London based avant garde Indie-ElectroPoppers Clock Opera’s single ‘Once And For All’ was released this month on Kitsuné.
One of the reMixes included on the EP is this deep Lo-Fi mix be Clive Tanaka, a man so illusive that even the label know little about him. Still, everyone loves a mystery these days init! This shadowy figure brings an atmospheric, relaxed take on the track with minimal synth and guitar work creating a hypnotic vibe for Clock Opera’s emotive track to ride over.
Wow, this has been around for a week or so now but I’ve only just been turned on to it.
ARMS are a Brooklyn based Indie outfit who’s track ‘Heat And hot Water’ has been given an rollicking Electro-Indie-Pop reMix by none other than Passion Pit. The reMix is the kind of thing you’d expect from PP, it’s a cute Lo-Fi affair with a really cool toy synth lead line.
Well, this is already vying for position as my favourite track of the year, it feels like I’ve been waiting all my life for this tune.
Nu-Disco über-producer Grum’s reMix of Pet Shop Boys’ ‘West End Girls’ features as B-side on the SynthPop duo’s new single ‘Together’ and, for me anyway, it’s an almost perfect meeting of everything I grew up with and everything I love now. I love the big analog bassline and the massive Dreamwave-esq pads and the fact that the song remains intact, but totally updated. This thing is one of the classics of the genre but sound fresh as fuck!
Pet Shop Boys greatest hits, ‘Ultimate’, and the digital single of‘Together’ are out now with the physical release, featuring the Grum reMix, coming soon.
This week sees the release of New York/Berlin based duo The Glass’ début album.
Titled ‘At Swim Two Birds’, you can stream the album on the bands SoundCloud, is 10 tracks of cool garage Disco, raw and funky. Dark at times but always with a rad bassline. Better still is the reMix of of ‘Four Four Letter’ by Black Van (Kris Menace and KoweSix from Moonbootica) who layer up the huge synth chords in this killer Nu-Disco/House track.
Anyone interested in electronic music production should head on over to the Vice Broadcasting System and check out their new series ‘The Producers’.
Each episode of the series spends a little time in the studio with some of the UK’s most exiting producers and discusses their techniques and philosophies and how they approach making the ground breaking records they do.
The latest episode focuses on Gareth Jones, the legendary producer/engineer responsible for some of the classics of SynthPop including albums by Depeche Mode, Erasure, John Foxx, Wire, Einstürzende Neubauten and Mesh.
Check out the trailer for the series…
…and head on over to VBS-TV to watch the episode and catch the previous instalment featuring Sheffield producer Toddla T.
Blah, blah, blah, Kitsuné Music releasing the tenth instalment of their Maison series, titled ‘The Fireworks Issue’. Yadda, yadda, yadda, JBAG put together a minimix to showcase the album…
If you want the lowdown on Kitsuné’s new Maison album, with tracklist, you can read our original post here. The original post contains part 1 of JBAG’s album minimix, here’s part 2 for your listening pleasure. Gonna’ be a tidy compilation!
HURTS’ new single is released this week and even though everybody seems to agree that ‘Sunday’ is perfect single material it is ‘Stay’, which is fair enough, it’s a pretty powerful track.
So, to the reMixes! The awesome surprise of the single is Groove Armada signing up for reMix duties, and the reMix doesn’t disappoint. Slightly less vocal than I would have liked the mix is nonetheless an enticing House track with an early 90’s feel to it. From it’s orchestral stabs to it’s floaty piano, to it’s killer digital bassline this is 1991 warehouse stuff!
Here we have recent DFA signing Woolfy’s video for his new EP ‘Looking Glass’
Woolfy is LA based Londoner Simon James who’s new EP is a particularly epic, Post-Punky, journey through Dirty Disco and SynthPop and includes a reMix by Canyons.
The gorgeous video was directed by Collin LaFleche.
Echo is the ElectroPop/Indie-Electro project of Frenchman Rougier Armand who’s unique and raw take on the genre has been played a lot here at electronic rumors this past week.
Mixing up live instruments along with dirty sounding drum machines and old analog synth sounds, topped with Rougier’s wistful, floaty, vocals makes for a contradictory, but interesting, record. Listening to his just released third album ‘About To be A Man’ I find myself thinking of a more poppy version of Kevin McMahon’s Prick outfit, it’s that kind of combination of noisy, garage, electronics with the slightly otherworldly, slightly dreamlike vocals that is at once aggressive and calming.
Check out two tracks from the new album. ‘We Dance The Same’ is probably the track most likely to be dropped in Indie-Electro clubs and could do really well licenced to someone like Kitsuné. ‘Just Ask The Other Guy’ has, almost, touches of early IAMX about it and is a prefect example of Echo’s work.
So here it is! The internet’s been chatting all week about Chromeo’s forthcoming single ‘Hot Mess’ which features a version of the track laid out as a duet with La Roux’s Elly Jackson and now we can finally hear it.
Annie Mac, in her awesomeness, premiered the song on her Radio 1 show last night and yours truly ripped it for you all to have a little taster. The back and forth vocals aren’t what I was expecting. I was expecting something simple and, almost, tacked on, but Elly’s parts seem both fresh and like they have been there forever. You wouldn’t necessarily think that Elly’s stark vocals would sit well with Chromeo’s slick Electro Funk, but it really does! Colour me impressed!
This might well be the last time we hear Elly’s unique vocals on an ElectroPop track. Despite riding high in the American dance charts with her US re-release of ‘In For The Kill’, Mz. Jackson has stated she wants to move on from synth music. Damn shame really, another one bites the dust, so enjoy this while you can!
