Lo-Fi-Fnk’s new single ‘Sleepless’ had it’s official video premiered today.
We dropped the track itself last month, which is available on 7”or digital from today, it’s a laidback ElectroPop groove that takes you back to the ‘90’s and the video, directed by Tomas Carlsten & Simon Svéd, had an appropriate late night insomniac quality to it.
‘Sleepless’ is released today on Moshi Moshi.
Just a quick post this morning to start your Saturday with a bang.
Dancefloor demon Louis La Roche has got his mits on the utterly awesome début single from Cardiff’s Bright Light Bright Light, ‘Love Part II’, and drops a 2-step-ish groove awash with Disco riffs. This is sure to be packing the ‘Total Club Hits 2010’ type compilations soon!
♫ Bright Light Bright Light – Love Part II (Louis La Roche reMix)
‘Love Part II’ is released 27th September on PopJustice’s new label PopJustice Hi-Fi.
Bright Light Bright Light @ Juno
Bright Light Bright Light @ Amazon
You know things are going well when even your B-sides have videos!
So, here is the video for the B-side of The Good Natured’s forthcoming single ‘Be My Animal’, a track called ‘Prisoner’.
Directed by Lorenzo Ricciarell the video explores aspects of transformation as TGN’s Sarah moves through an evolution, via make-up, from innocence to grotesquery while the song itself is Sarah’s effort to confront why some lovers have both emotional and physical power over us.
‘Be My Animal’ is released 1st November.
It’s been out a week or so now but I wanted to share with you the video for Dan Le Sac Vs. Scroobius Pip’s forthcoming single ‘Cauliflower’.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, but when I’m feeling listless and can’t decide what to listen to on my mp3 player more often than not I just chuck on Dan & Pip, I dig the electronics, the poetry, the delivery, the production. It’s all good.
From their latest album, ‘Logic Of Chance’ I particularly dug ‘Cauliflower’ ‘cos I have a soft spot for guest vocalist KiD A’s vocals, also Dan & Pip always make interesting videos. So enjoy:
The ‘Cauliflower’ single drops 11th October on Sunday Best.
Dan Le Sac Vs. Scroobius Pip @ Beatport
Dan Le Sac Vs. Scroobius Pip @ Juno
Dan Le Sac Vs. Scroobius Pip @ 7Digital
Dan Le Sac Vs. Scroobius Pip @ Amazon
OK, first off I gotta’ say I’ve been meaning to write about Error: Operator for a while now, they (he/she?) are producing some of the most interesting and listenable electronic around right now, their début album is defiantly worth a listen. Unfortunately sometimes things slip down the back of the blogging couch in this line of work and it’s easy to forget about stuff. I’ll be rectifying this mistake in the coming days with a dedicated Error: Operator post, in the meantime check their reMix of Passion Pit’s ‘Sleepyhead’.
It’s an oft reMixed track but Error:Operator bring something unique to the table. The reMix is pretty indicative of their sound, chilled without verging into the dangerous(ly boring) territory of ambient, more intricate and subtle. Their music harbours some deceptively catchy lead lines too!
♫ Passion Pit – Sleepyhead (Error: Operator reMix)
‘Sleepyhead’ comes from Passion Pit’s now classic ‘Chunk Of Change’ EP, still available now.
As you know, Où Est Le Swimming Pool have decided to go ahead with he release of their début album, ‘The Golden Year’, after the untimely and sad death of lead singer Charles Haddon.
The lead-in single for the album will be ‘The Key’, the video for which has premiered over on their YouTube channel. Filmed during their performance at Pukklepop in Belgium mere hours before Charlie took his own life the video is a tragic reminder of the great heights this band could have soared to, they were easily well on their way to becomes the best male fronted SynthPop act in the UK.
‘The Key’ is out 10th October preceded by the album on the 3rd.
Oú Est Le Swimming Pool @ Beatport
Oú Est Le Swimming Pool @ Juno
Oú Est Le Swimming Pool @ 7Digital
Oú Est Le Swimming Pool @ Amazon
Van She’s resident ElectroPoping bassist Matt Van Schie has put together a video for his track ‘Two Love’.
‘Two Love’ is one of the more Van She-esq offerings from his solo ‘Balmy Nights’ EP and he’s make this video using chunks of Dario Argento’s 1977 classic horror flick Suspiria.
Check out the rest of the videos he’s made for the EP tracks on his YouTube channel.
‘Two Love’ is taken from the ‘Balmy Nights’ Ep, out now.
Ahh, Penguin Prison reMixing Kylie Minogue’s new single ‘Get Outta’ Of My Way’, that’s exactly the kind of chaser I need right now!
What can I say? PP’s BedroomPop/Bedroom Disco lends itself to Kylie perfectly, while the original is an awesome slice of DiscoPop, this reMix is more intimate and, well, groovy! It’s got this almost Lo-Fi Indie Funk with it’s subtle guitar jangles and toy town synth work.
Nice Friday groove, enjoy!
♫ Kylie Minogue – Get Outta’ My Way (Penguin Prison reMix)
‘Get Outta’ My Way’ is released 27th September.
The almighty Alphaville are back with a new single and album! Next month sees the German SynthPop pioneers releasing their first studio work for 7 years. Now down to just frontman and foundering member Marian Gold, Alphaville have been a staple of the SynthPop scene since ‘84’s chart monsters ‘Big In Japan’ and ‘Forever Young’.
The problem, really, with the comeback material is Gold’s choice of collaborators. The lead single ‘I’d Die For You Today’ is actually an excellent song but the production, by Sebastian Komor (formerly of EBM/FuturePop outfit Icon Of Coil and several small projects since IoC’s demise), sounds so dated and stagnant. At the height of FuturePop’s success, in the late 90’s/early 2000’s this would have gone down a treat, but here in 2010 it just sounds almost musically naive, which is a shame as it hampers an otherwise excellent song. You have to wonder with Alphaville being so influential, and acclaimed, there must be countless contemporary and relevant acts who would kill to work with Marian Gold, why they went in this direction?
Anyhoo, the reMix package is also an odd crop of rather samey sounding old trance artists, this reMix by euphoric stalwarts Blank & Jones shows off song best, it’s a tiny bit cheesy trance, but mostly a nice 80’s leaning ElectroPop track with an epic feel that really supports the song, on multiple listens its really quite good, worth picking up the single for!
♫ Alphaville – I Die For You Today (Blank & Jones So 80’s Extended Mix)
‘I Die For You Today’ and Alphaville’s forthcoming new album are due out in October, until then you could do a hell of a lot worse than checking out their awesome back catalogue.
UK Indie outfit Chapel Club are celebrating the release of their next single ‘All The Eastern Girls’ by giving away this reMix by Breton.
Breton turns the track into a full-on synth stomper yet preserves the vocals which should make a combination appealing to readers of this site. The retention of the, almost crooning, Indie vocals over some furious synth work results in quite a unique slice of SynthPop.
♫ Chapel Club – All The Eastern Girls (Breton reMix)
‘All The eastern Girls’ is due out October 11th.
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