Foster The People have premiered the new video for their track ‘Helena Beat’.
Ace Norton shot this road warrior Sci-Fi extravaganza in the deserts outside LA.
‘Helena Beat’ is taken from Foster The People’s album, ‘Torches’.
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Here we have a couple of reMixes of Retro/Grade anthemic DancePop current single ‘Mindfighter’.
The single was released yesterday. It’s a ElectroPop Sci-Fi call-to-arms that gets a deep House workout from Maxxi Soundsystem who’s ‘Warehouse Mix’ has a proper late 80’s/early 90’s free-party vibe. The low square wave bassline and atmospheric electronic creating that hypnotic groove that used to flood abandoned buildings full of revellers. Dollface Devereaux seriously impresses with their massive ElectroPop/House mix. Everything is big in this track. Big digital bass, big House piano riff, big drum rolls, big synth abuse, all fitting with the big nature of the song.
♫ Retro/Grade – Mindfighter (Dollface reMix)
♫ Retro/Grade – Mindfighter (Maxxi Soundsystem Warehouse Mix)
‘Mindfighter’ is the first of three singles to be released this year that all together will make up their début album ‘Motion’.
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Real Life’s ‘ Send Me An Angel’ come from all the way back in 1984 (although it has been remade may times since) proving Australians have always been good at ElectroPop.
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Here is where I make a joke about Alfa tracks being like busses, you wait and wait and wait then three come along at one.
This time he’s turned his attention to Portland’s finest, Van Go Lion’s ‘Glow’ and he’s getting even more funky. The Moog Funk lead line running throughout the track forms a solid bedrock which grounds the emotionally resonate song. A complex track, meticulously produced, Alfa has matched the tone of the track, just moved it to a different music location. Whereas the original was sweet SynthPop, Alfa gives it a groove and some street cred.
♫ Van Go Lion – Glow (Alfa’s Snow White reMix)
Van Go Lion’s singles ‘Body Moves’ and ‘We Don’t Miss A Beat’ are out now.
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The first of our Alfa triple-threat today come in the form of an older track, but one that gives us an excuse to post some Little Boots, and it’s been a while.
Alfa’s take on ‘Earthquake’ bring a whole new bassline and lead to the proceedings. Layering Ms. Hesketh’s bubbly Pop with a coating of smooth LA Electro Funk shows the song in a whole new light. Less urgent than the original, Alfa takes his time to build a tune that doesn’t have a care in the world. Sink into the lush synth lines.
♫ Little Boots – Earthquake (Alfa reMix)
Little Boot’s album, ‘Hands’ is out now.
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Washed Out’s ‘Eyes Be Closed’ finally gets an official video.
Timothy Saccenti and Alan Bibby directed this odd concept video. Odd, but slick.
‘Eyes Be Closed’ is taken from Washed Out’s début LP, Within And Without’, out now.
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beaumont takes time out from his inventing a new genre of slowed down, laid back Nu-Disco to return to his Dreamwave/Nu-Disco roots with his new reMix of Rüfüs’ ‘We Left’.
Proving without a shadow of a doubt that he still has the skills to rock the Disco, this reMix is a full-on solid electronic epic with it’s feet on the dancefloor and it’s head in the clouds. It’s got all the right 80’s cues, and all the right Nu-Disco cues, in all the right places. beaumont’s sweeping phased synths work particularly well with the track’s vocals. The reMix features on On The Fruit’s release of ‘We Left’, as a single, alongside reMixes from Ride The Universe and SymbolOne .
♫ Rüfüs – We Left (beaumont reMix)
‘We Left’ is out 25th of July on On the Fruit Records
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Boombar Records main-man Jowie Schulner has dropped a new tune that some of you might find a bit familiar. Like a distant memory, this track is drilled into many of our consciousness’.
It’s the music from the Green Hill zone of the Original 1991 Sega Mega Drive Sonic the Hedgehog, which Jowie has transformed into a storming Dreamwave epic. The tune lends itself amazingly to retro Synthwavey stuff, with it’s soaring lead that was just made to be taken out of the green zone and into the nightdrive. This put a smile on my face all day!
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Follow @electronicrumora-ha’s ‘The Sun Always Shines On TV’ really reminds me of 1985. If you had a PPG Wave would you put it on that wonky stand?
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Today sees the release of MiGHty mOUse’s awesome summer sure-to-be-a-hit single, ‘Between The Pavement And The Stars’.
I’m not going to go on too much about the track, we have already raved about it, and the Edwin Van Cleef mix enough already, suffice to say it’s a catchy, funky slice of vocal DiscoPop that is sure to blow up over summer. Now the single is out you can listen to the whole reMix package on SoundCloud. Although I don’t think any of them top the original, followed by the EvC mix, there are some choice cuts on the single. Firstly MiGHty mOUse’s own ‘Funkatronic Restoration’ is an electric piano lead funker with some organ and a large horn section that mixes up their electronic Disco with a Motown flavour. Mario Basanov takes the track in a deep, bass heavy direction with his Proggy reMix and Greek SynthPop artist Tareq turns in a classic Synth track with a nice groove to it that uses the vocals to epic effect. The whole collection is pretty top quality and comes highly recommended.
♫ MiGHty mOUse – Between The Pavement And The Stars (Mighty Mouse’s Funkatronic Restoration reMix)
♫ MiGHty mOUse – Between The Pavement And The Stars (Mario Basanov Dub)
♫ MiGHty mOUse – Between The Pavement And The Stars (Tareq reMix)
You can listen to the whole EP here, then go buy it!
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