Still not sure if we can mention what record label will be re-releasing The Good Natured’s ‘Your Body Is A Machine’, but rest assured the label is alarmingly hip!
We’re really looking forward to the release though, it’s a song that has grown on us more and more over the past year or so and some of the reMixes are amazing.
Finally there is a proper video for the track, feast your eyes:
‘Your Body Is A Machine’ is released 21st June on the aforementioned (or not) alarmingly hip record label.
He practically invented Electro Hip-Hop, synthed up New Order and was an influence on almost all forms of Electronic music, and most recently production legend Arthur Baker provided the wonderful dancefloor reMix of current SynthPop bright hopes HURTS’ début track, ‘Wonderful Life’.
Not content with that Baker has taken the core loop of his reMix and expanded it into a full on Electro banger! With only the barest hint of vocals, if ‘Wonderful Life’ was HURTS politely asking you to appreciate stuff, then this time they’re back with AB to convince you with baseball bats! That main riff is a killer!
♫ AB/HURTS (Arthur Baker) – Onederful (Planet Rocka Dub) (zShare) (MediaFire)
Arthur Baker’s reMix on ‘Wonderful Life’ features on HURT’s ‘Wonderful Life’ EP, you could also do a lot worse than checking out his extensive back catalogue.
Scottish ElectroPop act Silver Columns‘ ‘Cavalier’ is finally getting a full on single release. We’ve already previewed some of the reMixes that will be available in the past few months and it looks like it’s shaping up to be a fantastic single with a great reMix package.
The duo have just dropped the video for the single, an odyssey around the Scottish landscape that highlights the call-and-response nature of the track.
The video directed by DARYL for Pulse Films.
Astronomer are just one of the names stepping up for reMix duties. Here they deliver a deep Electro mix that has certain Beep-House qualities about it. Ahh, that takes me back….
♫ Silver Columns – Cavalier (Astronomer reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
‘Cavalier’ is released on 17th May via Moshi Moshi.
Video directed by DARYL for Pulse Films
I remember a few weeks ago Grum saying on Twitter that he was reMixing Owl City, I thought he was joking…apparently not!
Unlike I lot of people, I actually don’t hate Owl City, they remind me of a Poppier The Postal Service, and I did like The Postal Service (and I like Pop!). So I’m OK with OC going in but damn does Grum work some serious magic here. In a way he’s taken Owl City, and made it Monarchy, and that’s an ace thing to do! The mixture of Adam Young’s introspective, borderline Emo, SynthPop and Grum’s Disco infused Dreamwave creates this genius dancefloor ElectroPop gold!
♫ Owl City – Umbrella Beach (Grum reMix) (Sharebee) (MediaFire)
‘Umbrella Beach’, the second single from the ‘Ocean Eyes’ album , is out soon.
Every time I post about LIGHTS I feel like I should disclose certain information. ElectroPop, Keytars, Hot Girls and Canada are four of my favourite things in the world. Kinda’ makes me powerless to resist…
In her continuing battle to break the UK, LIGHTS releases her second single this side of the Atlantic, ‘Saviour’. Although the track itself is quite old (in the US at least) Owl City’s Adam Young has dropped a brand new reMix of it which is very like the original but with added Owl City sparkle and Adam’s highly AutoTuned vocals sneaking in the background.
♫ LIGHTS – Saviour (Adam Young (Owl City) reMix) (Sharebee) (MediaFire)
‘Saviour’ is released in the UK on 10th May.
I’m absolutely lovin’ this reMix of Ellie Goulding’s album opener and forthcoming single ‘Guns And Horses’ by German House producer Tonka.
It’s a slice of pure sweeping Disco/House excellence that completely compliments the song, never overpowering it. Keeping the song itself intact, Tonka’s reMix gives it that pumping summery euphoric Disco vibe in the same way Russ Chime’s did for ‘Starry Eyed’.
♫ Ellie Goulding – Guns And Horses (Tonka Radio Cut) (zShare) (MediaFire)
‘Guns And Horses’ drops 17th May.
