Nov 7 2011

Short Circuit’s ‘After Burner’

Short Circuit

The king of RoboPop™, Short Circuit, has just dropped a brand new free single.

‘After Burner’ is a companion peice, an epilogue to his ‘Late Night Drive’ EP and comes complete with three minute intro. After the intro slowly builds, layering lush synth sounds and building anticipation with a sense of urgency, the track proper feels as much a spiritual successor to ‘Let Go’ as it does to the ‘Late Night Drive’ EP. This is one of Short Circuit’s slickest productions to date, everything sits together nicely, the combination of growling bassline, 16-bit melodies and melodic vocoded vocals all achieving the right balance. ‘After Burner’ strikes a nice balance between the aggressive the romantic in it’s sound, which leads to a Poppy, catchy track with a underlying edge and drive.

♫ Short Circuit – After Burner (Intro.)

♫ Short Circuit – After Burner

Short Circuit’s ‘Late Night Drive’ EP, is out now on Binary Entertainment, you can download the whole ‘After Burner’ single from Short Circuit’s SoundCloud.

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Nov 7 2011

Glass Candy’s ‘Warm In The Winter’ video

Today neo-Italo ElectroPop act Glass Candy unveiled the video for ‘Warm In The Winter’, which we’ve been waiting for a while.

Directed by Alberto Rossini, the videos vintage, grainy footage of GC on the west coast this summer forces a new nostalgia to go along with the incredibly catchy track.

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Nov 7 2011

Zimmer – Gravity: November Mixtape

zimmer

Zimmer – Gravity: November Mixtape = Originally recorded for D Is For Disco on the Aussie version of KissFM, Zimmer’s new mixtape is forty minutes of synthetic Disco goodness (or what the man himself calls Horizontal Disco).

♫ Zimmer – Gravity: November Mixtape

The tracklist:

01. Zimmer – Looking At You
02. Gigamesh – Red Light (Goldroom reMix)
03. Chris Malinchak (Feat. Damon C. Scott) – No Secrets
04. Simple Girl (Tiger & Woods reMix)
05. Doctor Dru & Adana Twins – Juicy Fruit (Calm Down Winter Bootleg)
06. Daniel Dexter & Nhan Solo – Our Thang (Andre Crom & Martin Dawson reMix)
07. MAM – Real Sweet
08. Talking Heads – Psycho Killer (Drop Out Orchestra Rework (Special Beach Edit for Pollo Erotico))
09. SOS Band – Take Your Time (Do It Right)
10. Munga – Let’s Work It Out
11. Gigamesh (Feat. Induce ) – When You’re Dancing (Cassian reMix)
12. Toro Y Moi – Saturday Love
13. Toomy Disco Presents Ultimate Man – Stay Focused On Love
14. DJ T. – City Life feat. Carl Golden (Maceo Plex reMix)
15. Tyson – After You’re Gone (Solo reMix)
16. Mercury – You Lift Me Up
17. Zimmer – Bay Bridge

‘Horizontal Disco’ dropped this weekend on Discotexas.

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Nov 7 2011

Goin’ Old School: Kazino – Around My Dream

Oh those crazy post-Italo guy! What are they like? They did have some catchy melodies though, check Kazin’‘s ‘Around My Dream’ from 1985.

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Nov 7 2011

Joshua T

Jushua T

Berlin based Aussie Joshua T’s new track ‘Hart Beating’ seems to draw the line between Chillwave and The Postal Service.

Layered with the kind of buzzing toytown-synth organ sounds so favoured by The Postal Service, ‘Hart Beating’ eschews those glitchy rhythms for the reverb washed ‘80’s-esque backing of Chillwave with roomy claps and distant melodies. Joshua T keeps the vocals simple and emotive, which blends perfectly with the music, giving the whole track a warm, relaxed vibe. ‘Heart Beating’ definitely presents an interesting combination of styles that single out Joshua T as a name to keep an eye on.

