Tag Archives: Electro

Feb 3 2012

The Whip’s new video

It sounds like The Whip don’t want to be New Order anymore. Their new single, ‘Movement, is the best thing they have done for a while. A solid, upbeat, slice of Indie-Electro which is both dancefloor and sing-along friendly.

The David Aspinall directed video is like a post-apocalyptic nightmare, but with kids on the beach.

The Whip are about to embark on a UK tour with The 2 Bears and In Flagranti, here’s the dates:

24th Feb – Newcastle @ 02 Academy
25the Feb – Leeds @ Cockpit
26th Feb – Birmingham @ Birmingham Rainbow
27th Feb – Brighton @ Green Door Store
28th Feb – London @ XOYO
29th Feb – Manchester @  Club Academy

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Feb 3 2012

Eats Everything reMixes Javeon McCarthy

Javeon McCarthy

You all know how much I love bigging up Bristol talent, so this soundclash is something I have to talk about. Bristol based crooner Javeon McCarthy is dropping a new single through PMR, ‘Lost Time’, on the reMix is fellow Bristolian Eats Everything who gets deep with his warping bass.

The shuffling percussion and body shaking bass is total synthetic, hypnotic, enveloping groove. Deep and Techy, Dubby and totally involving. From the late ‘80’s House style 909 rimshot and snare patterns, to the big filtered synth sounds, Eats Everything’s dark mysterious mix is a surprising, but perfect fit for Javeon McCarthy’s soulful vocals.

♫ Javeon McCarthy –  Lost Time (Eats Everything Rework)

‘Lost Time’ is released through PMR Records on 27th February

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Feb 2 2012

Aimes reMixes Teeel

teeel

Brooklyn based purveyor of introspective retro Pop Aimes has just revealed  his reMix of Teeel‘s Triangle Waves’. He’s given it an energy boost and delivered a really quality slice of vintage electronic Pop.

The original version of ‘Triangle Waves’ was the lead track on Teeel’s ‘Amulet’, a mid-tempo, almost SynthWavey, example of post-Chillwave ElectroPop, all analog synths and distant vocals. It was a good tune, but Aimes has made it even better. Drawing on both the current wave of Indie-ElectroPop, with it’s catchy ‘80’s electronic Soul reference points, and bits of Italo and Disco Aimes turns in a track with all the charm of the original but more of a solid groove behind it and some really sweetly processed synth sounds. If Aimes is going for a retro futuristic style of chilled and soulful RoboPop, he’s absolutely nailed it. Part BladeRunner and part ‘80’s Discotheque with the soul of a poet, I remember when defenders of Real Music™ said that synthesizers had no soul, looks like it’s some humble pie for them then!

♫ Teeel – Triangle Waves (Aimes reMix)

Teeel’s ‘Amulet’ is out now.

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Feb 2 2012

Max Action

max action

Max Action. You can only really say it in a deep, movie trailer narration, voice, with a pause in between. Max. Action. Max Action is the chosen moniker of , well, who know? Someone Canadian. They don’t write bios apparently, or attempt to promote themselves much at all. What they do do however, is write epic SynthWave tunes. So let’s focus on that for the time being.

‘Terminal Crazy’ is Max Action’s latest song, or should we call it a soundtrack, is over ten minutes long. This kind of length gives Max room to tell a musical narrative with what he’s doing and really create a mood. It’s a synthesized Sci-Fi odyssey combining layers of intense machine riffs with lush pads robotic melodies. The score to a retro futuristic galactic war, ‘Terminal crazy’ is as exciting and involving as the imaginary movie it sets the tone for. While you’re hear, check out his reMix of Fear Of Tigers’ ‘the Adventures Of Pippi Longstrump’, which gives the track a gritty, ‘80’s feel with some surprisingly funky percussion.

♫ Max Action – Terminal Crazy

♫ Fear Of Tigers – The Adventures Of Pippi Longstrump (Max Action Rmx)

 

Check out more from Max Action on SoundCloud.

Feb 2 2012

Jowie Schulner’s ‘Boombar Music Club 003’ mixtape

Jowie Schulner

Jowie Schulner – Boombar Music Club 003 = Jowie Shulner, Boobmar Music’s head honcho, drops his latest ‘Music Club’ mixtape featuring some killer tracks. Kicking of with Michael Cassette’s ‘Kilimanjaro’ you know things are gonna’ get good. This mix is all about the deep, funky, bass and soaring synths, with just a hint of Tech House going on.

♫ Jowie Schulner – Boombar Music Club 003

The tracklist:

01. Michael Cassette – Kilimanjaro
02. Envotion – The Last Wave
03. Fuzzy Cuzzin – Canis (Labtracks reMix)
04. Sharam Jey pres. Soundz Fresh – Let’s Get It On (Jean Claude Ades reMix)
05. Bingo Players – Cry (Just A Little) (Olav Basoski reMix)
06. Lucas and Steve – Our House
07. Russ Chimes – Tonic
08. Avicii – Fade Into Darkness (Albin Myers reMix)

Check Jowie Schulner’s music on SoundCloud.

Feb 2 2012

Walter Sobcek’s ‘Miami’ video

We love it when a song and video work together perfectly. this is the case with this new video for Walter Sobcek’s ‘Miami’.

