Nov 24 2011

Moscow Youth Cult’s ‘Iris’ EP

Moscow Youth Cult

We’ve been following Nottingham based raw ElectroPop outfit Moscow Youth Cult for a while now and their new EP ‘Iris’ gives as a tantalising view of what to expect from their début album.

The title track (first seen accompanying it’s video) is a strange, but beautiful, head-on collision between gritty Indie-Pop and chainsaw Minimal Synth, with a dancefloor beat. As catchy as it is abrasive this is garage ElectroPop at it’s finest. The rest of the EP takes MYC down a more experimental, atmospheric road, having got the catchy Pop tune out of the way the guys are free to explore their electronic soundscapes which ranges from the eerie, to the frantic, to the majestic. Two reMixes of ‘Iris’ are also packed in the EP including the Sci-Fi Pop-Funk of the ‘LA2019’ reMix (which, surprisingly, doesn’t sounds like Vangelis).

♫ Moscow Youth Cult – Iris

♫ Moscow Youth Cult – Survivasm

♫ Moscow Youth Cult – Iris (LA2019 reMix)

‘Iris’ is out now. MYC’s début full length record, ‘Happiness Machines’ is released early next year.

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Nov 24 2011

Go Yoko!

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I’m not really sure how I feel about the existence of Southend electronica duo Go Yoko! yet. having risen from the ashes of one of the UK’s most promising SynthPop bands, The Vanity Clause, the fact that they exist means TVC doesn’t.

Still, can’t fault the music. Form their selection of frantic, and slightly experimental, dancefloor electronics ‘The Reaper’ and ‘Faster’ are the two stand-out’s for me. Both have a cinematic edge to them, both in the rapid-fire Italo basslines of ‘80’s action movies and the large Sci-Fi strings of the likes of Vangelis (who I’m pretty sure each one of Go Yoko!’s tracks contains at least one nod toward). ‘The Reaper combines the aforementioned Italo qualities with brutal Industrial percussion for an end result that’s borderline Old School EBM, while ‘Faster’ combines so many different elements without ever sounding messy or chaotic and soundtracks the action highpoint of a Sci-Fi movie I presume only exists in the guys heads. A promising start.

♫ Go Yoko! – The Reaper (Demo.)

♫ Go Yoko! – Faster (Demo.)

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Nov 24 2011

Sexinspace’s new video

Ukrainian Electroclashy ElectroPop outfit Sexinspace have released a new video for their single ‘Glitter & Pain’.

It’s dark club stuff, shiny and glamorous.

‘Glitter & Pain’ is out now.

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Nov 24 2011

Erasure reMixed by Starshapes

Erasure

Erasure have just released the second single from their current, Frankmusik produced, ElectroPop masterpiece, ‘Tomorrow’s World’, ‘Be With You’.

Included in the reMix packager is this take on the track from London Indie-Pop trio Starshapes who turn in a sweeping five minutes of eclectic SynthPop. With a bit of a New Order flavour mixed in with modern a Indie production sound the reMix stands out on the single and makes Starshapes stand out as an act to keep an eye on.

♫ Erasure – Be With You (Starshapes reMix)

The ‘Be With You’ single is out now.

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Nov 24 2011

Claps début album

Claps

Recalling early ‘80’s experimentation of The Futurists, Claps are a three peice Minimal Synth outfit from Minneapolis and have just released their début album ‘Wreck’.

Robotic beats and droning vintage synth sounds provide a cold and mysterious backing that both supports and juxtaposes catchy lead lines and heartfelt vocals throughout the nine tracks. The early Mute Records-esque rhythms and moody synthesizer tones may conjure thoughts of dark, experimental music, but it would be hard to actually call Claps ‘dark’, melancholy yes, but their is a strain of optimism shooting through their tracks and the otherworldly melodies and soft, imitate voice are far to Pop to really be called dark. If fact, at times ‘Wreck’ veers into ‘Speak & Spell’ era Depeche Mode fun territory and could quite easily be bopped to on a 1982 dancefloor. With the release of this record Claps have introduced a sprinkling of bass guitar into their analog synth set-up giving many of the tracks a slight Joy Division flavour, musically, on the tracks it’s introduced. Overall, if you love early ‘80’s SynthPop then this album is for you, it’s like Minimal Synth without the pretension.

♫ Claps – Across the Floor

♫ Claps – House

Clap’s ‘Wreck’ is released this week.

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Nov 24 2011

Goin’ Old School: The Jonzun Crew – Pack Jam (Look Out For The OVC)

It’s The Jonzun Crew in 1982 with ‘Pack Jam (Look Out For The OVC)’ “Paaaaackk Jaaaaammm!”

