[ER017] Ali Jamieson (Feat. Raff) – Coffee Stain (Single)
[ER016] BeatLoaf – Romantic (Single)
[ER015] Techniques – Don’t You Want To Love? (Single)
[ER014] Kids At Midnight – Unashamed/Vapours (Single)
[ER013] Freak You (Feat. Bright Light Bright Light) – There You Are (Single)
[ER012] Box Of Wolves – Let’s Start Again (Single)
[ER011P] Various Artists – X-Mas Rumors (EP)
[ER010P] She’s The Queen/Let Em Riot – Fantasy/There U Go (Single)
[ER009] beaumont (Feat. Elle Pierre) – Vampire (Single)
[ER008] She’s The Queen – Cold Heart/I Don’t Wanna Know (Single)
[ER007] New Arcades – New Arcades (EP)
[ER006/ER006CDP] Box Of Wolves & Christa Vi – Boy (Single)
[ER005P] Various Artists – electronic rumors Volume 1: The reMix EP (EP)
[ER004] Let Em Riot – SlashWave (EP)
[ER003] Ride The Universe (Feat. Jane Elizabeth Hanley) – A Little Better (Single)
[ER002/ER002CDP] She’s The Queen – Talk To Me (Single)
[ER001/ER001CD] Various Artists – electronic rumors Volume 1
Fenech-Soler have just released this beautifully shot video showcasing their recent (and amazing) UK tour.
It’s set to their next single, ‘Demons’, I don’t know whether this will end up being the official music video, I doubt it, but it’s nice enough to be. It was shot and directed by Ben Thomas with editing by Gavin Kerr.
Fenech-Soler release ‘Demons’ as a single in January, their self-titled album is out now.
We were a little surprised to find Ellie Goulding’s next single will be her cover of Elton John’s ‘Your Song’ rather than the previously announced ‘Lights’, then we saw it was on the new John Lewis X-mas adverts and everything made sense. Sigh.
I hope ‘Lights’ still sees a single release, with some nice reMixes. Meanwhile, here’s the brand new video for ‘Your Song’.
As much as I love Ellie and her music, the record label are just making blander and blander decisions when it comes to videos. At least this one isn’t a literal interpretation of the lyrics like the previous
I’m off to see Ellie and the awesome Bright Light Bright Light and Sunday Girl tomorrow, gonna’ be pretty rad!
I’m still reeling from Chromeo’s mind-blowingly awesome live show in Bristol last week, I’ve seen a lot of gigs this year and this was probably the best.
One week later and the duo drop the video for their forthcoming single ‘Hot Mess’, taken from their current album ‘Business Casual’. The video, directed by Jérémie Rozan, see Dave and Pee struggling to make it as cops in a woman’s world…a sexy woman’s world!
The single is out 17th January and, as I’m sure you’re all aware of by now, will feature a duet version of the track with La Roux’s Elly Jackson and contains reMixes from the likes of Duck Sauce and Tiga.
As you probably know, French ElectroPop guru and Valerie main man Anoraak is currently running a reMix competition over on SoundCloud featuring the track ‘Crazy Eyes’.
We’ve got a couple of our favourites right here for you. Egotomb produce this amazing, electronic organ based, ElectroPop track that has a certain atmospheric quality to it that we can’t help but find compelling. Mr. Mæn, on the other hand, turns in a deep and chilled retro, almost Dreamwave, House mix with a laidback Disco bassline. It’s an almost perfect example of mid-temo House with some of the sweetest pad you’ll ever hear.
♫ Anoraak – Crazy Eyes (Egotomb reMix)
♫ Anoraak – Crazy Eyes (Mr. Mæn reMix)
‘Crazy Eyes’ is taken from Anoraak’s album ‘Wherever The Sun Sets’ is out now.
I hate the term New Wave, I’m pretty sure it doesn’t exist. If you ever meet me in real life, buy me a beer and I’ll give you my ‘new wave rant’.
