Category ElectroPop

Apr 4 2012

Human Life’s ‘Don’t Fade Away’ reMix

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Just a day after the release of their new single on Vulture Music, California ElectroPoppers Human Life have dropped a new remix of the track.

Human Life shrug off the catchy Pop of the original here, in favour of some deep House vibes. The pitched down vocals actually do impart a mysterious, soulful, quality to the performance which suits the moody ‘90’s House sound well. taking the track in a completely different direction to the Shook or Kartell reMixes, the ‘E-Returns’ reMix is pure late night dancefloor stuff, for those early hours when you can totally loose yourself.

♫ Human Life – Don’t Fade Away (Human Life’s ‘E-Returns’ reMix)

‘Don’t Fade Away’ is out now.

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Apr 4 2012

Keith Masters’ new album

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If you are at all a fan of retro Electro you’ll have probably, possible unknowingly, got down to Mr. Keith Masters before. He’s the provider of rhymes on Futurecop!’s track, including the amazing ‘Tonite’s Hero’. This week the man drops his new album, ‘Electromajic: The Remixtape’ on Keiz Beats.

The album, and Keith’s music in general, is a strange beast. It’s genre destroying, that’s a phrase I absolutely hate but in this case it’s actually true. There’s a lot of ways you could describe Keith’s style, but when it comes down to it what you’ve got here is SynthWave and Nu-Disco Hip Hop. And it works, it works so well. There’s two really great elements to what’s on offer here; the music is real slick retro ElectroPop, mixed up with the occasional Hip Hop beat amongst the soaring synths and Keith’s rhymes are so involving. Littered with pop cultural references, hipster commentary and geek Easter eggs alongside the expected raps, all delivered with a laid back flow that suits the music in an unexpectedly perfect way. if you’re looking for something a little different, you could do a lot worse than check out Keith Masters’ ‘Electromajic: The Remixtape’.

♫ Keith Masters – I Love To Floss (Flashworx reMix)

♫ Keith Masters (Feat. Natalie Oliveri) – Let’s Talk About (Produced by Futurecop!)

♫ Keith Masters (Feat. Digikid84) – Rebel  (Produced by Digikid84)

♫ Keith Masters – Gary Busey (Life Good) (Produced by Ren Riz)

Keith Masters’ ‘Electromajic: The Remixtape’ is out now.

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Apr 4 2012

Goin’ Old School: Jan Hammer, Dorine Hollier & Julia Claire

Goin’ Old School isn’t a trip down music memory lane, it’s a mugging in the dark alleyway of nostalgia:

First up is the atmospheric keytar master, Jan Hammer with 1986’s ‘Crockett’s Theme’ from Miami Vice.

Dorine Hollier’s Tonight…Crazy Night’ from198 is as epic a slice of Italo as you’ll ever hear!

From 1987 it’s Julia Claire’s ‘Cat In Disguise’, pure post-Italo EuroPop cheese. Awesome!

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Apr 4 2012

The C90s’ April Chart Mix’

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The C90s – April Chart Mix = It’s that The C90s Chart mix time of the month and this month the guys drops a killer mix. Over an hour long and crammed with storming tunes.

♫ The C90s – April Chart Mix

The tracklist:

01. Good Guy Mikesh & Filburt – Gold Snake
02. Slugabed – Sex
03. Softwar – August
04. Pollyester – Voices (Pional reMix)
05. TEED – Tapes & Money (Casino Times reMix)
06. Eats Everything and Lukas present The Eel – 0200
07. Kraak & Smaak – This Feeling
08. Debonair – Your Love
09. Crazy P – Changes (Hot Toddy reMix)
10. Jessie Ware – Running (Disclosure reMix)
11. NTEIBINT – Jackpot
12. Scuola Furano – On Fire (Herr Styler reMix)
13. Dirty Vegas – Emma (Tim Goldsworthy Instrumental)

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Apr 3 2012

Ronika’s ‘Automatic’ video

The video for, Madonna Of The Midlands™, Ronika’s awesome ‘Automatic’ is here.

To be honest, it’s pretty unbelievable just what you can do with CGI these days, the shots of Ron amidst the waves are so photo realistic you can smell the brine. Did I mention there was surfing? Most importantly though there is an inverted keys Korg Poly 800, or maybe that’s CGI too, ’cos it’s pretty rare. Anyhoo, loving Ron’s DIY vids, I hope even when she has a major label budget she still makes clips like this. Oh and Sam Potter from Late Of The Pier and John Sampson from Swimming all got involved.

You can pre-order the pay-what-you-want ‘Automatic’ EP here.

Ronika also appears on ‘electronic rumors Volume 1′, out now!

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Apr 3 2012

Rex The Dog’s ‘Neutralise The Dubstep!’ mixtape

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Rex The Dog – BREED Podcast 14 ‘Neutralise The Dubstep!’= The BREED podcasts keep coming in the build up to the latest BREED night at this weekend. This time Rex himself takes us on a 40 minute synthetic Disco journey featuring some amazing tunes, and Alex Metric’s ‘Rave Weapon’. In true Rex style there’s some slick Reel To Reel editing going on too.

