Jul 15 2011

Marsheaux reMixes Sally Shapiro

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Out favourite Greek SynthPop girls Marsheaux have taken on Swedish DiscoPop heroine Sally Shapiro (and that Agebjörn bloke) for their latest reMix.

‘Jackie Jackie (Spend This Winter With Me)’get a classic SynthPop makeover with an Italo twist. Clean and crisp synth sounds in Marsheaux’s modern-retro style, taking influence from early 80’s SynthPop and mid-80’s Italo, pile up in their reMix which retains the introspective nature of the original but adds a few layers of electronics.

♫ Sally Shapiro – Jackie Jackie (Spend This Winter With Me) (Marsheaux reMix)

‘Jackie Jackie (Spend This Winter With Me)is taken from Sally Shapiro’s album ‘Disco Romance’; out now.

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Jul 12 2011

Masters Of The Radio’s new track

Masters Of The Radio

Cheshire SynthPoppers Masters Of The Radio are back with a brand new track.

Their first new tune for a few months, ‘Easy Now’ show they haven’t been sitting on their hands this past while. The production on ‘Easy Now’ is a lot slicker than previous offerings boding well for their forthcoming début EP ‘The Pleasure Age’. The song itself is more of Masters Of The Radio’s authentic sounding retro SynthPop. With their early Mute sound, the sound of vintage drum machines, analog drones and post-punk vocals. ‘Easy Now’ adds a catchy anthemic chorus to the mix that’ll get stuck in your head for days.

♫ Masters Of The Radio – Easy Now

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Jul 12 2011

Goin’ Old School: New Order – True Faith

New Order ‘s 1987 ‘True Faith’ is one of my favourite songs of all time to dance to. Philippe Decouflé surreal video is repeatedly voted one of the best videos of all time.

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Jul 8 2011

Goin’ Old School: Philip Oakey & Giorgio Moroder – (Together In) Electric Dreams

Really, what can I sat about Philip Oakey & Giorgio Moroder’s 1984 absolute classic ‘(Together In) Electric Dreams’? If you don’t love it you are dead inside? That’ll do.

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Jul 6 2011

Monarchy’s ‘Around The Sun’ album

Monarchy’s highly anticipated album, now titled ‘Around The Sun’, finally (a year later) will see the light of day this month.

It’s hard to imagine that ‘Gold In The Fire’, Monarchy’s début, was released January last year swiftly followed by the jaw droopingly good ‘The Phoenix Alive’, a full length album was promised soon after and although teasers leaked out no album appeared. Yet, here we are, over twelve months later and less that a week away from being able to own a copy of Monarchy’s album.

So, to get you pumped, the duo have released two ElectroPop gems to wet your appetite. ‘Jealous Guy’ is a slick, mid-tempo, slice of SynthPop with an almost Pet Shop Boys-esque, dry, British, sense of humour. it;’s a dense track, multi-layer and impressive with a bit of a cinematic feel, musically. Monarchy’s forthcoming single will be ‘Maybe I’m Crazy’, which is definite single material. An rousing, sweeping example of electronic Pop perfection with an anthemic quality that’s hard to ignore.

♫ Monarchy – Maybe I’m Crazy

♫ Monarchy – Jealous Guy

‘Maybe I’m Crazy’ will be the next single, with reMixes from Michael Woods, Azari & III, Diskjokke, amongst others.

‘Around The Sun’ is released 11 July.

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Jul 6 2011

Goin’ Old School: Thomas Dolby – She Blinded Me With Science

Thomas Dolby, occasional unsung hero of SynthPop. The man needs more recognition. ‘She Blinded Me With Science’, his 1982 breakthrough tune, is still a classic. Also, Magnus Pyke getting down!

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Jul 1 2011

Goin’ Old School: Pet Shop Boys – West End Girls

Grum’s recent reMix was a nice updating of this absolutely legendary song. From 1984, Pet Shop Boys’ ‘West End Girls’.

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Jun 28 2011

Class Actress album news

It was announced today that following last year’s amazing ‘Journal Of Ardency’ EP ElectroPop artist Elizabeth Harper, better known as Class Actress, is to release her début album later this year.

To be titled ‘Rapprocher’ the album continues Class Actress’ journey into analog fuelled SynthPop with an authentic 80’s musicality. Check out the opening track, ‘Keep You’ displays Elezabeth’s unique brand of Electro, with the enveloping, chilling, vintage synth sound tempered with her intimate 90’s Indie vocals. A winning combination that leaves us thirsting to hear the album.

♫ Class Actress – Keep You

‘Rapprocher’ will be released 18th October on Carpark Records.

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Jun 26 2011

Xeno & Oaklander’s new single

New York Minimal Synth duo Xeno & Oaklander’s released their new single, ‘The Staircase’, this week. An arpeggio fuelled synthesizer lament, the analog electronics conveying just as much frustration as the lyrics. Still, the track isn’t nearly as cold as the outfit’s previous offerings, ‘The Staircase’ is almost warm and dreamlike, if a little edgy.

The Taryn Waldman directed video is a grainy, stark, haunted journey through an 19th-century Brooklyn tenement building.

‘The Staircase’ is taken from Xeno & Oaklander’s forthcoming new album, ‘Sets and Lights’, which drops 11th October via Wierd Records.

♫ Xeno & Oaklander – The Staircase

‘The Staircase’ single is out now.

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Jun 25 2011

Goin’ Old School: Thompson Twins – Doctor! Doctor!

Thompson Twins, sorely overlooked heroes of 80’s music, to often considered a flash-in-the-pan, they awere actually around for years with a string of successful records, one of those being 1984’s ‘Doctor! Doctor!’, here performed on Top Of The Pops.