One of our favourite cute SynthPop tracks of the last couple of years was long times faves Freezepop’s ‘Doppelganger’.
Now the video has been re-cut, the directors cut if you will, along with two new versions for the good ‘Goodnice’ reMix and the not quite so good ‘Badd-Bagg’ reMix.
You can see the two sides of Freezepop in their native environment here, and switch between the two.
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Passion Pit have premièred the video for their new single ‘Take a Walk’ .
the video is the result of a collaboration between Passion Pit & Universal and Vice & Intel’s The Creators Project. the tracks is a return to introspective summery Indie for Passion Pit.
‘Take A Walk’ is out now.
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Here on electronic rumors, like most reputable web music publication, don’t use teasers. We don’t use clips, we don’t use trailers and we don’t use excerpts. For obvious reasons. This is a pretty hard and fast rule, however there is probably about four artists in the world who could make us break that rule. The Presets are one of them. We love The Presets, it cannot be understated how much we love The Presets, the perfect combination of Pop, Electro-House and ElectroPunk and one of the best live bands in electronic music. For them, we break the rules.
So imagine our excitement when a cryptic email landed in the electronic rumors Inbox with nothing but a URL, youthintrouble.com and some flashing .gifs. The website loops a YouTube video that the Electro duo posted to their Facebook page mentioning they were working on album three. Get you ears around the pumping electronic madness, all 40 seconds of it!
More details should be coming at the end of the month. Exciting times! Check out youthintrouble.com and keep an eye on the YouthInTrouble twitter account.
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Earlier in the week, after his stunning Touch Tone reMix, we promised you a more in depth look at Brooklyn based producer Starcadian. And, now is as good a time as any, with the recent release of his new video making some waves. The track is called ‘Heˆrt’ and it’s a perfect example of Sarcadian’s lush retro synth work. Combining both the groovy and the emotional, his laid back beat and electric piano lament underpin a subtly vocoded galactic love song. Here we have a jaw-droppingly good mixture of SynthWave and Disco that has been pulled back into a ballad that really highlight Starcadian;s talents ad both songwriter and musician. The video too has been getting a bit of attention, and ‘80’as Sci-Fi extravaganza. Reminiscant of post-Star Wars straight-to-video movies, the clip captures the loneliness of deep space and melds with the tune as if they were always meant to be.
Hopefully, that’s whetted your appetite, for more Starcadian. And it should, the rest is just as good. Borrowing heavily fro ‘80’s movie soundtracks, Starcadian sets himself apart from the a lot of the SynthWave crowd in a few ways. His a lot more skilled in the Disco end of things, and he tends to be a lot more ‘song’ oriented. Take ‘Girls At Midnight’ what begins at the most haunting of VHS horror soundtracks effortlessly becomes one of the best Nu-Disco tinged ElectroPop tracks I’ve heard for a while, with some frantic playing in the crescendo. ‘Ronnie’ brings the vocoder back into focus for a slick slice of DiscoPop, whist keeping that retro SynthWave feel and injecting an added bit of Funk in the form of some jazzy electric piano before going all out of a seriously stratospheric synth solo. ‘Firat Kill’ sees a different side to Starcadian, for want of a better word is a full on Disco-House banger loaded with mashed up acapellas in ways that make them sound they should have always been there.
♫ Starcadian – Girls Of Midnight
♫ Starcadian – Ronnie
♫ Starcadian – First Kill
I seriously can’t recommend Starcadian enough.
Starcadian’s singles are out now.
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Here is the brand new video from London duo AlunaGeorge, ‘Just A Touch’, which sees the duo spinning even more of an UK R&B sound into their experimental Indie-ElectroPop.
Laurence Matthew Blake & Matilda Finn directed the clip, which is more of a Pop video, for more of a Pop sound. All high contrast blacks and whites.
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Here it is! The first new track from Pet Shop Boys highly anticipated forthcoming new album, ‘Elysium’.
Put together by Brian Bress, Pet Shop Boys and Andrew Dawson, they call it a short film for the track. How that differes from amusic video I have no idea, but they are Pet SHop BOys, I’ll take their word for it. The track is blissful, haunting and pure PSB. Excited.
‘Elysium’ is due for release this summer.
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Goin’ Old School isn’t a trip down music memory lane, it’s a mugging in the dark alleyway of nostalgia:
A-Ha with ‘The Living Daylights’ from 1987. Oh no, there’s no theme here…
From 10985, Duran Duran’s ‘A View To A Kill’. OK, maybe there is a theme going on…
In 1981, just coming out of the ‘70’s, Sheena Easton with ‘For Your Eyes Only’. Yeah, can;t really get away from the theme now.
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Here is the new video from We Have Band with their new single ‘Tired Of Running’.
Directed by Arthur Castillon & Fabien Pochez, the clip features lots of running around in woods, maybe ‘Tired Of Running’, with it’s urgent Indie-electro sound is running music?
‘Tired Of Running’ is taken from the album ‘Ternion’.
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Second Date’s ‘Young, Beautiful, Etc…’ has been out a while now, but it has finally got itself a video, for those who like that sort of thing.
Directed by Josh Smith, the video is quite simple, but works really well, and looks so nice. Mr. Smith’s camera work and colour palette making the clip a visual treat.
‘Young, Beautiful, Etc…’ is out now on Pschent.
Check out more from Second Date on SoundCloud.
After a week of teasers, here is the full length new video for Little Boots current single ‘Headphones’.
The clip, a step up from the last video, a cheeky look at people’s musical fantasies, peep show style. Bullion Collective directs.
‘Headphones’ is out now.
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