This week’s capsule of Synthesizer Zen, to carry you into the weekend, comes courtesy of Studio EP-Service and their playing around with the undisputed king of keytars, the Moog Liberation.
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Lenno & Martin Solveig
Hot on the heels of wunderkind Madeon’s reMix of Martin Solveig’s new single ‘The Night Out’ comes another of our favourite up-and-comers Lenno’s version of the track. Madeon’s an absolute genius, there some kind of freaky latent talent going on there that is so far beyond and normal human ability that it’s possible he’s a extra-terrestrial visitor sent here to study homo sapien reactions to Disco, but if, gun to our head, we had to pick between Madeon and Lenno, I think Lenno would just take the prize. His smooth but energetic French Touch gets us every time.
So, to his reMix. Solveig’s made some awesome reMix talent decisions (A-Trak also contributes a blinder) and in contrast to Madeon’s powerhouse track, Lenno drops something slightly more slick. The lead riff the Finnish producer has worked into the track is pure dancefloor jump-up energy and rides effortlessly over the kind of bassline that you could work into any set as it rolls along, unobtrusive, yet unconsciously building you to the big drop. As far as we’re concerned, this is the pick of the reMix package. I guess that makes us ‘Team Lenno’ then? Ah man, does that mean we have to change all out user icons?
♫ Martin Solveig – The Night Out (Lenno reMix)
‘The Night Out’ is out soon.
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Citizens! reMix Man Without Country
London Indie-Electropoppers Citizens! are on a roll right now. A couple of amazing singles, some high profile compilation appearances, and now it seems innovative and damn funky reMixes, have propelled them into the tastemakers consciousnesses to the point where success is pretty much guaranteed. I’m happy for them, maybe now they can afford those decent haircuts they’ve been after for so long.
And those fashionable barnets would be well deserved, these guys have got a really raw, almost live, electronic sound that, when they lend it to a reMix, makes for a unique, and raucous take on ElectroPop. Being lent this garage synth vibe are Welsh Chillwavey electronic noodlers Man Without Country, whose track ‘Puppets’ becomes something akin to Moroder through a distortion pedal at the hands of this hipster quintet. Citizens! are doing an amazing job of bringing a rough, garage quality back into the world of SynthPop, as they do on this reMix, and as the will probably do when they launch their new single in London 18th April with Men Without Country in tow.
♫ Man Without Country – Puppets (Citizens! reMix)
Citizens! and Men Without Country play the Ridgely Road Market Bar in London, 18th April.
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Friday Bridge & Nicolas Makelberge
Friday Bridge are a Sweedish SynthPop duo that mix in a little Baroque in to their Pop, they’ve been around for about half a decade but I know them from their team-up with Johan Agebjörn on his ‘Casablanca Nights’ album. I can actually find very little information about them ,and even less about their newest collaborative partner Nicolas Makelberge. I can only assume it’s because they are actually deep cover government operatives with some hidden agenda who are only masquerading as makers of awesome ElectroPop.
So that their cover isn’t blown, lets just play along and hope no-one shoots/stabs/poisons us. This new single, ‘Dark Heart’ is a bright shiny slice of DiscoPop that Friday Bridge claimed in their email contains some “saucy “oh’s”” , they’re not wrong. The thing is chock full of saucy “oh’s” and smooth dancefloor friends basslines. It’s actually a pretty unique combination between sexy Disco grooves and that Scandinavian iciness you usually find in more experimental outfits like The Knife. Here, that slightly razors-edge feel is interestingly applied to more traditional, friendly, ElectroPop and the end result it something brand new. Disco grooves, Pop sheen and an edge of danger. We’re definitely now looking forward to hearing more from these guys new album. On an unrelated note, I might start producing a line of canned spaghetti hoops in tomato sauce called ‘saucy oh’s’.
♫ Friday Bridge & Nicolas Makelberge – Dark Heart
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Zimmer’s April Tape, ‘Desert Drive’
Zimmer – April Mixtape ‘Desert Drive‘ = Zimmer must be knackered! It only seems like a couple of weeks ago he dropped his March tape, then he released the reMix EP of ‘Horizontal Disco’, now he;s straight back on the horse with this new mix. The ‘Desert Drive’ has a slightly relaxed feel to it, full of chilled, dreamy Disco. It’s all dirty rolling basslines and soaring synths. Sit back and enjoy.
♫ Zimmer – April Mixtape ‘Desert Drive‘
The tracklist:
01. Zimmer – Cruisin’ (Lou Teti reMix)
02. Neighbour – You Can Do It
03. Chordashian – Black Eye
04. Lou Teti – Love It (Dublin Aunts Rework)
05. Monitor 66 – Triscuits
06. Moon Boots – Got Somebody
07. Alpine – Hands (Goldroom reMix)
08. Only Children – Down Fever
09. Munk & Peaches – You Can’t Run From My Love
10. Sebastien Tellier – Cochon Ville (Hey Champ! reMix)
11. Lauer – Trainmann (Tensnake Franceman Mix)
12. Housse De Racket – Chateau (Mickey reMix)
13. Balla – Montra (Moullinex reMix)
14. Zebra and Snake – Money In Heaven (Helsinki 78 82 reMix)
15. Dimitri From Paris & DJ Rocca (Feat. Hard Ton) – Pretty Baby
16. Kennedy – Karate (Tronik Youth Edit)
17. Zimmer(Feat. Jeremy Glenn) – Slave To Your Heart (Xinobi reMix)
18. Mercury (Feat. Christopher McCay) – Running Back To You
19. M83 – Reunion (Mylo reMix)
20. Duff Disco – Over To The Left
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Rüfüs’ ‘This Summer’ video
Aussie Indie-Electro rising starts Rüfüs’ ‘This Summer’ finally has gone and got itself a video, not sure what it’s been doing with it’s time before this that was so important though?
