Tag Archives: ElectroPop

Jul 22 2011

Starsmith: and on to the B-side

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The last few days have been Starsmithtastic! New single, new video and now the flip side to ‘Lesson One’, ‘Champion’.

I sat flip side ‘cos the release will be a double A-side. Alan Braxe, who’s Vulture Music will be putting out the single, recently dropped a teaser of this track at Social Club in Paris and the resultant YouTube video has us all in a frenzy. ‘Campion’ sees Starsmith layering up the smooth electronic Funk of ‘Lesson One’ with a more synthesized feel. The lead lines alone are worth buying this release for, behind a couple of tires of synths and a mixing desk Starsmith really is at the top of his game. Keeping the  Hopefully Starsmith finding a home at Vulture will mean his album gets to see the light of day.

♫ Starsmith – Champion

‘Lesson One’/ ‘Champion’ drops 22nd August.

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Jul 22 2011

Chromeo & Lifelike; together again

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Lifelike’s reMix of Chromeo’s ‘Needy Girl’ was one of the musical highlights of 2008, now the meeting of minds is happening once more with Lifelike’s new reMix of Chromeo’s forthcoming ‘when The Night Falls’ single.

Featuring Solange of the Knowles clan, ‘When The Night Falls’ will be the last single from Chromeo’s amazing ‘Business Casual’ album. Lifelike add a nice sheen of Frenchness to the track with his trademark digital bass and a solid understanding of the Disco dancefloor. It’s the little touches, stabs and sound effects that really make this reMix a bit rad, keeping things energetic and bombastic.

♫ Chromeo (Feat. Solange) – When The Night Falls (Lifelike reMix)

Chromeo’s ‘When The Night Falls’ single is due to drop 25th July.

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Jul 22 2011

Shook reMixes Kimbra

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Kimbra’s ‘Cameo Lover’ tend to burrow itself into your brain whenever you hear it. Unfortunately we have now found a reason to start listening to it all over again, but fortunately that reason is a brand new reMix from Shook.

Shook brings the Funk big time, with deep bass and flourishing Moog lines running throughout. Stripping it original of it’s 60’s leanings Shook takes that ‘Puppet On A String’-esque, infections, chorus and re-moulds it into a summertime Disco anthem. Shook has a new EP in the pipeline, keep an eye out for that one.

♫ Kimbra – Cameo Lover (Shook reMix)

Kimbra’s ‘Cameo Lover’ is out soon.

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Jul 22 2011

Neon Workout Vs. Clancy

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Here is a mashup by Aduno So Tanie of Neon Workout’s ‘Running In the Night’ and, mostly, Clancy’s ‘Panther’.

I don’t know much about the guy who put this together but it’s pretty slick, still not really sure if it improves at all on the originals, it’s more like an interesting take on ‘Panther’ using bits of ‘Running Through The Night’. It does work though and it’s well put together and if you want something to jam out to this Friday afternoon then this could be it.

♫ Neon Workout Vs. Clancy – Panther Running In The Night (Aduno So Tanie Mashup)

Check out more from Aduno So Tanie onSoundCloud.

Jul 22 2011

Goin’ Old School: OMD – Electricity

In 1979 OMD (Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark) bust into the charts with ‘Electricity’. Changing, alongside The Human League, the face of Pop music forever, and for the better.

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Jul 22 2011

New tune from Boss In Drama

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Brazil’s ElectroPop export, Boss In Drama, has been a little quiet for a while but explodes back with his new tune ‘Pure Gold’.

Washed in future Funk and electronic Soul, ‘Pure Gold’’s glitterball ElectroPop is evident from the very first synth lead and when BiD’s slick vocal kick in you know exactly what you’re in for. Straight-up DiscoPop that exists only for the good times. Having already scored official reMix work for N*E*R*S and Miami Horror, Boss In Drama is about to drop his début album, also titled ‘Pure Gold’, and it could be something really special.

♫ Boss In Drama – Pure Gold

’Pure Gold’ is lead off single off Boss In Drama’s début album of the same name, released 10th September.

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Jul 22 2011

Punks Jump Up’s new single

Punks Jump Up’s new single, ‘Chimes Pt. 1’ is released next week on kleinTanz.

It’s a fun tropical Electro Disco tune with a new video that reflects that, albeit in a 90’s music video way.

kleinTanz label boss Christian Candid in his Younger Then Me guise gets synthtastic with his reMix of the track.

♫ Punks Jump Up – Chimes (Younger Than Me reMix)

‘Chimes Pt. 1’ is released 29th July with reMixes from Say Yes to Another Excess (Stopmakingme) and Danny Ashenden (The C90s).

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Jul 21 2011

Starsmith’s new video

Remember when we wrote about Starsmith‘s forthcoming new single, ‘Lesson One’, on Vulture Music? Way back in the day. This day to be precise, at 10:02am.

Well, Vulture have premiered the long awaited (five and a half hours!) video. Summer holiday fishing fun!

‘Lesson One’ is released 22nd August as a double A-side with ‘Champion’.

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Jul 21 2011

Alex Metric & Charli XCX & Russ Chimes

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Stop what you’re doing, there’s a new Russ Chimes reMix in town.

Saying “Russ Chimes can do no wrong” might be jinxing it, and his next production clould be shit and it would be our fault. But it’s not likely, ‘cos Russ Chimes can do no wrong. The man smashes it again with this new mix of Alex Metric & Charli XCX’s ‘End Of The World’ from Mr. Metric’s forthcoming ‘Open Your Eyes’ album. Russ seem to build and build on this tune, constantly adding layers to the killer riff that will be whipping dancefloors up into a frenzy this summer. Bringing it down briefly with a sweet piano hook and snatches of ElectroPop kook XCX’s vocal before dropping the listener right back into body moving inanity. To say Russ Chimes can move the crowd is a massive understatement.

♫ Alex Metric & Charli XCX – End Of The World (Russ Chimes reMix)

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Jul 21 2011

Aaron Alexis

Aaron Alexis

Aaron Alexis is a video director who was worked with Kitsuné and Chromat amongst others and is now expressing the ElectroPop side of his creativity.

‘Heart.Box.Smasher’, his latest tune, is an intimate electronic Pop tune that despite being quite layered managers to low key stripped down and personal. Aaron’s understated, almost whispered at times, vocal conveys a real depth of feeling while the deceptively intricate programming created a slightly distant, slightly detached mood as a counterpoint. With ‘Heart.Box.Smasher’, Aaron Alexis has crafted some incredibly listenable, somehow humble, synthesizer music.

♫ Aaron Alexis – Heart.Box.Smasher

Check out Aaron Alexis on SoundCloud.