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Nov 24 2011

Space March’s ‘Monumental’

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‘Monumental’ is the third album from Australian Modern SynthPop artist Space March.

The record is a collection of twelve tracks of melodic and lilting electronic Pop tracks that have a definite emphasis on hooks. There is a pure Pop sensibility at work on much here, especially the likes of the title track where synths, guitar and bouncy vocals work in tandem. That’s not to say, though, that most of the album isn’t pretty dancefloor oriented. From the pumping Italo Disco of ‘Get What You Deserve’ to the grandiose soundtrack dance epic of ‘Eye For An Eye’, Space march’s combination of machine beats and synths with a Sci-Fi twist with organic instrumentation and vocals with a hint of drama makes for quite a rousing experience and a SynthPop album that rings with a sense of narrative. Now, long-time readers will know how I feel about the so-called Modern SynthPop scene, and there is a strong strain of Modern SynthPop in this record’s DNA. What sets it apart, though, is the production. Everything is clean and sits together well in the mix, there’s not a hint of the amateurish, bedroom production (with no idea how to produce drums) that plagues the majority of Modern SynthPop, whether that has anything to do with input from Erasure/Depeche Mode/A-Ha/Tricky collaborator Mark Saunders in the mixing department I’m not sure, but whatever the reason Space march have made a Modern SynthPop record that is head and shoulders above it’s contemporaries.

♫ Space March – American Girl

♫ Space March – Get What You Deserve

♫ Space March (Feat. Electra-City) – Eye For An Eye

‘Monumental’ is our now.

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Nov 23 2011

Shook’s new EP

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Dutch synth wizard Shook has just dropped his long awaited, second, five track EP, ‘Rise And Fall’

From the opening note and accompanying drone of ‘Through The Fire ‘ you’ll know one thing about this EP, it’s big, huge in fact. Busy P can call Justice’s new album “Stadium Disco” all he wants, to me, this is what “Stadium Disco” sounds like. Shook’s musicianship shines though as he takes on ‘80’s Electro Boogie effortlessly working his way through complex Funk basslines and soaring melodies. As the EP progresses it begins to chill a little, bringing out the smoother side of Shook’s music while still retaining the same huge scope. Even the intimate electric piano of ‘Hold Tight’ is more ambitious a track than many of it’s contemporaries. Elsewhere, such as on ‘Rise And Fall’, the EP sees Shook channelling everyone from Herbie Hancock to Daft Punk with Jazz, Disco, Electro Boogie, Funk, House & Electro all being drawn on to make this musical masterpiece. A Stunning second EP.

♫ Shook – Through The Fire

♫ Shook – Rise And Fall

♫ Shook – Hold Tight

‘Rise And Fall’ is available now digitally or on limited white vinyl via Bandcamp.

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Nov 23 2011

Charlie XCX’s ‘Nuclear Seasons’ video

We dropped the track a while back, now check out the video for Charlie XCX’s ‘Nuclear Seasons’.

Although I’m a still not really getting the whole ‘Goth-Pop’ tag, the music rocks, and I like the way she is pinching all Witch-House’s aesthetics and making them Pop, that amuses me.

‘Nuclear Seasons’ is out now on Asylum Records.

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Nov 23 2011

Pat Lok’ ‘No Shame’

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On The Fruit Records’ second big release of the week comes courtesy of the slick synthetic Disco of Pat Lok.

The Vancouver DJ/Producers is dropping this single, ‘No Shame’, backed with ‘Yes Game’ and a stellar array of reMixes. ‘No Shame’ is an Italo basslined five minutes of some of the best, and most original, Nu-Disco we’ve heard in a while. Pat definitely brings something new to the Nu-Disco game as well as doing what everyone should do when they’ve write an awesome peice of funky electronic music…cover the thing in vocoded vocals. ‘No Shame’ is immense. The flip side, ‘Yes Game’ take a smoother route to the dancefloor with chilled synths and piano in the mix. Goldroom provides one of the mixes of ‘No Shame’. The ‘G’ word is already, after half a year, a stamp of quality, slightly Yachty, Nu-Disco beach tunes but this time Josh goes all out and contributes some vocals to the track which immediately gives the track something special, making it really cohesive. Bit Funk’s take on ‘Yes Game’ is funked-out bliss (or should that be blissed-out funk?) with heavy synth bass and slap bass intertwining to crate a low-down dirty groove and some dark dancefloor moments.