We first broke the news of a new Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark album last December with the demo version of new song ‘Sister Marie Says’. Now we have a brief chance to hear some more of what we can expect for the forthcoming ‘The History Of Modern’ in the form of this teaser that had been premiered by OMD.
Here a little of the new album and Andy McCluskey speaking about how it will sound.
‘The History Of Modern’ is slated to be released later this year.
Røyksopp are gearing up to release the flip side of last years utterly amazing ‘Junior’ album.
‘Junior’ not only made our top 20 albums but also had an inclusion in our top 20 songs of 2009 so if the duo are busting out the synths once more that cam only be good news!
Slated to be more instrumental, more freeform (maybe akin to their earlier works) than ‘Junior’, the new album, titles ‘Senior’ was conceived with each individual track being just one part of the whole.
In Røyksopp’s own words: “The two albums (‘Junior’ and ‘Senior’) have a kinship, in that they represent Røyksopp’s two very different artistic expressions. ‘Junior’ – with emphasis on vocals, accessible melodies and harmonies, has the energy, the inquisitive temper and confident “hey-ho, let’s go!”-attitude of youth, whereas ‘Senior’ is the introverted, dwelling and sometimes graceful counterpart – brimful with dark secrets and distorted memories, insisting “I’m old, I’ve got experience…”. Senior’ is furthermore an album about age, horses and being subdued – with devils breathing down your neck.”
Check the amusing trailer, there is nothing like a fake beard!
‘Senior’ is expected to drop 13th September
Robots With Rayguns is Lucas Patrick Smith, a 80’s influenced dancey ElectroPop producer who has gained quite a few blog inches for himself in recent months with his awesome reMixes of Lady GaGa, Chromeo and NightWaves.
His latest output is ‘Sugarbaby’, an storming piece of retro Electro, skilfully straddling the line between ElectroPop and Nu-Disco, it’s like a poppier Grum (if you can imagine that!). TSTR provide a high octane Dreamwave mix that rocks it’s way through numerous 80’s musical references.
♫ Robots With Rayguns – Sugarbaby
♫ Robots With Rayguns – Sugarbaby (TSTR reMix)
You can check out more of Robots With Rayguns’ work on his SoundCloud.
Robots With Rayguns @ SoundCloud
You’ve gotta’ love THISISNOTANEXIT records really. If you’re into any kind of interesting electronic music they have something for you. Whether you dig straight ElectroPop, Space Disco or something a little more experimental or eclectic they have you covered.
This week they are releasing the ‘THISISNOTANEXIT Summer Sampler EP 2010’ showcasing the varied talent on their roster.
Amongst the EP you will find Faze Action adding some badass analog Disco to Hatchback’s ‘Jetlag’, featuring some of the funkiest synth bass you will ever hear. Indie-Electro troupe Detachments drop a reMix of their well known track ‘The Flowers That Fell’ by Urlaubshits who bring a dark dance element to the table and New York ElectroPop dude The Dark Esquire teaming up with Club Silencio for a dirty, deep and gritty track titled ‘You Got To Look’
♫ Hatchback – Jetlag (Faze Action reMix)
♫ Detachments – The Flowers That Fell (Urlaubshits Minimal Rave Mix)
♫ Club Silencio (Feat.The Dark Esquire) – You Got To Look
Currently available as a digital exclusive at Juno the EP hits other download stores in two weeks.
Not keen on mp3’s, fancy a bit of flat black plastic with a hole in the middle? Well, THISISNOTANEXIT are trialling a scheme where folks who want the EP on vinyl can pledge to pay £10 for the release. If 100 people all pledge £10 then they will have a limited edition of 100 12”s pressed for those that wanted it (if they don’t get 100 pledges then the pressing doesn’t go ahead and no one gets charged). Register your interest at this link:
http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/thisisnotanexitsummersample
The EP can currently be downloaded from Juno, it’s a good starting point to investigate what THISISNOTANEXIT has to offer.
Parisian Electro-House/Indie-Electro act Housse De Racket are releasing yet another reMix package for their much hammered, much reMixed party anthem ‘Oh Yeah!’.
