If you like bacon, and let’s face it who doesn’t?, you’re probably already watching Epic Meal Time. This week’s show combines two of my favourite things. Hot girls who make ElectroPop and meat as the crew are joined by Canada’s queen of SynthPop LIGHTS.
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Ah Nitzer Ebb, how much of my youth did you live in my Walkman for? Was ‘Lightning Man’ really 1990?
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This is the video for Joakim’s new single ‘Forever Young’.
It’s a nice bit of summer Indie-Electro introspection, Joakim says the track is “a song for all the 30-something-year old people out there”.
‘Forever Young’ is taken from the forthcoming album ‘Nothing Gold’, released 20th September on Tigersushi.
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Straight from 1984, here is both Laura Branigan and co-wirter Raf’s versions of ‘Self Control’, both blew up in Europe that year but only Branigan’s made any impact across the Atlantic. I can never decide which version I prefer but both are definitely better than the subsequent covers.
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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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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.
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In 1988 Bomb The Bass released ‘Into The Dragon’ one of the all time seminal dance music albums, alongside ‘Beat ‘Dis’, the big hit from the record, the second single was the amazing ‘Don’t Make Me Wait’ featuring Lorraine McIntosh on vocals. A track that I will never get enough of. Here they are preforming it on Top Of The Pops. I’ll always have a soft spot for girls in hi-tops and oversized Troop jackets.
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Bag Raiders will be supporting Miss Ellie Goulding on her upcoming US tour, which should be an amazing night if you can make it.
They’ve just premiered the Rhett Wade-Ferrell directed video for their third single from their self-titled album, ‘Not Over’.
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The Sound Of Arrows just premiered video for their forthcoming ‘M.A.G.I.C.’ single is truly magical.
You wouldn’t necessarily think a post late-70’s-anime-inspired-monster-apocalypse clip would be so heart-warming, but it is. And pretty deep too.
Check out one of the classiest videos of the year.
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Here’s the new short clip for ‘I Took A Little Something’, the best track from Florrie latest EP, ‘Experiments’.
Mad in collaboration with Dolce and Gobbana the video was directed by Justin Wu.
Florrie’s ‘Experiments’ EP is out 14th June,
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