Apparently Røyksopp haven’t performed on TV for seven years! Well, what better way to make a comeback is to perform “The Girl And The Robot” from their latest album ‘Junior’ on Swedish TV and actually bring Robyn along to do the vocals!
“The Girl And The Robot” is still one of my favourite tracks of the moment, it’s an almost perfect slice of ElectroPop. Do I smell a second single?
‘Junior’ is out now on Wall Of Sound.
The week in Bangers: While electronic rumors isn’t strictly an Electro-House blog, we do cover a lot of Electro-House that crosses over in to our realm. So many good club tunes and reMixes surface each week we can’t (and wouldn’t) cover them all, so this is a round up of some of the best from the week that we didn’t have time to dedicate individual posts to…
Wassup peeps? This week in Bangers kicks off with Joris Voorn’s Electro Acid ‘Addict’ before crashing straight into the vocoder Disco of the Tronik Youth reMix of Drlkt Freddie Freddie’s ‘Airtight’. The Nu-Disco continues with Fenech-Soiler reMixed by Combo and the Amazing Mad Decent mix of ‘Quicksand’ by ElectroPop superstar La Roux. The Twelves keep it funky with their take on Metric whilst Neon Indian provide some quirky dancefloor Noise-Pop. Mark Lam reworks Streetlife DJs hit of last year ‘We ♥ The Disco Sound’ and bring it back banging and we leave you with our favourite anthropomorphised tigers, Tigersapian, and a new reMix by Clockwork.
♫ Joris Voorn – Addict (zShare) (MediaFIre)
♫ Drlkt Freddie – Airtight (Tronik Youth reMix) (zShare) (MediaFIre)
♫ Fenech-Soler – The Cult Of Romance (Combo reMix) (zShare) (MediaFIre)
♫ La Roux – Quicksand (Mad Decent reMix) (zShare) (MediaFIre)
♫ Metric – Help, I’m Alive (The Twelves reMix) (zShare) (MediaFIre)
♫ Neon Indian – Deadbeat Summer (zShare) (MediaFIre)
♫ Streetlife DJs – We ♥ The Disco Sound (Mark Lam reMix) (zShare) (MediaFIre)
♫ Tigersapien – Used To Be (Clockwork reMix) (zShare) (MediaFIre)
Most of these artists can be picked up here:
Photo credit: Duncan Cumming
datA has been quiet for a while but he’s back with a brand new EP on April 28th.
Titled ‘One In A Million’, the EP includes reMixes from the likes of Tomboy and Drixxxé and judging by the tracks below it’s gonna’ tear up dancefloors everywhere.
♫ datA – One In A Million (Club Version) (zShare) (MediaFIre)
♫ datA - One In A Million (zShare) (MediaFire)
‘One In A Million’ will be released on Ekler’O’ShocK
Kitsuné Music are gearing up to release the seventh instalment of their Kitsuné Maison series. Entitled ‘The Lucky Ones’, it looks like it’s going to be a stormer!
Here’s the tracklist:
01. Two Door Cinema Club – Something Good Can Work
02. We Have Band – Time After Time
03. Phoenix – Lisztomania (Classixx Version)
04. Crystal Fighters – Xtatic Truth
05. The Golden Filter – Favourite Things
06. La Roux – In For The Kill (Lifelike reMix)
07. Beni – Fringe Element (Short Like Me Edit)
08. autoKratz – Always More (Yuksek reMix)
09. 80Kidz – Miss Mars
10. James Yuill – This Sweet Love (Prins Thomas Sneaky Edit)
11. MEN – Make It Reverse
12. CHEW LiPS – Solo
13. Chateau Marmont – Beagle
14. Heartsrevolution – 薔薇と彼女の王子
15. Delphic – Counterpoint (Delphic’ En Route Mix)
16. Encore – Untitled
17. Maybb – Touring In NY (Short Tour Edit)
18. Renaissance Man – Rhythm
19. Tanlines – Bejan
Looks like it’s going to be a stormer? Sounds like it too thanks to this minimix provided by London’s finest and Kitsuné in-house boys JBAG.
♫ Kitsuné Maison 7 MiniMix By JBAG (zShare) (MediaFire)
While you’re waiting for news of this release why not check out some more of JBAG’s mixes and reMixes:
No shit, Sherlock!: A chance to enthuse about music from the last few years that pre-dates electronic rumors, this stuff has probably already been blogged to death years ago, but we need a chance to get how much we love it off our chests. We already love it, you already know and love it…and are probably bored of it, but we’re going to blog about it anyway…
Zombi’s Steve Moore’s side project Lovelock received a bit of blog attention late last year, particularly for his track ‘Burning Feeling’. The hype was well deserved.
Lovelock’s epic, sonically sprawling, retro SynthPop is serious 80’s teen movie soundtrack stuff. Just like we like it!
The production on these tracks is, at times, staggeringly good. The layering of either Steve’s smooth vocals, or the guest vocalists, with the driving electronics that sometimes verges on early industrial, with ‘Burning Feeling’ and sometimes glides across the dancefloor, as with Maybe ‘Tonight’, is so slick it’s a joy to listen to.
