There’s a new 7” on the way from Swedish Electro heroes Lo-Fi-Fnk.
‘Sleepless’ is out next month and defiantly increases the anticipation for their forthcoming full length second album. It’s a chilled, hypnotic ElectroPop groove that sounds something like the sound in your mind when inflicted with the tracks inspiration.
With all the horn and piano stable it’s like being an insomniac in the 90’s! Awesome!
♫ Lo-Fi-Fnk – Sleepless
‘Sleepless’ is released in September on Moshi Moshi.
iamamiwhoami (i.e. defiantly Jonna Lee now) have mostly stopped being mysterious, except with their releases (a succession of one track singles). It’s probably time for a proper release.
It would be welcome to, their latest track ‘y’ and it’s accompanying video are both things of beauty, like a head on collision between The Knife and Kate Bush.
‘y’ is out…y’know, whenever…some other tracks are out there though, all with single letter titles.
‘Always On’ is the next single from Scottish ElectroPop experimentalists Silver Columns.
The track, that successfully walks the line between Avant Garde and Bedroom Pop, also gets a whopping nine minute reMix from Caribou, who take the listener on a synthesizer journey through deep analog basses and bleeps and blips making Silver Columns suddenly sound very Hot Chip.
♫ Silver Columns – Always On (Caribou reMix)
‘Always On’ is out soon.
Ali Love’s awesome single ‘Smoke & Mirrors’ was released last week and, thankfully, it’s now got itself a video.
The ElectroPop goodness is now accompanied by visuals the feature not only smoke…but mirrors too!
the whole thing looks pretty slick though, and works well with the track.
‘Smoke & Mirrors’ is out now, Ali’s forthcoming album, ‘Love Harder’ should be dropping in August.
This is the video for New York Indie-Disco act MEN’s début UK single ‘Credit Card Babie$’.
Starting out with a core duo of Le Tigre members JD Samson and Johanna Fatema, MEN has expanded into a full on band and art/performance collective. The video for their insanely catchy Indie-Electro-Pop début was directed by Matt Wolf.
‘Credit Card Babie$’ is released 6th September.
Robyn = Awesome. Starsmith = Awesome.
Robyn + Starsmith = Awesomer!
‘Hang With Me’ is the first single from Robyn’s ‘Body Talk Part 2’, we dropped the video last week. It’s a cute SynthPop ballad that is a good sign for the forthcoming album. That ElectroPop producer extraordinaire Starsmith is providing one of the single’s reMixes is just too good to be true!
And the track lives up to expectations. Pure uplifting electronic Pop goodness that makes expectations run high not just for Robyn’s second ‘Body Talk’ album but Starsmith’s soon-to-be-released EP too!
♫ Robyn – Hang With Me (Starsmith reMix) (Un-Mastered)
‘Hang With Me’ is taken from the ‘Body Talk Pt. 2’ album and is out 5th September.
Things have been quiet from The Vanish camp since the release of their last single, ‘Hold On’ but this week sees the release of ‘Heartbeat’, the second track from their demo EP to be given the single treatment.
The Indie-Disco-Pop ‘Heartbeat’ was my favourite track on the original demo EP, making top ten in electronic rumors’ top 20 songs of 2009, so the single, and it’s stellar reMix line up is most welcome here. Speaking of ‘stellar’, Australians Get Stellar and Beaumont both provide mixes for the package.
That was a terrible segway…………….
Anyway, the Beaumont mix we have for you here isn’t the one appearing on the single, that is an 8-bit Chiptune-Disco affair, this alternate mix is a smooth electronic Pop track in the Starsmith vein that I think I actually prefer. There is a certain epic journey-ness to this mix that can’t help but win you over. Get Stellar’s reMix goes straight for the Electro-Disco jugular that’s just made for late night dancefloor action.
♫ The Vanish – Heartbeat (Beaumont Alt reMix)
♫ The Vanish – Heartbeat (Get Stellar reMix)
Also on the single is the stunning, simple stunning, Barretso reMix, if I can post it I will.
‘Heartbeat’ is our now.
We previewed September’s new Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark single ‘If You Want To’ a while back and found it an ace return to classic and bombastic OMD.
The single, taken from ‘the History Of Modern’ OMD’s first studio album on 14 years, will also feature a reMix from Finnish SynthPop heroes and sometime OMD support act VillaNah who layer the track with their own brand of retro electronics. Amazingly, VillaNah have managed to make the song sound more retro than OMD themselves, that’s quite an achievement!
P.S. Synth brass is awesome!
♫ OMD (Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark) – If You Want It (VillaNah reMix)
The ‘If You Want It’ single is released 6th September with ‘The History Of Modern’ slated to be released later this year.
Hey, did we mention we’re particularly exited about LexiconDon’s forthcoming début album? No? We’d better mention it then!
Here at electronic rumors we’re particularly excited about LexiconDon’s forthcoming début album!
And to keep that excitement going Binary have dropped the second preview track from ‘Pink + Blue’, released later this month. ‘Student Body’, like ‘December Sunset’ the previous track, is smoother and more mature (musically) than we had previously been used to, which bodes well for the album. This track is just pure catchy summer SynthPop. It’s got everything in the right places; a mid 80’s R&B groove, Indie tinged vocals with a cool narrative, retro ElectroPop synths.
This is music to wear shades to…
LexiconDon’s ‘Pink + Blue’ is due to drop 24th August on dubFrequency/Binary, and keep it locked to electronic rumors for our forthcoming Binary event!
Things have been quite in the Penguin Prison camp for a few weeks now, the guy’s been studio bound working on his forthcoming début album.
He’s taken some time out, though, to drop this awesome reMix of Passion Pit new-classic ‘Little Secrets’. Reinventing the track for this summer, Mr. Prison drops some intricate drum programming and a hypnotic piano break that just draws you in and carries you along until the string laden finalé.
This mix is gonna’ make any day feel summery!
♫ Passion Pit – Little Secrets (Penguin Prison reMix)
Penguin Prison is looking to release his album later this year.
[Via: Neon Gold]
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