The long awaited first (and only?) actual video from Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories has premièred. Accompanying the duo’s latest single Lose Yourself To Dance, featruing Nile Rodgers and Pharell, is probably the only visuals for the album we’ll get.
It’s a pretty standard performance clip, albeit an incredible shiny one, with Nile and Daft Punk playing the Perspex instruments we’ve been teased for so long.
Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories is out now.
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Released today, a fitting Friday 13th, is Spanish Nu-Disco and Dreamwave producer Shelby Grey’s new EP, Electric Illusions. Fitting as the new release sees Grey take a voyage into the worlds of 80’s synth Horror Soundtracks and moody Italo, all wrapped up in the man’s quirky Disco beats. Interesting stuff, and an anathema to the tidal waves of summery party Disco now the night are getting longer…and darker.
The release’s title track is a marching creepshow of synthetic basslines and spooky nightmare melodies, juxtaposed with a space-age Cosmic Disco groove. A Disco tune to make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up, Electric Illusions brings dread to the dancefloor. Possession continues the mood, but adds in some shuffling percussive breakbeats to the mix before the release plays out on Baroque Electrique. This final track is a pumping Italo/SynthWave soundtrack piece loaded with Disco flourishes. A rolling arpeggiated bassline drives the track ever onward with all manner of tense synth chords play out over the top, this one brings the strongest vibe to the EP whilst keeping up the mysterious theme running through. A good concept EP from Shelby, and a nice break from the norm.
♫ Shelby Grey – Baroque Electrique
♫ Shelby Grey – Electric Illusions
Shelby Grey’s Electric Illusions is out today via ‘The ever-awesome Holographic People’
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Here’s the new video for DFA’s Shit Robot’s Reggie Watts featuring, We Got A Love. It comes from a recently released split single with fellow DFA’r The Juan MacLean and it’s a pumping Disco breeze.
The video follows just another normal day in the life of a man filled with stars. Pretty hum-drum really.
Shit Robot’s We Got A Love is out now, flip sided with The Juan MacLean’s Feel Like Movin’, grab the 12” here.
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The Hungarian producer of SynthWave and Disco Quixotic has impressed us a few times in the last couple of years, so it was with interest we slapped on his new single, Palms, released by Future City Records this week. The release come packed to the gills, containing the title track, two B-sides and a host of reMixes from the likes of Amazing Police, Kid Flash, Who Ha and a stormer from Mr. Mæn.
Palms itself serves up a laid back Italo Disco sound, combining a pulsating Italo bassline with piercing snyths and wicked Disco licks. It’s a six minute epic, but never overstays it’s welcome. Hypnotizing you with it’s relentless machine groove, attention spiking with chopped up vocal snatches and rolling toms, Palms carries you along in an intense, dancefloor, flow, rising and falling along the way. B-side number one, Elan, is a driving SynthWave with many faces, reminding of Kavinsky at times, Jarre at others and, weirdly, Euphoric Trace in places. It’s followed by an older tune, Apology, a fidgety SynthWave tune with Karftwerkian synths, plucked guitar and emotive vocoding riding over a old school beat. It’s this track that gets the reMix treatment, including Mr. Mæn’s modulated workout. Mæn twists the track into a factory-floor Italo Disco stomper. Melding jackhammer beats with smooth, emotional synths, Mæn creates something set for late night dancefloors. Check out the whole release, it’s worth you time.
♫ Quixotic – Palms
♫ Quixotic – Apology
♫ Quixotic – Apology (Mr. Mæn reMix)
Quixotic’s Palms is out today.
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Moustache Machine is a man who normally likes to keep thing firmly in the French Touch territory. With Disco on his mind he deliver a particular brand of Parisian sounds. On his new tune, Mission Control, though, he busts out of this mould and dives into the seas of SynthWave and Italo and when he finally comes up for air, he’s bringing with him a manic hybrid of all of it.
On repeated listens, Mission Control is a really stunning piece of work. There’s so much going on with it that it could have so easily sounded muddled, but Moustache Machine keeps things fluid and flowing so everything sound neat and tidy together. At it’s core the track is Italo influenced SynthWave, in a Kavinsky vein. vintage arpeggios and those big, heavy, synth chords over a driving beat. But the flourishes Moustache Machine papers the track with draw from all over. 80’s Orchestral stabs, wicked Disco licks, SynthPop chimes, big Sci-Fi Trance solos all add up to create a futuristic Disco monster that’s slightly addictive.
♫ Moustache Machine – Mission Control
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Ali Jamieson’s at it again. The man can’t sit still. Possibly going for the most-releases-in-a-six-month-period record he blew up at the weekend with his latest EP. Released on Mortar & Pestle Sound, the Bitrman EP is another three tracks of Jamieson’s intelligent, quirky Disco. Can this prolific producer keep up the pace? Surely we can get another five EP’s out of him before X-mas?
