Here’s the video for Little Boots’ current track, ‘Every Night I Say A Prayer’ and in keeping with the ‘90’s House influence on the track, the video rocks the ‘90’s hard.
Zaiba Jabbar directs this clip which makes stark use of contrasting black and whites for a simple but striking visual style.
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Producer extraordinaire Russ Chimes’ new track débuted on Pete Tong’s show last week, and we completely missed it! If you’re a long time reader of the site you’ll know how much we dig Mr. Chimes’ work, to the point where he has won numerous end of year awards. We have been awaiting eagerly his new single. So, yeah, here it is.
And it doesn’t disappoint. ‘Back 2 You’ sums up what we love about Russ’ music. He never sticks with the same sound, having made his name with big Disco tracks before branching out into more Rave oriented tunes and now gearing up for the release of this Disco tinged House track, but always carries his complex production and rich musicality into whatever he does. ‘Back 2 You’ rides on a hammering bassline, punching it’s way through the mix and providing a dancefloor trance for a whole host of elements to play over. Vocal snatches, big synth stabs, crazy percussion, even a bit of 8-bit madness are all in the mix and Russ juggles every peice of the puzzle with ease. This is how you make dance music.
♫ Russ Chimes – Back 2 You (Radio Rip)
‘Back 2 You’ is released in May.
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B-Xentric! – The Jockey Club Five = An hour and a half of upfront Disco and Funky House is on the cards with B-Xentrix!’s latest monthly mix. That’s right, and hour and a half, none of this mucking around with forty minutes here!
♫ B-Xentric! – The Jockey Club Five
The tracklist:
01. Ledgroove – Being ‘90’s Thru The ‘80’s
02. Walter Jones – I Am Loved
03. Elium Robots – Bring Drinking (Tuff City Kids reMix)
04. Bruce Haack – Program Me (Eskimo Twins Rework)
05. Rotciv (Feat. Zopelar) – Solution
06. Lauer – Trainmann (Tensnake Tranceman Mix)
07. Eleanor Academia – Adventure (Bub Mix)
08. Jibaro – Disco Passion (Instrumental Mix)
09. New York Disco Punk – Lonely On The Dance Floor (Deep Disco Edit)
10. Joachim J – Persepolis
11. Stranger & Captain Delicious – Punkfloydmovement
12. Serge Santiago – Atto D’Amore (Dub Version)
13. Sgt. Lovebody – Crystal Skies
14. Christian S – The Power Of Now
15. Atomico – Mambo Tranferencia
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The Magician – Magic Tape Twenty-Two = ‘Magic Tape’ time of the month comes around so fast! What have we got in here then. Some nice Tropical Disco, some nice ‘90’s vibe. Is that the new Yuksek reMix I hear? Chris Malinchak? Some TEED? Let the guessing games begin.
♫ The Magician – Magic Tape Twenty-Two
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Sam Sparro, the man with the croonyest voice in electronic Pop music is back with the second, and lead-in, single taken from his forthcoming ‘Return To Paradise’. It’s more classic Pop, less Disco, than the previous single ‘Happiness’. Actually more like the Sam Sparro of old, but slightly more musically mature.
The single comes complete with an eclectic reMix package, the reaction to which I have found interesting and a little bewildering. The music blog world is awash with the Azari & III reMix, which has the typically deep, stripped down Chicago House vibe you’d expect from them. It’s actually a really cool track with a sweet hypnotic pulse, but it’s not the best reMix on the single. A fewer number of blogs have picked up on the Stereogamous mix, with it’s robo Disco groove that highlights the emotion of the vocals, also an very nice track, but not the best reMix on the single either. The standout reMix comes from Devil’s Gun, and that’s a massive surprise. When I think of Devil’s Gun I usually think of something dark and gritty. Even on their collaboration with future Pop starlet Queen Of Hearts they kept things grinding and doom laden, but with their reMix of ‘I Wish I Never Met You’ they go positively Dreamwave. It got a huge Disco sound with layers and layers of chunky synths that give it a touch of that grit, alongside a solid retro Disco flavour. It’s big and funky and fun and I have no idea why it’s been largely overlooked by the music blog world. I suppose Devil’s Gun don’t drive the same kind of traffic as Azari & III though, not yet anyway…
♫ Sam Sparro – I Wish I Never Met You (Devil’s Gun reMix)
♫ Sam Sparro – I Wish I Never Met You (Azari & III reMix)
♫ Sam Sparro – I Wish I Never Met You (Stereogamous reMix)
‘I Wish I Never Met You’ is taken from Sam Sparro’s forthcoming new album, ‘Return To Paradise’, out 27th May.
