Feb 11 2014

[Download] Shindu covers Pixies’ ‘Gouge Away’

Belgian ElectroPoppers Shindu has put together this blistering cover version of Indie legends Pixies Gouge Away. Those amongst you who are sceptical about how Pixies frantic, wall-of-sound guitar music translates into SynthPop really need to hear this. This is how you make a track your own.

It’s the bass that really makes this tune what it is, synth heavy but keeping it raw, Shindu centre the track on a driving bassline that flows to the progression of the original. Even singer Chibi’s voice takes on an edgy quality here, doing justice to the song itself. We can imagine this song is killer live, the rising electronic tones and gritty riffs easily doing the job of droning guitars whilst injecting the track with a little Funk too.

♫ Shindu – Gouge Away (Pixies Cover)

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Feb 10 2014

[Audio] Klaxons’ ‘There Is No Other Time’

Last week saw the re-emergence of Nu-Rave icons Klaxons. After indulging their Rockier side in the past few years their new comeback single, There is No Other Time, produced by future House Superstars Gorgon City, see them delve back into the waters of electronic music and showing just as much love for 90s Dance classics as they did when the first erupted on the scene.

The first tracks to be taken from their forthcoming summer album, There Is No Other Time rides a pulsating bassline that drive the track ever forward. With hints here and there, in the piano line and the vocal mantra, of Dance music classics of the past There Is No Other Time serves up a selection of live synths and Indie euphoria. A surprisingly good hint of what’s to come on their James Murphy, Chemical Brothers’ Tom Rowlands, and Erol Alkan producer new record.

♫ Klaxons – There Is No Other Time

Klaxons’ There is No Other Time is released 23rd March.

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Feb 7 2014

[Audio] Lovestarrs’ ‘Get Your Sexy On’

Rising from the ashes of the wonderful The Good Natured, whose long awaited début album was held hostage by their major label, comes Lovestarrs. Frankly, why their label dropped then and kept the album is beyond us, that record could have been huge, there’s no understanding some people, and some peoples taste. Maybe it didn’t fit in to their plans for this year’s ‘rock resurgence’? Ahahahahaha.

Get Your Sexy On, Lovestarrs’ première single will no doubt show them what they are missing. An Indie-Electro anthem that’s bigger than anything The Good Natured released. Taking queues from stadium ElectroPop, summer US Indie, even Acid House, the track is a bombastic, feel good, Pop epic with some big sing-a-long vocals from Sarah amidst a sea of burbling synths and subtle wall-of-sound guitars. the sound of the summer?

♫ Lovestarrs – Get Your Sexy On

Lovestarrs’ Get Your Sexy On is released 31st March.

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Feb 6 2014

[Video] Years & Years’ ‘Real’

Here’s the video for London ElectroPoppers Years & Years’ Real. Out later this month on Kitsuné Music and full of smooth, emotional, electronic vibes.

Robert Francis Müller directs the clip, which stars British actor Ben Whishaw and some disorienting dancing.

Years & Years’ Real is released 17th February.

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Feb 5 2014

[Video] Anoraak’s ‘Behind Your Shades’

French Dreamwavers Anoraak’s new single Behind Your Shades, a rumbling slice of Indie-Electro, is now available in visual form with this new video.

Directed by O.S.A.K.A.H, the clip features a futurists Rubix’s Cube bringing people together/

Anoraak’s Behind Your Shades is out now.

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Feb 5 2014

[Audio] Nonono’s ‘Hungry Eyes’

This tune from Sweedish trio Nonono has been generating a fair amount of hype over the past few days. It’s not hard to see why, it’s comfortable Pop but it has an amazing personality of it’s own. Scandinavian to the core, but with a very American IndiePop feel, and that’s pretty much everything new music blogs seem to look for these days. Strap in for some rousing piano Pop.

It’s hard not to love Hungry Eyes. It’s got so much character held within it’s rolling drums and hammering piano that it’s very easy to be drawn into it’s world and carried along without thinking. Vocalist Stina Wappling’s quintessentially Scandinavian vocal style (something that’s always welcome) give the track it’s emotional depth as she passionately delivers her narrative. Like a tribal version of ScaniPop, Hungry Eyes is the precursor to an apparently beat orientated album.

♫ Nonono – Hungry Eyes

Nonono’s album is due out later this year.

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Jan 30 2014

[Audio] Soft Metals’ ‘When I Look Into Your Eyes’ reMixed by L-Sedition

When two acts we’re particularly fond of come together it;s always a cause for excitement. Especially when those two acts are at the forefront of intelligent electronic music. Portland Minimal Synth outfit Soft Metals’ Lenses album was one of the highlights of last year for us, so we’re stoked to hear there is a reMix album on the horizon, even more stoked that one of the reMixes comes from ex-Violet Tremors; L-Sedition, further stoked to première the reMix right here. That’s a lot of stoked, we know, but listen to the tune and you’ll hear why.

The reMix is actually surprisingly Housey, with a real old school flavour that’s a mix of Chicago and Detroit.The hypnotic beat, best suited to strobe light business, carries you along past waves of grinding synths and sparking arpeggios. With just a haunting hint of the original’s vocals, L-Sedition crafts an engrossing, striped back, vintage Dance sound without forgetting the edgy SynthPop roots of the track.

♫ Soft Metals – When I Look Into Your Eyes (L-Sedition reMix)

Soft Metals’ Lenses reMixes is released 3rd February.

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Jan 30 2014

[Audio] Cyclist edits Anoraak’s ‘Behind Your Shades’

French Dreamwave legends Anoraak release their new single, Behind Your Shades, this week. One of the standout tracks from the recent Chronotropic album, the single comes equipped with this edit from Canada’s finest; Cyclist. And it’s well titled, as it is more of an edit than a reMix, but one of the best edits we’ve heard in a while.

Ringing every last drop of dancefloor goodness from the track, Cyclist works the beat and bassline into a thick House monster, letting the tracks floaty Dreamwave overtone glide over the intoxicating groove. Knowing just when to use the vocals, and when to let the music speak for itself, Cyclist lets the mood rise and fall with a couple of deftly placed builds and drops. Definitely a let night floorfiller with a vibe that is as comforting as a warm blanket.

♫ Anoraak – Behind Your Shades (Cyclist Edit)

Anoraak’s Behind Your Shades is out now.

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Jan 30 2014

[Video] Tregenza’s ‘What Is Love?’

UK Indie-Electro artist Tregenza has gone and covered Haddaway’s What Is Love? as part of a new four track EP of cover versions titled Stolen Thunder. A grimy, Lo-Fi synth version of the 90s classic.

Check out the adorable video for the track. The clip is a pixelart rom-com gone wrong with a sing in it’s tail, but a happy ending.

Tregenza’s Stolen Thunder EP is out now.

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Jan 29 2014

[Audio] The Presets’ ‘Goodbye Future’

Released today is the brand new single from Australia’s finest, The Presets, Goodbye Future. their first new release since 2012’s absolutely stunning, but poorly promoted Pacifica album. The intervening months have seen the duo touring extensively in Australia, but not venturing out of the country as often as we’d like (i.e. at all) and the single release marks the launch of another tour down under. A series of singles will drop over the course of the tour.

Goodbye Future takes no prisoners right from the offset, immediately launching into a house tinged groove before the esoteric narrative the marks a The Presets song kicks in. An energetic mix of thumping House and intelligent SynthPop, Goodbye Future is just another example of why The Presets are one of the best in the business and deserve to be much bigger than they are. And they should come and play the UK, we can barely remember the last time we saw them.