Apr 27 2011

Selebrities new video

Brooklyn New Wavers Selebrities are back with a new video for ‘Can’t Make Up My Mind’, a brilliant meeting of Disco and Shoegaze.

Taken from their forthcoming début album ‘Can’t Make Up My Mind’ gives a SynthPop flavour to a deep late 80’s Indie sound. I love how Selebrities are such a melting pot of influences, and they manage to make sometimes quite different sounds, work together perfectly.

Check the track too, it’s a great Walkman tune!

♫ Selebrities – Can’t Make Up My Mind

Selebrities’ album ‘Delusions’ is out 17th May on Cascine.

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Apr 27 2011

Rex The Dog’s ‘Here We Go Scando’ mixtape

Rex The Dog – Mixtape #1 Here We Go Scando = Completely made up of Scandinavian, mostly Swedish (or reMixed by someone from Sweeden) ElectroPop. The whole mix has a cool, icy, edge to it but with an underlying warmth. Very nice to chill to.

♫ Rex The Dog – Mixtape #1 Here We Go Scando

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Apr 27 2011

Maighréad

Maighréad is a London based ElectroPop artist who recently released her début EP, ‘In the Beginning’ alongside Disco Damage.

The Irish-born singer is currently hard at work on the video for ‘In The Beginning’, until then check out some of what she has on offer. The single is a pounding Electro track that displays Maighréad’s vocals to have a lot more soul than I would have expected. With something of an Irish Billie Ray Martin quality to her voice I can imagine Maighréad is a fantastic singer live (I hope to find out in the future). There’s a bit of Annie Lennox in there too, albeit with a Limerick twang that gives the vocals a unique twist on the classic huge pop delivery. All this juxtaposes quite nicely with the Maxi Jazz-esq rhyming on ‘In The Beginning’. ‘Sea’, one of Maighréad’s previous tracks, is actually my favourite. It’s pure Eurythmics (and seeing as how Eurythmics haven’t been Eurythmics for years, there is a need for someone to be making this kind of music). Cold, harsh synths are perfectly tempered by Maighréad’s warm vocals giving the track an light-in-the-darkness- feel to it.

♫ Maighréad & Disco Damage – In The Beginning

♫ Maighréad – Sea

Maighréad’s ‘In The Beginning’ EP is out now.

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Apr 27 2011

Cosmonaut

Space-age DiscoPop trio Cosmonaut jumped into our consciousness with a track on the forthcoming Kitsuné Maison volume 11. We’ve already featured their track ‘Say What You Want’ with it’s organic, analog synth laden, Cosmic sound, so let’s hear a little more from this Australian three piece.

Frankie Barretso got his hands on ‘Say What You Want’ and introduced these three Cosmonauts to an alien machine society with an arpeggio driven track that eschews the live feel of the original for pure robo Funk. ‘Jupiters’ and ‘Terminator Sky’, two original tracks from the trio, are both the same kind of live ElectroPop jam as ‘Say What You Want’. The Sci-Fi subject matter and electronic nature of the music given a human feel and a rawness that makes it feel, at the same time, more accessible yet more epic.

This truly is the soundtrack to your voyage home!

♫ Cosmonaut – Say What You Want (Barretso reMix)

♫ Cosmonaut – Jupiters

♫ Cosmonaut – Terminator Sky

‘Say What You Want’ appears on the ‘Kitsuné Maison 11 ‘The Indie-Dance Issue’’ followed by the ‘Cosmonaut EP’ release on Young Mine. Cosmonaut also have a double A-side single, ‘One Dancefloor’/’Erroneous Monk’, incoming on Bang-Gang Twelve Inches.

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Apr 27 2011

Yuksek Vs. The Magician

The Magician is on a total roll recently. Killer reMix after Killer reMix. Maybe Aeroplane splitting up was a good thing after all?

Taking Yuksek’s forthcoming new single Stephen Fasano has transformed it into a bouncy, Moog heavy, Nu-Disco groover with some amazing 90’s piano and just the right amount of cowbell. Both The Magician and Vito’s new Aeroplane have done some amazing work this year and, after all, two act is better than one! We’ll also be very interested to hear the new Yuksek album, ‘Living On The Edge of Time’. We really enjoyed the last one, let’s see if he can do it again.

♫ Yuksek – On A Train (The Magician reMix)

The ‘On A Train’ EP is out 2nd May with a reMix from Gucci Vump as well.

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Apr 27 2011

Kitsuné Maison 11 ‘The Indie Dance-Issue’ Minimix

The inevitable minimix by JBAG’s Jerry Bouthier for the forthcoming ‘Kitsuné Maison 11 ‘The Indie-Dance Issue’’ has arrived.

