Sep 2 2010

Anoraak Vs. Neon Indian: Chillwave Vs. Dreamwave

Neon Indian is re-releasing his critically acclaimed album of last year ‘Psychic Chasms’ as a deluxe edition complete with reMix CD.

The disk features work from the likes of Yacht, Dntel and this reMix of the title track from Valerie staple and all round retro synth genius Anoraak. It’s an interesting study on two different approaches to SynthPop, the original’s dreamy Lo-Fi psychedelia against Anoraak’s 80’s looking, Nu-Disco flavoured, chilled ElectroPop.

Chillwave Vs. Dreamwave! Fight!

♫ Neon Indian – Psychic Chasms (Anoraak reMix)

♫ Neon Indian – Psychic Chasms

The deluxe edition, titled ‘Mind Ctrl: Psychic Chasms Possessed’ is out September 28th.

Neon Indian @ Beatport

Neon Indian @ Juno

Neon Indian @ 7Digital

Neon Indian @ Amazon

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Aug 29 2010

A taste of the new Freezepop album

There’s a new Freezepop album on the way! This is a very good thing!

After months of quiet the (now) foursome have announced that their new record, titled ‘Imaginary Friends’, will be released in November. If you’ve never been exposed to Freezepop you’re missing out, their unique brand of introspective, fun, Indie-ElectroPop had been a staple of most Electro fans collections for years now and their quirky one-on-one synthesizer sound pre-dates the current crop of BedroomPop stars and must have been a big influence on much of that scene.

‘Magnetic’, the first track to appear from the forthcoming album is pure Freezepop. DIY sounding SynthPop and tales of Liz Enthusiasm’s life. It’s good to have them back!

♫ Freezepop – Magnetic

That there is just a 128kbps taster, you can download the high quality 320kbps mp3 in exchange for your email addy over at Freezepop’s official website, a bargain if ever I saw one!

‘Imaginary Friends’ is due to drop 9th November.

Aug 28 2010

The XX Vs. Tiga

The XX’s ‘Shelter’ has been pretty reMixed to death, but I suppose there is always room for one more when it comes from the likes of Tiga.

The man gets deep and dark on this track. It’s almost a Dubstep track. 50% Dubby, 50% atmospheric soundtrack, 100% enveloping.

♫ The XX – Shelter (Tiga reMix)

The XX’s self titled album and the ‘Shelter’ single are both out now.

Aug 28 2010

CHEW LiPS reMix The Brute Chorus

East London’s The Brute Chorus have got their bestest mates and electronic rumors faves CHEW LiPS to favour them with a reMix of their new single ‘Heaven’.

It a cool reMix, it’s got CHEW LiPS trademark blippy synth sound but also this really nice shuffling beat that is unexpected, but welcome, with the music. I’d actually like to hear more of vocalist James Steel working in electronic music as his voice and the synths makes for an interesting and unique combination.

♫ The Brute Chorus – Heaven (CHEW LiPS reMix)

‘Heaven’ is released 6th September with their self titled album coming a little later and featuring guest vocals from Tigs.

The Brute Chorus @ Juno

The Brute Chorus @ 7Digital

The Brute Chorus @ Amazon

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Aug 21 2010

Gossip Culture

Gossip Culture, a solo Indie-ElectroPop project from Cleveland, Ohio has dropped his latest track ‘1985’ in the electronic rumors Inbox. And so it goes from us to you.

It’s a nice chilled synth Funk jam, like Chromeo winding down after a hard night’s partying. The Funk bass and vocoded vocals work together to product the kind of tune that seem you walking home at 5 in the morning with a smile on your face. In his own words the track is a “tribute to the year that brought us Phoebe Cates, Nintendo, and Rick James”..good call!

♫ Gossip Culture – 1985

The track is part of a 5 track EP, ‘People talk’, due out later this year, until then show the man some MySpace love!

Gossip Culture @ MySpace

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Aug 12 2010

Mammoth Logic

This track is pure awesome!

It’s by Mammoth Logic, and ElectroPop creating duo from Adelaide who mix up SynthPop, French Electro and Post-Punk to form their analog retro sound. Multi instrumentalists Dave Crowe and Reid Jones make something that could be described as Garage Disco-Pop, the music has a distinctly live feel to it, like it’s being played rather than programmed, and the combination of analog synths, impressive vocals, a touch of vocoding and some infectious 80’s sounding chords is hard to beat.

♫ Mammoth Logic – Met On Mars

The band are working on their début album, keep an eye on them on their MySpace and check out some more music on their Unearthed page

Mammoth Logic @ Unearthed

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Aug 12 2010

Clubfeet

Clubfeet, they of the monster ‘Teenage Suicide (Don’t do It)’, have just dropped their new album ‘Gold On Gold’.

The Melbourne trio have a sweet 80’s pop sound, as displayed on their lead single from the album, ‘Count Your Lovers’, a laidback, piano driven, almost ballad. This is the kind of tune that you can chuck on the headphones, close your eyes, and forget about your troubles. ‘Edge Of Extremes’ has more of a Disco feel and a certain edge of Hot Chip about it. The album will defiantly be worth checking out.

♫ Clubfeet – Count Your Lovers

♫ Clubfeet – Edge Of Extremes

The band are giving away another three free tracks from the album in exchange for your email adders here, seems like a good deal to me.

The Album ‘Gold On Gold’ and the single, ‘Count Your Lovers’ are out now on Plant Music, the single featuring reMixes from Eli Escobar and Boltan.

Aug 10 2010

Dolby Anol reMixes Performance

Dolby Anol have given their reMix treatment to Manchester’s finest Indie-ElectroPoppers Performance’s latest single, ‘Unconsoled’.

Slightly more ElectroPoppy than we’re used to from Dolby Anol, which, it turns out, is a pretty rad thing! A deep, analog SynthPop reMix is what we get here with some really subtly vocoding that gives, what was originally quite an emotive track, a roboticised feel. It’s a cool reMix, gotta’ love that computer funk!

♫ Performance – Unconsoled (Dolby Anol reMix)

‘Unconsoled’ drops this week on Too Much Information.

Performance @ 7Digital

Performance @ Amazon

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Aug 9 2010

‘Lies’; Fenech-Soler’s new video

Fenech-Soler have just premiered their new video for ‘Lies’, the follow up single to ‘Stop And Stare’ and a re-release from last years ‘Lies’ EP.

The track, when it was released before, had a video previously (which I kinda’ prefer) but it get’s a slightly bigger budget treatment here with some nice photography and narrative.

‘Lies’ will be out later this year.

Fenech-Soler @ Beatport

Fenech-Soler @ Juno

Fenech-Soler @ Amazon

Aug 6 2010

Edwin Van Cleef Vs. Housse De Racket

French Indie synth wizards Housse De Racket are releasing their début album, ‘Forty Love’, for the first time in the UK later this month packaged up with an extra CD choc full of reMixes.

One of the reMixes on the ‘Bonus reMix Edition’ is this blistering tune from the north’s finest Dreamwave export Edwin Van Cleef. His take on HDR’s ‘Champions’ is a smooth, feel good, jam that immerses you in synth goodness.