Fun fact: I photobombed one of Caroline from Icona Pop’s photos at the weekend, she seemed quite impressed with my photobombing skills.
So here’s their new single ‘I Love It’. It’s rowdy, raucous and tons of fun. All screaming and chainsaw synths. It deserves to be huge. Fredrik Etoall directs the video.
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I think everyone in the world has been waiting for this one! Teasers of SebastiAn’s reMix of Van She new single ‘Idea Of Happiness’ has been making some big waves. The single isn’t out until later this month (unless you want to buy iTunes quality…in which case you can pick it up now, but being a discerning music fan I will presume you don’t buy from iTunes and would rather wait a few days for quality), so it surprising, but very welcome that Modular Recordings have decided to give away the track, I guess they knew people couldn’t wait.
And the track lives up to it’s preceding reputation. SebastiAn amps up the disjointed French Disco and applies it to the tune liberally. Gone are the big rave synths, to be replaced with a particular cinematic slice funky bass, wicked Disco licks and big strings. It’s actually quite a ‘classic banger’, if such a think can exist yet. It’s got all the right elements, in the right places, of the golden age of Ed Banger tunes, which seeing as it a reMix of Van She’s comeback tunes, is more than fitting and will definitely put a smile on your face. If you have missed French Disco experimentalists reMixing Australian, electronically leaning, IndiePop artists (it happened all the time in 2008!) then you will love this track. We do! (Classic Van She picture seemed appropriate).
♫ Van She – Idea Of Happiness (SebastiAn reMix)
The single is released properly 13th May and features additional reMixes from Jonti, Hervé, and What So Not. Van She’s new album will be out this 6th July on Modular Recordings.
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This week Toronto’s greatest SynthPop export Parallels, released their new EP, Time Will Crawl, as a pre-cursor to the release of their new album ‘XII’. We already checked out the new track ‘Moonlight Desires’, a cover of Canadian artist Gowen. Time for a peak at the rest of the EP.
‘Time Will Tell’, the lead track is am amazing slice of what ElectroPop that rest heavily on Italo roots. Like the best, epic, European ItaloPop in the mid ‘80’s, ‘Time Will Crawl’ flows along on bouncing digital bass and rich synth chords with Holly Dodson’s vocals proving to be both dramatic and uplifting, sweeping across the track taking it to new heights. A wash of stings over the Disco groove just makes it perfect. ‘Time Will Crawl’ really is a stunning track, probably the best thing I have heard from Parallels since ‘Ultralight’, and seeing as how I have loved everything they’ve done that’s really saying something. The final track on the EP is ‘Ritual Dancer’ is unmistakable Parallels and works the contrast between Holly’s sweet vocals and a hard beat and bassline to create a track that is both catchy and edgy. No-one does analog sounding ElectroPop like Parallels, they’ve been away far too long.
♫ Parallels – Time Will Crawl
♫ Parallels – Ritual Dancer
‘Time Will Crawl’ is out now, ‘XII’ is due out 26th June.
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A while back we got our first listen to one of the new tracks from London Indie-ElectroPop (now) two-peice CHEW LiPS on their ‘Mini Mixtape’, alongside the Um-Bongo music. Now the duo have released the entire track for our listening pleasure, and a taste of what’s to come.
‘Do You Chew?” is a initial look at a rawer, more gritty CHEW LiPS sound. Pulsating and sexy, the new track drops some of the Pop sheen the band had acquired by the time their début album ‘Unicorn’ had dropped and returns to the more live, garage ElectroPop sound of the first few demos. It’s actually not as moody as we had gathered from it’s mixtape appearance, in full it’s got a nice groove, with almost an old school Hip Hop swing, layered with buzzing and grinding synths and Tigs’ playful vocals. Definitely a welcome return for these guys, hopefully they’ll be going on the road soon so we can catch more of their legendary live shows.
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The worlds most interesting label, Cascine, always send us the best things, the most surprising too. They have a knack of putting some of the most talented acts in the world out of nowhere and making you go “Wow, where the fuck did this come from?”. The latest being Swedish outfit Ditt Inre whose music is beautiful and haunting with a splash of classic ElectroPop.
The Scandinavian duo are gearing up for the release of their début EP, ‘En Värld I Brand’, released later this month. It’s a six track collection of beautiful snowy landscapes make audio. Atmospheric and shot through with a strain of melancholy, but never tipping over into the downright depressing. These are optimistic songs, with an understated euphoria to be found witching the complex rhythms and lush synths (disclaimer: I don’t speak Sweedish, so they could be singing about Flying Monkeys™ for all my ignorant head knows, these suppositions are based on musical feeling alone). Whilst the whole EP is a stunning journey across tundral soundscapes that manages to be both icy and so warm at the same time the standout has to be ‘Månljus (Saknad)’, which coincidentally is the track Cascine has chosen to promo with. It’s a truly awe inspiring peice of ScaniPop. At once foreign and familiar, at once a lament and uplifting ‘Månljus (Saknad)’ has the ability to transport you to a more dreamlike, more romantic place.
