Category Nu-Disco

Jun 18 2012

Breakbot & Oliver

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We all got hold of the surprising B-side to French groover Breakbot’s new single a while back. Now we can check out the singles lead track which sees Breakbot back together with Irfane and sounding a bit more like the Breakbot we all know and love.

‘One Out Of Two’ is a gorgeous slice of late ‘70’s synthesizer Funk which, like the B-Side, Programme’ sees Breakbot working some interesting instrumentation into his tracks. It’s some seriously smooth, lazy Disco with a uplifting catchy chorus. Also it sounds like a wacky late ‘70’s sitcom theme. The standout of the single is easily the reMix from LA Oliver themed duo Oliver, who consistently blow us away with each new track. Here they bring a sexy late night vibe to the track with that mix of Disco and Dreamwave that Oliver do best. Wicked Disco licks and strings sit next to bouncy retro synths as Oliver work the vocal and make it even more catchy than the original.

♫ Breakbot (Feat. Irfane) – One Out Of Two (Oliver reMix)

♫ Breakbot (Feat. Irfane) – One Out Of Two

‘One Out Of Two’ is out today.

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Jun 15 2012

TobTok drops in on Fear Of Tiger’s ‘The Guestlist’ this week

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Fear Of Tigers – The Guestlist 15/06/2012 = Swedish producer TobTok stops by ‘The Guestlist’ while Fear Of Tigers unleashes a particularly House and Disco driven collection of classics and new cuts. Have a good weekend!

♫ Fear Of Tigers – The Guestlist 15/06/2012

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Jun 15 2012

New track from datA

datA

The Parisian master of Poppy French Electro with a Baroque flavour datA is finally back. Having release some of our favourite records of all time David Guillon has been quite for a while, but the wait is over and ne are now treated to the first glimpse of things to come. And it’s fun and funky as hell.

Taken from the forthcoming Ekler’O’ShocK compilation ‘EOS.MMX – The Summer Solstice Edition’, which features an awesome tracklist, this new datA track features the crooning vocals of fellow Frenchman Sacha Di Manolo. It plays on datA’s past work with Baroque melodies over driving French Disco sounds whilst working that into a ‘70’s Pop arrangement. Keeping the Disco groove at it’s core, datA applies his shiny synths to a mellow Prog Rock song, whilst not diving into the Prog Rock deep end like fellow French Electro legends Justice datA certainly brings that vibe to his track. ‘Mélodie’ might not necessarily slay many peak time dancefloors, but it will certainly put a smile on the face of all who hear it.

http://new.official.fm/tracks/r0kj?control=1&width=500&height=40&skin_bg=E5E5E5&skin_fg=3399CC

♫ datA (Feat. Sacha Di Manolo) – Mélodie

The ‘EOS.MMX – The Summer Solstice Edition’ compilation is released 21st June.

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Jun 15 2012

Fanny Games’ new single

Fanny Games

Out today is the new single from London-based Italian ElectroDisco nutjobs Fanny Games. LApo Frost and James Brivido are regularly tearing it up across the capital (including making some noise while I was trying to launch an album) and are now ready to unleash their theme song, ‘In The Club (On The Street)’ on an unsuspecting listening public.

Throw Electro-House, Nu-Disco, Italo and French Touch into a blender set to decimate and this is the results. A juggernaut of a tune driven by Vocoded chanting and chainsaw synths. I get that the vocoded vocals are saying “In The Club (On The Street)”, but it sounds a lot like “Intruder Alert” from ‘Talking Android Attack’, one of the first computer games with voice synthesization on the Dragon 32, which actually kidna’ adds to the cool. ‘In The Club (On The Street)’ is a full-on dancefloor destroyer, and surprisingly melodic. reMix duties are covered by Luxar, who starts off with shuffling, fidgety ,beasts but soon warps the track into something more akin to Cosmic Disco with a weird, but funky, mixture of ‘90’s House elements and futuristic galactic voyages. Fanny Games live in a world of their own, if you decide to join them, and we suggest you do, tread carefully. No-one gets out of here alive.

