Tag Archives: ElectroPop

Jun 14 2012

Arsenal, Com Truise & Joakim

Arsenal

Belgian duo Arsenal’s new single arrives next week. We first featured these guys back in May 2010 and since then they’ve released a stray stream of pumping House tunes. Following on on from deep vocal House of ‘Melvin’, the new single ‘One Day At a Time’ features Mike Ladd on vocals and is loaded with some class choices in reMix talent including two of our top producers, Com Truise & Joakim.

Com Truise is, like, the public face of SynthWave. The SynthWave artist it’s cool for your Indie friends to like. So flying the flag for all things retro Electro, we always pay special attention to his tracks, and they are always mind-blowingly good. His mix of ‘One Day At a Time’ is no different. In fact it’s the highlight of the reMixes, with a funkin’ analog bassline and sweeping synths Com Truise turns the Housey vocal into something a bit more New Wave. Electro toms are just the icing on the cake in this track which boarders on electronic Soul at times. Joakim’s effort is a more sunrise affair, a bit Balearic, a bit Tropical, but with a unique rawness to it and an infectious ringing hook. The ‘One Day At  A Time’ collection also comes with Joakim’s ‘Dub’ and a version from JD Twitch Optimo, an excellent package.

♫ Arsenal – One Day At A Time (Com Truise reMix)

♫ Arsenal – One Day At A Time (Joakim reMix)

‘One Day At A Time’ is out this week.

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Jun 14 2012

ComboStar’s ‘Free’

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It looks like Parisian Disco duo ComboStar are back for good. After breaking back on the scene earlier this year with the hit and miss ‘Combostella’ EP, ComboStar finally re-find their groove with their new single, again on La Valigetta, ‘Free’.

Featuring Mani Hoffman (the voice if The Supermen Lovers’ classic ‘Starlight’) on vocals ‘Free’ is a big DiscoPop anthem that finds it’s core in squelchy synth Funk bass, a piano hook and a big, full vocal. Poppier than anything on the previous EP, this track has got breakthrough potential, and if that’s not enough the reMix package is pretty stellar. The ‘Club Edit’ of the original works in a little more dancefloor power, make the track even more epic while the singles lad reMix comes from Louis La Roché, who delivers a nice twisted Disco mix. Funk style synths join forces with some soaring lead lines for a heavy slice of Disco with a breezy sheen. Second Date take the track down a deep House route with a real warehouse vibe. It even makes the vocals sound a bit more Chicago. Timo Juuti & Hector 87 fill the huge French Disco quote on the single with an impressive five minutes of boogie which might be the records standout mix. It keeps the song itself intact, but incorporates it into a danceflor destroying slab of cut-up Disco. ComboStar may be about to put out the record to re-insert them into the minds of dance music lovers worldwide.

♫ ComboStar (Feat. Mani Hoffman) – Free (Club Edit)

♫ ComboStar (Feat. Mani Hoffman) – Free (Louis La Roché reMix)

♫ ComboStar (Feat. Mani Hoffman) – Free (Second Date reMix)

♫ ComboStar (Feat. Mani Hoffman) – Free (Timo Juuti & Hector 87 reMix)

‘Free’ is released 26th June on Beatport, 10th July elsewhere.

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Jun 14 2012

Kitsuné Soleil

Kitsuné Soleil

‘Kitsuné Soleil’ is the name of the latest mix album form Kitsuné Music, this time Kitsuné head honcho Gildas Loaëc teams up not with his label partner Masaya Kuroki, but with Kitsuné’s resident DJ, London;s ElectroPop guru and one half of JBAG, Mr. Jerry Bouthier. The collection is a line up of everything that’s good in Indie-Electro and deep Disco right now. Check out the tracklist below and Bouthier’s minimix of the album.

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♫ Gildas & Jerry- Kitsuné Soleil MiniMix By Jerry Bouthier

The tracklist:

01. Moon Boots (Feat. Violetness) – Running From
02. Citizens! – Reptile (Goldroom reMix)
03. Pharao Black Magic (Feat. Ghostape) – Hermes
04. Jupiter – One O Six (A.N.D.Y. reMix)
05. Gigamesh – Your Body (JBAG reMix)
06. Moonlight Matters (Feat. Gustaph) ‘Come For Me (Jerry’s Dub)
07. Logo – Jacob
08. Housse De Racket – Chateau (JBAG reMix)
09. Metronomy – Everything Goes My Way (Psychemagik reMix)
10. Rüfüs – Talk To Me
11. Charlotte Gainsbourg – Anna (Moonlight Matters)
12. RAC (Feat. Penguin Prison) – Hollywood (Felix Da Housecat reMix)
13. Adamski – I Like It (ATTAR! reMix)
14. Plastic Plates – Toys
15. The Rapture – Sail Away (Cut Copy reMix)
16. Hey Today! – ’83
17. Like Woah! – Looking At You (Nocturnal Edition)
18. Friendly Fires – Hurting (Tensnake reMix)
19. Reflex – Wavering (JBAG reMix)
20. M83 – Midnight City (Trentemøller reMix)

‘Kitsuné Soleil’ is released 2nd July and they will be launching the album at XOYO in London on 23rd June with Housse De Racket and Jupiter playing live.

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Jun 14 2012

AlunaGeorge’s ‘Just A Touch’ video

Here is the brand new video from London duo AlunaGeorge, ‘Just A Touch’, which sees the duo spinning even more of an UK R&B sound into their experimental Indie-ElectroPop.

