Check the official re-edited video for Pepptalk’s reMix of Bright Light Bright Light’s awesome début single ‘Love Part II’.
This track is seriously going to blow up!
‘Love Part II’, Bright Light Bright Light’s début single is released 12th September, until then your MySpace love is required:
Bright Light Bright Light @ MySpace
Mid-90’s funkateers Jamiroquai are kicking back this year with a new album and someone on team Jamiroquai has good taste when it comes to picking reMixers ‘cos you can’t get better than Monarchy and Penguin Prison!
‘White Knuckle Ride’ will be the lead single from the forthcoming album ‘Rock Light Dust Star’ and it gets transformed into two awesome slices of DiscoPop by Monarchy and Penguin Prison. Both versions are top quality but if I had to, gun to the head, favour one I think it would be Monarchy’s ElectroPop/Nu-Disco slant (although PP’s had a wicked lead line!)
♫ Jamiroquai – White Knuckle Ride (Monarchy reMix)
♫ Jamiroquai – White Knuckle Ride (Penguin Prison reMix)
‘Rock Light Dust Star’ comes out this November.
They do love a good cover, don’t they. HURTS’ next tribute is to their album guest vocalist Kylie Minogue.
Covering Kylie’s awesome ‘Confide In Me’ for The Sun’s ‘The Biz’ column Hurst bust out an almost acoustic sounding rendition.
HURTS’ début album ‘Happiness’ is released 6th September. Not Long now!
In the wake of Friday’s tragedy, the news that Charlie Haddon lead singer of Oú Est Le Swimming Pool, one of the UK’s most promising SynthPop acts, had taken his own life after the bands show at Belgium’s Pukkelpop festival, Vincent Frank A.K.A. Frankmusik has recorded a soulful piano tribute in the form of a cover of Oú Est Le Swimming Pool’s biggest hit ‘Dance The Way I Feel’.
♫ Frankmusik – Dance the Way I Feel (Oú Est Le Swimming Pool Cover)
Thank you Vincent.
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Over at Amazon.co.uk they’re giving away the title track from HURTS, insanely eagerly anticipated, début album, ‘Happiness’. But if you can’t be bothered to go grab it you can have a listen to it right hear.
Having heard the whole album I would have to say it’s nothing short of stunning, practically encompassing every influence I’d want to hear on a record. It’s very 80’s. but never once does it feel like some kind of cheap retro sideshow, just genuinely harkening back to a time with a different style of songwriting.
The title track is a bombastic Pop epic, listen and watch the hairs on your arms stand up!
‘Happiness’ is released 6th September. Not Long now!
IndiePop twosome The Ting Tings are gearing up to release their second album after the massive success of 2008’s ‘We Started Nothing’ and those singles it spawned.
It looks like this time round the duo have taken a more ElectroPop route, the results are actually really cool. Check out the first single from the new album, ‘Hands’, it’s a pretty slick slice of danceable electronic Pop injected with a dose of The Ting Tings’ feisty quirkiness and their trademark sing-a-long choruses.
♫ The Ting Tings – Hands
Retro/Grade have done an excellent job with their reMix, a nice retro version complete with electro toms and two finger basslines. I almost thought it was turning into ‘Smalltown Boy’ at one point!
♫ The Ting Tings – Hands (Retro/Grade reMix)
‘Hands’ is due for release 10th October.
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark have premiered the video for their forthcoming single ‘If You Want It’.
The first single from their ‘The History Of Modern’ album, their first studio album in 14 years, the track sees a return to a more classic (and right now, very in-vogue) OMD sound.
The ‘If You Want It’ single is released 6th September on limited edition yellow vinyl 7” and a digital reMix bundle with reMix from the likes of French Horn Rebellion, We Have Band and VillaNah, with ‘The History Of Modern’ slated to be released later this year.
Now signed to PopJustice’s PopJustice Hi-Fi label, the amazing Bright Light Bright Light can have proper videos and everything!
And, flipping hell, is his new single, ‘Love Part II’ good or what? It’s proper electronic Power Pop. I’ll say that again, it’s PROPER ELECTRONIC POWER POP! Right? I always said he was a good songwriter, bit this track exceeds every expectation. Remember how powerful Pop was in the 80’s?, how you would get chills when the chorus kicked in? That’s what we’re talking about here.
The video is cool too, nicely shot and full of angular abstractness, as all good videos should.
Did I mention we quite like this here?
‘Love Part II’, Bright Light Bright Light’s début single is released 12th September, until then your MySpace love is required:
Bright Light Bright Light @ MySpace
The Electroscopes are, or is, a one man act (backed up by a live drummer) from Northampton.
A relative newcomer to the game, having kicked off The Electroscopes last year, main-man Paul has already had BBC Radio airplay and was featured as their ‘uploader track of the week’, back in September 2009, with this track ‘Harder Each Day’ which Paul is gearing up to release as a single.
It’s a pretty deep sounding slice of ElectroPop styled Electronica. Vocally and lyrically it can stand alongside this years hippest Bedroom Pop producers, such as Penguin Prison and I Am Noxious, but musically has more of a progressive electronics slant to it. In keeping with the ‘sound’ of this summer the tune is pretty chilled, carried along by intricate programming and melodies.
The Electroscopes is defiantly a name to keep an eye on.
♫ The Electroscopes – Harder Each Day
Once this track is mastered and slapped on a CD it’ll be slamming! It’s coming out at the end of the month on TTR (Through The Roof) Records, until then give the man some MySpace love:
Ali Love’s awesome single ‘Smoke & Mirrors’ was released last week and, thankfully, it’s now got itself a video.
The ElectroPop goodness is now accompanied by visuals the feature not only smoke…but mirrors too!
the whole thing looks pretty slick though, and works well with the track.
‘Smoke & Mirrors’ is out now, Ali’s forthcoming album, ‘Love Harder’ should be dropping in August.
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