Jun 10 2011

Florrie’s ‘Experimenting With Rugs’

Florrie’s ‘Experimenting With Rugs’ will be featured on her second EP. She explains in this blog post how she keeps independent, and why (although I’m sure working for Xenomania doesn’t really hurt her situation), which is pretty unusual for an artist, to explain where their money comes from in such detail. To be honest Florrie seems to have it really together and will probably make more from her music than if she was on a major.

Florrie’s ‘Experiments’ EP is out 14th June,

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Jun 10 2011

Get People’s ‘Rain Tears’ video

Get People have just released this video for the title track of their ‘Rain Tears’ EP.

Chris Vickers directed the clip and it includes some really nice use of imagery and layered elements. it’s a cool catchy ElectroPop tune too!

Get People’s ‘Rain Tears’ EP is out 11th July.

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Jun 10 2011

Peter & The Magician’s ‘Twist’ EP

Peter & The Magician, also known as Yuksek and Stephen Fasano, ex-one half of Aeroplane, recently dropped their début EP in Kitsuné Music, and what an EP is it.

There is something really authentically retro about the three tracks on the ‘Twist’ EP. the title track you will have already heard by now, it featured on Kitsuné’s ‘Maison 11’, it’s like an stripped down, analog, Yuksek track. The other two tracks go deeper down the 80’s rabbit hole. ‘La Fiorentia’ is a Vince Clarke-esque ElectroPop instrumental with a Yellow Magic Orchestra melody, and ‘Love In Rimini’, my personal favourite, is B-Boy Electro incarnate with a Sci-Fi Disco. twist Awesome stuff.

♫ Peter & The Magician – Love In Rimini

The ‘Twist’ EP is out now.

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Jun 10 2011

Moustache Machine reMixes Cassius

Parisian Italo Disco dude Moustache Machine had reMixed Cassius ‘Toop Toop’.

Throwing the original’s syncopated Indie out the window MM give us a bassline heavy ElectroPop track that soars high above the dancefloor. The track has a nice combination of all that’s good in retro synth music. An Italo bassline, some nice Synth Funk solos and keeps the raucous vocals intact to ramp up the energy.

♫ Cassius – Toop Toop (Moustache Machine reMix)

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Jun 7 2011

Goldroom

The melodic Indie end of Dreamwave, NightWaves, are in the process of finishing up their début album, but while that goes on NightWaves/Binary main man Josh is also expressing himself in the form of his brand new solo project Goldroom.

Cool licks, dreamy synths and Josh’s heartfelt vocal style are the order of the day here. The three tracks josh has unleashed on the world vary in sound, from the Funk tinged Indie-Dance of ‘Morgan’s Bay’ to the DiscoPop of ‘Nights In Nantes’, but the vibe running throughout is the epitome of Binary. One of summer days, late nights and good times, and that vibe ties the tracks together nicely. It’s kinda’ a sweet mix of influences actually, there’s a Disco groove, some nice Indie licks, some bits of 80’s Pop and R&B, all wrapped up in a atmospherically evocative package. Goldroom could be the new soundtrack to your summer city nights.

♫ Goldroom – Morgan’s Bay

♫ Goldroom – City Girls

♫ Goldroom – Nights In Nantes

Check out Goldroom on SoundCloud.

Jun 7 2011

Goin’ Old School: The Rock Steady Crew – Hey You (The Rock Steady Crew)

I love this song so much words cannot express, the synth riff in it is just so catchy it’s not even funny. The Rock Steady Crew’s 1983 hit ‘Hey You (The Rock Steady Crew)’ followed Malcom McLaren’s ‘Buffalo girls’ in being one of the first tracks that introduced Hip Hop to the UK.

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Jun 7 2011

Risk Risk’s ‘Streetwalk’ video

Here is the video for Risk Risk’s ‘Streetwalk’.

It’s subtly 80’s, right down to film style and video glitches. Remember when zooming in and out quickly was considered impressive?

Lasers and smoke, man, lasers and smoke!

Risk Risk’s ‘This Is 1983’ is out now on Astro-Chicken.

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Jun 7 2011

Heartsrevolution’s ‘Are We Having Fun Yet?’ mixtape

Heartsrevolution – Are We Having Fun Yet? Mixtape = Complete insanity! Can’t wait for the album!

♫ Heartsrevolution – Are We Having Fun Yet? Mixtape

The tracklist:

01. Situation Critical (Marilyn Manson – Beautiful People)
02. Heart Vs. Machine (Heartsrevolution – Ride Or Die)
03. White Magic (Future Of Oddities) (Shangri-Las – Out In The Streets/Hayley Mills – Let’s Get Together/Jay-Z – 99 Problems)
04. Life Will Tear us Apart (Joy Division – Love Will Tear us Apart)
05. ID (Investigation Discovery) (John Frusciantea – Fall Thru The Ground/Pink Floyd – Money)
06. Supreme (Interlude) (The Supremes – My World Is Empty Without You/Some John Frusciante Song)
07. Let Freedom Ring For The RX Generation (Love – 7 And 7 Is/Some Drumfill From A Jean Jaques Perry Song)
08. Kill Joy (Screeching Weasel – My Brain Hurts (Lyrics))
09. Cannabliss Into Oz – (Serge Gainsbourg – Cannabis)
10. 6am Rave Song – (A Flock Of Seagull – Space Age Love Song)

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Jun 7 2011

Capital Cities

LA’s ElectroPop duo Capital Cities have dropped this awesome slice of summery good vibes.

These beard enthusiasts have their début EP coming out this months and if ‘Safe And Sound’ is anything to go by this good times from here on in. It three minutes of ElectroPop wonder that’s so feel good that the addition of perky trumpets seems a bit redundant, but welcome nonetheless.

♫ Capital Cities – Safe And Sound

‘Safe And Sound’ is taken from their their self-titled début EP, due out on June 18th.

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Jun 7 2011

Teenage Bad Girl’s ‘Backwash’

Paris duo Teenage Bad Girl’s combination of ElectroPop and abrasive Electro has always has a Rocky edge to it, but their new album boarders on straight-up ElectroRock at times.

There’s heavy use of Rock samples throughout, but that only adds to the melodic chaos that is ‘Backwash’. Powerful distorted analog synths run all the way through the album but aside from that it’s a record that flips from one style to another, regularly, and with relative ease. There’s the big ElectroRock we’ve already heard in the album’s first single ‘Keep Up With You’ and the vocoder and guitar mash-up of ‘The Wave’ which rubs up against some beautiful synthetic Electro tracks like ‘Hold Me Tight’ and ‘Fast Blood Delivery’, a pure 90’s rave tune in ‘Fright Night’ and the Chicago House of ‘Tonton Funk’. If you’re into upfront electronic dance music then there will be something for you to love in this album.

Personally I favour the more synthesizer based tracks on ‘Backwash’, check out my two favourites and revisit the single, ‘Keep Up With You’. The whole album can be streamed here.