Check out this lot, pure 80’s goodness!
♫ Lovelock – Burning Feeling (zShare) (MediaFire)
♫ Lovelock – Love Reaction (zShare) (MediaFire)
♫ Lovelock – Maybe Tonight (zShare) (MediaFire)
Lovelock’s only release so far has been on Eskimo Recordings ‘Cosmic Balearic Beats Vol. 01’ CD, expect more soon though!
Sandi Sirocco is the name of a band, not a person, and it’s a name you should remember because it one you will be hearing lots about in the coming year, these three guys and one girl based in London going to blow up, seriously!
They are one of those bands that just has you gobsmacked to learn they are unsigned. You can just tell there will be much Sandi Sirocco hype in the coming months and they will soon be fighting labels off.
The melting pot of a half-Spaniard, a Russian-Ukrainian, a Georgian and a Scot create a sound quite unlike and other Electro act out there
Their high energy Synth Disco combines analog ElectroPop of the very early futurists with the musical theatricality of early Soft Cell.
I’m gonna’ make you put in the effort and head over to their MySpace to check the music. So while you’re there, play nice and show Sandi Sirocco some love!
The Faint easily rank up there as one of my favourite bands ever so any hint of new material is exiting for me, even a new reMix.
Here, Las Vegas based duo, Afghan Raiders take an already aggressive song and create a noisy, angry, nightmare of sound that somehow manages to retain it’s groove.
It’s powerful stuff:
♫ The Faint – Mirror Error (Afghan Raiders reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
Some of Afghan Raiders’ original tracks can be heard on their MySpace, and buying The Faint’s back catalogue should be on your agenda (if you already haven’t got them1)
Is there time for just one more reMix of ‘In For The Kill’ before La Roux’s next single, ‘Bulletproof’ is released?
Of course there is!
Saving the best ‘til last comes Lifelike. His really 80’s SynthPop, with a dance beat, take on the track has it vying against Heartbreak’s reMix for the position of my favourite version.
♫ La Roux – In For The Kill (Lifelike reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
Here’s your chance to pick up ‘In For The Kill’ before the ‘Bulletproof’ reMix flood begins!:
Something a bit different for this holiday Monday. The 80’s was a time of looking to the future (‘cos everything was a bit shit then) and this was reflected in glossy, futuristic T.V.. Of course, futuristic T.V. shows had to have futuristic theme songs, and that meant Synthesizers!
So here’s a small collection of some of the best to fuel your nostalgia.
Beginning with possibly my favourite TV theme of the 80’s, Tangerine Dream’s theme from ‘Streethawk’ (also on their own ‘Le Parc‘ album), taking in the classic theme’s from ‘Airwolf’ and ‘Knight Rider’ and ending up with the proto-Daft Punk-esq theme from the cartoon ‘Ulysses 31’.
Most of these are really crappy quality, as if some kid in the 80’s held a Tandy tape recorder to the T.V. speaker to tape the music….just like I used to do!
Enjoy!
♫ Tangerine Dream – Le Parc (L.A. – Streethawk) (zShare) (MediaFire)
♫ Midge Ure – Max Headroom T.V. Theme (zShare) (MediaFire)
♫ Jan Hammer – Airwolf Theme (zShare) (MediaFire)
♫ Glen A. Larson & J.A.C. Redford – Theme From Automan (zShare) (MediaFire)
♫ Dennis McCarthy – ‘V’ The Final Battle: Main Title (Version 1) (zShare) (MediaFire)
♫ Barry De Vorzon – ‘V’ The Final Battle: Main Title (Version 2) (zShare) (MediaFire)
♫ Glen A. Larson & Stu Phillips – Knight Rider Theme (zShare) (MediaFire)
♫ Jan Hammer – Crocket’s Theme (Miami Vice Theme) (zShare) (MediaFire)
♫ Lionel – Ulysses 31 (zShare) (MediaFire)
I would have included ‘Doctor Who’ themes, but I may save them for another post…
Also, If I got any of the artists wrong, I apologize, whatever…
Well, after a couple of name changes (they had to stop using the last name for legal reasons) this Leeds based ElectroPop act have settled on their moniker; Detronik, and in doing so added impetus to their production schedule.
The trio, consisting of John Steed, Richy Spence and Liana Stokes, are currently working on their début album which they promise will be out October/November but we can give you a taster of what to expect in the form of a demo version of ‘My Girlfriend Likes Girls’, which is a brilliant slice of upbeat ElectroPop and shows off Detronik’s dry sense of humour, ‘My Girlfriend Likes Girls’ is genuinely funny.
♫ Detronik – My Girlfriend Likes Girls (Demo.) (zShare) (MediaFire)
Detronik don’t seem to conform to either Clubby ElectroPop or Indie-Electro, rather they seem to walk a line between the two.
Show them some MySpace love as you wait for the album release!
