Category ElectroPop

Feb 16 2012

Lenno reMixes St. Lucia

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I’m so into Lenno right now, i dropped two of his mixes last Friday at the ‘electronic rumors Volume 1′ launch party and the totally rocked the dancefloor.

He’s got such a gift for creating these massive, big room Disco tunes that just build and build. We’ve already heard Starsmith’s take on the new Neon Gold Records release from St. Lucia , ‘We Got It Wrong’. The Finnish relative newcomer takes more established producers to school with this absolutely huge chunk of Nu-Disco. It’s got that, now recognisable, Lenno ‘sound’, the choppy, bright synths playing against the Funk bass. It looks like it;s going to be Lenno’s year.

♫ St. Lucia – We Got It Wrong (Lenno reMix)

The ‘We Got It Wrong’ 12” is released 14th February as a pre-cursor to March’s EP.

Check out more from St. Lucia on SoundCloud.

Feb 16 2012

Pelifics & Electric Youth

Pelifics

This week sees the release of Pelifics’s first of two incoming ‘Lifetime’ EPs on Toronto’s Brilliantine records.

We previewed one of the EPs tracks in January that saw Norway’s Pelifics teaming up with Human Life, now you can have a listen to what is arguable the most eagerly awaited track on the EP, his collaboration with Electric Youth, ‘Wish It Could Last’. The track is pretty awesome,  a bouncy retro ElectroPop track. Just slightly minimal and just slightly melancholy but all fun. Built on Bronwyn’s classic sounding vocals and Pelifics’ amazing grasp on big, lush synth sounds and textures, ‘Wish It Could Last’ is exactly how retro Pop should be sounding.

♫ Pelifics (Feat. Electric Youth) – Wish It Could Last

The ‘Lifetime Pt 1’ EP is out now with part 2 coming in March.

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Feb 14 2012

Queen Of Hearts’ Valentines gift

Queen Of Hearts

So, I’m ill, the last two weeks leading up to the release of ‘electronic rumors Volume 1’ and it’s launch  party been stressful and damn hard work. The launch was massive, the place was paced and jumping and people came from far and wide to witness some of the best ElectroPop in the world. Some of those people brought some lurgie with them and my sleep and food deprived body just didn’t have the energy to mount a defence. Yes, it’s the man flu (hence the lack of posts the last couple of days).

So leave it to Queen Of Hearts, fresh from a jaw-dropping performance at the ‘electronic rumors Volume 1’ launch party to cheer me up with a 48 hour preview of her brand new material (which she played some of  on Friday, and was awesome) as a Valentine’s present to you all, seeing as how she is, ostensibly, the patron saint of today. She’s spreading the love with a track she’s been honing live for a while, ‘A Moment In Love’, which is big, epic Pop of the highest order. The track pulls you in with a nice squarewave bassline reminiscant of ‘Can’t Get You Out Of My Head’, but Queen Of Hearts pulls off some vocal chops that Kylie probably couldn’t (sorry Kylie!) that lend the track and extra kick of edgy drama. And that’s why we love Queen Of Hearts, there’s a darkness, a dangerousness, to her, which is always going to make her one of the more interesting Pop stars of the 21st century.

♫ Queen of Hearts – A Moment In Love

The download is only gonna’ be up for 48 hours, so grab it while it’s box fresh!

Queen Of Heart’s ‘Arrival’ EP is out now, as is ‘electronic rumors Volume 1’ on which she features.

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Feb 13 2012

Electronic Rumors Volume 1 – Out now on CD & Digital

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Well, it’s finally out in the wild, the last seven months of my life have come to fruition as we are amazingly proud to present ‘electronic rumors volume 1’.

I won’t go on about it, it’s possible that i would have a hard time reviewing it objectively, so take a listen to Ride The Universe’s awesome minimix of the compilation featuring all 15 tracks.

It’s almost weird that it’s real now and if you like physical media I would really recommend the CD, it comes in a stunning DigiPak designed by Sebastian Bentler.

♫ Electronic Rumors Volume 1 MiniMix (Mixed By Ride The Universe)

electronic rumors & Ninthwave Records
Present
electronic rumors Volume One

Available 13th February 2012 on CD and Digital Download featuring the best in new ElectroPop, Dreamwave, Nu-Disco and Indie-Electro.

