Today neo-Italo ElectroPop act Glass Candy unveiled the video for ‘Warm In The Winter’, which we’ve been waiting for a while.
Directed by Alberto Rossini, the videos vintage, grainy footage of GC on the west coast this summer forces a new nostalgia to go along with the incredibly catchy track.
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Zimmer – Gravity: November Mixtape = Originally recorded for D Is For Disco on the Aussie version of KissFM, Zimmer’s new mixtape is forty minutes of synthetic Disco goodness (or what the man himself calls Horizontal Disco).
♫ Zimmer – Gravity: November Mixtape
The tracklist:
01. Zimmer – Looking At You
02. Gigamesh – Red Light (Goldroom reMix)
03. Chris Malinchak (Feat. Damon C. Scott) – No Secrets
04. Simple Girl (Tiger & Woods reMix)
05. Doctor Dru & Adana Twins – Juicy Fruit (Calm Down Winter Bootleg)
06. Daniel Dexter & Nhan Solo – Our Thang (Andre Crom & Martin Dawson reMix)
07. MAM – Real Sweet
08. Talking Heads – Psycho Killer (Drop Out Orchestra Rework (Special Beach Edit for Pollo Erotico))
09. SOS Band – Take Your Time (Do It Right)
10. Munga – Let’s Work It Out
11. Gigamesh (Feat. Induce ) – When You’re Dancing (Cassian reMix)
12. Toro Y Moi – Saturday Love
13. Toomy Disco Presents Ultimate Man – Stay Focused On Love
14. DJ T. – City Life feat. Carl Golden (Maceo Plex reMix)
15. Tyson – After You’re Gone (Solo reMix)
16. Mercury – You Lift Me Up
17. Zimmer – Bay Bridge
‘Horizontal Disco’ dropped this weekend on Discotexas.
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Berlin based Aussie Joshua T’s new track ‘Hart Beating’ seems to draw the line between Chillwave and The Postal Service.
Layered with the kind of buzzing toytown-synth organ sounds so favoured by The Postal Service, ‘Hart Beating’ eschews those glitchy rhythms for the reverb washed ‘80’s-esque backing of Chillwave with roomy claps and distant melodies. Joshua T keeps the vocals simple and emotive, which blends perfectly with the music, giving the whole track a warm, relaxed vibe. ‘Heart Beating’ definitely presents an interesting combination of styles that single out Joshua T as a name to keep an eye on.
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Check out the first two demos from stardate the latest project from the mind that brought you 80s Stallone. His mission to give him self some freedom defined only by the use of hardware synths.
I don’t know if he’ll thank me for posting these demos, and EP is on the way but these are his first experimentations within his new parameters, but I couldn’t help myself, as a fan of electronic music these two tracks were too good to pass by. ‘Universal Pilot’ is at once ominous and uplifting, with these two roles being taken by the bass/pads and the melody, and it’s the capturing of these two moods that gives the track it’s cinematic feel. Heavy synth bass and arpeggios opposing, but working together in a Jarre-esque mid-paced peice. ‘Untill You Die’ walks a similar road but with more of a resolution to it, this is end of the movie stuff with a hint of guitar creeping in amongst the electronics and a bit of a sunrise feel.
♫ stardate – Universal Pilot (Demo.)
♫ stardate – Untill You Die (Demo.)
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Kitsuné Music’s latest signing Citizens! are soon to drop their début single ‘True Romance’, but you can already check the track by peeping it’s video.
It’s pretty wacky, but I suppose that goes with the quirky ElectroPop of Citizens!, it’s pretty vivid and bombastic though.
While you’re waiting for the single to come out, get your ears ‘round this taste of what to expect from their forthcoming début album with ‘(I’m In Love With Your) Girlfriend’, who’s raw sound boarders on ElectroPunk.
♫ Citizens! – (I’m In Love With Your) Girlfriend
Citizens! début single is released 19th December, until the check them out on SoundCloud.
This week On The Fruit Records released a reMix collection featuring some awesome reworkings of ElectroPop duo T&K’s newly released album, ‘Magic Tank’.
The whole collection is well worth checking out, for me the highlights came from James Yuill, Mr. Mæn, Rocky and Freak You. Mr. Yuill’s take on ‘Little Clouds’ is an epic, rolling, ElectroPop monster. An evolving analog beast that despite being a pumping electronic floorfiller is amazingly cinematic and emotive. After an icy intro, Mr. Mæn’s version of ‘Summer Nights’ becomes a massive ‘80’s ‘moment’ track. Majestic and powerful, it’s a slow burner that rouses the soul. an old school SynthPop flavour is applied to ‘Magic Tank’ by Rocky. Like the bastard child of Yazoo and Fad Gadget, Rocky’s reMix is a weird synthesizer workout disguised as a Pop song. On The Fruit main man Freak You’s reMix of ‘Line Of Light’ is a cosmic, chiming tune with a ‘90’s SynthPop bassline and a hint of Disco that’ll definitely go down a storm on the dancefloor.
♫ T&K – Little Cloud (James Yuill reMix)
♫ T&K – Summer Night (Mr. Mæn reMix)
♫ T&K – Magic Tank (Rocky reMix)
♫ T&K – Line Of Light (Freak You reMix)
Also featuring reMixes from Canblaster, Segundo and Boston Bun, T&K’s ‘The reMixes’ is out now.
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This’ll do for the weekend, some large 1986 post-Italo ElectroPop in the form of Company B’s ‘Fascinated’.
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Sometimes an artist comes along and takes you totally by surprise, blowing you away. Pinemarten is one of those artists.
I’ve spent much of the day listening to his new album ‘If You Thought There Was Any Doubt’. It’s an incredibly impressive début, the whole album is retro leaning, lush, impassioned ElectroPop. A reverb soaked (although not so much it falls into Chillwave territory) synthesizer journey through a life in soft focus with a surprising amount of Funk involved. One minute you’ll be all encompassed by the layers of dreamlike sounds then suddenly Pinemarten will drops some big ‘80’s chords or a wicked Moog Funk lead. The album ties itself together with Pinemarten vocals, binging a very human, intimate and relatable quality to the record that pushes it over the line into the realms of genius.
♫ Pinemarten – Don’t Let Me Be Denied
‘If You Thought There Was Any Doubt’ is released 20th November and comes highly recommended.
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After a few months of SynthPop rapidly falling out of favour with the Indie crowd, London based three peice Strangers seem destined to drag it back into the pages of the NME with their forthcoming third EP.
Much is being made of the trio’s so-called Dark Pop, words like ‘gothic’ and ’gloomy’ are being bandied around in reference to their music but I kinda’ disagree. Sure, the tracks are shot through with a streak of melancholy and the lyrics tend to lean toward the despondent, but ‘dark’ music this isn’t. The cleverly titled ‘EP3’ contains three cuts of catchy, surprisingly upbeat SynthPop. With beautiful, full, production and rousing choruses the whole EP mixes a hint of ‘80’s Pop with modern studio wizardry and delivers an experience that combines unexpectedly dancey electronic Pop with an infections vocal performance that will have you listening over and over again.
I’m also quite proud that I managed to go a whole paragraph without mentioning HURTS.
♫ Strangers (Feat. Lara Smiles) – Promises
♫ Strangers – Because I’m Human
♫ Strangers – Sweet Nothing
Strangers’ ‘EP’3’ is out 28th November.
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Queen Of Hearts has premiered the video for the rousing and cinematic ‘Black Star’ from her début EP ‘The Arrival’.
Following on from the feel of the track the clip is suitably epic Sci-Fi.
‘The Arrival’ EP is out now.
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