May 14 2011

Justin Faust’s ‘Pre Party Jamz’ Mixtape

Justin Faust – Pre Party Jamz Vol. 120 = Fifty awesome minutes of Nu-Disco and retro synth House to slide your weekend into just the right mood. Starting chilled and building, slowly and surely, to a dancefloor climax and a Disco comedown.

♫ Justin Faust – Pre Party Jamz Vol. 120

The tracklist:

01. StewRat – Disagreements
02. JNL – Beausejour
03. Oliver – All Night
04. Hemingway – Hemisphere (Demo.)
05. Show Your Shoe – Pandi (Extended Mix)
06. Pierre De La Touche – Song Of The Sirens (Louis La Roché reMix)
07. Fare Soldi – Cassa Forte
08. Melee – No Love Lost
09. Xinobi – Hawaii
10. Blende – Egypto
11. Nightdrugs – My World
12. The Phantom’s Revenge & So Gold – Toasted
13. Le Knight Club – Nymphae Song
14. The Phantom’s Revenge – Mr. Fahrenheit (Justin Faust reMix)
15. Broke One – Go Go Go (Treasure Fingers reMix)
16. LaZebra- Piano Dancin’
17. J Paul Getto – Just for You
18. Chris Malinchak – It’s Your Life
19. Moonchild – You And Nothing Else
20. Lars Moston & Ben Mono – Can’t Stop

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May 14 2011

Broke One’s ‘Go Go Go’ reMixes from Russ Chimes & Treasure Fingers

The big tunes for your weekend start right here!

Last week Broke One released his new EP, ‘Stop Making Sense’, which features some storming reMixes of the lead track ‘Go Go Go’. Russ Chimes (oh my god, did you hear the preview of his new EP?) drops this reMix that mashed up equal amounts of Funk and Rave. I’ve never heard Chimes sounding so Ravey but the natural groove running through the man’s veins make for the most Disco sounding Rave ever and fitting those Rave sounds and riffs into a solid groove is a stroke of genius. This is guaranteed to get you moving. Treasure Fingers’s mix treats us to a healthy does of Old School House with abrasive 909 beats tempered by smooth Disco strings and a return of the ‘It Takes Two’ break and some classic House samples.

♫ Broke One – Go Go Go (Russ Chimes’ Gunman reMix)

♫ Broke One – Go Go Go (Treasure Fingers reMix)

Broke One’s ‘Stop Making Sense’ EP is out now:

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May 11 2011

Benny Benassi’s ‘Cinema’ video

Benny Benassi released a new single at the end of April as a precursor to his new album ‘Electroman’.

‘Cinema’ features the vocals of Gary Go, who we recently heard on Monsieur Adi’s ‘Last Stand’. It’s a big room club ElectroPop track with a cool virtual reality themed clip.

‘Cinema’ is out now with ‘Electroman’ coming 7th June.

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May 10 2011

Torpedo

OK, this is a bit of an odd one for us, Torpedo class themselves as “Krautrock influenced…Electronic Alternative Rock”, which would normally make me run a mile (or delete the email immediate) but I gave it a listen, and it;s really grown on me.

I have no idea what their other tracks sound like but never would I have described ‘Islands In Eternity’ as “Electronic Alternative Rock”. There’s a definite Krautrock” influence going on but there’s very little Rock in this (thankfully!). What it actually is, is a cosmic, almost Proggy, electronic track that…actually, no, I see their point, it is pretty hard to describe. Suffice to say that of you like synthesizers and a big epic feel to your music you should give this a listen. ReMixes come from, amongst others, Wahlström & Valiant who turn the track into a big room Electro-House tune laden with ‘wohoop’ sounds and giant stabs!

It surprised me how much I likes this track, but I did, check it:

♫ Torpedo – Islands In Eternity

♫ Torpedo – Islands In Eternity (Wahlström & Valiant reMix)

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May 9 2011

Jungle Fiction reMix Two Door Cinema Club

ReMixes of slightly old songs don’t always grab you but this mix of Two Door Cinema Club’s ‘Something Good Can Work’ by Icelandic Nu-Disco crew Jungle Fiction made me sit up and take notice.

Big, big, synths and a whole lot of groove dominate this mix. Building on the sound of their début EP the trio of young producers keep on expertly riding the line between pedal-to-the-metal Electro-House and smooth melodic Dreamwave with the kind of skill that easily ranks them up there with the Dangers and Kavinsky’s of the world.

♫ Two Door Cinema Club – Something Good Can Work (Jungle Fiction reMix)

Jungle Fiction’s début EP is out now.

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Apr 28 2011

MMMatthias reMixes SebastiAn

This is what happens when producers with unique ideas about capitalisation (of letters, not globaly) meet.

