[ER017] Ali Jamieson (Feat. Raff) – Coffee Stain (Single)
[ER016] BeatLoaf – Romantic (Single)
[ER015] Techniques – Don’t You Want To Love? (Single)
[ER014] Kids At Midnight – Unashamed/Vapours (Single)
[ER013] Freak You (Feat. Bright Light Bright Light) – There You Are (Single)
[ER012] Box Of Wolves – Let’s Start Again (Single)
[ER011P] Various Artists – X-Mas Rumors (EP)
[ER010P] She’s The Queen/Let Em Riot – Fantasy/There U Go (Single)
[ER009] beaumont (Feat. Elle Pierre) – Vampire (Single)
[ER008] She’s The Queen – Cold Heart/I Don’t Wanna Know (Single)
[ER007] New Arcades – New Arcades (EP)
[ER006/ER006CDP] Box Of Wolves & Christa Vi – Boy (Single)
[ER005P] Various Artists – electronic rumors Volume 1: The reMix EP (EP)
[ER004] Let Em Riot – SlashWave (EP)
[ER003] Ride The Universe (Feat. Jane Elizabeth Hanley) – A Little Better (Single)
[ER002/ER002CDP] She’s The Queen – Talk To Me (Single)
[ER001/ER001CD] Various Artists – electronic rumors Volume 1
London House dominators Disclosure’s Grab Her, from their much acclaimed début album, Settle, has gone and got itself a video, and one that just as frivolous as the J. Dilla sampling track itself.
The clip was directed by Emile Sornin and is gravity defying, 80s office hell.
Disclosure’s début album, Settle, is out now.
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Breathe is the forthcoming new single from seriously underrated Dubliner Irish Steph. Out at the end of the month on La Valigetta, the single is already getting spun by the likes of Madeon, Philippe Zdar (Cassius), Aeroplane, Justin Faust and Shinichi Osawa and deservedly so. When the release drops you can expect a bursting-at-the-seams reMix package from the likes of Blatta & Inesh, Joao Ceser, Stephane Deschezaux Ali Jamieson and Louis La Roché. Check it out.
Breathe bursts out your speakers with a siren drone before easing in a heartfelt vocal and a heavy bass groove.Walking the line between Nu-Disco and harder Dance sounds, Irish Steph delivers something that’s both a powerful dancefloor tune and something a little more cerebral. Robo vocals and layers of buzzing synths combine to create something strangely haunting amongst the pounding drums. Ali Jamieson takes the tracks Funk one step further, turning in a buoyant slab of Turbofunk, heavy on the vintage synth sounds and cosmic sweeps, revealing a gentler side to the original’s vocals. For the full-on Disco version of the track we turn to Louis La Roché who incorporates a bouncy bassline, the kind that can’t help but put a smile on your face, and uplifting keys in a twisting, galactic, mirror ball oddessy that, thanks to the vocals, doesn’t quite shake the original’s unsettling element. The whole package is pretty top quality. Mind-Disco.
♫ Irish Steph – Breathe
♫ Irish Steph – Breathe (Ali Jamieson reMix)
♫ Irish Steph – Breathe (Louis La Roché reMix)
Irish Steph’s Breathe is released 21st January.
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DFA’s LA based DiscoPoppers YACHT released their new single, Plastic Soul, this week. A bouncy and carefree SynthPop cacophony with a sweet vocal line from Claire.
Check out the VHS-y video directed by Clay Tatum and Whitmer Thomas, which feels like a nice home video movie for the song.
YACHT’s Plastic Soul is out now.
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South London based duo CHPLN consists of UK House rising star Karma Kid and Armeria, or Dali Bor and Pippo Vari as their press release would have it. They are about to release their début single, White Snow, a dreamy slice of urban Indie-Electro.
Here’s the video, directed by Jon Bilbrough. An introspective, intimate clip to match the tone of the song.
CHPLN’s White Snow is out soon.
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The latest in Baron Von Luxxury’s series of awesome edits come sin the form if this space age slo-mo Disco version of the The Eagles’ Hotel California. Following some slick work on tracks from the likes of Madonna, David Bowie and Bee Gees, Luxxury seems to have picks a song he hates, just for chuckles. You gotta’ hear his own words: “That’s right. I made fucking Hotel California (one of the most irritating songs of all time) by the fucking Eagles (one of the most arrogantly bloated bands of all time)…I was able to take out some of the more annoying hippie shit and replace it with some fucking vocoders and Moroder-y synth bass.”. Can’t argue with that.
