Here’s the video for the second single from Pet Shop Boys new album, Elysium. Both the track and the clip are classic PSB.
Classy, black & white, and amazingly British. The video, along with the track, sum up everything about Pet Shop Boys we love.
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Hot on the heels of their reMix of Two Door Cinema Club’s Sleep Alone (alongside the release of their own The Feeling), those purveyors of the finest New York style Disco, The Knocks, have turned their attention to much-hyped LA Indie girl-trio-and-a-dude-drumming Haim.
The Knocks take that 90’s R&B shuffling quality Haim’s vocals display and run with it, weaving Forever into their summery, pool party Disco sound. The New York based duo indulge a little of their Tropical side, mixing an LA Dreamwave feel into their usual NYC Disco. I know this will be a controversial opinion on the music blogosphere but Forever works so much better with The Knocks laid back dance sound than it does with it’s original stripped down groove Rock.
♫ Haim – Forever (The Knocks reMix)
Haim’s Forever is out now.
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So, here’s the new video from Marina And The Diamonds, How To Be A Heartbreaker. There’s been a lot of talk about it this week after her label (Warner Music, not 679 Artists) delayed it because they thought she looked ugly in it. Well, someone at Warner Music is obviously a fuckwit as, unsurprisingly, Marina looks smoking hot in the clip.
It’s one of the better songs on her second album too, one of the ones not ruined by Stargate’s big 90s Trance lead sounds.
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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:
Today we are Goin’ Old School, and goin’ Sheffield. Kicking off with Heaven 17’s Influential, and charged Lets All Make A Bomb from 1981’s Penthouse & Pavement.
We can’t got to Sheffield without slipping in some of my beloved The Human League. Here’s ‘that’ The Human League moment in The Sound Of The Crowd from 1981.
Sheffield’s unsung ElectroPop heroes Thompson Twins with a TOTP performance of 1983’s Love On Your Side.
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Alex Metric has whipped up a hell of a reMix with his new track. He’s worked over Ellie Goulding’s forthcoming new single Anything Could Happen and delivered a full on dancefloor assault.
So far, we are sad to say, we haven’t been that taken with any of the single from Ellie’s new album. Which is a pity, Lights was our album of the year back in 2010, Ellie’s voice and Starsmith’s (mostly) production was a killer combination but the new album seems a little more low key. Anyway, Metric sweeps that aside and goes massive with his version of Anything Could Happen, using the vocals primarily as a big breakdown in to seriously addictive Electro madness. Clashing, rapid first synth riffs and a slick Disco beat come together to make a groovy, but in-your-face, body moving monster.
♫ Ellie Goulding – Anything Could Happen (Alex Metric reMix)
Anything Could Happen is released 27th September.
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Here’s the video for AlunaGeorge’s awesome new single Your Drums, Your Love.
Henry Scholfield directs this clip that heavily features the work of artist Arran Gregory.
AlunaGeorge’s Your Drums, Your Love is released 7th October.
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Kings of the retro edit Ruben & Ra are at it again. These guys have a knack of taking sections of tracks and making them sound like they were recorded yesterday. they certainly turn up the heat on Roxy Music’s Don’t Stop The Dance and make it stand shoulder-to-shoulder with this summer’s Tropical hits.
The song is pretty groovy to begin with, but Ruben & Ra add a punchy drum track and focus all their attention onto, what now becomes, the prefect beach Disco riff. In Ruben & Ra’s hands a dreamy mid-‘80’s Pop track becomes the perfect accompaniment to lounging by the pool. It’s all about the good times. Of course, the is a downside, and that is that Don’t Stop The Dance is actually a Bryan Ferry song, not a Roxy Music song, but at this relaxed point it’s just semantics.
♫ Roxy Music – Don’t Stop The Dance (Ruben & Ra’s Cosmic Dance Edit)
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Here’s just one of the reMixes of the amazing AlunaGeorge’s new single Your Drums, Your Love. Alongside the reMix package featuring Duke Dumont, the Prototypes and Deebs, Bedford’s Lil Silva steps up to give the track a shuffling, glitch workout.
We were lucky enough to catch AlunaGeorge live last weekend at Bestival, they were everything we’d hoped they were. Slick and sexy, playing late on Sunday they were the perfect end to the festival. Lil Silva takes the impassioned warmth of their new single and applies it to spikey drums and a UK Bass flavour. The reMix is loaded with intricate layers of sound, there’s so much to hear in this mix. And it’s funky too. It;s a harsh urban groove that shouldn’t sit well with Aluna’s sweet vocal, but somehow really does.
♫ AlunaGeorge – Your Drums, Your Love (Lil Silva reMix)
AlunaGeorge’s Your Drums, Your Love is released 7th October.
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Danish ElectroPop chart toppers Alphabeat’s saccharine new single Love Sea is here presented in video form.
It’s a fun, colourful, heady mix, just like Alphabeat themselves. I’m not sure it;s telling the whole truth though.
Love Sea is out now.
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We’ve been waiting for this track to drop for a while. Last month Nu-Disco genius Louis La Roché teased us with a snippet of his forthcoming reMix of Kate Bush’s classic Running Up That Hill, and we’ve been excited ever since. Well, now the man has dropped the entire track, downloadable for free, and it doesn’t disappoint.
Louis really captures the mood of the original, he doesn’t turn the track into some cheesy dancefloor number that merely uses the original as a springboard. He’s worked the track to be dancefloor friendly, but in a way that recreates the song in that context. Pulsating House bass and funky Disco rolls actually compliment Ms. Bush’s legendary vocals when in the hands of Louis La Roché. A respectful and addictive update to the song.
♫ Kate Bush – Running Up That Hill (Louis La Roché reMix)
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