Alexander George directs this collection of youths-loosing-themselves-in-good-times-and-getting-a-bit-rowdy-in-slow-motion clip which, whilst being a tad unoriginal, actually looks really nice and works perfectly with the track.
Rüfüs’ EP that contains ‘This Summer’ is out now on Gigpiglet/Inertia .
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ATTAR! M!X#5
ATTAR! – M!X#5 = Boom! Joakim’s reMix of Aeroplane’s ‘Caramellas’ followed by Todd Terje’s reMix of Joakim’s ‘Nothing Gold’. That’s the kind of fresh insanity you should expect on ATTAR!’s newest mix which, we might add, are coming out at such a rate now that M!X#6 looks like it will be out last Thursday.
The tracklist:
01. Nicholas – Without You
02. Loudery – Just A Little Bit
03. Duffstep – Backseat (Duff Disco reMix)
04. Arcade Fire – Sprawl II (Soulwax reMix)
05. Aeroplane – Caramellas (Joakim reMix)
06. Joakim – Nothing Gold (Todd Terje reMix)
07. Kellerkind – Disco On The Dancefloor
08. Xinobi – Bronze
09. Polydor – The Future Past (ATTAR! reMix)
10. Osunlade – Envision (Chocolare Puma rEMix)
11. Psychemagik – Carnaval De Trancoso
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Squarepusher’s new single
Glitch superstar Squarepusher is back with a new album, ‘Ufabulum’ and this new single and video for it’s lead track ‘Dark Steering’.
I’ll admit I’ve been quite partial to Squarepusher’s IDM in the past, when he’s not getting too Drill & Bass and I found ‘Dark Steering’ pleasantly surprising for three reasons. 1) It exists 2) The video is slick as all hell 3) It’s wonderfully melodic.
‘Ufabulum’ is released 14th May on Warp, natch.
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Queen Of Hearts’ ‘Neon’
So, when I finally got to hear the wonderful Queen Of Hearts’ forthcoming new single ‘Neon’, my initial reaction was “Ahhhh, that one!”. It’s been a big part of her set the past few times I’ve see her preform and kinda’ become one of the tracks I looked forward to. Up until this point I had, for some reason that has probably to do with brain laziness, presumed it was called ‘Electrify’. Or at least that’s what I was called in my head, I might actually keep calling it ‘Electrify’ just to be belligerent.
But if i did, I’d be so very wrong. It’s call ‘Neon’, and the studio recording more than lives up to the promises made by the live version. ‘Neon’ is both pumping and slinky, which really isn’t two things that you’d imagine can occupy the same space, but Queen Of Hearts, here helped out by John Myers, makes it work. ‘Neon’ is musically a gritty, bass heavy, pulsating track that the Queen’s song drapes itself across in the vocal equivalent of a little black dress. Smooth as silk, her voice glides around chainsaw synths, each verse building to a big anthemic chorus. It’s powerful and edgy ElectroPop, it’s also very very good, and I didn’t mention Goldfrapp once! Oh.
♫ Queen Of Hearts – Neon (Produced by John Myers)
‘Neon’/’Tears In The Rain’ is released 14th May as a limited 7” single and digitally with the bonus tracks ‘Forgive Me’ and ‘No More’.
Queen Of Heart’s ‘Arrival’ EP is out now, as is ‘electronic rumors Volume 1’ on which she features.
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Ghosthouse’s ‘Stop Drop & Roll’ (with Miami Nights 1984 & Sam Padrul)
Madcap Chicago Electro Boogie trio Ghosthouse have been an act we’ve been keeping an eye on for some time now. They are so much fun, like Chromeo and The Time and Prince in a blender. they’ve just dropped a new single, ‘Stop Drop & Roll’ with a full reMix package, for absolutely free!
‘Stop Drop & Roll’ is a precursor to their forthcoming EP, but that doesn’t mean it can’t fill out this single package in it’s own right. It’s funky as fuck and catchy as hell, complete with sing-a-long chorus and big synth stabs. Ghosthouse have got the retro-synth-Funk thing so locked down it’s hard to imagine world domination wouldn’t be an option. Seriously, ‘Stop Drop & Roll’ is infectious like boogie mind control. The reMix package is pretty stunning too, it’s amazing that this single is free. One of our favourite producers working today Miami Nights 1984 works some sweet sweet SynthWave magic, the sheer Funk of the original allowing MN84 to get a little groovier than usual. The reMix is of the quality we’ve come to expect from one of the leading lights of the SynthWave scene, a producer at the top of his game MN84’s reMix is all big vintage synths and mind-blowing solos. Another friend of electronic rumors, Sam Padrul, contributes a huge slice of laid back Disco with a cosmic twist and a chilled 70’s vibe to it’s electric piano lead line. It’s Disco of the inner-city variety, like a soundtrack to the summer’s heating up of the concrete and parties starting. The single is packed full of other versions of the track. Team Bayside High get digital slap bass heavy Electro with it while Shuteye drop some jump-up beats. J.Larroc’s mix is deep military Disco and the record is rounded off with some dancefloor Electro-House from Compact Disco. It’s a highly recommended collection with an unbelievable price.
♫ Ghosthouse – Stop Drop & Roll
♫ Ghosthouse – Stop Drop & Roll (Miami Nights 1984 reMix)
♫ Ghosthouse – Stop Drop & Roll (Sam Padrul reMix)
‘Stop Drop & Roll’ is out right now, for the reasonable price of free! Pick it up right here.
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