With SynthWave master Kavinsky’s album just around the corner, due for a February release, the man himself is set to visit London for what promises to be a full-on night of blistering Electro in celebration of the record’s release.
The Dead Cruiser descends on a secret London warehouse location 2nd March for one of the hot tickets of the year so far.
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Kavinsky’s début album, Outrun, is released 25th February.
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Nude Disco – Vern’s Nude Disco 8 = Here’s the latest synth laden Disco mixtape from Nude Disco. Featruing some of the biggest tunes from the past few months, it’s a cracking hour. Make sure you get yourself down to the next Nude Disco club night, at the Electric Social in Brixton.
♫ Nude Disco – Vern’s Nude Disco 8
The tracklist:
01. Toby Tobias – The Feeling (Nude Disco & Paul Harris reMix)
02. Visitor – Coming Home (Viceroy reMix)
03. 360 – Run Alone (’96 Bulls reMix)
04. Lindstrom & Todd Terje – Lanzarote
05. Gigamesh – Don’t Stop (Version 2.0)
06. Yuksek – The Edge (Aeroplane reMix)
07. Black Van – Inside (Oliver reMix)
08. MNDR – Feed Me Diamonds (RAC reMix)
09. Edwin Van Cleef – Nala (Summer Best Friends reMix)
10. RAC (Feat. Penguin Prison) – Hollywood (Cassian reMix)
11. The Gossip – Perfect World (RAC reMix)
12. Moullinex – Take My Breath Away (Gigamesh reMix)
13. Van She – Idea Of Happiness (Robotaki reMix)
14. Bit Funk – The Long Road Ahead
15. Richard Marx – Should Have Known Better (FM Attack 2012 reMix)
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Some heavy and melodic Electro now from relative newcomer Arvo Prime. In the past few months this German producer has racked up a fairly impressive volume of tunes on his SoundCloud. Obviously influenced by Ed Banger Records and the French Electro scene, it’s rare for an up-and-coming artists to be able to stand shoulder to shoulder with their inspirations, but Arvo Prime does just that with ease.
Lin is his latest tune and, as with all his tracks, the lazy thing to do would be to compare him to Justice, which I’m sure will happen to this guy a lot. But many time he out-Justices Justice on sheer musicality of his tunes and production style. Lin is an epic, baroque, Electro tune, crammed full of complex melodies and a pounding Electro groove. Au Château is out favourite of his tunes. Powered by a Moog Funk bassline and more of his piercing baroque lead lines this could have easily been on any number of Ed Banger Releases. Proper medieval Electro gold.
♫ Arvo Prime – Lin
♫ Arvo Prime – Au Château
Also check out his entry in the reMix contest for What You Want, one of the only listenable tracks on the new Boys Noize album. This slab of Industrial Funk was rated as one of his favourites by Ridha himself.
♫ Boys Noize – What You Want (Arvo Prime reMix)
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One of out favourite artists hailing from Brooklyn (and that is no mean feat, we’re pretty sure that when you move to Brooklyn you get given a complimentary analog synth) is Computer Magic. We’ve written about Danielle Johnson’s music a fair bit over the past couple of years, but thinks have been pretty quite since last summer. No fear though, she’s back with a brand new single, A Million Years, due out in march and it’s everything we’ve been missing.
Mixing up a hazy Indie-Electro vibe with a solid Disco groove, A Million Years, pumps along to a hypnotic Moog bassline and spacious, atmospheric, buzzing synths, wrapping the listener in a blanket if electronic comfort while Danielle’s quirky lament sounds a lot more cheerful than the songs subject matter would suggest. If you like interesting, quite introspective, Indie-ElectroPop you’ve come to the right place.
♫ Computer Magic – A Million Years
You can pre-order the A Million Years 7” single from Computer Magic’s store, here.
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We raved about this track on Twitter the other day, now a bit more of it has hit SoundCloud we can present it right here. Straight up, this is probably our favourite Gigamesh track to date, not least because it samples the hell out of Wham!’s 1982 début single, and ode to being unemployed, Wham Rap (Enjoy What You Do). This is a full-on party starter.
