Look! Mereki’s Blue Lake has got a video! You know we love the single’s breezy, LA Disco, Dreamwave, ElectroPop vibes. But do we love the video?
Yes we do! Directed by Ariane Stewart & Mereki Beach slices up a bunch of cute vintage home video with a ton of Mereki doing her thing.
Mereki’s début EP is due out soon.
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OK, stop what you;re dong and listen to this right now, ‘cos it’s bloody brilliant. Glaswegian ElectroPop apparitions Chvrches’ début track, Lies, is re-released with a full reMix package next month. We already posted the not-bad Tourist reMix, which, frankly, pales in comparison from this huge slice of Boogie coming from sometime experimentalist and obvious retro sounds lover Ikonika.
Ikonika delivers her very finest 80s synths and stabs on this one. Frantic B-boy beats and a pulsating synth bass keep the energy levels so far up, choppy samples of the vocals and massive 80s chord hits just adding to the nostalgic dance party that is this reMix. The song itself is left, wisely, intact, but give a whole new twist with hints of electronic Soul retro Pop. There even a lush string section to instil little emotional connection, on and a phone ringing off the hook, which kinda’ works, lyrically. Anyway, it’s, frankly, amazing, and a definite contender for reMix of the year.
♫ Chvrches – Lies (Ikonika reMix)
Chvrches re-release Lies on 2nd December, their début full length record, The Bones Of What You Believe, is out now.
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Reflex – Mixtape #20 = French ElectroPoppers Reflex’s latest half hour is crammed to the gills with some of the best ElectroPop and Nu-Disco around right now, including some box fresh cuts, all in celebration of the duo off to Asia on tour, dates here.
♫ Reflex – Mixtape #20 ‘Special Asia Tour’
The tracklist :
01. The Swiss – Kiss To Kiss (Pyramid reMix)
02. Mayer Hawthorne – Wine Glass Woman (Aeroplane reMix)
03. Zimmer – Galapagos
04. Convaire – Talk In Technicolor (Dino Soccio reMix)
05. Roosevelt – Montreal
06. Reflex – Together (Oxford reMix)
07. Edwin Van Cleef – Two As One
08. Justin Faust – Elevator
09. Punks Jump Up – Fairlight (Club Mix)
10. Chela – Romanticise (Gold Fields reMix)
11. Sinema (Kiko) – In My Eyes
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Brooklyn resident, Keljet collaborator and one half of Ayer, Avan Lava’s new single, So F*kt Up, is released next month. A noisy, bass heavy, synth twisting, future R&B crooner.
Here’s the official video, directed Cody Critcheloe, a delirious party chronicle.
Avan Lava’s So F*kt Up is released 3rd December.
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Some neat analog Disco for you right now in the form of the forthcoming new single from Belgian duo Villa. Released later this month with reMixes from the likes of MiGHty mOUse, The Shoes and Borussia, If I, is the follow up to their single Mint of earlier this year and nicely coincides with the release of their reMix of Röyksopp & Susanne Sundfør’s Running To The Sea.
If typical recent Villa fashion, If I displays an undulating waling bassline and some raw sounding drums. The sparse track slowly builds itself along it’s three and a half minute length, each section of the song adding a new synth line of Disco lick, until the track is a vintage synth workout and you can;t help but like. The slightly cautious vocal does it’s job, but never matches the infectious Disco insanity of the music, still it serves as a nice compliment to the track though.
♫ Villa – If I
Villa’s If I is released 26th November.
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In Our Blood is the latest single from UK ElectroPop giants Fenech-Soler, taken from their amazing second album, Rituals.
The video was put together by Luke Bellis from a whole ton of live footage and tour video diaries.
Fenech-Soler’s In Our Blood is released 25th November.
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Dutch-based ElectroPop trio Say Yes Dog appear to be on a mission to get well and truly stuck in our heads. Permanently. Their post-Hot Chip Quirk-Pop is instantly likable and can be found on their recently released début EP, A Friend, from which we have two track right here. At times the tend to veer a little to far into the Chip’s established territory, in almost a homage style, but mostly it’s gets away with it due to an abundance of fun.
The EP’s title track, A Friend, gets particularly Chippy toward the end, but matins it’s own identity with it’s plinky-plonky snyths and delicious dancefloor beats. It’s mixture of melancholic croon and chirpy melodies actually working really well. Light, and funky, and ultimately feel-good, A Friend’s brand of SynthPop is just hard not to like. Around My Neck is similar in vein, albeit slightly more introspective. Electric piano led, Around My Neck warms things up with some buzzing synths and excitable rhythms, which seems to temper the suspiciously gloomy subject matter. We expect Say Yes Dog will be one of those bands that generates a lot of hype in the coming months, they’ve just got that vibe about them.
♫ Say Yes Dog – Around My Neck
Say Yes Dog’s A Friend EP is out now.
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Mexico’s Bronx has been making quite the name for himself this year with a string of top reMixes and releases on Nurvous he’s rapidly rising up the Disco and House league tables, and has definitely become a name to keep your eye on. His latest special delivery comes in the form of this reMix of Chicago House master Rogue Vogue’s Until The Dawn, featuring the vocal stylings of Mr. Patrick Baker.
The original is pretty epically Housed-out, and this reMix follows suite but removes the tune from it;s Chicago roots and makes things a little deeper, but still with a 90s flavour. Whereas the original is loaded with big beats, razor sharp production and a Pop House sheen, this reMix is a bit grittier and more suited to darkened warehouses. That is until the track is two thirds of the way though, then it wall goes bright and shiny with a crazy piano hook that keeps you reeled in right until the track’s end.
♫ Rogue Vogue (Feat. Patrick Baker) – Until The Dawn (Bronx reMix)
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Sweedish Disco duo Tiedye. Terrible band name. Excellent reMixers. Just take their latest work, the B-side to Better In The Dark, forthcoming single from Say Lou Lou, Beloved. As with most Say Lou Lou singles, Beloved is epic DreamPop at it’s finest. All floaty and hard to focus on but doing just the right things at just the right times, Tiedye, take that vibe and drag it onto the dancefloor of a boogie.
This reMixes swirling synths actually give it a Dreamwave air, the bright arpeggios instilling it with a sense of nostalgia. Which, of course, plays right into the sisters dreamy vocals. Tiedye mange to get all euphoric without going too far down the cheese route, which is tricky business that they have pulled-off quite nicely. Also, there’s a really nice snare in this track. Listen out.
♫ Say Lou Lou – Beloved (Tiedye reMix)
Say Lou Lou’s Better In The Dark is released 25th November.
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Eh-up, here’s the new one from Australian Indie-Disco aviators Flight Facilities. Flight Facilities are whatever the opposite of prolific is, and we always tend to forget about them when they haven’t just released something, but the scarceness means a new single from these guys is always something to be savoured. So let’s savour away.
Stand Still features Parisian-based-Australian singer Micky Green, and those of you expecting some dude named Michael will be disappointed, Micky is a lady, and a lady you may remember from her single In Between from earlier this year. Trudging ever deeper into the waters of cue Electro-Indie, Flight Facilities deliver an astoundingly infectious slice of vintage synthed IndiePop right here. Nary a Disco lick in sight. Green sound pitch perfect, with her sweet, introverted vocals meshing with the tracks sparse keys and rumbling, bouncy bassline. There’s a whistling hook to, ‘cos we’re only bugging.
♫ Flight Facilities (Feat. Micky Green) – Stand Still
Flight Facilities Stand Still is released 25th November with the full reMix EP coming 9th December with work from Com Truise, Wave Racer and Mario Basanov.
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