Mar 8 2013

[MP3] Modern Machines’ ‘Trouble’

NYC’s Modern Machines return from a bout of touring with a storming new track. After a host of massive reMixes for the likes of The Knocks and CREEP the duo are set to deliver some killer original tunes, starting with Trouble.

Bringing to the forefront the Vera Hall sample that Moby rocked on Natural Blues, these guys take a completely different route with the vocals. Dropping them straight into an Electro Disco fire-pit of huge synth stabs, stomping beats and some madcap ChipTune wobbling. Big, uplifting hooks and a grinding bassline keep this track powering onward and destined straight for the big room.

♫ Modern Machines – Trouble (Radio Edit)

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Mar 6 2013

[MP3] Hey Champ’s ‘Comet’

One of Chicago’s finest exports, Indie-Electro-Disco-Pop guys Hey Champ, have dropped a brand new tune. One of the finest bands of their kind around, releases from these guys are too few and far between. their new track, Comet, follows on from January’s Cliché, which, hopefully, points toward a new album soon.

Featuring additional vocals from BeuKes, Comet rolls out with a raw, earnest, synth bass set amongst flying arpeggios and a slick Disco beat. Retro future boogie loaded with thick sounds and a really nice play-off between BeuKes innocent voice and Hey Champ’s more gritty Disco call-to-action. Comet is a strong contender for a summer anthem title, a big sing-a-long chorus, smooth Disco grooves, what more do you want in hot summer nights?

♫ Hey Champ! (Feat. BeuKes) – Comet

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Mar 6 2013

[MP3] Futurecop!’s new single

Later this month, the UK’s SynthWave champions Futurecop! release their brand new single. A precursor to their forthcoming album, Hopes, Dreams & Alienation, the single features vocal work from Ricco Vitali from Cavaliers Of Fun and a whole host of reMix talent, including the likes of Lifelike and Stellar Dreams.

Atlantic 1997 is pure Futurecop!. Long time live favourite, the track us an uplifting rush of nostalgic synthesizer power. Waves of rich synths compliment the steady Italo Disco groove and produce the a dreamy 80s soundtrack. the disco swing of the track, combined with Vitali’s anthemic, and catchy, vocal gives the track a holiday sheen. It’s all carefree good times. French Disco underdogs Uppermost turn in a huge and involving reMix of the track, wrapping it in lush, reverby, French Touch with a grinding synth bass. Polish outfit P.A.F.F. also deliver the goods with their reMix. their Hipstercop version rings out like an Indie-Electro summer anthem, complete with infectious chiming melody and big chorus. It;s an excellent single package and one that bodes well for the album.

♫ Futurecop! (Feat. Ricco Vitali From Cavaliers Of Fun) – Atlantis 1997

♫ Futurecop! (Feat. Ricco Vitali From Cavaliers Of Fun) – Atlantis 1997 (Uppermost reMix)

♫ Futurecop! (Feat. Ricco Vitali From Cavaliers Of Fun) – Atlantis 1997 (P.A.F.F.’s Hipstercop reMix)

Futurecop!’s Atlantis 1997 is released 23rd March with reMixes from Lifelike, P.A.F.F, Kill Them With Colour and Uppermost.

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Mar 5 2013

[MP3] Let Em Riot reMixed by Arcade High

Pittsburgh SynthWaver Arcade High, who you may remember making our top twenty songs of 2012 in the last electronic rumors Awards had delivered this sweet reMix of our very own Let Em Riot. Let Em Riot’s Say What You Need To Say first appeared on a SynthWave compilation a few months ago and caused quite a stir, immediately attracting a ton of attention for the album.

Arcade High’s take on the track is a beautiful whirlwind of dreamy synths and vintage drums. Using Let Em Riot’s vocals to their fullest, Arcade High wraps them in a star-field of sparking synths. Driving and gloriously nostalgic, Arcade High’s reMix just proves what we already knew, when Ryan Boosel works with vocals, special things happen.

♫ Let Em Riot – Say What You Need To Say (Arcade High reMix)

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Mar 5 2013

[MP3] FM Attack and Rogue Vogue reMix French Horn Rebellion

Two piping hot reMixes of French Horn Rebellion forthcoming new single Girls, featuring JD Samson, from Le Tigre& MEN, and rapper Fat Tony. We covered the track a few days ago, a massive party starter, and now we get to get our ears around versions from SynthWave legend FM Attack and House producer Rogue Vogue.

FM Attack’s mix is the proverbial bomb, a real funky synthesizer workout. Whipping up an Italo frenzy of vocal synthesis, robotic vocoding and chugging arpeggiated basslines, FM Attack delivers five minutes of android Boogie and one of our favourite tracks of the month. Rouge Vogue is more in the classic House vein. Deep, woody basslines and 909 beats dominate this reMix, dragging the track into a darkened Chicago warehouse for a night of hypnotic dancing. French Horn Rebellion have put together a slick reMix package for their new one. It drops in March.

♫ French Horn Rebellion – Girls (FM Attack reMix)

♫ French Horn Rebellion – Girls (Rogue Vogue reMix)

French Horn Rebellion’s Girls is released 5th March.

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Mar 4 2013

[MP3] Glass Candy’s ‘The Possessed’

Here we have another little taste of what come come with Italians Do It Better’s forthcoming, and long awaited, After Dark 2 compilation. This look behind the curtain comes in the form of Glass Candy’s absolutely epic, seven minute, Extended Runway Edit of The Possessed. No doubt an extended runway edit because it soundtracked some high-concept fashion show in recent months, as is Glass Candy tracks wont.