TeenagersInTokyo are gearing up for the release of their début long player, ‘Sacrifice’, at the end of the month and are preceding it with the second single from the album.
‘End It Tonight’ originally featured on the bands début EP last year but is given new lease of life by a bunch of ace reMixes. We Have Band’s jittery percussion and four bar basslines shine through, the WHB sound actually works really well with Samantha Lim’s vocals. Nightschool are the next in a long line of ‘mystery’ acts to appear in the last couple of years. I’m sure people will have all kinds of theories as to who it is, I’m sure there will be loads of Gossip (ahem). Focusing on his reMix though, it’s got a nice New Wave vibe going on with a nice balance of bass & guitar to Synths, kinda’ gives the song more of a live feel too, which is nice.
♫ TeenagersInTokyo – End It Tonight (We Have Band Mix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
♫ TeenagersInTokyo – End It Tonight (Nightschool Disco Hijack Mix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
‘Sacrifice’ is released on 24th May
Apologies for the crappy phone-cam photo!
Y’know, this will be the first ever live review on electronic rumors, I always feel like I should (and I’m going to do more) but when I’m out, I just kinda’ like to live it up, drink the bar dry and have an awesome time dancing to some amazing music and not worrying what I might say about it on a website!
HURTS felt like more of an ‘event’ though, so here you go, have some words! I caught them live last night here in Bristol on one of the early dates of the NME Radar Tour (along with the abysmal Darwin Deez and the disappointingly average Everything Everything) and, for me at least, anticipation was high.
‘Presence’ is probably the best word to describe HURTS live. For two guys (and three backing band (keyboard player, drummer and opera singer!)) who don’t move around very much they do seem to fill up the stage. One thing I was concerned about was how po-faced and pretentious they were going to be, as that would kinda’ annoy me, but I was surprised at how much of a good time the guys seemed to be having onstage. Yes, the sometimes tortured, sometimes apathetic persona is there in singer Theo Hutchcraft but occasionally you’ll catch a playful smile cross his face, or even an outright grin as the crowd sing the lyrics back to him.
The set was everything I had hoped, most of the EP tracks were played, opening with ‘Silver Lining’. ‘Unspoken’ was pretty perfect, and the set climaxed in a roof raising performance of the forthcoming single ‘Better Than Love’. Interestingly, in his introduction to their breakthrough hit ‘Wonderful Life’ Theo confirmed our suspicions that the song was indeed written about our fair city (there are a few obscure references to places in Bristol in the lyrics) which endeared the crowd to them more.
All in all, awesome! One of the best gigs I have been to in a while, a band hasn’t impressed me this much live since the first time I saw CHEW LiPS!
If you get the chance, definitely see HURTS live, especially if you can catch them early on in their career in some intimate venue.
Check the Fred Falke reMix of ‘Unspoken’:
♫ HURTS – Unspoken (Fred Falke reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
‘Better Than Love’ drops on the 24th.
Joe Cross is such the man to watch this year, he is a dude with his fingers in many pies!
As well as being one third of Indie-Electro outfit Performance, he is also half of the awesome Kiss In Cities and had a hand in upcoming releases by HURTS and The Sound Of Arrows.
Anyway, this is ‘The Living’, the latest single from Performance who really do have a knack for songwriting, they may be my favourite current (Indie slanted) Indie-Electro band in the UK. I think I like them so much ‘cos they combine ElectroPop elements with an early ‘90’s Indie sound. Rad stuff!
The single is out now on Too Much Information Records.
‘Journey’ is the new track from Van She bassist Matt Van Schie’s début EP ‘Balmy Nights’.
Produced, not only by fellow Van She-er Mikey Di Francesco (Arithmatix!), but also the amazing Diamond Cut the track is more chilled than the previous track we’ve heard, ‘Saturday Night’ and is a smooth, dreamy, summer SynthPop track that just floats round your speakers.
Check it:
♫ Matt Van Schie – Journey (zShare) (MediaFire)
You can pick up ‘Balmy Nights’ here.
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