May 17 2013

[Mixtape] Walter Sobcek’s May tape

Walter Sobcek – ‘So Ouate’ A May Tape = Walter Sobcek’s tape this month delivers some seriously blissful Disco sounds, prefect now the days, and nights, are getting a little warmer.

♫ Walter Sobcek – ‘So Ouate’ A May Tape

The tracklist:
01. Leblanc & Carr – How Does It Feel
02. Breakbot (Feat. Irfane) – A Mile Away
03. Ambrosia – You’re The Only Woman
04. Poolside – Do You Believe?
05. Michael Jackson – Remember The Time (Louis La Roché reMix)
06. David Sanborn – Let’s Just Say Goodbye
07. Lee Ritenour – Countdown
08. Nile Rodgers – Yum Yum
09. Fleetwood Mac – Dreams (Walter Sobcek reMix)
10. Bobby Womack – California Dreaming (A-Maze Winter Edit)
11. Chic – Hangin’
12. Marcus Marr – The Music
13. Touch & Go – Gotta Have U
14. Calvin Harris (Feat. Ellie Goulding) – I Need Your Love (Louis La Roché reMix)
15. Final DJs (Feat. Gin Joints) – City Lights
16. Nora En Pure – Come With Me

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May 17 2013

[Audio] Le Matos & Electric Youth

Adding to their currently busy release schedule, the awesome Girlfriend Records have just dropped the new album from Montréal based power synth producers Le Matos. Having been released in the past twenty-four hours we haven’t really had time to sit down with it yet, but one of the eye catching tracks on the LP is Light Again, featruing a bit of fellow Canadian ElectroPoppers Electric Youth.

Light Again is pretty classic sounding ElectroPop, with a rounded Dreamwave flavour. Built up of storming dancefloor beats and euphoric synths. A driving arpeggiated bassline pins the track down and gives it it’s compelling energy, while starlight leads twinkle and play around the track. Electric Youth’s Bronwyn’s vocals sound as sweet as ever as they cry out over Le Matos’ pumping tune. All-in-all a good omen for the rest of the album.

♫ Le Matos (Feat, Electric Youth) – Light Again

Le Matos’ album Join Us is available now from here.

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May 16 2013

[Audio] Fear Of Tigers reMixes AME

There’s definitely something going on at camp Fear Of Tigers. First we get a new track last month, Golden Age, now an official reMix for hotly tipped songstress A*M*E’s new single Heartless. All this new activity gives us hopes for the long awaited release of Fear Of Tigers’ Hypnerotomachia Poliphiliout, the follow up to 2009’s Cossus Snufsigalonica.

This reMix is pure classic Fear Of Tigers too. Epic, emotional, nostalgic ElectroPop full of those big chords and intricate electronic flourishes that we love FoT for. Taking A*M*E’s R&B flavoured tune and turning it into a huge 80s Power Pop synth epic is no mean feat, but Fear Of Tigers pulls it off with style. This tune is big.

♫ A*M*E – Heartless (Fear Of Tigers Futurepop Mix)

A*M*E’s Heartless is out 23rd June.

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May 16 2013

[Audio] Worship’s new EP

Out this week on ‘the ever-awesome Holographic People’ is the long awaited new EP from Swiss SynthWaver Worship. His first release since last September’s Horizon reMixes, this new EP represents a new batch of original tunes, which is what we want from Worship really. So expect a ton of cosmic, otherworldly, synth boogie journeys and Worship guides us through the whopping seven tracks of his new release.

