Boom! That’s the sound of one of the biggest tunes of the year, The Knocks & Fred Falke’s Geronimo, getting a video.
Director Daniel Pappas captures some pretty stunning footage here,. The premise is pretty simple, nut the cinematography is very nice indeed.
Geronimo is out now on Beatport and available everywhere else on 23rd July.
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Three out of the four time was have features Newcastle Indie-Electro crew Mausi has been for their track Sol., they are certainly milking this track for every inch of mileage it holds. A dangerous tactic to be sure, coasting a whole year on one track, regardless of how good it is, has a chance of people burning out on it. Anyhoo, next in line to drop a reMix of the track is Oxford’s Chillwave don Chad Valley. His reMix, along with the original, is apparently getting released, again, next month.
On the upside, however, Chad works his lush, evocative electronic magic on the track. A swirling, comforting, wash of gentle synth sounds and relaxing percussion with a slight R&B flavour. In the kind of heatwave we in the UK are having right now, you just don’t want to do anything, Chad’s rEMix kinda’ give you an excuse. Just chill for a while with this tune.
♫ Mausi – Sol. (Chad Valley reMix)
Chad Valley’s reMix of Sol. is released 6th August.
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Android Automatic is a Detroit based SynthWave project. His SoundCloud page is chock full of bouncy electronic tunes with a strong ‘80’s leaning. He;s just dropped a new double A-side single, available for free, Electric Nights & Starset.
Electric Nights shows the real complexity of Android Automatic’s work, not quite disco enough to be Nu-Disco, but more Disco than most SynthWave, AA’s tunes chug along on an Italo groove, a digital bassline that would make Moroder proud and doesn’t scrimp on the big retro synth chords. It’s an infectious slick of Electro Boogie that really gets under your skin, floaty vocoders and all. Starset has more of a cosmic Italo vibe to it, a track with an energetic drive to it, the on-beat bassline pushing the track ever forward, driven faster by shuffling hats. This two track single is a great introduction to Android Automatic, who is definitely one to look out for in future.
♫ Android Automatic – Electric Nights
While you’re here, check out our favouite of Android Automatic’s tunes, Dreaming In Color. A deep vocoded ElectroPop tune. It’s far too short, but in it’s two and a half minutes it delivers a rich Sci-Fi sound and an almost Indie quality to it. A longer version of this track could be epic.
♫ Android Automatic – Dreaming In Color
Electric Nights/Starset is out now.
Check out more from Android Automatic on SoundCloud.
Moscow Youth Cult have graced these pages a few times since their inception. The Nottingham based Indie-Electro experimentalists have drawn us into their Sci-Fi world on more than one occasion and now with the forthcoming release of their début long player, Happiness Machines, we get to spend a whole hour amongst their post-Industrial funky soundscapes.
After the buzzing, and strangely emotional, atmospheric intro of Shimmer Star has allowed your mind to wander to distant, fantastical, places, the pounding kick of Love>Lore shakes you right back to reality and drops you firmly in the middle of a swirling cloud of sound roped together with an unusual future funk. As the record continues, with a few tracks you might have heard before, Iris, Phase IV, Survivasm, it feels like a fresh take in Moscow Youth Cult. Together in a full length album you get more of a sense of MYC than you did in the singles an EPs. Amongst the Cabaret Voltaire noise there are some blissfully euphoric songs, with an almost Chillwave tone to them. Actually, this whole record sounds a bit like if Sarah Connor from Terminator was actually Chillwave, and Chillwave was being chased by the Terminator, but then got all badass at the end in a factory, or something. What we are trying to say, is that if you add the reverb washed Dreamlike laments of Chillwave, those beautiful moods, add add them to the relentless march and sonic adventurousness of midlands post-Industrial, you get Moscow Youth Cult (who you occasionally get the feeling have been hanging out with Disco). Does a melting pot like this work? Well, if you listen to tracks like Happiness Machines, the title track, with it’s distant, space age, funk or the factory Pop of Break-In Work-Out the answer is a resounding ‘yes’. And there are time when it feels like it shouldn’t, but it really does. Moscow Youth Cult’s Happiness Machines is definitely worth checking out.
♫ Moscow Youth Cult – Survivasm
♫ Moscow Youth Cult – Love>Lore
♫ Moscow Youth Cult – Phase IV
♫ Moscow Youth Cult – Iris
Happiness Machines is released 30th July.
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The reMixes of Touch Tone’s anthemic Home Away From Home keep coming. There’s just something about that vocal, something about the groove of the track, that had made it one of the few track we haven’t got bored with multiple reMixes of. I can see why people want to reMix it, it’s a huge tune. Next up to the plate is our boys Leisure Council, so you know this is going to be special.
And special it definitely is. Can you say ‘Electro Boogie’? Leisure Council’s reMix is pure synthetic Funk, sprinkled with ‘80’s magic and sent through a wormhole from 1985. From he moment the beat kicks in, you are treated to the kind of post, B-Boy Electro, electronic R&B groove that was so prevalent in the mid-‘80’s. Funky, and slightly mechanized, like a breakdancing robot. Which is layered with rich, buzzing, synth pads, ringing chords and twisting lead lines. Vocoding Andrew’s vocals, subtly, just adds to the slightly otherworldly vibe and lets this space boogie soar. Leisure Council are killing it once again. Whether in Ride The Universe, or as a trio, these guys just know groove.
