Mar 5 2013

[Audio] Chvrches reMix St. Lucia

Now, this is a bit of a treat. Two of the finest ElectroPop acts around in a reMix sound-off. Brooklyn SynthPop master Jean-Philip Grobler A.K.A. St. Lucia’s Before the Dive gets a beautiful, swirling abstract electro makeover by Glaswegian ElectroPop buzz factory Chvrches. That’s a meeting of minds we weren’t expecting, but we wonder where it’s been all out lives.

The result is a lush, experimental Pop tune (that’s experimental in a musical way, not experimental bashing some sheet metal and fiddling with the LFO way). Adding some of their own heavily effected vocals, Chvrches lay down a hypnotic piano hook, pounding industrial drums and layers upon layers of rich synths. This is serious genius at work!

♫ St. Lucia – Before The Dive (Chvrches reMix)

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Mar 5 2013

[Audio] Goldroom & Mereki

Goldroom’s new jam is here and once again he’s roped in the best of the best to deliver the smoothest of sounds. Following on the cream of vocalists to grace Goldroom tracks comes the awesome Mereki, who we’ve features a few times here, to lend her dreamy west coast vibes to Only You Can Show Me.

Goldroom, who recently played his first gig with a live band, brings exactly the kind of carefree beach party Disco sounds that have made him one of the top producers in the world right now. There’s a nice fat Synth Funk bass in the background on this one, rounding out those stardust lead lines and big pads that seem to rise from the most nostalgic part of your mind. Goldroom album in time for summer, that’s what we want, that’s all we’ve ever wanted.

♫ Goldroom (Feat. Mereki) – Only You Can Show Me

Goldroom’s Only You Can Show Me is out now.

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Mar 5 2013

[MP3] Let Em Riot reMixed by Arcade High

Pittsburgh SynthWaver Arcade High, who you may remember making our top twenty songs of 2012 in the last electronic rumors Awards had delivered this sweet reMix of our very own Let Em Riot. Let Em Riot’s Say What You Need To Say first appeared on a SynthWave compilation a few months ago and caused quite a stir, immediately attracting a ton of attention for the album.

Arcade High’s take on the track is a beautiful whirlwind of dreamy synths and vintage drums. Using Let Em Riot’s vocals to their fullest, Arcade High wraps them in a star-field of sparking synths. Driving and gloriously nostalgic, Arcade High’s reMix just proves what we already knew, when Ryan Boosel works with vocals, special things happen.

♫ Let Em Riot – Say What You Need To Say (Arcade High reMix)

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Mar 5 2013

[Mixtape] Pat Lok’s ‘Digging Holes For Something’ Mix

Pat Lok – Digging Holes For Something Mix = Pat delivers over an hour of dancefloor beats in his new mixtape. Spanning Disco and House with a decidedly deep twist Pat fits in a whopping 20 tracks to put you in a beat trance.

♫ Pat Lok – Digging Holes For Something Mix

The tracklist:

01. Lone – Ultramarine
02. Waze & Odyssey – I Want You You You
03. Jimpster – Can’t Stop Loving
04. Villa – Mint (Softwar Remix)
05. Fulbert – First Time House
06. Plezier – On Time
07. Bodhi – Culture
08. Jakwob – Fade (Club VIP)
09. The Other Tribe – Sing With Your Feet (Shadow Child reMix)
10. Chaos in the CBD – So Proud
11. Youan – Easy
12. Artifact – The Way It Do
13. Worthy – Dip
14. Pat Lok – Crazy Juice
15. Justin Martin & Eats Everything – Feather Fight
16. Mendoza – Blush
17. Myd – Javier
18. Sirmo – You Are
19. LB Lynam – Get Things Straight
20. Blacksmif – Kangs Odyssey

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Mar 5 2013

[Video] Midnight Juggernauts

Cosmic trio Midnight Juggernauts are back and as spaced-out as ever. This is their new track Ballad Of The War Machine, five minutes of psychedelic synth noodling Indie bliss.

The video is fitted out to look like an old Soviet era Russian something or other. It;s a bit insane.

Midnight Juggernauts are set to release a new album in2013.

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Mar 5 2013

[MP3] FM Attack and Rogue Vogue reMix French Horn Rebellion

Two piping hot reMixes of French Horn Rebellion forthcoming new single Girls, featuring JD Samson, from Le Tigre& MEN, and rapper Fat Tony. We covered the track a few days ago, a massive party starter, and now we get to get our ears around versions from SynthWave legend FM Attack and House producer Rogue Vogue.

FM Attack’s mix is the proverbial bomb, a real funky synthesizer workout. Whipping up an Italo frenzy of vocal synthesis, robotic vocoding and chugging arpeggiated basslines, FM Attack delivers five minutes of android Boogie and one of our favourite tracks of the month. Rouge Vogue is more in the classic House vein. Deep, woody basslines and 909 beats dominate this reMix, dragging the track into a darkened Chicago warehouse for a night of hypnotic dancing. French Horn Rebellion have put together a slick reMix package for their new one. It drops in March.

