May 16 2010

Robyn reMixes

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Scandinavian ElectroPop whirlwind Robyn’s forthcoming single ‘Dancing On My Own’, for her new album ‘Body Talk Pt. 1’ is shaping up to have an awesome reMix package supporting it.

Things in the Rex The Dog camp have been pretty quiet recently but he’s powering back with this amazing reMix, the trademark Rex The Dog style bassline really kicks the track up a notch, it’s really Poppy for RtD but may have place Roby (like last year) in our top 20 of 2010 already! Chew-Fu don’t do a bad job themselves, turning in a euphoric, hands-in-the-air slice of Electro-House with a really 80’s movie feel.

♫ Robyn – Dancing On My Own (Rex The Dog reMix) (zShare) (Sharebee)

♫ Robyn – Dancing On My Own (Chew-Fu reMix) (zShare) (Sharebee)

Head on over to Robyn’s SoundCloud to hear the Fred Falke reMix. ‘Dancing On My Own is out soon.

Robyn @ Beatport

Robyn @ 7Digital

Robyn @ Amazon

May 15 2010

Friends Electric

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Friends Electric are no strangers to electronic rumors, we’ve featured a few of their awesome reMixes for the likes of Penguin Prison Bright Light Bright Light and Ellie Goulding (their reMix of ‘Under The Sheets’ made our top 20 songs of 2009) so about time some original material was posted.

The Welsh Indie-Electro/ElectroPop crew have already supported Frankmusik (who they share management with) on tour and scored some big name reMixes and are gearing up for the release of their début single ‘Wall Of Arms’ in July.

The track is a solid slice of Indie tinged electronic Pop, with stylistic nods to the Neon Gold stable (and associated acts), that shows the massive potential FE have for some really good epic, anthemic ElectroPop.

♫ Friends Electric – Wall Of Arms (zShare) (MediaFire)

‘Wall Of Arms’ drops 14th July.

Friends Electric @ Beatport

Friends Electric @ Juno

Friends Electric @ 7Digital

Friends Electric @ Amazon

May 12 2010

LUFRKKK

What the fuck is this now? I haven’t got much to say about Brazilian LUFRKKK, as I don’t know much. I recognize the name for some reMixes but the email I received was pretty cryptic.

As is the track, it’s an awesome melting pot of genres. Give it a listen, once you get used to it, rapping over Dreamwave style Nu-Disco is actually pretty cool. Hearing the big 80’s synths with an MC and some AutoTuned vocals takes some getting used to, but you end up thinking “if this is the direction Hip-Hop is going in, I can dig” especially when there are vocoders to ease you in. And then…once you are comfortable, once you have got used to the Hip-Hop/Dreamwave/Pop R&B/Nu-Disco/Electro-House mash-up…it gets all Drum & Bass on your ass!

Take that genres!

♫ LUFRKKK (Feat. Drake) – Fucking Losers (zShare) (MediaFire)

The lease LUFRKK deserves is your MySpace love!

LUFRKKK @ MySpace

May 12 2010

Au Revoir Simone’s new reMix album

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New York based Indie-Electro darlings Au Revoir Simone are following up their acclaimed third album of last summer’, ‘Still Night, Still Light’, with an album of reMixes this June.

Titled ‘Night Light’ the release will feature reMixes from such names as Silver Columns, Aeroplane, Clock Opera, Jens Lekman, Neon Indian,Bass Clef, and Deradoorian (Angel Deradoorian from The Dirty Projectors), just to name a few!.

Silver Columns take on ‘We Are Here’ with a deep, slightly glitchy, Electro vibe, adding some new vocals and heavy percussion while the Aeroplane reMix (which first dropped late last year) of ‘Another Likely Story’ is a straight up Indie-Dance party jam!

♫ Au Revoir Simone – We Are Here (Silver Columns reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)

♫ Au Revoir Simone – Another Likely Story (Aeroplane reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)

‘Night Light’ is released 5th July through Moshi Moshi.

Au Revoir Simone @ Beatport

Au Revoir Simone @ Juno

Au Revoir Simone @ 7Digital

Au Revoir Simone @ Amazon

May 11 2010

I Am Noxious’s video for ‘This Is A Ballad’

After a slight battle with the technicalities of YouTube, which he documented on his Twitter feed, London’s BedroomPop rising star I Am Noxious has dropped this self-made video for his track ‘This Is A Ballad’.

Atmospheric in it’s simplicity it just goes to show that with enough vision you don’t need a budget to create something visually interesting and fitting to the music.

Other unsigned bands should take note! And everyone else should check I Am Noxious’s MySpace.

I Am Noxious @ MySpace

May 11 2010

Indiscreet wants to vanish from here…

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French Electro artist Indiscreet has delivered something pretty special in his new EP, ‘The I’, not only does it contain four tracks of Ed Banger-esq noisy ElectroPop but also a narrative with accompanying online comic. Yes, I’m talking about a concept work here, which in the realms of Electronic Music tends to be a hell of a lot more interesting than Prog Rock concept albums of old.

Telling the time fractured story in which the protagonist lives through a self-fulfilling prophesy of the creation of a fascist future, governed by a giant eye (The ‘I’ of the title), the story is told in reverse through the tracks on the EP and in graphic form on Indiscreet’s MySpace.