♫ Fanny Games – In The Club (On The Street)

♫ Fanny Games – In The Club (On The Street) (Luxar reMix)

‘In The Club (On The Street)’ is released today on MofoHifi, pick it up at Beatport.

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Jun 15 2012

Syncroft’s ‘So Fresh’

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Sarajevan Disco & SynthWave producer’s Syncroft latest jam is very very good. Check out my writing skills there I’ve been sitting here trying to think of what to write about ‘So Fresh’, but it’s hard ‘cos I keep getting distracted by how very very good it is. It’s like someone put all the things I like in instrumental dance music into a bowl and baked an Electro cake just for me.

So, Syncroft bills the track as Progressive House, well forget about that because it isn’t, let’s chalk that up to SoundClouds poor crop of genre choices. What it is is a melting pot if Disco, SynthWave and B-Boy Electro, and long time readers will know that’s pretty much all I need. On the prog side of things there is a slight Prog Trance groove to the track as a whole, especially in the beat and the lower bassline, and the sweeps, OK, so it is a bit Proggy, but on top of that you got this digital B-Boy bassline and twisting Disco leads and it all just works, OK? Oh I don;t care what it is, did I mention it was very very good?

♫ Syncroft – So Fresh (Original Mix)

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Jun 15 2012

The Penelopes’ ‘Summer Life’ video & Viceroy reMix

Last week London based French ElectroPop duo The Penelopes dropped their latest single , the awesomely onomatopoeic ‘Summer Life’, now there is a video too, check it out.

Directed by Mattias Erik Johansson, you don’t get much more summery than hanging out in the desert and shining the sun in people eyes, but c’mon guys, far too hot for all that fire.

While you’re hear check out our San Francisco’s finest Nu-Disco export Viceroy’s reMix of the track. Joining Gigamesh and Style of Eye, Viceroy does his best to add a little US beach party Disco to the Euro summer jam, and succeeds in fine form, creating a bouncy cocktail of a track.

♫ The Penelopes – Summer Life (Viceroy reMix)

‘Summer Life’ is out soon and is the second single taken from The Penelopes’ forthcoming album, ‘Never Live Another Yesterday’.

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Jun 15 2012

Ace Attack’s ‘reMixes’ EP

Ace Attack

We haven’t really heard from French producer Ace Attack in quite a while, but he’s just released a new EP, for free no less. And it just goes to prove that the man hasn’t been sitting on his laurels, he’s obviously been busy down in the studio and now it;s time for him to, as it says on the tin, come out of hiding.

The EP is basically a collection of reMixes, two of the tracks are billed as originals, but are based so strongly on existing tracks they might as well be reMixes too, in fact the EP is called ‘Ace Attack reMixes’. The lead track on the EP is ‘Out Of Hiding’, which is based on, or a reMix of, Pamela Stanley’s Italo/Hi-NRG classic ‘Coming Out Of Hiding’ from 1983. Ace Attack brings the track right up to date but keeps the retro flavour of the track. It’s a really good choice of vocal to use, realty period sounding and Ace Attacks works them for every drop of Italo goodness. While not actually doing much to the original track, Ace Attack certainly make it more friendly to contemporary dancefloors. The rest of the EP continues updating classic tracks, sometimes subtly in the case of ‘Running Back to You’, sometimes getting a complete makeover in the case of Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’. Renaming reMixes as original tracks is a bit weird, but you can’t fault the music, top quality retro Electro & Disco. Pick up the EP and find out.

♫ Ace Attack – Out Of Hiding

♫ Ace Attack – Running Back To You

♫ Ace Attack – Thriller Show

You can download Ace Attack’s new EP for free here.

Check out more from Ace Attack on SoundCloud.

Jun 14 2012

Peter & The Magician’s ‘Memory’

Peter & The Magician

Yuksek and The Magician are back for their second original outing as Peter & The Magician. Their first ‘Twist’, kinda’ took the Nu-Disco scene by storm, well you’d expect no less from these two Disco heavyweights collaborating. Prepare for some of the best analog Funk you will hear all year.