The package is seriously top quality, here are just three examples of what to expect. Hidden Cat turn in a brilliant space Disco mix that keeps the killer riff but layers it will analog noodling. Jensen Sportag brings us quite an eclectic summer chiller but the highlight so far has to be Walter Sobcek’s slick retro Pop mix which is, one one word, epic!
♫ Housse De Racket – Oh Yeah! (Hidden Cat reMix)
♫ Housse De Racket – Oh Yeah! (Jensen Sportag Pop Mix)
♫ Housse De Racket – Oh Yeah! (Walter Sobcek reMix)
4th July is the street date for the ‘Oh Yeah!’ reMix EP, out on Kuskus.
Last Saturday London’s awesome stargazing SynthPop act Monarchy, usually men shrouded in mystery, made a rare, and their début, live appearance.
And where was this gig? You might ask. Well, fittingly for the band it pretty much took place in space. Performed at the NASA Planetarium at Cape Canaveral, Florida in from of 20 witnesses the show gained the band the honour of being the first band to broadcast live into space!
Check the trailer below, it looks like it would have been quite an experience to attend. Monarchy are promising more video soon.
At least if there is life out there we’ve got our musical ambassadorship covered.
Also just premiered is the video for their forthcoming new single ‘Love Get Out Of My Way’ spanning a cosmic Disco fantasyland. Lots of space-ballet, a space-unicorn, a space-pillar and possibly a space-love story, can’t quite tell. Looks nice though!
‘Love Get Out Of My Way’ drops very soon with reMixes from Holy Ghost!, Sinden, and Treasure Fingers amongst others.
Painted Face is the superhero identity of DC based singer/songwriter Allie Alvarado.
Veteran of the Brooklyn Art-Rock scene, having been part of Telepathe and Blood Lines, her current output comes of a collaboration with producer Alvin Risk and is a captivating combination of intricate electronic music and soulful vocals. The music seems to effortlessly capture that elusive sweet spot that mixes the nuanced and emotive with the danceable without loosing any of either.
The moment the beat kicks-in on ‘Undreamt’ it has already hooked you to the groove, but beyond that it’s the layers upon layers of sound and Allie’s voice (with something fresh and raw about it) that seem to reach into every part of you. It’s gonna’ get more exposure, I guarantee it, and it’s one of those tracks that’s going to give you goosebumps when the DJ drops it.
Check out Painted Face’s SoundCloud for more music and show Allie much MySpace love!:
Floating round the outskirts of French Pop, Nu-Disco and Lounge music but never really steeling in one place are Lola Dutronic.
The duo of Lola Dee and Richard Citroen split their time between Toronto and Berlin (by way of Paris) while creating kinda’ post-Gainsbourg electronic Pop. This is serious 60’s-Paris-in-the-rain stuff but with some skilled contemporary programming work from Citroen. It’s hard not to get drawn in by Lola’s intimate vocal style and forget where you are for half an hour.
I actually hear a lot of Saint Etienne in Lola Dutronic.
The pair have just released a new EP, mostly of reMixes, titled ‘Musique’, on Red Digital Music. The mixes span the range of electronic Pop, from almost Trip-Hop beats to dancefloor worthy House tracks, all keeping Lola Dutronic’s smokey style ever present.
♫ Lola Dutronic – My Radio (French Disco Mix)
♫ Lola Dutronic – Chanson D’Ete (Summer Of Love Mix)
‘Musique’ and Lola Dutronic’s three (yes, three!) previous albums are available now:
Hey Champ!’s awesome single ‘Neverest’ has just gone and got itself a video! And what a video it is…two words…dolphin boobs.
That is all.
Check out the surreal Sci-Fi Disco goodness:
The singles ‘Neverest’ and ‘Cold Dust Girl’ can be downloaded from the band’s official site and ‘Star’ is due to be released 13th July.
Midlands noisy ElectroPop/Electro-Punk outfit Neon Circus are gearing up for the release of their début album on Jacket Pocket Records.
Following the bands singles ‘Future Disco’ and ‘Digit-ism’, both of which gained some national radio play, the album, ‘Don’t Get Panicked’, will showcase the bands mash up of Rock ‘N’ Roll vocals with dirty Electro-House. The single Digit-Ism was almost bordering on ElectroPunk with it’s distorted riffs and call-to-arms vocals.
‘Don’t Get Panicked’ is released on 23rd July
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