FaderTV recently posted this awesome interview with Chromeo on their YouTube channel. It’s a nice little tour of the studio in Brooklyn where they have shipped all their gear to and are recording the new album in. An all too brief insight into how Chromeo work.
Au Revoir Simone + Punches
Brooklyn based DJ trio Punches are making a bit of a stir in blog world with their Trumpet infused Disco reMix of Indie-Electro girl band Au Revoir Simone’s ‘Only You Can Make Me Happy’
Punches, composed of twin brother DJs Finger On The Pulse, Alan Astor & The Kid Robb, create a perfect summertime vibe, completely different from the original, but with a horn riff and Disco bassline that you can’t help but love.
♫ Au Revoir Simone – Only You Can Make You Happy (Punches reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
Au Revoir Simone’s recent album ‘Still Night, Still Light’ is out now.
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Peter Bjorn & John reMix The Golden Filter
The Golden Filter’s ‘Hide Me’ single is out this week and amongst the reMix package is this interpretation by Peter Bjorn & John, or rather John Eriksson’s project Hortlax Cobra.
Atmospheric, floaty and quite experimental and featuring more of John’s vocals than the Penelope’s, the reMix strips The Golden Filter of their New York Disco but seems to keep their atmosphere and feeling of the original.
♫ The Golden Filter – Hide Me (Peter Bjorn & John’s Hortlax Cobra reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
‘Hide Me’ is released on 19th April followed by the album on the 26th.
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The Rouge Element
The Rogue Element A.K.A. Ben Medcalf returns with a new single after his recent acclaimed album ‘Lumina’.
There’s something almost mid 90’s Seattle Grunge about the vocals in this track which actually work amazingly well in an electronic setting and along with the toyshop synth solo give this ElectroPop track a real rock feel.
♫ The Rogue Element – Mistakes (Edit) (zShare) (MediaFire)
‘Mistakes’ is released 10th May.
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The Vanish – Beyond Deep reMix
Do we need to sing the praises of The Vanish and their recent début single ‘Hold On’ one more time? Well, if you haven’t gone out and purchased it then I suppose we do!
Easily one of our favourite single of the year so far, The Vanish seem to make the point where everything we dig, Indie-Electro/ElectroPop/Dreamwave/Electro-House, converge in just the right measures to be something truly special. Along with the likes of Russ Chimes and Gemini Club, Beyond Deep provide one of the reMixes for the single, a deep, sunrise-esq, with some great subtle vocoding.
♫ The Vanish – Hold On (Beyond Deep Mix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
The ‘Hold On’ single is out right now! Go get!
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Cavaliers Of Fun reMix AXXE
Wow! Here’s two bands we’ve been pretty vocal about digging, and it’s just awesome it when two artists we love come together!
It was a couple of months ago we raved about Montreal Electro-sleazesters AXXE, we really dug their take on low down dirty ElectroPop, without going into comedy, faux sleaze, ElectroClash embarrassing territory and Cavaliers Of Fun have dropped some of our favourite tracks of recent months. His work on AXXE’s ‘S.A.T.U.R.D.A.Y. Night’ is not exception, keeping the powerful vocal structure and dropping it over his particular brand of ElectroPop/Space-Disco.
♫ AXXE – S.A.T.U.R.D.A.Y. Night (Cavaliers Of Fun reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
You can check out AXXE’s ‘Hard Candy’/’S.A.T.U.R.D.A.Y. Night’ single at their SoundCloud.
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LCD Soundsystem’s new video
We’ve actually been pretty lax about posting all this LCD Soundsystem news that’s been going on, we’re pretty exited about the new album, which you can stream on the band’s official website, it’s defiantly sounds like it’s gonna’ be the Post-Punk/Disco-Punk chaotic brilliance it’s expected to be.
Check out the Spike Jonze directed video for the first single from the new album, ‘Drunk Girls’, a LCD ruckus party track that harks back to ‘Daft Punk Is Playing At My House’:
LCD’s new album,‘This Is Happening’, drops 18th May.
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Don’t Wait Animate reMixes
We posted about Don’t Wait Animate a while back, their post-Nu-Rave Indie-Dub-Electro thing is pretty unique. A jagged inner city mash-up of styles and influences.
The London 5 piece have dropped by the electronic rumors Inbox to big up a couple of reMixes of their début single, ‘6174’. The Dirty Disco deliver something special, completely deconstructing the track and building it back up into a dancefloor ElectroPop smash with some heavy heavy beats and more than a couple of nods to Dubstep as does Coin Operated Boy’s 8-bit noise rave.
♫ Don’t Wait Animate – 6174 (The Dirty Disco reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
♫ Don’t Wait Animate – 6174 (Coin Operated Boy reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
‘6174’ is our now.
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Thieves Like Us’ new single
This week sees the release of Thieves Like Us’ latest offering, the ‘Forget Me Not’ single. This will be the second taste, after the ‘leaked’ track ‘Never Known Love’, of their forthcoming new album ‘Again And Again’
To get you in the mood for the new single try checking out these two remixes, including one by Gomma artiste Cecile who’s dancefloor beats betray the haunting nature of the reMix and the Second Date mix, which is my favourite so far, with a nice modern-retro feel to it. Full of arpeggios and 80’s synth chords without ruining the melancholic nature of the original.
♫ Thieves Like Us – Forget Me Not (Cecile Small Town Girl reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
♫ Thieves Like Us – Forget Me Not (Second Date reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
‘Forget Me Not’ is released this week and the album drops 7th May.
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New Alice In Videoland single! Spaceship
Long-time readers of electronic rumors should be no strangers to Swedish ElectroPunk outfit Alice In Videoland (they even made our top 20 tracks of 2009!), they are one band we can’t help but get enthusiastic about.
Some exiting news, then, coming out of AiV HQ, the guys are finalizing the recording of new material and are gearing up for the release of a brand new single!
‘Spaceship’ is one of the most commercial tracks to come out of the AiV camp (despite the lyrical content), but that’s no bad thing. Pushing their raw ElectroPunk sound into territories verging on Electro-House and Pop, the single is like Lady GaGa or Goldfrapp run through a distortion pedal. Catchy as hell (something a little bit lacking from their last album) with an infections riff ‘Spaceship’ reminds you of just how in-your-face electronic music, and even Pop, can be in the right hands.
Alice In Videoland have been kind enough to allow me to share the track with you lot:
♫ Alice In Videoland – Spaceship (zShare) (MediaFire)
A definite welcome return for Alice’s Electro-Pop-Punk soundclash.
The ‘Spaceship’ single is released 21st April on Wonderland Records.