Laurence Matthew Blake & Matilda Finn directed the clip, which is more of a Pop video, for more of a Pop sound. All high contrast blacks and whites.

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Jun 14 2012

T&K’s ‘Music Never Lies’

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French ElectroPop duo T&K have been pretty quite since the release of their ‘Magic Tank’ album and it’s accompanying reMix EP on On The Fruit Records last year. So it was a surprise to see them dropping a brand new track on their SoundCloud. A nice surprise though.

‘Music Never Lies’ is a quiet little tune that is very much on T&Ks’s style. With a sound akin to Freezepop, but with more floaty vocals. A quaint, SynthPop tune who’s sound comes from Britain via Paris. Gently buzzy synths and vintage drums roll along with toytown electric piano riffs and despite it;s roots in late ‘80’s SynthPop, there a definite ‘70’s vibe to the track. Slightly more introspective than T&K album work, maybe they were just in a pensive mood?

♫ T&K – Music Never Lies (Unmastered)

‘Magic Tank’  and ‘The reMixes’ are out now.

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Jun 13 2012

Freak You reMixes Touch Tone

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The world of the producer is very much like the cruellest corners of the animal kingdom. Producers stalk the plains, solitary and silent, hunting for stems. Occasionally stopping to sniff the air in the hope of catching the scent of an acapella vocal. A producer must work with stems at least once every two weeks to survive, in times of drought competition can be fierce, and when a new herd of stems is noticed many producers can fall upon it in a feeding frenzy. Actually, in the case of Touch Tone’s Home Away From Home’ we can see why, the vocal is spectacularly epic, it must be hard for a producer to resist the temptation.

On The Fruit Records main man Freak You, just couldn’t resist. And for that we are glad. He turns in this wonderful, lush, ‘90’s House mix complete with 909 drums, piano hook and and a piercing square wave lead that just screams ‘90’s Dance Pop. More than anything Freak You’s reMix is fun fun fun and conjures up the best of times dancing your ass off in the ‘90’s. Freak You;’s reMix will keep a smile on my face all day!

♫ Touch Tone – Home Away From Home (Freak You ‘DJ Tool’ reMix)

Touch Tone’s ‘Home Away From Home’ is out now on Binary.

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Jun 13 2012

Pet Shop Boys’ ‘Invisible’ video

Here it is! The first new track from Pet Shop Boys highly anticipated forthcoming new album, ‘Elysium’.

Put together by Brian Bress, Pet Shop Boys and Andrew Dawson, they call it a short film for the track. How that differes from amusic video I have no idea, but they are Pet SHop BOys, I’ll take their word for it. The track is blissful, haunting and pure PSB. Excited.

‘Elysium’ is due for release this summer.

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Jun 13 2012

Goin’ Old School: A-Ha, Duran Duran & Sheena Easton

Goin’ Old School isn’t a trip down music memory lane, it’s a mugging in the dark alleyway of nostalgia:

A-Ha with ‘The Living Daylights’ from 1987. Oh no, there’s no theme here…

From 10985, Duran Duran’s ‘A View To A Kill’. OK, maybe there is a theme going on…

In 1981, just coming out of the ‘70’s, Sheena Easton with ‘For Your Eyes Only’. Yeah, can;t really get away from the theme now.

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Jun 13 2012

Capital Cities reMix Ernest Saint Laurent

Ernest Saint Laurent

In their latest release, Californian ElectroPoppers Capital Cities step up for reMix duties for Frenchman Ernest Saint Laurent and his Tatiana Heintz featuring track ‘Offering’. The result is some blissed out sunrise Pop.

Carried along on the vocals of Tatiana Heintz from Franco-German Folk duo Okou who creates an uplifting, deep mood that allows Capital Cities to get a little Ballieric as they mix things up. Throwing a bit of that beach vibe into the mix they churn up a deep, warm Housey, ElectroPop track that envelopes you like a comfortable blanket. Full of rich synth pads and a Funk fuelled arpeggiated bassline, Capital Cities capture the mood perfectly.

♫ Ernest Saint Laurent (Feat. Tatiana Heintz) – Offering (Capital Cities reMix)

The original of ‘Offering’ appears on Ernest Saint Laurent latest album ‘Rollercoaster’.

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Jun 13 2012

Charli XCX’s ‘Heartbreaks & Earthquakes’ mixtape

Charli XCX

Charli XCX – Heartbreaks & Earthquakes: The Mixtape = Charli’s new mixtapes is kinda’ a precursor of things to some, or something to tide you over. Loads of mashups, loads of freestyle, loads of fun.

♫ Charli XCX – Heartbreaks & Earthquakes: The Mixtape

The tracklist:

Beyond The Black Rainbow
01. Charli XCX & Blood Orange – Champagne Coast
02. Charli XCX – How Can I?
03. Charli XCX & Blood Diamonds – Grins
The Craft
04. Charli XCX & Paul White – So Far Away
Kill Bill
05. Charli XCX, Drake & Jai Paul – Dreams Money Can Buy
Cruel Intentions
06. Charli XCX – Lock You Up
07. Charli XCX & Rudimental – Spoons
American Beauty
08. Charli XCX – You’re The One (Odd Future’s The Internet remix (Feat. Mike G))

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