Aug 12 2010

Clubfeet

Clubfeet, they of the monster ‘Teenage Suicide (Don’t do It)’, have just dropped their new album ‘Gold On Gold’.

The Melbourne trio have a sweet 80’s pop sound, as displayed on their lead single from the album, ‘Count Your Lovers’, a laidback, piano driven, almost ballad. This is the kind of tune that you can chuck on the headphones, close your eyes, and forget about your troubles. ‘Edge Of Extremes’ has more of a Disco feel and a certain edge of Hot Chip about it. The album will defiantly be worth checking out.

♫ Clubfeet – Count Your Lovers

♫ Clubfeet – Edge Of Extremes

The band are giving away another three free tracks from the album in exchange for your email adders here, seems like a good deal to me.

The Album ‘Gold On Gold’ and the single, ‘Count Your Lovers’ are out now on Plant Music, the single featuring reMixes from Eli Escobar and Boltan.

Aug 11 2010

‘Røyksopp’s Adventures In Barbieland’

Røyksopp’s short film, ‘Røyksopp’s Adventures In Barbieland’, created to accompany their new instrumental album ‘Senior’ (the follow up/sister album to last years ‘Junior’) is now available to watch in it’s entirety.

Here is what Røyksopp’s Svein had to say about it: “We had a vision, and in this vision we saw ourselves as a sleeping hobo and an old man respectively. The following is a vivid depiction of some of the events that occurred during an intended stay in Barbieland. And remember, It’s a true story….”

It’s odd, Røyksopp odd, and features 5 tracks from the forthcoming ‘Senior’.

‘Senior’ is expected to drop 13th September on Wall Of Sound

Aug 10 2010

Chromeo + Aeroplane

Check out this reMix of Chromeo’s hot first single from their forthcoming album, ‘Business Casual’ by Belgium’s almighty Aeroplane.

Great things can always be expected from Aeroplane, and given the source material this should be intensely good. And it is!

Who knows how you increase the Funk on Chromeo? Vito Aeroplane has managed it with this take on ‘Don’t Turn The Lights On’. With the Disco turned up to 11, it’s almost like distilled Chromeo!

♫ Chromeo – Don’t Turn The Lights On (Aeroplane reMix)

‘Don’t Turn The Lights On’ is out now and taken from the album ‘Business Casual’ which is released 14th September. You can pre-order the album here.

Aug 10 2010

Dolby Anol reMixes Performance

Dolby Anol have given their reMix treatment to Manchester’s finest Indie-ElectroPoppers Performance’s latest single, ‘Unconsoled’.

Slightly more ElectroPoppy than we’re used to from Dolby Anol, which, it turns out, is a pretty rad thing! A deep, analog SynthPop reMix is what we get here with some really subtly vocoding that gives, what was originally quite an emotive track, a roboticised feel. It’s a cool reMix, gotta’ love that computer funk!

♫ Performance – Unconsoled (Dolby Anol reMix)

‘Unconsoled’ drops this week on Too Much Information.

Performance @ 7Digital

Performance @ Amazon

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Aug 9 2010

Yannick Aellen – ElectroPop crooner

Don’t really know who Yannick Aellen is, perhaps I should, he seems to be some kind of man-about-town (or his press release claims, anyway), but his doesn’t mean he can make good music. Luckily, he can.

Rocking some serious old school SynthPop stylings that would feel right at home in New York’s Minimal Synth movement ‘The Devil (Is A Woman I Never Slept With)’ is all heavy monosynth bass and stripped down drums with a raw, early Mute Records, feel to it. But it’s Yannick’s vocals that set him apart, he’s a self proclaimed crooner, which is defiantly a vocal niche that Electro is missing out on.

♫ Yannick Aellen – The Devil (Is A Woman I Never Slept With)

‘The Devil (Is A Woman I Never Slept With)’ is taken from the ‘Dark Crooning’ EP, out on this week.

Yannick Aellen @ 7Digital

Yannick Aellen @ Amazon

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Aug 9 2010

Anoraak’s first single from ‘Wherever The Sun Sets’

The first single from French ElectroPop/Dreamwave pioneer Anoraak’s forthcoming album ‘Wherever The Sun Sets’ will be ‘Try Me’.

One of our most anticipated albums in the coming months, Anoraak’s début will be out at the end of this month with the single a couple of weeks ahead and if this track is any indication of what to expect from the album we are in for a treat. Upbeat and energetic, Anoraak has separated himself from much of the Dreamwave pack by incorporating swathes of New Wave guitar accompanying the trademark retro synth sounds and a damn catchy chorus.

The album should be huge!

♫ Anoraak – Try Me

‘Try Me’ drops 16th August with the album, ‘Wherever The Sun Sets’, being released 30th August.

Aug 6 2010

The Electroscopes

The Electroscopes are, or is, a one man act (backed up by a live drummer) from Northampton.

A relative newcomer to the game, having kicked off The Electroscopes last year, main-man Paul has already had BBC Radio airplay and was featured as their ‘uploader track of the week’, back in September 2009, with this track ‘Harder Each Day’ which Paul is gearing up to release as a single.

It’s a pretty deep sounding slice of ElectroPop styled Electronica. Vocally and lyrically it can stand alongside this years hippest Bedroom Pop producers, such as Penguin Prison and I Am Noxious, but musically has more of a progressive electronics slant to it. In keeping with the ‘sound’ of this summer the tune is pretty chilled, carried along by intricate programming and melodies.

The Electroscopes is defiantly a name to keep an eye on.

♫ The Electroscopes – Harder Each Day

Once this track is mastered and slapped on a CD it’ll be slamming! It’s coming out at the end of the month on TTR (Through The Roof) Records, until then give the man some MySpace love:

The Electroscopes @ MySpace

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Aug 5 2010

New Lo-Fi-Fnk single, ‘Sleepless’

There’s a new 7” on the way from Swedish Electro heroes Lo-Fi-Fnk.

‘Sleepless’ is out next month and defiantly increases the anticipation for their forthcoming full length second album. It’s a chilled, hypnotic ElectroPop groove that sounds something like the sound in your mind when inflicted with the tracks inspiration.

With all the horn and piano stable it’s like being an insomniac in the 90’s! Awesome!

♫ Lo-Fi-Fnk – Sleepless

‘Sleepless’ is released in September on Moshi Moshi.

Aug 5 2010

iamamiwhoami’s ‘y’

iamamiwhoami (i.e. defiantly Jonna Lee now) have mostly stopped being mysterious, except with their releases (a succession of one track singles). It’s probably time for a proper release.

It would be welcome to, their latest track ‘y’ and it’s accompanying video are both things of beauty, like a head on collision between The Knife and Kate Bush.

‘y’ is out…y’know, whenever…some other tracks are out there though, all with single letter titles.

iamamiwhoami @ Amazon

Aug 5 2010

Silver Columns; Always On

‘Always On’ is the next single from Scottish ElectroPop experimentalists Silver Columns.

The track, that successfully walks the line between Avant Garde and Bedroom Pop, also gets a whopping nine minute reMix from Caribou, who take the listener on a synthesizer journey through deep analog basses and bleeps and blips making Silver Columns suddenly sound very Hot Chip.