20 Days without a new Little Boots track…what’s up with that?
Luckily all is forgiven as this new reMix comes from the amazing New Your deep Disco merchants The Golden Filter who take Boots’ live favourite (and now confirmed next single) ‘New In Town’ and lead it down dark, dirty Disco, alleyways.
There really is “no one safe in these streets!”
♫ Little Boots – New In Town (The Golden Filter reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
Also, Victoria rockin’ the Keytar!
[Via Pretty Much Amazing!]
8-Bit ElectroPunk terrorists You Love Her Coz She’s Dead are back with a new, limited edition, single ‘Me Verses You’.
The white vinyl 7” will be limited to just 500 copies (with the first 100 being signed by the band) and will feature reMixes from from Unicorn Kid and I Am Program.
Check the low quality sample below, it’s a riotous, sweeping cacophony like only YLHCSD can deliver. electronic rumors is defiantly looking forward to this release.
♫ You Love Her Coz She’s Dead – Me Versus You (Sample) (zShare) (MediaFire)
The single is out April 27th but can be pre-ordered from YLHCSD’s MySpace now:
You Love Her Coz She’s Dead @ You Love Her Coz She’s Dead Store
You Love Her Coz She’s Dead @ Beatport
You Love Her Coz She’s Dead @ Juno
You Love Her Coz She’s Dead @ Amazon
Tesla Boy hail from Moscow and make some sweet Vocal Electro-House with a strong ElectroPop strain running through it.
This isn’t 80’s influenced SynthPop, this is 80’s SynthPop, just accidently made in the wrong century. Fantastic FM synth leadlines layer over warm analog bass and drums to compliment Anton Sevidov’s smooth soul vocals.
Tesla Boy are currently being championed by the Valerie crew, which isn’t surprising as they have impeccable taste and Tesla Boy would fit in well in their stable.
♫ Tesla Boy – Spirit Of The Night (zShare) (MediaFire)
♫ Tesla Boy – Neon Love (zShare) (MediaFire)
Tesla Boy have just released their very limited edition self-titled EP, check it out on their MySpace page.
We’ve been waiting for the début release from CHEW LiPS for a couple of months now, it was finally released this week on Kitsuné Music.
Here’s the video:
The ‘Solo’ EP also features reMixes from tEPr and David E. Sugar, it’s in the stores now!
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…
It’s a week or so old now but the Acid Girls remix of Mini Viva’s ‘I Left My heart In Tokyo’ is still doin’ it, as is FC Kahuna’s work on Noah And The Whale. Youth’s reMix of Elke’s ‘Blue Dream Lover’ is a smooth dancefloor groover in contrast to Esser & A1 Bassline’s noisy Electro/Dubstep flavoured jam. Moving into a more ElectroPop arena is Cinemax with ‘Smudged’, as reMixed be Melee Beats. Bringing things crashing back to the dancefloor is Bit Funk’s take on vitaminsforyou and this weeks big hype magnet, Warp 1.9 by The Bloody Beetroots teaming up with Steve Aoki to seriously rock the place. Finally Curtis Vodka gets made over, by electronic rumors favourites DMX Krew, into a 1988 Acid House trip.
♫ Mini Viva – I Left My Heart In Tokyo (Acid Girls reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
♫ Noah And The Whale – 5 Years Time (FC Kahuna reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
♫ Elke – Blue Dream Lover (Youth reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
♫ Esser – Lets Work It Out (A1 Bassline reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
♫ Cinemax – Smudged (Melee Beats Mix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
♫ vitaminsforyou – B4U (Bit Funk reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
♫ The Bloody Beetroots (Feat. Steve Aoki) – Warp 1.9 (zShare) (MediaFire)
♫ Curtis Vodka – Life Me Up (DMX Krew reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
Most of these artists can be picked up here:
Photo credit: Pinewood Design
2009 really is turning out to be the year of female fronted Electro, we’re practically spoiled for choice as the acts we’ve been watching for months breakthrough, one after another.
The latest addition, however, is no bandwagon jumper. Belarusian/Scottish Lucy Ross A.K.A Dollskabeat had got something deep and mysterious going on. The singing on her début single ‘Zodiac Rising’ flit from almost operatic to almost rapping creating a landscape of different vocal textures.
Like La Roux, in that they are both 80’s influenced ElectroPop and have unique vocal styles, but with a darkness reminiscent of The Knife and a strong likeness to early Eurythmics, Dollskabeat offers a level of maturity to this year’s ElectroPop scene.
A hypnotic, analog synth laden, invocation, ‘Zodiac Rising’ really gets under your skin.
