We’ve got a couple of our favourites right here for you. Egotomb produce this amazing, electronic organ based, ElectroPop track that has a certain atmospheric quality to it that we can’t help but find compelling. Mr. Mæn, on the other hand, turns in a deep and chilled retro, almost Dreamwave, House mix with a laidback Disco bassline. It’s an almost perfect example of mid-temo House with some of the sweetest pad you’ll ever hear.
We’re gonna’ kick off today with Leicester based Tribal Riot, an Indie-Electro outfit with a heavy sound.
Rising from the ashes of a punk band (as so many Electro-House acts do) they appear to have carried over that intensity into their new, synth based, direction. Mixing up Electro, Electro-House and Breakbeat Tribal Riot’s tracks utilise raw drums, distorted synths and the odd 8-bit sound with devastating effect. Check out ‘Awakening’, probably the most ‘musical’ of their crop, which manages to sound both rough ‘n’ ready and emotive.
I caught Welsh Indie-Electro-Poppers Friends Electric recently with Fenech-Soler and Substatic, it’s an experience I can highly recommend, the guys were awesome live.
We’ve already dropped their forthcoming new single, ‘Golden Blood’, so how about a reMix by Canadians The Dirty Tees? I think ‘banger’ is the term used… Seriously, The Dirty Tees pull no punches and turn in a full on Electro-House monster only slightly tamed with some sweet strings.
You gotta’ love a good old fashioned, salt-of-the-earth The Twelves reMix! It’s something you can rely on to be absolutely banging.
Munk is the subject of this latest rework, and his forthcoming new single ‘Violent Love’ (taken from his awesome ‘Mondo Vagabondo’ EP). The Twelves layer their Nu-Disco on thick, with a laidback, but dancey, groove with hints of dub and dancehall in the production and a slight 90’s house piano feel. It’s a full on combination but one that works so well you can’t help but move to it!
I have to admit, I have no idea who guitar-alt-pop duo Le Rev are but apparently they are quite sought after as songwriters having worked with the likes of Ladytron and Deadmau5.
When this reMix of their track ‘Lucky You’ by eRNEST & AMz landed in the electronic rumors inbox it really made me take notice though. Its a full on, straight to the dancefloor, ElectroPop number. C.C. Sheffield’s sultry rock vocals lend themselves amazingly well to the Electro-House-ish backing making for a compelling combination.
The wait is finally over! This week Russ Chimes’ ‘Midnight Club’ EP was finally released and it’s so good to have these tracks, we’ve played to death already, in glorious high quality!
Easily on of the best Nu-disco releases of the year (made all the better by a trilogy of amazingly crafted mini movies) we were exited to see that the release was joined by a reMix EP as well! While we are all totally in love with the original EP track, which seem to tell a story all of their own, without the videos, as Mr. Chimes proves he is one of the most innovative and constantly perfectionist producers working in this genre, the EP provided some pleasant surprizes including this reMix of ‘Targa’ (the whole reMix EP is of ‘Targa’) by Bestrack who actually keeps a lot of the original intact but covers the song in massive synth chords and a band new big ol’ bassline.
It’s that time again! In December Kitsuné Music will be releasing the tenth instalment of their Maison series, titled ‘The Fireworks Issue’.
In celebration of hitting the landmark tenth volume, the Franch Electro label are making this one a double album featuring some of the best Indie-Electro from their stable in the past year and some of their forthcoming releases. There’s some awesoem tracks on there including the new Digitalism, the recent singles from Yelle and Clock Opera and tracks from BeatauCue, Is Tropical and Housse De Racket.
Check out the tracklist:
CD 01
01. Cascadeur – Walker (Early Mix)
02. Guards – Don’t Wake The Dead
03. Is Tropical – South Pacific
04. Yelle – La Musique
05. Two Door Cinema Club – What You Know (Mustang reMix)
06. BeatauCue – Disque Oh!
07. Strange Talk – Climbing Walls
08. Punks Jump Up – Blockhead (Edit)
09. The Aikiu – The Red Kiss
10. Flight Facilities (Feat. Giselle) – Crave You (Radio Edit)
11. Jolie Cherie – Insomnie
12. Wild At Heart – Get Related
CD 02
01. Clock Opera – Once And For All
02. Icona Pop – Manners (Extended)
03. Young Empires – Glory Of The Night
04. Housse De Racket – Château
05. Teeth – See Spaces
06. The Heartbreaks – Liar, My Dear
07. Waylayers – Fires
08. DigitaIism – Blitz
09. Black Strobe – Me & Madonna (The Twelves reMix)
10. Justus Köhncke with Alexis Taylor – Sorry
11. Psychobuildings – Terror Management
12. Palmbomen – Moon Children
13. May68 – The Prisoner (Cecile reMix (Jerry Bouthier edit))
As usual London’s Kitsuné in-house DJ team JBAG have put together a minimix to showcase the album, this time in two parts. Here’s the first:
Things have been a little quite from Mille since his rash of amazing reMixes and the ‘Crysteena’ single late last year.
But fear not, the Swedish Nu-Disco genius has been hard at work and recently uploaded to new tracks to his SoundCloud.
‘Afterski’ is pure brilliance, the kind of thing you’d expect from Mille. Slick as anything you’ve heard,retro synth inspired, dancefloor ElectroPop. Soaring electronic lead lines and electro toms fly all over the track. It’s uplifting as hell. ‘Warchief’ is a tiny bit darker and a bit more pumping. If ‘Afterski’ is the soundtrack to an 80’s prom, then this is the soundtrack to a gang fight. Not a gang fight you’d get these days, a bandannas, studded gloves and dance moves gang fight!
Well, part music video, part promo reel, part Tron Legacy trailer set to Daft Punk’s soundtrack piece ‘Derezzed’.
What we’ve heard of the soundtrack so far sounds amazing and this video, not only features loads of new footage from the movie, but also give us our first on-screen glimpse of Guy and Thomas in their roles as ‘mp3 files’ (read DJs) in the movie.
I love the way the soundtrack had lots of contemporary action movie signatures, but weaving in and out of them are phrases of analog synths or distorted drums, seems like a perfect blend of score and electronics.
Tron: Legacy hit cinemas 17th December. Both the movie and Daft Punk’s soundtrack are so highly anticipated here it’s not even funny. December can’t come soon enough!
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