MMMatthias, one of our favourite German producers had reMixed SebastiAn latest single, and the precursor to his now album, ‘Embody’. MMMatthias ups the tempo and Discos things up a little. More choppy and noisy than we’re used to from MMMatthias, the cut-ups and 8-bit sounds give the tune a real edge and counterpoints the smooth retro synths. The whole thing is keps rocking with some dark growling bass synths. Great stuff!

♫ SebastiAn – Embody (MMMatthias Remix)

SebastiAn’s ‘Embody’ is out now,

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Apr 27 2011

Toddla T’s new single

Toddla T’s new single is highly addictive. ‘Take It Back’, featuring Shola Ama and J2K, has been hammered by Annie Mac recently and kinda’ wormed it’s way into my head. It’s got smooth vocals, an infectious hook and a lush 90’s house pianos. That’s a recipe for a tune that gets in your head.

Check the video.

And give Dillon Francis’ wobble bassed reMix a spin

♫ Toddla T (Feat. Shola Ama & J2K) – Take It Back (Dillon Francis reMix)

Toddla’s new single will be ‘Cherry Picking’ featuring the amazing Róisín Murphy, give this radio rip a sampling.

♫ Toddla T (Feat. Róisín Murphy) – Cherry Picking (Radio Rip)

Toddla T’s ‘Take It Back’ is out now.

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Apr 25 2011

Watch The Electro Wars, for one week only.

One week ending 27th April that is, soz!

It’s been doing the round of limited one-off showings for the last year, now you can finally watch the whole thing.

That’s right, you can finally see the documentary The Electro Wars, it’s streaming right now over on Pitchfork until the 27th.

It’s an cool film that, for the most part, captures a time, but feels a little dated now and features a wealth of bad, or at least debatable, information, I wish much of it had been researched a bit better. Rather than a film about the evolution of electronic dance music, as the filmaker’s claim, it really is a film about how the US mainstream discovered ElectroHouse four years ago, and the documentary is centric to that point of view. Still, it’s a fun watch that provides some good nostalgia for the parties of the time.

The Electro Wars @ Pitchfork

Apr 25 2011

The Sanfernando Sound

Jason Sieu Persad A.K.A. The Sanfernando Sound is representing for Manchester in this thing we call Electro.

You may thing already know Jason’s sound from tracks like ‘Wonky Girl’ and ‘Dominatrix’ in the last couple of years, a hard Electro-House sound with killer basslines and chainsaw leads, but, although his tunes have lost none of their balls, these days The Sanfernando Sound is an altogether smoother and groovier beast. ‘On The Catwalk’ was actually written for a fashion show and is a meeting of TSS’s funkier and harder edged sides with a strong mid-80’s Art Of Noise-esq vibe to it. ‘Disconnect U’ is a slick slick of Electro-Disco. Raw Digital funk with an 80’s Electro Soul vocal. Two tracks at the opposite ends of The Sanfernando Sound’s spectrum but proving the man is apt at both.

♫ The Sanfernando Sound – On The Catwalk

♫ The Sanfernando Sound – Disconnect U

Jason has devoted a lot of his time recently to pumping out some top quality reMixes. This reMix of Plastic Operator’s ‘Singing All The Time’ is apparently three years old but only recently got an official single release, it’s a bass heavy Electro track loaded with 8-bit noises. It does kinda’ sound three years old but it’s still banging. For a more recent sample of The Sanfernando Sound’s sound check his reMix of Anoraak’s ’Crazy Eyes’, an deep ElectroPop track with a rolling analog bass like tunder.

♫ Plastic Operator – Singing All The Time (The Sanfernando Sound reMix)

♫ Anoraak – Crazy Eyes (The Sanfernando Sound reMix)

The Sanfernando Sound has released the odd single and EP over the last couple of years, worth investigating:

The Sanfernando Sound @ Bandcamp

The Sanfernando Sound @ Beatport

The Sanfernando Sound @ Juno

The Sanfernando Sound @ 7Digital

The Sanfernando Sound @ Amazon

Apr 21 2011

Lightwaves

Lightwaves just happens to be the solo project of Jan Rosenfeld, front-man of the awesome Boston Indie-Electropoppers Yes Giantess, getting his Electro Disco groove on.

His first track ‘Working All Day’ is an amalgamation of Electro styles, mixing up a bit of Robo Disco, a bit of French Touch, a bit of ElectroPop into a happy summer hit. Jan’s got a strong ear for how to rock the dancefloor and ‘Working All Day’ dips and peaks just where it’s supposed to, carrying you along with the cut-up vocoder vocals.