This is HURTS X-mas single!
This is a proper X-mas single!
The likes of we haven’t heard since the 80’s this tune has got all the elements in place. The bells ringing out, the uplifting melancholy, the sleigh-bell hi-hats, the power drums in the chorus. It’s pure HURTS too, it’s like all HURTS’ career has been leading up to a full-on X-mas song!
♫ HURTS – All I Want For Christmas Is New Year’s Day
The single is released 14th December…for Free! That’s HURTS X-mas pressie to you!
Despite the popular notion that ‘Your Woman’ is White Town’s one and only song, the solo project of Jyoti Mishra has been steadily releasing music since 1990. Most recently via our friends at Ninthwave.
After some time off, though, he’s back with a new track that is a cute (if a little dark), Indie tinged, ElectroPop jam that sees Jyoti sounding somewhat Marc Almond. Soft Cell for the 21st century?
Take a look at the video.
The track is a precursor to a whole album of new material that’s in the pipeline.
♫ White Town – Cut Out My Heart
The new White Town album should be coming in early 2011.
Remember The Modern (nee Matinee Club)? The UK’s bright hopes for proper ElectroPop success back in the mid-90’s. Who were, let’s face it, slightly ahead of their time. Had they been releasing the singles they did a few years later, to a Little Boots & La Roux obsessed public, dominance would have been theirs. What are they up to now?
Well, founder and producer/songwriter Nathan Cooper is back to bring a some electronic Power Pop into your grey little lives as Kid Kasio. The early to mid 80’s, the last time our country was in financial meltdown, produced some of the best uplifting, yet socially aware, Pop music in history and as we weather the current economic storm it’s not surprising that we are hearing more and more Pop-in-the-face-of-adversity. Although easily contemporary with the likes of Penguin Prison, Bright Light Bright Light and Frankmusik, Kid Kasio carves out a sound all of his own mixing 80’s synthesizer Pop-Funk with New Wave songwriting. Working both as danceable throwaway pop (and round these parts that’s not meant as an insult!) and as razor-wit poetry there’s something for every lover of electronic Pop here and with the right backing 2011 could see Kid Kasio propelled straight up the charts.
There’s an album on the way, but until the go show Kid Kasio some MySpace lovin’
Swedish queen of all things ElectroPop Robyn’s new single, ‘Indestructible’ (first heard in acoustic form on ‘Body Talk Pt.2’, then in dancefloor form on ‘Body Talk (Pt. 3)’) as reMixed by DJ prodigy, Chromeo brother and Producer/Label Boss extraordinairé A-Trak.
There’s not much more I can say….
Amazing!
♫ Robyn – Indestructible (A-Trak Radio Edit)
Body Talk (the third one) is out at the end of this month with the ‘Indestructible’ single dropping this week!
The awesome Echoes have dropped a new track! Already showing a progression in their songwriting the London mystery newcomers.
‘It Goes On’ is powerful as hell. A sweeping epic of a song that is slick and well produced far beyond what you’d expect from a band just starting out. Mid-tempo, without ever truly becoming a ballad, yet wearing it’s 80’s Pop influence on it’s sleeve (‘It Goes On’ is the kind of thing Nik Kershaw would do in a ‘quieter moment’ (and I mean that positively!)) the track defiantly makes Echoes as one to watch, alongside the likes of Bright Light Bright Light and Monarchy, as the next generation of successful British electronic Pop.
The video for the track, a nice contrasting journey between inner city living and a simpler life, was made by Astray Films.
Keep it locked to electronic rumors for a special reMix from Echoes soon, and while your waiting show them some of your very finest MySpace love.
It was only yesterday that it was announced that the ElectroPop mystery men Monarchy would be reMixing Kylie Minogue’s next single, ‘Better Than Love’ and already we have the reMix so you lot can listen to it!
In true Monarchy style, the London Cosmic SynthPoppers have taking Kylie into space. If Kylie’s music is the sound of a Disco down on Earth, then Monarchy create the soundtrack to the Disco in the orbiting space station. Floating, zero-G, synths wash over Miss Minogue’s dreamlike vocals all held together by the their machine beats. With a pulsing bassline acting as the heartbeat of the tune this is one of the most innovative Disco or ElectroPop reMixes that I have heard in a while. Or maybe I’m just reading too much into it? It’s pretty rad either way!
This is the track that should make first contact!
♫ Kylie Minogue – Better Than Today (Monarchy’s Kylie Through The Wormhole reMix)
‘Better Than Today’ will be released on December 6.
The Human League are back! And they’re taking names and kicking ass!
Ever since the announcement that The League has signed to Mark Jones’ Wall Of Sound label we’ve been eagerly awaiting the fruits of that union, and here we have it! The first single from their upcoming ‘Credo’ album, ‘Night People’!
We were right in our previous assessment, there is something of ‘The Sound Of The Crowd’ about it. It’s sounding both really 80’s, and pretty contemporary too. Almost like a modern reMix of a classic The Human League track. The second half of the song is particularly epic when it evolves from early THL sounding chants to a sweeping finale.
It’s so good to have them back!
♫ The Human League – Night People (Album Version)
‘Credo’ is due out in March 2011 preceded by the ‘Night People’ single which will feature reMixes from Cerrone, Mylo, The Emperor Machine and Villa.
Stay tuned, the video is premiering on Monday.
Disclaimer: The Human League are probably my favourite band of all time, haha…
London Pop kid Patrick Wolf is back with a new single, ‘Time Of My Life’, in December and it’s a pretty addictive slice of electronic Pop.
The singles reMixes come courtesy of, amongst others, Ceephax and Leo Zero. I think, of the whole package, the Ceephax reMix if my favourite, I dig the burbling Acid bassline, 80’s shimmering synths the old school SynthPop feel the track is given. The shuffling hi-hats are a nice touch too. Leo Zero’s mix is beat heavy, almost tribal, and deep. Stripping the song back to basics and bringing in the big square waves.
♫ Patrick Wolf – Time Of My Life (Ceephax reMix)
♫ Patrick Wolf – Time Of My Life (Leo Zero Dub)
‘Time Of My Life’ is our 6th December with Patrick’s new album due out in May 2011.
The track’s been out for a while now, but so had the video which I’ve only just found out about. SO I’m posting late ‘cos it’s a pretty nice clip.
I’m talking about Primary 1’s new single (Feat. Harry Tuttle) ‘Never Know’ which is a cool 80’s-esq Pop track which conveniently appears to have a cool 80’s-esq Pop video.
It’s nice when there things work out!
‘Never Know’ is out 29th November.
Anyone interested in electronic music production should head on over to the Vice Broadcasting System and check out their new series ‘The Producers’.
Each episode of the series spends a little time in the studio with some of the UK’s most exiting producers and discusses their techniques and philosophies and how they approach making the ground breaking records they do.
The latest episode focuses on Gareth Jones, the legendary producer/engineer responsible for some of the classics of SynthPop including albums by Depeche Mode, Erasure, John Foxx, Wire, Einstürzende Neubauten and Mesh.
Check out the trailer for the series…
…and head on over to VBS-TV to watch the episode and catch the previous instalment featuring Sheffield producer Toddla T.
[Via Vice Magazine]
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