Feb 14 2010

Led Er Est

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The later part of last year saw a resurgence of what ‘they’ are now calling Minimal Synth or (even) Coldwave, but which I would really just call SynthPop. I guess it’s SynthPop inspired by the late 70’s/early 80’s pioneers of the genre rather than the mid 80’s chart toppers, if you wanted to be really picky I’d call it Futurist music, but whatever, scenes do love their genre names so Minimal Synth it is!

Led Er Est hailing from Brooklyn are one of the leaders of the pack, signed to scene leaders Wierd Records and recently released their ‘Dust On Common’ album which could have quite happily been released on Mute in 1979 alongside Fad Gadget and The Normal. Cheap drum machines and synths hammer away relentlessly forming a post-industrial soundscape for sombre yet emotive vocals.

♫ Led Er Est – Laredo (zShare) (MediaFire)

♫ Led Er Est – Poll Gorm (zShare) (MediaFire)

♫ Led Er Est – Port Isabel (zShare) (MediaFire)

Their album is out now on Wierd Records.

Led Er Est @ Juno

Led Er Est @ 7Digital

Led Er Est @ Amazon

Feb 11 2010

Lovefoxxx & 80kidz; Ultra team-up!

Lovefoxxx

Japan based Electro heroes 80kidz ‘ave only gone and teamed up with Indie-Electro goddess Lovefoxxx of CSS, ain’t they!

Sounds like a match made in heaven, right? Well the track is everything you’d hope it would be. It’s a huge, dirty juggernaut that manages to be noisy and catchy all at the same time. The combination of 80kidz chainsaw Synths and Lovefoxxx’s madness is sheer genius.

♫ 80kidz (Feat. Lovefoxxx) – Spoiledboy (zShare) (MediaFire)

I think I need a lie down!

Feb 11 2010

Baby Monster; She Comes Alive

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Electronic Duo Baby Monster’s new single ‘She Comes Alive’ will be the début single from BigStereo Records, an extension of one of our favourite blogs, BigStereo.

They couldn’t have picked a better track to kick of their label with. We’ve featured Baby Monster before, and been very impressed, so this new release had a lot to live up to. Never fear, the track doesn’t fail to impress, sharp beats, synths that just wash over you and an anthemic yet soft spoken vocal.

♫ Baby Monster – She Comes Alive (zShare) (MediaFire)

Keep an eye out for forthcoming Golden Bug & Jock Seams remixes. The single drops 29th March both digitally and on a 7” limited to 350 copies.

You can pre-order the 7” here:

Baby Monster @ BigStereo Records

Feb 9 2010

Win a limited edition Topman CTRL T-Shirt Designed by New Young Pony Club!!!

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Each month Topman pick a current, exiting, UK band to become Topman CTRL Controllers, giving them a chance to share some of their inspirations and current raves on the Topman CTRL site, their month culminating in a headlining gig with a line up hand picked by the band. After Filthy Dukes successful run as Controllers last month Topman have made the incredibly smart move of handing the reigns over to New Young Pony Club.

Here at electronic rumours we’ve managed to get our hands on an exclusive Topman T-shirt designed by New Young Pony Club as they take the helm of the Topman CTRL site http://www.myspace.com/topmanctrl in February.

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New Young Pony Club will also headline the next CTRL Live gig taking place at Bungalows & Bears, Sheffield on 25th February. Completing the bill are Mercury Music Prize nominated The Invisible, art-rockers The Laurel Collective and sets from DJ duos Run Hide Survive and Children For Breakfast. Curated by the Controllers New Young Pony Club, the night showcases their predictions for the hottest emerging acts on their radar.

For tickets check out http://www.myspace.com/topmanctrl

To get your hands on this limited edition T-shirt simply follow us (electronicrumor) on Twitter, then copy, paste and tweet the following:

Man, I could do with winning a limited edition, New Young Pony Club designed, T-Shirt! @electronicrumor @topmanctrl @nyponyclub

Easy as pie! Everyone who Tweets will have their name, quite literally, put in a hat and the winner will be notified via Twitter. We’ll keep things going until Friday 19^th February, so you’ve got just under two weeks to get on it!

New Young Pony Club’s forthcoming album ‘The Optimist’, released 8th March.

New Young Pony Club @ Beatport

New Young Pony Club @ 7Digital

New Young Pony Club @ Amazon

Feb 9 2010

Buffetlibre & Amnesty International’s ‘PEACE’ project

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Spain’s Buffetlibre DJs are busy guys, when not DJing, reMixing, producing and spearheading some of the more interesting multi-artist projects around are throwing their weight behind Amnesty International to highlight human rights abuses around the world.

To highlight the worldwide injustices that AA work so hard to stop Buffetlibre’s unique concept for their charity compilation album is to create a ‘musical atlas’ featuring many and varied artists from around the globe. Such as the first ‘single’ from the album. ‘Mike’ by Ivri Lider, one of Israel’s most successful singer/songwriters, with this sweet vocoder call & response downtime jam.

