Goin’ Old School isn’t a trip down music memory lane, it’s a mugging in the dark alleyway of nostalgia:
Power Italo first from Trans-X and Message On The Radio from 1986, it’s now all Living On Video y’know!
The the mighty Pop Will Eat Itself’s Def Con One from 1988.
And from 1988, Soul II Soul’s first release, the Rose Windross featuring Fairplay.
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FutureFlashs – Indie Dance Disco = Keiz Beats head honcho FutureFlashs drops just under an hour of the best. Poppiest. dance music around. Expect feel good nostalgia and big retro sound on an all star line-up.
♫ FutureFlashs – Indie Dance Disco
The tracklist:
01. Final DJs – Just Be Free
02. Zimmer – Looking At You (Moullinex reMix)
03. Shelby Grey – Wild Youth (Goldroom reMix)
04. RAC (Feat. Penguin Prison) – Hollywood (The Magician reMix)
05. Peter & The Magician – Memory (Le Crayon reMix)
06. Futurecop! (Feat. Keenhouse) – The Only Way (GRVRBBRS reMix)
07. Combostar (Feat. Mani Hoffman) – Free (Louis La Roche reMix)
08. Sohight feat. Cheevy) – Get it Right
09. Futurecop! (Feat. Diana Gen & Starrset) – Starworshipper
10. Lifelike & Popular Computer – Getting High (Original Mix)
11. The Knocks & Fred Falke – Geronimo (Louis La Roché reMix)
12. Mr. Gonzo – Dance On You
13. Sohight (Feat. Cheevy) – High School
14. Stereocool (Feat. Ace) – Simple (Go Go Bizkitt reMix)
15. Pelifics with Electric Youth – Wish It Could Last
16. DW – Nine Lives (Johan Agebjörn & Le Prix reMix)
17. Pilotpriest – Xanadu
18. Madeon – Finale
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CHEW LiPS’ new single, Hurricane, get’s the video treatment. The best of the new CHEW LiPS material so far deserved a clip. And it got one. That’s justice for you.
Set against some nice urban decay, the video the band mucking about it a warehouse, showing off what they do best. Perform.
Hurricane is released 3rd September
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Here’s the third track Eleven:Eleven’s Through The Veil, their slow release album that’s trickling out one track at a time. It’s a pretty unique way to release an album, and it’s a pretty cleaver approach as it keeps the listener coming back for more. Actually, it’s a bit lit musical drug dealing, just give them a taste at a time and they’ll be coming back for more! So here’s track three. After Little White Lies and No Words comes Mesmerize.
Mesmerize has got a bit of everything going for it. A bit of an EBM bassline, that soon goes all Italo, a solid DiscoPop beat, some nice retro percussion and Sicca’s haunting vocal flowing over the track like water. That this Austin based duo have crafted a track that manages to straddle the line between dancey and ethereal is testament to their songwriting and production ability. Mesmerize is a track that worms it;s way into your brain with it’s ElectroPop charms, and once it’s in there, it’s hard to shake.
‘Through the Veil’ is being released right now, keep an eye on Eleven:Eleven’s SoundCloud for updates and pick up the tracks from their official website.
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According to San City Records this is the official video for Kissy Sell Out’s Queen Of Hearts featuring You’re Not The One. There’s so much wrong with that.
1. The video is only 2m30s, with is shorter even than the radio rip we posted a while back. 2. Queen Of Hearts isn’t in it, which is a shame as she is infinitely easier on the eye than Mr. Sell Out as well as having an enigmatic video presence. 3. Mr. Sell Out is chatting over most of it, which makes it feel like self-congratulatory ego stroking rather than promoting a new tune, you barely get to hear the new record in the clip.
We hope that San City are a little optimistic when they say ‘official video’, and they pull their fingers out and make something proper, otherwise the words “dropped the ball” might be in order. It’s a really cool tune that deserves better promotion than this mess. The only reason we’re featuring it at all is because we highly recommend the track itself.
Despite the video saying ‘out now’, You’re Not The One is released 3rd September as the first of a series of EPs featuring Kissy collaborating with a host of fresh and established talent.
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Saint Lou Lou’s much hyped track Maybe You will be getting a proper release soon. None other than Kitsuné Music picked it up for release and have loaded the single with reMixes from Miami Horror’s drummer Good Night Keaton, CFCF, Oxford, Le Crayon, Pyramid. Phew!