Showcasing what to expect from the album the minimix is a window into the cream of today’s Indie-Electro artists. there are some real monster tracks on the album.

Check the track list:

01. – Let’s Go All The Way (Early Version)
02. Alexander Dexter Jones – Phantastic Phone Call”
03. Housse De Racket – Roman
04. Polarsets – Sunshine Eyes
05. Gallops – Miami Spider (Ponciau edit)
06. Cosmonaut – Say What You Want
07. Creep (Feat. Romy Madeley-Croft From The XX) – Days (Azari & III reMix)
08. Is Tropical – The Greeks
09. Peter & The Magician – Twist
10. The Touch – Sermon
11. Logo X Icona Pop – Luvsick
12. Beat Connection – Silver Screen
13. Nightbox – Pyramid
14. Guards – Resolution Of One
15. Fiction – Big Things
16. Exotica – Conte D’Eté (Afrofunk Version)

♫ Kitsuné Maison 11 ‘The Indie Dance-Issue’ Minimix By Jerry Bouthier

Kitsuné Music release Maison 11 on 16th May.

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Apr 27 2011

Toddla T’s new single

Toddla T’s new single is highly addictive. ‘Take It Back’, featuring Shola Ama and J2K, has been hammered by Annie Mac recently and kinda’ wormed it’s way into my head. It’s got smooth vocals, an infectious hook and a lush 90’s house pianos. That’s a recipe for a tune that gets in your head.

Check the video.

And give Dillon Francis’ wobble bassed reMix a spin

♫ Toddla T (Feat. Shola Ama & J2K) – Take It Back (Dillon Francis reMix)

Toddla’s new single will be ‘Cherry Picking’ featuring the amazing Róisín Murphy, give this radio rip a sampling.

♫ Toddla T (Feat. Róisín Murphy) – Cherry Picking (Radio Rip)

Toddla T’s ‘Take It Back’ is out now.

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Apr 27 2011

autoKratz’ new video with Peter Hook

This is the video for autoKratz’ new single ‘Becoming The Wraith’ which features, both on the track and in the video, the Bass talents of New Order/Monaco/Joy Division’s Peter Hook.

‘Becoming The Wraith’ is the most straight -up ElectroPop track autoKratz have dropped to date and Hooky’s playing just adds that Indie quality to the track. It’s pretty hard for anything with Hooky on not to sound a bit like New Order, but it is nice to see him slinging his bass low on ElectroPop tracks again rather than having a barny on Twitter with Indie tosspots.

‘Becoming The Wraith’ is defiantly the most accessible the autoKratz have ever been, and possible the best.

‘Becoming The Wraith’ is out soon on Studio !K7

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Apr 26 2011

Depeche Mode reMixed by Røyksopp

I’m a massive Depeche Mode fan but have always been disappointed by their reMixes, or rather their choice of reMixers. From about 1990 onward they just seemed to pick self-indulgent Techno artists who wouldn’t know a tune if it hit them in the face. But after the blisteringly good ‘Personal Jesus 2011’, especially the Alex Metric reMix, I am very excited about the forthcoming ‘reMixes 2: 81-11’ album.

Just looking at the line-up of talent is like a breath of fresh air as far as Depeche Mode reMixes are concerned. We have the likes of M83, Eric Prydz, Jacques Lu Cont, Digitalism, UNKLE, Karlsson & Winnberg (Bloodshy and Avant from Miike Snow) and this track from Røyksopp.

The Norwegian duo have chosen to rework ‘Puppets’, from 1981’s ‘Speak & Spell’ and really have made it their own. It’s got that Røyksopp, cute SynthPop, sound which seems to fit the original’s vocals more than the original track, if that’s possible. If this, alongside the Personal Jesus 2011 tracks, is the standard of reMixes on the album than we are in for a treat indeed!

♫ Depeche Mode – Puppets (Røyksopp reMix)

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

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Apr 25 2011

Oliver reMixes Penguin Prison

Oliver, the duo consisting of U-Tern & Oligee, are playing a prefect game. Not a bad release so far, making them one of the most exciting production teams of the year. Their new reMix of Penguin Prison’s ‘Fair Warning’ is jaw-droppingly good!

This track is so 80’s, Oliver have taken the Indie-Electro of Penguin Prison and tuned him into Nik Kershaw, and I mean that in the best way possible. With Olvier’s slick contemporary production this could quite easily be a modern remaster of an 80’s 12” extended version. The prefect meeting of 80’s songwriting and Dreamwave studio skills.

I love a bit of Penguin Prison, both live and recorded, so keep that in mind when I say Penguin Prison has never sounded so good!