‘Memory’ is everything we’d expect from these two. The thing I like about Peter & The Magician tracks is that you can really hear both musicians influences. You have the big Yuksek’s power chords and anthemic vocals and the melodic funk and slight Tropical vibe of The Magician, all up in the mix. This track, slightly laid back as it is, is the perfect combination of beach party and cosmic Disco, Oh! It’s like a party on a beach on another world! That’s the one! If you like Yuksek, and you like The Magician, you’ll be all over this. The whole EP is top quality, there’s a ‘Club Mix’ that gives the impression That The Magician took over a little bit as it veers more into his bouncy analog Disco territory, Le Crayon drops a traditional Nu-Disco jam, NSFW turn up the Tropical and Poindexter get old school funky. There also may be one more reMix, shhhhh.

♫ Peter & The Magician – Memory (Original)

‘Memory’ is released 9th July on Kitsuné Music.

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Jun 14 2012

Starcadian

Earlier in the week, after his stunning Touch Tone reMix, we promised you a more in depth look at Brooklyn based producer Starcadian. And, now is as good a time as any, with the recent release of his new video making some waves. The track is called ‘Heˆrt’ and it’s a perfect example of Sarcadian’s lush retro synth work. Combining both the groovy and the emotional, his laid back beat and electric piano lament underpin a subtly vocoded galactic love song. Here we have a jaw-droppingly good mixture of SynthWave and Disco that has been pulled back into a ballad that really highlight Starcadian;s talents ad both songwriter and musician. The video too has been getting a bit of attention, and ‘80’as Sci-Fi extravaganza. Reminiscant of post-Star Wars straight-to-video movies, the clip captures the loneliness of deep space and melds with the tune as if they were always meant to be.

Hopefully, that’s whetted your appetite, for more Starcadian. And it should, the rest is just as good. Borrowing heavily fro ‘80’s movie soundtracks, Starcadian sets himself apart from the a lot of the SynthWave crowd in a few ways. His a lot more skilled in the Disco end of things, and he tends to be a lot more ‘song’ oriented. Take ‘Girls At Midnight’ what begins at the most haunting of VHS horror soundtracks effortlessly becomes one of the best Nu-Disco tinged ElectroPop tracks I’ve heard for a while, with some frantic playing in the crescendo. ‘Ronnie’ brings the vocoder back into focus for a slick slice of DiscoPop, whist keeping that retro SynthWave feel and injecting an added bit of Funk in the form of some jazzy electric piano before going all out of a seriously stratospheric synth solo. ‘Firat Kill’ sees a different side to Starcadian, for want of a better word is a full on Disco-House banger loaded with mashed up acapellas in ways that make them sound they should have always been there.

♫ Starcadian – Girls Of Midnight

♫ Starcadian – Ronnie

♫ Starcadian – First Kill

I seriously can’t recommend Starcadian enough.

Starcadian’s singles are out now.

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Jun 14 2012

Ryan Riot’s ‘Almost Summer’ mixtape

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Ryan Riot – Almost Summer = Ryan Riot’s new mixtape is called ‘Almost Summer’. Well, he’s not wrong, it is almost summer. Maybe if we chill to his awesome collection of current Nu-Disco monsters, close out eyes and wish hard enough, summer might just be that little bit closer.

♫ Ryan Riot – Almost Summer

The tracklist:

01.  Alex Sadman – Let Go (Dub Version)
02. Stuck In The Sound – Brother (Yuksek reMix)
03. Moonlight Matters – Come For Me (Punks Jump Up reMix)
04. Logo – Jacob (Original Mix)
05. Friends – Friends Crush (Jake Bullit reMix)
06. Hoaxx – Prophecy
07. A.N.D.Y. & Vicente – Traffic (Original Mix)
08. Psychemagik – Valley Of Paradise (Rayko reMix)
09. Surkin (Feat. Bobmo) – Harry
10. Adamski – I Like It (Original Mix)
11. XXXChange – Backbeat
12. Kris Menace – We Are (RESET! reMix)
13. Future Flashs & Dare2Disco – Daft Drive (Milk Drinkers reMix)
14. Ryan Riot – Loading Procedure (Original Mix)
15. Simian Mobile Disco – Put Your Hands Together
16. Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs – American Dream Part II

Check out more from Ryan Riot on SoundCloud.