Jul 2 2012

80s Stallone’s ‘Radioactive’

80s Stallone

One of the UK finest purveyors of all things Synth and Dreamwave 80s Stallone has premiered a new track, or new demo., of blissed out, summery, retro sounds.

Radioactive, is the kind of track that washes over you like waves of a deserted shore. the reverb washed arpeggios that weave in and out of this track make for a beautiful, almost otherworldly, sound. A simple, yet infectious bassline grounds the track allowing loads of room for the rich synthetic textures to paint a sonic picture. The way the arpeggios play with the bassline give the tune a nice rhythm. this is as beachy and laid back as SynthWave gets. Enjoy!”

♫ 80s Stallone – Radioactive (Demo.)

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Jul 2 2012

Delta Funktionen’s ‘Onkalo’ video

This is the video fro Electro outfit Delta Funktionen’s Onkalo, taken from their album Traces.

Buro Lamp&Kap directs the clip, a voyeuristic trip though decaying spaces, a fitting match for the dark robotic beats. There some shiny balls too!

Delta Funktionen’s Traces is out 2nd July.

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Jul 2 2012

NeonFlashDrive’s ‘Dark City’

NeonFlashDrive

Here’s the new tune from UK SynthWave producer NeonFlashDrive, a brooding slice of electronic soundtrack work inspired by the 1987 animé Wicked City. Even though Wicked City is pretty horror based, what NeonFlashDrive has done with this tune is capture the vibe of what was, in our opinion, the golden age of Cyberpunk animé. This track could have quite as easily been influenced by Bubblegum Crisis, Appleseed, Armitage III, Akira or Ghost In The Shell.

Built around ominous synth pad that immediately install a dark future mood, NeonFlashDrive soon takes us on a sonic journey through a neon soaked dystopia with Dark City. With nods to Italo and SynthPop in it’s driving arpeggios, digital bass and haunting, ringing, melodies. Don’t think it’s all mysterious soundtrack stuff, this track’s got a groove to it too!

♫ NeonFlashDrive – Dark City

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Jul 2 2012

Zimmer – June Tape ‘Tobogan’

zimmer

Zimmer – June Tape ‘Tobogan’ = Tobogan is French Analog Disco producer Zimmer’s latest mixtape. This month it’s a hour of deep Disco with a Tropical flavour for the coming warm weather. Laid back beats and luscious grooves rule all.

♫ Zimmer – June Tape ‘Tobogan’

The tracklist:

01. Bon Iver – Towers (Slow Hands Cover)
02. Bronx – I’ll Be Loving You
03. Rick Astley – Never Gonna Give You Up (Drop Out Orchestra Dub)
04. Van She – Jamaica (Plastic Plates reMix)
05. ColeCo – Ricky Smiley
06. Chordashian – Illusions
07. Little Boots – Headphones (Moon Boots reMix)
08. Dublin Aunts – Heartbreak Reputation (LNTG Found A Groove reMix)
09. Montevideo – Horses (Zimmer reMix)
10. Bit Funk – It Ain’t Easy
11. Cassian – I Love It
12. Jonas Rathsman – Since I Don’t Have You
13. The Faint – Battlehymn For Children (Tensnake Dub)
14. Para One (Feat. Teki Latex) – Lean On Me
15. Poolside Music – Slow Down
16. Giselle – Silk (Cosmic Kids reMix)

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Jul 2 2012

Toddla T & Shola Ama’s ‘Alive’

Alive sees Toddla T teaming up once again with songstress Shola Ama for another huge summer anthem.

Whist it’s not quite Take It Back, Alive is still going to be soundtracking some festival moments this summer.

Alive is released 13th August.

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Jun 29 2012

Nude Disco reMixes The Nolans

The Nolans

Yes. You read that headline right. I honestly don’t know that to tell you, London’s Nude Disco is just like that.

Vern claims that if he didn’t do it, then somebody else would have sooner or later, we’re not so sure. Only history will be the judge of whether taking The Nolans’ 1980 hit Who’s Gonna’ Rock You? and turning into a massive filtered Disco floorfiller is a stroke of madcap genius or just plain insanity. Ah, what the hell, it’s awesome! Have a good weekend!

♫ The Nolans – Who’s Gonna’ Rock You? (Nude Disco reMix)

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Jun 29 2012

Avec Sans

Avec Sans

Got the heads up about this over on Breaking More Waves, on of the UKs best, and most passionate, music blogs. Robin at BMW predicts that London ElectroPop duo Avec Sans will soon have the music blogosphere’s tongues wagging, and he could very well be right. So let’s start the ball rolling.

Avec Sans are Alice Fox and Jack St James who, after a seriously classy cover of Bon Iver’s Perth, have dropped this début tune, the amazingly titled Heartbreak Hi. Amazingly titled ‘cos not only is it a reference to casually greeting heartbreak, but also sounds like an awesome Australian teen drama from the early ‘90’s. Now that’s wordplay! The track itself is glorious, rousing slice of razor sharp ElectroPop. With a very slight Industrial quality to it, that is tempered by Alice Fox’s impassioned vocals. It’s rare for a new ElectroPop act to come along and sound so polished and mature from the get-go. Avec Sans are going to do big things, mark my words.

♫ Avec Sans – Heartbreak Hi

♫ Avec Sans – Perth (Bon Iver Cover)

[Via Breaking More Waves]

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Jun 29 2012

Mitch Murder’s ‘Daybreak’

Mitch Murder

Hot on the heels of his recent MARS EP, which was hot on the heels of his awesome Current Events album, comes this new hot track from SynthWave legend (Yes. I said legend. What?) Mitch Murder. All that being hot on the heels stuff must be pretty hard to keep up with, but Mr. Murder keeps releasing tune after tune that literally blows 95% of his peers out of the water. When Mitch drops a new SynthWave track, it;s in a totally different ballpark.

Daybreak is his latest offering, captures the good vibes of Tropical Disco and the sunrise euphoria of Balearic House, takes those feelings and applies them to his deeply musical SynthWave. The ability to conjure a mood in music, and to let that music resonate the mood back to the listener is on of Mitch Murders biggest strengths, and here the man delivers the ambience of sunrises, deserted beaches, waves lapping at their shores. Not a place Mitch has taken us to before, but one he handles with effortless perfection. This is synthesizer art, Mitch paint a aural picture for the listener with rich synth textures.

♫ Mitch Murder – Daybreak

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

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Jun 29 2012

Rogue Vogue’s new single

Rogue Vogue

Rogue Vogue is that rare beast, a Chicago House producer actually from Chicago. I wonder if that makes him really smug at Chicago House producer get-togethers? If it was me I would well play the Chicago card all the time.

His latest track, When I Looked At You, was premiered on the last of The Magician’s Magic Tapes, and is released soon through French Express. It’s a proper deep Chicago groove complete with piano hook and hollow bass. Apparently, with the resurgence of early ‘90’s House sounds people are saying “jackin’” again, well this is without a doubt a jackin’ tune with a smooth vocal hook. Proper late night danceflor stuff whit this amazing lead line that occasionally drops in and out. This is the real deal.

♫ Rogue Vogue – When I Looked At You

Check out more from Rogue Vogue on SoundCloud.