Sweeden’s once again at the forefront of ElectroPop jams. Name The Pet is Hanna Brandén who has just dropped her self-titled début album.
Wonky Pop and quirky vocals are the order of the day here. It’s decidedly poppy, but comes across heavier with one foot always square on the dancefloor with touches of Acid and Nu-Disco.
Check it out and see what you think:
♫ Name The Pet – Club Kid (zShare) (MediaFire)
Name The Pet’s album is out now on Dolores Recordings:
Over on their Official Website, SynthPop legends Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark are giving away a taster of their forthcoming album ‘The History Of Modern’ in the form of a demo of a track called ‘Sister Mary Says’.
It really does sound like classic OMD! More stripped down, minimal and 80’s than some of the 90’s albums. Rhythm, Andy McCluskey’s bass playing and vocals and a screaming lead line, pure OMD gold!
♫ OMD (Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark) – Sister Marie Says (2007 Demo.)
Go download it! OMD’s new album is slated for a 2010 release.
Parisian mystery duo Acid Washed recently dropped their début EP ‘General Motors, Detroit, America’ and the title track is a crazy, random, acidic Disco track that is so way out there yet so brilliant at the same time. Love it when the beat kicks in!
Blackstrobe is just one of a few name contributing reMixes and they take the originals spacey arpeggio and force it to conform to their Nu-Disco banger!
♫ Acid Washed – General Motors, Detroit, America (zShare) (MediaFire)
♫ Acid Washed – General Motors, Detroit, America (Blackstrobe reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
‘General Motors, Detroit, America’ is out now on Record Makers.
It’s double album time for Greece’s Mikro! These guys have been busy!
Having just released their eighth studio album, ‘Upload’ the SynthPop/Dance-Punk act are already gearing up to drop it’s sister record ‘Download’.
Containing ten tracks of catchy electronic Pop with an edge, the album is something more than the usual Modern SynthPop fodder. Mikro have managed to make hard dancefloor rhythms and distorted synth work sound unbelievably sweet!
Check out these two tracks from ‘Download’:
♫ Mikro – Paradise (Dance Mix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
♫ Mikro – People (zShare) (MediaFire)
Upload’ is out now and ‘Download’ is released soon, both on UNDO Records:
When you get tow creative greats like DFA’s Electro main man The Juan MacLean and Aussie Indie-Electro powerhouse Cut Copy you know something special is going to result!
Cut Copy have tackled last year’s huge single ‘Happy House’ and give it a dark, brooding groove with some sweet old school piano action.
♫ The Juan MacLean – Happy House (Cut Copy ‘Space Is The Place’ reMix (Full Mastered)) (zShare) (MediaFire)
The ‘Happy House’ single can still be picked up along with ‘The Future Will Come’, which is a class album!
7th December sees the release of the second single from datA’s fantastic album ‘Skywriter’.
Following on from the massive ‘One In a Million’, ‘Electric Fever’ isn’t quite as poppy but it’s a Nu-Disco stormer that is guaranteed to fill floors. Parisian duo Acid Washed, amongst others, take on reMix duties here and smother the track in synth bass and cowbell goodness! Check the acid breakdown:
♫ datA – Electric Fever (zShare) (MediaFire)
♫ datA – Electric Fever (Acid Washed reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
The single drops next week on Ekler’o’shocK.
Manchester’s Kiss In Cities are Laura Marsden and Joe Sross of Indie-Dance heroes (We Are) Performance (or is it just Performance now?) and make some frighteningly catchy, good ol’ fashioned, honest SynthPop.
Recently signed to digital label Seven Sevens, who are releasing the duo’s limited edition 7”, Kiss In Cities wear their love of everything 80’s on their sleeves.
The single will be ‘U R My Girl’ which sounds like an upbeat, saccharine coated, blast from the past and if there is any justice in the world it will be shooting up the charts!
♫ Kiss In Cities – U R My Girl (zShare) (MediaFire)
‘U R My Girl’ is released December 14th and can be pre-ordered now!
I Can Talk’ by Ireland’s Two Door Cinema Club was one of the highlights of Kitsuné Music’s Kitsuné Maison 8 compilation and yesterday saw the 12” release of the track.
For the Kitsuné release, reMixes are provided by French Horn Rebellion, Moulinex and these two here, by Golden Bug and Crystal Fighters.
I think Golden Bug’s is my favourite, I love the heavy analogy bass throughout and vocoded backing vocals. It’s a old school vocal Electro track guaranteed to make you move. Crystal Fighters’ mix, despite frantic percussion, is more chilled and intricate with a hint of dancefloor bass.
♫ Two Door Cinema Club – I Can Talk (Golden Bug reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
♫ Two Door Cinema Club – I Can Talk (Crystal Fighters reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
‘I Can Talk’ is out now:
Two Door Cinema Club @ Beatport
Two Door Cinema Club @ 7digital
Boxon Records‘ latest signing, German duo Dyebox (last seen reMixing Zoot Woman) have recently dropped their début EP.
Titled ‘Catch The Looks’ it includes three original tunes and this reMix of the title track by lablemates Dilemn who turn in a bass heavy banger with a Nu-Disco vibe on top of the twitchiness that really suits the vocals.
♫ Dyebox – Catch The Looks (Dilemn reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
The ‘Catch the Looks’ EP can be bought right now!
Belgium based noisy ElectroPop duo Soldout have had ‘The Cut’, lead track from last years album ‘Cuts’, reMixed by one of France’s best providers of huge Electro tunes; Just A Band.
Just A Band drop massive distorted synth bass all over the track morphing the track into a powerhouse club killer!
♫ Soldout – The Cut (Just A Band reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
And check the original in all it’s glory:
♫ Soldout – The Cut (zShare) (MediaFire)
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