Aug 25 2011

Marina And The Diamonds’ new single reMixed by Starsmith

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Marina And The Diamonds’s forthcoming single ‘Radioactive’ is a weird one. It’s a good song, let down by dated production from Stargate. As we said in our post fearing the video we were excited to hear some of the reMixes. In our view there is no better way to kick thing off than with ElectroPop/Nu-Disco producer extraordinaire Starsmith.

Bewilderingly, this reMix won’t be featured on the single (someone is making bad decisions for our Marina), in fact the decision is made all the more strange by the fact that Starsmith’s version of the track feels and sounds like a more well rounded, contemporary and relevant single that the Stargate produced original. This is how the track should have sounded all along. This is Marina back on the top of the quirky ElectroPop pile. Thank you Starsmith.

♫ Marina And The Diamonds – Radioactive (Starsmith Rework)

‘Radioactive’ is released 3rd October’

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Aug 25 2011

Leno Lovecraft Princess

this is the video for the Electro Funkin’ ‘Princess’ by Leno Lovecraft from his début EP, ‘EP #1’.

The cute video was animated by Leno himself.

The ‘EP #1’ EP is out now

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Aug 25 2011

More entries in Fear Of Tigers’ ‘Pippi Longstrump’ reMix contest

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SoundCloud is now bursting at the seems with reMixes of Fear Of Tigers’ ‘The Adventures Of Pippi Longstrump’ for their reMix competition. We’ve already dropped some of our favourites, now lets check out some of the newest entries.

Guy Zalaxy produces an impressive, smooth, night drive of a track which is heavy on the electro toms (no bad thing) and a chilled retro flavour. Pidoo’s reMix is deep deep deep. A speaker shaking, almost Dubby, bass dominates the track and gives Mz. Longstrump an edge of aggression. Lastly Seb Santabarbara’s mix brings a nice combination of 80’s influenced Electro and rocking Electro-House, the mixture of retro chords and dancefloor riffs give the track loads of energy.

♫ Fear Of Tigers – The Adventures Of Pippi Longstrump (Guy Zalaxy reMix)

♫ Fear Of Tigers – The Adventures Of Pippi Longstrump (Pidoo reMix)

♫ Fear Of Tigers – The Adventures Of Pippi Longstrump (Seb Santabarbara reMix)

The winner at this stage is anyone’s guess. We expect more to come.

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Aug 25 2011

Goin’ Old School: Silent Circle – Touch In The Night

Some German Italo ElectroPop for you today in the form of Silent Circle’s Touch In The Night’ from 1985.

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Aug 25 2011

Brite Futures

Ever wonder what became of Indie-ElectroPop funsters Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head? Well, they became Brite Futures (I presume for legal reasons) and are back with a brand new track.

‘Baby Rain’ is more good time gangly synthy Indie-Pop and confirms that the name change hasn’t affected their sound much. Catchy and summery, Brite Futures’ forthcoming album will, no doubt, be another collection of great party tunes.

♫ Brite Futures – Baby Rain

Brite Future’s new album is due out 1st November.

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Aug 24 2011

ODahl joins Futurecop!’s N.A.S.A.

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Earlier this week we told you how Futurecop! was giving away the updated version of their track ‘N.A.S.A.’, featuring Christian Rich, as a single on SoundCloud.

Now, awesome retro Disco producer ODahl has been added to the tracklist with his take on the tune. Boy, can ODahl make it smooth! Loaded with Funk synth sounds and a Disco beat his mix is everything we’ve come to expect from ODahl and, as ever, it has that cool beach vibe.

♫ Futurecop! (Feat. Christian Rich) – N.A.S.A. (ODahl reMix)

You can pick up the whole single here.

Futurecop!’s ‘It’s Forever, Kids!’ is available on Japanese import here (delivery time isn’t bad either).

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Aug 24 2011

The Magician’s ‘Magic Tape Fourteen’

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The Magician – Magic Tape Fourteen = It’s that time again, The Magician works his Indie-Electro and synthesizer Disco dark magic for another hour. Keeping you hypnotized!

♫ The Magician – Magic Tape Fourteen

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Aug 24 2011

Goin’ Old School: Sandra – (I’ll Never Be) Maria Magdalena

It’s Sandra, from 1985, dropping an Italo/ElectroPop/Disco sound with ‘(I’ll Never Be) Maria Magdalena’. It’s Italo with a drama only the Germans could produce.

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Aug 24 2011

Vincent Fries & Justin Faust

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Justin Faust recently guested on Vincent Fries’ ‘Bavarian Barbarian’ EP, the result being ‘Choppy Slick’ a response to Faust’s own ‘Sloppy Chick’.

Taking the bouncy riff from from the smooth Nu-Disco original, this version beefs things up a bit, adding a little grit with some distorted synths and heavy beats that counterpoints quite nicely with the shimmering retro synths to make a track that is both viscerally dancefloor and musically satisfying and crosses the Nu-Disco/Electro-House barrier with ease.

♫ Vincent Fries & Justin Faust – Choppy Slick

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Aug 23 2011

Voltaire Twins & Lifelike

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Australian SynthPop duo Voltaire Twins are giving away their new single ‘Animalia’ including the reMix package, all for the price of a Facebook ‘like’.

This brother and sister from Perth add their unique take on Indie and SynthPop to the ever growing, ever impressive Australian ElectroPop pool, having already grabbed out attention on the Kitsuné X Ponystep album a while back, the ‘Animalia’ single sees them better than ever. It’s atmospheric and moody, in a 4AD kinda’ way, but amazingly catchy too, they are definitely a welcome fresh voice in Electro. The single reMix package includes tracks from Purple Sneakers DJs, Voltaire Twins themselves and the near flawless Lifelike. The French Touch genius bounces things up with a wicked synth bassline but restrains himself so things never overpower the song.