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Ronika’s ‘Automatic’

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Woo-hoo! It’s new Ronika single time! Ron’s been really busy recently, running all over the place doing stuff for, amongst others, the Red Bull Music Academy, Shook and Me, how she’s crammed in the time to get her groove back on with a new EP I have no idea. The girl’s a workaholic, or a grooveaholic if you will.

‘Automatic’ is PopJustice song-of-the-day today, PJ claims Ronika isn’t from the ‘80’s but I’m not convinced. Frankly I’m not sure what is actually more likely, that someone can make tracks this good, and this authentically ‘80’s DiscoPop or that someone could have invented a time machine in secret sometime around 1983/84. With ‘Automatic’ Ron has dropped a massive slab of Pop-Funk with an addictive bassline, a catchy chorus and a solo that flies. It’s not all retro goodness though, there’s enough modern elements in the track to keep it sounding contemporary, inn fact, it sounds like a Nu-Disco edit of ‘80’s Pop hit. Also 5 Star.

♫ Ronika – Automatic

Ronika is stepping out in the next couple of months, catch her here:

22nd March – Manchester @ The Castle
23rd March – Nottingham @ Bodega Social Club
24th March – Bristol @ The Thekla
10th April – London @ The Old Blue Last (Single Launch)
21st April – Glasgow Death Disco @ The Arches
17th June – London @ Lovebox Festival

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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Strangers’ new single

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London SynthPop troupe Strangers are back with their first single of 2012, and they are kicking off the year in bombastic style.

Like their previous works, ‘Shine On You’ encapsulates that particularly ‘80’s contradictory mix of deep melancholy and uplifting hopefulness. Everything about Strangers’ sound is getting bigger and bigger, more euphoric. Powerful drums, huge chords and sparkling synths make up this giant SynthPop anthem. Whereas to date Strangers could have easily draw comparisons to HURTS, now it feels like there is something of The Sound Of Arrows in the mix, and the combination of the moody Dark Pop and the explosion of optimistic childlike wonder makes for a really compelling, emotional and satisfying music experience. this could easily be Strangers’ mainstream breakthrough.

♫ Strangers – Shine On You (Radio Mix)

Strangers’ ‘EP 3’ is out now., ‘Shine On You’ is out 16th April on Killing Moon Limited/Beatwolf Records.

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Tako Tomago

I’m really not sure where to start with newcomer Tako Tomago. there’s not much avenue to put his music into words, all I know for definite is that it’s pretty damn enjoyable to listen to.

So here goes…it’s kinda’ like Glitchy Chillwave with elements of French Disco & Electro and Dub basslines, made out of R&B samples with the end result being played to you when you’re half asleep. It’s a dreamlike swirling of beats, basslines and half heard vocals. It’s music that does take some commitment to listen to, there a lot going on in these tracks and it’s stuff that isn’t always immediately apparent, but if you give it the time it deserves you;ll get a lot out of it. It’s chilled, with out being laid back, it’s loose and floaty whilst retaining a pretty solid groove and once you dive beneath the surface, there are some moments of musical and production genius to be found within these tracks.

♫ Tako Tomago – Late Night Craves

♫ Tako Tomago (Feat. Laura Scheiber) – Into Thin Air

♫ Tako Tomago (Feat. Avery Moore) – Lizzy

Check out more from Tako Tomago on SoundCloud.

Goin’ Old School: Eurythmics, Bronski Beat, Art Of Noise & Max Headroom

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

ZZT experimentalists The Art Of Noise teamed up with the best thing on TV in 1986, Max Headroom, and released ‘Paranoimia’, an ode to Max’s insanity.

Future basslines and vocoding in Eurythmics ‘Sexcrime (Nineteen Eighty Four)’, the soundtrack to the movie adaptation of Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, in, well, 1984.

Sommerville era Bronski Beat best tune, 1984’s ‘Why?’.

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iamamiwhoami’s new video

Here’s the latest track from Jonna Lee’s iamamiwhoami, ‘Drops’.

Hot on the heels of the single ‘Server’ iamamiwhoami present another slice of icy and majestic Scandinavian ElectroPop and another brilliant white video.

‘Drops’ and the recently released ‘Server’ singles are out now.

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Bear In Heaven’s new video

Brooklyn based electronic Rock outfit Bear In Heaven’s new single ‘Reflection Of You’ is a awesome head-on collision between NYC Indie-Electro and Dreamwave. It’s got the passion of Indie and the big synth chords of the LA retro sound, and the two make good bedfellows.

The video has just premièred on Vice’s Noisey YouTube channel and was directed by art collective, PFFR. I can help but think it would have been better if they had got, y’know, a good video director to do it instead. I think the zooms are supposed to be in time with the track.

‘Reflection Of You’ is taken from Bear In Heaven’s new album ‘I Love You, It’s Cool’ out this summer.

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[Via Vice]

♫ Picture Book (Feat. Greta Svabo Bech) – Sunshine (Justin Faust reMix)

Justin Faust reMixes Picture Book

Picture Book

This has been floating around for a while now, it’s been playlisted here a lot so I have no excuse as to why we haven’t posted it before. We featured the original of Picture Book and Greta Svabo Bech’s ‘Sunshine’ a while back but just never got round to pimping the awesome Justin Faust reMix.

Well, the man has just posted it to his SoundCloud account, so what better time to rectify our oversight. We thought the original was a really catchy track, but a little to Euphoric fluff for our tastes, but Mr. Faust rectifies that perfectly. It’s the same catchy, infectious tune, but with a backing of that wonderful Justin Faust synth Disco goodness. Everything about this track from the bouncy Disco bass to the smooth solo make you smile. It’s a really good vocal, Greta has an interesting inflection to her voice that’s pretty involving, in our opinion Faust has done the vocal more justice than the original.

‘Sunshine’ is our now.

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Marina’s ‘Homewrecker’

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We don’t mind saying that Marina And The Diamonds has been, and is, one of our favourite singer/songwriters of the past few years, we also don’t mind saying that her last single, ‘Radioactive’, was a big let-down. ‘Radioactive’ was a pretty awesome song that suffered from some atrocious, and really dated, ‘90’s hands-in-the-air Trance production from Stargate. Marina’s new track, ‘Homewrecker’, thankfully restores our faith in her.

Marinas uniqueness in her personality, approach to creativity and especially her voice, is her biggest asset, ‘Radioactive’ tried to hide that and homogenize her, ‘Homewrecker’ shines a spotlight back on it. It;s big ol’ stumpy ElectroPop tune taken from her forthcoming ‘Electra Heart’ album. We’re not sure whether this is Marina or Electra talking though, probably Electra.

♫ Marina And The Diamonds – Homewrecker

Marina And The Diamonds’ next proper single will be ‘Primadonna’

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Aeroplane’s February mix

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Aeroplane – February 2012 Mix = Vito’s top tips for February are in and once again he’s put together an awesome collection of the freshest tracks. This is how you should start every week!

♫ Aeroplane – February 2012 Mix

The tracklist:

01. This is A Recording – Southern Neon Lights (Gazeebo’s Northern Funk reMix)
02. Charlotte Gainsbourg – Paradisco (Joakim Dub reMix)
03. Days of Funk – Dance School
04. PBR Streetgang – Downstroke
05. Videodrome – Tempation’s Daughter
06. Mam – Modern Heat
07. Cosmonauts – Stardusts
08. Lisa Shaw – Honey (David Hernandez Dub)
09. Arsenal – Melvin (Diskjokke reMix)
10. H.O.S.H. – What do you want me to say
11. The Mekanism – Can’t Believe (Mario Basonov reMix)
12. Gucci Vump – Feeling

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