The track is a few months old now, but this new video, directed by Diane Sagnier, perfectly captures the chilled, beach, ElectroPop track’s mood featuring model Alice Rausch living it up in the city. It’s a beautifully shot, soft focus, dream of the good life.

‘Miami’ is out now on Schmooze Records.

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Feb 2 2012

Zimmer’s ‘January Mixtape ‘Back To My Roots’’

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Zimmer – January Mixtape ‘Back To My Roots’ = To commemorate his signing with Vitalic’s booking agency French ‘Horizontal Disco’ meister Zimmer serves up an hour of deep synth grooves and analog Disco. With a nice combination of Nu-Disco and early ‘90’s House influenced sounds this ‘Back To My Roots’ mixtape is definitely one for this weekend.

♫ Zimmer – January Mixtape ‘Back To My Roots’

The tracklist:

01. Moon Boots – Aretha (Zimmer reMix)
02. Perseus – Running Back To You
03. Honom – Bedcat
04. Odyssey – Going Back To My Roots (Slow Hands Edit)
05. Luke Million – Sun Splash
06. Chilly – For Your Love (Psychemagik Edit)
07. Max Sedgley (Feat. Tasita D Mour) – Superstrong (Faze Action reMix)
08. Only Children – Be The One
09. Jay Lamar & Jesse Oliver – Diamonda (Xinobi reMix)
10. Chris Malinchak – At Night
11. Debonair – Shuffle
12. Soft House Company – What You Need
13. Friendly Fires – Hurting (Tensnake reMix)
14. Todd Terje – Swing Star Pt. 1
15. Lou Teti – Shake (Drop Out Orchestra rEMix)

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Feb 2 2012

Gigamesh X Grouplove

Grouplove

I have no idea who Grouplove are. Apparently they’re quite famous in Indie-Rock circles, circles I try to stay away from. They look a bit twee to me and are probably far to quaint for anyone’s good, but, sweet Raptor Jesus, has Gigamesh dropped an absolute blinder of a reMix of their track ‘Tongue Tied’.

Gigamesh just knows exactly what he’s doing. This reMix is actually pretty complex, both in programming and arrangement, but in Gigamesh’s hands it feels effortless. I gave the original a quick listen and Gigamesh has been pretty respectful of the song and pinpointed what works in it, extracted that and washed the whole thing in his summery, good times, Disco vibe. With some clever vocal sampling, a seriously funky, diving, bass section and layers of synth with just the right amount of warmth Gigamesh delivers a fun, bubbly, party tune to rock your dancefloors. Although he’s still enjoying the success of his début EP, we here are gagging for more Gigamesh. Fingers crossed for another EP soon!

♫ Grouplove – Toungue Tied (Gigamesh reMix)

Tongue Tied” is taken from Grouplove’s ‘Never Trust a Happy Song’ album, out now.

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Feb 1 2012

Lancelot’s début EP

Lancelot

Lancelot is the latest in an increasing number of artists to be taken under the wing of Binary Records. In the recent expansion beyond the core Binary crew Josh and Kyle have shown some A&R genius in sniffing out interesting and different electronic artists and once again have struck gold with Lancelot.

We’ve heard the odd reMix from Lancelot over the last few months but late February Binary delivers his début EP, ‘We Can Dance’. It;s a few weeks away but right now we can have a listen to the lead track ‘Spoken Word’. The first think you’ll notice about ‘Spoken Word’ is that it a peice of music, it is neither Stephen Fry reading Harry Potter not anything by Dan Brown. With that cleared up we can tell you what it is. ‘Spoken Word’ is a smooth as hell slice of summery Nu-Disco. Although that doesn’t sound like anything special these days, Lancelot’s tune here is pretty unique. What he has brought is a nice combination of a pretty synth heavy House backing, with some nice Cosmic touches, which builds a framework for a brilliant ‘70’s Disco tune. The EP comes with three originals and reMixes from Goldroom, Fabian, Frames and Moonchild (we heard the Goldroom mix on The Magician’s last Magic Tape). You’ll probably be wanting to buy that when it comes out then.

♫ Lancelot – Spoken Word

Lancelot’s ‘We Can Dance’ EP is out 20th February on Beatport and 5th March everywhere else via Binary Records.

Check out more from Lancelot on SoundCloud.

Feb 1 2012

The Opiates’ ‘Silent Comes The Nighttime (Again)’ video

Here we have the recently premièred video for Billie Ray Martin and Robert Solheim’s The Opiates alter ego’s ‘Silent Comes The Nighttime (Again)’ .

The track is taken from the duo’s excellent ‘Hollywood Under The Knife’ album of last year. A collection of deep and soulful electronic laments that combined the beauty and passion of Billie’s voice with Solheim’s Deep House grooves. The track in question here is an ode to insomnia and both sonically, and in the video, visually manages to convey the nervous, sometimes otherworldly, tension of late night sleep deprivation. Jörn Hartmann directs the video, a dreamlike, monochrome clip with a slight uncomfortable edge.

The Opiates’ ‘Hollywood Cuts (The reMixes)’ is released 26th February on Disco Activisto.

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