Congratulations to Twitter user @neon_impossible, winner of our IAMX guest list competition. They, and a friend, will be walking past the queue and straight in the door at ULU on the 20th. Thanks to everyone who entered!
For those of you do didn’t win, tickets can be purchased here, while they are still available!
Bright Light Bright Light (which I really hope is a Gremlins reference!) is the one-man project of Cardiff based Singer/Songwriter Rod Thomas who absolute passion to create well-crafted Pop music shines through the music from the first listen.
You can tell that Rod has spent a few years honing his craft as, for a DIY production, it’s pretty damn slick. It’s also timed brilliantly, this kind of ElectroPop with an emphasis on songwriting, an ElectroPop revolution of substance over style, is set to blow up this year and Bright Light Bright Light could well be at the head of the pack.
His latest track ‘A New Word To Say’ is a perfect example of this, it’s intelligent yet catchy, danceable yet thoughtful. Essentially it’s been written rather than produced, if you see what I mean? Which is always refreshing in electronic music.
Rod has roped in his friend James Yuill and fellow Cardiff ElectroPoppers Friends Electric (who’s reMix of Ellie Goulding’s ‘Under The Sheets’ we featured way back when) for reMix duties. James delivers a bright retro synth mix that actually sounds like it was fun to make while Friends Electric take it straight to the dancefloor in a French House stylee.
♫ Bright Light Bright Light – A New Word To Say (Radio Edit) (zShare) (MediaFire)
♫ Bright Light Bright Light – A New Word To Say (James Yuill reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
♫ Bright Light Bright Light – A New Word To Say (Friends Electric Got Love Mix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
Bright Light Bright Light have a few appearances lined up for the coming months, catch them if you can:
20th March – Sink The Pink [DJ Set], Resistance Gallery, London
03rd April – Sink The Pink [DJ Set], Vogue Fabrics, London
12th April – The Lexington, London
13th April – FLUX=RAD, Cardiff Arts Institute, Cardiff
15th April – Night & Day, Manchester
17th April – The Forum, London
24th April – Unit, Southampton
30th April – New Sound Wales Showcase, Chapter Arts, Cardiff
Rod also heads up Self Raising Records, so expect Bright Light Bright Light’s album soon, until them bestow some of that MySpace love of your on him:
Bright Light Bright Light @ MySpace
We’ve already raved about how straight up awesome Kavinsky’s ‘Nightcall’ is, unfortunately there was a little confusion and the track we posted was unmastered so it had to be removed, understandably, leaving you tune free.
So our good friend MMMatthias has stepped up to the plate to save the day and give you something to wrap your ears around until the release of the ‘Nightcall’ EP later this month.
Man, what a reMix he has given us! Still featuring shared vocal duties with Lovefoxxx of CSS it’s a smooth ElectroPop jam with an edge. Loving the builds and drops in his futuristic Pop take on the track.
♫ Kavinsky – Nightcall (MMMatthias reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
MMMatthias himeslf is about set of on an Aussie tour with the Trashbags lot, you can check him out here:
9th April – Trashbags, Melbourne
10th April – Trashbags, Sydney
16th April – Empire Hotel, Brisbane
26th March sees the EP drop and the Dead Cruiser rise again!
Still waiting on the April release of Fenech-Soler’s new single, ‘Stop And Stare’? Us too!
And you can bet your local Indie-Electro dancefloor is gonna’ be on fire when it drops. To tide us all over here’s the Reset! reMix from the forthcoming single. With a huge breakdown, this reMix is like a war between the huge dirty bassline and the space disco synths, and us listeners are the only winner!
♫ Fenech-Soler – Stop And Stare (Reset! reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
‘Stop And Stare’ Drops 19th April on Moda Music
I gotta’ say, Dan Le Sac Vs. Scroobius Pip’s ‘Angels’ album is one of my ‘go to’ albums, y’know, when you can’t decide what to listen to, I normally head straight for ‘Angels’. Good music and intelligent witty lyrics, what more do you need?
The end of the month sees the duos second album ‘The Logic Of Chance’ released on Sunday Best and just ahead of it, out now, the single ‘Get Better’, which is surprisingly Italo sounding with a nice 8-bit lead line too. Villa provides one of the reMixes, all synths, cowbells and huge 80’s chords!
