A little Electro-Indie-Pop aside for you right now as we find Operator Please, those Australian blog darlings releasing their new single ‘Back And Forth’ next week, and giving it away for free too!
The second single from their sophomore album ‘Gloves’ is a pretty infections slice of jangly Indie awash with Lo-Fi sounding synths. It’s so catchy it almost makes you ashamed for liking it, but you’ll like it none the less!
The time is nearly upon is, Midnight Juggernauts new album ‘the Crystal Axis’ drops at the end of this month.
In anticipation check out this deep and strange reMix of the first single from the album, ‘Vital Signs’ by K I M, who is, of course. one half of The Presets. Filtering and shifting the vocals makes for an atmospheric vibe over the top of a burbling, 303, backing that sound not unlike The Presets themselves.
After their exhaustive Song Study ElectroPop pioneers DEVO have finalised the track list ing for their forthcoming album ‘something For Everybody’. Their first full studio album for almost 20 years is compiled from tracks from the study as voted for by the fans.
Here what DEVO themselves had to say at their ‘press conference’:
These are the tracks that made the grade:
01. Fresh 02. What We Do 03. Please Baby Please 04. Don’t Shoot, I’m a Man 05. Mind Games 06. Human Rocket 07. Sumthin’ 08. Step Up 09. Cameo 10. Later Is Now 11. No Place Like Home 12. March On
‘Something For Everybody’ album is released 14th July.
There’s still time to pick up a FREE ticket for tonight’s Back To The Phuture event.
As a warm up to their series of live events over the summer, culminating in the opening night of Bestival 2010, Wall Of Sound boss, BBC Radio 6 SynthPop head and all round electronic guru Mark Jones and crew have put together this little line up headlined by a DJ set from Heaven 17’s Martyn Ware! Joining him will be Howard Jones playing a live set, and Mark himself DJ alongside one half of Visage, and the legendary Blitz club’s decks man, Rusty Eagan. Indie-Electro newcomers Kids On Bridges complete the bill with a live set of their poppy Synth Indie.
After teasing us on Twitter, London SynthPop masters Monarchy have finally dropped their reMix of Kelis recent smash ‘Acapella’!
From the offset you can tell it’s something special, instantly transporting you to Planet Monarchy as the duo effortlessly work their futuristic synth magic for their take on the track. Actually, ‘Acapella’ is a really fitting song for Monarchy to reMix, the vocal track itself has a kinda’ 80’s space-age Disco feel to it so when combined with the music of these two stargazing ElectroPoppers it becomes this amazing soundtrack to the best 80’s Sci-Fi movie you never saw.
I’d love to see a video for this cut out of bits from ‘Battle Beyond The Stars’ or something!
Another classic ElectroPop act hitting the road this year is Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark who will, in last October and November, take in most of the UK and a big chunk of Europe.
The ‘History Of Modern’ tour will feature the classic line up of Andy McCluskey, Paul Humphreys, Martin Cooper and Malcolm Holmes and will showcase the bands forthcoming new album, again, titled ‘History Of Modern’ which Andy McCluskey has called “our best album since ‘Architecture And Morality’”.
Here’s one of our favourite OMD tunes, ‘Electricity’:
The tour will take in a gruelling 17 nights in November across Europe.
UK
29th Oct – Brighton @ Dome
31st Oct – Bristol @ Colston Hall
01st Nov – Nottingham @ Royal Centre
02nd Nov – Glasgow @ Concert Hall
04th Nov – Liverpool @ Arena
05th Nov – Ipswich @ Regent
07th Nov 11 – London @ Hammersmith Apollo
08th Nov – Birmingham @ Symphony Hall
EUROPE
11th Nov – Cologne @ E-Work
12th Nov – Hannover @ Capitol
13th Nov – Leipzig @ Haus Auensee
15th Nov – Stuttgart @ Theatrehaus
16th Nov – Munich @ Tonhalle
18th Nov – Berlin @ Tempoddrom
19th Nov – Hamburg @ Docks
21st Nov – Luxembourg @ (venue TBC)
22nd Nov – Brussels @ Ancienne Belgique
23rd Nov – Amsterdam @ Paradiso
25th Nov – Casino De Paris
It’s not Lady GaGa’s best song, but it is her new single, and it is elevated to the lofty heights of ‘fucking awesome’ by Swedish SynthPop masters The Sound of Arrows.
‘Alejandro’ is given a complete, smooth SynthPop makeover the way only The Sound Of Arrows can becoming a slice of pure 80’s Pop with the lightest touch of Nu-Disco!
Hot on the heels of the successful performance of their seminal album ‘Penthouse And Pavement’ in Sheffield (and accompanying BCC documentary), ElectroPop Legends Heaven 17 are taking the show on the road.
Taking in eight cities performing, arguably, their best album in its entirety (plus a few extras), fans in the UK can get a taste of what to expect as the BBC recording of the Sheffield début of the show is available to watch on iPlayer. The tour will expand from that performance to include a six piece band and LED banks showcasing artwork, specially commissioned, from top UK design houses inspired by the classic 1981 album.
Also still available on iPlayer is the documentary screened in conjunction with the gig, ‘Heaven 17: The Story Of Penthouse And Pavement’, it’s a fascinating watch with some great contributions.
To get you in the mood here’s Heaven 17’ 1981 début, and still awesome, ‘(We Don’t Need This) Fascist Groove Thing’:
22nd Nov – Edinburgh @ Edinburgh Picture House
23rd Nov – Glasgow @ Glasgow ABC
25th Nov – Manchester @ Manchester Ritz
26th Nov – Birmingham @ Birmingham Institute
28th Nov – London @ London Forum
29th Nov – Oxford – Oxford Academy
30th Nov – Brighton @ Brighton Corn Exchange
01st Dec – Bristol @ Bristol Academy
All this to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the album’s release! And there’s more! EMI are putting together a ‘special luxury edition’ of the record for release later in the year!
We’re really digging Robyn’s forthcoming single ‘Dancing On My Own’, with its amazing reMix package, the Swedish ElectroPop bundle of insanity (need new Robyn based ‘madness’ adjectives!) has finally débuted the video clip for the track.
It’s Robyn meet’s mid-80’s clips in a head on collision, complete with big hair and not quite dance moves and I swear at one point she attempts the classic James Bond not-so-convincingly-pretending-to-be-making-out-with-someone-by-wrapping-my-arms-round-my-back-and-wobbling-my-head trick!
‘Dancing On My Own’ is an awesome single, be sure to pick it up when it drops.
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