Jul 30 2010

Little Loud

UK Instrumental Electro producer Little Loud has been racking up a few big name reMixes under his belt in recent months, Memory Tapes, Au Revoir Simone and HEALTH have all been giving the Little Loud treatment.

As well as just completing an awesome reMix for Yeasayer , in which he turns ‘Madder Red’ into a cosmic Disco epic, Little Loud is right now working on his original, solo, material. One of the first fruits of this work is this instrumental cover of Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Dancing In The Dark’. Little Loud’s intricate, bright, synth work is pretty standout, the guy is defiantly carving out a unique sound for himself.

♫ Little Loud – Dancing In The Dark (Bruce Springsteen Cover)

♫ Yeasayer – Madder Red (Little Loud reMix)

Little Loud is working on releasing a mixtape of his reMixes and original work in August/September.

Little Loud @ Beatport

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Jul 28 2010

Night Gallery

SynthPop duo Night Gallery are about to release their début album ‘Constant Struggle’. Made up of Golden Birthday’s Adam Griffiths and Aaron David Ross from ace Electronica act GATEKEEPER, who brings some of GATEKEEPERS moodiness to the tracks, this Chicago based outfit

It’s a really 80’s affair. Without nods to current retro fads, Night Gallery create quite an authentic retro Pop sound which dispute the minor chords and brooding sounds manages to be quite uplifting (in the same way that martin Gore’s songs seem to be). Their press release compares them to Clan Of Xymox, which is actually a pretty good description, albeit with a lot less guitars, slightly less gothyness and a lot more contemporary sounding.

♫ Night Gallery – Constant Struggle

♫ Night Gallery – Fever Dreamer

‘Constant Struggle; is being released on Rainbow Body Records next month on limited edition vinyl (numbering 500) and even limiteder(?) edition cassette (only 100).

Night Gallery @ Rainbow Body Records

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Jul 28 2010

Faded Paper Figures

Faded Paper Figures are a trio from LA who make some of the quaintest ElectroPop you’ll ever hear.

Like a slightly more Indie Freezepop, cheap drum machines and toytown synths are the order of the day here. Faded Paper Figures have an immediate charm about them that is helped, in no small part, by both male and female vocals which, rather than duel, compliment and intertwine around each other. Occasionally you can hear bit of The Postal Service creeping into things, maybe some Passion Pit too, but for the most part Faded Paper Figures have a pretty unique sound of their own, one that sounds honest and heartfelt.

It’s ElectroPop that makes you feel like everything is, in fact, going to be OK!

They have just released their second album ‘New Medium’, check out two of the tracks from it:

♫ Faded Paper Figures – Invent It All Again

♫ Faded Paper Figures – Small Talk

‘New Medium’ is out now.

Faded Paper Figures @ Amazon

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Jul 27 2010

Futuristic Retro Champions

Futuristic Retro Champions are a Glasgow based Indie-Electro four piece who are gearing up for the release of their début double A-side, ‘May The Forth’/’Settle Down’.

And, frankly, it’s pretty rad. These three girls and one guy’s particular brand of ElectroPop, with it’s heavy Indie-electro pounding counterpointed with sparkling 80’s sounding lead lines, is catchy as hell and toped of with vocals with an adorable Scottish twang. The production is pretty huge too, allowing these cute little ElectroPop tracks to evolve into epic, emotive power tracks.

Check ‘em out:

♫ Futuristic Retro Champions – May The Forth

♫ Futuristic Retro Champions – Settle Down

‘May The Forth’/’Settle Down’ drops 5th August as a limited edition CD or as a download from the band’s Bandcamp.

Futuristic Retro Champions @ Bandcamp

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Jul 27 2010

LexiconDon & NightWaves

We’ve got another reMix of LexiconDon’s awesome ‘December Sunset’, a track we’ve featured a couple of times already, this time by label mates NightWaves.

NW’s Josh and Kyle give the track more of an organic groove. Less electronic sounding, more sounding like a jam. Sweeping synths are replaced with organs giving the track a live music feel. The original is one of the best ElectroPop tracks of the year so far and this reMix takes it into the ‘best Pop song’ category too.

