Perseus’ Love In Zanzibar’

Perseus

This weekend French Express main man Perseus dropped another new free tune, and like ‘Seychelles’, it doesn’t disappoint.

The Mary J. Blige sampling ‘Love In Zanzibar’ is exotic Disco at it’s finest and although the vocal snippet dominates the track, it’s the synth bassline that is the real draw here. It plays out a robotic Funky groove which provides the whole route for the rest of the track to be smooth and soulful over. File this under ‘perfect tunes for lazy summer days’.

Perseus – Love In Zanzibar

Perseus’ ‘Russian Girlfriends’ EP is out now.

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Synthesizer Zen

This week’s capsule of Synthesizer Zen, to carry you into the weekend, comes courtesy of Japanese prog rocker Bunmei Ogaw and his love of Moogs.

Video courtesy of YouTube user bunbunmei.

Queen Of Hearts & Kissy Sell Out

queen of hearts

Last night, on his final BBC Radio 1 show Rave renaissance man Kissy Sell Out premiered a brand new tune featuring the vocal stylings of our reigning ElectroPop monarch, Queen Of Hearts.

‘You’re Not The One’ may be in it’s infancy as a track but it’s already sounding like it could take festival season by storm. Whether this is what the finished product will sound like is anyone’s guess but I’m pretty much expecting to be dancing to this in a muddy field in a few months time. Queen Of Hearts’ own new double A-side single, ‘Neon’/’Tears In The Rain’, which was also débuted on the radio in the past few days, should be out 14th May.

♫ Kissy Sell Out & Queen Of Hearts – You’re Not The One (Radio Rip)

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Bastian’s Happy Flight’s ‘EOP01’

Bastian's Happy Flight

One of our favourite labels, the awesome Mullet Records is celebrating it’s 50th release, Bastian’s Happy Flight’s ‘EP01’ with a free download to promote the amazing reMix package it has in store.

‘EP01, the début EP from this Australian five piece is crammed full with eight tracks. Four Originals and four reMixes, all blissed out funky ElectroPop with a Disco twist. The lead track, ‘It’s OK’, is pure summer anthem material. A slick Indie-Electro backing for some seriously lush Dreamwave synths with rousing vocals and building layers of sound giving the tune an eipc quality. Of remaining the original tracks our favourite is ‘In My Mind’, a laid back slice of Disco laden soulful ElectroPop with synth bass and piano working together to create a sunrise vibe. The signature of the original tracks are funky electronic and powerful, emotive vocals, which proved an excellent jump off point for the reMixes. Amongst which are Dublin Aunts deep ‘90’s House take on ‘It’s OK’, with it’s hammering House piano, which managers to inject a little Disco into it’s retro club sound and Mullet head honcho Casio Social Club’s ‘Heavy Disco Edit’, which does exactly what it says on the tin. expect big bouncy synth bass and wicked Disco licks.

Bastian’s Happy Flight – It’s OK (Radio Edit)

♫ Bastian’s Happy Flight -In My Mind

♫ Bastian’s Happy Flight – It’s OK (Dublin Aunts reMix)

♫ Bastian’s Happy Flight – You Keep Dancin’ (Casio Social Club Heavy Disco Edit)

‘EP01’ is out via Juno on 4th April and everywhere else on the 11th.

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Stereowave

Stereowave

Stereowave are a duo separated by an entire continent. One in LA one in NYC who, thanks to technology, were able to pass tracks back and forth and put together a pretty special EP.

The only downside I can see to this situation is, on listening to Stereowave’s self-titled début EP, you come to realise that this is music meant to be played live. It’s big, powerful ElectroPop infused with a Disco funk and, and here’s where they differentiate themselves from the pack, an anthemic, almost Rocky structure.  It’s actually pretty hard to pinpoint exactly where Stereowave sit musically, there’s so much going on in terms of styles and influences. Once minute they will sound like big Scandinavian stadium SynthPop, the next they will drop some Disco strings or some Jazzy electric piano. It’s a ballsy EP, with a raw quality to it, amongst the soulful vocals and groove sit dynamic buzzsaw synths and EBM beats. So you see, it’s like Funky EBM, or aggressive Disco, or soulful Electro, or just PowerPop that draws it’s DNA from all over the electronic spectrum. Whatever it is, I bet it’s awesome live.