The Close Encounter EP begins it’s mighty quest with the track of the same name, an arpeggio fuelled modern Italo tune that really launches the EP with a full-on energy vibe. Bright sounds and a groove that takes us back to the resurgence of melodic Electro a few years ago, Close Encounter really sets up the EP. Island Disco sounds infiltrate the EP on the following track, Alpha Centauri, working the rhythm alongside lush Tropical sounds. Orion Forever is a reworking of last years Forever Orion with added big buzzy synths and a tempo supercharge. Definitely one of the EPs highlights with a really infectious groove. First Light gives the EP a smooth, laid back SynthWave mid-point before launching into Last Words, a rich, melodic, excursion into fantastical synthetic places. A place where music for your mind, and music for your feet, meet and you get lost in the swirl of synths. The EP rounds out with the pretty standard Nu-Disco Odyssey and a Cosmic Disco workout of Orion Forever from Auxiliary Tha Masterfader. Close Encounter is a release loaded with space-age Disco sound, and one could do a lot worst than pick up.

♫ Worship – Last Words

♫ Worship – Orion Forever

♫ Worship – Close Encounter

Worship’s Close Encounter EP is out this week. Alongside the digital release, the EP is also available on a strictly limited edition cassette which you can pick up here.

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May 10 2013

[Video] Goldroom’s ‘Only You Can Show Me’

Here’s an unexpected slice of awesomeness. Goldroom and Mereki’s Only You Can Show Me, which has been on heavy rotation round these parts since March, has only gone and got itself a video.

Directed by Jake Gibson, the clip has a really optimistic, feel good vibe with lots of grooving fro Mereki and a cast of smiling faces. Unfortunately there’s no Josh bopping around in it, but you can’t have everything.

Goldroom’s Only You Can Show Me is out now.

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May 8 2013

[Audio] Tesla Boy’s ‘M.C.H.T.E’

How on the heels of March’s 1991, here’s the new single from Russia’s greatest export, the unstoppable Tesla Boy. Taken from their forthcoming second album, The Universe Made Of Darkness, this new tune sees Tesla Boy back in an 80s groove, after 1991’s flirting with the 90s, and rocking it harder than we’ve heard them rock before.

M.C.H.T.E leaves a little of Tesla Boy’s smooth Disco grooves behind in favour of massive raw drums and growling synths. Anton’s epic vocal soars over a backing of almost Tropical purcussion, thickly layered synths, and a production that makes everything big, reverby and live. Although keeping a strong synth Funk groove, M.C.H.T.E has more in common with the stadium SynthPop of Depeche Mode than their Dreamwave roots. And that’s all good, Tesla Boy did Dreamwave flavoured ElectroPop better than anybody, and now it’s time to tackle their next electro target. Bring on the big Tesla Boy SynthPop, we say.

♫ Tesla Boy – M.C.H.T.E

M.C.H.T.E is taken from Tesla Boy’s forthcoming album The Universe Made Of Darkness, released 21st May.

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May 8 2013

[MP3] Clancy’s ‘The Way You Dance’

One of the UK’s finest producers Clancy has bust out a new tune. Having effortlessly migrated from Dreamwave to Nu-Disco to House, and taking all of those experiences and influences with him, he;s really at the top of his game. His new single, The Way You Dance, (which he’s dropped for free BTW) is another one that should go straight in your crate.

This one’s all about deep, heavy grooves. A bass powered juggernaut that seems designed for dimly lit clubs when the punters care about nothing but dancing the night away. Amidst all the growling basslines and hypnotic beats is a little hint of 80s SynthPop via half heard melodies and gently crescendoing keys. Overall the track is a moody tune, lost in dance and not to be interrupted. The way you dance is probably beyond your control of the DJ drops this one.

♫ Clancy – The Way You Dance

Clancy’s The Way You Dance is out now, pick it up here.

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May 8 2013

[Audio] Tommy’s new EP

French atmospheric SynthWave producer extraordinaire Tommy has signed on with that staple of retro synth music Girlfriend Records. We can’t think of a better match. GFR have long been on the front-line of SynthWave and have carved a name out for themselves that demands you pay attention to their releases, and Tommy, being one of the leading lights of the SynthWave scene, is a perfect addition to their stable.

