May 16 2010

Robyn reMixes

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Scandinavian ElectroPop whirlwind Robyn’s forthcoming single ‘Dancing On My Own’, for her new album ‘Body Talk Pt. 1’ is shaping up to have an awesome reMix package supporting it.

Things in the Rex The Dog camp have been pretty quiet recently but he’s powering back with this amazing reMix, the trademark Rex The Dog style bassline really kicks the track up a notch, it’s really Poppy for RtD but may have place Roby (like last year) in our top 20 of 2010 already! Chew-Fu don’t do a bad job themselves, turning in a euphoric, hands-in-the-air slice of Electro-House with a really 80’s movie feel.

♫ Robyn – Dancing On My Own (Rex The Dog reMix) (zShare) (Sharebee)

♫ Robyn – Dancing On My Own (Chew-Fu reMix) (zShare) (Sharebee)

Head on over to Robyn’s SoundCloud to hear the Fred Falke reMix. ‘Dancing On My Own is out soon.

Robyn @ Beatport

Robyn @ 7Digital

Robyn @ Amazon

May 15 2010

Friends Electric

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Friends Electric are no strangers to electronic rumors, we’ve featured a few of their awesome reMixes for the likes of Penguin Prison Bright Light Bright Light and Ellie Goulding (their reMix of ‘Under The Sheets’ made our top 20 songs of 2009) so about time some original material was posted.

The Welsh Indie-Electro/ElectroPop crew have already supported Frankmusik (who they share management with) on tour and scored some big name reMixes and are gearing up for the release of their début single ‘Wall Of Arms’ in July.

The track is a solid slice of Indie tinged electronic Pop, with stylistic nods to the Neon Gold stable (and associated acts), that shows the massive potential FE have for some really good epic, anthemic ElectroPop.

♫ Friends Electric – Wall Of Arms (zShare) (MediaFire)

‘Wall Of Arms’ drops 14th July.

Friends Electric @ Beatport

Friends Electric @ Juno

Friends Electric @ 7Digital

Friends Electric @ Amazon

May 15 2010

Young Empires

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Young Empires are a post-punk Electro band who hail from Toronto who made quite a stir on the discerning Indie blogs with their first track ‘Rain Of Gold’

We’re loving their second track ‘Glory Of The Night’, It’s a strange meeting of 80’s Electro Hip-Hop 808 beats and moody Indie-Electro with a hint of guitar. Dark, heavy, synths drive the track making the chant-like vocals seem like they are dragged along in the tide. Maybe it’s the 808’s, but despite the brooding sound to the song there is something hopeful about it.

Robert Ellingson, Jake Palahnuk, and Matthew Vlahovich have to potential to be something of a Canadian HURTS!

♫ Young Empires – Glory Of The Night (Demo.) (zShare) (MediaFire)

Check out more of Young Empires music over on their MySpace.

Young Empires @ MySpace

May 12 2010

Backseat Dreamer

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Backseat Dreamer is the solo project of South Carolina musician Sean Neuse who makes a kinda’ Shoegaze influenced style of Dreamwave.

Dropping his début album this July, Sean creates a swirling soundscape of intertwining analog synths, layered with just enough retro sounds to keep it from chaos and dreamlike vocals that become another instrument in the mix. The whole thing is kept in check with solid dance beats that make it as much dancefloor fodder as listening gold.

♫ Backseat Dreamer – Consider (zShare) (MediaFire)

Backseat Dreamer’s début album ‘The Colors of Dreams, They’re In You’ is released 13th July on Stickfigure Recordings.

Backseat Dreamer @ Amazon

May 12 2010

LUFRKKK

What the fuck is this now? I haven’t got much to say about Brazilian LUFRKKK, as I don’t know much. I recognize the name for some reMixes but the email I received was pretty cryptic.

As is the track, it’s an awesome melting pot of genres. Give it a listen, once you get used to it, rapping over Dreamwave style Nu-Disco is actually pretty cool. Hearing the big 80’s synths with an MC and some AutoTuned vocals takes some getting used to, but you end up thinking “if this is the direction Hip-Hop is going in, I can dig” especially when there are vocoders to ease you in. And then…once you are comfortable, once you have got used to the Hip-Hop/Dreamwave/Pop R&B/Nu-Disco/Electro-House mash-up…it gets all Drum & Bass on your ass!

Take that genres!

♫ LUFRKKK (Feat. Drake) – Fucking Losers (zShare) (MediaFire)

The lease LUFRKK deserves is your MySpace love!

LUFRKKK @ MySpace

May 12 2010

Au Revoir Simone’s new reMix album

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New York based Indie-Electro darlings Au Revoir Simone are following up their acclaimed third album of last summer’, ‘Still Night, Still Light’, with an album of reMixes this June.

Titled ‘Night Light’ the release will feature reMixes from such names as Silver Columns, Aeroplane, Clock Opera, Jens Lekman, Neon Indian,Bass Clef, and Deradoorian (Angel Deradoorian from The Dirty Projectors), just to name a few!.

Silver Columns take on ‘We Are Here’ with a deep, slightly glitchy, Electro vibe, adding some new vocals and heavy percussion while the Aeroplane reMix (which first dropped late last year) of ‘Another Likely Story’ is a straight up Indie-Dance party jam!

♫ Au Revoir Simone – We Are Here (Silver Columns reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)

♫ Au Revoir Simone – Another Likely Story (Aeroplane reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)

‘Night Light’ is released 5th July through Moshi Moshi.

