Jan 30 2012

Freak You reMixes MRTN

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Freak You gets his dirty synth groove on in his new reMix. Tackling MRTN and Lovisa Negga’s track of last year, ‘Slow’, Freak you creates and Minimal, ElectroPop, Acid, Disco, House beast.

With a funky, space, ‘80’s ElectroPop bassline laying the foundations the track really plays around with electronic music. Dropping bits of Chicago House, 303 burbling, SynthPop, there’s even a Rave lead in there. The highpoints of the track are defiantly the bassline and the snare, both power the track along, both with a bit of a New Order feel. The mix is a melting pot if ideas, but it works, and gives the lilting vocals something nice to work over. Freak You’s Franck is one of hardest working guys in the biz, I have no idea where he gets the time for quality reMixes like this!

♫ MRTN (Feat. Lovisa Negga) – Slow (Freak You reMix)

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Jan 30 2012

Aeroplane’s January 2012 Mix

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Aeroplane – January 2012 Mix = It feels like ages single Vito’s last mixtape, luckily he makes up for time with his January mix. What you have here is just over an hour of Vito’s smoothest Disco picks with a bit of House slant, the mix also includes the new tune from Classixx we débuted last week. Perfect to ease you into the week.

♫ Aeroplane – January 2012 Mix

The tracklist:

01. Pop & Eye – Give Me A Fight
02. Friendly Fires – Hurting (C2 Instrumental Mix)
03. Great Weekend – That’s The Thing (To Do)
04. Chemistry – Funky People
05. Parallel Dance Ensemble – Shopping Cart (Maxxi Soundsystem reMix)
06. Ruf Kutz #4 – 4 Ron
07. Miguel Migs – Close Your Eyes (Deetron Dub)
08. Art Department – Tell Me Why (Brennan Green reMix)
09. Lula Circus – Fake Blood, True Wound
10. Classixx – A Fax From The Beach
11. Harmonious Thelonious – Trans Harmonic System

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Jan 30 2012

Chris Malinchak’s new EP

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One of New York’s finest purveyors of boogie, Chris Malinchak, released his new EP late last week on the consistently awesome French Express label.

The ‘Hollywood’ EP is three smokin’ hot cuts of the smoothest retro Electro Disco and delivers something a little more mature than the usual dancefloor bangers. Kicking off with ‘Deal ‘Em’, the most jump-up track of the bunch. A tune that hides complex layering of sample snatches and uplifting synth lines amidst it’s deep funk. With a rocking bassline that’ll keep you dancing it’s a storming way to open the EP. ‘At Night’ follows, reining the mood in a little. Less banger, more slick Disco, this one just oozes feel-good vibes. If ‘Deal ‘Em’ is the track that get’s your attention then ‘At Night’ is the one that gets the part started. The EP wraps up with ‘Tango In Paris’, a Nu-Disco/ElectroPop hybrid, and probably the highlight of the EP for us. It’s a track that really captures a mood, with growling Moog bass and elusive vocals adding to a atmosphere of late night mystery.

♫ Chris Malinchak – Deal ‘Em

♫ Chris Malinchak – At Night

♫ Chris Malinchak – Tango in Paris

The ‘Hollywood’ EP is out now on French Express.

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Jan 28 2012

Jacques Lu Cont’s ‘Church’

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I don’t think there is any comeback in 2012 we are more excited for that that of Stuart Price/Les Rythmes Digitales/Thin White Duke/Jacques Lu Cont’s return to music making.

In ‘Church’, the second new track he has dropped, without fuss or ceremony’, Jacques Lu Cont shows the everyone why he is one of the top electronic music producers in the world today. It’s a track that puts everyone making bally Electro to shame. With an FM bassline (with a hint of Lisa Lougheed’s ‘Run With Us’ about it!) that has such impact and drops and build in just the right places, this tune is a dancefloor juggernaut. Probably the best flat-out dance tune we’ve heard in a while. Simply stunning. This is one church I could get behind.

♫ Jacques Lu Cont – Church

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Jan 28 2012

Dizkopolis’s new version of ‘Class Of ‘91’

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Kuala Lumpur based retro synth duo Dizkopolis are back with a new version of ‘Class Of ‘91’, a tack we first featured in October last year.

This ‘Part 2’ version relies less on the ChipTune elements of the original and leans more toward a smooth, more French, Disco sound with elements of Dreamwave. The track sees the guy’s skills improving and they become more confident and their sound matures. There’s some seriously slick keys playing going on in this track mixed up with wicked Disco licks. This is a track that’s so densely layered it’s a wonder that nothing gets lost in the mix, but the end result is clean sounding and guaranteed to rock and dancefloor, this tune’ll take people into orbit.

♫ Dizkopolis – Class Of ’91 (Part 2) (Video Rework)

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Jan 28 2012

Lost Years goes ‘Digital’

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Some people just don’t know their own talent.