Even ignoring the vocal samples, this tunes is loaded with big Italo sounds. The huge synth bassline will suck you straight into the tune. This direction, which seems to be becoming increasingly common amongst producers, of injecting frantic Italo into Nu-Disco (in post Dreamwave world) is one we wholeheartedly support, and the likes of Gigamesh and Punks Jump Up are leading the charge. Enjoy is everything we’d want from a Disco tune. Synth heavy (and we mean heavy), doesn’t take itself to seriously, very moreish. We’re really feeling Gigamesh on this one, the single also holds a reMix from Oliver, we can hardly contain ourselves.
♫ Gigamesh – Enjoy
Gigamesh’s Enjoy is released 12th Feb as a Beatport exclusive, and 26th March elsewhere on Nurvous Records.
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Representing Wales amongst the Dreamwave crowd is one of the UK’s most underrated producers, we think so anyway, Aminova. Last years Variants EP cemented Aminova’s reputation as one of the leading lights of the second wave of SynthWave producers, and with this new tune, he’s showing us he has no intention of letting up.
Coconut Hologram sounds like a bizarre title for a track, but when you think about it it’s perfectly apt. The track weaves in a few tropical influences into it’s Sci-Fi sounds, resulting in a 31st century Disco tune with an extra layer of atmosphere. There a bit of Nu-retro-House in there too, which leaves you with a track that could be slotted, quite nicely, into almost any set. A Disco beat, and Italo bassline, big SynthWave leads and Tropical and House hooks, what more could you want to start the party?
♫ Aminova – Coconut Hologram
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So the big news this week, as you’ll probably guess from our Twitter and Google+ feeds, is the new single from one of our all-time faves Depeche Mode’s forthcoming 13th (and probably last) studio album Delta Machine, Heaven.
Heaven is a pretty unsurprising. An epic ElectroPop track injected with Dave and Martins blues influences The B-side, however, All That’s Mine, is a fantastic, moody, synthetic opus that harks back to late-80s Mode. Check the video for Heaven, directed by Timothy Saccenti, who revels in Depeche Mode’s religious iconography.
Depeche Mode’s Heaven is released 5th March
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94 is the first single taken from the new album More. The new record from Belgian ElectroPop outfit Soldout. The new single, which is out now, sees the duo going even deeper with their classic SynthPop sound, there’s even hints of The Good Natured’s style Goth-Pop in there amongst the infectious beats.
A brilliant balancing act between dark and poppy, 94 is less EBM’y than Soldout’s previous work. this has been replaced with an effortless Indie-ElectroPop hipness with relentlessly funky beats that play against the dramatic tension of plucked strings and a thick synthetic bassline. The song itself is quite whimsical, yet emotional, which adds the the sheen of detached cool. This could be Soldout’s big breakthrough moments right here.
♫ Soldout – 94
94 is out now, Soldout’s new album, More, is coming 25th February.
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Irish producer of spacious beats and The XX support act Mmoths is gearing up for the release of his new EP, Diaries, the lead track of which is a beautifully abrasive slice of edgy and atmospheric Electronica featuring the vocal talents of new XL Recordings signee Holly Miranda. All These Things.
It’s a smokey composition where drill-bit industrial sounds are morphed into something ethereal and magical, intertwining with a post-Chillwave, post-Dubstep soundscape and Miranda’s silky smooth vocal. Inhuman sounds suddenly become organic and flowing as the track seems to evolve naturally over it;s course. Like a song grown, rather than created. We can definitely see All These Things earning Mmoths a great deal of attention.
♫ Mmoths (Feat. Holly Miranda) – All These Things
All These Things is taken from Mmoths forthcoming new EP, Dairies, released 4th March.
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You may, not may not, remember Icelandic Experimental ElectroPop outfit Bloodgroup from their 2007 début album Sticky Situation. At the time they ware completely unfairly dismissed by a lot of the music press as a poor-man’s The Knife, mostly by journalists completely uneducated in electronic music (they may as well have said “all this electronic stuff sounds the same”), but one listen to the follow up album, Dry Land, and tracks like the album’s lead single, My Arms, immediately displayed an avant-garde SynthPop identity of their own. The four piece are back for 2013 with a third album, Tracing Echoes, heralded by it’s inaugural single, Fall.
Fall is a beautiful piece of rousing tundra-Pop. A quiet manner and a build of intricate rhythms and gently tones belie quite an epic, anthemic, song. Warping synth pulses and icy pads form an interesting contrast to the heartfelt vocals giving you the best of two worlds in one track. Both experimental, and Poppy, Fall bodes well for the album.
♫ Bloodgroup – Fall
Bloodgroup’s Tracing Echoes is released in March.
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