We dropped previews of David E. Sugar’s new single ‘Party Killer’ last week, now the video clip has premiered.
Created by Lewis Arnold & Phil Barber the video sees David interacting with images of himself. Clever stuff!
Watch with your eyes!
‘Party Killer’ will be released as a limited edition 7” and the digital remix package, followed by a full length album in October.
Sean Neuse A.K.A. Backseat Dreamer is finally dropping his début album, ‘‘The Colors of Dreams, They’re In You’ today!
Setting himself apart from Dreamwave, ElectroPop and Indie-Electro by creating a hybrid of all three, mixed up in a Shoegaze style wall of (melodic synth) sound finished off with some floating, introspective vocals, Backseat Dreamer is a definite listen for fans of any of the three styles.
The album is a personal affair with intricately programmed rhythms and emotive vocals, if it wasn’t for the lush sound I would call it Bedroom Pop, but it feels slightly grander than that. Contradictorily grant yet, very raw and D.I.Y.
Give it a listen.
♫ Backseat Dreamer – Gold Dust
Backseat Dreamer’s début album ‘The Colors of Dreams, They’re In You’ is released Today on Stickfigure Recordings.
Y’know, it fells like i have been waiting a lifetime for someone to do a decent reMix of my third favourite Simple Minds song, ‘New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84)’.
Enter Bottin to save the day, ‘cos this reMix he has just dropped is awesome! Part Nu-Disco, part Italo and keeping everything that made the original special. Dropping a kick and an arpeggiated bassline in the makes all the difference, and then the song just opens up for Bottin’s synth work.
Amazing!
♫ Simple Minds – New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) (Bottin Rework)
That’s how you reMix an 80’s classic!
The Aikiu, brainchild of French producer Alex Aikiu and has just released his first single, ‘Just Can’t Sleep’ on Abracada. It a pretty sweet slice of Indie-Disco and an ode to late 70’s/early 80’s New York clubland. fittingly the man has been working with Chic’s Nile Rogers.It’s got a lot of early 80’s Pop in there as well as Disco, but however you want to classify it, it’s a damn good début.
Check the video:
The single comes packaged by reMixes from Egyptrixx, Azari & III, Mighty Mouse and Clement Meyer. As well as that fine lot check out these two free reMixes. Sovnger’s mutation into a French-Electro banger and chilled, almost Dubby, Space Disco from Stupid Human.
♫ The Aikiu – Just Can’t Sleep (Sovnger Can’t Sleep reMix)
♫ The Aikiu – Just Can’t Sleep (Stupid Human Mix)
‘Just Can’t Sleep’ is out now.
I’m lovin’ this track from Louisville based ElectroPop/Indie-Electro act The Pass, this is the first sample from their forthcoming début album, ‘BURST’.
‘Treatment of the Sun’ is such an ‘of the moment’ tune, upbeat and summery with just the right balance of jangly guitars and layers of retro synth work, I’m defiantly eager to hear more from this lot.
The band have put together this little video to showcase the track:
I’ve got a long train ride tomorrow and you can be sure this is going on the walkman!
If you’re very lucky we might be able to throw an .mp3 of this tune your way in the coming months
The Pass’ album is due to drop Autumn 2010 on sonaBLAST! Records, until then you can pick up this track and their previous EP over at their Bandcamp page.
Well, either it’s been a slow week or Monarchy have been really busy ‘cos here comes another Monarchy post!
Remember that video for their forthcoming third single ‘Love Get Out Of My Way’ that suddenly disappeared and was replaced with the official video? Well it turns out that it was intended to be the video for the new Benny Benassi reMix of the track. It’s a cool pumping reMix, maybe one of the others (Holy Ghosts!) would be more deserving of a video and record label pushing but I suppose Benassi is more of a ‘name’ amongst clubbers and, as I said, it is quite a cool reMix.
‘Love Get Out Of My Way’ drops 26th July with reMixes from Holy Ghost!, Sinden, Treasure Fingers amongst others.
Monarchy have announced their début live show at London’s Electrowekrz on the 22nd of this month. Well, strictly speaking it’s not their début show, their début show was at the NASA Planetarium at Cape Canaveral, Florida in from of 20 witnesses and beamed into space. Listen to the band talk about it in this video.
But it is their first ‘proper’ show in front of an audience and the duo’s Twitter feed is full of talk of preparations.
We’re pretty exited and you can be electronic rumours will be front and centre!
Monarchy’s forthcoming third single ‘Love Get Out Of My Way is released this month and amongst the reMixes is this deep Electro affair from DFA producer and analog synth guru Tim Goldsworthy.
♫ Monarchy – Love Get Out Of My Way (Tim Goldsworthy Dub)
‘Love Get Out Of My Way’ drops 26th July with reMixes from Holy Ghost!, Sinden, and Treasure Fingers also.
Mark Ronson’s current single ‘Bang Bang Bang’ (Featuring ElectroPop artist MNDR and Q-Tip, ex of A Tribe Called Quest) is actually pretty good. It’s got a real old school Electro Funk feel to it and is generally pretty darn banging.
But, oh look! Russ Chimes has got his hands on it (and, as we know, his hands have the Midas touch) and, keeping the elements that made the original groove, has transformed it into a monster disco workout. We really cannot wait to hear what Russ’ EP will hold, I hope he releases it while the weather is still good, I have a feeling it might just end up being the soundtrack to my summer…if it’s out in time!
♫ Mark Ronson & The Business INTL (Feat. MNDR & Q-Tip) – Bang Bang Bang (Russ Chimes reMix) (Radio Rip)
‘Bang Bang Bang’ is out now.
ceo’s (Eric Berglund from The Tough Alliance) début album ‘White Magic’ is causing quite stir amongst those with discerning tastes and with good reason. Sure, at it’s core it’s ElectroPop, but it almost defies definition. I’ve honestly never heard anything like it, influences form World Music, Hip-Hop and a certain symphonic quality to ceo’s music make it a really special listen. I suppose you’ll either get it or you won’t, but if you do, it’s kinda’ infectious.
Anyway, those fine folk at Modular, in celebration for the release, are giving away this unused track from the album sessions. ‘Everything Is Gonna’ Be Alright’ would have fitted perfectly on the album, it’s a tribal escape from reality (with pan-flutes!).
♫ ceo – Everything Is Gonna’ Be Alright
‘White Magic’ is out now.
OK, I have no idea what the deal with the previous video clip for Monarchy’s forthcoming ‘Love Get Out Of My Way’ single was. It looks like the video was taken down and has now been replaced with this new video that premiered this weekend.
It’s all good though, I actually prefer the new video. I’m a sucker for a bit of poppin’ and lockin’ and the visuals are really striking. It’s also got a little bit of 80’s in there too, like if the characters from New Order’s ‘True Faith’ video all started doing the robot with lasers.
Oh, and the song is still badass!
‘Love Get Out Of My Way’ drops 26th July with reMixes from Holy Ghost!, Sinden, and Treasure Fingers amongst others.
