Jun 15 2012

The Presets are back!

Here on electronic rumors, like most reputable web music publication, don’t use teasers. We don’t use clips, we don’t use trailers and we don’t use excerpts. For obvious reasons. This is a pretty hard and fast rule, however there is probably about four artists in the world who could make us break that rule. The Presets are one of them. We love The Presets, it cannot be understated how much we love The Presets, the perfect combination of Pop, Electro-House and ElectroPunk and one of the best live bands in electronic music. For them, we break the rules.

So imagine our excitement when a cryptic email landed in the electronic rumors Inbox with nothing but a URL, youthintrouble.com and some flashing .gifs. The website loops a YouTube video that the Electro duo posted to their Facebook page mentioning they were working on album three. Get you ears around the pumping electronic madness, all 40 seconds of it!

More details should be coming at the end of the month. Exciting times! Check out youthintrouble.com and keep an eye on the YouthInTrouble twitter account.

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Jun 14 2012

Kitsuné Soleil

‘Kitsuné Soleil’ is the name of the latest mix album form Kitsuné Music, this time Kitsuné head honcho Gildas Loaëc teams up not with his label partner Masaya Kuroki, but with Kitsuné’s resident DJ, London;s ElectroPop guru and one half of JBAG, Mr. Jerry Bouthier. The collection is a line up of everything that’s good in Indie-Electro and deep Disco right now. Check out the tracklist below and Bouthier’s minimix of the album.

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♫ Gildas & Jerry- Kitsuné Soleil MiniMix By Jerry Bouthier

The tracklist:

01. Moon Boots (Feat. Violetness) – Running From
02. Citizens! – Reptile (Goldroom reMix)
03. Pharao Black Magic (Feat. Ghostape) – Hermes
04. Jupiter – One O Six (A.N.D.Y. reMix)
05. Gigamesh – Your Body (JBAG reMix)
06. Moonlight Matters (Feat. Gustaph) ‘Come For Me (Jerry’s Dub)
07. Logo – Jacob
08. Housse De Racket – Chateau (JBAG reMix)
09. Metronomy – Everything Goes My Way (Psychemagik reMix)
10. Rüfüs – Talk To Me
11. Charlotte Gainsbourg – Anna (Moonlight Matters)
12. RAC (Feat. Penguin Prison) – Hollywood (Felix Da Housecat reMix)
13. Adamski – I Like It (ATTAR! reMix)
14. Plastic Plates – Toys
15. The Rapture – Sail Away (Cut Copy reMix)
16. Hey Today! – ’83
17. Like Woah! – Looking At You (Nocturnal Edition)
18. Friendly Fires – Hurting (Tensnake reMix)
19. Reflex – Wavering (JBAG reMix)
20. M83 – Midnight City (Trentemøller reMix)

‘Kitsuné Soleil’ is released 2nd July and they will be launching the album at XOYO in London on 23rd June with Housse De Racket and Jupiter playing live.

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Jun 13 2012

Charli XCX’s ‘Heartbreaks & Earthquakes’ mixtape

Charli XCX

Charli XCX – Heartbreaks & Earthquakes: The Mixtape = Charli’s new mixtapes is kinda’ a precursor of things to some, or something to tide you over. Loads of mashups, loads of freestyle, loads of fun.

♫ Charli XCX – Heartbreaks & Earthquakes: The Mixtape

The tracklist:

Beyond The Black Rainbow
01. Charli XCX & Blood Orange – Champagne Coast
02. Charli XCX – How Can I?
03. Charli XCX & Blood Diamonds – Grins
The Craft
04. Charli XCX & Paul White – So Far Away
Kill Bill
05. Charli XCX, Drake & Jai Paul – Dreams Money Can Buy
Cruel Intentions
06. Charli XCX – Lock You Up
07. Charli XCX & Rudimental – Spoons
American Beauty
08. Charli XCX – You’re The One (Odd Future’s The Internet remix (Feat. Mike G))

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Jun 13 2012

We Have Band’s ‘Tired Of Running’ video

Here is the new video from We Have Band with their new single ‘Tired Of Running’.

Directed by Arthur Castillon & Fabien Pochez, the clip features lots of running around in woods, maybe ‘Tired Of Running’, with it’s urgent Indie-electro sound is running music?

‘Tired Of Running’ is taken from the album ‘Ternion’.

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Jun 12 2012

Touch Tone reMixed by Starcadian

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I must be so predictable, hehe. Touch Tone dropped me an email introducing me to Brooklyn producer Starcadian who has just reMixed his new single ‘Home away From Home’, he said he thought Starcadian was right up my street, both musically and aesthetically, Sweet Raptor Jesus was he ever right.

I don’t want to to talk too much about Starcadian specifically right now, I’ve already decided he gets an article to himself later in the week, but let’s just easy you into the Starcadian groove with the aforementioned reMix.His reMix of ‘Home Away From Home’ is pretty much a melting pot of everything we think is awesome. It is, at it’s core, SynthWave, epic retro soundtrack stuff, but with more of a gritty vibe, a more (dare I say it, Brooklyn?) Lo-Fi productions style that accentuates the vintage sound and give the music warmth. It’s also got a bit more Funk than your average SynthWave with a dirty Moog tone to it. The end result is a danceable, dreamy electronic space-Disco odyssey. So, to recap; SynthWave, Lo-Fi grit, Moog Funk plus Touch Tone’s amazing, anthemic, song. I never stood a chance.