Maybe You is a dreamy track. Glowing ElectroPop and sparse acoustic guitar seem to float around the speakers while these two Sweeden based Australian twin sisters’ gentle vocals swirl around the track with a grace and epic emotionality that’s rare to come across in such a chilled tune. This is Dream Pop at it;s finest, and I’m sure you’ll agree that it’s going to lend itself amazingly to some big reMixes, we heard the package and it really does!
♫ Saint Lou Lou – Maybe You
Saint Lou Lou ‘s Maybe You is released 27th August.
Check out more from Saint Lou Lou on SoundCloud.
Here’s the video for Sneaky Sound System’s, catchy as hell, current single Friends.
Directed and filmed by Miss Connie herself, the clip features Black Angus. Although you wouldn’t know it as he wanders over Tokyo in a variety of animal masks.
Sneaky Sound System’s Friends is out now.
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Madcap Tokoy ElectroPopsters alloapm are at it again. Dropping a brand new track on SoundColud, LCY Likes Pineapple, the band once again invites us into their funky, strange, world.
LCY Likes Pineapple hits like a wall of synth noise. If you listen carefully, amongst the mix there is layers and layers of synths, from gritty buzzsaws to toytown plinks. It’s a track that’s much rawer than alloapm’s pervious output, but keeps a crazy groove and ends up being totally catchy. This is the kind of tune we’d love to see live, with two drummers and an orchestra of keytar players covering the multi levels of percussion and melody. Gritty, ballsy, infectious ElectroPop from Japan once again.
♫ alloapm – LCY Likes Pineapple (Demo.)
alloapm’s Gorilla Slighly single is out now.
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London gloomy ElectroPop duo Evokateur are about to release their new EP. Chime Hours is the follow up to the awesome Crow’s Wedding record. The new release joins the dots between Evokateur’s Gothy beginnings and their more Poppy recent output. Not only that, but there is a reMix by my friend and yours, the one and only, Mr. Fear Of Tigers.
Chime Hours kicks off with 1684, a swirling, lush tune that neatly sits in a place between robotic and ethereal. Hector laying down his usual beats, arpeggios and Industrial flourishes whist Sarah delivers an dramatic, gothic vocal. this opening track is actually pretty straight forward ElectroGoth, but Post, which follows, is a track with a lot more depth, both musically and vocally. There’s less pomp and more feeling in the vocal in Post, and the music is more surprising, more intelligent. The arrangement is actually quite Rocky, but the eclectic use of sounds and a quiet authenticity in Sara’s voice really lift this tune. White Horses, with all it’s EBM distortion and Glitchy, hides a powerful song underneath it’s Numanoid sheen. An infectious stom underpinning a really catchy tune. The cinematic lament of How Long plays out the EP, leaving room only for Fear Of Tigers’ reMix of White Horses. Is there anything Ben has touched that didn’t turn to gold? This time the Fear Of Tigers treat comes in the form of a Indie tinged Dreamwave tune that digs the song out of White Horses and lets it find it’s feet. Lifted by Fear Of Tigers rich layers of synth nostalgia the vocals are lifted to a whole new place. Ending the EP on a euphoric high. We kinda’ get the feeling that, right now, Evokateur is in danger of going from something quite special, to being another ElectroGoth band. And that’ll probably be the last we hear from them. It hasn’t quite happened yet, Chime Hours is a beautiful, immersive listening experience, and one we would recommend, but the warning signs are there. We have out fingers crossed that that doesn’t happen.
♫ Evokateur – White Horses
♫ Evokateur – White Horses (Fear Of Tigers Rmx)
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Australian Indie-rockers Atlas Genius have been making quite the noise in Alt Rock circles these past few months. This seems to have culminated in a major label signing and money to pay good, talented, people to make their tunes less derivative Rock. Enter French Touch legend Mr. Fred Falke to take a good, albeit standard Rock, song and make it an amazingly catchy big ElectroPop number.
Falke’s reMix of Trojans seems to tell the track to stop mucking around with pretension and ‘authenticness’ and get get on and have a bit of a dance and a good time. Riding, what is a really good vocal, with burbling synths and a Disco beat is just the thing, but it’s the soaring lead line that really makes this track pop. When it kicks in it’s one of those moments you’d just love to experience live. ElectroPop anthem style.
♫ Atlas Genius – Trojans (Fred Falke reMix)
Atlas Genius’ Trojans is out now.
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