Category Indie-Electro

Jul 20 2011

Metronomy reMixed by Clock Opera

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Just nominated for the Mercury Prize award Metronomy’s track ‘The Bay’ now has yet another reMix to add to it’s ranks,

Over reMixed tracks can become a chore, but luckily this time the always innovative Clock Opera do their thing, Stacking up various styles together and making it work is one of Clock Opera’s trademarks and there’s certainly a lot going on in this reMix yet the track never gets overrun. I expect this to be rocking a lot of Indie dancefloors this summer.

♫ Metronomy – The Bay (Clock Opera reMix)

The Bay’ is out 4th July, Metronomy’s third album, ‘The English Riviera’ is out now.

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Jul 20 2011

More Penguin Prison reMixes

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Penguin Prison’s ‘Fair Warning’ is finally released as a single toward the end of the month, so here’s is some more reMixes to get you pumped.

We’ve dropped the dub of Goldroom’s mix last week but now you can check out the full reMix version. Josh Legg whips up a relaxed beach party vibe The main riff keeps your head nodding while the distant guitar chug and tropical drum fills work their magic to conjure up images of good times and sunsets. All this works amazingly well with PPs vocals, taking him out of the city to being amongst the palm trees. Manchester’s Club Clique exists in the place where Indie-Electro and Disco meet. With an almost New York Disco video that wouldn’t be out of place on DFA, with a solid Disco Bass and smooth synths plating against a relentless Funk guitar riff that makes the song it’s own.

♫ Penguin Prison – Fair Warning (Goldroom reMix)

♫ Penguin Prison – Fair Warning (Club Clique Actualité reMix)

‘Fair Warning’ is released on 26th July.

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Jul 20 2011

Goin’ Old School: A Flock Of Seagulls – I Ran (So Far Away)

Even though I don’t believe New Wave exists, I can’t think of any other way to describe A Flock Of Seagulls. 1982 was the year of ‘I Ran (So Far Away)’.

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Jul 20 2011

M83’s new track

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Yes, I know. It’s all over the internet and unless you’ve been hiding under a soundproofed rock this past 24 hours you’ll have already heard this. But, whatever, it’s an awesome tune, I was bust yeaterday. What?

Anyway, M83 has given the world a taste of what to expect from his long, long, awaited new album, to be titled, ‘Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming’. ‘Midnight City’ is a pretty amazing teaser. Densely layered, yet spacious in it’s production (by Justin Meldal-Johnson, who has worked with Beck, Nine Inch Nails, The Mars Volta and Goldfrapp) the track is weird, but perfect, combination between 80’s Pop and modern Indie, as in it has a really 80’s vibe to it (and includes an epic, epic, sax solo) but doesn’t feel dated or retro. intelligent ElectroPop with so much going on in it, yet it all works together so well, and when the chorus kicks in, pure musical excitement.

♫ M83 – Midnight City

‘Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming’ is released 18th October.

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Jul 19 2011

The Magician’s ‘Magic Tape Thirteen’

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The Magician – Magic Tape Thirteen = The Magician treats you to forty minutes of Disco magic. You “Ooooo” at his choice of the freshest electronic music around and “Ahhhh” at a couple of tricks up his sleeves.

♫ The Magician – Magic Tape Thirteen

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Jul 19 2011

New video from Foster The People

Foster The People have premiered the new video for their track ‘Helena Beat’.

Ace Norton shot this road warrior Sci-Fi extravaganza in the deserts outside LA. 

‘Helena Beat’ is taken from Foster The People’s album, ‘Torches’.

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Jul 19 2011

Alfa Vs. Flashlights

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The finale of today’s Alfa trilogy is his brand new reMix of fellow Binary artists Flashlights’ ‘Holidays’.

Taking the track from their EP, ‘Hidden behind Trees’, Alfa creates something truly epic. A head on collision between deep synth-Funk and wailing 80’s guitar, Alfa’s production skills are pushed into overdrive as a stream of different elements are effortlessly merged into an ass-shaking whole. The Indie-Electro vocals sound as if they’ve always been emoting over bouncy LA funk,  retro synth stabs and the kind of axe work that inspires greatness,

♫ Flashlights – Holidays (Alfa reMix)

‘Holidays’ is taken from Flashlights’ début EP, ‘Hidden Behind Trees’, out now on  Binary Entertainment

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Jul 18 2011

beaumont reMixes Rüfüs

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beaumont takes time out from his inventing a new genre of slowed down, laid back Nu-Disco to return to his Dreamwave/Nu-Disco roots with his new reMix of Rüfüs’ ‘We Left’.

Proving without a shadow of a doubt that he still has the skills to rock the Disco, this reMix is a full-on solid electronic epic with it’s feet on the dancefloor and it’s head in the clouds. It’s got all the right 80’s cues, and all the right Nu-Disco cues, in all the right places. beaumont’s sweeping phased synths work particularly well with the track’s vocals. The reMix features on On The Fruit’s release of ‘We Left’, as a single, alongside reMixes from Ride The Universe and SymbolOne .

♫ Rüfüs – We Left (beaumont reMix)

‘We Left’ is out 25th of July on On the Fruit Records

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Jul 18 2011

Faker X Lancelot

Australian outfit Faker have premiered the video for their current single ‘Dangerous’.

It’s classic Antepodiean Indie-Electro in the Midnight Juggernauts vein with a video shot in London and featuring a shadowy pair of pursuers.

The track has been reMixed by Lancelot, who recently reMixed Penguin Prison’s ‘Multi-Millionaire’ who turns the track into a gritty slice of DiscoPop track that growls it’s way through it’s four and a half minutes. it’s heavy bass tempered with some sweet synth chords.

♫ Faker – Dangerous (Lancelot reMix)

Faker’s ‘Dangerous’ is out now.

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Jul 15 2011

Substatic; they’ve been up to stuff

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So, “what’s been going on in the world of Substatic?” I hear you ask. Gather ‘round, I’ll tell you.

Well, mostly the Bristol based Indie-Electro trio have been chained to the mixing desk. Spending their time slaving away in Substatic HQ, the guys and gal have been preparing a brand new live show and tracks for a forthcoming release. If you’ve been keeping an eye on their SoundCloud page you’ll have been treated to a stream of demo versions coming straight out the studio. The most prominent of these is a new version of ‘Bloodlust’. It was back in April that the first demo of Bloodlust surfaced but this new upload is cleaner, more refined. Instruments are given more space within the mix to make themselves heard, which compliments Colleen’s croon better and more emphasis on the Acid build lends and new level of excitement to the tune. ‘Drawn In Chalk’, the most recent track to emerge, eases you in with an atmospheric opening and some really nice lyrical imagery. It’s definitely epic in scope and sound. Powerful too, with Alex and Steve conveying just as much of an emotional narrative with the shifting moods of the tune as the layered, emotive, vocals. ‘Inside These Walls’ brings together influences from Drum & Bass, Electro-House and ElectroPop in that way only Substatic can. The most Poppy and catchy of the new batch, ‘Inside These Walls’ show Colleen on top form in Pop chanteuse mode while the guys mix up deep basses and broken beats but never let them run amok and cause chaos.

♫ Substatic – Bloodlust (Demo.)

♫ Substatic – Drawn In Chalk (Demo.)

♫ Substatic – Inside These Walls (Demo.)

So now you know what’s going on!

Substatic are just starting to announce some new shows for this year including 26th August at our very own Start The Bus in Bristol and 14th September at one of my favourite London venues, The Dublin Castle in Camden, London.

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