A beautiful, minimal seven minutes of synthetics. The Possessed pairs a stripped down Italo bassline with a slower tempo to a creeping background dread. This plays nicely against the more optimistic, warbling lead lines and sweeping synths. The contradiction is matched in Ida No’s vocals, sounding quite upbeat as she lays down some melancholy lyrics. The Possessed is deserved of it’s seven minute length, it;s a track you just have to go with and enjoy the experience.

♫ Glass Candy – The Possessed (Extended Runway Edit)

After Dark 2 will be out soon, with tracks from Glass Candy, Mirage, Desire, Farah, Twisted Wires, Appaloosa, Symmetry, and Chromatics.

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Mar 1 2013

[MP3] Room8 cover Phil Collins

Room8 are still a bit of an enigma. Ezra Reich and Nic Johns seem to exist outside of the SynthWave scene, but sprung up from nowhere with a collaboration with Electric Youth and album art by The Zonders, yet no-one really knows who they are. A more suspicious mind might think there was fairly big label backing there, The Zonders don’t come cheap. Anyhoo, regardless of where they came from, they are producing some pretty kickin’ music, most recently this cover of Sir Philip of Collins’ One More Night.

Turning Phil Collins’ heartfelt croon into a robot’s lament, Room8 liberally apply vocoding and modulation to the vocals over a Kraftwerk inspired backing. Taking a slightly rawer sound than the majority of SynthWave, Room8’s cover powers along on frantic arpeggios and piercing lead lines. Drums, rough and heavy in the mix, relentlessly march toward the end where a Sax solo smooth’s out the song somewhat. Room8’s gritty take on SynthWave is something s little different, check it out.

♫ Room8 – One More Night (Phil Collins cover)

Room8’s Transduction is out soon.

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Feb 28 2013

[MP3] Clancy’s ‘Sleepless Nights’

Clancy’s on a roll right now. This time last month he delivered the Chicago House jam, How To Hold On To You, which is still being played round these parts, and this month he’s dropping another free tune. Now well and truly on the House tip, Clancy bring it smooth House for Sleepless Nights, a dance tune for insomniacs.

Sleepless Nights has got that deep, soulful, House vibe that you associate with late nights, hot summers and soft focus early 90s videos. Lavish low bass and synths rub shoulders with a groovy electric piano and the vocal sample fading in and out of the track list a ghost. A true midnight tune, this one is for that magical point in the night when the world holds it;s breath and you loose yourself in the music.

♫ Clancy – Sleepless Nights

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Feb 27 2013

[MP3] Aimes’ new reMix EP

Brooklyn Chilly SynthPop artist Aimes is gearing up for the release of a new reMix collection. A release of reworking of tracks from his acclaimed Beautiful Decay EP of last year, Aimes has roped in the likes of Soft Lighting, Chaz Bronz, Beto Cravioto, Travmatic, Business Casual Disco, Rioux and Jules Schimmer and more for an eight track (which is more of an album really!) monster that spans numerous electronic styles and delivers something for everyone.

Standout tracks on the release, for us, include Jules Schimmers’ sumptuous 80’s take on Wake Me Up Before The Sun Goes Down. Schimmer gets his Pet Shop Boys on, heavy on the retro bass and cowbells, all wrapped up in swirling synth strings. The EP’s opener, a reMix of Somewhere In Space We Hang Suspended produced by Soft Lighting, sets the Cosmic mood for the rest of the EP, all pulsating synths in a reverb washed haze. For a more dancefloor oriented inclusion, you can look to Chaz Bronz whose deep Chicago House take on Oh My My has delayed organs and rimshots to place it right at home in a late 80’s warehouse party. The whole EP has everything you’d want, from Disco to Ambient, all wrapped up with Aimes’ Sci-Fi smoothness.

♫ Aimes – Wake Me Up Before The Sun Goes Down (Jules Schimmer reMix)

♫ Aimes – Somewhere In Space We Hang Suspended (Soft Lighting reMix)

♫ Aimes – Oh My My (Chas Bronz reMix)

Aimes’ Beautiful Decay reMixed is released 5th March.

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Feb 26 2013

[MP3] Little Boots’ ‘Motorway’ + album news

The wait is (almost) finally over. Little Boots has finally announced details of her second album. After months of teasing in the form of the singles Shake, Every Night I Say A Prayer and Headphones (two of which make the new records tracklist, the insanely infectious Headphones remains in single land) Boots has dropped the new records title and release date. Titled Nocturnes, the album is set for release in May and features production assistance from the likes of DFA’s Tim Goldsworthy, Simian Mobile Disco’s James Ford and Hercules And Love Affair’s Andy Butler.

Our first (new) taste of what the album holds comes in the form of Motorway. We first heard Motorway back in summer last year when she played XOYO, at the time we commented that it would be a good album lead-in track (not that anyone will believe us), and it so obviously is, showing off perfectly what the new record is all about. Whether Boots is making Dance Music more personal, or personal music more dancy, she walk the line, here, between a deep, hypnotic, dancefloor groover and a gentle, haunting, SynthPop epic. Injecting a fragile humanity into dark, intoxicating, House beats, Little Boots delivers a spellbinding track, both musically and vocally. The big ominous, yet somehow uplifting, grand piano doesn’t hurt either.