Mar 19 2013

[MP3] Pat Lok’s ‘Crazy Juice’

“I made some not disco” Canadian, er, Disco, producer Pat Lok exclaimed on Twitter yesterday evening. Well, for a start he wasn’t lying, and it’s awesome to see producers playing fast and loose with genres. Many artists produce their best work when experimenting and branching out, and let’s face it Nu-Disco is getting a bit repetitive, it’s no wonder the more creative on the scene want to spread their musical wings.

So where does that leave Pat, the track Crazy Juice is a brooding Chicago House/early 90s Rave crossover that keeps Lok’s funk, but channels it toward a darkened warehouse. Loaded with shuffling 909 beats and a big warping bassline, Crazy Juice brings the kind of strobe light vibe that takes us back to our youth. One for a full-on night out.

♫ Pat Lok – Crazy Juice

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Mar 19 2013

[MP3] Neptune Safari

We love it when surprises drop into the electronic rumors Inbox. Yesterday new Parisian Nu-disco producer Neptune Safari dropped by to show of his latest track. His début track too, and what a confident début it is. More polished and thoughtful than many releases in the Nu-Disco spectrum, with one track Neptune Safari has marked himself as one to watch.

Adeline Is In A Water Drop is a meaty title for a track, but befits the Smörgåsbord of laid back grooves presented here. Deep walking Disco bass and silky smooth synths wash through the track, accompanied by little starlight melodies, as Adeline Is In A Water Drop carries you away with it to more chilled, funkier, places. We’re very impressed by Neptune Safari’s premiere track.

♫ Neptune Safari – Adeline Is In A Water Drop

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Mar 19 2013

[MP3] Lifelike reMixes Futurecop!

A couple of weeks ago we gave you the skinny on Futurecop!’s new single, Atlantis 1997, mentioning that there was a remix on the single from French Touch pioneer Lifelike. Well now, as the single draws ever closer to it’s late March release, we can give you a listen to that very reMix. Its downloadable too!

Atlantis 1997 is a carefree Dreamwave track in which Ricco Vitali from Cavaliers Of Fun delivers a anthemic, summery vocal. Lifelike uses this vocal to it’s fullest over a big filtered Disco backing. Concentrating on the songs chorus, and adding a few chop-up into the mix, Lifelike delivers punchy bass, smooth keys and slick sheen that can only come from being a master of your art. This mix swirls around your ears like euphoric smoke, drawing you into it’s groove.

♫ Futurecop! (Feat. Ricco Vitali From Cavaliers Of Fun) – Atlantis 1997 (Lifelike reMix)

Futurecop!’s Atlantis 1997 is released 23rd March with reMixes from Lifelike, P.A.F.F, Kill Them With Colour and Uppermost.

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Mar 18 2013

[MP3] Let Em Riot’s ‘I Know’

We have a treat for you to kick off the week. A new freebie from Californian retro SynthPop artist Let Em Riot. Riding high on the success of his SlashWave EP (released via electronic rumors) Let Em Riot presents I Know, his latest masterpiece, for the incredibly cheap price of an email address.

I Know is just the kind of top quality trip you’d expect from this guy. Nostalgic, without being trite. Catchy without being reparative. Beautiful without being, er, not-beautiful. I Know breezes out of your speakers and when, after the tension building verse, the track launches into it’s sweeping, epic, chorus you can’t help but be hooked. It’s difficult for us to big up one of out own artists, but Alan Oakes really is one of the best songwriters in electronic music right now, hell that’s why we signed him, and I Know is just further proof of this. If you haven’t experienced Let Em Riot yet, here’s your gateway.

♫ Let Em Riot – I Know

Let Em Riot’s SlashWave EP is out right now!

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Mar 18 2013

[Audio] Tesla Boy’s ‘1991’

Russian crew Tesla Boy are easily one of the best ElectroPop acts around today. Since their emergence in 2008 with a demo EP on their MySpace site they have been champions of a retro 80s sound. With overtones of Disco, Indie and SynthWave, these guys have always kept it 80s. Until now. their new single, cunningly titled 1991, is loaded with early 90s musical references. A new direction for Tesla Boy, or a one-off? Only time will tell.