The new release, High Fidelity, is five tracks of soaring synthetic goodness. The EP show a versatility to Tommy’s work, with tracks ranging from pure soundtrack Outrun Electro, to more groovy SynthWave, to luscious electronic ballads. The track on the release feel like a maturing of Tommy sound post-Outer Space Adventurer. There something a little more thoughtful, and a little more encompassing of a wider range of influences and emotional moods on this record. Amongst the EP’s flowing journey, highlights include the opener, Tommy’s Theme, which is a tour-de-force in melodic soloing. If you like your epic synth solos then this tune will make you very happy indeed. Set to a swirling synthetic mood, Tommy lets rip and teats us to an evolving electronic conversation. The EP’s title track, High Fidelity, is Tommy at his driving best. An arpeggio fuelled monster that lulls you into a false sense of Outrun security before launching a barrage of emotional chords and melodies at you. With a little Disco swing introduced at the mid-point, High Fidelity is the EPs energetic pinnacle, and Test Drive, a track that is such pure SynthWave as to set the bar for those that follow. With a Kavinsky flavour, Test Drive, growls it;s way though four minutes of asphalt churning, melodic madness. Tommy has really delivered the goods with his new EP, making him, more than ever, one to watch.

♫ Tommy – High Fidelity

♫ Tommy – Tommy’s Theme

♫ Tommy – Test Drive

Tommy’s High Fidelity EP is out now.

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May 2 2013

[Mixtape] Shelby Grey’s ‘Spring Mix’

Shelby Grey – Spring Mix = ‘The ever-awesome Holographic People’s Shelby Grey has just dropped his Spring collection of tunes. Expect and hour of the deepest House, Nu-Disco and Dreamwave you ever did hear.

♫ Shelby Grey – Spring Mix

The tracklist:
01. Bot´Ox – The Face Of Another
02. The XX – Sunset (Jamie XX Edit)
03. Monitor 66 – Follow You
04. Bicep & Ejeca – You (Ejeca´s Piano Version)
05. Finnebassen – Touching Me
06. Classixx – Holding On (Lifelike reMix)
07. Doctor Dru – The Voice Of Dru
08. Shimmer – So Yesterday
09. Ali Love – Emperor
10. J.Whiltshire – Closer
11. Omar S – Thank U 4 Letting Be Myself
12. Robert De Long – Global Concepts (Pat Lok reMix)
13. Russ Chimes – Back 2 You (Hot Since 82 reMix)
14. Legowelt – Elementz Of Houz Music (Actress Mix 1)
15. Fabo (Feat. Lostcause) – Where I Stand (Karmon reMix)
16. Chrome Canyon – Car Fire On The Highway (Eclectic Method reMix)
17. Brian Eno & Grizzly Bear – Sleeping Ute (Nicolas Jaar reMix)

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May 1 2013

[Audio] L’Equipe Du Son reMixed by Moustache Machine and Final DJs

Dutch Disco don L’Equipe Du Son, still riding high on his recently released Transmissions album, is gearing up for the release of that records first single featuring the tracks Le Rocker and Snowballing and a whole host of reMixes. We already hit you with Emeron & Fox’s take in Le Rocker last month, so let’s check out two of the single’s other highlights featuring work from one of our favourite Parisian producers Moustache Machine and Germany’s finest, Final DJs.

Moustache Machine works his slick French groove on Le Rocker and morphs the track from a rough Electro stomper into an enticing robo-Disco floorfiller. Powered in equal parts by a driving, arpeggiated Italo bassline and a twisting Continental synth Funk hook. Working each element perfectly, Moustache Machine whips up a cyborg Disco storm that just keeps assaulting you with layers of intertwining melodies. Final DJs take on Snowballing and bring their synth love to the table on full effect. The SynthWave duo keep it steady and deliver waves of lush, warm synths and irresistible vintage beats. It;s a packed reMix package, six tracks, that makes a great compliment to the album.