The video for Delphic’s follow up to their breakthrough single ‘Doubt’, ‘Halcyon’ has premiered over on YouTube.
It’s a great song with a beautifully shot video that works so well with the track.
‘Halcyon’ will drop 15th March, Delphic’s album ‘Acolyte’ is out now:
The good folks at RCRD LBL have dropped the first of the reMixes of Shy Child forthcoming single ‘Disconnected’.
electronic rumors’ favourite Ocelot step up to the plate here dropping burbling analog synths and a deep house beat .
I’m really looking forward to this reMix package, especially for this one and the mighty Anoraak’s version.
♫ Shy Child – Disconnected (Ocelot reMix) (RCRD LBL)
‘Disconnected’ will be released just before the album ‘Liquid Love’ on 15th March via Wall Of Sound
Lali Puna have announced the release of their forth proper studio album in April. Titled ‘Our Inventions’ it’s the first new material from the prolific ElectroPop act since 2004.
Still sounding perfectly like Lali Puna the music also sounds fresh and relevant, it seems the rest of the musical world has finally caught up with them, their introspective, atmospheric Indie-Electro sounding an awful lot like a few current bands I could mention.
♫ Lali Puna – Remember (zShare) (MediaFire)
‘Our Inventions’ is on 6th April on, of course, Morr Music
Following on from their free internet single ‘Lost A Girl’ and in preparation for their forthcoming album ‘The Optimist’, 1st March sees New Young Pony Club release the single ‘Chaos’, the first proper single from the album. They have just premiered the video clip for the track over on their You Tube channel.
Cool song, cool video. More New Young Pony Club than ‘Lost A Girl’ I feel. It’s just nice to have NYPC back!
‘Chaos’ is released 1st March and is taken from the forthcoming album ‘The Optimist’, released 8th March.
New Young Pony Club @ Beatport
New Young Pony Club @ 7Digital
Wow! THISISNOTANEXIT records are certainly on a roll right now! November last year saw the release of the single ‘Circles’ by not-quite-from-Manchester dark Indie-Dance outfit Detachments and the label has just dropped the third, and final, instalment of reMixes.
The James Ford (Simian Mobile Disco) produced original has already been tackled by such names as Mighty Mouse and Night Plane and here gets treated to three wildly different mixes by Beg To Differ, Dscio and Spectral Empire. Beg To Differ had already dropped the Dub version of their reMix in the first remix package but now we are treated to the full vocal version which keeps up the ominous mood but feeds the tune through a dark SynthPop machine. Dsico’s US Post-Punk/New Wave mix is almost eerily authentic sounding and Spectral Empire round off the selection with their tribal John Carpenter soundtrack-esq epic horror noisescape.
♫ Detachments – Circles (Beg To Differ Mix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
♫ Detachments – Circles (Dsico reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
♫ Detachments – Circles (Spectral Empire Mix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
Detachments are currently in the studio working on their début album with the likes of Trevor (Playgroup) Jackson, Tim (DFA) Goldsworthy and Andrew Weatherall, this latest bunch of reMixes was released a couple of weeks ago and can be purchased here:
Shy Child have just débuted the video for ‘Disconnected’, the first single from their forthcoming album ‘Liquid Love’ and is one of the most Poppy tracks thy have done to date, although still as noisy as you’d expect from Shy Child there is some Nu-disco creeping into their Indie-Electro!
when the single drops expect reMixes from Ocelot, Moscow, Shuttle and Anoraak!!! That should be a really sweet single!
♫ Shy Child – Disconnected (zShare) (MediaFire)
‘Liquid Love’, is out on 15th March through Wall Of Sound and Shy Child have just announced UK tour dates!!!
02nd February @ White Heat @ Madame JoJo’s, London
04th February @ Centro, London
27th February @ Kazimier, Liverpool
28th February @ Thekla, Bristol
01st March @ ICA, London
02nd March @ ABC2, Glasgow
03rd March @ A Nation of Shopkeepers, Leeds
05th March @ Academy 3, Birmingham
06th March @ Roadhouse, Manchester
Taking their name from the New Order track, Thieves Like Us had reasonable success on ‘07 with their (now classic) ‘Drugs In My Body’ on Kitsuné Music and with ‘Your Heart Feels’ in ‘08.
Now they are back for ‘10 with ‘Never Known Love’, the first taste of the forthcoming full length album ‘Again And Again’. ‘Never Know Love’ displays it’s mixed French Electro/New Order influenced but the raw synth bass, hushed vocals and gangly guitar stabs bring it down firmly on the side of New Wave.
♫ Thieves Like Us – Never Known Love (zShare) (MediaFire)
‘Again And Again’ is out later this year.
We’ve had a couple of reMixes of The XX (who, apparently, haven’t split up) drop into the electronic rumors Inbox this week, so listen up!
Dave Wrangler take on the track ‘Stars’ and ends up with an almost old school EBM powerhouse, all heavy kick drum and arpeggios which seems to counterpoint the sparkling melody line.
Popular Damage assimilate ‘Crystalised’ and produce something equally as heavy. This time, though, it’s a big Electro banger that we find with some choppy distorted lead lines worthy of Justice and floor shaking drums.
♫ The XX – Stars (Dave Wrangler reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
♫ The XX – Crystalised (Popular Damage Assimilation) (zShare) (MediaFire)
Both tracks are taken from The XX’s album, ‘XX’.
OK, so Billie Ray Martin has a couple of new EPs/mini-albums coming out in the next couple of months. There are a couple of interesting angles to this story but one in particular that got my interest.
Billie Ray first came to my attention back in ‘80ish with her work with Electribe 101, since then she has amassed a large body of work including both Dance hits and more experimental electronic tracks For her latest EPs she is taking the pioneering step of releasing tracks officially through the Torrent site Mininova in the lead up to the official release.
What got me though, was the tracks themselves. Ms. Martin is dropping her reworkings of Cabaret Voltaire’s double A side ‘Just Fascination’/’Crackdown’, two of my favourite tracks by one of my favourite bands. So it was with some trepidation that I checked the tunes, and they are good! Not only are they reworking but ‘Crackdown’ features none other than Cab’s vocalist himself Stephen Mallinder.
Here we can present, for you, two reMixes of the tracks. ‘Just Fascination’ by Celebrity Murder Party who take a more semi-experimental approach turning the track into a danceable noisescape while ‘Crackdown’ is reMixed by David Harrow who’s Oicho mix is a deep, analog synth laden, dubby take on the track.
♫ Billie Ray Martin – Just Fascination (Celebrity Murder Party reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
♫ Billie Ray Martin – The Crackdown (Oicho reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
You can hear the original here on YouTube. The first EP is out 15th February on Disco Activisto
French duo Curry & Coco make some real raw, analog, ElectroPop. The partnership of Thomas and Sylvain strip down the Electro sound and add a bucket of nervous energy.
They are about to release their EP “Sex Is Fashion’ which features the lead tracks ‘Who’s Next’ and ‘Sex is Fashion’ and they have just dropped the video for ‘Who’s Next’:
The EP also features reMixes of ‘Sex Is Fashion’ from The Emperor Machine and We Are Enfant Terrible. I’m lovin’ the The Emperor Machine reMix with it’s big funk bass and huge synths and, er, bongo solo!
♫ Curry & Coco – Sex Is Fashion (The Emperor Machine Extended Vocal Mix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
♫ Curry & Coco – Sex Is Fashion (We Are Enfant Terrible reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
Curry & Coco release the EP this months ahead of their album ‘We Are Beauty’ at Peermusic.
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