For the past four years music blog electronic rumors (electronicrumors.com) has been serving up the latest and greatest news and tracks in the world of Electro/Disco/Indie/Dreamwave/Synth/Stuff/Thing/Pop and now they have teamed up with respected Us ElectroPop label Ninthwave Records (Heaven17/White Town/The Modern) to release electronic rumors Volume 1, featuring of some of the best artists making Dreamwave, Nu-Disco, ElectroPop and Indie-Electro in the last twelve months including exclusive tracks from Ride The Universe (Dreamwave supergroup acclaimed, for their reMixes, with their début original), the much hyped Show Your Shoe, Futurecop!, beaumont, Substatic and Echoes and the first time on CD for Queen Of Hearts and Ronika, both tipped by the mainstream press for chart dominance in 2012. They feature alongside some of the most exciting electronic music that broke out in 2011.

01. Vanbot – Make Me, Break Me
02. Fear Of Tigers – The Adventures Of Pippi Longstrump (Diamond Cut reMix)
03. Queen Of Hearts – Where Are You Now? (StardonE Radio Mix)
04. Echoes – Second Best
05. Ronika – Wiyoo
06. Cosmonaut Grechko – All I Hear (Cosmo Black reMix)
07. Ride The Universe – A Little Better (Feat. Jane Elizabeth Hanley)
08. Substatic – Gold
09. LexiconDon – December Sunset (Keenhouse reMix)
10. She’s The Queen – Waiting Game
11. Futurecop! – Me & U
12. Kid Kasio – Not For Turning
13. Show Your Shoe – Krokodil
14. Short Circuit – Let Go (NightWaves reMix)
15. beaumont – Reptile Blaze

Both the CD and Digital release happen Monday 13th February and will be available from most stockists.

Purchase links:
UK & EU
[Dig:]
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http://www.beatport.com/release/electronic-romors-volume-1/864460
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Electronic-Rumors-Volume-1/dp/B0072QVHM0
http://www.amazon.de/Electronic-Rumors-Volume-1/dp/B0072N17VE
http://www.amazon.fr/Electronic-Rumors-Volume-1/dp/B0072K70H2/
http://www.djshop.de/Download-Various+Artists-Electronic+Rumors+BVolume+1/ex/s~details,u~8400017349,p1~mp3/xe/details.html
[CD:]
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US
[Dig:]
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http://www.beatport.com/release/electronic-romors-volume-1/864460
http://www.amazon.com/Electronic-Rumors-Volume-1/dp/B0072I8WD0
[CD:]
http://www.amazon.com/Electronic-Rumors-One-Various/dp/B007219PJ2

ROW
[Dig:]
http://www.junodownload.com/products/1903189-02.htm
http://www.beatport.com/release/electronic-romors-volume-1/864460
http://www.djdownload.com/mp3-detail/Various/Electronic+Rumors+Volume+1/Ninthwave+Media/4909476
http://www.amazon.co.jp/Electronic-Rumors-Volume-1/dp/B0072I6EV2
[CD:]
http://www.ninthwaverecords.com/electronicrumorsvolume1.html

SPOTIFY:
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And most other usual stockists!

Feb 9 2012

MiGHty mOUse, new mixtape and new track

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MiGHty mOUse – February 2012 Mixtape = When that time of the moths for MiGHty mOUse’s current favourite tunes rolls around it always creates a feel good vibe. Get ready for an hour of Disco goodness.

♫ MiGHty mOUse – February 2012 Mixtape

The tracklist:

01. Friendly Fires – Hurting (C2 Runway Edit)
02. Krazy Baldhead – Surabaya Girl (Tropics reMix)
03. Novikis – Miss Mood (Satin Jackets reMix)
04. Pitchben – Stand Up (Original Mix)
05. New York Skyy – No Music
06. Kreap – DJ Play This Song For Me (Tad Wilys Warehouse Mix)
07. Who Made Who – Inside World (Daniel Maloso Remix)
08. Yan Wagner – Turmoil (Original Mix)
09. Roxy Music – Love Is The Drug (Todd Terje Disco Dub)
10. Carry On, Turn Me On (12″ Mix)
11. Kriece – Advanced Flight Engine (Original Mix)
12. Chris Malinchak – At Night (Original Mix)

As a taste of their forthcoming , and eagerly awaited ‘Disco Circus 3’, the Mouse is giving away a new Dub of ‘Smiling Faces’ that appears on the new record. It;s a track aimed squarely at the dancefloor, every element (and there’s a lot of elements!) is just make-the-floor-move material, but then again, that’s what ‘Disco Circus’ is all about.