♫ Dan Le Sac Vs. Scroobius Pip – Get Better (Villa Vocal reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
‘Get Better’ is out now, the album drops 30th March
Dan Le Sac Vs. Scroobius Pip @ Beatport
Dan Le Sac Vs. Scroobius Pip @ Juno
Dan Le Sac Vs. Scroobius Pip @ 7Digital
Dan Le Sac Vs. Scroobius Pip @ Amazon
Looks like the guys at Eye Industries are in for a busy for months, for a start there’s this track, ‘Levels’, the forthcoming single from Lazersonic & Zak Frost.
The duo, who have previously released on Tiga’s Turbo label have enlisted Ali Love to drop some drug fuelled vocals for this part Ambient, part Tech-House, part Dub track.
Electrohead Shadow Dancer backs the track with two reMixes, including this one which kicks it straight to the dancefloor but makes the vocals even more trippy! The remaining reMix is from Kill The Hero and it just builds and builds and builds before setting you free with its bassline.
♫ Lazersonic & Zak Frost (Feat. Ali Love) – Levels (Original Mix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
♫ Lazersonic & Zak Frost (Feat. Ali Love) – Levels (Kill The Hero reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
♫ Lazersonic & Zak Frost (Feat. Ali Love) – Levels (Shadow Dancer Bonus Round reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
‘Levels’ is out now!
Lazersonic & Zak Frost @ Beatport
Lazersonic & Zak Frost @ 7Digital
Lazersonic & Zak Frost @ Amazon
Jakwob has gone and got his dirty little Dubstep hands on Audio Bullys forthcoming single ‘Only Man’
Probably the hottest Dubstep reMixer around right now, Jakwob totally flips it with a retro 80’s lead line over his usual brand of dark synth Dub.
♫ Audio Bullys – Only Man (Jakwob reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
‘Only Man’ is released 22nd March and also includes a reMix from Reset!
Here at electronic rumors we are still all in with our support for the Buffetlibre DJs and Amnesty International’s PEACE project. Creating a ‘musical atlas’ featuring artists from the four corners the globe the Buffetlibre guys intent is to highlight (and raise a bit of cash to aid) human rights injustices around the world.
The PEACE album will contain more than 150 brand new songs by artists from more than 50 countries!
Always a favourite here, IHARTCOMIX’s The Toxic Avenger returns to contribute for the cause with a blistering slice of his noisy banging electro completely awash with 8-bit craziness and Yellow Magic Orchestra founding member and electronic composition legend, Japan’s Ryuichi Sakamoto donates this ambient electronic soundscape.
♫ The Toxic Avenger – Nu 1553 (zShare) (MediaFire)
♫ Ryuichi Sakamoto (Feat. Christian Fennesz) – Peace (zShare) (MediaFire)
12st April is now the day the album drops, and 12th April is now the day to make your donations!
Right kids, I’ve been pretty ill the last few days so I have all these posts mounting up and tonight they are gonna’ drop. We’ve got a lot to get through, so hold on tight!
So, I can think of no better way to kick things off than with Essex SynthPoppers Relation who are gearing up for the release of the second single from their ‘Fear Of Night’ album.
Relation’s slightly house tinged SynthPop mixes some really early 80’s sounding elements, particularly in the vocals and lead lines (think early Depeche Mode) with modern beats and basslines which makes for a compelling combination. The single, ‘Optimistic’, is a smooth, almost SynthSoul, jam that comes with a meaty reMix package. The Laserdisco mix is a minimal, bass heavy take that verges on Dub. The Diogenes Club provide probably my favourite of the mixes sending the track straight into Disco territory. You know all the Dreamwave tracks your playing in your Ferrari driving through the city streets at night? Well, this is the track they are playing at the club you’re heading to! Eat More Cake attack the track from left field with some world music atmospherics that somehow actually compliment the vocals.
♫ Relation – Optimistic (Laserdisco reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
♫ Relation – Optimistic (The Diogenes Club reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
♫ Relation – Optimistic (Eat More Cake reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
It’s nice to see such a varies bunch of reMixes!
‘Optimistic’ is released 26th April on Urban Torque
Tron fans following the viral marketing campaign promoting the upcoming sequel to 1982’s Tron, Tron Legacy, have unlocked a secret site at http://www.program-glitch-esc.net/ that has HD version of the new, second, trailer ahead of it’s ‘proper’ online début later this week.
Looks pretty fantastic, no? And is that Daft Punk’s soundtrack we can hear in the second half of the trailer? Pulsing synths, distorted drums, sounds good to me!
Being actually in the trailer, I pretty sure we can assume it’s not a fake this time! 😉