1991 is all Hip Hop beats, samples vocal snatches and a Pop House vibe, and ‘y’know what? It works. Mainly due to Tesla Boy’s talent, these guys are master songwriters and performers, it’s not surprise that when they break their meld they can still deliver the goods. With their interpretation of the Soul II Soul Back To Life beat and big House synths, Tesla Boy still manage to sound like Tesla Boy and deliver an optimistic song that probably mirrors a new found sense of optimism in Russia in 1991 with the birth of the Russian Federation. The reMix line-up for the single it pretty impressive too. Portuguese Disco guru Xinobi takes his time with the track and delivers a smooth, slick Disco-House rework before dropping in some sumptuous Dub grooves and making thoroughly intoxicating summer dance track. Fellow Russians 7he Myriads go with a live sounding vibe and put the 80s back into Tesla Boy, while Fon.Leman turns-in a complex big room tune with hints of Disco and Progressive House in it’s massive euphoric sound and some hands-in-the-air Trance overtones. Along side these three sit further remixes from Tonefiction, DZA and SoundSam in a stunning, recommended, reMix package.

♫ Tesla Boy – 1991

♫ Tesla Boy – 1991 (Xinobi reMix)

♫ Tesla Boy – 1991 (7he Myriads reMix)

♫ Tesla Boy – 1991 (Fon.Leman reMix)

Tesla Boy’s 1991 is out today on Gorby Records.

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Mar 18 2013

[MP3] Irish Steph’s ‘Paddy’s Craic’

So, yesterday was St. Patrick’s day (out Irish friends can have some big ups) and fittingly, confusingly named French producer Irish Steph dropped a free tune to celebrate. This is no frivolous party tune, no throwaway free download, this is an Electro Disco powerhouse that does some really clever things with traditional Celtic instruments.

Well, that’s if you find chopping them up and reworking them into new hooks and melodies clever, which we do. When that spark of originality is mixed with a track that flows effortlessly from groovy vintage Funk to slick Disco-House to full on gritty Electro-House, without breaking a sweat we have to respect that. So whatever you’re celebrating, Irish Steph’s Paddy’s Craic will get the job done.

♫ Irish Steph – Paddy’s Craic

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Mar 18 2013

[Mixtape] Ali Jamieson’s ‘March 2013 Mix’

Ali Jamieson – March 2013 Mix = Mr. Jamieson has delivered another epic two hour mix this month. For March we’ve got an amazing collection of deep deep Disco and House including a couple of choice cuts from electronic rumors (Substatic’s reMix of Ronika’s Wiyoo and Box Of Wolves & Christa Vi’s new single Boy).

♫ Ali Jamieson – March 2013 Mix

The tracklist:
01. Data/Debt – Bombay Star
02. Box Of Wolves & Christa Vi – Boy
03. Patterns – Sunny Days (Seashore reMix)
04. Sneaky Sound System – Friends (Plastic Plates reMix)
05. Madonna – Lucky Star (Moustache Machine reMix)
06. Ditongo – Gattone
07. Floating Points – Vacuum Boogie
08. Gorge – LA Angels (Audiojack reMix)
09. Bonobo – Cirrus
10. Lukas Lyrestam – Dallas
11. The Gossip – Move In The Right Direction (Classixx reMix)
12. Black Strobe – The Girl From The Bayou (Holmes Price reMix)
13. Kolombo (Feat. Plastic Bertrand) – Stop Ou Encore
14. Heston & RECovery – Street Girl
15. Terranova – I Want To Go Out (David Mayer Mix)
16. Marco Dassi – Amigdala (Things Happen reMix)
17. Ronika – Wiyoo (Substatic reMix)
18. Isaac Tichauer – Devotion
19. Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs – Your Love (Waze & Odyssey Street Tracks Mix)
20. Douze – Emmanuele (Dans L’Espace)
21. Benoit & Sergio – Everybody
22. Spiller (Feat Nina Miranda) – Urastar (The Supermen Lovers reMix)
23. Touch & Go – Gotta’ Have You
24. Marcus Marr – The Music
25. Andrea Doria LXR A.K.A. Lutzenkirchen – Freak Me (Phonat reMix)
26. Mario Basanov (Feat. Jazzu) – Under Your Feet
27. Lovebirds (Feat. Stee Downes) – Want You In My Soul

Ali Jamieson’s Four Thirty single is out now and available for free here.

