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Oct 22 2012

MiGHty mOUse’s October Mixtape

MiGHty mOUse

MiGHty mOUse – October 2012 Mixtape = As we slip for the warmth of summer into the chills of winter (apparently Autumn doesn’t exist any more), shake off those rainy blues with the new mixtape from London’s purveyor of good times, MiGHty mOUse. This month the man has collected and hour of deep, cosmic, and down-right butt shaking Disco tunes for your dancing pleasure.

♫ MiGHty mOUse – October 2012 Mixtape

The tracklist:

01. System Of Survival – Crash What
02. Dimitri From Paris & Los Amigos Invisibles – Glad To Know (Ray Mang’s Flying Dub)
03. Roland Clark, Andre Crom, Martin Dawson – Back To The Future (Monte reMix)
04. Prince Adam – Tomorrow
05. Zombies In Miami – Take My Mind
06. Affkt – Aoub
07. Go Wolf – Voices (Bubba’s Speechless reMix)
08. Christian Burkhardt – Delight (Original Mix)
09. David Garfit – Tonight (Nathan Swiss reMix)
10. Beckers – Free Your Mind (Original Mix)
11. Bat For Lashes – All Your Gold (Hercules And Love Affair reMix)

MiGHty mOUse’s ‘Disco Battle Weapons (Volume 2) is out now on Cheap Thrills

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Oct 22 2012

Fenech-Soler’s ‘All I Know’ video

All I Know is the new single from the amazing Fenech-Soler, After a trying year or so for the band it’s a welcome return, and is everything we’d have hoped for from the Indie-Electro four piece’s return.

Elliot Sanders directs this clip, which pulses with natural imagery along with the pulsing synth bass.

Fenech-Soler’s All I Know is released today.

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Oct 22 2012

Futurecop! drop an albums worth of free tunes

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UK SynthWave superheroes Futurecop! have spent the last couple of months busying away in the studio, cooking up a selection of tracks that they have been giving away for free on their SoundCloud page. Now, with the release of their latest tune, a tribute to the late, legendary, John Hughes, these almost an album;s worth of material out there. So, Futurecop! have collected it into a SoundCloud set for you listening pleasure.

There’s seven tracks in the collection so far, but here’s our pick of the breezy synth tunes on offer. The most recent track Futurecop! have unleashed is John Hughes (Teenage Love), obviously a homage to the greatest teen movie director to have ever lived, and it’s a track that could fit right into the soundtrack of any Hughes movie. Thick with Futurecop!’s trademark nostalgia, John Hughes (Teenage Love) is an upbeat party tune that takes you back in time whilst moving your feet. Dictionary has a more 80s British Pop feel to it thanks to the plucked guitar sound and rolling bassline. It’s a sprawling SynthWave tune that’s full of atmosphere. Taking a more traditional Futurecop! route is The Sun Is Mine, all driving arpeggios and soaring leads that perfectly mixes a retro sound and modern arrangement. ‘Till Eternity (I Miss You) is the collections reflective piece, a shimmering wall of snyths and gentle piano, set to a laid back beat, they captures and exemplifies Futurecop!’s dreamy outlook on life. the whole collection is free to download and at seven new tracks, should tide you over ‘till Futurecop!’s next album.

♫ Futurecop! – John Hughes (Teenage Love)

♫ Futurecop! – Dictionary

♫ Futurecop! – The Sun Is Mine

♫ Futurecop! – ‘Till Eternity (I Miss You)

You can find the complete set of Futurecop!’s recent free work right here.

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Oct 17 2012

The Penelopes’ October chart mix

The Penelopes

The Penelopes – The Penelopes’ Charts October 2012 = There’s a stellar line-up on London based French ElectroPop duo The Penelopes’ mixtape this month. Everything from the Boogie of Casio Social Club, to the hard Disco of Blende, to the Minimal Synth of The Soft Moon. Something for everyone!

