May 16 2011

La Roux & Fear Of Tigers!!!

What a massive tune to kick off the week!

If you had dug deep last month and supported Fear Of Tigers’ awesome entry into the London marathon raising money for the WSPA you would have been gifted with a link to this track, and we who donated have been rocking to this all month.

This is Fear Of Tigers’ reMix of La Roux’s ‘Bulletproof’, officially commissioned but (for some bizarre reason) not used, it’s a massive ElectroPop monster. If you know me in real life you’ll know that I speak my mind, I’m not a sycophant, I’ll tell people (and producers) if I don’t like something. So understand it’s not because I’m a fan of FOT, it’s not because he had me on his The Guestlist show a couple of weeks ago, and it’s not because he is letting me premiere this track right here that I say that this is easily the best reMix of ‘Bulletproof’ I have heard. This is the huge, retro influences but modern production, Fear Of Tigers that we’ve come to know and love, and sometimes you just know Elly’s voice was crying out for a bit of uplifting euphoria. With a Big Room sound this reMix will slay wherever it is dropped!

If the rumours are true, and La Roux are in the studio with a well known Indie rock band recording their second, “we’re not an Electro act”, album this might be you’re last slice of ElectroPop La Roux. Well, if that’s the case we salute you ElectroPop-La-Roux and thanks’ to Fear Of Tigers you’re going out on a high!

♫ La Roux – Bulletproof (Fear Of Tigers reMix)

You wouldn’t have been able to escape the information that Ben from Fear Of Tigers ran the London marathon this year to raise money for WSPA (World Society for the Protection of Animals). We’d like to extend our congratulations to Ben for an amazing job, you can read about it in this blog post, and hitting his target of raising £1500 for an excellent cause!

Fear Of Tigers @ Just Giving

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May 13 2011

Cosmonaut Grechko rolls up to Fear Of Tigers’ ‘The Guestlist’ this week

Fear Of Tigers – ‘The Guestlist’ 13/05/2011 = Russian Nu-Disco guru Cosmonaut Grechko stops by for a chat with Feat Of Tigers and to show off his new track alongside all the best ElectroPop, Dreamwave, Nu-Disco and big room tunes this week.

♫ Fear Of Tigers’ ‘The Guestlist’ 13/05/2011

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May 12 2011

Queen Of Hearts Vs. Daft Punk…on the Grid!

Singing over a Daft Punk track is a brave move, could be good, cloud be cheesy, could be sacrilege! Thankfully ElectroPop goddess Queen Of Hearts pulls it off with class and style.

Taking Daft Punk’s ‘End Of Line’ from their Tron: Legacy soundtrack The Queen gets all deep and majestic with a smokey vocal that not only show off her vocal chops but quite a knack for arrangement too. ‘The End Of Nothing’ is incredibly listenable. Does it imporve on a Daft Punk song? Er…kinda’…but I’m not going to admit it!

You may remember recently I questioned The Queen’s authenticity. I’m taking that back now, she recently tweeted this: “If it ain’t electro, I don’t wish to know.x”, which kinda’ sold me. The more I hear about her the more I an convinced she is a genuine ElectroPop lover, not some manufactured, blog friendly, product. I don’t mind admitting I was wrong, and I was. I’m now looking forward to following her career with interest, and my dancing shoes on.

♫ Queen Of Hearts Vs. Daft Punk – The End Of Nothing

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May 11 2011

Depeche Mode’s Stargate reMix video

The Stargate reMix of Depeche Mode’s ‘Personal Jesus’, the lead track on the ‘Personal Jesus 2011’ single (that includes the awesome Alex Metric reMix) now has an official video.

Taken from the ‘reMixes 2: 81-11’ album the track’s video, directed by Andrew Faber, is a dark tale in a witchfinder general style.

‘reMixes 2: 81-11’ is released 6th June on MuteReprise.

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May 11 2011

Walter Sobcek’s take on Keren Ann

The awesome multi-national production outfit Walter Sobcek inject themselves back into our ears this week with this reMix of Israeli singer/songwriter Keren Ann’s ‘My Name Is Trouble’.