♫ Ivri Lider – Mike (zShare) (MediaFire)

The album will be released digitally on 1st March and given free to anyone who makes a donation of at least €2 in favour of the NGO Amnesty International through the official PEACE website.

This is the full line up so far, there is defiantly some electronic rumors favourites amongst the list:

USA: Micah P Hinson, Steve Wynn, Crocodiles, Dan Deacon, Voxtrot, Marissa Nadler, A Place To Bury Strangers, The Antlers, Asobi Seksu, Spinto Band, Port O’Brien, Bart Davenport, Dent May, Ki:Theory, Mike Viola, Flashmen, Her Space Holiday, Pretty & Nice, Ra Ra Riot, Sic Alps, Blacklist, DeLeon, Gala, Jeffrey Lewis, United State Of Electronica, Gregor Samsa, Thao + The Get Down Stay Down, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, Still Flyin’, Plushgun, Softlightes, Princeton, Odyze, This Will Destroy You, Cruel Black Dove, Avian X
JAPAN: Ryuichi Sakamoto
COLOMBIA: Frankie Jazz
BRAZIL: Bonde Do Role
ISRAEL: Ivri Lider, Tamar Eisenmann, Karni Postel, Nico Teen, The Bitting Sheep
ISRAEL/FRANCE: Keren Ann & Shlomi Shaban
UK: Marc Almond, 4hero, Mogwai, Dubstar, Patrick Wolf, Si Begg, frYars, Gyratory System, Darren Hayman, Cicada, GoldieLocks, Lucky Soul, Official Secrets Act, Frankmusik, The Ultrasonics, Trouble Over Tokyo, A Certain Ratio, The Boy Least Likely To, You Love Her Coz She’s Dead, Gala, Catherine AD
CHINA: The Pet Conspiracy
SENEGAL: Malick Pathé Sow
CHILE: Javiera Mena, Francisca Valenzuela, DJ Raff
FRANCE: Tahiti 80, Black Strobe, The Toxic Avenger, Titi Robin, The Delano Orchestra, Amelie Les Crayons, Outlines, Saï Saï, My Broken Frame, Debmaster
BURUNDI: Eric Baranyanka
CANADA: Apostle Of Hustle, Buck 65, Malajube, The Hidden Cameras
BELGIUM: Vive La Fête, The Neon Judgement, Girls in Hawai, King & Svenson
TUNISIA/ALGERIA: DuOud
FINLAND: Jori Hulkkonen
AUSTRIA: Fennesz, A Life A Song A Cigarette
AUSTRALIA: Jeremy Fowler, Aeons, Sarah Blasko, Operator Please, Birds Of Tokyo, An Horse
ALGERIA: MHD & Starlight, Maghrebika, Baäziz
HONG KONG: The Marshmallow Kisses, Tramgirl Karaoke Club feat. Maskopet
NEW ZEALAND: The Veils, The Phoenix Foundation
CUBA: Martha Galarraga
REPUBLIC OF KOREA: EE
GREECE: Marsheaux, Mikro
NORWAY: Rockettothesky, Ane Brun, Ingrid Olava
GHANA: Wanlov The Kubolor
GERMANY: Stereo Total, Ascii Disko, Console, Escape With Romeo, Jeans Team, Kissogram, Maral Salmassi & Zero Cash, Kitbuilders, Locas In Love
LEBANON: Abaji
GREENLAND: Angu
DENMARK: Cartridge, The Broken Beats
MALI: Vieux Farka Touré
ITALY: Dusty Kid, Amari, Amycanbe, Le Man Avec Les Lunettes, Perturbazione
IRELAND: David Kitt, Mundy, Hystereo
UGANDA: Seby Ntege
INDONESIA: Mocca, Efek Rumah Kaca, White Shoes & The Couples Company
INDIA: Motherjane, menwhopause, Shaa’ir+func
RUSSIA: Tesla Boy, Cut2Kill
ICELAND: múm, Amiina
HUNGARY: We Plants Are Happy Plants
EGYPT: Allen Walker, Bikya
SWEDEN: I’m From Barcelona, Sally Shapiro, Peter Von Poehl, Napoleon, Air France feat Jack Wilson, Lacrosse
SPAIN: Miqui Puig, We Are Standard, Olimpic, Boat Beam, The Requesters, After After Hours, The Pinker Tones, Triangulo De Amor Bizarro, Elastic Band, Undo, The Amplic, Mendetz, 4t1a, The Requesters
SOUTH AFRICA: DJ Mujava, 340ml
FINLAND/GERMANY: AGF/Delay
SERBIA: sevdahBABY
IRAQ: Aida Nadeem, Salaam, Aïwa
PORTUGAL: X-Wife
BOLIVIA: Surfin Wagner
PALESTINE: CultureSHOC, Khalas
TURKEY: Gooseflesh
NEDERLANDS: Don Diablo, Kraak & Smaak, Perquisite, a balladeer
ARGENTINA: Entre Rios, Manosanta
MEXICO: Mexican Institute Of Sound, Sussie 4, Hello Seahorse!
TIBET: Karjam Saeji, Lotem Namling, Ngawang Choephel
CONGO: Kiala
THAILAND: Cyndi Seui
VENEZUELA: Kid 606, Fordelucs
SINGAPUR: sonicbrat
SWITZERLAND: Heidi Happy (feat Paul Niehaus of Calexico), Low Motion Disco

We will be bringing you news of this project as it hapens and remember to make a donation on 1st March!

