Dec 23 2009

electronic rumors wishes you a happy X-Mas

‘Tis the season!

This’ll probably be the last post on electronic rumors before the new year, between now and then we’ll be working hard on our ‘best of 2009’ post.

We’d like to take this opportunity to thank all our readers, especially those who stuck with us during our down time, to thank all those of you who email us to let us know what you like and don’t like, to thank all our regulars for helping to make us one of the biggest ElectroPop/Electro-House/Indie-Electro/SynthPop oriented blogs on the internet today and especially to thank all the bands without who we wouldn’t have anything to obsess over!

We hope you all have the greatest X-Mas ever!

As a gift to you we’ve put together 20 of the best electronic X-Mas songs, there’s some stuff we had to leave out but these are some of our favs.

So enjoy the music, eat, drink and be merry and we’ll see you in a week or so.

Happy X-Mas!

♫ Venus Hum – Let It Snow (zShare) (MediaFire)

♫ Nullsleep – Silent Night (zShare) (MediaFire)

♫ Somegirl – Santa Baby (zShare) (MediaFire)

♫ Tiger Baby – This Christmas (Single Version) (zShare) (MediaFire)

♫ James Yuill – Winter Wonderland (zShare) (MediaFire)

♫ Godlike – Happy Christmas (War Is Over) (zShare) (MediaFire)

♫ Owl City – The Christmas Song (zShare) (MediaFire)

♫ Kurtis Blow – Christmas Rappin’ (zShare) (MediaFire)

♫ Basswood Dollies – Last Christmas (zShare) (MediaFire)

♫ The Bird And The Bee – 12 Days Of Christmas (zShare) (MediaFire)

♫ Casiotone For The Painfully Alone – Cold White Christmas (zShare) (MediaFire)

♫ The Echoing Green – Do They Know It’s Christmas? (zShare) (MediaFire)

♫ James Pants – This Christmas Girl (zShare) (MediaFire)

♫ Lady GaGa (Feat. Space Cow) – Christmas Tree (zShare) (MediaFire)

♫ Max Headroom – Merry Christmas Santa Claus (You’re A Lovely Guy) (zShare) (MediaFire)

♫ of Montreal – Christmas Isn’t Safe For Animals (zShare) (MediaFire)

♫ Pet Shop Boys – It Doesn’t Often Snow At Christmas (zShare) (MediaFire)

♫ Pristina (Feat. Alicia Luma) – Last Christmas (zShare) (MediaFire)

♫ Sally Shapiro – Anorak Christmas (Anoraak’s Christmas reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)

♫ Venus Hum – The Christmas Song (zShare) (MediaFire)

And after all that, some videos. First up Run DMC bustin’ out with ‘Christmas In Hollis’:

Here’s an X-Mas message from Depeche Mode’s Martin L. Gore:

And a couple of X-Mas funtimes covers from Little Boots:

Right, that’s your lot! I’m off to watch Gremlins followed by Die Hard! It is X-Mas after all!I hope you all have a fantastic X-Mas and keep checking electronic rumors for our round up of 2009!

Peace!

Crash
electronic rumors
December 2009

Dec 23 2009

New New Young Pony Club!!!

New Young Pony Club, the band that spearheaded the 80’s revival/Modular Recordings/Indie-Electro summer of 2007 in the UK finally return with a new single.

‘Lost A Girl’ is a taste of what to expect from their long awaited second album ‘The Optimist’. More obviously Indie than their previous sound but still laden with interesting synth work, it’s a catchy song that takes a little 80’s SynthPop, a little DFA style Electro and a little early 90’s Indie. Welcome back NYPC!

Check it out:

♫ New Young Pony Club – Lost A Girl (Radio Edit) (zShare) (MediaFire)

The single can be downloaded from their official website.

New Young Pony Club @ Beatport

New Young Pony Club @ 7Digital

New Young Pony Club @ Amazon

Dec 23 2009

Miike Snow’s Silvia video

Eclectic Indie-Electro outfit Miike Snow have just dropped the video for their upcoming single ‘Silvia’.

The single is released January 25th and taken from their self-titled album.

You can pick up the album and single here:

Miike Snow @ Beatport

Miike Snow @ 7Digital

Miike Snow @ Amazon

Dec 23 2009

Popular Damage reMixed by Fukkk Offf

Popular Damage is a Manchester/Berlin collaboration by Nadine Raihani and Stephan Hengst that produces some particularly fine Indie-Punk-Dance-Pop.

Having gigged extensively in 2009, December became the time to drop their first EP ,‘The Royal Fly’ which features reMixing appearances by the likes of Double Dragon, Beatshaker & Blender and this one by Fukkk Offf who bring a deep electro Vs. old school house feel to the EP’s title track ‘Everybody Got Young’

‘The Royal Fly’ EP is out now.

