Nov 23 2010

Electrosexual & Mz. Sunday Luv

Electrosexual, who we featured on the site back in the day, had teamed up with Mz. Sunday Luv to release a brand new single.

‘I Feel Love’ is more of Electrosexual’s slightly left of centre Electro-House. Taking in influences from across the dance music board you can heard bits of Acid and Techno amongst the hypnotic Electro track. Mz. Luvs sultry vocals add a smokey, dreamlike quality to the track and a touch of danger. The B-side, ‘Play With Fire’ is more of an 80’s take on their sound with a dominant analog bassline underpinning the tune.

♫ Electrosexual & Mz. Sunday Luv – I Feel Love (Single Edit Version)

♫ Electrosexual & Mz. Sunday Luv – Play With Fire

‘I Feel Love’ is out now.

Electrosexual & Mz. Sunday Luv @ Beatport

Electrosexual & Mz. Sunday Luv @ Juno

Electrosexual & Mz. Sunday Luv @ 7Digital

Electrosexual & Mz. Sunday Luv @ Amazon

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Nov 19 2010

The Human League: ‘Night People’ is here!

The Human League are back! And they’re taking names and kicking ass!

Ever since the announcement that The League has signed to Mark Jones’ Wall Of Sound label we’ve been eagerly awaiting the fruits of that union, and here we have it! The first single from their upcoming ‘Credo’ album, ‘Night People’!

We were right in our previous assessment, there is something of ‘The Sound Of The Crowd’ about it. It’s sounding both really 80’s, and pretty contemporary too. Almost like a modern reMix of a classic The Human League track. The second half of the song is particularly epic when it evolves from early THL sounding chants to a sweeping finale.

It’s so good to have them back!

♫ The Human League – Night People (Album Version)

‘Credo’ is due out in March 2011 preceded by the ‘Night People’ single which will feature reMixes from Cerrone, Mylo, The Emperor Machine and Villa.

Stay tuned, the video is premiering on Monday.

The Human League @ Beatport

The Human League @ Juno

The Human League @ 7Digital

The Human League @ Amazon

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Disclaimer: The Human League are probably my favourite band of all time, haha…

Nov 19 2010

Fancy covering the new Mason & Róisín Murphy track?

In a world where reMix competitions have become commonplace it’s nice to see someone mixing it up a little bit.

Mason (they of the awesome track with Princess Superstar a few years ago) are releasing a new single featuring the vocal talents of none other than ElectroPop queen Róisín Murphy and to celebrate they are inviting their listeners to show off their interpretations of the track. The winner of the contest, which they are calling a ‘Refurb competition’, will get their version released through Mason’s own Animal Language imprint. A Refurb is, in their own words “…not remixes in the usual sense but completely new interpretations of the original track done in any style that takes their fancy.”, back in the real world we call that a ‘cover version’, but semantics aside it could be a chance to have a little fun with the track.

You can listen to the original here, it’s actually a really cool tune, Róisín’s dreamlike vocals are always welcome.

♫ Mason (Feat. Róisín Murphy) – Boadicea

Entries must be submitted by 1st December to info@animal-language.com with the subject ‘Refurb Róisín’, more info on the SoundCloud page.

The ‘Boadicea’ single (featuring your cover?) will be released early March 2011.

Mason @ Beatport

Mason @ 7Digital

Mason @ Amazon

Nov 18 2010

Lindbergh Palace get the Fear Of Tigers reMix treatment

Ben from Fear Of Tigers has been far too quite lately for my liking. Of everyone making massive, retro sounding, Dreamwavey, dance tracks Fear Of Tigers are among the cream of the crop so a new FoT reMix really makes you sit up and take notice!

We featured Lindbergh Palace a while back and were pretty impressed with the Brooklyn based band. The combination of Leah Hayes vocals and Ben’s music is something special indeed! The reMix has a long rhythmic build which really pays off when the track kicks in and shows a real maturing musicality to Ben’s work.

If we did ‘track of the day’, this would be it!

♫ Lindbergh Palace – Days Don’t Fade (Fear Of Tigers Mix)

Lindbergh Palace’s début EP is out in December, until the go check them out on MySpace and pick up some of their reMixes:

Lindbergh Palace @ Juno

Lindbergh Palace @ Amazon

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Nov 18 2010

Patrick Wolf’s new single

London Pop kid Patrick Wolf is back with a new single, ‘Time Of My Life’, in December and it’s a pretty addictive slice of electronic Pop.