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Nashville Indie-Electro band Future Unlimited’s ‘Golden’ was the highlight of their recent EP, a lush sing-a-long ElectroPop epic full of rousing chords and heartfelt vocals. Well the best on the EP just got a little bit better with a reMix from southern Californian ElectroPop four piece The New Division.
the New Division bring a little more groove and a little more synth goodness to their reMix. ‘Golden’ was pretty anthemic to begin with, but The New Division take it to uplifting new places, places where it’s constantly sunrise. Giving the track a bit of a House makeover and adding some truly euphoric synths give the track some goosebump inducing moments. Dipping and rising from gritty basslines, softly sung verses to massive Poptastic choruses, this reMix has got hooks, both vocally and melodically, in all the right places.
♫ Future Unlimited – Golden (The New Division reMix)
♫ Future Unlimited – Golden
Download Future Unlimited’s EP for free here.
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Mjolnir are back! It’s been a while since we heard from this Indonesian trio of Nu-Disco gurus, but their latest reMix for, Brazilian artist Strausz, sows they have only spent their time getting better and better.
The original version of the track is, well, a bit weird. Big synths and various peices of ethnic instrumentation from various cultures in a mix mixing pot. But that’s why we have slick Disco remixes, right? And Mjolnir deliver 100%, with a bouncy bassline and Tropical chimes to set the scene and lush synths and a smooth ‘90’s House piano line to get the party going. This track is Tropical in the truest sense of the word, exotic percussion and floaty eastern melodies capture the imagination and transport you to a more equatorial climate. Pure beach-party good times, with a nice not to the legacy of Chicago House music in there too.
♫ Strausz – Garoto Nacional (Mjolnir Dub Mix)
You can pick up Strausz’s whole ‘Garoto Nacional’ EP for free from here.
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Cosmonauts – April Top Ten = London’s most cosmic Disco double act, Cosmonauts, drop their favorite tracks of the month. Expect an hour of retro space-age grooves, deep synth Funk and the smoothest of House track. This mix has been workin’ our weekend!
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Lopez, or LPZ as they like to be known, are a Paraguayan trio continuing in that fine tradition of not being able to think of a band name so just dropping the vowels out of something. A tradition I think most people think it’s time to abandon. Name aside, they are releasing am EP on relatively new London House label Body Work next month and the title track is pretty damn special.
The other two tracks on the ‘1983’ EP are OK, ‘Snake & Butterfish’ is a hypnotically groovy, if a little uninspired, dark tribal Acid tune and ‘Mafia (Dub)’ is a nice dub flavoured Deep House track that unfortunately never seems to go anywhere. But ‘1983’ itself, is stratospherically above the rest of the EP, and worth the price of the EP alone. Mixing up a late night House vibe with B-Boy Electro sensibilities crates an intoxicating slice of dancefloor gold to loose yourself in but that keeps a poppin’ & lockin’ flavour. This should seriously be a staple of any DJs record box, drop just when the crowd is suitably warmed up and sit back and enjoy. Watch that low funky bassline and Sci-Fi synths do their work. “Funky Fresh for 1983”? Funky fresh for right now, I’d say.
♫ LPZ – 1983
LPZ’s ‘1983’ EP is out 14th May on Body Work.
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While new Little Boots reMixes are always welcome round these parts, nothing compares to the perfect Pop of the music of Ms. Hasketh herself. So though we’ve had to spend the last couple of weeks content with the robotic, pulsating, Tensnake reMix it was in anticipation of Saturday, Record Store Day 2012, when the original version finally dropped.
And it was worth the wait, alongside ‘Shake’ it’s proof enough the in her years gallivanting around the world Victoria lost none of her ElectroPop flair. ‘Every Night I Say A Prayer’, maybe even moreso than ‘Shake’, it the kind of big, swooping, catchy Pop we’d expect from Little Boots. Produced with Hercules & Love Affair’s Andy Butler the track opens it’s arms to a deep ‘90’s House bassline and bright piano hook, but never loses itself in either the ‘90’s nostalgia or the House, instead making both elements work for the track, rather than the other way around. in 2008 Little Boots was the future of ElectroPop, in 2011 she’s come back to kick everyone’s ass and show the world how forward thinking electronic Pop music should be done. Not sitting on her laurels, constantly thinking ahead.
♫ Little Boots – Every Night I Say A Prayer
The 12″ holds reMixes from Tensnake and Joe Smooth whilst the North American edition includes additional work from Nic Sarno, My Panda Shall Fly & D-man. Boots will be playing playing May 4th at XOYO with support from Ronika. Yes, we will be there.
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