♫ MiGHty mOUse – Smiling Faces (Unreleased Dub)

The third instalment of MiGHty mOUse’s ‘Disco Circus’ series will be released 10th March featuring the likes of The Magician, Gigamesh and Oliver.

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Feb 9 2012

Goin’ Old School: The Human League, Yazoo & Howard Jones

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

This week we’re kicking it TOTP style with three performances, first up The Human League in 1982 with ‘Mirror Man’.

A year later Yazoo’s ‘Nobody’s Diary’ from 1983.

And finally, ‘Things Can Only Get Better’ in 1985 from Howard Jones.

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Feb 9 2012

Arnaud Rebotini reMixes Rafale

Rafale

Blackstrobe main man Arnaud Rebotini is one of our favourite producers, there’s no-one quite like him for  teasing hard Disco out of vintage analog synths. In his latest reMix, of Rafale’s ‘Beyond Bad’, he takes the ’hard’ one step further with a tune that is borderline EBM.

Taken from Rafale’s free ‘Obsessions reMixes’ collection, this mix sees Arnaud channelling old school Nitzer Ebb with the dirty, militaristic, bassline, coarse synths and industrial percussion. Last year’s original ‘Obsessions’ album was produced by Robitini himself and it feels like here, he allowed himself to play around more and get a bit more aggressive. Now if only modern EBM sounded like this…

♫ Rafale – Beyond Bad (Arnaud Rebotini reMix)

Rafale’s ‘Obsessions reMixes’ is out now, and free! Get it here.

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Feb 8 2012

The Tapeaters’ new single

The Tapeaters

One of our favourite Russian ElectroPop acts, The Tapeaters, have just unleashed a brand new single, not only new, but also free! Are you ready for summery retro Pop?

‘Waiting For A Sign’ is pure ‘80’s Pop, of the smooth variety. The kind quaffed haired young dudes in flecked suit jackets would perform on Top Of The Pops around the middle of the decade. It’s a fun, catchy tune with enough groove to get you moving on the dancefloor and enough crooned vocals to be radio friendly. The ‘Luncay Mix’ keeps the ‘80’s feel but chunks up the synths a big, it’s a bit rougher, a bit thicker with a lovely analog lead line. Poetic Disorders’ reMix is euphoric SynthPop, with a rugged synth bassline and a hands-in-the-air House arpeggio. The EP plays out on the Herzinberg mix, which leaves you with a slice of Electro Funk, this is the one on the EP with that space Disco groove we are so tuned into. The reMix is spiced up with some nice Dubby qualities that give it an unusual edge. ‘Waiting For A Sign’ is such a quality EP to be giving away for free, we’ll have to put The Tapeaters on our X-Mas card list.

♫ The Tapeaters – Waiting For A Sign (Single Mix)

♫ The Tapeaters – Waiting For A Sign (Lunacy Mix)

♫ The Tapeaters – Waiting For A Sign (Poetic Disorders reMix)

♫ The Tapeaters – Waiting For A Sign (Herzinberg reMix)

You can get the new single for free for the small price of a Tweet or a Like from here.

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Feb 8 2012

Graph Gonzales’ ‘Eyes In The Dark’ video

Here’s the new video for Graph Gonzales’ wonderfully ‘80’s ‘Eyes In The Dark’, which we featured last year.

Jason Bowers directs this slick Pop clip. We’re still finding the tune pretty addictive, it;s the big retro chorus that Graph pull off so well!

‘Eyes In The Dark’ is out now.

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Feb 8 2012

ATTAR! M!X#3

ATTAR!

ATTAR! – M!X#3 = One half of Mustang kicks off his latest tape with Perseus’ rad ‘Running Back To You’ and just keeps that level of awesome throughout. This is a sweet hour that should have you thinking about the weekend already!

♫ ATTAR! = M!X#3

The tracklist:

01. Perseus – Running Back To You
02. Tronik Youth – Body Lovin’
03. Juveniles – Ambitions (Midnight Savari Dub)
04. Pitchben – Stand Up (Tiger & Wood reMix)
05. Cadillac – Blue Skies (Ray Mang reMix)
06. Astrolabe – Cave Disco (Discotexas Edit)
07. Kellerkind – Backflash
08. The Rapture – Sail Away (Aeroplane reMix)
09. Montevideo – Horses (Mickey Re-Work)
10. Holy Ghost! – It’s Not Over (Dimitri From Paris Erodiscomix)
11. Steve Bloodbath & (Thee) Mike B – Iration

Check out more from ATTAR! on Sound Cloud.