Mar 30 2011

Homeboi & Oh Yeah’s new EP

Here we have some funky fresh French-House sounds for your midweek.

Coming courtesy of Homeboi & Oh Yeah who have just released a join EP, ‘SainTropez’/’CôteD’Azur’, for free on their new label Indo Silver Records. The EP is seven tracks of summertime grooves and filtered Disco madness. Oh Yeah’s ‘SainTropez’ is pure Disco gold with a killer mix of funk bass and sweeping 80’s synth sounds while ‘CôteD’Azur’, the team up between Homeboi & Oh Yeah, is is a chopped up Nu-Disco floorfiller with a hint of ChipTune about it. Amongst the many reMixes on the EP we have German newcomers Final DJs dropping a Dreamwave style retro synth affair, heavy on sidechaining and brassy leads.

♫ Homeboi & Oh Yeah – CôteD’Azur (Original Mix)

♫ Homeboi & Oh Yeah – CôteD’Azur (Final DJs reMix)

♫ Oh Yeah – SainTropez (Original Mix)

You can pick up the whole EP, in high quality, from here.

Homeboi & Oh Yeah @ Indo Silver Records

Mar 28 2011

Hana Yori Kichou Na gets his Daft Punk reMix on

reMixing Daft Punk seems to be back in fashion! I remember when you couldn’t move for reMixes, and then it all went quite for a while. In the past few weeks though, the electronic rumors inbox has been chock full of robotic reMixes! Not that we mind at all, as long as they are quality.

Like rad Disco act Hana Yori Kichou Na’s mix of ‘Musique’ here. Funky and filtered in the best way possible this is one reMix you just can’t stop moving to.

♫ Daft Punk – Musique (Hana Yori Kichou Na ‘Excuse Me’ reMix)

Disney have just released a reMix album of Daft Punk’s amazing Tron: Legacy soundtrack. One or two choice cuts aside it’s mostly god awful and RELLY uninspired. The choices of reMix artists are so out-of-touch, the album could have been mind-blowing if the right reMixers had been chosen. Instead some executive listed a few electronic acts he could think of (“the still kids like The Paul Oakenfolds and The Crystal Methods, right?”) and threw in some he read about on a website a couple of years ago most of whom phoned in their reMixes. Total missed opportunity.

Mar 28 2011

Justice. Ali Love. Civilization.

I was debating posting this, by now it’s, literally, everywhere…but, hell, it’s too awesome not to!
I don’t mind admitting that I was worried about the forthcoming Justice album. Could they top, or even just follow ‘†’? Would the new album just follow what they now know is a successful ‘Justice formula’?

There was no reason for me to worry. ‘Civilization’, featuring vocal duties from ElectroPop badass Ali Love, is jaw droopingly good. It’s got all the balls of Justice’s most powerful tunes and all the funkiness of their more Disco leaning tracks, wrapped up in one sweet package. It’s catchy as hell to, for a Justice song, and is driven throughout by some of the best mixed piano I’ve heard in ages.

If I were you I’d get used to hearing this:

♫ Justice (Feat. Ali Love) – Civilization (Radio Rip)

The single drops on 4th April on on Ed Banger.

Mar 26 2011

Pharao Black Magic’s début EP

Something a little funky for your weekend?

“free track for world peace!”?
Swiss Balearic Disco duo Pharao Black Magic are giving away this track, not featured on, but promoting their forthcoming EP on the wonderful Nang Records. Their début EP ‘The Eye Of Horus’ is set to drop soon and ‘Yeah Yeah Yeah!’ gives us a taste of what to expect. Housey piano and bouncy Moogy bass make for a feel good combination, throw in a few Disco licks and you’ve got yourself a summery dancefloor winner!

♫ Pharao Black Magic – Yeah Yeah Yeah!

‘The Eye Of Horus’ drops soon and features reMixes from the likes of Tronik Youth and Popular Computer.

Pharao Black Magic @ Beatport

Pharao Black Magic @ Amazon

Mar 25 2011

Chris Malinchak’s new EP

New out on French Express is Funky House producer Chris Malinchak’s new EP ‘Rennaissance’

Headlining the EP is ‘The Forth’, a cool Friday night jam with an 80s feel. Check out the track with some Top Gun visuals.

Also featured on the EP is ‘Can’t Stop Loving You’, a rapid fire Disco tune with a bit of a Lifelike flavour. The track used fast paced arpeggios to funky effect when mixed up with some shimmering Disco chords.

♫ Chris Malinchak – Can’t Stop Loving You

Pick up the ‘Rennaissance’ EP now:

Chris Malinchak @ Beatport

Chris Malinchak @ Juno

Chris Malinchak @ 7Digital

Chris Malinchak @ Amazon

Mar 24 2011

Bag Raiders hit Europe!

Australian Nu-Disco.ElectroPop geniuses Bag Raiders are finally gracing Europe with a string of live shows!

For those of us in this part of the world this is pretty exciting and pretty eagerly awaited. Both the album and the track ‘Way Back Home’ made it into out top 20 albums and tracks of 2011, so the prospect of seeing the duo with their full live show has us itching with impatience.

