HURTS have just premiered the new video for the single release of ‘Wonderful Life’ and it’s pretty funny.
In a massive self-referencing in-joke the video appears to be a wake, morning the loss of the crazy dancing lady from the original ‘Wonderful Life’ video, complete with a troupe of veiled dancing girls replicating her moves.
Goodbye crazy dancing lady, you will be sorely missed…
The ‘Wonderful Life’ single drops 23rd August.
Swede Rosanna’s début single, ‘Runaway/Waterfall’ will also be the début release for the almighty Popjustice’s brand new record label, PopJustice Hi-Fi.
There’s absolutely no one better in the world to pick quality Pop tunes (they have also signed electronic rumors fave Bright Light Bright Light) and they’ve picked a blinder to kick off with!
The original of ‘Waterfall’ is pretty sweet, it’s an ace Pop tune with a surprisingly noise drum track but it’s this Fear Of Tigers reMix that is the seriously good shit. Once again Ben from FoT makes everything sound a) like an American High School in the 80’s and b) like everything’s gonna’ be alright. It’s those layers upon layers of uplifting, retro sounding, synths that do it!
♫ Rosanna – Waterfall (Fear Of Tigers reMix)
‘Runaway/Waterfall’ is released 22nd August, until then show the girl some MySpace love!
We posted the Villa reMix of Ali Love’s forthcoming single ‘Smoke & Mirrors’ a while back, it was just one more reason to get exited about his, should-be-out-an-time-now, new album, ‘Love Harder’.
Well, ‘Smoke & Mirrors’ drops this week and right here you can check out the original, which is a funkin’ cool Disco-Pop jam that has the potential to propel Mr. Love chartwards. Bottin, who always captivates with his deep synth mixes, pushes things over to the cosmic side of Disco making Ali’s smooth funk sound like a robot invasion from the 70’s.
It’s all good…
♫ Ali Love – Smoke & Mirrors (Radio Edit)
♫ Ali Love – Smoke & Mirrors (Bottin reMix)
‘Smoke & Mirrors’ is out this week, Ali’s forthcoming album, ‘Love Harder’ should be dropping in August.
Jade Williams A.K.A. Sunday Girl’s second single will be a cover of Laura Branigan’s 1984 hit ‘Self Control’. For a well covered track, Sunday Girl doesn’t do a bad job of making it her own, haunting and slightly otherworldly, and the Acid bassline is a nice touch too.
I predict we may be seeing a lot more reMixes of this track in the months to come. Right now we have this pretty awesome upbeat ElectroPop reMix from Popmeisters Snapd who just highlight the 80’s-ness of the tune. Azari & III, on the other hand, go deep and dark with their 3am reMix.
♫ Sunday Girl – Self Control (Snapd reMix)
♫ Sunday Girl – Self Control (Azari & III reMix)
‘Sunday Girl’ is out 2nd August with more reMixes from Young Empires, Fenech-Soler.
What do we have here? It’s only a preview of Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark’s forthcoming single, ‘If You Want It’!
The first single from their first studio album in 14 years, ‘The History Of Modern’, the track is sounding very classic OMD. Stripped down and synthesized is the way we like our OMD and ‘If You Want It’ sounds like it won’t disappoint.
♫ OMD (Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark) – If You Want It (Preview)
The ‘If You Want It’ single is released 6th September with ‘The History Of Modern’ slated to be released later this year.
Even though it does my head in that she pronounces the word ‘Artist’ with an ‘L’, ‘The Writer’ is a beautiful, introspective, interlude in Ellie Goulding’s début album ‘Lights’ that will see single release in August.
The video has dropped over on her YouTube channel, it’s nice enough although I can’t help but feel that every video post ‘Starry Eyed’ has just been a little unimaginative, as if the record company just want to play it safe.
Still, it is nicely shot and doesn’t detract from the song.
‘The Writer’ is released 9th August.
Y’know, it fells like i have been waiting a lifetime for someone to do a decent reMix of my third favourite Simple Minds song, ‘New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84)’.
Enter Bottin to save the day, ‘cos this reMix he has just dropped is awesome! Part Nu-Disco, part Italo and keeping everything that made the original special. Dropping a kick and an arpeggiated bassline in the makes all the difference, and then the song just opens up for Bottin’s synth work.
Amazing!
♫ Simple Minds – New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) (Bottin Rework)
That’s how you reMix an 80’s classic!
Erasure frontman Andy Bell is still concentrating on his, now renamed, solo work and his latest single, ‘Call On Me’ has been given the Nu-Disco funk by Hey Champ!.
It’s a nice meeting of two worlds, SynthPop new and old. Hey Champ! bring their customary, epic sounding, space Disco to Bell’s instantly recognisable voice, the end result being a subtly infectious groove with some slick vocals.
♫ Andy Bell – Call On Me (Hey Champ! reMix)
‘Call On Me’ is out now.
Ali Love’s ‘Love Harder’ album seems to have been on the horizon for an eternity.
Now things look like they are getting ready to happen with the news of the lead-in single ‘Smoke & Mirrors’. Awesome Pop goodness with a reMix package featuring Bottin, Funtcase and Villa, who turn in this pretty epic, analog synths and piano, jam.
♫ Ali Love – Smoke & Mirrors (Villa reMix)
‘Love Harder’ should be dropping soon…we think…
Marina And The Diamonds has just premiered the video for her new single ‘Oh No!’.
Directed (again) by Kinga Burza the video has Marina once again shaking off record company clown-shoes to be who she wants to be.
The single is backed up with some great reMixes, most notably from one of the hottest producers around, Grum, who has taken time out from basking in the success of his amazing début album to work his bass heavy Nu-Disco skills on Marina. Max Sanna and Steve Pitron turn in a more traditional club mix that could take over the clubs this summer.
♫ Marina And The Diamonds – Oh No! (Grum reMix)
♫ Marina And The Diamonds – Oh No! (Sanna And Pitron Club Mix)
‘Oh No!’ drops 2nd August on 697 recordings.
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