Au Revoir Simone’s new reMix album

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New York based Indie-Electro darlings Au Revoir Simone are following up their acclaimed third album of last summer’, ‘Still Night, Still Light’, with an album of reMixes this June.

Titled ‘Night Light’ the release will feature reMixes from such names as Silver Columns, Aeroplane, Clock Opera, Jens Lekman, Neon Indian,Bass Clef, and Deradoorian (Angel Deradoorian from The Dirty Projectors), just to name a few!.

Silver Columns take on ‘We Are Here’ with a deep, slightly glitchy, Electro vibe, adding some new vocals and heavy percussion while the Aeroplane reMix (which first dropped late last year) of ‘Another Likely Story’ is a straight up Indie-Dance party jam!

Au Revoir Simone – We Are Here (Silver Columns reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)

Au Revoir Simone – Another Likely Story (Aeroplane reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)

‘Night Light’ is released 5th July through Moshi Moshi.

Au Revoir Simone @ Beatport

Au Revoir Simone @ Juno

Au Revoir Simone @ 7Digital

Au Revoir Simone @ Amazon

Human Life

Aeroplane and Grum are diggin’ them, Alan Braxe is working with them. everybody seems to love LA ElectroPoppers Human Life. The attention is well deserved too, their forthcoming second single, ‘In It Together’,  is an almighty clash of Nu-Disco basslines, 8-bit sounds, 80’s synth chords, 90’s House keys and Disco vocals.

Check the video, a crazy costumed scavenger hunt, directed by Dan Brophy

Acid Girls and Polygon Palace are just two of the big names contributing to the reMix package (alongside the likes of Louis La Roche and Kris Menace). Both have amped up the 90’s house feel, Acid Girls Electro-ing things up with a wonky bassline and Polygon Palace taking a more Nu-Disco route under that lead line.

Human Life – In It Together (Acid Girls reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)

Human Life – In It Together (Polygon Palace reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)

‘In It Together’ drops 7th June on Life X Recordings.

Human Life @ Beatport

Human Life @ 7Digital

Human Life @ Amazon

Indiscreet wants to vanish from here…

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French Electro artist Indiscreet has delivered something pretty special in his new EP, ‘The I’, not only does it contain four tracks of Ed Banger-esq noisy ElectroPop but also a narrative with accompanying online comic. Yes, I’m talking about a concept work here, which in the realms of Electronic Music tends to be a hell of a lot more interesting than Prog Rock concept albums of old.

Telling the time fractured story in which the protagonist lives through a self-fulfilling prophesy of the creation of a fascist future, governed by a giant eye (The ‘I’ of the title), the story is told in reverse through the tracks on the EP and in graphic form on Indiscreet’s MySpace.

So, the music? Aggressive ElectroPop with heavy distorted synths, hard Electro-House beats and angst fuelled vocals, create a more lyrical take on the Ed Banger sound. Unmistakable French, Indiscreet seem to be writing Hard Rock songs with electronic equipment and the merging of the Rock formula with banging noisy house akin to the likes of Justice and MSTRKRFT works in such a powerful way, like a controlled chaos.

I can only imagine that an Indiscreet show is a pretty awesome live.

Indiscreet – Vanish Part II (zShare) (MediaFire)

Indiscreet (Feat. Kid A)- Reveries Past (zShare) (MediaFire)

Indiscreet’ ‘The I’ EP has just been released and there is a unique conceptual launch party taking place at I-Way in Lyon, France on 29nd May.

Indiscreet @ Beatport

Indiscreet @ Juno

Indiscreet @ Amazon

Arthur Baker turns his HURTS reMix up to 11!

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He practically invented Electro Hip-Hop, synthed up New Order and was an influence on almost all forms of Electronic music, and most recently production legend Arthur Baker provided the wonderful dancefloor reMix of current SynthPop bright hopes HURTS’ début track, ‘Wonderful Life’.

Not content with that Baker has taken the core loop of his reMix and expanded it into a full on Electro banger! With only the barest hint of vocals, if ‘Wonderful Life’ was HURTS politely asking you to appreciate stuff, then this time they’re back with AB to convince you with baseball bats! That main riff is a killer!

AB/HURTS (Arthur Baker) – Onederful (Planet Rocka Dub) (zShare) (MediaFire)

Arthur Baker’s reMix on ‘Wonderful Life’ features on HURT’s ‘Wonderful Life’ EP, you could also do a lot worse than checking out his extensive back catalogue.

Arthur Baker @ Beatport

Arthur Baker @ Juno

Arthur Baker @ 7Digital

Arthur Baker @ Amazon

ZX

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Banging their way into the week comes ZX. The duo got our attention previously with a stellar reMix of Fenech-Soler’s L.A. Love as well as a couple of cool Electro-House tracks of their own.

‘Shock Therapy’, their new track, sees a harder, more Ed Banger-esq sound with big distorted synths and some brilliantly melodic cut-up vocals

ZX – Shock Therapy (zShare) (MediaFire)

It’s pretty criminal that no one has snapped up these guys yet, until they do go give them some major MySpace lovin’!