♫ Dollskabeat – Zodiac Rising (Vocal Mix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
Having already achieved some exposure and BBC Radio play Dollskabeat is definitely one to watch.
‘Zodiac Rising’ is released May 4th on Optimo Music, until them head on over to the Dollskabeat MySpace to check some other tracks and give Lucy some love.
I was very exited to see this, new new Passion Pit single, in the electronic rumors Inbox yesterday.
Passion Pit whipped up a hype storm last year with their track ‘Sleepyhead’ from the ‘Chunk Of Change’ EP, and well deserved too. ‘Chunk Of Change’ was a little slice of electronic heaven, adored by Indie fans and ElectroPoppers alike.
‘The Reeling’ is a little more polished than ‘Sleepyhead’, a little more focused with some fantastic Synth riffs and horns.
♫ Passion Pit – The Reeling (zShare) (MediaFire)
‘The Reeling’ is out on May 11th followed by their début album ‘Manners’ on May 18th.
As part of a recent Norwegian promotion by Chrysler a few artists reMixed A-ha’s absolute classic ‘Take On Me’, including Brazil’s Nu-Disco demons The Twelves.
The Twelves have previously worked their reMix magic on the likes of New Young Pony Club, Groove Armada, Black Kids and, recently, La Roux.
This reMix keeps the pop structure of the original but injects it with some Electro, Disco magic.
♫ A-Ha – Take On Me (The Twelves reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)
A-Ha have announced a new album in September ‘09 and a return to the SynthPop Sound!
The Vault: The classics of Electronic Music. The influential and the groundbreaking. The pioneering and the music we grew up on…
I somehow always knew that electronic rumors’ first The Vault article was going to be about Cabaret Voltaire, it had to be really, not only are they highly influential to me, personally, but to every strain of electronic music.
From the early use of synthesizers and tape loops with punk ascetics to pioneering the early dance scene (via being emblazoned on Ferris Buelller’s bedroom wall!), Cabaret Voltaire have done it all…first!
Richard H. Kirk and Stephen Mallinder (initially along with Chris Watson) formed the Cabs in 1973 in Sheffield (ground zero for all things synth) as a way to experiment with sound creation and processing. Strongly influenced by the Dada art movement, they quickly became associated with the burgeoning Industrial scene.
The group’s first (proper) releases were on the legendary Rough Trade Records label and from the early, experimental noise-pop works to the 808 and 303 laden later records Kirk and Mallinder were always ahead of the pack, and, indeed, Kirk was instrumental in the early life of legendary experimental electronic stable Warp Records.
One of the first artists to really embrace using non-musical instruments or found sounds to create music, Cabaret Voltaire influenced all things Experimental & IDM, SynthPop & New Wave and later Bleep House & Dub heavy Techno.
Electronic music just wouldn’t be the same without Cabaret Voltaire.
Here we have a sampler of the Cab’s back catalogue, some obvious, some not. From 1979’s ‘Mix up’, ‘No Escape’ and from the seminal ‘Red Mecca’ (1981), ‘Spread The Virus’. Moving into a more ElectroPoppy area ‘Crackdown’ from ‘The Crackdown’ in 1983 and, probably Cabaret Voltaire’s biggest hit, 1984’s ‘Sensoria’ from the album ‘Micro-Phonies’. ‘I Want You’ comes from their last Rough Trade album ‘The Covenant, The Sword, And The Arm Of The Lord’ (1985) and showing it’s Bleep House influences ‘No Resistance’ is taken from 1991’s ‘Body And Soul’
♫ Cabaret Voltaire – No Escape (zShare) (MediaFire)
♫ Cabaret Voltaire – Spread The Virus (zShare) (MediaFire)
♫ Cabaret Voltaire – Crackdown (zShare) (MediaFire)
♫ Cabaret Voltaire – Sensoria (zShare) (MediaFire)
♫ Cabaret Voltaire – I Want You (zShare) (MediaFire)
♫ Cabaret Voltaire – No Resistance (zShare) (MediaFire)
Whether you’re into SynthPop or Experimental, Dub or Dance, Indie or Industrial, Cabaret Voltaire helped shape the music you love. Much of their back catalogue is still available including a few best of compilations:
Danger is back with the soon to be release follow up to his début 12″, ‘09-14 2007′, and it was well worth the wait.
Coming like a clubbed up Jean-Michel Jarre, ’88h88 (Stage 3: the Club) is an emptive Disco journey, like the soundtrack to a retro-future. This stuff is seriously my favourite kind of Electro-house.
♫ Danger – 88h88 (Stage 3: The Club) (zShare) (MediaFire)
Entitled ’09-16 2007′, the single is out March 30th via Ekleroshock Records.
[Via TrashBags Kids]
