Goin’ Old School isn’t a trip down music memory lane, it’s a mugging in the dark alleyway of nostalgia:
First up today it;s one of our favourite tracks from London’s Soul II Soul. The track that started it all, 1988’s Fairplay, featruing Rose Windross.
Here’s Robert Palmer’s synth driven Johnny And Mary from 1980.
And lastly some obscure British Pop from 1983 and Nine Ways To Win’s Close To You.
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This is Axis, the first single from SynthPop legends Pet Shop Boys long awaited new album Electric, and it;s insanely good. A modern-Moroder robo-Disco epic with a B-Boy breakdown. Produced by Stuart Price too.
Check the video, a retro future freak-out that is absolutely perfect for the track. A neon, dreamlike, playground that’s lasertastic.
Pet Shop Boy’s Electric is due out in June.
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Little Boots’ forthcoming new single, Broken Record, our first proper taste of her eagerly awaited second album Nocturnes, now has a video available for your viewing pleasure.
Directed by the AU Agency, the clip really plays up the ethereal dance vibe of the track. Whist a reasonable straightforward performance and dancing video, the cinematography creates a dreamlike and enigmatic mood.
Broken Record is out now. Little Boots’ Nocturnes is released 7th May.
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Here’s the video for Australian ElectroPop heroes Empire Of the Sun’s epic new single Alive. Alive is the first single from their long awaited second album, the soon-to-be-released Ice On The Dune.
Weaving it’s way through Empire Of The Sun’s personal mythos, the clip only begins to tell the narrative of Ice On The Dune, and does so in typical Empire Of The Sun style.
Ice On The Dune is released in June.
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Norwegian ElectroPop songstress Annie launched back onto our radar just before the weekend with this, the video for her forthcoming new single Tube Stops & Lonely Hearts. With a touch of Xenomania and a pounding, almost Industrial beat, the track is an amazing, catchy, contradiction.
White Tiger Amateurs directed the video, which is as stripped down as the track itself. As far as Pop goes, this is challenging, interesting stuff.
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The amazing MNDR’s new single, Faster Horses, has now got itself a crazy video. The track is taken from their electronic rumors Awards 2012 top five album Feed Me Diamonds, and always had ‘single material’ written all over it.
The John Threat directed video is a madly animated Amanda Warner dreamscape. The glasses are back, and s,o apparently, are horses in headphones.
Faster Horses is taken from MNDR’s album, Feed Me Diamonds, out now.
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Here’s the video for Russ Chimes’ awesome new single, Turn Me Out. It’s another slice of powerful Chimes dance which we raved about here.
The video is directed by Mathy & Fran and is all a bit involuntary interpretive dance with gorgeous styling.
Russ Chimes’ Turn Me Out is out 29th April on DeConstruction.
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This was the best thing to come home to after a week ballin’ in Vegas. The video for our girl Ronika’s excellent new single Rough ‘N’ Soothe.
Michael Robinson directed the clip, which loads up on vintage video effects to create a mood as dreams as the track itself.
Ronika’s Rough ‘N’ Soothe is out this week..
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Where I Belong was the first singe we heard from Keenhouse’s excellent album Four Dreams and is now presented in visual form as a video has been conjured up that prefect captures the dreamlike sounds of track.
Shinya Sato put the clip together, drawing in influences such is Moebius and Topor to deliver a slightly unsettling, retro futuristic animated epic.
To accompany the Four Dreams album, Keenhouse has also put together a companion artbook featuring work from Shinya Sato, Sunao Maruyama, Lian Rangkuty & Elliott Fiedler, each interpreting one of the records ‘dreams’ in their own way. You can grab a preview and pick up the book here.
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Here’s the video for Swedish ElectroPop sensation Vanbot’s new single When My Heart Breaks. We features the song itself yesterday, it;s pretty special.
The clip was directed by Rikkard Häggbom and follows Ester on a mission around Sweden with some stunning scenery.
Vanbot’s When My Heart Breaks is out now.
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