♫ French Horn Rebellion – Girls (FM Attack reMix)

♫ French Horn Rebellion – Girls (Rogue Vogue reMix)

French Horn Rebellion’s Girls is released 5th March.

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Mar 4 2013

[Audio] New tracks from Pilotpriest

Canada’s reigning soundtrack Electro master Pilotpriest dropped a couple of new tunes on his SoundCloud this past week. He’s a busy guy these days, as Hollywood beckons, so were glad he’s still got time to sit down and produce some of the most emotional, evocative and enthralling electronic music around today.

Quest For Fire is on of Pilotpriest’s dancier tunes. Although quite mid-paced, it boasts a solid Italo beat and bassline set amidst swirling arpeggios and rousing strings. The synthetic orchestration isn’t lost in the groove though, as ever building waves of Pilotpriest’s rich tapestry of sound plays a gradually escalating narrative, full of character. Hallways, an ode to High School, again employs a pounding Electro beat to underpin a shifting soundscape of nostalgic, hypnotic, audio memories. And although my upbringing was more Grange Hill than Shermer High, I still feel I can relate, it’s just got that tone of youthful optimist melded with doubt and daily grind, to it. More excellence as Pilotpriest effortlessly conjures synthesizer moods.

♫ Pilotpriest – Quest For Fire (Instrumental)

♫ Pilotpriest – Hallways

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Mar 4 2013

[MP3] Glass Candy’s ‘The Possessed’

Here we have another little taste of what come come with Italians Do It Better’s forthcoming, and long awaited, After Dark 2 compilation. This look behind the curtain comes in the form of Glass Candy’s absolutely epic, seven minute, Extended Runway Edit of The Possessed. No doubt an extended runway edit because it soundtracked some high-concept fashion show in recent months, as is Glass Candy tracks wont.

A beautiful, minimal seven minutes of synthetics. The Possessed pairs a stripped down Italo bassline with a slower tempo to a creeping background dread. This plays nicely against the more optimistic, warbling lead lines and sweeping synths. The contradiction is matched in Ida No’s vocals, sounding quite upbeat as she lays down some melancholy lyrics. The Possessed is deserved of it’s seven minute length, it;s a track you just have to go with and enjoy the experience.

♫ Glass Candy – The Possessed (Extended Runway Edit)

After Dark 2 will be out soon, with tracks from Glass Candy, Mirage, Desire, Farah, Twisted Wires, Appaloosa, Symmetry, and Chromatics.

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Mar 1 2013

[Audio] Ronika’s ‘Rough ‘N’ Soothe’

Fancy some smooth vibes and your first taste of what to expect from Ronika’s forthcoming début alum? That’s kinda’ good news, as you’ve come to the right place. If that’s not what you’re here for, sorry Dude, but you really shouldn’t hate fun. Ronika’s album is pretty much one of our most anticipated released of this year, not wanting to sound sycophantic but she’s hasn’t put a foot wrong in her career yet. We’ve really enjoyed everything she’s released so far, we’ve really enjoyed every time we’ve seen her live and you can;t ask much more from a Pop star than that.

Rough ‘N’ Soothe is her new tune, a track that carries us away from urban cool Ronika and takes us into to laid back beach vibe Ronika territory. It feels like the soundtrack to Ron enjoying a day off, washed with an 90’s R&B cool that rubs shoulders with a bouncing Disco bass and rich vintage chords. Almost verging on Tropical at times, in mood if not in sound, Rough ‘N’ Soothe is a blissful slice of Ronika, pool party style. Seriously, the album can’t come quick enough. Also, “Bossa-Nova Casanova, Play it slow on, my Casio will ya…” is the greatest lyric of the year so far.

♫ Ronika – Rough ‘N’ Soothe

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Mar 1 2013

[Audio] Figure Of 8 reMixes Sophie Sparken

Here’s a new one from our Belfastian friend Figure Of 8 (if Belfastian isn’t a word it should be. That’s out gift to the people of Belfast, they can have that for free). this morning he dropped by the electronic rumors Inbox to deliver this deceptively complex remix of his friend, Northampton based Folk singer Sophie Sparken, and her tune Trouble.

Folk song may begin to grate with their acoustic guitar endlessness, but they make perfect fodder for intricate, spacey, electronic reMixes. And Sophie’s Trouble has a particularly nice, lilting vocal that seems almost dreamlike over Figure Of 8’s Acid tinged synths and and shuffling percussion. The beauty of this reMix is that is sounds really simple, really sparse, until you peel back the layers and find it’s meticulously crafted core. Making complexity sound effortless? That’s production! Figure Of 8’s continues his quest to deliver classy, and classic sounding, Dance tracks. Timeless and easy on the ears.