Aug 4 2010

Starsmith reMixes Robyn’s ‘Hang With Me’

Robyn = Awesome. Starsmith = Awesome.

Robyn + Starsmith = Awesomer!

‘Hang With Me’ is the first single from Robyn’s ‘Body Talk Part 2’, we dropped the video last week. It’s a cute SynthPop ballad that is a good sign for the forthcoming album. That ElectroPop producer extraordinaire Starsmith is providing one of the single’s reMixes is just too good to be true!

And the track lives up to expectations. Pure uplifting electronic Pop goodness that makes expectations run high not just for Robyn’s second ‘Body Talk’ album but Starsmith’s soon-to-be-released EP too!

♫ Robyn – Hang With Me (Starsmith reMix) (Un-Mastered)

‘Hang With Me’ is taken from the ‘Body Talk Pt. 2’ album and is out 5th September.

Robyn @ Beatport

Robyn @ 7Digital

Robyn @ Amazon

Aug 4 2010

VillaNah reMix the new OMD single!

We previewed September’s new Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark single ‘If You Want To’ a while back and found it an ace return to classic and bombastic OMD.

The single, taken from ‘the History Of Modern’ OMD’s first studio album on 14 years, will also feature a reMix from Finnish SynthPop heroes and sometime OMD support act VillaNah who layer the track with their own brand of retro electronics. Amazingly, VillaNah have managed to make the song sound more retro than OMD themselves, that’s quite an achievement!

P.S. Synth brass is awesome!

♫ OMD (Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark) – If You Want It (VillaNah reMix)

The ‘If You Want It’ single is released 6th September with ‘The History Of Modern’ slated to be released later this year.

OMD @ 7Digital

OMD @ Amazon

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Aug 4 2010

Roni Size’s first reMix in three years; Lauren Pritchard’s ‘Painkillers’

I’ve been a big fan of Roni Size for years, both with Reprazent and Breakbreat Era, so I was pretty hyped to hear this, his first reMix in three years.

London based American Singer/songwriter Lauren Pritchard is the lucky subject of the reMix treatment with the title track from her ‘Painkillers EP’, released this week. Featuring guest MCing from Taleb Kweli, it turns the soulful, gospel vocals of the original into a temporary reprieve from the frantic beats and bass. Excellent stuff.

♫ Lauren Pritchard – Painkillers (Roni Size reMix)

The ‘Painkillers EP’ is released 8th August.

Lauren Pritchard @ Juno

Lauren Pritchard @ 7Digital

Lauren Pritchard @ Amazon

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Jul 30 2010

Champagne Riot

Champagne Riot are a Danish duo, comprised of Caspar Bock and Anders Reuter, who make wonderful melodramatic Electro Indie-Pop.

Their début single is being released in September and if you give it a listen (128kbps previews below) you will find a swirling mass of 80’s sounding Pop. Uplifting and bombastic in that way only 80’s Pop ever was, there’s more than a little Erasure in these tracks, the production and arrangement is incredibly sophisticated. Most of all though, Champagne Riot are fun Pop music, but intelligent in a way that makes you forget about any rubbish chart music ever released and reinstates your love of the pure Pop song.

♫ Champagne Riot – A Friend Of A Friend

♫ Champagne Riot – Heart Stab

The ‘Heart Stab’/’A Friends Of A Fried’ double A-side is released 27th September, until then go show them some MySpace love!

Champagne Riot @ MySpace

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Jul 29 2010

Ellie and her Friends Electric

New Single ‘The Writer’ isn’t the first time Welsh Indie-ElectroPop outfit Friends Electric have reMixed Ellie Goulding. Their Mix of ‘Under The Sheets’ made our top 20 songs of 2009 and they have come on in leaps and bounds since then, both in popularity and production.

Their new mix couldn’t have been easy, it’s an awesome song but I can’t imagine it lends itself well to reMixing. But the lads have risen to the challenge and dropped this chilled summery dance track, almost Balearic in places (this is a real sunrise tune!) that still highlights Ms. Goulding’s stunning vocals.