The singles reMixes come courtesy of, amongst others, Ceephax and Leo Zero. I think, of the whole package, the Ceephax reMix if my favourite, I dig the burbling Acid bassline, 80’s shimmering synths the old school SynthPop feel the track is given. The shuffling hi-hats are a nice touch too. Leo Zero’s mix is beat heavy, almost tribal, and deep. Stripping the song back to basics and bringing in the big square waves.

♫ Patrick Wolf – Time Of My Life (Ceephax reMix)

♫ Patrick Wolf – Time Of My Life (Leo Zero Dub)

‘Time Of My Life’ is our 6th December with Patrick’s new album due out in May 2011.

Patrick Wolf @ Beatport

Patrick Wolf @ Juno

Patrick Wolf @ 7Digital

Patrick Wolf @ Amazon

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Nov 18 2010

Monsieur Adi reMixes The Knocks (again)

Woo-hoo! A New Monsieur Adi reMix! That’s always cause for celebration.

Once again The Knocks are the focus of the Italian super-reMixers skills on heir forthcoming single ‘Dancing With The DJ’. Adi layers the track with his particular brand of Disco. Boy does that man love his strings!?

♫ The Knocks – Dancing With The DJ (Monsieur Adi reMix)

‘Dancing With The DJ’ is out soon.

The Knocks @ Neon Gold

The Knocks @ Amazon

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Nov 18 2010

Primary 1’s ‘Never Know’ video

The track’s been out for a while now, but so had the video which I’ve only just found out about. SO I’m posting late ‘cos it’s a pretty nice clip.

I’m talking about Primary 1’s new single (Feat. Harry Tuttle) ‘Never Know’ which is a cool 80’s-esq Pop track which conveniently appears to have a cool 80’s-esq Pop video.

It’s nice when there things work out!

‘Never Know’ is out 29th November.

Nov 17 2010

More from Freezepop’s forthcoming album

Freezepop new album is pretty eagerly awaited here at electronic rumors, the release date has been pushed back to December now which is making the anticipation that much harder to bear.

Sensing this, the Boston based SynthPop legends are giving away another new track. Taken from the forthcoming ‘Imaginary Firends’, ‘Doppelganger’ is even better than the previous album teaser ‘Magnetic’. The song is a heady mix of new and old, one of the more 80’s Pop-esq tracks Freezepop have done ‘Doppelganger’ boarders on Dreamwave at times, but all wrapped up in Freezepop’s trademark Liz Enthusiasm narrative.

If this is what the rest of the album sounds like then it could be the best thing Freezepop have ever done, and with a back catalogue like theirs that’s really saying a lot!

♫ Freezepop – Doppelganger

Now you’ve heard it in 128kbps head on over to Freezepop’s official website and download the high quality 320kbps mp3 in exchange for your email addy , now that’s cheap!

‘Imaginary Friends’ is due to drop 7th December.

Nov 17 2010

Chromeo and La Roux; The 12inch Mix

No longer do you have to be content with our radio rip of Chromeo’s massive duet with Elly Jackson from La Roux, here we have the full 12inch Mix!

We gave our impressions of the track in the original post, those opinions are only strengthened by the full track, it works so well it’s getting hard to remember how it was with out Elly’s counterpoint. Her part is so simple too, but that’s the beauty of it.

Anyway, here it is, enjoy. You will!

♫ Chromeo (Feat. Elly Jackson From La Roux) – Hot Mess (12inch Mix)

The ‘Hot Mess’ single is out 17th January and along with the original and the new duet features reMixes from the likes Duck Sauce and Tiga.

Nov 17 2010

CHEW LiPS reMix Hot Chip, Bernard Sumner & Hot City’s Converse track

CHEW LiPS are on a reMix roll!

Remember that team-up between Hot Chip and New Order’s Bernard Sumner and Hot City, to release a track for Converse’s collaborative series we wrote about a while back?

Well, now not only has it gone and got itself a video but also an amazing, analog bass pounding, reMix courtesy of CHEW LiPS. In the end result you can hear bits of New Order, bits of Hot Chip and bits of CHEW LiPS, it’s an odd mix, but very cool.

Check the video and the reMix below.