Category House

Feb 1 2012

The Opiates’ ‘Silent Comes The Nighttime (Again)’ video

Here we have the recently premièred video for Billie Ray Martin and Robert Solheim’s The Opiates alter ego’s ‘Silent Comes The Nighttime (Again)’ .

The track is taken from the duo’s excellent ‘Hollywood Under The Knife’ album of last year. A collection of deep and soulful electronic laments that combined the beauty and passion of Billie’s voice with Solheim’s Deep House grooves. The track in question here is an ode to insomnia and both sonically, and in the video, visually manages to convey the nervous, sometimes otherworldly, tension of late night sleep deprivation. Jörn Hartmann directs the video, a dreamlike, monochrome clip with a slight uncomfortable edge.

The Opiates’ ‘Hollywood Cuts (The reMixes)’ is released 26th February on Disco Activisto.

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Jan 31 2012

Sneaky Sound System’s ‘Really Want To See You Again’ reMixes

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Australian ElectroPop duo Sneaky Sound System must be feeling pretty pleased with themselves, they had an awesome 2011. they released their third album, ‘From Here To Anywhere’ to critical acclaim, which spawned a bunch of singles, most notably the massive ‘Big’ featuring that Oliver reMix.

They start the new year with a new single. Taken from the aforementioned album, ‘Really Want To See You Again’ get the single treatment which kicks off with an epic extended mix. This version really highlights the late ‘80’s/early ‘90’s DancePop influences on this track. Connie’s soulful and slightly gritty vocals switching from Pop Soul to House Diva effortlessly. The reMix package is pretty loaded too. Azari & III do their deep, mysterious, ‘90’s thing with the track. Cutting and pasting vocal snatches over their bass heavy Roland grooves and Sci-Fi synths. Pure deep Chicago House. Funkagenda bring us back into DiscoHouse territory adding wicked little guitar licks and a new male vocal as counterpoint to the original vocal and new heavy synth bassline. KiNK’s reMix is making some waves right now,  I wouldn’t say it was my favourite of the mixes, but it’s definitely worthy of the attention, taking the track in an almost Techno direction with it’s droning synths and, er, cuckoo clock. This is the one that’ll blow up dancefloors in Europe.

♫ Sneaky Sound System – Really Want To See You Again (Extended)

♫ Sneaky Sound System – Really Want To See You Again (Azari & III reMix)

♫ Sneaky Sound System – Really Want To See You Again (Funkagenda reMix)

♫ Sneaky Sound System – Really Want To See You Again (KiNK reMix)

‘Really Want To See You Again ‘ is out soon on Modular Recordings.

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Jan 31 2012

Get Stellar’s new single

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Well, it’s been a while since we heard anything from the Australian Get Stellar, it seems a bit has changes sine we last took notice, including the act being stripped down to a solo project and a more Housey sound taken on board. His new single ‘My Bassline’ showcases the fact that this isn’t the Get Stellar of ‘This Moment’.

‘My Bassline’ is a sample heavy, filtered slab of Disco House. Its quite a minimal track, but effective. The sweeping filtered riff and the titular bassline serve as the central elements of a track with an infectious funk. Gone is Get Stellar’s old summer Indie-Electro vibe, ‘My Bassline’ is a classy night time jam that’s smooth as silk. Amongst the host of reMixes sit this gem from Ghosts Of Venice who inject a little of husFrench Touch into the track. Although he creates a hypnotic Nu-Disco groove with the track, he don’t ignore it’s House roots with a nice 909 hi-hat. The whole EP feels like VIP area stuff, posh Disco!

♫ Get Stellar – My Bassline (Original Mix)

♫ Get Stellar – My Bassline (Ghosts Of Venice reMix)

‘My Bassline’ is out now on Guesthouse Music.

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Jan 31 2012

Saint Etienne reMix The 2 Bears

The 2 Bears

‘Be Strong’, the début album from Hot Chip’s Joe Goddard and Raf Rundell A. K. A.The 2 Bears, was released yesterday and to commemorate the occasion the duo has given away this reMix of their last single ‘Work’ by the quintessential English SynthPop trio Saint Etienne.

It’s been a busy old time for Sarah Cracknell and the guys, just last week the announced their first studio album in seven years with a blistering new track, and now this deep electronic mix of ‘Work’. Although not an obvious match Saint Etienne and The 2 Bears work really well together, both have a quirky Britishness about them, both vocally and musically. Saint Etienne keep it simple with a House beat and low basses giving the whole mis a stripped down Progressive feel that slowly builds with a House Piano. Whilst not a peak time mix of the track, this version is just the ticket for the more seedy, adventurous dancefloor. So glad Saint Etienne are back, still going strong after 21 years!

♫ The 2 Bears – Work (Saint Etienne reMix)

‘Be Strong’ is out now, the Saint Etienne reMix of ‘Work’ features on the deluxe version of the album. You can stream the album here.

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Jan 30 2012

Rex The Dog’s ‘BREED Podcast 14 ‘Lost In Tokyo’’

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Rex The Dog – BREED Podcast 14 ‘Lost In Tokyo’ = There have been two awesome mixtapes released, from RUFUS&Bambi & Pleasure Cruiser, in the build up to Rex The Dogs’ next BREED club night. Now, with next Friday almost anon us, Rex himself drops his latest mix to get you warmed up. It;’s synth heaven, what more can be said. it’s the best RoboDisco, or as Rex would put it “Electronic Pulse Wave Disco”. Deep beats, acid burbles, sweeping synths, and a machine groove. Awesome!