♫ Joshua T – Heart Beating

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Nov 4 2011

stardate

Check out the first two demos from stardate the latest project from the mind that brought you 80s Stallone. His mission to give him self some freedom defined only by the use of hardware synths.

I don’t know if he’ll thank me for posting these demos, and EP is on the way but these are his first experimentations within his new parameters, but I couldn’t help myself, as a fan of electronic music these two tracks were too good to pass by. ‘Universal Pilot’ is at once ominous and uplifting, with these two roles being taken by the bass/pads and the melody, and it’s the capturing of these two moods that gives the track it’s cinematic feel. Heavy synth bass and arpeggios opposing, but working together in a Jarre-esque mid-paced peice. ‘Untill You Die’ walks a similar road but with more of a resolution to it, this is end of the movie stuff with a hint of guitar creeping in amongst the electronics and a bit of a sunrise feel.

♫ stardate – Universal Pilot (Demo.)

♫ stardate – Untill You Die (Demo.)

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Nov 4 2011

Citizens! début single

Kitsuné Music’s latest signing Citizens! are soon to drop their début single ‘True Romance’, but you can already check the track by peeping it’s video.

It’s pretty wacky, but I suppose that goes with the quirky ElectroPop of Citizens!, it’s pretty vivid and bombastic though.

While you’re waiting for the single to come out, get your ears ‘round this taste of what to expect from their forthcoming début album with ‘(I’m In Love With Your) Girlfriend’, who’s raw sound boarders on ElectroPunk.

♫ Citizens! – (I’m In Love With Your) Girlfriend

Citizens! début single is released 19th December, until the check them out on SoundCloud.

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Nov 4 2011

T&K’s ‘The reMixes’

This week On The Fruit Records released a reMix collection featuring some awesome reworkings of ElectroPop duo T&K’s newly released album, ‘Magic Tank’.

The whole collection is well worth checking out, for me the highlights came from James Yuill, Mr. Mæn, Rocky and Freak You. Mr. Yuill’s take on ‘Little Clouds’ is an epic, rolling, ElectroPop monster. An evolving analog beast that despite being a pumping electronic floorfiller is amazingly cinematic and emotive. After an icy intro, Mr. Mæn’s version of ‘Summer Nights’ becomes a massive ‘80’s ‘moment’ track. Majestic and powerful, it’s a slow burner that rouses the soul. an old school SynthPop flavour is applied to ‘Magic Tank’ by Rocky. Like the bastard child of Yazoo and Fad Gadget, Rocky’s reMix is a weird synthesizer workout disguised as a Pop song. On The Fruit main man Freak You’s reMix of ‘Line Of Light’ is a cosmic, chiming tune with a ‘90’s SynthPop bassline and a hint of Disco that’ll definitely go down a storm on the dancefloor.

♫ T&K – Little Cloud (James Yuill reMix)

♫ T&K – Summer Night (Mr. Mæn reMix)

♫ T&K – Magic Tank (Rocky reMix)

♫ T&K – Line Of Light (Freak You reMix)

Also featuring reMixes from Canblaster, Segundo and Boston Bun, T&K’s ‘The reMixes’ is out now.

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Nov 4 2011

Goin’ Old School: Company B

This’ll do for the weekend, some large 1986 post-Italo ElectroPop in the form of Company B’s ‘Fascinated’.

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Nov 3 2011

Pinemarten

Sometimes an artist comes along and takes you totally by surprise, blowing you away. Pinemarten is one of those artists.

I’ve spent much of the day listening to his new album ‘If You Thought There Was Any Doubt’. It’s an incredibly impressive début, the whole album is retro leaning, lush, impassioned ElectroPop. A reverb soaked (although not so much it falls into Chillwave territory) synthesizer journey through a life in soft focus with a surprising amount of Funk involved. One minute you’ll be all encompassed by the layers of dreamlike sounds then suddenly Pinemarten will drops some big ‘80’s chords or a wicked Moog Funk lead. The album ties itself together with Pinemarten vocals, binging a very human, intimate and relatable quality to the record that pushes it over the line into the realms of genius.