception, keeping the powerful vocal structure and dropping it over his particular brand of ElectroPop/Space-Disco.
Are we in for another Italo summer this year? Sometimes I do wonder what a lot of these artists from the 2008 ‘wow Italo!’ explosion are doing now (we could really do with a new Heartbreak release!)
Italians Do It Better signees Desire are currently touring with Glass Candy right now so why don’t you check out three tracks from their 2009 album ‘II’ and then check Glass Candy’s MySpace for tour details.
The Canadian’s trio produced some of the best Italo inspired ElectroPop in the last few years, just the right combination of House, Disco and SynthPop with just the right amount of edgy darkness. They almost exclusively write love songs but despite making Disco songs about love they retain a slightly mournful twist to their tracks.
If you really made me pin Party Horse down, genre wise, I mean if you had a gun to my head, I would probably say, er, Disco-Rock? Maybe…
The Anglo-Dutch duo appear to throw a bit of everything in the mix. Chainsaw guitars, 16-Bit game sounds, analog synths & cheap drum machines and an aesthetic that is nothing short of 70’s Top Of The Pops. If Mark Bolan (in the 70’s…still alive) had been backed by The Human League and produced by Giorgio Moroder and then fed through a fuzzbox you are coming somewhere near Party Horse.
But look beyond the glam, look beyond the strut, and what you have there is some really classic pop songs. Check the video for their track ‘Lazer Beam’:
Party Horse are about to embark on a UK tour supporting CHEW LiPS:
19 Apr: Suno, Leicester
20 Apr: Arts Centre, Nowrich
21 Apr: Bodega, Nottingham
22 Apr: Faversham, Leeds
23 Apr: ABC 2, Glasgow
24 Apr: Café Drummonds, Aberdeen
25 Apr: Acadamy 2, Liverpool
26 Apr: Academy 2, Sheffield
27 Apr: Sugermill, Stoke
29 Apr: The Cooler, Bristol
30 Apr: Cargo, London
1 May: Old Fire Station, Bournemouth
Looking to release their début single at the start of the summer, until the visit the Horse on MySpace:
The good folks at LA based Dreamwave/SynthPop label Binary stopped by the electronic rumors inbox to drop off a bunch of reMixes, some old, some new showcasing the production talents of Andrew Verner A.K.A. Short Circuit just ahead of his début album release.
His reMixes of Keenhouse’s ‘Mecho Maniac’ and The Presets’ ‘Kicking And Screaming’ have been knocking around for a while now but perfectly show off Andrews unique take on the Dreamwave sound, kinda’ like a rawer, more analog version take on the genre.
He’s also dropped two new reMixes of 80’s classics Def Leppard’s ‘Foolin’’ and Michael Jackson’s ‘Beat it’, which display a more urgent, almost more aggressive, evolution to his style.
Wow! THISISNOTANEXIT records are certainly on a roll right now! November last year saw the release of the single ‘Circles’ by not-quite-from-Manchester dark Indie-Dance outfit Detachments and the label has just dropped the third, and final, instalment of reMixes.
The James Ford (Simian Mobile Disco) produced original has already been tackled by such names as Mighty Mouse and Night Plane and here gets treated to three wildly different mixes by Beg To Differ, Dscio and Spectral Empire. Beg To Differ had already dropped the Dub version of their reMix in the first remix package but now we are treated to the full vocal version which keeps up the ominous mood but feeds the tune through a dark SynthPop machine. Dsico’s US Post-Punk/New Wave mix is almost eerily authentic sounding and Spectral Empire round off the selection with their tribal John Carpenter soundtrack-esq epic horror noisescape.
Detachments are currently in the studio working on their début album with the likes of Trevor (Playgroup) Jackson, Tim (DFA) Goldsworthy and Andrew Weatherall, this latest bunch of reMixes was released a couple of weeks ago and can be purchased here:
For various reasons I was kinda’ putting off posting this, but the internet is awash with it so just in case you readers haven’t heard it yet here it is, the new Goldfrapp single.
Just to be clear, I really didn’t like the last album, ‘Seventh Tree’, the whole pseudo-pagan Folktronica thing just didn’t float my boat, which was a pity as I loved Goldfrapp previously.
So, are my Goldfrapp back? Hell yes!, ‘Rocket’, the forthcoming single, is a sweet slice of Electro/Pop/Disco that is pure classic Goldfrapp. A huge sing-a-long chorus hangs on this late 70’s/early 80’s-esq sci-fi Disco tune with its big synth strings and New Wave bassline.
It seems the rest of the internet loved ‘Folkfrapp’ and is disappointed by this track, but then again, the rest of the internet also appears to be American strokey-beardy indie/folk blogs who wouldn’t know a good dance tune if it smacked them head first onto the dancefloor, so fuck ‘em! This track rocks!
‘Rocket’ will be the first single from the album ‘Head First’.
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