♫ Stereowave – Battle of Actium

♫ Stereowave – Love in Actual Ways

♫ Stereowave – Skylife

♫ Stereowave – Safe in the Sound

Stereowave’s self-titled début EP is out now.

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Lé Lé’s ‘No’ video

We’ve been talking a bit about Lé Lé’s return with their brand new album ‘Play Time’ and it’s lead single, ‘Need’/’No’.

Here’s the video for, ‘No’, the English version. Man that butler’s got a job and a half!

Lé Lé’s new album, ‘Party Time’, is due out soon on Magnetron Music.

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Zimmer reMixed by Lou Teti

zimmer

Zimmer’s ‘Horizontal Disco’ EP was one of the highlights of the latter half of last year. Now Discotexas far going for a second win with the soon-to-be-released ‘Horizontal Disco reMixes’.

Lou Teti contribution to the EP is this smooth sunset reMix of ‘Crusin’’ that plays on the originals riff amidst a beautiful, chilled out, Disco groove. The laid back solo really is something you need to hear. The EP will also boast reMixes from the likes of Moullinex, Broke One, Jeremy Glenn, Moon Boots, Xinobi and Mercury, that’s quite a line up. This collection drops in April, not only on digital but on a transparent 12” limited to 200 copies.

♫ Zimmer – Cruisin’ (Lou Teti reMix)

‘Horizontal Disco reMixes’ is released 6th April.

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CHEW LiPS’ ‘Mini Mixtape Vol. 1’ (yes, that’s a new CHEW LiPS track!)

CHEW LiPS

CHEW LiPS – Mini Mixtape Vol. 1 = The awesome CHEW LiPS are hinting at their return with this ten minute minimix. It;s an eclectic selection of tune, but of particular interest here is the second from last track (right before the Um Bongo ad music!) is a brand new CHEW LiPS track, ‘Do You Chew’! And pretty special it is to, moody and imposing.

CHEW LiPS – Mini Mixtape Vol. 1

The tracklist:

01. Caramba – Fedora/Kia Ora
02. M.I.A. – Bad Girls
03. Chris Brown (Feat. Lil Wayne & Busta Rhymes) – Look At Me Now
04. Prince – I Would Die 4 U
05. LV (Feat. Joshua Idehen) – Northern Line
06. Beck – Get Real Paid
07. Carlos D’Alessio – Tika Tika Walk
08. CHEW LiPS – Do You Chew?
09. Andre Jacquemin – Um Bongo, Um Bongo (They Drink It In The Congo)

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Nickee B

Nickee B

Smooth sounds now from French SynthWave producer Nickee B and ‘In The Heat Of The Night’.

‘In The Heat Of The Night’ plays out like deep late night Italo. With a mid-tempo groove that allows it’s lead lines to evolve with out being rushed, Nickee B takes his time and lays on layers of melody and sweet solo playing creating something quite magical. For those chilled nights in the city.

♫ Nickee B – In The Heat Of The Night

Check out more from Nickee B on SoundCloud.

Sohight’s new tune

sohight

Riding high on the success of their, frankly awesome, ‘High School’ EP for Kiez Beats, Russian duo Sohight has dropped a new free track, ‘My Lovin’’

‘My Lovin’’ is just the kind of top-quality SynthWave with a Disco twist we’ve come to expect from these guys in the past few months. The squelchy bassline just oozes Funk which the shimmering, think, retro synths work their sweet sweet magic. With this track Sohight have managed to fall neatly into a very hard place for producers to reach, that spot with the rousing nostalgia of SynthWave and the dancefloor energy of Electro-House, without falling too far one way or the other and without loosing the groove.

Sohight – My Lovin’

‘High School’ is out 13th April and also includes a reMix from Kreap.

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