Here’s what SynthWave producer Lost Years wrote about this track on SoundCloud: “I’m not really sure about this track… I’ve been working with it for a week and that’s not my usual ‘style’. Most of the time I do a track in 3 hours. I think I tried too hard with this one and It did not came out as good as it should. Trash bin or not… you decide?”. I’ve no idea how he can remain so humble about such an awesome tune. ‘Digital V1’ is retro synth heaven. A mid-paced, brooding peice of post-Italo electronic scoring that conjures the calm before the storm. Running digital basses and delay heavy percussion are lifted into the stratosphere by some epic leads in a track that feels all about anticipation. When shit’s about to go down, this is the soundtrack.

♫ Lost Years – Digital V1

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Jan 28 2012

Foxes + Pyramid + Monsieur Adi

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Singer/songwriter Louisa Rose Allen’s recently had a second wind, as Foxes, when Neon Gold, always with the finger on the pulse of eclectic Pop, snapped her up for the release of her new single ‘Youth’. released earlier this month.

Appropriately for Neon Gold, the single exists in the nexus between Ellie and Marina. Take Marina’s quirkiness and Ellie’s percussion led bombast and wrap them up with impassioned vocals and a sense of accessibility and it should see Foxes make quite a mark in 2012. You know Neon Gold has an eye for these things. The internet has been graced with some wonderful reMixes of the tune too. Pyramid, who début is still regularly playlisted round these parts, delivers an seriously impressive, driving, SynthWave mix. With a real analog rawness to it, yet still with a Pop sheen. Some majestic organs elevate a track which is probably my favourite version of the song, which is saying a lot when you hear the other reMix. Monsieur Adi, who since his début has done no wrong in our eyes, turns in an awesome, rhythmically exciting, slice of soaring Nu-DiscoPop. Frantic drumming and dagger sharp synth leads and a hint of Samba all fall into Adi’s melting pot and the result is a seven minute aural party.

♫ Foxes – Youth (Pyramid reMix)

♫ Foxes – Youth (Monsieur Adi reMix)

♫ Foxes – Youth

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Jan 28 2012

Awkoder reMixes Edgework

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Released yesterday was the new single from French electronic act Edgework. the reMix package contains this gem from the awesome SynthWaver Awkoder.

So light and fluffy is Awkoder’s reMix, that’s it’s practically ElectroPop. There’s actually quite a strong strain of New Order DNA running through this track. The bassline, the bright shiny synths, the arrangement, all capture something of New Order in the early ‘80’s, bits of ‘Blue Monday’ and ‘Shellshock’ spring to mind. This, of course, is all injected with Awkoder’s Nu-Italo synthesizer skills and results in a nice slice of retro synth nostalgia.

♫ Edgework – Night Mechanics (Awkoder reMix)

‘Night Mechanics’ is out now on Plastic Toy Records.

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Jan 27 2012

Mirrors’ new EP

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This week Brighton SynthPop outfit Mirrors released a brand new EP on their Bandcamp page.

The ‘This Year, Next Year, Sometime . . . ?’ EP contains two new tracks, ‘Dust’ and ‘Shooting Stars’, and five new demos. it was put together by the band to help fund their return to the studio for a new full length album and it’s well worth the price. ‘Dust’ is classic SynthPop, powerful and brooding and capturing that ‘just right’ SynthPop atmosphere of melancholy shot through with hit of hope. Along with ‘Dust’, if ‘Shooting Stars’ is anything to go by, we Mirrors get back in the studio soon. It’s a gorgeous peice of synthesizer based Indie-Electro with all the darkness and majesty you’d expect from these guys. Buying the EP seems like a worthy cause, and seven awesome tracks to boot.

♫ Mirrors – Dust

♫ Mirrors – Shooting Stars

The ‘This Year, Next Year, Sometime . . . ?’ EP is available now.

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Jan 27 2012

Giorgio Moroder’s ‘E=mc²’, a whole bunch of reMixes!

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‘E=mc²’ is my favourite Giorgio Moroder track, so it was with great interest that I approached Sweedish Disco label MB Disco’s new collection of reMixes of the track. They released a ton of reMixes in the package and invited some legendary figures in Italo and Cosmic Disco to take part.

To run down some of the stand out versions let’s start with L.I.S., who turn in a deep analog Disco track, all rounded bouncy bass and sparse arpeggios. using similar instrumentation to Moroder let’s L.I.S capture a similar mood but with a much updated sound. Gomma’s Rodion drops a RoboDisco version of the track next which is almost exactly what I had in my head that this release would contain before I listened to it. Frantic, slightly retro, synthetic Disco that layers upon the original, making it more complex and full with an Italo twang. Speaking of Italo, legends of the genre Klein & MBO deliver an unsurprisingly ‘80’s mix, raw 909 beats and Italo basslines are in order here that stays true enough to the original but adds an eighties euro dancefloor feel that could have easily seen it as a 12” release from the early ‘80’s. The release is also graced by Electro pioneer Alexander Robotnick who’s dark vocoding and Kraftwerk-on-steroids electronics create a completely different track, more of a homage to Moroder. Alongside theses tracks, you’ll find on the record work from Dionigi, I-Robots and Daniele Baldelli.