Here is the video for Risk Risk’s ‘Streetwalk’.
It’s subtly 80’s, right down to film style and video glitches. Remember when zooming in and out quickly was considered impressive?
Lasers and smoke, man, lasers and smoke!
Risk Risk’s ‘This Is 1983’ is out now on Astro-Chicken.
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Heartsrevolution – Are We Having Fun Yet? Mixtape = Complete insanity! Can’t wait for the album!
♫ Heartsrevolution – Are We Having Fun Yet? Mixtape
The tracklist:
01. Situation Critical (Marilyn Manson – Beautiful People)
02. Heart Vs. Machine (Heartsrevolution – Ride Or Die)
03. White Magic (Future Of Oddities) (Shangri-Las – Out In The Streets/Hayley Mills – Let’s Get Together/Jay-Z – 99 Problems)
04. Life Will Tear us Apart (Joy Division – Love Will Tear us Apart)
05. ID (Investigation Discovery) (John Frusciantea – Fall Thru The Ground/Pink Floyd – Money)
06. Supreme (Interlude) (The Supremes – My World Is Empty Without You/Some John Frusciante Song)
07. Let Freedom Ring For The RX Generation (Love – 7 And 7 Is/Some Drumfill From A Jean Jaques Perry Song)
08. Kill Joy (Screeching Weasel – My Brain Hurts (Lyrics))
09. Cannabliss Into Oz – (Serge Gainsbourg – Cannabis)
10. 6am Rave Song – (A Flock Of Seagull – Space Age Love Song)
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LA’s ElectroPop duo Capital Cities have dropped this awesome slice of summery good vibes.
These beard enthusiasts have their début EP coming out this months and if ‘Safe And Sound’ is anything to go by this good times from here on in. It three minutes of ElectroPop wonder that’s so feel good that the addition of perky trumpets seems a bit redundant, but welcome nonetheless.
♫ Capital Cities – Safe And Sound
‘Safe And Sound’ is taken from their their self-titled début EP, due out on June 18th.
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Paris duo Teenage Bad Girl’s combination of ElectroPop and abrasive Electro has always has a Rocky edge to it, but their new album boarders on straight-up ElectroRock at times.
There’s heavy use of Rock samples throughout, but that only adds to the melodic chaos that is ‘Backwash’. Powerful distorted analog synths run all the way through the album but aside from that it’s a record that flips from one style to another, regularly, and with relative ease. There’s the big ElectroRock we’ve already heard in the album’s first single ‘Keep Up With You’ and the vocoder and guitar mash-up of ‘The Wave’ which rubs up against some beautiful synthetic Electro tracks like ‘Hold Me Tight’ and ‘Fast Blood Delivery’, a pure 90’s rave tune in ‘Fright Night’ and the Chicago House of ‘Tonton Funk’. If you’re into upfront electronic dance music then there will be something for you to love in this album.
Personally I favour the more synthesizer based tracks on ‘Backwash’, check out my two favourites and revisit the single, ‘Keep Up With You’. The whole album can be streamed here.
♫ Teenage Bad Girl – Keep Up With You
♫ Teenage Bad Girl – Fast Blood Delivery
♫ Teenage Bad Girl – Hold Me Tight
‘Backwash’ is out now.
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One of the unsung heroes of the Melbourne Nu-Disco scene Ren Riz’s latest track came as a total surprise. but a very welcome one.
Teaming up with awesome electronic Pop duo Van Go Lion, Ren drops ‘Faces’, an total high energy Disco influenced ElectroPop track. The big vocals of Van Go Lion’s Amy in combination with Ren’s digital slap bass and big 80’s chords make a whole that is greater than the sum of it’s parts. A total Nu-Electro-Disco-Pop workout that should have you heading straight for the dancefloor.
♫ Ren Riz (Feat. Van Go Lion) – Faces
While you’re here check out Ren’s other new track, the analog chipmunk Disco of ‘Secret Garden’:
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Legendary producer Martin Rushent passed away at the weekend aged 63. Marin was responsible for not only shaping the sound of SynthPop and ElectroPop but, with the The League Unlimited Orchestra’s ‘Love And Dancing’ was a pioneer of the reMix world. He also produced the greatest album of all time, The Human League’s ‘Dare’, in 1981. Here is ‘Love Action (I Believe In Love)’. The world is slightly worse off today.
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David E. Sugar’s third single from his ‘Memory Store’ album is on it’s way.
‘Fingers On The Button’ is quintessential Sugar, toytown synths and an Indie sensibility mix up to produce a really personal, yet quite dancey tune. David has had his hand in so many different styles of ElectroPop before reaching the place where he is now, and that experience and influence was such a benefit to an amazing album and it’s singles.
♫ David E. Sugar – Fingers On The Button
‘Fingers On The Button’ is released 13th June on Sunday Best.
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‘Shellshock’ is my favourite New Order song. For me it’s broken beats and use of sampling were so ahead of their time (well, the sampling not so much, but cool anyhow) in 1986. Just picture Duckie BMXing it around and around outside Iona’s house in Pretty In Pink if you don’t like the video.
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Striking while the iron is hot, the guys from Jakarta, Mjolnir, are keeping their momentum going with this reMix of Chromeo’s ‘Hot Mess’.
Smooth and funky as hell, Mjolnir revel in the vocoder Funk and turn the Disco up to 11 with the most head nod inducing walking bassline and chilled chords. If the Ride The Universe reMix is your peaking version of ‘Hot Mess’ then Mjolnir’s reMix is a blissful comedown.
♫ Chromeo – Hot Mess (Mjolnir Tropicool reMix)
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Fear Of Tigers – The Guestlist 03/06/2011 = Visitor’s new record, Cosmonaut Grechko’s big tune of the moment and Fear Of Tigers playing some massive, massive tunes for your weekend. What more can you ask for?
♫ Fear Of Tigers – The Guestlist 03/06/2011
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