Au Revoir Simone @ Beatport

Au Revoir Simone @ Juno

Au Revoir Simone @ 7Digital

Au Revoir Simone @ Amazon

May 12 2010

Human Life

Aeroplane and Grum are diggin’ them, Alan Braxe is working with them. everybody seems to love LA ElectroPoppers Human Life. The attention is well deserved too, their forthcoming second single, ‘In It Together’, is an almighty clash of Nu-Disco basslines, 8-bit sounds, 80’s synth chords, 90’s House keys and Disco vocals.

Check the video, a crazy costumed scavenger hunt, directed by Dan Brophy

Acid Girls and Polygon Palace are just two of the big names contributing to the reMix package (alongside the likes of Louis La Roche and Kris Menace). Both have amped up the 90’s house feel, Acid Girls Electro-ing things up with a wonky bassline and Polygon Palace taking a more Nu-Disco route under that lead line.

♫ Human Life – In It Together (Acid Girls reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)

♫ Human Life – In It Together (Polygon Palace reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)

‘In It Together’ drops 7th June on Life X Recordings.

Human Life @ Beatport

Human Life @ 7Digital

Human Life @ Amazon

May 11 2010

I Am Noxious’s video for ‘This Is A Ballad’

After a slight battle with the technicalities of YouTube, which he documented on his Twitter feed, London’s BedroomPop rising star I Am Noxious has dropped this self-made video for his track ‘This Is A Ballad’.

Atmospheric in it’s simplicity it just goes to show that with enough vision you don’t need a budget to create something visually interesting and fitting to the music.

Other unsigned bands should take note! And everyone else should check I Am Noxious’s MySpace.

I Am Noxious @ MySpace

May 11 2010

Indiscreet wants to vanish from here…

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French Electro artist Indiscreet has delivered something pretty special in his new EP, ‘The I’, not only does it contain four tracks of Ed Banger-esq noisy ElectroPop but also a narrative with accompanying online comic. Yes, I’m talking about a concept work here, which in the realms of Electronic Music tends to be a hell of a lot more interesting than Prog Rock concept albums of old.

Telling the time fractured story in which the protagonist lives through a self-fulfilling prophesy of the creation of a fascist future, governed by a giant eye (The ‘I’ of the title), the story is told in reverse through the tracks on the EP and in graphic form on Indiscreet’s MySpace.

So, the music? Aggressive ElectroPop with heavy distorted synths, hard Electro-House beats and angst fuelled vocals, create a more lyrical take on the Ed Banger sound. Unmistakable French, Indiscreet seem to be writing Hard Rock songs with electronic equipment and the merging of the Rock formula with banging noisy house akin to the likes of Justice and MSTRKRFT works in such a powerful way, like a controlled chaos.

I can only imagine that an Indiscreet show is a pretty awesome live.

♫ Indiscreet – Vanish Part II (zShare) (MediaFire)

♫ Indiscreet (Feat. Kid A)- Reveries Past (zShare) (MediaFire)

Indiscreet’ ‘The I’ EP has just been released and there is a unique conceptual launch party taking place at I-Way in Lyon, France on 29nd May.

Indiscreet @ Beatport

Indiscreet @ Juno

Indiscreet @ Amazon

May 11 2010

Win a limited edition Topman CTRL T-Shirt Designed by We Have Band!!!

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After a good few months of letting some of the best bands in the UK choose playlists for their website and the line ups for special one-off shows, Topman CTRL is going on the road! The Topman CTRL Student Tour hits five major cities across the UK to serve up some top live acts including We Have Band, Silver Columns, The Big Pink, Yeasayer, The Futureheads, Archie Bronson Outfit and Everything Everything. Not only that, but they are also joined by Channel4, who will be filming the events for a brand new series and letting five C4 presenters, Nick Grimshaw, Miquita Oliver, Rick Edwards, Matt Edmondson and Alex Zane, curate their own individual nights.

In recognition of five nights of awesome live music, electronic rumors is giving away five (yes! five!) incredibly limited edition T-Shirts designed by one of our favourite UK live acts, We Have Band!!! WHB also happen to be appearing at the Newcastle leg of the tour.

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The Topman CTRL Student Tour runs 15th-20th may, check out these line ups!

Newcastle – 15^th May – The Futureheads and We Have Band (Matt Edmondson)
Leeds – 16^th May – Archie Bronson Outfit and Everything Everything (Alex Zane)
Exeter – 18^th May – Miike Snow and Kassidy (Miquita Oliver)
London – 19^th May – Yeasayer and Silver Columns (Nick Grimshaw)
Nottingham – 20^th May – The Big Pink and Darwin Deez (Rick Edwards)

For more information and ticket details visit www.topmanctrl.com.

So, to grab yourself one of these limited edition T-shirts you need to follow us(electronicrumor) on Twitter, then copy, paste and tweet the following:

Hey @electronicrumor, I wanna win a limited edition T-Shirt designed by @wehavebandtwitt in time to see them on the @topmanctrl Student Tour

East as pie!

Speaking of pie, all the entrants will be put in my porkpie hat and five will be drawn at random to each receive a T-Shirt. Winners will be contacted by Twitter DM.

We’ll keep the competition running ’til Friday 28th May, so you’ve got just over two weeks to get up in it!

We Have Band’s début album ‘WHB’ is out now!

We Have Band @ Beatport

We Have Band @ Amazon