However, if there is a band for who the term (begrudgingly) fits it’s Brooklyn’s pretty awesome New Wave act Selebrities who have a new 12” on the horizon. They are just that right combination of Post-Punk and SynthPop that New Wave is supposed to be.
The new single,‘We’ve Been Foolish’/’When I Look At You’, sees more of their really authentically 80’s sounding tunes that mash up influences from New Order to Bauhaus to Kim Wilde. All this is complimented so well by Maria Usbeck’s ability to vocally slip in and out of the track.
♫ Selebrities – When I Look At You
‘We’ve Boon Foolish’/’When I Look At You’ is released 23rd November on Cascine.
If you’re looking for something the humourless masses can get freaked out about in the new LexiconDon video you’re gonna’ be sorely disappointed.
After the internet got it’s collective blogging panties in a bunch over LD’s last video, ‘December Sunset’ holds no surprises. It is, however, a slick, interestingly filmed performance video that makes me wish that a) the weather was better and b) that LexiconDon would come tour the UK.
Check out LexiconDon’s album, ‘Pink + Blue’, out now on dubFrequency/Binary.
Australia’s beacon of pure SynthPop light in the darkness, Parralox, are releasing their third studio album this month.
‘Metropolis’ is a totally well crafted album that shows a definite progression in Parralox’s sound, slowly moving away from the generic Modern SynthPop (of which they were always better than the pack) to encompass more contemporary electronic music styles. Of course there is still shades of Depeche Mode et al in the mix, but this time around it all sound so much more fresh. This is an electronic Pop album that has come from the Modern SynthPop scene but can stand toe to toe with some of the greats of current ElectroPop or Indie-Electro, and that is a rare and special thing indeed.
Just check out ‘Don’t Listen To Me’, a top quality ElectroPop track that fuses twenty first century Electro production techniques with an 80’s influenced songwriting style that also nods toward Disco-Pop in a way that is pretty flawless. This could be the album that sees Parralox playing in the big leagues.
♫ Parralox – Don’t Listen To Me
‘Metropolis’ is released 19th November.
Mirror People (House/Electronica producer Rui Maia) has worked his Moroder influence magic on French renaissance man Serge Gainsbourg’s ‘Sea, Sex & Sun’.
Totally getting his Moog funk on, Rui is on a complete disco trip here, form the P-Funk bassline to the squelchy leads it seems to make a kinda’ backing for Serge being his usual dirty old man self!
♫ Serge Gainsbourg – Sea, Sex & Sun (Mirror People ‘Cosmic’ Rework)
Check out more from Mirror People at his SoundCloud.
It’s been a while since we last wrote about the mastermind behind Dutch ElectroPoppers Le Le Rimeroni Vumani A.K.A. Rimer London.
The man is following up last years solo EP ‘Innercity’ with a new album in the coming months preceded by this single we have right here. ‘Squaring the Triangle’ is a deep analog Disco journey with extra 70’s synth cool. From it’s pulsing bassline to it’s piano backed lead line there’s no glossy 21st century production here, this is old school synthesizer funk that’s both refreshing and ace to listen to.
♫ Rimer London – Squaring The Triangle
‘Squaring The Triangle’ is set for release 21th October with reMixes from TWR72, Beesmunt and Awanto 3.
Bristol born Xenomania go-to girl Florrie dropped her début EP yesterday, both on iTunes and absolutely free on her website.
The ‘Introducing’ EP does just that. As a collection of four tracks, some we’ve heard before, some new, it’s a pretty good example of Florrie’s sound and where she seems to be going.
One of the new tracks on the EP is ‘Left Too Late’ which is, frankly, pretty amazing. It’s got everything you want in electronically produced Pop. Coming from the Xenomania camp you expect a certain level of quality Pop, but this is all Florrie’s work and is pretty stunning for a début, and a début without a label too. Having already turned down quite a few major label offered in favour of self-development I’m sure she’s going to be in a position to negotiate the perfect deal in the coming months.
If you like the tracks I strongly suggest throwing Florrie a few bucks and buying the EP, she’s gotta’ eat after all!
