Oct 26 2011

Embryonik’s new EP

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This Friday sees the release of Embryonik’s new EP ‘Skyscraper on binalog productions.

Containing three three original tracks and five choice reMixes the EP is an evocative, synthetic, audio journey through a dark metropolis. Kicking off with ‘Watergun’, a track that bleeds Italo into B-Boy Electro, the listener is already presented with the soundtrack to rain soaked, neon lit, future streets. Like the dark cousin of Italo, ‘Watergun’ presents Vangelis-esque atmospheres with EBM basslines. The mood continues into ‘Elevator’, a track with a soaring melody that seems to tell a story set against machine beats. This track in particular contains some really sweet synthesizer flourishes. ‘Burning Bridges’ ends the original tracks in a reflective future Disco style. ‘80’s Italo forms the backbone for strings and racing leads to lift you out of the concrete oppression. Whether or not it was intended, there is a definite narrative feel to the EP, a trilogy of tracks that take you by the hand through a post BladeRunner cityscape. The reMix package is worth the price alone, our friend Jordan F provides the standout mix of ‘Elevator’, a laid back, uplifting antidote to the original’s doom and gloom, maybe injecting a little romance into Embryonik’s gritty Sci-Fi flick.

♫ Embryonik – Watergun

♫ Embryonik – Elevator

♫ Embryonik – Burning Bridges

♫ Embryonik – Elevator (Jordan F reMix)

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Oct 26 2011

Goin’ Old School: Digital Emotion – Go Go Yellow Screen

Digital Emotion on the Italo tip, channelling Trans-X in 1983’s ‘Go Go Yellow Screen’.

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Oct 25 2011

Goin’ Old School: Bad Boys Blue – Queen Of Hearts

See as we are already dropping some Queen Of Hearts today, Bad Boys Blue’s 1989 post-Italo track ‘Queen Of Hearts’ shall be our retro lookback of the day. Out of respect y’see.

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Oct 24 2011

Little Boots’ ‘Shake Until Your Heart Breaks’ Mixtape

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Little Boots – Shake Until Your Heart Breaks Mixtape = Boots is back! Well, not really, not yet, but let’s hope this mixtape is a precursor to her welcome return. The best thing about this 40 mins ElectroPop/Italo/DiscoPop odyssey, is that it includes a brand new Little Boots track, unsurprisingly titled ‘Shake Until Your Heart Breaks’, which proves that unlike her fellow electro-women-class-of-‘07 alumni, our Miss Hesketh hasn’t lost the synthesizer faith.

♫ Little Boots – Shake Until Your Heart Breaks Mixtape

Little Boots is about to embark on a world DJ tour, check her out in the following locations:

12.11.11 Paris @ Chez Moune
18.11.11 Berlin @ Flamingo
20.11.11 New York @ Le Bain
21.11.11 Los Angeles @ Bardot
21.11.11 San Francisco @ Rickshaw Stop
25.11.11. Tokyo Le Baron
27.11.11. Beijing @ Yu Gong Yi Shan
03.12.11 London @ Secret Show TBA

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Oct 24 2011

Goin’ Old School: Savage – Don’t Cry Tonight

A bit if Italo ElectroPop from 1983 today in the form of Savage’s ‘Don’t Cry Tonight’.

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Oct 23 2011

Mindscramble’s new tune

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Mindscramble, one of the Manchester Electro massive (and I do mean massive, there’s loads of them!), has dropped a new track on an unsuspecting public.

the track is apparently still in demo form, but you wouldn’t know that from giving the beat driven Sci-Fi soundscape a listen. Firmly in the Dreamwave./Synthwave camp, Mindscramble manages to get across a real sense of narrative with this tune, the arrangement almost follows chapters of some story known only to the man himself, but there are definite ‘acts’ to the seven minute track and Mindscramble successfully conveys a different emotion for each one. Musically he’s got the Italo-influenced-‘80’s-movie-theme thang down pat with a good feel for retro synth sounds and a good ear for a melody that works, just take the leads on ‘Save Me From Myself’, they are almost haunting, which makes a nice stark contrast to the driving FM bass.

♫ Mindscramble – Save Me From Myself

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Oct 23 2011

Lost Years’ new track

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Here’s a new tune from the awesome Lost Years.

It’s only been a couple of months or so since we last wrote about Lost Year’s but he’s been knocking out tracks at an alarming rate in the meantime. ‘The hunt V1’ is his latest, an effortless meeting of Dreamwave and Italo and a track that wouldn’t have been out of place on European dancefloors in the mid ‘80’s. Like all his tracks it’s a rich and densely layers affair, for that really full SynthWave sound but with a nice Italo twist in the bassline.

♫ Lost Years – The Hunt V1

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Oct 20 2011

Goin’ Old School: Valerie Dore – The Night

Some absolutely classic Italo flavoured ElectroPop today from Valerie Dor’‘s ‘The Night’ from 1984.

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Oct 19 2011

Fare Soldi reMix Gigamesh

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If you haven’t already picked up Gigamesh’s new self-titled EP rest assured it comes highly recommended for putting some groove in your weekend.

In celebration of the recent release Italy’s madcap Disco heads Fare Soldi have dropped their reMix of ‘So Intense’ that features on this weeks full reMix package release. The track is classic Fare Soldi, only the most powerful and in-your-face Italo influenced Disco-House, with a sense of fun. When the bassline kicks in you can’t help but move, and grin, to this.