Popular Damage @ Beatport

Dec 23 2009

Feathers

Another new mystery band on the block?

So, yeah, not much to say about who Feathers are so let’s let the music speak for them. This US duo produce some dreamy SynthPop with Indie overtones. ‘Weird Summer’ is a chilled, floaty tune perfect for coming home to after a club on a summer’s morning…pity it’s December! ‘Small Rooms’ kick’s slightly harder with more of an eye on the dancefloor with some nice cheap synth riffs.

♫ Feathers – Weird Summer (zShare) (MediaFire)

♫ Feathers – Small Rooms (zShare) (MediaFire)

Feathers just could be a band to watch out for in 2010!

Go give Feathers some MySpace love.

Feathers @ MySpace

[Via DiscoDust]

Dec 16 2009

Silver Columns

Silver Columns are one of those mystery bands, everyone will speculate it’s someone we’ve all heard of, but it probably won’t be! They’re French (maybe?) and their first single was reMixed by Hot Chip’s Joe Goddard, that’s about all we know.

Anyway, the music is what should be doing the talking and Silver Columns make some sweet ElectroPop, almost as enigmatic and mysterious sounding as the band’s persona. Their second single ‘Yes, And Dance’ was released this month and featured reMixes from Silver Columns themselves and Weirdo Police.

Check out the reMixes below, Silver Columns are defiantly a name to keep an eye on if your a fan of electronic dancey Pop

♫ Silver Columns – Yes, And Dance (Silver Columns reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)

♫ Silver Columns – Yes, And Dance (Weirdo Police Refix) (zShare) (MediaFire)

You can buy the ‘Yes, And Dance’ single now at Boomkat.

Silver Columns @ Beatport

Silver Columns @ Juno

Silver Columns @ Amazon

Dec 15 2009

Nitzer Ebb return with new album

Electronic pioneers Nitzer Ebb have just dropped their first new, proper, studio album in 14 years! ‘Industrial Complex (Tour Edition)’ is a record that harks back to the earlier, harsher, Nitzer Ebb of the early to mid 80’s rather than the ElectroPop of ‘Showtime’ and ‘Ebbhead’ or the Electro-Rock of ‘Big Hit’. One thing’s for sure though, it put all the clones and wannabes ‘producing’ Ebb influenced EBM these days to so much shame they may as well just give up.

OK, so one or two tracks come across a little Nitzer-Ebb-by-numbers, but there are some gems in there to.

Once You Say (featuring Depeche Mode’s Martin Gore) is a heavy Electro Industrial stomper sweetened by Douglas’ trademark gritty vocals. ‘Hit You Back’ is more like something off ‘Showtime’ which is more of what I, personally, consider to be ‘classic Ebb’.

♫ Nitzer Ebb (Feat. Martin L. Gore) – Once You Say (zShare) (MediaFire)

♫ Nitzer Ebb – Hit You Back (zShare) (MediaFire)

‘Industrial Complex (Tour Edition)’ is out now,

Nitzer Ebb @ Beatport

Nitzer Ebb @ Juno

Nitzer Ebb @ 7Digital

Nitzer Ebb @ Amazon

Dec 15 2009

Kiss In Cities reMix Performance, well, themselves

OK, so they may be reMixing their own band but Kiss In Cities, the amazing Manchester ElectroPop act, we told you about here, who are comprised of two thirds of Indie-Dance outfit Performance (Née (We Are) Performance ;)), have reworked said parent band’s most popular track to date. ‘Reptile’.

The original song is cool but this reMix is just pretty mind blowing, almost perfect electronic pop, this will absolutely slay on any ElectroPop dancefloor!

♫ Performance – Reptile (Kiss In Cities reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)

The ‘Reptile’ Single is available for free here.

Performance @ 7Digital

Performance @ Amazon

Dec 4 2009

Van She don’t fear the reaper

Ever since we got our hands on that radio rip of Van She covering Blue Öyster Cult’s ‘(Don’t Fear) The Reaper’, we have been waiting impatiently for it to drop. The Bacardi B-LIVE folks have been telling us they were releasing it soon soon, but it never seemed to come soon enough!

Well, it’s finally here and, to be honest, it was worth the wait. Those huge Van She bass and lead synths are back! This is easily the best version of this song I’ve heard, Van She’s Indie-Space-Disco is prefect for it!

♫ Van She – (Don’t Fear) The Reaper (A B-LIVE Original) (zShare) (MediaFire)

Word on the street has it that there is a Holy Ghost! reMix on it’s way!

Dec 4 2009

Chromeo; ‘Night By Night’ video

Chromeo have just dropped the video for ‘Night By Night’, the track the released on Mountain Dew’s music project in September, directed by Jeremie Rozan the clip features Dave1 getting his Saturday Night Fever on!