Aug 21 2010

Title track from HURTS début album

Over at Amazon.co.uk they’re giving away the title track from HURTS, insanely eagerly anticipated, début album, ‘Happiness’. But if you can’t be bothered to go grab it you can have a listen to it right hear.

Having heard the whole album I would have to say it’s nothing short of stunning, practically encompassing every influence I’d want to hear on a record. It’s very 80’s. but never once does it feel like some kind of cheap retro sideshow, just genuinely harkening back to a time with a different style of songwriting.

The title track is a bombastic Pop epic, listen and watch the hairs on your arms stand up!

♫ HURTS – Happiness

‘Happiness’ is released 6th September. Not Long now!

Aug 21 2010

Cassette Jam X Filthy Dukes

Cassette Jam are a couple of Northern producers who are about to drop a double A-side single from their forthcoming, self-titled, début album.

‘Speed Of Light’/’Hey Homo’ comes with mixes from Doorly and the mighty Filthy Dukes (who also had a hand in the album’s production). The Filthy Dukes dub of ‘Speed Of Light’ is an early 90’s House sounding cut that has that recognisable Filthy Dukes use of riffs in it. This is serious strobe lights, top of the night, stuff.

♫ Cassette Jam – Speed Of Light (Filthy Dukes Dub)

‘Speed Of Light’ is out 6th September.

Cassette Jam @ Beatport

Cassette Jam @ Juno

Cassette Jam @ 7Digital

Cassette Jam @ Amazon

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Aug 21 2010

Gossip Culture

Gossip Culture, a solo Indie-ElectroPop project from Cleveland, Ohio has dropped his latest track ‘1985’ in the electronic rumors Inbox. And so it goes from us to you.

It’s a nice chilled synth Funk jam, like Chromeo winding down after a hard night’s partying. The Funk bass and vocoded vocals work together to product the kind of tune that seem you walking home at 5 in the morning with a smile on your face. In his own words the track is a “tribute to the year that brought us Phoebe Cates, Nintendo, and Rick James”..good call!

♫ Gossip Culture – 1985

The track is part of a 5 track EP, ‘People talk’, due out later this year, until then show the man some MySpace love!

Gossip Culture @ MySpace

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Aug 20 2010

Où Est Le Swimming Pool’s Charlie Haddon R.I.P.

Sad news this evening.

Charlie Haddon, lead singer of ElectroPop heroes Où Est Le Swimming Pool took his own life today whilst the band were at the Pukkelpop festival in Belgium.

Not much is know about the circumstances but the news has been confirmed by both the band and festival organisers.

Où Est Le Swimming Pool were one of the best, most fun, electronic Pop bands in the UK right now. The put out top quality SynthPop, were awesome live and will be missed.

Our thoughts go out to Charlie’s family, friends and the rest of the band.

R.I.P. Charlie Haddon

Aug 20 2010

Goldfrapp & Little Loud

UK Electro producer Little Loud, who we featured last month, has had his way with Goldfrapp’s forthcoming single ‘Believer’, the third single from their ‘head First’ album, and the results are impressive stuff.

Pretty much all of the music we feature on electronic rumors is made with synthesizers, obviously, but sometimes a track comes along that just sounds really ‘synthy’. This is one of those tracks. Maybe it’s the sidechaining or the big digital bass, whatever it is it sounds ace. Like a deep synthetic hole you can just go and chill in the track is laidback and enveloping.

♫ Goldfrapp – Believer (Little Loud reMix)

‘Believer’ is released 7th September on Mute

Aug 20 2010

Glass Candy reMixes Appaloosa

It’s Italo heroes Glass Candy’s second official reMix in 11 years! The subject is Appaloosa’s new single ‘Intimate’.

At just under 6 minutes, the mix certainly manages to sound epic despite being quite lo-fi in it’s instrumentation. What comes out the other side of the Glass Candy studio machine is a hypnotic and engaging ElectroPop tune with Italo Disco leanings. Perfect for summer late nights.

♫ Appaloosa – Intimate (Glass Candy reMixxx)

Appaloosa’s ‘Intimate’ single is out 30th August.

Aug 20 2010

New Fever Ray cover of ‘Mercy Street’

Going down a more introspective path we find Fever Ray’s new cover of Peter Gabriel’s ‘Mercy Street’.

Despite being dark and melancholic, this put a smile on my face. It’s been a while since I’ve put on some Fever Ray (or, indeed, The Knife) and this, new material from Karin Dreijer Andersson, just reminded me why she (and her brother) are so good in the first place! It’s a stunning cover.

Just listen.

♫ Fever Ray – Mercy Street (Peter Gabriel Cover)

this is going to be released as a linited edition 7” single on Rabid Records later in the year.

Aug 20 2010

The Ting Tings get ElectroPoppy

IndiePop twosome The Ting Tings are gearing up to release their second album after the massive success of 2008’s ‘We Started Nothing’ and those singles it spawned.

It looks like this time round the duo have taken a more ElectroPop route, the results are actually really cool. Check out the first single from the new album, ‘Hands’, it’s a pretty slick slice of danceable electronic Pop injected with a dose of The Ting Tings’ feisty quirkiness and their trademark sing-a-long choruses.

♫ The Ting Tings – Hands

Retro/Grade have done an excellent job with their reMix, a nice retro version complete with electro toms and two finger basslines. I almost thought it was turning into ‘Smalltown Boy’ at one point!

♫ The Ting Tings – Hands (Retro/Grade reMix)

‘Hands’ is due for release 10th October.

The Ting Tings @ Juno

The Ting Tings @ 7Digital

The Ting Tings @ Amazon

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Aug 18 2010

Clancy & Build Vs. Minitel Rose

Who doesn’t love Minitel Rose? Chances are, if you’re reading this blog, you do!

So check out this new reMix of ‘Wild Birds’ from their recent, and amazing, album ‘Atlantic’. It’s been a while since we featured anything by Build, the man’s been quiet of late but here he’s teamed up with fellow London producer Clancy to ElectroPop the hell out of this track. Smooth dancefloor electronic Pop production that could see the names Clancy & Build next to the likes of Grum, Russ Chimes & Starsmith in the future.

♫ Minitel Rose – Wild Birds (Clancy & Build reMix)

‘Atlantic’ is out now.

Minitel Rose – @ Beatport

Minitel Rose – @ Juno

Minitel Rose – @ 7Digital

Minitel Rose – @ Amazon

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Aug 18 2010

Fenech-Soler & Hervé

So, by now you know that the awesome Fenech-Soler are re-releasing ‘Lies’, their single of last year, the reMix package will include this little Balearic rave jam from Hervé.

Hervé brings the deep basslines and sunrise synths to his version. His hypnotic percussion and buzzsaw lead lines seem at odds with the rock swagger of the vocals but somehow Hervé makes it all gel together.