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♫ The Presets – Promises (Plastic Plates reMix)

[MP3] Plastic Plates reMixes The Presets

This is easily the best reMix of the new material from Australia’s kings of ElectroPop The Presets so far. Coming from one of our favourite producers Plastic Plates, this reMix follows his recent trend of reworking single from Aussie Indie-Electro acts and this time he really gets to 100% spot-on.

The track, Plastic Plates’ reMix of The Preset’s forthcoming now single, Promises, strikes a nice balance between synthetic Nu-Disco and 80s SynthPop. it’s got a solid Disco groove that builds into nice big-room sound, but pairs this with some really interesting synth flourishes. There’s a percussion style arpeggio that has got more than a little of a Yazoo vibe to it, couple that with Julian Hamilton’s dry vocal wit and you’ve got a track with classic dancefloor appeal but a deep retro soul. Great Job all round. You can download the MP3 for free at the link below, and be sure to check out The Preset’s new album, Pacifica, it’s pretty stunning.

The Presets’ Promises is released 7th December on Modular Recordings.

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[Video] Keenhouse’s ‘Can’t Sleep Since’

Keenhouse’s new album, Four Dreams’ is still getting a lot of play round these parts. It’s pretty much an electronic masterpiece. One of the tracks from it, Can’t Sleep Since, is now presented in cyber-psychedelic video form.

Produced by Keenhouse himself, the clip is a nice early 90s style CG freak out.

Keenhouse’s Four Dreams album is out now.

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[Mixtape] Jupiter’s ‘Far Out Mix’

Jupiter – Far Out Mix = Here’s the new mixtape form our favourite French DiscoPoppers Jupiter. The tracklist is like a role-call of some of the freshest tracks around right now. Expect fifty minutes of quirky Electro-Disco and Funky sounds.

♫ Jupiter – Far Out Mix

The tracklist:

01. Tame Impala – Mind Mischief
02. Aeroplane (Feat. Jamie Principle) – In Her Eyes (Tiger & Woods reMix)
03. Sohight & Cheevy – Travel Anthem (Moullinex reMix)
04. Moebius – Light My Fire
05. John Talabot & Pional – Braves
06. Greg Henderson – Dreamin’
06. LDR – Blue Velvet (Lindstrøm reMix)
08. RAC (Feat. Penguin Prison) – Hollywood (Escort reMix)
09. Vanilla Ace – Vanilla Sky
10. Kill The Hero (Feat. MK De Monde) – Surrender (Shazam reMix)
11. N.O.I.A. – The Rule To Survive (Ajello Vox Dub reMix)
12. Was (Not Was) – Wheel Me Out
13. Underwater – Harry Thumann
14. Chic – Everybody Dance (Zimmer Rework)
15. Strawberry Alarm Clock – Incense & Peppermints

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[Video] Flight Facilities’ ‘Clair De Lune’

Flight Facilities’ excellent, and surprising, return this month, the Christine Hoberg featuring Clair De Lune, had it’s video premièred this week.

Dave Ma directs this clip, which is a beautiful narrative shot in California’s San Fernando Valley.

Clair De Lune is out now.

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[Audio] Viceroy & Ghost Beach

These guys have traded reMixes in the past, but now San Francisco’s funkiest export Viceroy and New York Disco Pop outfit Ghost Beach have teamed up on a new original tune that really does proove that Viceroy is correct, it’s “summertime, all the time”.

Even if it is deep in November, this tune will knock the chilly cobwebs out of your skull and get you moving like you’re at a pool party. Boasting layers and layers of funky synths, raging from a pumping digital bass to some rich, stabbing, chords, that all provides the grooviest of backings for Ghost Beach to belt out some summer anthem style vocals. Bringing back the sun! The track is available to buy very soon, we can;t wait to see who’s in the reMix line-up.

♫ Viceroy (Feat. Ghost Beach) – While We’re in Love

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Relfex reMixes Strange Talk

Released later this month is Cast Away, the new single from Australian Indie-ElectroPop outfit Strange Talk. The bombastic, catchy tune is backed by a host of cool reMixes, we’ve already had a listen to Plastic Plates take on the tune, so now it’s time for one of our favourite French double acts, Reflex, to flex their reMix muscles and step up to the plate.

This tune is washed in exactly the kind of fun, slightly quirky electronics. Suited both for the dancefloor, and just to cheep yourself up. Reflex, more than many others in their field, have a real character to their music, even the instrumental stuff. It’s ElectroPop with a very specific personality. The original’s hushed vocals are paired up here with Relfex’s Disco beats, sweeping synths and idiosyncratic melodies. It’s all uplifting and charming stuff, but then Reflex’s tracks always are.

♫ Strange Talk – Cast Away (Reflex reMix)

Strange Talk’s new album is expected to drop next year.

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Hercules And Love Affair’s ‘Release Me’ video

We’re still jamming to Hercules And Love Affair’s new tune, Release Me, taken from their new DJ-KiCKS album. It’s definitely one of the highlights of the tail end of 2012.

The track’s video has just premiered, directed by Mo Stoebe, and comes loaded with retro video effects.

Hercules And Love Affair’s DJ-KICKS is released 29th October on Studio !K7

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Goin’ Old School: Jean-Michel Jarre, Anne Clark & D-Mob with Cathy Dennis

Goin’ Old School isn’t a trip down music memory lane, it’s a mugging in the dark alleyway of nostalgia:

In 1981 Jean–Michel Jarre continued to break new ground, both in synthesizer music, and chart music, with his hit Magnetic Fields II.

The amazing Anne Clark’s 1984 breakthrough Our Darkness. Pioneering electronics.

D-Mob with Cathy Dennis, before she penned one of the greatest British Pop songs of all time, hitting the charts with House-lite and C’Mon And Get My Love in 1989.

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