♫ Touch Tone – Home Away From Home (Starcadian reMix)

Touch Tone’s ‘Home Away From Home’ is out now on Binary. We’ll be featuring more from Starcadian later in the week.

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Jun 12 2012

Aaron Alexis’s ‘This Fire’

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Brooklyn based ElectroChillPop merchant Aaron Alexis has dropped a brand new track, it’s a bit of a departure from the Aaron Alexis we all know and love. ‘This Fire’ is a collaboration with Drew from She’s The Queen and sees Aaron dipping his toes in the waters of something altogether more Poppy.

You know that this collaboration is going to be pretty amazing before even hitting play. It seems pretty redundant at this point to go on about how much we like Aaron’s songs and how much of a production genius Drew is, that what the search box to your right is for. So now that we’ve establish that two of New Yorks most talented are coming together for this track, what dos it hold? Well, it’s insanely catchy for one thing, catchy in a Kylie way, the bouncy SynthPop bassline and Aaron’s infectious vocal hook in the chorus have a lot of classic British Pop in their DNA. Admittedly, ‘This fire’ has a slight streak of darkness that I don’t think would suit Kylie, but Aaron’s husky drawl suits it perfectly. While this is going on Drew takes up channelling bits of Pet Shop Boys and New Order through his crystal clear production. The prefect track for a sunny day.

♫ Aaron Alexis – This Fire

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Jun 12 2012

CHEW LiPS & Lieke

Chew Lips on Myrtle court

Here’s the first reMix of CHEW LiPS awesome ‘comeback’ single ‘Do You Chew?’ that we are really feeling. It comes from new Polish producer Lieke, who get’s all proggy on out asses.

His mix of ‘Do You Chew?’ is a deep House groove with ElectroPop sensibilities. Gone is the original’s raw energy and choppy beats to be replaced with a slick, classy groove. This gentle dance track, rather than neutering the original, merely changes it into something new. The sense of danger and chaos has been excised, this track isn’t about exciting Indie dancefloors, this is about smooth sunrise moments. Incorporating elements of ‘90’s House, Euphoric Trance and a whole lot of Prog, Lieke isn’t going to slay any dancefloors with this mix, but he will soundtrack quite a few more chilled moments. Job done.

♫ CHEW LiPS – Do You Chew? (Lieke reMix)

‘Do You Chew?’ is out now.

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Jun 11 2012

Mirror Kisses

American SynthPop duo Mirror Kisses stopped by the electronic rumors Inbox over the weekend to drop off their latest tune. This duo hail from Virginia and produce some pretty authentic sounding ‘80’s tracks and are currently previewing tunes from their forthcoming ‘Bad Dreams’ album.

Their latest track to get your sonic juices flowing is ‘Proud’, three minutes of sumptuous epic SynthPop. Catchy, with a melancholic edge the track mixes up a driving beat and sweet melodies with moody vocals and ominous chords to create a sound that could easily fit in the current, post-HURTS, wave of *ahem* Dark Pop (Sweet Raptor Jesus, I hate that term). It a rousing track that pushes it’s emotion to the forefront and manages to feel nostalgic without feeling like a pastiche. ‘Takeover’ is another track from their new LP, it’s more of an upbeat number with an optimistic groove to it and instrumentation that leans toward classic ‘80’s movie soundtracks. These two tracks hint at a album that’ll deliver a collection that is both rich in synthesizer warmth and cold as ice. Mirror Kisses are definitely an duo that we’ll be keeping an eye on in the coming months.

♫ Mirror Kisses – Proud

♫ Mirror Kisses – Takeover

Mirror Kisses new album, ‘Bad Dreams’ is due out 16th June on Chill Mega Chill.

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Jun 11 2012

Second Date’s ‘Young, Beautiful, Etc…’ video

Second Date’s ‘Young, Beautiful, Etc…’ has been out a while now, but it has finally got itself a video, for those who like that sort of thing.

Directed by Josh Smith, the video is quite simple, but works really well, and looks so nice. Mr. Smith’s camera work and colour palette making the clip a visual treat.

‘Young, Beautiful, Etc…’ is out now on Pschent.

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Jun 8 2012

The Penelopes reMixed by Gigamesh & Style Of Eye

The Penelopes

No sooner had ElectroPoppers The Penelopes premiered their forthcoming new single ‘Summer Life’ than we are treated to this first reMixes of the track, from Dreamwave genius Gigamesh and Swedish bass master Style Of Eye.

Style Of Eye’s mix is a big droning bass monster, balancing the airy nature of the track and his own high-octane Rave but combining floaty arpeggios and storming hands-in-the-air synths he turns the ElectroPop track into a full-on party starter. Gigamesh, on the other hand, wows us with his slick Disco. Giving the track a little extra Funk, Gigamesh layers infectious bass with waves of shimmering synth work and truly makes a track for the summer. The use of the vocals, tailored to Gigamesh’s tune, switches the track around a little, whist the original was for lazy reminiscing, this mic is for dancing in the sunshine. We’re really looking forward to seeing what else the reMix package holds.