What can be said about Skinny Puppy that hasn’t already. Synthesizer pioneers that changed the face of much of electronic music. 1989’s ‘Warlock ‘is both harsh and beautiful and sadly the only good track on the (Al Jourgensen ruined) ‘Rabies ‘ album.
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Oxford based Disco terror duo Coloureds release their new EP, ‘Tom Hanks’ today.
This is the masked crusaders’ fifth release and continues their progression toward dropping increasingly dancefloor oriented tunes (as opposed to the being-smacked-in-the-face-with-a-sampler approach of their early works) bringing them more inline with an Ed Banger flavour sound. The title track is pure French Disco noise, a cut-up funk monster. Sure, it takes a drill to your forehead, bores a hole into your skull and pours the funk in with a funnel, but it’s funk nonetheless. Coloureds have managed to bring a straight-up groove to their tunes without loosing any of the distorted noise chaos that has become their trademark, and that has made their live shows something that must be experienced. Another standout of the EP is the awesomely titled ‘Wanna’ Come Back To My Room And Listen To Some SebastiAn?’, which kinda’ lives up to it’s name. Solid and relentless, I imagine if you did go back to their room and listen to some SebastiAn it would probably be some kind of fisheye lensed nightmare scenario.
Check it out:
♫ Coloureds – Tom Hanks
♫ Coloureds (Feat. Tim Collis Of This Town Needs Guns) – Wanna’ Come Back To My Room And Listen To Some SebastiAn?
The ‘Tom hanks’ EP is out today,
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Here is the new video for New Zealand born psychedelic ElectroPopster Bachelorette’s ‘Polarity Party’.
The track is taken from her self-titled third album and the clip is a suitably avant-garde visual for the space-out ElectroPop of Bachelorette.
The ‘Bachelorette’ album is out now.
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Moscow Youth Cult create a rich, grainy, electronic soundscape in which to wrap their typically British Indie-Pop songs.
The band, who hail (unsurprisingly) for the East Midlands, draw from the wealth of the Sheffield area’s electronic music history to create abrasive, yet strangely beautiful, ElectroPop that fits in perfectly with the musical heritage of that part of the country. Just signed to LoAF Recordings, MYC are celebrating with a free EP. The two original tracks on the EP are surprisingly dancefloor friendly for such dense anti-Pop. ‘Girls Of Boredom’ mixes up relentless beats and a cacophony of 8-bit sounds and noisy synths with the kind of Indie vocals reminiscent of (We Are) Performance. ‘Sakura Sakura’ is a power Electro track as chaotic as a Tokyo wall of neon, yet within the chaos lies layers of beautiful synth work.
♫ Moscow Youth Cult – Girls Of Boredom
♫ Moscow Youth Cult – Sakura Sakura
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OK, this is a bit of an odd one for us, Torpedo class themselves as “Krautrock influenced…Electronic Alternative Rock”, which would normally make me run a mile (or delete the email immediate) but I gave it a listen, and it;s really grown on me.
I have no idea what their other tracks sound like but never would I have described ‘Islands In Eternity’ as “Electronic Alternative Rock”. There’s a definite Krautrock” influence going on but there’s very little Rock in this (thankfully!). What it actually is, is a cosmic, almost Proggy, electronic track that…actually, no, I see their point, it is pretty hard to describe. Suffice to say that of you like synthesizers and a big epic feel to your music you should give this a listen. ReMixes come from, amongst others, Wahlström & Valiant who turn the track into a big room Electro-House tune laden with ‘wohoop’ sounds and giant stabs!
It surprised me how much I likes this track, but I did, check it:
♫ Torpedo – Islands In Eternity
♫ Torpedo – Islands In Eternity (Wahlström & Valiant reMix)
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I wanted to quickly share this College track that went up on the Valerie site recently.
It’s Stephen Falken’s reMix of College’s first single ‘Answers’, which has pretty much been the soundtrack to my chilled weekend. It’s an organically evolving synthesizer Dreamwave treat. Not a party tune by any means, but chuck this on your headphones, sitback, and enjoy!
♫ College – Answers (Stephen Falken Loyal reMix)
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Northampton one-man-band The Electroscopes is back with some new tracks for you.
We wrote about this progressive ElectronicaPop producer last year as he was gearing up for the release of his ‘Harder Each Day’ single. Well, after a bit of label shuffling, the single is finally out on 28th of this month through Red Robot Records (owned by Warp’s Lex Loofah). To commemorate the occasion The Electroscopes have send on over these two tracks, not featured on the EP, as a bonus.
‘Let Yourself Fail’ is a downtempo Sci-fi ElectroPop tune who’s atmospheric and abrasive synths serve as a counterpoint to the haunting vocals. It’s 3 and a half minutes of enveloping electronic Pop while ‘Daydream Not Believer’, is boarderline old school EBM, kinda’ like a Front 242 B-side. I haven’t heard a track like that in years!
♫ The Electroscopes – Let Yourself Fall
♫ The Electroscopes – Daydream Non Believer
‘Harder Each Day’ is released 28th February.
As soon as we had the notion to do a yearly Hall Of fame award it was a pretty forgone conclusion as to who would be the first recipient (actually, the first four years were pretty obvious!). There was never any doubt.
If you read electronic rumors, if you’re into electronic music, whether it’s some brand of Pop, whether you’re a Dubstep fiend, whether your preferred method of musical enjoyment is stroking your beard to the latest experimental release, whether you’re all glowsticks and euphoria or a Funk loving lover, the music you love probably wouldn’t exist without Kraftwerk.
To call them electronic music pioneers seems like an understatement. Were they the first to make music from synthesizers? Of course not, but pre-Kraftwerk the synth was either the tool of pompous Prog Rock banks or noise mongers who cared little for songs. While Kraftwerk resided heavily into the world of the latter the difference they made is the unison of experimental electronics and repetitive rhythms and melody. Which is essentially electronic Pop. They were a direct influence on the first generation if SynthPop artists and synthesizer Disco and Hip Hop producers who, in turn, went on to influence everything we know and love.
Four German technicians, who had no interest in becoming music stars, are signally the most important band I can think of.
♫ Kraftwerk – Showroom Dummies
Kraftwerk’s back catalogue has an album for everyone, from the early, more abstract material, to the mid-period ElectroPop, to the Techno-Pop of recent years, all of it is essential.
Depeche Mode’s ‘Enjoy The Silence’ is probably one of the most covered tracks in the world, so it’s nice when someone brings something new to the track.
ElectronicaPop artist Error: Operator has teamed up with Harry Lee of recent Kitsuné signing Waylayers to produce this chilled, rolling cover version that captures the emotion of the track but presents it in an almost electro-acoustic new form. Error: Operator brings his intricate programming which makes for a constantly interesting backing for Lee’s rendition.
♫ Error- Operator (Feat. Harry Lee) – Enjoy The Silence (Depeche Mode Cover)
Head on over to Error: Operator’s Facebook page to pick up the high quality version of the track for free!
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This coming week sees UK Disco-heads Mighty Mouse release their début artist album.
Titles ‘Song With No Words’ the album consists of ten ‘Movements’ ranging electronic Lounge Jazz to Cosmic Disco to pure smooth Funk. Meticulously crafted and staggeringly well produced the album is more of a journey through analog grooves, flowing from one track to the next, than ten straight songs and manages to sound almost cinematic at times.
Check out ‘Movement 5’, one of the jazzier tracks on the record, but who doesn’t like a little jazz in their lives every now and then?
♫ Mighty Mouse – Movement 5 (Radio Edit)
‘Song With No Words’ is released 6th December on History/Disco Circus Records.
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