Check them out near you:

29th Apr      London, England @ XOYO
30th Apr      Holland @ Festival De Schuit
30st Apr      Barcelona, Spain @ Razzmatazz
05th May       Munich, Germany @ Baby Club
06th May       Saarbrucken, Germany @ Blau Night Club
07th May       Berlin, Germany @ Magnet
12th May      Zurich, Switzerland @ Hive Club
13th May      Brighton, England @ The Great Escape
19th May      Stuttgart, Germany
20th May      Athens, Greece @ Anorak Festival @ Club Mylos
21st May      Stockholm, Sweden @ Debaser Medis
16th July     London, England @ Main Stage @ Lovebox
22nd July     Huntingdon, England @ Secret Garden Party

In the meantime get your ears ‘round these two reMixes of ‘Sunlight’ we haven’t featured before byArmand Van Helden and TieDye, both take an amazing track straight to the dancefloor, the don’t even bother to buy it a drink!

♫ Bag Raiders – Sunlight (Armand Van Helden reMix)

♫ Bag Raiders – Sunlight (TieDye-Mix)

‘Sunlight’ is taken from Bag Raider’s album, on Modular, out now:

Bag Raiders @ Beatport

Bag Raiders @ Juno

Bag Raiders @ 7Digital

Bag Raiders @ Amazon

Mar 24 2011

MiGHty mOUse’s new EP

It’s all go at MiGHty mOUse HQ! For a start May sees the release of their new EP, titled ‘The First EP’.

The first track to see the light of day from the EP is ‘Wheel Of Fortune’ which sees the usually introspective Disco kings go flat out DiscoPop to awesome effect. Having teamed up with a new singer the new team MiGHty mOUse produce an uplifting groove that’s worthy of a hit single.

♫ MiGHty mOUse – Wheel Of Fortune

On top of that, MM are planning their first ever live show at XOYO in London on the 15th April alongside Rob Da Bank and the likes of Edwin Van Cleef, and B-Xentrix!. Details here.

If all that’s not enough then round off your dose of MiGHty mOUse with this reMix they’ve dropped of Shades Of Rhythm’s classic ‘Sweet Sensation’. Some deep analog Disco there!

♫ Shades Of Rhythm – Sweet Sensation (MiGHty mOUse Alt Moog Mix)

MiGHty mOUse’s ‘the First EP’ is out 2nd May.

MiGHty mOUse @ Beatport

MiGHty mOUse @ Juno

MiGHty mOUse @ 7Digital

MiGHty mOUse @ Amazon

Mar 23 2011

Show Your Shoe’s début EP

Show Your Shoe jumped into our consciousness with an awesome reMix contribution to Futurecop!’s ‘Dreams’ single, which made quite an impression, and this week he releases his début EP on Teenage Gang Records.

From the moment the opening track ‘Pandi’ kicks in, you have to wonder where this kid has been hiding. The one-man project of Swiss producer Nico Müller, Show Your Shoe effortlessly (and smoothly I might add) slides from one end of the Nu-Disco spectrum to the other, whether it’s the cut-up edits of ‘Pandi’, the slick synthesizer funk of ‘Azur Indigo Prisma Safran Marmor’ or ‘Technik City – Arrival’ or the more post-Daft Punk Electro leanings of ‘Technik City – Jet Skiing’, Nico’s clean production and ear for the groove easily make the ‘Technik City’ EP on of the most impressive Nu-Disco débuts to drop in a while.

The EP also includes two reMixes of ‘Technik City – Jet Skiing’, one from Italian DJ Gabriell, a bass heavy Italo-Disco workout and this track by another of our favourite new artists, Druma Kina, who turn in a really nice, arpeggio driven, retro synth mix which revels in it’s synth horns!

♫ Show Your Shoe – Technik City – Jet Skiing (Druma Kina reMix)

The ‘Technik City’ EP is out now!

Show Your Shoe @ Teenage Gang Records

Show Your Shoe @ Beatport

Mar 21 2011

Gemini Club’s ‘Ghost’ reMixes

Gemini Club’s awesome ‘Ghost’ was defiantly one of our tunes of last year, in all it’s myriad reMix forms. This week sees the track’s proper release, at long last, as a massive reMix package.

Alongside the instant classic original version there’s reMixes you’ll already know, such a Hey Champ!’s, and some new versions from Only Children and Golden Bug. Also featured are these two mixes from Mr. Frankie Barretso and Indie-Electro Newcomers Blue Satellite. Barretso’s effort is a rapid fire Electro take on the tune that’s a pure dancefloor rush while Blue Satellite opt for a laidback, no worries, DiscoPop that’s the prefect smooth comedown.

♫ Gemini Club – Ghost (Barretso reMix)

♫ Gemini Club – Ghost (Blue Satellite reMix)

The ‘Ghost’ EP is out today!

Gemini Club @ Beatport

Gemini Club @ Juno

Gemini Club @ 7Digital

Gemini Club @ Amazon

Mar 18 2011

SebastiAn’s new ‘Embody’ video

This’ll keep me going the weekend! The first new track to début from SebastiAn’s forthcoming album, ‘Embody’ has now had it’s video premiered too! The track is Electro Disco as only the Ed Banger crew can do it, French Touch vocal samples and that Ed Banger slap bass. It all bodes well for the album!

The video is directed, of course, by So Me

SebastiAn’s début album, Total, is out in May on Ed Banger.