I’ve got a bit of a love/hate relationship with Mark Ronson (And The Business INTL)’s new album ‘Record Collection’. Some of the tracks on there are amazing, ‘Band Bang Bang’ is one of my favourite songs of the year, but some of it is a bit dreary.
Anyway, the third single from the album is the Boy George featuring ‘Somebody To Love Me’ and Team Ronson have made the excellent decision to get super cool fellow NYC residents Holy Ghost! to reMix the track. They bring with them their unique brand of analog DIY Disco turning the track into a gritty discoball epic. Let the Garage Disco roll!
It looks like all things Video Villain are about to blow up! The girls have premiered their first proper music video, for ‘Fearless’ and it’s pretty damn slick.
As a music fan, writer, promoter and musician myself it’s always really exiting to watch a band from infancy to something really special. e.r. was, I believe, the first place to write about Lucy and Marie, way back in the distant past of February 2009, after they rose from the ashes of a broken Dead Disco. Carving their mark with raw, emotive electronics on a Little Boots obsessed summer you could tell they were, and still are, bound for greatness.
It’s taken a while but with a brand new website, their first live show supporting Midnight Juggernauts, the video for ‘Fearless’ and an EP due out it seems like Video Villain’s time is finally here. A change really is going to come!
A dark and dangerous video, like VV’s music and a great introduction to the band. I also really like Lucy and Marie’s face-to-face synth rig, I hope they carry that over into their live shows,
Keep your ear to the ground for Video Villain news and go show them some of your finest MySpace love!
It’s that time again! In December Kitsuné Music will be releasing the tenth instalment of their Maison series, titled ‘The Fireworks Issue’.
In celebration of hitting the landmark tenth volume, the Franch Electro label are making this one a double album featuring some of the best Indie-Electro from their stable in the past year and some of their forthcoming releases. There’s some awesoem tracks on there including the new Digitalism, the recent singles from Yelle and Clock Opera and tracks from BeatauCue, Is Tropical and Housse De Racket.
Check out the tracklist:
CD 01
01. Cascadeur – Walker (Early Mix)
02. Guards – Don’t Wake The Dead
03. Is Tropical – South Pacific
04. Yelle – La Musique
05. Two Door Cinema Club – What You Know (Mustang reMix)
06. BeatauCue – Disque Oh!
07. Strange Talk – Climbing Walls
08. Punks Jump Up – Blockhead (Edit)
09. The Aikiu – The Red Kiss
10. Flight Facilities (Feat. Giselle) – Crave You (Radio Edit)
11. Jolie Cherie – Insomnie
12. Wild At Heart – Get Related
CD 02
01. Clock Opera – Once And For All
02. Icona Pop – Manners (Extended)
03. Young Empires – Glory Of The Night
04. Housse De Racket – Château
05. Teeth – See Spaces
06. The Heartbreaks – Liar, My Dear
07. Waylayers – Fires
08. DigitaIism – Blitz
09. Black Strobe – Me & Madonna (The Twelves reMix)
10. Justus Köhncke with Alexis Taylor – Sorry
11. Psychobuildings – Terror Management
12. Palmbomen – Moon Children
13. May68 – The Prisoner (Cecile reMix (Jerry Bouthier edit))
As usual London’s Kitsuné in-house DJ team JBAG have put together a minimix to showcase the album, this time in two parts. Here’s the first:
Miami Horror are on a roll right now whit another new single on the horizon.
Taken from their début long player ‘Illumination’, ‘Holidays’ has been perfectly matched with this summery Californian video directed by the team of Krozm (A.K.A.Chris Hill and Lachlan Dickie).
‘Ace Of Hz’ is the first brand new material from ElectroPop legends Ladytron in a while.
The track actually features on the soundtrack of Football game ‘FIFA ‘11’ from EA Games (and it’s not for the first time that Ladytron have been included in a FIFA game, ‘Runaway’ was part of the ‘FIFA ‘09’ soundtrack) and is a proper reminder of why the band’s forthcoming album is so eagerly awaited with a sound that is reminiscent of the early Ladytron albums mixed with the sophistication of songwriting from their later works.
Welsh Indie-ElectroPoppers Friends Electric new single ‘Golden Blood’ will be released at the end of November.
The video, as with the previous single ‘Wall Of Arms’, was directed by Laura Fry and is a really nice accompaniment to this epic sounding single by one of the UK most underrated bands.
The single is out 29th November. I’m looking forward to catching the guys live alongside Fenech-Soler and Substatic next week in Bristol!
We’re fans of both Clock Opera and Little Loud here at electronic rumors, so when this little gem dropped in the Inbox excitement followed.
It’s quite a killer tune too. ‘Once And For All’ will be Clock Opera’s next single for Kitsuné Music and Little Loud’s take on the track is a pulsing and shimmering synth workout. Laidback and feel good the sparking lead lines have a pretty euphoric effect.
I must admit, I’d never heard of Saharan Gazelle Boy before, apparently it’s a collaboration between Capybara’s Darin Seal and Sea Change. I’ve never heard of them either. Oh well.
I’m digging the music though, it’s nice and grungy and has an electronic post-punk vibe to it. An early 80’s Indie theme runs throughout but with enough electronics to keep it just the right side of SynthPop.
Check the video for their new single ‘Strange Teen Heart’.
And their previous record, ‘Halfhair Girl’, which is a little early New Order.
We enthused aboutDetachments latest single ‘Holiday Romance’ and we’ve loves some of the reMixes that have come around so far.
Particularly likening this minimal mix by T&A which gives the track more of an electronic post-punk feel with bonus acid squelching and cowbell! Then, halfway though the track the bridge kicks in and the track turns into a really absorbing and listenable analog synth wig-out.
Ex-Depeche Mode man Alan Wilder’s Recoil will be bringing it’s ‘A Strange Hour’ tour to the US as well as releasing ‘Selected’, a hand picked collection of some of Recoil’s finest work.
The album contains many of Alan’s collaborations spanning 22 years of the Recoil project including Diamanda Galás, JoeRichardson, Douglas McCarthy (Nitzer Ebb), Nicole Blackman, Samantha Coerbell, Toni Halliday (Curve) and Maggie Estep.
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