♫ Rex The Dog – BREED Podcast 14 ‘Lost In Tokyo’

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Jan 30 2012

Freak You reMixes MRTN

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Freak You gets his dirty synth groove on in his new reMix. Tackling MRTN and Lovisa Negga’s track of last year, ‘Slow’, Freak you creates  and Minimal, ElectroPop, Acid, Disco, House beast.

With a funky, space, ‘80’s ElectroPop bassline laying the foundations the track really plays around with electronic music. Dropping bits of Chicago House, 303 burbling, SynthPop,  there’s even a Rave lead in there. The highpoints of the track are defiantly the bassline and the snare, both power the track along, both with a bit of a New Order feel. The mix is a melting pot if ideas, but it works, and gives the lilting vocals something nice to work over. Freak You’s Franck is one of hardest working guys in the biz, I have no idea where he gets the time for quality reMixes like this!

♫ MRTN (Feat. Lovisa Negga) – Slow (Freak You reMix)

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Jan 30 2012

Aeroplane’s January 2012 Mix

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Aeroplane – January 2012 Mix = It feels like ages single Vito’s last mixtape, luckily he makes up for time with his January mix. What you have here is just over an hour of Vito’s smoothest Disco picks with a bit of House slant, the mix also includes the new tune from Classixx we débuted last week. Perfect to ease you into the week.

♫ Aeroplane – January 2012 Mix

The tracklist:

01. Pop & Eye – Give Me A Fight
02. Friendly Fires – Hurting (C2 Instrumental Mix)
03. Great Weekend – That’s The Thing (To Do)
04. Chemistry – Funky People
05. Parallel Dance Ensemble – Shopping Cart (Maxxi Soundsystem reMix)
06. Ruf Kutz #4 – 4 Ron
07. Miguel Migs – Close Your Eyes (Deetron Dub)
08. Art Department – Tell Me Why (Brennan Green reMix)
09. Lula Circus – Fake Blood, True Wound
10. Classixx – A Fax From The Beach
11. Harmonious Thelonious – Trans Harmonic System

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Jan 28 2012

Jacques Lu Cont’s ‘Church’

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I don’t think there is any comeback in 2012 we are more excited for that that of Stuart Price/Les Rythmes Digitales/Thin White Duke/Jacques Lu Cont’s return to music making.

In ‘Church’, the second new track he has dropped, without fuss or ceremony’, Jacques Lu Cont shows the everyone why he is one of the top electronic music producers in the world today. It’s a track that puts everyone making bally Electro to shame. With an FM bassline (with a hint of Lisa Lougheed’s ‘Run With Us’ about it!) that has such impact and drops and build in just the right places, this tune is a dancefloor juggernaut. Probably the best flat-out dance tune we’ve heard in a while. Simply stunning. This is one church I could get behind.

♫ Jacques Lu Cont – Church

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Jan 27 2012

The Opiates’ reMix album

The Opiates

The double team of Miss Billie Ray Martin and Robert Solheim, The Opiates’ ‘Hollywood Under The Knife’ album was a pretty regular fixture on electronic rumors last year. Well, that momentum doesn’t need to stop. Next month The Opiates release ‘Hollywood Cuts (The reMixes)’, an album chock full of some big names reMixing some big tracks from ‘Hollywood Under The Knife’.

the list of reMixers is pretty impressive, Kim Ann Foxman, Doorly, Chris & Cosey, Drop Out Orchestra, Dan Beaumont and this track from Dalston’s Disco Bloodbath. Taking the lead track from the album, ‘Candy Coated Crime’, Disco Bloodbath lay down some deep electronic sounds. Their pulsating synthesizer Disco conjures a mood of late nights on dingy dancefloors, dark clubs and strange places. A perfect match for Billie’s sultry vocal. With a slight dark Italo feel this reMix is one for a dark future.

♫ The Opiates – Candy Coated Crime (Disco Bloodbath reMix)

The Opiates’ ‘Hollywood Cuts (The reMixes)’ is released 26th February on Disco Activisto.

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Jan 27 2012

ComboStar’s new EP

ComboStar

Nine years ago Parisian outfit ComboStar released ‘In My Soul’ a big, filtered French House track that made some waves. Now in 2012 they are back with a new EP on La Valigetta.

The ‘Combostella’ EP is a bit hit an miss, a couple of the tracks on there are a bit Nu-Disco by numbers, a bit uninspired. But these two tracks ‘Straight In The Eye’ and, especially, ‘Discoball Room’ make the EP worth it. ‘Straight In The Eye’ makes great use of some pretty original samples to create a peak time Disco tune that is novelty enough to chart. ‘Discoball Room’, though, is the track that makes the EP. Layers of synthesizer Funk and squelchy little melodies play all over a Disco-House beat. A whole EP of this kind of stuff would have been killer, rather than the commercial, compilation focused Disco, maybe next time.

♫ ComboStar – Discoball Room

♫ ComboStar – Straight In The Eye

ComboStar’s ‘Combostella’ EP is out 6th February.

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