♫ Touch Tone – Home Away From Home (Leisure Council reMix)
Touch Tone’s ‘Home Away From Home’ is out now on Binary.
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London based Disco producer, and one half of releasers of the excellent 4 Me, Cassette Club, Ben Macklin, stopped by the electronic rumors Inbox with some awesome news. Cassette Club are gearing up for the release of a brand new single. The track is called Flash, and Mr. Macklin delivers a pumping reMix.
Macklin’s mix of Flash is a five minutes of nostalgic bliss. From the tracks opening the buzzing synths and shuffling beat the tone is set. Carefree ElectroPop with a sprinkling of Disco washes out of the speakers. Synths evolve and build around a ‘80’s Synth Pop flavour bassline to a euphoric point where things get almost Balearic. A hint of the original’s impassioned vocals drifting across the track and the cowbell fills give the track a bit of a beach part vibe. A beach party…at sunset….in the mid-‘80’s. Right now I can’t thing of anywhere I’d rather be. Definitely looking forward to this release.
♫ Cassette Club – Flash (Ben Macklin reMix)
Cassette Club’s Flash is released 13th August on Modal.
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The best thing to come out of Indonesian since nutmeg, Mjolnir, are back with a fresh reMix. This time getting busy with Party Kids from Nidji, apparently one of Jakarta’s biggest acts. Nidji recently finished an album for international release and asked Mjolnir to reMix this track. Well, you would, wouldn’t you? If you’re one of Indonesia’s biggest Pop bands and have one of the slickest reMixing teams around on your doorstep, you use them. This was actually released in January, but went largely unnoticed, we presume, outside Indonesia. So thanks to Mjolnir for drawing out attention to it.
First off, ignore the terrible lyrics, English isn’t Nidji’s first language, they are forgiven. The lyrics to Party Kids are pretty poor though (not sure that’s going to help with the whole ‘international album’ thing), but the track is excellent. We’ve not heard the original, so there’s no comparison, but Mjolnir’s reMix is the flotiest of floaty Dreamwave. Lush analog synth work fills out the track with big retro chords and a bassline you can revel in. The subtlest of House piano brings the energy up, keeping this nostalgia party going. The lyrics may be cringe worthy, but the vocals themselves are pretty epic, and soar over Mjolnir’s bouncy backing. A true retro party starter, Mjolnir keep getting better and better.
♫ Nidji – Party Kids (Mjolnir reMix)
Party Kids is taken from Nidji’s album, Liberty Victory, out now.
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Rex The Dog Vs. RUFUS&Bambi – BREED Podcast 20 ‘RUFUS&Bambi And Rex The Dog BACK TO BACK’ = Get you robotic beats and machine Disco bleeps here. Rex’s BREED club night is back at the Dalston Superstore on the 3rd August. Here’s the latest BREED podcast, expect deep, deep synthetic grooves.
♫ Rex The Dog Vs. RUFUS&Bambi – BREED Podcast 20 ‘RUFUS&Bambi And Rex The Dog BACK TO BACK’
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Pixel Memory have freaked me out. This San Francisco Electro trio’s email was full of references to ‘Dark SynthPop’ (all caps!), seriously, it’s referenced a few times and on their SoundCloud page too. The thing is, their music seems to be quite optimistic bouncy ElectroPop, I’m not sure when the ‘dark’ comes into it. That’s not to say it’s bad, it’s not, it’s really good. I just can’t really find any hint of darkness in their music. Not that that’s a bad thing, mind.
Night Colours, I presume, is their dark opus. What I hear is an almost Balearic ElectroPop epic. Euphoric and chilled. Atmospheric, but not gloomy. Maybe I’m not seeing the darkness because I listen to too much actual melancholic SynthPop, I see the point, there’s lots of sweeping pads and dreamlike vocals, but in reality Night Colors is a sunrise epic. A superbly crafted slice of hazy ElectroPop bliss with a slight Italo influence and a thin layer of nostalgia. The five tracks that will make up their forthcoming début EP were o-produced with Mark Pistel of Hercules And Love Affair, which includes Night Colours as well as Guardian. OK, so Guardian is slightly more Gothy in the vocal department, but that’s pretty much counteracted by the pumping beats and chainsaw Electro riffs. Again, I can kinda; see the point, why it’s apparently ‘dark’, but it just doesn’t feel ‘dark’ to me. Sure there is big ominous chords and ethereal vocals, but it’s far too funky to every be ‘dark’, the lead far to complex and exciting, the bassline far too classic Hip Hop. In short, Pixel Memory don’t make the ‘Dark SynthPop’, they claim to. what they do make, however, is top quality, intelligent, interesting ElectroPop tunes. Highly recommended listening, just don’t expect to be slashing your wrists to it.
Pixel Memory’s début EP is released later this summer.
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Here’s the new video for Baron Von Luxxury’s track The Lovely Theresa.
Taken from his awesome ElectroPop epic The Last Seduction, The Lovely Theresa is a The Human League meets Moroder affair and Vice Cooler directs a suitably fun clip.
The Last Seduction is out now to download and released on Manimal Vinyl.
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