Jul 23 2010

Daft Punk’s Tron: Legacy soundtrack

Two slices of awesomeness hit the internet in the last few days. First up, soon after the Tron: Legacy panel at San Diego ComicCon, yesterday, the new theatrical trailer for Tron Legacy débuted online.

And it looks rad as hell!!!

Secondly, in the last couple days a few people have sent me tracks from Daft Punk’s soundtrack to the movie. These are defiantly legit, as many of the six tracks contain sections from the trailers we have seen. After some digging around, I think these have been ripped out the backend of the official Disney site.

I was debating putting all six tracks up here but then thought, ‘well, I wouldn’t put up six tracks of any album so why is this any different?’. If you really want all six they’ll be all over the internet by now but I wanna’ try and save myself hearing any more until I can hear it in 320kbps or CD quality because those tracks I have heard are amazing! Serious contender for best electronic soundtrack since BladeRunner. The way the orchestration and electronic meld together is truly masterful, even in so much as Daft Punk’s choice of sounds that seem to flow out of the strings.

This, I believe, is the title track.

♫ Daft Punk – Tron: Legacy Soundtrack- Track 1

Tron: Legacy hit cinemas 17th December.

Jul 15 2010

Walter Sobcek

We’ve featured a couple of Walter Sobcek’s reMixes recently, for NightWaves and Housse De Racket, so when they stopped by the electronic rumors Inbox with a preview of their forthcoming EP we were eager to listen.

Hailing from Paris and Berlin this duo make some slick retro sounding SynthPop which is perfectly exemplified by their vocoder laden cover of Hall & Oats’ ‘She’s Gone’, a smooth as hell chilled summer jam.

♫ Walter Sobcek – She’s Gone (Hall & Oates Cover)

To celebrate the the track Walter Sobcek have put together this video which, in their own words, is a ‘tribute to Jennifer Connelly and Rollerskating’ (luckily it’s hot late 80’s/early 90’s Jennifer Connelly, not 00’s anorexic Jennifer Connelly). The video is made up of clips from John Hughes’ 1991 movie ‘Career Opportunities’ and works so well with the song!

Walter Sobcek release a single last year you can still pick up and are looking to release their new EP in September.

Walter Sobcek @ Amazon

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Jul 13 2010

Gary Numan plays ‘Cars’ on cars

Car battery makers DieHard have roped in Mr. Gary Numan to pimp out their latest line of batteries.

In this commercial one battery powers 24 cars, 2 keyboards and 1 Gary Numan in a rendition of his classic 1979 tune ‘Cars’.

Directed by James Frost of Zoo Films, there was a bit of controversy over whether it was car horns or .mp3 recordings of car horns being played but Adam Sadowsky, President of Synn Labs, who put together the 96 wheeled keyboard stated: “We absolutely used horns to play the notes live. We couldn’t use the horns in that came in the cars because they weren’t tuned properly, so we tuned our own and put them into the car’s engine compartments.”

So, there you go.

Gary Numan @ Beatport

Gary Numan @ Juno

Gary Numan @ 7Digital

Gary Numan @ Amazon

[Via: Wired & Gizmodo]

Jul 13 2010

Ellie’s new video

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.

Ellie Goulding @ Neon Gold

Ellie Goulding @ 7Digital

Ellie Goulding @ Amazon

Jul 13 2010

David E. Sugar’s ‘Party Killer’ video

We dropped previews of David E. Sugar’s new single ‘Party Killer’ last week, now the video clip has premiered.

Created by Lewis Arnold & Phil Barber the video sees David interacting with images of himself. Clever stuff!

Watch with your eyes!

‘Party Killer’ will be released as a limited edition 7” and the digital remix package, followed by a full length album in October.

David E. Sugar @ Beatport

David E. Sugar @ Juno

David E. Sugar @ 7Digital

David E. Sugar @ Amazon

Jul 13 2010

The Dark Esquire’s new video

The Dark Esquire has just premiered the video for his forthcoming single ‘Lexicons’. The single is more quality ElectroPop from the one of America’s most interesting Synth acts. Never musically pandering to Electro trends TDA has produced another single if intelligent electronic songwriting.

Directed by Mike Ferrara, the video is pure 80’s goodness that appears to see The Dark esquire having a fevered dream about 80’s angles. Enjoy:

Don’t worry Mr. Esquire, geometry does everyone’s head in!

‘Lexicons’ is out 12th August on THISISNOTANEXIT.

The Dark Esquire @ Beatport

The Dark Esquire @ Juno

The Dark Esquire @ Amazon

Jul 13 2010

The Aikiu ‘Just Can’t Sleep’

The Aikiu, brainchild of French producer Alex Aikiu and has just released his first single, ‘Just Can’t Sleep’ on Abracada. It a pretty sweet slice of Indie-Disco and an ode to late 70’s/early 80’s New York clubland. fittingly the man has been working with Chic’s Nile Rogers.It’s got a lot of early 80’s Pop in there as well as Disco, but however you want to classify it, it’s a damn good début.

Check the video:

The single comes packaged by reMixes from Egyptrixx, Azari & III, Mighty Mouse and Clement Meyer. As well as that fine lot check out these two free reMixes. Sovnger’s mutation into a French-Electro banger and chilled, almost Dubby, Space Disco from Stupid Human.

♫ The Aikiu – Just Can’t Sleep (Sovnger Can’t Sleep reMix)

♫ The Aikiu – Just Can’t Sleep (Stupid Human Mix)

‘Just Can’t Sleep’ is out now.

Jul 9 2010

The Pass

I’m lovin’ this track from Louisville based ElectroPop/Indie-Electro act The Pass, this is the first sample from their forthcoming début album, ‘BURST’.

‘Treatment of the Sun’ is such an ‘of the moment’ tune, upbeat and summery with just the right balance of jangly guitars and layers of retro synth work, I’m defiantly eager to hear more from this lot.

The band have put together this little video to showcase the track:

I’ve got a long train ride tomorrow and you can be sure this is going on the walkman!

If you’re very lucky we might be able to throw an .mp3 of this tune your way in the coming months

The Pass’ album is due to drop Autumn 2010 on sonaBLAST! Records, until then you can pick up this track and their previous EP over at their Bandcamp page.

The Pass @ Bandcamp

Jul 9 2010

Monarchy video mystery solved!

Well, either it’s been a slow week or Monarchy have been really busy ‘cos here comes another Monarchy post!

Remember that video for their forthcoming third single ‘Love Get Out Of My Way’ that suddenly disappeared and was replaced with the official video? Well it turns out that it was intended to be the video for the new Benny Benassi reMix of the track. It’s a cool pumping reMix, maybe one of the others (Holy Ghosts!) would be more deserving of a video and record label pushing but I suppose Benassi is more of a ‘name’ amongst clubbers and, as I said, it is quite a cool reMix.

‘Love Get Out Of My Way’ drops 26th July with reMixes from Holy Ghost!, Sinden, Treasure Fingers amongst others.

Monarchy @ Beatport

Monarchy @ Juno

Monarchy @ Amazon

Jul 9 2010

Performance Unconsoled

Manc ElectroPoppers Performance (I’ve got used to dropping the ‘(we are)’ now) have just premiered the video for their forthcoming single ‘Unconsoled’.

It’s little more Indie than their last couple of singles, but a good indie, a kinda’ early 90’s indie, with a nice synth backing and it’s an awesome video.