Bitrman kicks off with it’s title track, a compelling mix of organic and synthetic sounds, of infectious hooks and a spacy atmosphere. Ali tempers the surprisingly Rocky drums with waves of hazy synth sounds and shimmering leads. Paired with a twisted electronic bassline it all created a complex, but accessible groove. Mr. Lobster introduces broken beats into Jamieson’s vintage Disco for a Housey Garage effect while the rear is brought up by Panasonic, an eight minute Italo House epic. A retro-future odyssey with a live jam feel, Panasonic lays down hypnotic electronics as a base for a cavalcade of synth noodling and House-esque vocal snatches. Another sweet EP from Jamieson. Same time next week?
♫ Ali Jamieson – Bitrman
♫ Ali Jamieson – Panasonic
Ali Jamieson’s Bitrman EP is out now.
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Are you ready for some seriously cosmic Moog Funk? You’d better be. This week the new single from Pet Shop Boys’ excellent Electric album was released, and Love Is A Bourgeois Construct comes with a whole host of reMixes, including this groover from Little Boots’ Little Boots Discothèque side of things.
Boots takes these SynthPop legends and drags them straight to the dancefloor, easing them onto it with some lush galactic synths and retro futuristic zaps, before bringing in an absolutely massive, infection, Funk bassline that warbles it’s way through the entire track. It;s really that bassline that pins down the song, the combination of that plus Neil’s vocals might seem like strange bedfellows, but Boots makes it work perfectly. This tune is surprisingly authentic sounding early Disco, all mirrorballs and spangley suits, which somehow plays to the track itself. Addictive listening.
♫ Pet Shop Boys – Love Is A Bourgeois Construct (Little Boots Discothèque Edit)
Pet Shop Boys’ Love Is A Bourgeois Construct is out now.
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Black Magic Disco – Mixtape 006 = Start your weekend off with a bang with Black Magic Disco’s latest workout. A whole hour of Deep House and Garage grooves, a soulful, pumping collection of late night and warehouse jams to get you in the mood.
♫ Black Magic Disco – Mixtape 006
The tracklist:
01. Huskey – So Crazy (Original Mix)
02. Sonny Fodera – You Made Me Do It (Grant Nelson reMix)
03. Claes Rosen – Daydreaming (Original Mix)
04. Wez Saunders – Fire (Grant Nelson Mix)
05. Hedlum & Jose Caruana – Justified (Original Mix)
06. Nathan G – Burn (Exclusive Main Mix)
07. Codec – Open Mind
08. Icon – Full Intention (Original Mix)
09. Friend Within – The Renegade (Original Mix)
10. Paul Sherriff – Preach It (Original Mix)
Also new on the cards is this reMix Black Magic Disco has served up of American House duo Movable’s début record, Bend The Light. This one properly shows of the Black Magic Disco magic, mixing deep, solid, basses with woozy synths to create a hedonistic, warehouse, groove that wears it’s House and Garage music heritage on it’s sleeve. Another instant classic floorfiller from Black Magic Disco.
♫ Movable – Bend the Light (Black Magic Disco reMix)
Black Magic Disco’s First Avenue is out now.
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One of the greatest duo’s ever to come out of New York, ElectroPoppers Holy Ghost! have dropped another taste of what to expect from the forthcoming sophomore album Dynamics. We’ve already given you listen to two new tracks, Dumb Disco Ideas and Teenagers In Heat, which must have sufficiently whet your appetites for this long awaited record and this new tune, Okay, just makes us even more excited.
Okay is the albums opener and delivers a catchy entry point to the new album. Smooth and friendly, Okay revels in Holy Ghost!’s eclectic influences but remains a Pop song at it’s core. Sure, there are a couple of abrasive synth hooks, and a post-Industrial percussive pounding, but Holy Ghost! make it sound sweet with introverted vocals and a breezy, carefree mood. This is how you do interesting SynthPop.
♫ Holy Ghost – Okay!
Holy Ghost!’s new Dynamics album is released 10th September on DFA
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Eskimo Recordings recent accusation, Australian trio Holy Models’ new single Swimming has been causing quite a stir amongst people in-the-know int he last couple of weeks. The threesome of Adam Frawley, Mitchell Van Kaathoven and Luke McKay with a little behind the scenes help from Mr. James Curd, are due to release this début next week with a host of reMixes. One mix in particular has caught our attention, coming from Disco don Rocco Raimundo.
Rocco serves up a blistering array of poolside sounds set to a heavy, but laid back, House beat. Rolling Disco bass runs all over the tune, a synth pulsar that singes on the whole track. Hazy, delayed, vocal snatches and comfortable keys all add up to deliver a chilled, but imminently funky, seven minutes of sunshine bliss.
♫ Holy Models – Swimming (Rocco Raimundo reMix)
Holy Models The Pink Collection EP is released 26th August.
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