Goin’ Old School isn’t a trip down music memory lane, it’s a mugging in the dark alleyway of nostalgia:
One of Pet Shop Boys’ finest moments (and that’s saying something), 1986’s ‘Suburbia’.
1982’s biggest anthem in the form of Ultravox’s ‘Hymn’. Epic!
It’s 1982, Hip Hop is about to get as cool as it ever will with Whodini’s ‘ Magic’s Wand’.
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Bright Light Bright Light – Guest Mix For Ministry Of Sound = Last Sunday night Bright Light Bright Light dropped a huge mix of ElectroPop, Dreamwave, and Disco on Ministry Of Sound Radio. If you missed it fear now, ‘cos here it is! Fourteen tracks and every on is killer!
♫ Bright Light Bright Light – Guest Mix For Ministry Of Sound
The tracklist:
01. Kelis Vs. Filthy Dukes – Filthshake (Bright Light Bright Light Bootleg)
02. Figure Of 8 (Feat. Sophie Galpin) – No One Cries For Me (Cyclist reMix)
03. Blue Pearl – Naked In The Rain
04. Oliver – I Need You
05. KiNK & Neville Watson (Feat. Kim Ann Foxman) – A Saturday In November
06. Marquez Ill (Feat. Bright Light Bright Light) – All It Takes (Radio Edit)
07. Gotye – Somebody That I Used To Know (Bright Light Bright Light reMix)
08. EBTG – Missing (Todd Terry reMix)
09. Disclosure – My Intentions Is War!
10. Moloko – The Time Is Now [Can 7 Soulfood Mix]
11. Kings Of Tomorrow – Finally (Original Mix)
12. Louis La Roché – Los Angeles
13. The Venus Stare – Close To You (Fear Of Tigers reMix)
14. Fear Of Tigers – Cossus Snufsigalonica
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Marina And The Diamonds’ next single from her forthcoming ‘Electra heart’ album is ‘Primadonna’.
this time she’s rocking a big Electro sound, as far as attempts at a big Marina dance track it’s a million times better than the Stargate produced mis-step ‘Radioactive’, I still can’t shake the feeling that Marina is being forced in with bland dance producers by her record label. Which is a shame, given room to do her own thing, as with her first record, the results are amazing.
‘Primadonna’ is out soon.
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Little Boots – Into The Future Mixtape = Here’s yet another mixtape from ElectroPop queen Little Boots. She’s on a roll with them these days! Expect forty minutes of slammin’ electronic dance with an unexpected darkness.
♫ Little Boots – Into The Future Mixtape
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We haven’t heard from Australian ElectroPopsters Radio INK since last years ‘Rocket’ single, but they’re back with a brand new track, the first off of their forthcoming début album, and a shiny new video.
‘Who We Are Tonight’ is the kind of massive electronic Pop that we’ve come to expect from this Antepodean troupe with a massive chorus. Not too sure what’s going on in the Jefferton James directed video, but it looks nice.
Radio INK are going on tour in Oz with Aqua of all people! Details on their website.
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Woo-hoo! It’s new Ronika single time! Ron’s been really busy recently, running all over the place doing stuff for, amongst others, the Red Bull Music Academy, Shook and Me, how she’s crammed in the time to get her groove back on with a new EP I have no idea. The girl’s a workaholic, or a grooveaholic if you will.
‘Automatic’ is PopJustice song-of-the-day today, PJ claims Ronika isn’t from the ‘80’s but I’m not convinced. Frankly I’m not sure what is actually more likely, that someone can make tracks this good, and this authentically ‘80’s DiscoPop or that someone could have invented a time machine in secret sometime around 1983/84. With ‘Automatic’ Ron has dropped a massive slab of Pop-Funk with an addictive bassline, a catchy chorus and a solo that flies. It’s not all retro goodness though, there’s enough modern elements in the track to keep it sounding contemporary, inn fact, it sounds like a Nu-Disco edit of ‘80’s Pop hit. Also 5 Star.
♫ Ronika – Automatic
Ronika is stepping out in the next couple of months, catch her here:
22nd March – Manchester @ The Castle
23rd March – Nottingham @ Bodega Social Club
24th March – Bristol @ The Thekla
10th April – London @ The Old Blue Last (Single Launch)
21st April – Glasgow Death Disco @ The Arches
17th June – London @ Lovebox Festival
You can pre-order the pay-what-you-want ‘Automatic’ EP here.
Ronika also appears on ‘electronic rumors Volume 1′, out now!
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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:
ZZT experimentalists The Art Of Noise teamed up with the best thing on TV in 1986, Max Headroom, and released ‘Paranoimia’, an ode to Max’s insanity.
Future basslines and vocoding in Eurythmics ‘Sexcrime (Nineteen Eighty Four)’, the soundtrack to the movie adaptation of Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, in, well, 1984.
Sommerville era Bronski Beat best tune, 1984’s ‘Why?’.
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We don’t mind saying that Marina And The Diamonds has been, and is, one of our favourite singer/songwriters of the past few years, we also don’t mind saying that her last single, ‘Radioactive’, was a big let-down. ‘Radioactive’ was a pretty awesome song that suffered from some atrocious, and really dated, ‘90’s hands-in-the-air Trance production from Stargate. Marina’s new track, ‘Homewrecker’, thankfully restores our faith in her.
Marinas uniqueness in her personality, approach to creativity and especially her voice, is her biggest asset, ‘Radioactive’ tried to hide that and homogenize her, ‘Homewrecker’ shines a spotlight back on it. It;s big ol’ stumpy ElectroPop tune taken from her forthcoming ‘Electra Heart’ album. We’re not sure whether this is Marina or Electra talking though, probably Electra.
♫ Marina And The Diamonds – Homewrecker
Marina And The Diamonds’ next proper single will be ‘Primadonna’
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Next week Sweedish SynthPoppers Social Ambitions release a new mini-album, ‘Anticipation’.
Here’s the first track, and video, talked from the forthcoming release. A catchy retro Pop tune called ‘Rockers In My Head’,complete with Lego fuelled visuals.
Social Ambitions’ new mini-album is released 27th February.
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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:
Camouflage’s dark Pop classic from 1987, ‘The Great Commandment’.
‘Uprock’ was The Rock Steady Crew’s 1984 follow up to the amazing ‘(Hey You) The Rock Steady Crew’
From 1985 here’s some big Italo-Pop from Tracy Spencer’s ‘Run To Me’.
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