♫ Ditt Inre – Månljus (Saknad)
Ditt Inre’s ‘En Värld I Brand’ is released 29th May on Cascine.
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Future Feelings is a Mexican producer who is mixing up a bit of vintage synthesizer Funk into his Nu-Disco sounds. He’s just released his ‘Odyssey’ EP and it seems like a must buy for anyone into analog Disco, Electro Boogie or Cosmic SynthWave sounds.
The ‘Odyssey’ EP is four tracks of space age future Funk. Future Feelings likes to mix things up in the studio, rocking classic synths from Moog, Roland and Oberheim into Ableton so his tracks retain a pure nostalgia and a warmness to their robotic grooves. ‘Drive’ is the standout on the EP, a wicked upbeat Nu-Disco track that combined late ‘70’s Disco with and Italo influence and some sweet B-Boy beats and vocoder. It’s got everything you need. The whole EP is a masterwork of analog Disco, with the deep funkin’ Moog basses and squelchy synths of early New York Disco meeting more driving European dance flavours and resulting in an exciting, retro, journey though neon and glitterball lit dancefloors. It also contains some of the bas bass playing and Herbie Hancock keys you’ll hear this side of Shook. The whole thing is wrapped up in a kinda’ SynthWave sheen, but is generally far groovier than SynthWave. Basically is like an attack of Disco robots from the future in about 1983. Yeah, that sounds about right.
♫ Future Feelings – Odyssey
♫ Future Feelings – Wicked
Future Feelings’ ‘Odyssey’ EP is out this week.
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Aeroplane – April 2012 Mix = As the world flies by past us, it’s that time again for Vito to drop is choice cuts from the past month. the new killers from Punks Jump Up and Hey Today! are in the mix along with a new reMix of Adamski (yes! Adamski!) from ATTAR!. Here comes the weekend!
The tracklist:
01. Pioneerball – Bananas
02. Joakim – Nothing Gold (Todd Terje reMix)
03. Trujillo – Acapulco Gold (Ron Basejam reMix)
04. Rocco Desentis – Danze Fraternalle
05. Finnebassen – If You Only Knew
06. Raiders Of The Lost Arp – Night Theme
07. Alistair Gillespie & Alex Deep – Good Ol’ Days (Thomas De Lorenzo reMix)
08. Hunter/Game – Reckless Lady
09. Adamski – I Like It (ATTAR! reMix)
10. Punks Jump Up – Mr. Overtime (Club Version)
11. Hey Today! – 83
12. Andrea Di Rocco – The Past Present
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After a period or relative quite, Grum is back in the game. hot on the heels of his reMix from Lonsdale Boys Club a couple of weeks ago he’s keeping the momentum going with this new reMix for British singer/songwriter Mary Epworth. Epworth has already been reMixed by a host of awesome names and getting Grum in on the game, one of the pioneers of the Dreamwavey end of Nu-Disco, is the icing on the cake.
Grum’s reMix of ‘Long Game’ sees him continue to walk the part toward the a big room sound, not that he wasn’t always a purveyor of huge, uplifting tunes. If fact, I would go so far as to say this new sound Grum is flirting with is Nu-Disco in a Euphoric Trance mould, it basically has the arrangement of a hands-in-the-air Trance track but with more of a Disco groove, just a little bit more. Because really this is a big Trance track, and a really good one too, perfect for a peak time moment and Mary Epworth’s vocals play right into that. Grum is going huge, the future is his.
♫ Mary Epworth – Long Gone (Grum reMix)
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The crushing electronic Power Pop of Dragonette’s new single ‘Let It Go’ is now available in video form.
Drew Lightfoot directs this series of medical experiments and Falshdance montages. This single is gonna’ be huge.
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Bluebell are a London based duo who loads of different Pop influences into a big old musical mixing pot and come up with a ElectroIndieBedroomPop epics that seriously grow on you. They are releasing their début double A-Side single next month.
Of the two tracks ‘Normal Heights’ is the more impressive, seeming to swing from intimate, introspective Pop to giant, majestic, aria with ease. Verses laden with subtle synths and and the gentle lament of the vocal flow naturally into the tribal bombast and impassioned cries of the chorus. That;s not to say the flip side, ‘Cinderella’ is lacking, if fact it’s probably the better bet for a hit between the two, it;s relentless synthetic chugging grind juxtaposed with Annabel Jones’ fragile, and incredibly catchy, lyrics make for a compelling combination. ‘Normal Heights’ and ‘Cinderella’ make an impressive début, and one that’s bound to see Bluebell getting a lot more attention.
♫ Bluebell – Normal Heights
♫ Bluebell – Cinderella
‘Normal Heights’/‘Cinderella’ is released 11th June on Killing Moon.
Check out more from Bluebell on SoundCloud.
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