Peace @ Buffetlibre DJs

Feb 8 2010

Monarchy

Mystery men Monarchy have been busy with some high profile reMixes of late and we are glad to report that their track ‘Gold In The Fire’, which has been hyped for a while now, is finally getting an official release thanks to Neon Gold.

We Have Band, Flak Attack and Hidden Cat chip in with the reMix work that spans WHB’s almost tribal chilled Electro, Flak Attack’s pure dance jam and Hidden Cat’s psychedelic space Disco trip.

♫ Monarchy – Gold In The Fire (We Have Band reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)

♫ Monarchy – Gold In The Fire (Flak Attack reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)

♫ Monarchy – Gold In The Fire (Hidden Cat reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)

You can pre-order the single here:

Monarchy @ Pure Groove

Feb 8 2010

Shy Child; The Anoraak reMix!

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We’ve waited with baited breath for the most exiting (to us at least) reMix from the forthcoming Shy Child single ‘Disconnected’. Now the wait is over.

Anoraak’s take on the tune is every bit as good as we had hoped. The meeting of Shy Child and Anoraak is just a clash of two of our favourite artists. The reMix is mostly a smooth Dreamwave epic give a slight edge by arpeggiated digital synth bass that slowly builds to a rockin’ crescendo.

♫ Shy Child – Disconnected (Anoraak reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)

‘Disconnected’ is out soon followed by the album ‘Liquid Love’ on 15th March on Wall Of Sound

Shy Child @ Beatport

Shy Child @ 7Digital

Shy Child @ Amazon

Feb 5 2010

Make The Girl Dance blow $30,000 in 8 days!

Indie-Electro outfit Make The Girl Dance follow on from the success of their last single ‘Baby, Baby, Baby’ with the video for ‘Kill Me’ that poses the question, what would you do with 8 days to live? Here’s what the guys would do…and how much it cost!

Check these couple of reMixes from the forthcoming single by the always brilliant The Toxic Avenger and We Are Enfant Terrible

♫ Make The Girl Dance – Kill Me (The Toxic Avenger reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)

♫ Make The Girl Dance – Kill Me (We Are Enfant Terrible reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)

‘Make The Girl Dance’ is out soon.

Make The Girl Dance @ Beatport

Make The Girl Dance @ Amazon

Feb 5 2010

Cassette Kids

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Australian Indie-Electro darlings Cassette Kids are poised to take us here in the UK over as they make their début on our fair shores with three London gigs in February and the release of a new single ‘Lying Around’.

Taken from the forthcoming album ‘Nothing On TV’ (which has been produced by Van She’s Michael DiFrancesco!) the single also features reMixes from Diamond Cut & Sharam Jey, who both turn the poppy Indie track into club stormers. Diamond Cut, who we’ve featured a couple of times before, and never fail to impress, turn in our favourite mix with their sweeping Nu-Disco epic.

♫ Cassette Kids – Lying Around (zShare) (MediaFire)

♫ Cassette Kids – Lying Around (Diamond Cut reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)

♫ Cassette Kids – Lying Around (Sharam Jey reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)

Check Cassette Kids MySpace for forthcoming tour dates.

Cassette Kids @ 7Digital

Cassette Kids @ Amazon

Feb 4 2010

I Am Noxious

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I Am Noxious is another one of those gems I’ve been meaning to write about for some time and seeing as how it’s been a quite day and the next few days really won’t be I thought now would be a nice time to write some words. Also, the man of mystery himself has just dropped a new tune ‘Stranded On Love’.

The British purveyor of quirky, left field, ElectroPop really manages to convey feeling in his tunes in the kind of way that makes you think the song came first, before the electronics.

There’s a really easy comparison to Hot Chip here, but that’s not really lazy writing, fans of The Chip will defiantly dig I Am Noxious’ heartfelt lyrics and honest vocal style just as fans if intricate Electronica will dig the beats.

♫ I Am Noxious – Stranded On Love (zShare) (MediaFire)

♫ I Am Noxious – We Pray (zShare) (MediaFire)

♫ I Am Noxious – Left & Right (zShare) (MediaFire)

♫ I Am Noxious – This Is A Ballad (zShare) (MediaFire)

So show the fella’ some MySpace lovin’:

I Am Noxious @ MySpace