Aug 21 2010

Cassette Jam X Filthy Dukes

Cassette Jam are a couple of Northern producers who are about to drop a double A-side single from their forthcoming, self-titled, début album.

‘Speed Of Light’/’Hey Homo’ comes with mixes from Doorly and the mighty Filthy Dukes (who also had a hand in the album’s production). The Filthy Dukes dub of ‘Speed Of Light’ is an early 90’s House sounding cut that has that recognisable Filthy Dukes use of riffs in it. This is serious strobe lights, top of the night, stuff.

♫ Cassette Jam – Speed Of Light (Filthy Dukes Dub)

‘Speed Of Light’ is out 6th September.

Cassette Jam @ Beatport

Cassette Jam @ Juno

Cassette Jam @ 7Digital

Cassette Jam @ Amazon

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Aug 21 2010

Gossip Culture

Gossip Culture, a solo Indie-ElectroPop project from Cleveland, Ohio has dropped his latest track ‘1985’ in the electronic rumors Inbox. And so it goes from us to you.

It’s a nice chilled synth Funk jam, like Chromeo winding down after a hard night’s partying. The Funk bass and vocoded vocals work together to product the kind of tune that seem you walking home at 5 in the morning with a smile on your face. In his own words the track is a “tribute to the year that brought us Phoebe Cates, Nintendo, and Rick James”..good call!

♫ Gossip Culture – 1985

The track is part of a 5 track EP, ‘People talk’, due out later this year, until then show the man some MySpace love!

Gossip Culture @ MySpace

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Aug 20 2010

Goldfrapp & Little Loud

UK Electro producer Little Loud, who we featured last month, has had his way with Goldfrapp’s forthcoming single ‘Believer’, the third single from their ‘head First’ album, and the results are impressive stuff.

Pretty much all of the music we feature on electronic rumors is made with synthesizers, obviously, but sometimes a track comes along that just sounds really ‘synthy’. This is one of those tracks. Maybe it’s the sidechaining or the big digital bass, whatever it is it sounds ace. Like a deep synthetic hole you can just go and chill in the track is laidback and enveloping.

♫ Goldfrapp – Believer (Little Loud reMix)

‘Believer’ is released 7th September on Mute

Aug 20 2010

New Fever Ray cover of ‘Mercy Street’

Going down a more introspective path we find Fever Ray’s new cover of Peter Gabriel’s ‘Mercy Street’.

Despite being dark and melancholic, this put a smile on my face. It’s been a while since I’ve put on some Fever Ray (or, indeed, The Knife) and this, new material from Karin Dreijer Andersson, just reminded me why she (and her brother) are so good in the first place! It’s a stunning cover.

Just listen.

♫ Fever Ray – Mercy Street (Peter Gabriel Cover)

this is going to be released as a linited edition 7” single on Rabid Records later in the year.

Aug 20 2010

The Ting Tings get ElectroPoppy

IndiePop twosome The Ting Tings are gearing up to release their second album after the massive success of 2008’s ‘We Started Nothing’ and those singles it spawned.

It looks like this time round the duo have taken a more ElectroPop route, the results are actually really cool. Check out the first single from the new album, ‘Hands’, it’s a pretty slick slice of danceable electronic Pop injected with a dose of The Ting Tings’ feisty quirkiness and their trademark sing-a-long choruses.

♫ The Ting Tings – Hands

Retro/Grade have done an excellent job with their reMix, a nice retro version complete with electro toms and two finger basslines. I almost thought it was turning into ‘Smalltown Boy’ at one point!

♫ The Ting Tings – Hands (Retro/Grade reMix)

‘Hands’ is due for release 10th October.

The Ting Tings @ Juno

The Ting Tings @ 7Digital

The Ting Tings @ Amazon

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Aug 18 2010

Clancy & Build Vs. Minitel Rose

Who doesn’t love Minitel Rose? Chances are, if you’re reading this blog, you do!

So check out this new reMix of ‘Wild Birds’ from their recent, and amazing, album ‘Atlantic’. It’s been a while since we featured anything by Build, the man’s been quiet of late but here he’s teamed up with fellow London producer Clancy to ElectroPop the hell out of this track. Smooth dancefloor electronic Pop production that could see the names Clancy & Build next to the likes of Grum, Russ Chimes & Starsmith in the future.

♫ Minitel Rose – Wild Birds (Clancy & Build reMix)

‘Atlantic’ is out now.

Minitel Rose – @ Beatport

Minitel Rose – @ Juno

Minitel Rose – @ 7Digital

Minitel Rose – @ Amazon

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Aug 12 2010

Mammoth Logic

This track is pure awesome!

It’s by Mammoth Logic, and ElectroPop creating duo from Adelaide who mix up SynthPop, French Electro and Post-Punk to form their analog retro sound. Multi instrumentalists Dave Crowe and Reid Jones make something that could be described as Garage Disco-Pop, the music has a distinctly live feel to it, like it’s being played rather than programmed, and the combination of analog synths, impressive vocals, a touch of vocoding and some infectious 80’s sounding chords is hard to beat.

♫ Mammoth Logic – Met On Mars

The band are working on their début album, keep an eye on them on their MySpace and check out some more music on their Unearthed page

Mammoth Logic @ Unearthed

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Aug 12 2010

Nikita

Nikita is Pati Yang. Hailing from Poland, this 18 year old has already, under a different moniker, released a critically acclaimed album and supported the likes of Depeche Mode live.

As her new project Nikita, Pati is gearing up to release her début single. ‘Tonite’ is the first track release off of her forthcoming album that she is currently working on with Performance/Kiss In Cities electronic production genius Joe Cross (who has also produced The Sound Of Arrows and HURTS).

Take a listen to the single as reMixed by Cheap Thrills’ latest signing Franzy Scanner, a wobbly bass, 8-bit, juggernaut that heads straight for the dancefloor.

♫ Nikita – Tonite (Franzy Scanner reMix)

Nikita’s single, ‘Tonight’, is out 30th August.

Aug 11 2010

Beaumont takes on Kavinsky

The reMix competition has finished, the winners announced. I, personally, must have listened to about 130 of the hundreds of entries. Some of them were amazing. Some of them were whack. Did I ever want to hear Kavinsky’s ‘Nightcall’ again in my life? Not right now…

But if there’s one guy who can twist my arm it’s Beaumont, had he submitted his reMix to the contest it would have surely been a contender. Probably one of the best (if not the best) ElectroPop/Nu-Disco version of the song that uses both Kavinsky’s and Lovefoxxx of CSS’s vocals to sweet effect over a mixture of retro synths and 8-bit melodies.

♫ Kavinsky (Feat. Lovefoxxx Of CSS) – Nightcall (Beaumont reMix)

Aug 9 2010

‘Lies’; Fenech-Soler’s new video

Fenech-Soler have just premiered their new video for ‘Lies’, the follow up single to ‘Stop And Stare’ and a re-release from last years ‘Lies’ EP.

The track, when it was released before, had a video previously (which I kinda’ prefer) but it get’s a slightly bigger budget treatment here with some nice photography and narrative.