Here’s the video for Shindu’s Just Go, which we premiered a few weeks ago. Out now on the excellent Continental Records.
The clip feature sultry singer Chibi glamming it up, retro Disco style and fits the 80s groove of the track perfectly.
Shindu’s Just Go is out now.
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Much like Hannibal from the A-Team, we love it when a plan comes together. Or, more specifically, we love it when two artists we love come together. Chad Valley’s album is easily one of the long playing highlights of the year, read our review here, so to have him reMixing our reigning ElectroPop monarch Queen Of Hearts is something pretty special indeed. This comes with high expectations.
And those expectations are lived up to. Hugo Manuel’s lush post-Chillwave electronics transform a rousing call-to-arms into a peaceful, moody opus. Loaded with expressive synth melodies and dreamy pads. The Queens vocals, once rousing and empowering, become gentle and beautiful vocal caress delicately painted across Chad Valley’s audio canvas. The true use of a reMix is to deliver a totally different take on a track, and this reMix delivers that perfectly. An excellent companion piece to the original.
♫ Queen Of Hearts – Warrior (Chad Valley Radio Mix)
Queen Of Hearts’ Warrioris released on 2nd December.
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Hot Chip’s latest release will be Don’t Deny Your Heart, one of the more sing-a-long tracks on their new album, In Our Heads, and a great choice of single.
Peter Serafinowicz is once again in the directors hot-seat and once again, it gets pretty surreal. You gotta’ love Serafinowicz’s sense of humour.
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The awesome Chromatics have another new video up! This spacey slice of New York Disco tinged DreamPop is titled Cherry.
You know the drill, Alberto Rossini directs and it’s full of gorgeous hazy visuals.
Cherry will be featured on Italians Do It Better’s long awaited After Dark 2 compilation.
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Promises was definitely one of the highlights of The Presets’ under promoted, and underrated, comeback album Pacifica and with the single release we’re definitely getting a better crop of reMix talent that the previous couple of singles from these guys. First up there was Plastic Plates’ awesome mix, now comes Lifelike fresh from the release of Don’t Stop with A-Trak, to take a crack at the track.
Lifelike? reMixing The Presets? Tonight are we going to party like it;s 2008? Indeed we are, this tune is both classic Lifelike and classic The Presets. It’s like This Boy’s In Love (Lifelike reMix) part 2, and that’s an amazing thing! A bit slower, a bit more funky than Lifelike’s frantic arpeggio fuelled The Presets reMix, but the same vibe shines though. The vocals in this track are pretty epic, a true gift for any producer who specialises in massive dancefloor tunes, such as Lifelike, which is handy. Punchy digital bass, solid beats, a swell of sparking synths that wrap around the chorus, all classic Lifelike sounding. Needless to say, this tune is very good.
♫ The Presets – Promises (Lifelike reMix)
The Presets’ Promises is released 7th December on Modular Recordings.
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It’s another funktastic reMix from American producer Plastic Plates. Only days after his reMix of The Preset’s Promises broke cover he’s already lines up another big one. This time it’s ElectroPop crooner Sam Sparro, and his forthcoming new single Shades Of Grey, that gets the Plates synth Funk treatment.
This one’s all about the the dance between an amazingly infectious synth bass and Sparro’s unusually floaty vocal. The two together soar to the funkiest of places. With a twisting Moog bass a chorus piano hook, Plastic Plates keeps it simple, but simple works so well here when every element is honed to Disco perfection. This tune takes you on a nice trip, to Funkytown in the verses with a passing visit to Chicago in the choruses, this is the way to reMix purely for the dancefloor. This’ll make ‘em get down, and it really does bring the epic in it’s finale.
♫ Sam Sparro – Shades Of Grey (Plastic Plates reMix)
Sam Sparro’s Shades Of Grey is released 27th November on EMI.
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Here’s the new single, and video, from Pégase. Dreaming Legend is a lush Indie-electro tracks with more than a few musical nods to Shoegaze and Post-Punk. It’s gets a little Chillwavey in places too, it’s a beautiful piece of music though.
Directed by Paul Jeunet & Alain Goillon, the video pairs up the track with some wistful, nostalgic, visuals.
Dreaming Legend is out this week.
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Here’s a new gem from one of the best voices in the business, the legendary Billie Ray Martin. She’s teamed up once again with Italian Pop-House producers Hard Ton to drop a track that is as rich as it is funky. Deep house grooves and massive vocals, that’s what you should be expecting.
Marilyn uses a Deep House vibe to deliver some atmospheric, dramatic synth work set to a classic late 80s House bassline and Roland rim-shots. Always enveloping, never too overstated, the track provides a hypnotic and subtle backing for some huge, theatrical vocal performances. Loaded with classy, and intricate, synth elements and a nostalgic Chicago undercurrent, Marilyn is timeless House.
♫ Hard Ton (Feat. Billie Ray Martin) – Marilyn
Marilyn is taken from the Time To Jack EP, out now.
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So, we’ve been hearing a bit from Miami Horror drummer Aaron Shanahan’s solo offering, Good Night Keaton, particularly his début single, Next To Mexico. It’s a track that features the soulful yet quirky vocals of LA singer Mereki. Well, it turns out the girl’s not too shabby on her own!
There just the one track on her SoundCloud page, the demo version of a track called Blue Lake, and it’s pretty special. Rich, bombastic ElectroPop tempered with introspective vocals gives the track the best of both worlds. It’s like Dreamwave, Indie-Electro and Chillwave have been distilled into their pure pop essence and delivered in their logical evolutionary form. It’s a hazy, reverb washed wall of groaning synths and starburst melodies as Mereki’s breathy voice slips in and out of the track. But despite all the dreamy summer musical blur the track still manages to be insanely catchy. Definitely one to watch in 2013.
♫ Mereki – Blue Lake (Demo.)
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Stop what you’re doing, there’s a new Queen Of Hearts video in town. The amazing Warrior has only gone and got itself all visual.
The clip’s directed by Elliott Morgan and sees The Queen deftly conveying the rousing bombast of the track. Which is still produced by Diamond Cut, and still amazing.
Queen Of Hearts’ Warrior is released on 2nd December.
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