May 12 2010

Backseat Dreamer

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Backseat Dreamer is the solo project of South Carolina musician Sean Neuse who makes a kinda’ Shoegaze influenced style of Dreamwave.

Dropping his début album this July, Sean creates a swirling soundscape of intertwining analog synths, layered with just enough retro sounds to keep it from chaos and dreamlike vocals that become another instrument in the mix. The whole thing is kept in check with solid dance beats that make it as much dancefloor fodder as listening gold.

♫ Backseat Dreamer – Consider (zShare) (MediaFire)

Backseat Dreamer’s début album ‘The Colors of Dreams, They’re In You’ is released 13th July on Stickfigure Recordings.

Backseat Dreamer @ Amazon

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

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

Zebra & Snake video

Zebra & Snake have dropped a few interesting reMixes in the last few months, most notably for Le Corps Mince De Françoise and The Good Natured, but let’s not forget the Finish duo are releasing original material themselves.

Check the video for their previous single ‘The Colours’, a luscious slice of borderline Bedroom Pop/Electro-Indie with a suitable Lo-Fi video.

The video was directed by Miikka Lommi

The ‘The Colours’ EP is available now and the duo are releasing a new single ‘We Never Go When We Have To’

Zebra & Snake @ Juno

Zebra & Snake @ 7Digital

Zebra & Snake @ Amazon

May 8 2010

Calling In Sick reMix Cullen

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It’s been a while since we heard a new reMix from Sydney’s Calling in Sick, which is a shame as I used to be all over their mixes. Seriously couldn’t get enough of that shit!

So it’s awesome to see them back with this reMix of Australia’s answer to The Postal Service, Cullen’s début single, ‘Easily Impressed’ and it’s just the Calling In Sick sound that I had been missing.

You’ve got the buzzsaw synths hammering crazy solos and arpeggios and the big 80’s chords. Calling In Sick are like the 80’s hair Metal of electronic music, and that is no bad thing!

♫ Cullen – Easily Impressed (Calling In Sick reMix) (Sharebee) (MediaFire)

The ’Easily Impressed’ single is out soon.

Cullen @ MySpace

May 6 2010

TeenagersInTokyo

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TeenagersInTokyo are gearing up for the release of their début long player, ‘Sacrifice’, at the end of the month and are preceding it with the second single from the album.

‘End It Tonight’ originally featured on the bands début EP last year but is given new lease of life by a bunch of ace reMixes. We Have Band’s jittery percussion and four bar basslines shine through, the WHB sound actually works really well with Samantha Lim’s vocals. Nightschool are the next in a long line of ‘mystery’ acts to appear in the last couple of years. I’m sure people will have all kinds of theories as to who it is, I’m sure there will be loads of Gossip (ahem). Focusing on his reMix though, it’s got a nice New Wave vibe going on with a nice balance of bass & guitar to Synths, kinda’ gives the song more of a live feel too, which is nice.

♫ TeenagersInTokyo – End It Tonight (We Have Band Mix) (zShare) (MediaFire)

♫ TeenagersInTokyo – End It Tonight (Nightschool Disco Hijack Mix) (zShare) (MediaFire)

‘Sacrifice’ is released on 24th May

TeenagersInTokyo @ Beatport

TeenagersInTokyo @ Juno

TeenagersInTokyo @ 7Digital

TeenagersInTokyo @ Amazon

May 6 2010

Performance’s new single

Joe Cross is such the man to watch this year, he is a dude with his fingers in many pies!

As well as being one third of Indie-Electro outfit Performance, he is also half of the awesome Kiss In Cities and had a hand in upcoming releases by HURTS and The Sound Of Arrows.

Anyway, this is ‘The Living’, the latest single from Performance who really do have a knack for songwriting, they may be my favourite current (Indie slanted) Indie-Electro band in the UK. I think I like them so much ‘cos they combine ElectroPop elements with an early ‘90’s Indie sound. Rad stuff!

The single is out now on Too Much Information Records.

Performance @ 7Digital

Performance @ Amazon

May 4 2010

Alec Empire’s reMix of IAMX’s ‘I Am Terrified’ video

Here is the viral video for Alec Empire’s reMix of the IAMX song ‘I Am Terrified’.

It was shot and edited by Chris Corner himself and just shows you don’t need a massive budget to produce something with stunning visuals!

The reMix is released on ‘Dogmatic Infidel Comedown OK’, which fans in the UK can get packaged as a bonus disc with the UK release of IAMX’s last album, ‘Kingdom Of Welcome Addiction’, 17th May on 61Seconds.

Both albums are currently available separately in Europe.

Apr 29 2010

Midnight Juggernauts; new tracks!

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‘Vital Signs’ we’ve heard before out of these two previews from Midnight Juggernauts’ forthcoming 2010 album, ‘The Crystal Axis’.

Both tunes see a progression of MJ’s particular brand of Space-Electro-Indie-Disco-Pop but still sounding defiantly Juggernauts. The subtle anthemic quality with a hint of psychedelia in a Lo-Fi garage style is still ever present but with a little more sparseness, a little more edge and a little more maturity. Oh, and big ‘70’s creepy synth solos!

♫ Midnight Juggernauts – Vital Signs (zShare) (MediaFire)

♫ Midnight Juggernauts – Get Connected (zShare) (MediaFire)

‘The Crystal Axis’ is released 28th May.

Midnight Juggernauts @ Beatport

Midnight Juggernauts @ 7Digital

Midnight Juggernauts @ Amazon