Aug 27 2012

Hemingway reMixes Gossip Culture

We featured the original version and a reMix from French SynthWave rocker Tommy, of American ElectroPop producer Gossip Culture ‘s new single, Just Fine With You, a couple of months ago. Now it;s looking like the track is getting it’s proper release soon it seems time to look at the remaining reMix on the single, from the excellent Toronto eclectic Disco producer Hemingway.

Hemingway whips up something a little different for this track. Driven by harsh drum machine beast that are very reminiscent on early Warp Records output. Those raw, shuffling House beats provide a unique backing for Hemmingway’s waves of lush synths. Ryan Sheridan’s hazy Chillwave vocal sits nicely with the reMixes cosmic synths and ‘90’s House touches. It’s a reMix that probably shouldn’t work on paper, with all these conflicting elements, but Hemingway makes everything come together in harmony, and makes it seem effortless.

♫ Gossip Culture – Just Fine With You (Hemingway reMix)

Just Fine With Youis out this summer.

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Aug 23 2012

Southern Shores’ new EP

One again Cascine sends us the most beautiful music. Toronto’s Southern Shores are gearing up for the release of their new EP, New World. The first track from the EP to surface is New Love, a track that perfectly encompasses the breezy summer vibe of the EP.

From the EP opener Marazul, you are treated to some of the most blissful, engaging sounds this year. At times bordering on Ambient, but always enslaved to the undulating Balearic rhythms that run throughout. When it’s not being all chill-out atmospheric the EP shows off Southern Shores injection of early ‘90’s R&B into their music, tracks like Sankasa and Purple Sky let you easily slip into a Soul state of mind. New Love is actually one of the standouts of this sun-kissed collection, drawing in the influences of the rest of the EP into one neat package. Hazy tropical sounds and rolling Chill-Pop abound as reverb soaked samples and comfortable beats wash in and out of the track like waves.

♫ Southern Shores – New Love

Southern Shores’ New World EP is released 2nd October on Cascine.

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Aug 2 2012

Washed Out’s A Dedication’ video

Washed Out’s A Dedication is just one of many beautiful, dreamlike, peices on his album, Within And Without. And Chillwave works so well accompanied by nice, hazy video. So here we go.

Yoonha Park directed this stunning clip with a really nice eye for colours and framing.

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Jul 26 2012

TEEEL reMixes Brothertiger

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On a single featuring reMixes from Teen Daze and Millionyoung, standing out from the Chillwave crowd is quite a feat. But Brooklyn synth master TEEEL makes his reMix for Brothertiger’s new single I’ve Been Waiting an infectious, spacey ElectroPop song that sticks in your head.

Sticking with the single’s Chillwave roots, with washes of reverb drenched sounds and shimmering leads, TEEEL adds to the equation a dance beat and a ‘90’s Chill House bassline that gives the track a kick. Making the vocals that it more Poppy and upbeat gives the track a nice summery vibe that bobs along with an optimistic bounce. The whole single is available for free, well, for the price of a Facebook ‘like’ AND your email address, which is a little cheeky when you call something free. Personally I would have been happy to pay for it, I’d prefer that to being part of the increasing, and idiotic, morphing of the music industry into a numbers game (i.e. “Oooo, look how many ‘likes’ I have conned out of people, aren’t I popular”), but such is the way of the world. None of these number, ‘likes’, ‘followers’ actually mean anything real, the sooner the music industry admits this the better.

♫ Brothertiger – I’ve Been Waiting (TEEEL reMix)

You get get the single from ‘free’ here.

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Jul 24 2012

Chad Valley reMixes Mausi

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Three out of the four time was have features Newcastle Indie-Electro crew Mausi has been for their track Sol., they are certainly milking this track for every inch of mileage it holds. A dangerous tactic to be sure, coasting a whole year on one track, regardless of how good it is, has a chance of people burning out on it. Anyhoo, next in line to drop a reMix of the track is Oxford’s Chillwave don Chad Valley. His reMix, along with the original, is apparently getting released, again, next month.