Still can’t kill the Simmons rolls though!

♫ LexiconDon – December Sunset (NightWaves reMix)

Be sure to check out the original track too right here.

If you’re fans of Binary records and that sweet LA SynthPop sound then keep it locked to electronic rumors in the coming weeks, we have a pretty special Binary even planned for y’all!

The album, ‘Pink + Blue’ is due to drop 24th August on dubFrequency/Binary.

LexiconDon @ Beatport

LexiconDon @ Juno

LexiconDon @ 7Digital

LexiconDon @ Amazon

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Jul 27 2010

Active Child reMixed by Classixx

Can you even get a smoother jam than this?

Slinky, that’s probably the best way to describe LA team Classixx’s reMix of fellow LA songwriter Pat Grossi A.K.A. Active Child’s latest track, ‘When Your Love Is Safe’. It’s like mid-80’s R&B had a head on collision with Dreamwave in a Roland drum machine rimshot testing facility. And the crowd clapped on…

♫ Active Child – When Your Love Is Safe (Classixx reMix)

Oh the chimes!

Active Child’s album, ‘Curtis Lane’ is out now.

Active Child @ Juno

Active Child @ 7Digital

Active Child @ Amazon

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Jul 23 2010

Monarchy live!

For those of you who missed last night’s début performance from Monarchy at London’s Electrowerkz.

Sold out for a first performance ain’t bad!

Thanks to YouTube user tensoul.

Monarchy @ Beatport

Monarchy @ Juno

Monarchy @ Amazon

Jul 23 2010

Rosanna & Fear Of Tigers

Swede Rosanna’s début single, ‘Runaway/Waterfall’ will also be the début release for the almighty Popjustice’s brand new record label, PopJustice Hi-Fi.

There’s absolutely no one better in the world to pick quality Pop tunes (they have also signed electronic rumors fave Bright Light Bright Light) and they’ve picked a blinder to kick off with!

The original of ‘Waterfall’ is pretty sweet, it’s an ace Pop tune with a surprisingly noise drum track but it’s this Fear Of Tigers reMix that is the seriously good shit. Once again Ben from FoT makes everything sound a) like an American High School in the 80’s and b) like everything’s gonna’ be alright. It’s those layers upon layers of uplifting, retro sounding, synths that do it!

♫ Rosanna – Waterfall (Fear Of Tigers reMix)

‘Runaway/Waterfall’ is released 22nd August, until then show the girl some MySpace love!

Rosanna @ MySpace

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Jul 21 2010

Ali Love drops ‘Smoke & Mirrors’

We posted the Villa reMix of Ali Love’s forthcoming single ‘Smoke & Mirrors’ a while back, it was just one more reason to get exited about his, should-be-out-an-time-now, new album, ‘Love Harder’.

Well, ‘Smoke & Mirrors’ drops this week and right here you can check out the original, which is a funkin’ cool Disco-Pop jam that has the potential to propel Mr. Love chartwards. Bottin, who always captivates with his deep synth mixes, pushes things over to the cosmic side of Disco making Ali’s smooth funk sound like a robot invasion from the 70’s.

It’s all good…

♫ Ali Love – Smoke & Mirrors (Radio Edit)

♫ Ali Love – Smoke & Mirrors (Bottin reMix)

‘Smoke & Mirrors’ is out this week, Ali’s forthcoming album, ‘Love Harder’ should be dropping in August.

Jul 21 2010

Sunday Girl’s ‘Self Control’

Jade Williams A.K.A. Sunday Girl’s second single will be a cover of Laura Branigan’s 1984 hit ‘Self Control’. For a well covered track, Sunday Girl doesn’t do a bad job of making it her own, haunting and slightly otherworldly, and the Acid bassline is a nice touch too.

I predict we may be seeing a lot more reMixes of this track in the months to come. Right now we have this pretty awesome upbeat ElectroPop reMix from Popmeisters Snapd who just highlight the 80’s-ness of the tune. Azari & III, on the other hand, go deep and dark with their 3am reMix.