ZX @ MySpace

Owl City gets the magic touch of Grum

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I remember a few weeks ago Grum saying on Twitter that he was reMixing Owl City, I thought he was joking…apparently not!

Unlike I lot of people, I actually don’t hate Owl City, they remind me of a Poppier The Postal Service, and I did like The Postal Service (and I like Pop!). So I’m OK with OC going in but damn does Grum work some serious magic here. In a way he’s taken Owl City, and made it Monarchy, and that’s an ace thing to do! The mixture of Adam Young’s introspective, borderline Emo, SynthPop and Grum’s Disco infused Dreamwave creates this genius dancefloor ElectroPop gold!

Owl City – Umbrella Beach (Grum reMix) (Sharebee) (MediaFire)

‘Umbrella Beach’, the second single from the ‘Ocean Eyes’ album , is out soon.

Owl City @ Juno

Owl City @ 7Digital

Owl City @ Amazon

Calling In Sick reMix Cullen

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It’s been a while since we heard a new reMix from Sydney’s Calling in Sick, which is a shame as I used to be all over their mixes. Seriously couldn’t get enough of that shit!

So it’s awesome to see them back with this reMix of Australia’s answer to The Postal Service, Cullen’s début single, ‘Easily Impressed’ and it’s just the Calling In Sick sound that I had been missing.

You’ve got the buzzsaw synths hammering crazy solos and arpeggios and the big 80’s chords. Calling In Sick are like the 80’s hair Metal of electronic music, and that is no bad thing!

Cullen – Easily Impressed (Calling In Sick reMix) (Sharebee) (MediaFire)

The ’Easily Impressed’ single is out soon.

Cullen @ MySpace

Kavinsky reMix Competition

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Record Makers and Kavinsky are running a reMix contest to celebrate the release of Kavinsky’s latest EP, the awesome ‘Nightcall’. Grab yourself The Dead Cruiser’s zombie vocoding and the sweet counterpoint from Lovefoxxx of CSS and get to work!

Head over to kavinskyremix.com for the 4-1-1.

1. Download the vocal stems using the SoundCloud player.
2. Make your reMix.
3. Submit to Record Makers via SoundCloud by Wednesday 30th June.

1st prize: (chosen by Kavinsky)
Digital release on Record Makers
+ Nightcall vinyl + SoundCloud Pro. account

2nd prize: (chosen by the Record Makers staff)
Nightcall vinyl + Teddy Boy vinyl + SoundCloud Lite account

3rd prize: (chosen by the fans – most favourites on SoundCloud)
Nightcall vinyl + 1986 vinyl + SoundCloud Lite account

Check out some of the existing entries, see what you’re up against. The quality is pretty high! Here are some of the best so far by RQTN, The SexInvaders, Digital Haus Boy, Clash Masterz and The Sonixx.

Kavinsky (Feat. Lovefoxxx Of CSS) – Nightcall (RQTN reMix) (Sharebee) (MediaFire)

Kavinsky (Feat. Lovefoxxx Of CSS) – Nightcall (The SexInvaders reMix) (Sharebee) (MediaFire)

Kavinsky (Feat. Lovefoxxx Of CSS) – Nightcall (Digital Haus Boy reMix)  (Sharebee) (MediaFire)

Kavinsky (Feat. Lovefoxxx Of CSS) – Nightcall (Clash Masterz Rmx) (Sharebee) (MediaFire)

Kavinsky (Feat. Lovefoxxx Of CSS) – Nightcall (The Sonixx reMix) (Sharebee) (MediaFire)

The ‘Nightcall’ EP is out now!

Kavinsky @ Beatport

Kavinsky @ Juno

Kavinsky @ Amazon

Punches

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Punches, the DJ double act who  dropped that wicked Au Revoir Simone reMix on us a couple of weeks ago are back with some original material.

This is just what I need to shake the cobwebs out of my head this morning, a nice smooth disco vibe with a bit of ‘90’s House feel with the vocals. This track really needs loads of radio play, I don’t know what it is about it but it just sounds like it should be on the radio on a summer afternoon.

Punches – Let Go (zShare) (MediaFire)

Really, show these guys you Thursday MySpace lovin’:

Punches @ MySpace

Crystal Castles ‘Celestica’ reMix

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‘Celestica’ was a pleasant surprise of a single. Although not Crystal Castles first endeavour in melody it was a slick, sweet slice of melodic ElectroPop, unexpected, but welcome.

Professor Purple drops 8-bit sounds and Electro-House sawtooth synths over it, which, ironically, kinda’ re-Crystal Castles-izes the track but also brings the track straight to Dreamwave dancefloors!

Crystal Castles – Celestica (Professor Purple reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)

‘Celestica’ is out now digitally.

Crystal Castles @ Beatport

Crystal Castles @ Juno

Crystal Castles @ 7Digital

Crystal Castles @ Amazon