Next up on La Bombe is some Disco-House goodness from Seya.
That goodness takes the form of a two track single featuring the tracks ‘Float’ and ‘Backlight’. ‘Float’ the lead track is pumping full-on Nu-Disco workout which sees Disco samples battling it out with Funky synth riffs in a filter heavy arena. The flip side is more of a soulful Nu-Disco tune that sees Seya in funky dancefloor mode.
♫ Seya – Float
♫ Seya – Backlight
‘Float’ is released 14th November.
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Sometimes an artist comes along and takes you totally by surprise, blowing you away. Pinemarten is one of those artists.
I’ve spent much of the day listening to his new album ‘If You Thought There Was Any Doubt’. It’s an incredibly impressive début, the whole album is retro leaning, lush, impassioned ElectroPop. A reverb soaked (although not so much it falls into Chillwave territory) synthesizer journey through a life in soft focus with a surprising amount of Funk involved. One minute you’ll be all encompassed by the layers of dreamlike sounds then suddenly Pinemarten will drops some big ‘80’s chords or a wicked Moog Funk lead. The album ties itself together with Pinemarten vocals, binging a very human, intimate and relatable quality to the record that pushes it over the line into the realms of genius.
♫ Pinemarten – Don’t Let Me Be Denied
‘If You Thought There Was Any Doubt’ is released 20th November and comes highly recommended.
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After a few months of SynthPop rapidly falling out of favour with the Indie crowd, London based three peice Strangers seem destined to drag it back into the pages of the NME with their forthcoming third EP.
Much is being made of the trio’s so-called Dark Pop, words like ‘gothic’ and ’gloomy’ are being bandied around in reference to their music but I kinda’ disagree. Sure, the tracks are shot through with a streak of melancholy and the lyrics tend to lean toward the despondent, but ‘dark’ music this isn’t. The cleverly titled ‘EP3’ contains three cuts of catchy, surprisingly upbeat SynthPop. With beautiful, full, production and rousing choruses the whole EP mixes a hint of ‘80’s Pop with modern studio wizardry and delivers an experience that combines unexpectedly dancey electronic Pop with an infections vocal performance that will have you listening over and over again.
I’m also quite proud that I managed to go a whole paragraph without mentioning HURTS.
♫ Strangers (Feat. Lara Smiles) – Promises
♫ Strangers – Because I’m Human
♫ Strangers – Sweet Nothing
Strangers’ ‘EP’3’ is out 28th November.
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Queen Of Hearts has premiered the video for the rousing and cinematic ‘Black Star’ from her début EP ‘The Arrival’.
Following on from the feel of the track the clip is suitably epic Sci-Fi.
‘The Arrival’ EP is out now.
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Xinobi – Hello November Mixtape = Xinobi drops one of the best, and most fun mixtapes of the year with an eclectic mix of Disco, House and ElectroPop tracks both classic and new.
♫ Xinobi – Hello November Mixtape
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About to release his début EP is Antwerp, a London producer with a taste for eclectic House music and experimental electronic beats.
With a sense for warping his looping sounds into melodies Antwerp has created something that is at once dangerously close to being self-indulgent experimentalism but also beautiful, melodic and totally absorbing. The ‘EXUINOX’ EP’s lead track is a four minute electronic soundscape set to a dance beat and nodding it’s head more than a little in the direction of Sheffield Bleep House of the early ‘90’s. From there on it the EP gets progressively more left-field but Antwerp never losses sight of crafting songs that are actually pleasing to listen to.
♫ Antwerp – EQUINOX
The ‘EXUINOX’ EP and it’s sister 7” are out now.
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Starting proceedings with a deep House flavour Trésors reMix of Arnaud Rebotini’s ‘Another Time, Another Place’ soon turns into an House/ElectroPop epic.
The French duo’s reMix for Rebotini’s forthcoming EP is at one intricate and deeply electronic and euphorically uplifting. Layers of synthesizers intertwine through meticulous production but it’s those lead synths and vocoders that will send you soaring.
♫ Arnaud Rebotini – Another Time, Another Place (Trésors Rmx)
The ‘Another Time, Another Place’ EP is out 7th November.
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The C90s – November Chart Mix = Some killer tunes on The C90’s latest mixtape, from synthetic epics to Funked out Disco tunes. It’s deep and dancefloor here.
♫ The C90s – November Chart Mix
The tracklist:
01. Quakers & Mormons – New York Town (The C90s reMix)
02. Late Night Tuff Guy – Not In Love Anymore (LNTG rework)
03. Fantastic Man – Groove With You
04. Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. – Simple Girl (Tiger & Woods reMix)
05. Tim Green – Cherry
06. Ejeca – Tetra
07. Headman – Be Loved (Daniel Avery’s ‘Divided Love’ reMix)
08. Daphni – Yes, I Know
09. Pillow Talk – The Comeback
10. Metronomy – Everything Goes My Way (Ewan Pearson reMix)
11. Bot’Ox (Feat. Foremost Poets ) – Perfect Pair
12. Waifs & Strays – Body Shiver
13. Tiger & Woods – T&W Lab File #05
14. DJ Steef – You Can’t Hide Your Love (DJ Steef Edit)
15. Groove Democracy 01 – Reach Out (NELUE rework)
16. The Supermen Lovers (Feat. Herr Styler and Cristine) – C’Est Bon (Golden Bug reMix)
17. Mustang – Shooting Love (Fat Club reMix)
18. James Curd – Moon
19. Brioski – Radio Anatomy (Emperor Machine Stretched Version)
20. Yuksek – Always On The Run (Villa reMix)
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Epic Italo pomposity from 1983 now from Gazebo with ‘I like Chopin’.
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Nico Les Tuyaux does a bang-on job breathing new life into Breakbot’s modern classic ‘Baby I’m Yours’.
Nico drops his huge Disco sound right from the offset, keeping the song pretty much intact but heavily processing the vocals and increasing the layers of thick retro synths by a factor of a million. The track is just as Poppy as it ever was, but now ever more rooted on the dancefloor.
♫ Breakbot – Baby I’m Yours (Nico Les Tuyaux 90’s Pop Refix)
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