Jul 16 2012

Future Unlimited’s new track

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Future Unlimited are a Nashville based Indie-Electro, verging in ElectroPop, with a Chillwave outlook, duo who we’ve written about a few times in these inches. Their EP, EP, released earlier this year was a masterclass in floaty retro Dreampop and now the twosome is back with a new tune, Lightweight Eyes, that further cements their reputation as purveyors of vintage emotional dance greatness.

Lightweight Eyes is probably up their with their best track to date, Golden, a multi-layered, swirling track. A Dreamwavey retro ElectroPop track washed with Chillwave’s reverb sounds more contemporary that you’d think. This tune shines, everything about it is shimmering and bright, but in soft focus. The hazy synths blend and evolve together like a nostalgic dream, instantly confortable but somehow distant,  while the vocals dance around, weaving in and out of the song. There’s an almost shoegaze quality to this track, except it’s far too dancefloor friendly to be truly ‘gazey. This, more Electro direction,  definitely has us eager for more from Future Unlimited.

♫ Future Unlimited – Lightweight Eyes

You can download Lightweight Eyes for free miniscule price of a tweet here. Cheap!

Future Unlimited’s EP is out now.

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Jul 16 2012

New tune from Mitch Murder

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This brand new track from the king of SynthWave, Mitch Murder, is an almost perfect ode to Saturday mornings as a kid, getting up and sticking the cartoons on. For me that meant, on a Saturday or School Holidays, the Wide Awake Club, with TransFormers, Battle Of The Planets (G-Force), Thundercats, Spider-Man & His Amazing Friends… you get the gist.

With Saturdays Mitch has captured the mood with his usual flair. The innocence of youth, the excitement of a Saturday morning are represented by shimmering bright synths that ring out over that particular kind of stuttering FM bassline so often used in Kids TV themes. As the track progresses (into the action?) Mr. Murder gets his Trevor Jones/Vince DiCola on with some digital slap bass. After a rash of moody Sci-Fi epics, it’s awesome to hear Mitch Murder in fun mode, you can’t help but smile at this track.

♫ Mitch Murder – Saturdays

Mitch Murder’s MARS EP is out now on his Bandcamp.

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Jul 16 2012

Pat Lok’s new single

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Today Canadian Nu-Disco guy Pat Lok releases his new single, Remember, on Frances excellent On The Fruit Records. We caught a listen to the original version back in March, it’s a floaty, spacey slice of electronic Disco with a dreamlike quality that wraps you in it’s funk warmth. Now the track has a full release with some pretty awesome reMixes.

reMixes come correct from fellow Canadians Sp00nfed and British production duo of Glyn Cosford from ICOMPUTE and Tronik Youth’s Neil Parnell, otherwise known as Wayving. Sp00nfed do a good job of keeping the dreamy vibe but Housing things up a little, morphing the laid back Disco into Laid Back beach House. Laying a little piano riff and some piercing synths Sp00nfed get right inside your head with this one. Pure funky dancefloor bliss. Wayving’s take on Remember is a rich, full, Disco experience, don’t let the toytown synth riff fool you, this is big tune. Riffing off ‘90’s House, Wayving lay down a solid groove guaranteed to move you.

♫ Pat Lok – Remember (Sp00nfed reMix)

♫ Pat Lok – Remember (Wayving reMix)

Remember is out today.

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Jul 16 2012

Monitor 66’s ‘Deep In the Night’

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It was only last month that we featured Swedish Nu-Disco trio Monitor 66’s single Her Bells. Hot on the heels of that release, as a thank you for all the support it received, the guys have droped a brand new tune, for free. Deep In The Night is a slick as hell was to say “cheers”.

Pure late night boogie, Deep In The Night is sexy Disco that cares about nothing but the moving you. Dropping a very slight Tropical flavour on to of the bass heave Disco sound, Monitor 66 drop a jam that is 50% mirrorball, 50% sunset. Smooth beats, smooth bass, smooth keys. Pull up a beach chair, grab yourself a cocktail, enjoy the sunset with Monitor 66.

♫ Monitor 66 – Deep In The Nite

Monitor 66’s Her Bells single is out now.

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Jul 16 2012

Calfskin

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Calfskin is a hard ElectroPop project from Belgium. The solo work of Konstantin De Winter, we’ve actually been debating whether to feature Calfskin for the past week, it’s pretty EBM/FuturePop, which tends to make out toes curl a bit in 2012, but Calfskin managed to win us over in the simplest of ways. By having some damn good songs.

So, upfront, it does sound a little dated. FuturePop had it;s peak in the very early 2000’s, and Calfskin does sound a bit like like it’s stuck in a timebubble. But here’s the good news, if you’re going to sound dated, sound like the good dated stuff, and Calfskin does, having more in common with the intelligent talents of the scene, such as Neuroticfish and Seabound, than the tedious “I can use an arpeggiator” bands that killed FuturePop. Calfskin has just released a new EP, Standing Eight, containing five emotionally charged, driving ElectroPop tracks. The easy standout of the EP is One Step Over (also released as a free single), which is catchy as hell, the chorus will stick in your head all day. Accompanied with rich layers of evocative electronic and a pounding beat. And that really sums up Calfskin’s Standing Eight, you may feel like you’re dancing in an Industrial club in 2001, but the songs are so good, and so infections, you probably won’t care.

