West-Coast electronic Funk overlord DāM-FunK has recorded an especially smooth little jam for the holiday season.
Recorded live, un-sequenced, in LA a few days ago, the track ‘’Tis The Season’ blends X-Mas spirit, 80’s electronic Pop R&B and DāM-FunK Electro groove and should definably be on your X-Mas party playlist.
♫ DāM-FunK – ‘Tis The Season (Recorded Dec. 22nd, 2010 In L.A.)
Mighty Mouse, those purveyors of the finest in left-field Disco have just released their long awaited electronic epic ‘Song With No Words’. An album consisting of ten ‘movements’ that form a journey through Disco, Nu-Disco, House and even ElectroPop and Jazz. You can read out thoughts on it here.
Awesomely, we have five signed copies of the album to give away to you lucky people!
So, to get involved and have a chance of grabbing one of the albums first you need to follow us (electronicrumor) on Twitter, then copy, paste and tweet the following:
Hey @electronicrumor, hook me up with a a singed copy of @mightymousetwit ‘s awesome new album, I’m a winner! http://bit.ly/fh8BJb
We’ll give you a couple of weeks and run the competition ‘til 30th December and randomly pick five winners and let them know via Twitter DM on New Years Eve., give them a little something extra to celebrate!
This giveaway is limited to residents of the UK or North America only, sorry.
‘Song With No Words’ is out now on History/Disco Circus Records!
Dutch Disco producer Shook recently reMixed M.I.A.’s ‘Internet Connection’.
Shook brings some really nice cut-up Nu-Disco to the table as he drops awesome synth bass solos and Funk riffs. With some wicked key tinkling and nice Funk-Pop sensibilities it’s no wonder this track took The Hype Machine by storm.
♫ M.I.A. – Internet Connection (Shook reMix)
Shook’s ‘Glow’ EP is out now and can be picked up here, ‘Internet Connection’ is taken from M.I.A.’s ‘/\/\ /\ Y /\’ album:
Ali Love drops the new single from his awesome ‘Love Harder’ album this coming January.
When ‘Moscow Girl’ comes out on Back Yard Recordings it’ll be backed up with a reMix package featuring Lee Foss, Jaques Renault and Mustang, who in keeping with todays Old School flavour so-far turns in this early 80’s Electro-Funk sounding mix. It’s top stuff!
♫ Ali Love – Moscow Girl (Mustang reMix)
‘Moscow Girl’ is out 17th January.
This coming week sees UK Disco-heads Mighty Mouse release their début artist album.
Titles ‘Song With No Words’ the album consists of ten ‘Movements’ ranging electronic Lounge Jazz to Cosmic Disco to pure smooth Funk. Meticulously crafted and staggeringly well produced the album is more of a journey through analog grooves, flowing from one track to the next, than ten straight songs and manages to sound almost cinematic at times.
Check out ‘Movement 5’, one of the jazzier tracks on the record, but who doesn’t like a little jazz in their lives every now and then?
♫ Mighty Mouse – Movement 5 (Radio Edit)
‘Song With No Words’ is released 6th December on History/Disco Circus Records.
‘We Got The Love’ is the latest track from Frenchman Arnault Douze Esteve A.K.A. Douze.
A protégé of Kris Menace and collaborator of the one-and-only Alan Braxe, Douze creates an amazing amalgamation of French-Touch, Disco, ElectroPop and talk box Funk. This is the smoothest slice of Disco that has landed on the electronic rumors desk in a while and just when you’re getting into the groove with the body moving bassline and lush pads the track hits you with a devastating solo! Awesome stuff.
Douze’s EP, ‘Doxology’, is out 6th December on Work It Baby.
Italian masters of all things crazy Italo Fare Soldi have got their funky hands on Duran Duran’s ‘Rio’. This can only end well (or badly, depending on your position).
Spotlighting the tune’s mental bassline over a 909 beat whist dropping in bits of the song over the top is the path to true Italo enlightenment. Fare Soldi always manage to keep thing fresh and he they do a spot-on job or working the retro and the contemporary into a dancefloor slaying package.
♫ Duran Duran – Rio (Fare Soldi ‘Sposerò Simon Le Bon’ reMix)
Fare Soldi have just dropped their ‘Vigorilla’ EP, check it out:
:kinema:, those Brightonian purveyors of funky ElectroPop are headed down the chimney with their free slice of X-mas cheer for you all.
‘3 Wolf Moon’ is their present to you this X-mas. It’s been a while since there was any new :kinema: material so it’s a well though out present indeed! The kings of British FunkPop give you something a little smooth for the holiday season. With it’s slick synths and Disco guitars ‘3 Wolf Moon’ is just the track to get a little weird to at the office party.
Check out :kinema:’s previous singles at out retailer of choice, they’d make for great X-mas pressies!
This week sees the release of New York/Berlin based duo The Glass’ début album.
Titled ‘At Swim Two Birds’, you can stream the album on the bands SoundCloud, is 10 tracks of cool garage Disco, raw and funky. Dark at times but always with a rad bassline. Better still is the reMix of of ‘Four Four Letter’ by Black Van (Kris Menace and KoweSix from Moonbootica) who layer up the huge synth chords in this killer Nu-Disco/House track.
♫ The Glass – Four Four Letter (Black Van reMix)
The Glass’ ‘At Swim Two Birds’ is out now on Plant Music in the US, us rest-of-the-world citizens will have to wait until early next year.
Here we have recent DFA signing Woolfy’s video for his new EP ‘Looking Glass’
Woolfy is LA based Londoner Simon James who’s new EP is a particularly epic, Post-Punky, journey through Dirty Disco and SynthPop and includes a reMix by Canyons.
The gorgeous video was directed by Collin LaFleche.
The ‘Looking Glass’ EP is out now.
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