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Mar 18 2013

[Audio] Soft Riot’s ‘No Longer Stranger’

Recently released, was the new record fro London based Minimal Synth artist Soft Riot. No Longer Stranger was originally conceived at an EP, but expanded into an eight track mini-album for this release and serves as an interim before Soft Riots next album proper, Fiction Prediction, due in a couple of months.

No Longer Stranger is a collection of moody, atmospheric tracks, driven by vintage machine beats and warbling arpeggios. Combining late 70s synthesizer cinema music (the kind of stuff in horror and Sci-Fi movies in the years just before the music the SynthWave scene adores kicked off) and the metronome sparsety of early Cabaret Voltaire, with a little whispered Soft Cell sleaze, Soft Riot deliver something, not to make you move on the dancefloor, but to soundtrack your walk home after the club has shut, through dark city streets. Pulsating analog basses and white noise snares provide the basis for haunting, glowing melodies and Soft Riot’s enigmatic growl, from the Numanoid Your Secret Light Shines At Night to the acid nightmare SynthPop of Your Strange New Career via the dystopian psychedelic of Tragic Magic, No Longer Stranger isn’t always comfortable listening, but ultimately rewarding. Check out A Simulation, the album’s one dance tune, that works a little early Skinny Puppy and a hint of Electro Boogie into the mix.

♫ Soft Riot – A Simulation

Soft Riot’s No Longer Stranger is out now.

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Mar 18 2013

[Mixtape] The Penelopes’ March chart

The Penelopes – The Penelopes’ Charts March 2013 = Once again The Penelopes deliver their round of of the best tunes of the month. Dig in to some of the hottest tracks around.

♫ The Penelopes – The Penelopes’ Charts March 2013

The tracklist:
01. Haim – Falling
02. Hey Champ! (Feat. BeuKes) – Comet
03. Pyramid – Wolf (Crayon reMix)
04. Spiller – Urastar (Bottin Mix)
05. Sky Ferreira – Everything Is Embarrassing (MK reMix)
06. MiGHty mOUse – Love Is Gonna Lift You Up (Sunset Dub)
07. Duke Dumont (Feat. A*M*E) – Need U (100%) (Skream reMix)
08. Nihiti – Ghosts And Lovers (National Park System RIP Mix)
09. Wildcat! Wildcat! – Please And Thank You
10. Phoenix – Entertainement

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Mar 18 2013

[Audio] Forgotten Illusions’ ‘Crystal Contour’ EP

There is, apparently, a new EP from Dreamwave pioneers and Valerie O.G.s The Outrunners on the way. In the mean time check out this amazing four track EP from Forgotten Illusions. Forgotten Illusions is the new side project from PDLT, on half of The Outrunners, and on the Crystal Contour EP he puts even last drop of his SynthWave credentials to the best use.

The Crystal Contour EP was released as the third volume in Valerie’s Composer Series and it’s four tracks make up some of the best SynthWave we’ve heard in a while. The EP’s title track is a masterclass in emotional Italo. Driving synthetic basslines and powerful retro chords build the tracks core, creating the prefect canvas for some galactic synth sweeps and truly rousing melodies and leads. Twelve, our other favourite of the four, is another example of pure brilliance in the felids of Italo and Dreamwave. The mixture of relentless arpeggiated basslines and beautiful electronic melodies is pitch perfect here. It’s a track that’s equally haunting and groovy, which is all you can ask for really. Forgotten Illusions début EP sees the return of a major talent to the genre, we suggest you pick up all four tracks right now.