So, the music? Aggressive ElectroPop with heavy distorted synths, hard Electro-House beats and angst fuelled vocals, create a more lyrical take on the Ed Banger sound. Unmistakable French, Indiscreet seem to be writing Hard Rock songs with electronic equipment and the merging of the Rock formula with banging noisy house akin to the likes of Justice and MSTRKRFT works in such a powerful way, like a controlled chaos.

I can only imagine that an Indiscreet show is a pretty awesome live.

♫ Indiscreet – Vanish Part II (zShare) (MediaFire)

♫ Indiscreet (Feat. Kid A)- Reveries Past (zShare) (MediaFire)

Indiscreet’ ‘The I’ EP has just been released and there is a unique conceptual launch party taking place at I-Way in Lyon, France on 29nd May.

Indiscreet @ Beatport

Indiscreet @ Juno

Indiscreet @ Amazon

May 11 2010

Win a limited edition Topman CTRL T-Shirt Designed by We Have Band!!!

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After a good few months of letting some of the best bands in the UK choose playlists for their website and the line ups for special one-off shows, Topman CTRL is going on the road! The Topman CTRL Student Tour hits five major cities across the UK to serve up some top live acts including We Have Band, Silver Columns, The Big Pink, Yeasayer, The Futureheads, Archie Bronson Outfit and Everything Everything. Not only that, but they are also joined by Channel4, who will be filming the events for a brand new series and letting five C4 presenters, Nick Grimshaw, Miquita Oliver, Rick Edwards, Matt Edmondson and Alex Zane, curate their own individual nights.

In recognition of five nights of awesome live music, electronic rumors is giving away five (yes! five!) incredibly limited edition T-Shirts designed by one of our favourite UK live acts, We Have Band!!! WHB also happen to be appearing at the Newcastle leg of the tour.

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The Topman CTRL Student Tour runs 15th-20th may, check out these line ups!

Newcastle – 15^th May – The Futureheads and We Have Band (Matt Edmondson)
Leeds – 16^th May – Archie Bronson Outfit and Everything Everything (Alex Zane)
Exeter – 18^th May – Miike Snow and Kassidy (Miquita Oliver)
London – 19^th May – Yeasayer and Silver Columns (Nick Grimshaw)
Nottingham – 20^th May – The Big Pink and Darwin Deez (Rick Edwards)

For more information and ticket details visit www.topmanctrl.com.

So, to grab yourself one of these limited edition T-shirts you need to follow us(electronicrumor) on Twitter, then copy, paste and tweet the following:

Hey @electronicrumor, I wanna win a limited edition T-Shirt designed by @wehavebandtwitt in time to see them on the @topmanctrl Student Tour

East as pie!

Speaking of pie, all the entrants will be put in my porkpie hat and five will be drawn at random to each receive a T-Shirt. Winners will be contacted by Twitter DM.

We’ll keep the competition running ’til Friday 28th May, so you’ve got just over two weeks to get up in it!

We Have Band’s début album ‘WHB’ is out now!

We Have Band @ Beatport

We Have Band @ Amazon

May 10 2010

The Good Natured’s ‘Your Body Is A Machine’ video

Still not sure if we can mention what record label will be re-releasing The Good Natured’s ‘Your Body Is A Machine’, but rest assured the label is alarmingly hip!

We’re really looking forward to the release though, it’s a song that has grown on us more and more over the past year or so and some of the reMixes are amazing.

Finally there is a proper video for the track, feast your eyes:

‘Your Body Is A Machine’ is released 21st June on the aforementioned (or not) alarmingly hip record label.

The Good Natured @ Beatport

The Good Natured @ Amazon

May 10 2010

Arthur Baker turns his HURTS reMix up to 11!

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He practically invented Electro Hip-Hop, synthed up New Order and was an influence on almost all forms of Electronic music, and most recently production legend Arthur Baker provided the wonderful dancefloor reMix of current SynthPop bright hopes HURTS’ début track, ‘Wonderful Life’.

Not content with that Baker has taken the core loop of his reMix and expanded it into a full on Electro banger! With only the barest hint of vocals, if ‘Wonderful Life’ was HURTS politely asking you to appreciate stuff, then this time they’re back with AB to convince you with baseball bats! That main riff is a killer!

♫ AB/HURTS (Arthur Baker) – Onederful (Planet Rocka Dub) (zShare) (MediaFire)

Arthur Baker’s reMix on ‘Wonderful Life’ features on HURT’s ‘Wonderful Life’ EP, you could also do a lot worse than checking out his extensive back catalogue.

Arthur Baker @ Beatport

Arthur Baker @ Juno

Arthur Baker @ 7Digital

Arthur Baker @ Amazon

May 8 2010

Owl City gets the magic touch of Grum

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I remember a few weeks ago Grum saying on Twitter that he was reMixing Owl City, I thought he was joking…apparently not!

Unlike I lot of people, I actually don’t hate Owl City, they remind me of a Poppier The Postal Service, and I did like The Postal Service (and I like Pop!). So I’m OK with OC going in but damn does Grum work some serious magic here. In a way he’s taken Owl City, and made it Monarchy, and that’s an ace thing to do! The mixture of Adam Young’s introspective, borderline Emo, SynthPop and Grum’s Disco infused Dreamwave creates this genius dancefloor ElectroPop gold!

♫ Owl City – Umbrella Beach (Grum reMix) (Sharebee) (MediaFire)

‘Umbrella Beach’, the second single from the ‘Ocean Eyes’ album , is out soon.

Owl City @ Juno

Owl City @ 7Digital

Owl City @ Amazon