♫ The Penelopes – The Penelopes’ Charts October 2012

The tracklist:

01. Child Actor- If You Loved Me
02. Letting Up Despite Great Faults – Bulletproof Girl
03. Mayer Hawthorne – No Strings (RAC reMix)
04. Saint Lou Lou: Maybe You (Good Night Keaton reMix)
05. Kisses – Funny Heartbeat (Poindexter reMix) Vs. Saint Lou Lou (The Penelopes Version)
06. Casio Social Club – Discokicks (Radio Edit)
07. Strange Talk – Cast Away (Plastic Plates reMix)
08. Blende – Fake Love (Original Mix)
09. Michael Mayer – Good Times (Smartphone Version)
10. Wild Nothing – Paradise
11. The Soft Moon – Insides
12. Night Terrors Of 1927 – Watch The World Go Dark
13. Excellent Birds – Ghost Dance (Patti Smith Cover)

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Oct 17 2012

80s Stallone’s ‘Hotline’ album

80s Stallone

London based SynthWave producer 80s Stallone has always been at the top of the scene. Having been around since the scenes early days, back on MySpace, he could be considered an OG of Outrun. and also a staple on these pages. One of the unsung heroes of 80s synth music, Stallone today releases his new album, Hotline, which is twelve tracks of robotic, romantic, retro awesomeness.

Hotline is a collection of a few tracks we’ve heard before, but mostly new material, that perfectly displays why 80s Stallone is so revered amongst fans of SynthWave. Driven kicks the album off, it;s a pumping track we’ve heard before and although being a high energy opener it’s an odd choice for track one, it doesn’t really represent the rest of the album, being almost Psy-Trance in places. Daylight follows, now this is more like it. Daylight is a slick retro synth track with some haunting, but infectious vocoded vocals and a bright, reverby lead line, that lends itself to the nostalgic contemplation that this album so expounds. Summer Lovers is another well played Dreamwave track that was on repeat round these parts when it first broke ground which gets you in a comfortable beach vibe before smacking you in the face with the Electro Funk of Work Your Body, which rocks B-Boy Beats and robo vocals against warm, emotional melodies. unfortunately, Quantum Leap isn’t 80s Stallone’s cover of the TV show them tune, but what it is though is a post-Italo Boogie bassline-fest. The albums highlights come thick and fast, Smoke & Mirrors dreamy Sci-Fi atmosphere nicely follows Super Pursuit Mode’s futuristic dystopian vibe. Radioactive brings a deep 80s Funk while Pictures begins the albums trail out with big Italo fashion with soaring solo work and hypnotic vocoding. Expectation powers the album toward it;s collusion with pulsating, moody snyths, before the album sees itself out with Time, an slick combination of machine beats, sparkling leads and classic SynthPop vocoded vocals. For lovers of synthesizer music, of all kinds, 80s Stallone’s Hotline can be considered pretty essential, an intelligent excursion into vintage synth music with a modern take.

♫ 80s Stallone – Daylight

♫ 80s Stallone – Work Your Body

♫ 80s Stallone – Smoke & Mirrors

♫ 80s Stallone – Pictures

♫ 80s Stallone – Time

80s Stallone’s Hotline is out today, pick up a copy here.

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Oct 17 2012

Aeroplane’s October 2012 Mix

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Aeroplane – October 2012 Mix = Vito Aeroplane must be a busy man, what with starting his new AeroPop label and all, as this edition of his ‘monthly’ mixtapes is kinda’ September’s but a bit late, or something. Anyway, it a shiny Disco hour that includes the Tiger & Woods reMix of Aeroplane’s forthcoming new single.

♫ Aeroplane – October 2012 Mix

The tracklist:

01. Mayer Hawthorne – No Strings (RAC reMix)
02. Mock & Toof – My Head
03. Monitor 66 – Triscuits
04. Lloydski – Go To Sleep (La Royale’s Do Not Sleep Version)
05. Electic Sound – Pareos (Future Feelings reMix)
06. Dan Croll – From Nowhere (Ben Gomori’s ‘Staring You In The Eye’ reMix)
07. Aeroplane (Feat. Jamie Principle) – In Her Eyes (Tiger & Woods reMix)
08. Ultracity – Delta
09. MANIK & Jeremy Glenn – Parasol
10. Andre VII – Discoteca Clandestina (Bufi reMix)
11. Alterworks – You Are Given
12. Michoacan – Disco Sucks So Good (Dubka reMix)
13. Infinity Ink – Infinity (Claude Vonstroke reMix)
14. Bat For Lashes – All Your Gold (Hercules And Love Affair reMix)

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Oct 17 2012

Alphabeat’s free reMix collection

Alphabeat

Danish ElectroPop champions Alphabeat’s last single Love Sea was an enormous saccharin slice of catchy Pop. Like someone shining very bright, colourful, lights in your eyes whilst spoon-feeding you cake icing. We would expect no less from Alphabeat really, it’s part of their charm. Now the six-piece have release a reMix package for the single, it contains some serious talent, and it;s all free.