♫ Rex The Dog – BREED Podcast 14 ‘Neutralise The Dubstep!

The tracklist:

01. Nero – Must Be The Feeling (Kill The Noise reMix (Rex’s Reel To Reel Tape Edit))
02. Ntology – Pulse (Polymath reMix)
03. Say Yes To Another Excess – The Cave
04. Jaguar Trax – Cicero Prism (Original Mix)
05. Green Velvet Presents Jamie Principle – LaLaLaLaLa
06. Sykur – Curling (Database reMix)
07. VCMG – Flux
08. Mason – Superimposer (Polymath reMix)
09. Alex Metric – Rave Weapon
10. Lana Del Rey – Blue Jeans (Gesaffelstein reMix (Rex’s Reel To Reel Tape Edit))

Rex The Dog hosts the next BREED party on the 6th April at the Dalston Superstore, details here.

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Apr 3 2012

Figure Of 8 reMixes Sullivan & Gold

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According to their bio for the Stripes & Stars festival (one of the scarce few peices of information about them online), acoustic duo Sullivan & Gold “is more a collective than a band aiming at making music that they enjoy”, aside from the fact that I’m not entirely sure two people can really be a collective (pretension alert!), this hilarious lack of grammar makes it sound like these two guys are dedicated to making music they hate. Never mind, here’s something to cheer them up. Figure Of 8 has reMixed their track ‘Jigsaws’.

The the deal was that the Smalltown America label got Sullivan & Gold in the studio to record some music that they didn’t enjoy, along with Our Krypton Son, to be released as a vinyl EP backed with reMixes from Figure Of 8 and Dollface, and the whole thing would be completed in 24 hours. It’s quite a cool concept and a great opportunity to hear what talented musicians can come up with on the fly. Figure Of 8’s reMix was completed in around 8 hours and you can tell he had a lot of fun with it. Taking the acoustic folk and making something deeply synthetic, Figure Of 8 yet with tons of soul. The machine beats and robo-bass juxtaposing nicely with a real human quality to the sparkly synth work.

♫ Sullivan & Gold – Jigsaws (Figure Of 8 reMix)

You can pre-order the vinyl here.

Check out more from Sullivan & Gold, well, nowhere because they have zero web presence, which might be due to the fact they aren’t a band making music they enjoy. Bless.

Apr 3 2012

Douglas McCarthy’s new single

So, if you’re at all into the history of electronic or Dance music Douglas J. McCarthy, one half of the legendary Nitzer Ebb, should need no introduction. After decades of band work and collaborations he’s finally got around to releasing some solo material, the first being this single  ‘Hey’.

Robin Nixon directs this clip, sombre to match the mood of the track which features McCarthy’s instantly recognizable vocals crooning over some deep, hypnotic Tech House.

‘Hey’ is out 9th April with the album ‘Life Is Sucking The Life Out Of Me’ on the 30th.

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Apr 3 2012

Aeroplane’s March mix

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Aeroplane – March 2012 Mix = It’s Areoplane mix time of the month with Vito dropping a whole hour of rolling summer grooves to see in the warm weather with. Are they really summer grooves? I don’t know, but the sun is shining so I’m going to stick with it.

♫ Aeroplane – March mix

The tracklist:

01. Aeroplane – Caramellas (Joakim reMix)
02. Scuola Furano – On Fire (Glimmers’ reMix)
03. Only Children – Down Fever
04. Dzim – Run Away
05 . Hot Chip – Flutes (Dub Mix)
06. Rik Parkinson – Ain’t No
07. Jupiter – One O Six (A.N.D.Y. reMix)
08. Alex Metric – Anybody Else
09. L’Equipe du Son – She Was A Dancer
10. Elton Versus PNAU – Good Morning To The Night
11. Arcade Fire – Sprawl II (Soulwax reMix)

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Apr 3 2012

Human Life’s ‘Don’t Fade Away’ with Shook & Kartell

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Fresh from their team-up with Pelifics on ‘Can’t Promise Anything’ this week California based ElectroPop act Human Life release their new single on Vulture Music.

‘Don’t Fade Away’ is what Human Life do best. Summery, catchy ElectroPop with a feel good factor and a slight edge. Driven by piercing synths and call-and-response male & female vocals, ‘Don’t Fade Away’ is a pretty simple, stripped down version of SynthPop, but the simplicity really works and and allows the song to breathe. The consistently amazing Shook contributes a reMix to the single, brining his highly technical Nu-Disco to the table, creating a smooth jam that changes the mood of the vocals into something more relaxed and let’s Shooks musical talent shine. Kartell also chooses to drop a chilled groove,. There’s more of a beach vibe to this one, it’s ‘Don’t Fade Away’ tropical style.

♫ Human Life – Don’t Fade Away

♫ Human Life – Don’t Fade Away (Shook reMix)

♫ Human Life – Don’t Fade Away (Kartell reMix)

‘Don’t Fade Away’ is out now.

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