So, you know by now that Good Night Keaton is Miami Horror drummer Aaron Shanahan’s solo Disco project. After a handful of awesome reMixes here he is with his début single, Next To Mexico, featuring LA future Pop star Mereki.
The video is directed by Jake Gibson and sets the Tropical sounds to suitably beachy visuals, followed by suitably Mexican visuals.
Next To Mexico is out now on Chookie with reMixes from MiGHty mOUse, Yolanda Be Cool and Neighbour.
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Russia’s Hot Hot Hawk have only just dropped their amazing collaboration with Patrick Baker, but they are already promoting their new single, the Pasha featuring Space Traveller. Two new releases so close together can feel a bit cramped, but that doesn’t diminish the quality of either tune. Space Traveller is released later this month with a packed reMix collection.
The original version of the track is an amazing slice of post-Kraftwerk Italo, and a schizophrenic beast. Starting off as a Cosmic Disco tribute to das robots, thick bassline playing off against the Teutonic synths, as soon as the vocals arrive Space Traveller morphs into a warm mixture of Italo and 80s Electric Soul. As the song rises and rises, with more layered sounds and soaring vocals, tit becomes pretty epic. To be honest the reMixes are a little hit and miss. The definite standouts comes from London’s 80s Stallone, who injects the SynthWave Italo with a little retro Disco, Just his subtle use of cowbell, claps and vocoders, give the track a little more groove, and DigitalNativeDance, who also turns in one of the better mixes. DND’s mix brings a Boogie flavour to the tune and emotional use of piano and Acidic synths. Summer Of Haze bring the single to a nice conclusion with a post-Chillwave marching soundscape. The rest of the reMixes are OK, but a little uninspired, but all-in-all it’s a great release.
♫ Hot Hot Hawk (Feat. Pasha) – Space Traveller
♫ Hot Hot Hawk (Feat. Pasha) – Space Traveller (80s Stallone reMix)
♫ Hot Hot Hawk (Feat. Pasha) – Space Traveller (DigitalNativeDance reMix)
♫ Hot Hot Hawk (Feat. Pasha) – Space Traveller (Summer of Haze reMix)
Hot Hot Hawk’s Space Traveller is released 23rd November on Emerald & Doreen Rec.
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LA experimental funketeer Nite Jewel has débuted her new video. This time it’s for Weak For Me, a cut from her 2009 album Good Evening, which has just been remastered and re-released.
José Wolff whips up a fittingly dark and mysterious clip to accompany the track.
Nite Jewel’s ‘One Second Of Love’ album is out now.
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Here is the forthcoming new single from Australia’s reining Indie-ElectroPop outfit Strange Talk. Amongst certain circles they took the end of the summer by storm with their Cast Away single (as they did the summer before with Climbing Walls). It;s hard to imagine Strange Talk releasing a song for the winter months, but let’s see what they’ve come up with.
Falling In Love is pretty typical Strange Talk fare on the surface. Big dancefloor beats, anthemic vocals, and upbeat Indie vibe, but this is probably the most commercial, and commercially dancy, track they’ve done to date. And all that rests on big piercing rave synths. Which leaves us feeling a little two-minded about the tune. One the one hand it’s an amazing song track, just as you’d expect from, brilliant ElectroPop, then on the other had you have big 90s Trance synths, which always strike us as really musically lazy. The Pop producer’s first resort to make a tune sound a bit ravey. Sounds like a Stargate production, and that’s not a good thing. Still, there’s a class tune underneath all that, hands-in-the-air brilliance (that’s why we’re posting it) and hopefully this is Strange Talks last experiment with Trance leads, we know they are better than that.
♫ Strange Talk – Falling In Love
Falling In Love is out early 2013.
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Swedish retrowave hero Pelifics’, Electric Youth featuring, Wish It Could Last is definitely one of the highlights of this year, and we’ve been waiting for Brilliantine to drop the reMix package for what seems like ages. One of the rumoured reMixes in particular has held our interest, and that’s from Disco rising star Poindexter. And here it is.
It sounds like a late 70s TV theme. Regardless of how you read that last sentence, it was intended as high praise indeed. Just the right combination of Funk and Disco have gone into this reMix, and it all works brilliantly with Bronwyn’s 80s retro vocal style. It’s a total laid back dream of a track. Rolling bass, Moogy stabs, shimmering chimes, haunting synths, all this is churned up in the mix and come out as smooth as silk. You don’t listen to this tune, it flows into you.
♫ Pelifics (Feat. Electric Youth) – Wish It Could Last (Poindexter reMix)
The Wish It Could LastreMix package is released 19th November.
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‘Swim’ is the first in a series of four free tracks from London based Canadian Chillwave producer Box Of Wolves’ new free single. This Torontonian dream-weaver has been steadily putting out luscious, Disco flavoured, spacey synth tracks for over a year now. Groove infused Chillwave and hazy SynthPop that contains some true gems. He’s releasing one track a week for the next month to make up the Swim EP, all for free.
Click the link below to download the title track, a rich composition of synth textures with am early 90s R&B swing. Reverb washed vintage synth sounds ebb and flow in and out of the audio spectrum as lush chords provide a floaty counterpoint to the punchy dance bassline. Haunting vocal snatches weave their way through the sonic landscape as Box Of Wolves conjures up something that works just as well on the dancefloor as it does as food for your mind.
The first track from Swim is released today, which the subsequent three tracks release in the coming weeks.
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Punks Jump Up, Martin Dubka and Saint Saviour’s Feels Good is definitely a strong contender for one of the tunes of the year. Insanely funk DiscoPop that has now gone and got itself a video.
Andrew Barone and Davide Caselli put together this clip with a couple of familiar faces and a couple of familiar locations. Mucking around in Dalston basically.
Feels Good is out now.
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Greece’s finest, retro Pop artist Kristine’s Modern Love EP is released this week. We had a look at the title track and Powerglove’s reMix a while back, but, of course, one of the track on the EP we were particularly looking forward to was this reMix of The Danger by SynthWave king Mitch Murder. Mitch and Kristine previously collaborated on an amazing track called Feel The Air, so the thought of these two teaming up again was pretty exciting.
And the track doesn’t disappoint, and it will put an immediate smiley on your face. It’s put epic soundtrack Pop that could easily be the lead song from a mid-80s action flick soundtrack. The vocal track that makes a good single, but still works well in the context of the film. Soulful and moody, both Mitch and Kristine are pitch perfect on this track. Gentle arpeggios, lush pianos and a vintage beat alongside Murder’s trademark digital bass and Kristine’s Stevie Nicks-esque vocals, all work just right, slowest building toward the dramatic finale. The pinnacle of retro Pop.
♫ Kristine – The Danger (Mitch Murder reMix)
Kristine’s Modern Love EP is out now on Tuff ‘Em Up.
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The amazing Karin Park has just premièred her new video. It’s for Wildchild, taken from her awesome album Highwire Poetry, a icy slice of experimental Scani-Pop.
Directed by Thomas Knights, the video is simple but effective and is a chilly as the music.
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It’s the video for insane Swedish ElectroPop duo Icona Pop’s We Got The World. It’s probably the most commentarial track they’ve done, big Trance leads and all.
Fredrik Etoall directs the clip. Be warned, Icona Pop are having more fun than you.
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