May 2 2011

Holographic People Are Holographic People

Holographic People’s ‘We Are Holographic People’ mixtape = Showcasing the massive talent on the biz’ freshest new label, born from the ashes of Heartbeats Management.

♫ Holographic People – We Are Holographic People

The Tracklist:

01. Drumakina – Walking Away (Cavaliers of Fun reMix)
02.Worship – Starcrash
03. Yeasayer – One (Clancy & Build reMix)
04. Cavaliers of Fun – Secret Galaxies
05. Shelby Grey feat Ricco Vitali – Echoes Dimensions & Waves
06. Fear of Tigers – Friday night @ Geek Club (Shelby Grey reMix)
07. Housse de Racket – Synthetiseur (Clancy & Build reMix)
08. Fear of Tigers – The adventures of Pippi Longstrump
09. Cassette Club – 4 me (Beaumont remix)

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May 2 2011

Strange Talk

This track may be over a year old buy Australia’s Strange Talk have just released their début EP and ‘Climbing Walls’ is blowing up.

And what better reason to celebrate it! You probably already know the track, it was featured on Kitsuné Maison 10 and is the prefect summery Indie-ElectroPop. It you don’t mind a little feel-good gangly guitar in your dance music then you’ll dig this tune for sure. Their sound is pretty Australian IndiePop (if you know what I mean) with hints of Two Door Cinema Club and Phoenix or The Naked And Famous, nice catchy tunes that would work well both live or on the dancefloor. Or to chill to.

♫ Strange Talk – Climbing Walls

Strange Talk’s self titled EP is out now.

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May 2 2011

Kimbra’s new video

This is the video for Kimbra’s forthcoming new single ‘Cameo Lover’ from her soon-to-be-released début album ‘Vows’. You may remember Kimbra as the voice of Miami Horror’s awesome ‘I Look To You’.

This new single of hers has a weird, but pleasing, Electro 60’s thing going on which is carried over into the Guy Franklin directed video.

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Apr 28 2011

This week’s Fear Of Tigers’ ‘The Guestlist’ with Diamond Cut

Fear Of Tigers’ ‘The Guestlist’ 28/04/2011 = Last week Fear Of Tigers’ special guest was, well…me! How ever can he top that? He’s only gone an got Diamond Cut on the show! Hear the Aussie super-producer chat about super-producing alongside the weeks best ElectroPop, Nu-Disco and Dreamwave.

♫ Fear Of Tigers’ ‘The Guestlist’ 28/04/2011

As you probably know Ben from Fear Of Tigers ran the London marathon last weekend to raise money for WSPA (World Society for the Protection of Animals). We’d like to extend our congratulations to Ben for an amazing job, you can read about it in this blog post, and there’s still time to get in with a quick sponsorship if you’re feeling charitable, check out his Just Giving page.

Fear Of Tigers @ Just Giving

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Apr 28 2011

Florrie’s new video

Here is the video for the lead track from Florrie’s new EP.

‘Begging Me’ isn’t quite as catchy as some of her previous tunes but it is a fun a slick slice of Xenomania mid-tempo Pop that I can already feel worming it’s way into my brain.

The video was directed by Price James.

‘Begging Me’ is out now.

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Apr 28 2011

She’s The Queen & Jules Schimmer

It’s Thursday! You know what that means!

I swear I’m not doing this deliberately, people keep sending me sweet She’s The Queen reMixes on a Wednesday!

Today’s action comes courtesy of UK producer and DJ Jules Schimmer who lays down a deep arpeggiated retro bassline and some shimmering synths for She’s The Queen’s ‘As We Run’. Taking the original to an early 80’s place with his drum patterns, rapid fire claps and electro toms give it a authentic Electro flavour and creates a nice juxtaposition between Emily’s soulful vocals and Jules’ almost B-Boy beats.

♫ She’s The Queen – As We Run (Jules Schimmer reMix)

She’s The Queen’s début EP is out now!

Apr 28 2011

Monarchy mix up ‘Gold In The Fire’ and ‘Eternal Flame’

Here’s a pretty odd track, but it really works.

Monarchy, true to their name, in celebration of the impending royal wedding have recorded this piano mashup between their ‘Gold In The Fire’ and The Bangles’ ‘Eternal Flame’. The two seem to go together perfectly and it reminds you what an immense Pop song.

‘Eternal Flame’ is.

♫ Monarchy – Gold In The Eternal Fire

I’m not bothered about the royal wedding in the slightest, save for the fact that I have to travel into London tomorrow and it’s going to be a nightmare! Other than that it just seems to be a be a massive financial burden on we, the public. We’re not even invited!

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Apr 27 2011

Selebrities new video

Brooklyn New Wavers Selebrities are back with a new video for ‘Can’t Make Up My Mind’, a brilliant meeting of Disco and Shoegaze.

Taken from their forthcoming début album ‘Can’t Make Up My Mind’ gives a SynthPop flavour to a deep late 80’s Indie sound. I love how Selebrities are such a melting pot of influences, and they manage to make sometimes quite different sounds, work together perfectly.

Check the track too, it’s a great Walkman tune!

♫ Selebrities – Can’t Make Up My Mind

Selebrities’ album ‘Delusions’ is out 17th May on Cascine.

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Apr 27 2011

Rex The Dog’s ‘Here We Go Scando’ mixtape

Rex The Dog – Mixtape #1 Here We Go Scando = Completely made up of Scandinavian, mostly Swedish (or reMixed by someone from Sweeden) ElectroPop. The whole mix has a cool, icy, edge to it but with an underlying warmth. Very nice to chill to.

♫ Rex The Dog – Mixtape #1 Here We Go Scando

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Apr 27 2011

Maighréad

Maighréad is a London based ElectroPop artist who recently released her début EP, ‘In the Beginning’ alongside Disco Damage.

The Irish-born singer is currently hard at work on the video for ‘In The Beginning’, until then check out some of what she has on offer. The single is a pounding Electro track that displays Maighréad’s vocals to have a lot more soul than I would have expected. With something of an Irish Billie Ray Martin quality to her voice I can imagine Maighréad is a fantastic singer live (I hope to find out in the future). There’s a bit of Annie Lennox in there too, albeit with a Limerick twang that gives the vocals a unique twist on the classic huge pop delivery. All this juxtaposes quite nicely with the Maxi Jazz-esq rhyming on ‘In The Beginning’. ‘Sea’, one of Maighréad’s previous tracks, is actually my favourite. It’s pure Eurythmics (and seeing as how Eurythmics haven’t been Eurythmics for years, there is a need for someone to be making this kind of music). Cold, harsh synths are perfectly tempered by Maighréad’s warm vocals giving the track an light-in-the-darkness- feel to it.