So, first up Mr. Frankmusik takes a crack at the tune. The man delivers a storming Housy mix, complete with hypnotic piano and a hands-in-the-air vibe. Using just the right amount of the originals vocals, Frankmusik creates a party mood and keeps the deep bass rumbling. The Sound Of Arrows inject the track with some of their slick ElectroPop sounds making the track sound every bit as epic and majestic as one of their own. Kastra kick off with a You Got The Love arpeggio before lifting Love Sea up into a big anthemic main room House tune with all the big room House elements you’d expect, cut up vocals, stabbing synths, and sing-a-long vocals. there four other reMixes on the release, covering a range of dancefloor moods, for free it’s a total winner.

♫ Alphabeat – Love Sea (Frankmusik reMix)

♫ Alphabeat – Love Sea (The Sound of Arrows reMix)

♫ Alphabeat – Love Sea (Kastra reMix)

The Love Sea reMixes can be downloaded for free from Alphabeat’s website.

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Oct 16 2012

Holy Ghost!’s new single!

Holy Ghost!

We were teased it the other day, but now here it is in full. It’s the long awaited new single from New York Indie-Disco Holy Ghost!! That deserved two exclamation marks, one for Holy Ghost!’s name and one…well…just to exclaim.

It Gets Dark is the first taste we have of the duo’s forthcoming second album. After the greatness that was Holy Ghost!’s début record, 2011’s self titled album, we were pretty nervous about new material, all out fears have been cast aside though, as It Get Dark doesn’t disappoint. Raw synths, a slick Indie vibe with a slightly Housey chorus and that live New York disco sound that DFA are so known for. This is what we wanted from Holy Ghost!, full of vintage synth burbling and an anthemic chorus. The new album can;t come fast enough.

♫ Holy Ghost! – It Gets Dark

Holy Ghost!’s It Gets Dark is released today on DFA.

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Oct 16 2012

Toro Y Moi’s ‘So Many Details’

Toro Y Moi

So Many Details is the first new track from leading funky Chillwaver Toro Y Moi’s forthcoming third album Anything In Return. We’ve been teased with hints of the new material in various forms recently, but this is the first official unveiling of Chaz Bundick’s new sounds.

The track is a lush, dreamy mix of Chillwave and LA Nu-funk, with an R&B sheen. Playing around with Pop structures, Toro Y Moi create something that a otherworldly and experimental, yet instantly catchy and loaded with Disco groove. Heavy synth bass is laid down in a Funk style that allows the swirly, reverb washed, electronics to swim around the track, weaving in and out of Chaz’s New Jack vocals. Toro Y Moi’s new album could be his best.

♫ Toro Y Moi – So Many Details

Toro Y Moi’s Anything In Return is due for release 22nd January via Carpark. The So Many Details single drops on 7″ single 23rd November for Record Store Day’s Back to Black Friday featuring a reMix featuring Hodgy Beats.

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Oct 15 2012

Shiny Toy Guns’ ‘Somewhere To Hide’

Shiny Toy Guns

Somewhere To Hide is the next single to be taken from LA Indie-Electro outfit Shiny Toy Guns’ forthcoming album III. At this point we’ve talked, at length, about Shiny Toy Guns ‘dark times’ and how the new material is a welcome return to creativity and form. Their last single, Fading Listening, was positively Tropical. Somewhere To Hide keeps that energy going with a big slab of hard SynthPop.

Peppered with gentle guitars, Somewhere To Hide is an epic SynthPop track, driven along by a gritty synth bassline and pounding drums. It’s once the chorus kicks in that Somewhere To Hide really lifts itself, after a nice chord shift in the bridge, the chorus explodes with Carah’s impassioned vocal and the track becomes the kind of epic stadium SynthPop that Depeche Mode had such a handle on. I get the feeling that, more than the other singles, this is a good idea of where III is going to go.

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♫ Shiny Toy Guns – Somewhere To Hide

Shiny Toy Gun’s III is released 22nd October.

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