♫ Ellie Goulding – The Writer (Friends Electric reMix)

‘The Writer’ single is released 9th August.

Ellie Goulding @ Neon Gold

Ellie Goulding @ 7Digital

Ellie Goulding @ Amazon

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Jul 28 2010

Faded Paper Figures

Faded Paper Figures are a trio from LA who make some of the quaintest ElectroPop you’ll ever hear.

Like a slightly more Indie Freezepop, cheap drum machines and toytown synths are the order of the day here. Faded Paper Figures have an immediate charm about them that is helped, in no small part, by both male and female vocals which, rather than duel, compliment and intertwine around each other. Occasionally you can hear bit of The Postal Service creeping into things, maybe some Passion Pit too, but for the most part Faded Paper Figures have a pretty unique sound of their own, one that sounds honest and heartfelt.

It’s ElectroPop that makes you feel like everything is, in fact, going to be OK!

They have just released their second album ‘New Medium’, check out two of the tracks from it:

♫ Faded Paper Figures – Invent It All Again

♫ Faded Paper Figures – Small Talk

‘New Medium’ is out now.

Faded Paper Figures @ Amazon

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Jul 27 2010

LexiconDon & NightWaves

We’ve got another reMix of LexiconDon’s awesome ‘December Sunset’, a track we’ve featured a couple of times already, this time by label mates NightWaves.

NW’s Josh and Kyle give the track more of an organic groove. Less electronic sounding, more sounding like a jam. Sweeping synths are replaced with organs giving the track a live music feel. The original is one of the best ElectroPop tracks of the year so far and this reMix takes it into the ‘best Pop song’ category too.

Still can’t kill the Simmons rolls though!

♫ LexiconDon – December Sunset (NightWaves reMix)

Be sure to check out the original track too right here.

If you’re fans of Binary records and that sweet LA SynthPop sound then keep it locked to electronic rumors in the coming weeks, we have a pretty special Binary even planned for y’all!

The album, ‘Pink + Blue’ is due to drop 24th August on dubFrequency/Binary.

LexiconDon @ Beatport

LexiconDon @ Juno

LexiconDon @ 7Digital

LexiconDon @ Amazon

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Jul 27 2010

Active Child reMixed by Classixx

Can you even get a smoother jam than this?

Slinky, that’s probably the best way to describe LA team Classixx’s reMix of fellow LA songwriter Pat Grossi A.K.A. Active Child’s latest track, ‘When Your Love Is Safe’. It’s like mid-80’s R&B had a head on collision with Dreamwave in a Roland drum machine rimshot testing facility. And the crowd clapped on…

♫ Active Child – When Your Love Is Safe (Classixx reMix)

Oh the chimes!

Active Child’s album, ‘Curtis Lane’ is out now.

Active Child @ Juno

Active Child @ 7Digital

Active Child @ Amazon

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Jul 26 2010

Robyn’s new video

Oh look, Robyn’s doing something badass again!

Heh, the official video for the forthcoming ‘Hang With Me’ single has premiered, and although it’s pretty much just following Robyn and her crew around on promotional tours it’s really nicely shot and seems to work amazingly well with the song, which is a sweet, uplifting, SynthPop ballad.

‘Hang With Me’ is taken from the ‘Body Talk Pt. 2’ album and is out 5th September.

Robyn @ Beatport

Robyn @ 7Digital

Robyn @ Amazon

Jul 26 2010

New I Am Noxious track

Why isn’t Mr. T signed yet? It’s pretty baffling.

Well, as long as he hasn’t got a record label breathing down his neck he’s gonna’ keep letting me share his tracks with you lot!

His latest I Am Noxious track, ‘Flashback Tears’ may be his best yet, despite the underlying melancholy in his music this track is surprisingly uplifting. this track sounds like it’s moving slightly away from his usual Bedroom Pop style in to an almost Passion Pit/Miike Snow Indie-Electro territory, but with more of a cheeky British edge.