On the upside, however, Chad works his lush, evocative electronic magic on the track. A swirling, comforting, wash of gentle synth sounds and relaxing percussion with a slight R&B flavour. In the kind of heatwave we in the UK are having right now, you just don’t want to do anything, Chad’s rEMix kinda’ give you an excuse. Just chill for a while with this tune.

♫ Mausi – Sol. (Chad Valley reMix)

Chad Valley’s reMix of Sol. is released 6th August.

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Jul 16 2012

Future Unlimited’s new track

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Future Unlimited are a Nashville based Indie-Electro, verging in ElectroPop, with a Chillwave outlook, duo who we’ve written about a few times in these inches. Their EP, EP, released earlier this year was a masterclass in floaty retro Dreampop and now the twosome is back with a new tune, Lightweight Eyes, that further cements their reputation as purveyors of vintage emotional dance greatness.

Lightweight Eyes is probably up their with their best track to date, Golden, a multi-layered, swirling track. A Dreamwavey retro ElectroPop track washed with Chillwave’s reverb sounds more contemporary that you’d think. This tune shines, everything about it is shimmering and bright, but in soft focus. The hazy synths blend and evolve together like a nostalgic dream, instantly confortable but somehow distant, while the vocals dance around, weaving in and out of the song. There’s an almost shoegaze quality to this track, except it’s far too dancefloor friendly to be truly ‘gazey. This, more Electro direction, definitely has us eager for more from Future Unlimited.

♫ Future Unlimited – Lightweight Eyes

You can download Lightweight Eyes for free miniscule price of a tweet here. Cheap!

Future Unlimited’s EP is out now.

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Jul 11 2012

Zebra And Snake’s ‘Empty Love Song’

Empty Love Song is the forthcoming new single from Zebra And Snake,a band who have been pretty schizophrenic over their formative years, but have seemed to settle doing into an electronic Post-Punk dance groove, and that suits us just fine. It’s probably appeal to fans of darker ‘80’s stuff and Chillwave too,

Joona Mantere directs the clips, which is as enigmatic as the track itself, very muddy, Z&S are probably better off in that bubble, nice and clean. Check below the clip for a free download of the track.

♫ Zebra And Snake – Empty Love Song (Radio Edit)

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Jul 11 2012

Erika Spring’s ‘Hidden’ video

We’ve already written about Au Revoir Simone’s Erika Spring’s new single Hidden, having read that, now have a gander at some images that are moving at the same time as the song.

The video is directed by Celia Rowlson-Hall, not really sure what’s going on, but it looks nice, and in the end, isn’t that all that counts?

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Jul 9 2012

Synth Records team up with Nooka for compilation

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Brooklyn based SynthWave producer TEEEL is hooking up with New York design house Nooka, and bringing Aimes and the rest of the Synth Records crew along for the ride. They are all bringing you a free 13 track album, to be released three tracks at a time over the next few weeks.

I’ll be honest, I didn’t know what, or who, a Nooka was. Apparently they are a fashion design company that mostly does watches and accessories. They do some nice stuff to, retro futuristic style. Which makes the the perfect brand partners for Synth Records, who continue that retro future vibe into their music. The 13 track compilation, Noozik, kicks off this week with the first three tunes including these two from TEEEL and Aimes, who both offer up suitably Sci-Fi slices of SynthWave and Chillwave respectively. All of Synth Records output tends to fall in the ‘pretty awesome’ category, so a 13 track compilation should be a treat. The three tracks a week thing is a bit annoying though.

♫ TEEEL – Nooka Radio

♫ Aimes – Nooka Theme

You can find all the downloads here, a page to keep an eye on for the rest of the album.

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Jul 6 2012

High PKWY’s ‘Phoenix’

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This is some seriously laid back electronic Disco grooves in the form of the new tune from Denver’s High PKWY. If you like your Disco slightly Chilly, your SynthWave slightly hazy and your real life slightly soft focus then this tunes for you.

Like a melting pot of all the waves, Phoenix incorporates the beats and textures of Chillwave, the retro roboticness of SynthWave and dreamy nostalgia of Dreamwave. Wrap that up with some Disco strings, off in the middle distance, and you’ve got the perfect Friday chill-out tune, with complex layers of synthesizers and electronic percussion enough to hold the fascination of any electronic music fan.