Is there anything better than the sound of an electric piano? Especially on the long summer nights. Good job then, here’s French ElectroPop sensation Jupiter performing their hit of last year, Saké on a Rhodes Mk. I. Everyone loves a Rhodes!
Jupiter’s début album ‘Juicy Lucy’ is out now, read out review here.
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You can head over here for our waffle about Moonlight Matters and Gustraph’s new single, ‘Come For Me’. It’s a massive Pop track, with that twanging late ‘80’s digital bass and orchestral hits we love so much. The single is out today on Kitsuné Music, but if you’re just gagging to hear the reMix from London’s Punks Jump Up, well, you’re in luck aren’t you.
Punks Jump Up keep in touch with the late ‘80’s Pop ethos of the track but deconstruct the tune and reconstruct it in their own image. Awash with Electro Boogie, the reMix is a sweet mixture of House beats and B-Boy basslines. Punks Jump Up has also kept on working the orchestral hits, well, who wouldn’t? That would be just crazy. In keeping with the late ‘80’s vibe they’ve also added a little of their Acid tendencies with a burbling 303 hook running underneath that comes into it’s own on the big breakdown. As far as the reMixes go on the single, it’s definitely our favourite, a great addition to the package.
♫ Moonlight Matters (Feat. Gustraph) – Come For Me (Punks Jump Up Freestyle Mix)
Moonlight Matters’ ‘Come To Me’ EP is out now, with the Punks jump up reMix an iTunes exclusive.
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London avant-garde ElectroPop chick Charli XCX drops der début US EP this week which sees her recent successful single ‘Nuclear Seasons’ with a new track ‘You’re The One’ and a couple of reMixes. It’s bee quite a journey for Charli these past few years, from her bubblegum beginning to to her more mature, intricately crafted sound she displays today (which I refuse to call GothPop *shakes head*).
‘You’re The One’ is absolutely beautiful. Aggressive Industrial rhythms and growling bass juxtapose with lush Vangelis-esque futuristic soundscape synths and, more than any of her tracks to date, ‘You’re The One’ shows of Charli’s voice to be a million times more versatile, and at times so much more warm and passionate, that I had previously thought. This is proper melancholic Pop, the kind rarely found outside of the ‘80’s, melancholic shot through this a streak of optimism, and we’re a bit hooked.
♫ Charli XCX – You’re The One
The ‘You’re The One’ EP is out in the US this week.
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Here is the brand new video from London duo AlunaGeorge, ‘Just A Touch’, which sees the duo spinning even more of an UK R&B sound into their experimental Indie-ElectroPop.
Laurence Matthew Blake & Matilda Finn directed the clip, which is more of a Pop video, for more of a Pop sound. All high contrast blacks and whites.
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Here it is! The first new track from Pet Shop Boys highly anticipated forthcoming new album, ‘Elysium’.
Put together by Brian Bress, Pet Shop Boys and Andrew Dawson, they call it a short film for the track. How that differes from amusic video I have no idea, but they are Pet SHop BOys, I’ll take their word for it. The track is blissful, haunting and pure PSB. Excited.
‘Elysium’ is due for release this summer.
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Goin’ Old School isn’t a trip down music memory lane, it’s a mugging in the dark alleyway of nostalgia:
A-Ha with ‘The Living Daylights’ from 1987. Oh no, there’s no theme here…
From 10985, Duran Duran’s ‘A View To A Kill’. OK, maybe there is a theme going on…
In 1981, just coming out of the ‘70’s, Sheena Easton with ‘For Your Eyes Only’. Yeah, can;t really get away from the theme now.
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OK, the is (probably) the last post about Little Boots’ new single, ‘Headphones’, we promise (but keep our fingers crossed just in case). But we have to sat some quick words, because Dimitri From Paris has made the vocal version of his reMix available on his SoundCloud, and as we’ve mentioned in ‘Headphones’ posts previously, it;s the single standout reMix. So if you haven’t bought the single yet, this should be more than enough convincing.
This track is pure late ‘80’s gold, in much the same way that Fear Of Tigers’ reMix of Ronika’s ‘Only Only’ rocked our world, so does this. It;s got that same, slightly Bomb Da Bass feeling to it, but this track is far more Top Of The Pops, more electronic Soul, with a killer bassline and big stabs. You can read our enthusings about the Dub version here, just imagine that with Victoria’s sweet vocal all over it. Instant classic. On top of that, this extended version has a proper, good old, 12” extension to soak up some more cowbell!
♫ Little Boots – Headphones (Dimitri From Paris Extended reMix)
‘Headphones’ is out now.
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Second Date’s ‘Young, Beautiful, Etc…’ has been out a while now, but it has finally got itself a video, for those who like that sort of thing.
Directed by Josh Smith, the video is quite simple, but works really well, and looks so nice. Mr. Smith’s camera work and colour palette making the clip a visual treat.
‘Young, Beautiful, Etc…’ is out now on Pschent.
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So, earlier this month one of our favourite new artists of the last few years, Ellie Goulding, began the warm up to the new album with a brand new track. In this case it’s a cover of The Weekend’s ‘High For This’. We’re kinda’ in two minds about it, to make us feel less conflicted about the track, the marvel that is Monsieur Adi has come along with a reMix that we are definitely in one mind about.
Our mind is split about the original version because, although it’s wonderful to be hearing Ellie’s voice again, it really is, we’ve missed it, the production is a bit too..well, it’s hard to put our finger on it. Chiddy Bang’s Xaphoon Jones style is just a little too US Hip Hop flavoured, which makes it a worry that courting the lucrative North American market may have stripped much of what we loved about Miss Goulding. The quirkiness, the vulnerability, the intimacy in Ellie’s songs and the Britishness of Starsmith’s (amongst others) production are what made us love her music. For those things to be stripped in favour of a slick American R&B Pop sound, or for her to put through the Cherrytree (her US label) AutoTune-generic-Pop machine, or for her to suddenly have big chucks of Skrillex on her music would be disastrous for her identity as an artist. We’ll see I suppose. Anyhoo, Adi is in the house, so it’s all good. And it really is. It things look bleak, all you need to feel better is Adi’s lush orchestration, which mixes with a laid back Electro beat that just seems the perfect match for Ellie. Of course it’s not the first time Adi & Goulding (which sounds like a buddy cop show) have danced together, but probably the most emotionally rich time. That Ellie chose Monsieur Adi for an official reMix leads us to believe, to borrow from Star Wars, ‘there’s still good in her’. I guess we just have to trust that she knows what she’s doing and that the songs come from artistry, not focus groups.
♫ Ellie Goulding – High For This (The Weekend Cover) (Monsieur Adi reMix)
♫ Ellie Goulding – High For This (The Weekend Cover)
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Well, this track has just about made my week! It’s ‘No More’, one of the extra tracks on the digital version of Queen Of Hearts current ‘Neon’/‘Tears In The Rain’ single, mashed-up with the instrumental of Tinie Tempah master hit ‘Pass Out’.
There’s not much more I can say about that. Awesome, instantly recognisable Electro track, awesome, epic vocals. Sorted. Frankly, if you don’t love this, you don’t love life, and are probably going to have a miserable weekend.
♫ Queen Of Hearts – No More (‘Pass Out’ Soundclash Version)
Queen Of Heart’s ‘Neon’/’Tears In The Rain’ single is out right now. Also out now is ‘electronic rumors Volume 1’ on which Queen Of Hearts features.
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