Luxxury turns in a brooding, relentless track. Pairing up a slow, plodding Funk with ominous overtones as he builds a creeping synth dread the Baron vocodes the vocal track to otherworldly levels. The kind of track you could quite easily find yourself accidently lost in on the dancefloor, it’s no surprise that DJs like the legendary Greg Wilson are already spinning this hard. Cosmic Disco fantasy at it’s best, at only 82 BPM, this reMix can soundtrack your grooviest nightmares.
♫ The Eagles – Hotel California (Luxxury Edit)
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Stockholm BassPop princess Little Jinder is back with a brand new single, the haunting and quirky Ful Och Tråkig Tjej, a booming slice of particularly Scani Pop
Directed by Emma Arvida Byström & Claire Kurylowski, the clip is, well; very pink. Distractingly so.
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So, it seems like everyone is jumping on that Gesaffelstein Nu-EBM, Techno train these days. Making that mad Powernoise cash, yo! Next up is Nightly, new alter-ego of German Disco dude Christian Strobe, who releases a double A-side single this week consisting of Build One and Build Two. Also, we can’t be the only ones geeky enough to see the words ‘Nightly’ and ‘Build’ together and have our minds immediately go to software release schedules? Yes? Oh well…carry on.
To be fair to Mr. Strobe, he does inject a fair amount of Groove into his pulsating, grinding Techno. Set among a relentless onslaught of Industrial purcussion, siren screams, Electro zap and drone synths, there sits a little bit of Funk that gives the track an unusual swing. There’s a bright lead line that is strangely reminiscent to Russ Chimes’ Never Look Back that elevates the track above the noise. The upshot of all this contradiction if a song that is forcefully powerful, a dancefloor destroyer, but one that will stand out for the Teutonic Techno pack.
♫ Nightly – Build One (Original Mix)
Nightly’s Build One/Build Two is out now.
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Well, how could this be anything but irresistible? The winner of the electronic rumors Award for best song of 2013, London based producer Blende, remixing our favourite Sci-Fi SynthWaver Pyramid. Released at the end of the month as part of Pyramid’s latest single for Kitsuné Music, The Phoenix sees Pyramid throwing caution to the wind and experimenting with Rap, courtesy of Willy Wesly, over his dystopian Disco.Blende joins Likelife on reMix duties.
Blende brings everything together nicely. The reMix is energetic and fun; playing up to both the rhymes and Pyramid’s piercing, analog sounds but injecting the whole affair which a ton of his (now customary) carefree Funk. Riding on the kind of syncopated bassline that just powers the song forward, Blend layers swooshing synths, furious drum fills and some chorus keys that sound almost Gospel in their majesty to create a track full to bursting point; but never overpowering.
♫ Pyramid (Feat. Willy Wesly) – The Phoenix (Blende reMix)
Pyramid’s The Phoenix is released 27th January.
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It seems that not only is Lightwaves back, but he (now they) is back with a vengeance. It was only just before X-Mas that they released their first record, both in ages and as a band, Starting To Believe; which was swiftly followed by an awesome reMix from Fear Of Tigers. Now, with 2014 barley a couple of weeks old, Lightwaves releases Returned. Are you sitting down? ‘Cos the DC outfit have dropped another huge slab of SynthPop to knock you off of your feet.
By now Lightwaves modus-operandi is familiar. Heavyweight retro synth riffs, unobtrusive Indie guitar, powerfully driving rhythm section and those anthemic, passionate vocals; are all present and correct on Returned. With just a hint of a SynthWave-esque 80s slant the track shows off a clean, crisp Indie-Electro sound put in place with precision production and a razor sharp sound pallet. Whilst maybe not reaching the epic heights of last month’s Starting To Believe, Returned is an adequate compliment to that track; exploring Lightwaves’ live, rawer, side.
♫ Lightwaves – Returned
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This week one of our favourite French producers of all time, the always excellent datA, releases his new single, Soldier’s Flag. It’s his first record in what seems like an age. So long in fact, that we didn’t even know if this guy was still going; but we are very pleased to report that not only is he still going, but his new record, whilst a slight change from his pervious work, is pretty infectious. The Soldier’s Flag single also comes equipped with reMixes from Bottin and Reflex.
Soldier’s Flag is a seeming strange combination of a smooth, soulful tune and a gritty Electro-House beast. But datA make it work, intertwining a hypnotic, dirty synth riff with a vintage sounding vocal hook. Riding the wave of Gesaffelstein-esque post-EBM Techno without ever falling into the genre trap. datA bring a little sweet musicality; an emotional quality to this grinding Electro resulting in something tough, but expressive and involving to dance to.An interesting direction for datA.
♫ datA – Soldier’s Flag (Club Mix)
datA’s Soldier’s Flag is out now.
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