Giving the original a retro synth covering they take a quaint little tune and turn it into a laid back summer jam extreme. The vocal sounds amazing with the Sobcek treatment and the guys seem to be revelling in the Rock elements of the song to make an epic 80’s killer tune.

♫ Keren Ann – My Name Is Trouble (Walter Sobcek reMix)

Hopefully Walter Sobcek’s new EP won’t be far behind.

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May 11 2011

Heaven 17 take ‘The Luxury Gap’ live

British SynthPop legends Heaven 17 have announced a two day special event at the Roundhouse in Camden, London on 14th-15th October 2011. Day one will see the band following on from their ‘Penthouse and Pavement 30th Anniversary Tour’ (which was awesome!) and performing their 1983 album ‘The Luxury Gap’ in it’s entirety including the singles ‘Let Me Go’, ‘Temptation’, ‘Come Live With Me’, and ‘Crushed By The Wheels of Industry’.

Day two will consist of the first ever live performance by Martyn Ware’s British Electric Foundation (B.E.F.) featuring tracks form ‘Music Of Quality & Distinction Vol. 1 & 2’ and a whole host of guest stars including Elly Jackson (La Roux), Boy George (Culture Club), Green Gartside (Scritti Politti), Sandie Shaw, Kim Wilde, Andy Bell (Erasure), Shingai Shoniwa (Noisettes), Midge Ure (Ultravox), Glenn Gregory (Heaven 17) and Polly Scattergood.

Tickets are on sale now from Ticketmaster.

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May 11 2011

Moonlight Matters reMixes Alex Winston

The latest reMix from Moonlight Matters is this version of Alex Winston’s new single ‘Sister Wife’.

Bringing some deep funkin’ analog bass to the table Moonlight Matters mix injects the track with some cool Disco ElectroPop first heard on Aeroplanes’ April mixtape. I’m really digging how Alex’s unique vocals, with the kind of otherworldliness found on The Knife records, sit over the raw synth work here. Love the steel drums too!

♫ Alex Winston – Sister Wife (Moonlight Matters Radio reMix)

The ‘Sister Wife’ EP is out now.

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May 11 2011

Benny Benassi’s ‘Cinema’ video

Benny Benassi released a new single at the end of April as a precursor to his new album ‘Electroman’.

‘Cinema’ features the vocals of Gary Go, who we recently heard on Monsieur Adi’s ‘Last Stand’. It’s a big room club ElectroPop track with a cool virtual reality themed clip.

‘Cinema’ is out now with ‘Electroman’ coming 7th June.

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May 10 2011

Strange Talk’s ‘Eskimo Boy’ video

This is the brand new video for Strange Talk’s ‘Eskimo Boy’. The track is taken from their awesome self-titled EP.

Director Garth Badger turns the soft-focus summery vibe up to eleven with a group of paradise castaways, a look that goes really well with Strange Talk’s brand of Indie-ElectroPop.

Strange Talk’s self titled EP is out now.

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May 10 2011

Joypopp release début EP on Binary

Yesterday saw the release of Joypopp’s début EP, ‘Ecstatic’, on Binary Records.

It’s an EP bursting at the seems with four original tracks and three reMixes. We’ve already covered two of the original tunes on the EP, ‘Desire’ and ‘Volupté’, both of which really whet our appetite for more Joypopp. ‘Nostalgic’ and ‘Six To Six’ are more of the same top quality analog ElectroPop from the French duo. With their big Sci-Fi soundtrack synths and sweet female vocals, the Joypopp combination is defiantly a winner. ReMixes on the EP come courtesy of Night Drugs and these two from Girlfriend Records head honcho Sferro and Binary’s RoboPop™ main man Short Circuit. Sferro turns in a suitably retro slice of ElectroPop with a laidback groove, deep bass and awesome 80’s melodies. Short Curcuit’s reMix takes the track in the opposite direction, it’s a heavy mid-tempo club track that sees SC moving towed an almost Justice mix of rock riff-esq chainsaw synths and Disco drums.