♫ Calfskin – One Step Over

♫ Calfskin – Soul Searching

Calfskin’s Standing Eight EP is out now, you can grab the free single of One Step Over here.

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Jul 16 2012

The Knocks & Fred Falke’s ‘Geronimo’

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We’re probably preaching to the converted here, I suspect most of you have already picked up a copy of The Knocks & Fred Falke amazing collaboration, Geronimo, which is already available at Beatport. Easily a contender for the tune of the year, the original, and arguably the best, mix is now available for your listening pleasure to convince you, if you haven’t already, that you need to pick this up.

What can se say about this tune? It needs to be heard, it’s massive. A grinding, funky five minutes of pure dancefloor anthem. You can hear both The Knocks and Fred Falke in there, the track has a The Knocks groove made Falk style massive. A catchy vocal hook you’ll be singing all day, reels you in while the huge Disco, with a Pop sheen, will just destroy you. Essential stuff.

♫ The Knocks & Fred Falke – Geronimo

Geronimo is out now on Beatport and available everywhere else on 23rd July.

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Jul 13 2012

Rüfüs’ ‘This Summer’/’Selena’ reMixes

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Australian Indie-Electro trio Rüfüs’ This Summer has been out for a while now in single form, being on e of the Anthems of this year. Enter London’s ElectroPop don Jerry Bouthier and his Continental Records imprint to bring the track, once again, to the forefront with a reMix package of This Summer and Selena.

With a track this epic, it would be hard to do any wrong, but this collection of reMixes exceeds expectations. Mr. Bouthier’s own JBAG head up the EP with an amazing DiscoPop reMix that is just everything you’d want from a fun summer tune. A bouncy bassline and thick retro chords makeup a huge, all encompassing sound that truly does the song justice and, more. Perfect drum fills and an insanely catchy hook are the icing on the cake. This track is going to get caned. Rüfüs themselves contribute a deep Techy take on This Summer, full of Techno intricacies and moody chords this is one for late night in Berlin, with the added bonus of a big Dreamwavey lead. Nu-Disco newcomer Lancelot has really impressed us this year, and to this package he contributes another quite deep mix, this time with more of a synthetic Disco feel as he takes Selena and works it into almost a Disco Dub. The single also contains work from, with a droning Techno mix, Parachute Youth with a chaotic Dreamwave mix and slick ‘90’s House take on Selena from Frames.

♫ Rüfüs – This Summer (JBAG reMix)

♫ Rüfüs – This Summer (Rüfüs reMix)

♫ Rüfüs – Selena (Lancelot reMix)

The reMix EP is released 16th July.

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Jul 13 2012

Jacques Lu Cont’s ‘Underground’

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Surprising in more ways than one is Jacques Lu Cont new track, ‘Underground’. Surprising because we weren’t expecting it. Surprising because I think it puts the final nail in the coffin of “we might be getting some new Les Rythmes Digitales” and surprising because despite being reasonably tedious Electro-House, we can’t stop listening to it. The accompanying picture of Stuart Price includes a Kylie chaser, we think you might need it.

Now, I know how sycophantic that sounds, and we don’t mind saying this is not Price’s best work, not by a million miles. It’s not even his most original work but, fuck me, if I hear this in a club or festival this summer I’m going to go mental. It’s that kind of track. A relentless assault of riffs that almost command you to dance and the pounding drums somehow get inside your dead. This is no ‘Church’, and hopefully just a need for Price to express something before he get’s back to writing cleaver music, but seeing as it’s here, enjoy the ride, it’s a wild one.

♫ Jacques Lu Cont – Underground

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Jul 13 2012

Paulie from Cosmonauts Mix#1’

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Cosmonauts – Paulie Hot Mix #1 = This is Paulie, on half of London’s Cosmic Disco kings Cosmonauts, on the solo mix tip, what he’s bringing is over an hour of laid back Disco jams that he put together whilst in Ibiza, so there rest of us here in rainy Blighty can soak up a little sunshine. Expect some deep Disco, deep House, basically loads of deep bass grooves to move you.

♫ Cosmonauts – Paulie Hot Mix #1

The tracklist:

01. Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs – Stronger (Miguel Campbell reMix)
02. Viadrina – Pop Song
03. Noir, Audiojack & Ruede Hagelstein – My Lover
04. Kolombo – What Could Make Me Think? (Atapy)
05. Finnebassen – Touching Me
06. Parallel Dance Ensemble – Shopping Cart (Maxxi Soundsystem reMix)
07. Doctor Dru – The Voice Of Dru
08. Hot Since 82 – Let It Ride
09. Scandal – Just Let Me Dance (Maxxi Soundsystem reMix)
10. Sharam Jey – Money Right
11. Sharam Jey – Love Hurts
12. Digitalism – Encore
13. F3 – Deeper Thoughts (Tiger Stripes)

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