Here’s the video fro the new single from ElectroPop heroes Fenech-Soler. It’s called Magnetic and it’s an rousing festival anthem, full of epic vocals and fist-pumping synth riffs.
Check out the mini-movie clip, directed by Luke Bellis. Involving a road-trip chase from a ceroplastic bunny.
Fenech-Soler’s Magnetic is
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Gigamesh has done it again. The Minneapolis based producer has dropped another driving slice of Synth Disco in the form of his reMix for Crystal Fighters new single, ‘You & I’. The reMix sits alongside a brooding cut from London ElectroPoppers Sunless ’97, reMixing the track taken from Crystal Fighters forthcoming new LP Cave Rave.
Gigamesh whips the track up into an arpeggio driven funky frenzy as he mixes up Italo and Disco with flair. Keeping the energy levels high, Gigamesh weaves a SynthWave style night drive tune full of punchy snyths and up beat stabs which, when coupled with Crystal Fighters vocal grown, takes on a slightly EBM, slant, but obviously with loads more groove. Sunless ‘97 go in totally the opposite direction with their version, crafting an ambient, absorbing, soundscape for the track. Utilising Dub techniques and quirky synths sounds, Sunless ‘97 deliver a track that is the night to Gigamesh’s day.
♫ Crystal Fighters – You & I (Gigamesh reMix)
♫ Crystal Fighters – You & I (Sunless ’97 Black Magic Mix)
Crystal Fighters’ Cave Rave is released 27th May.
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Surging Memories is the second single from the frankly awesome superhero team-up of MiGHty mOUse and Van She bassist and ElectroPopper Matt Van Schie, Du Tonc. The duo are gearing up for their immanent tour of Europe and the US, and have dropped their new tune in preparation.
Following on from their previous single, Darkness, Surging Memories feels even more like MiGHty mOUse meets Matt Van Schie that that did. Which I guess is kinda;’ obvious really. It’s a big rush of emotion, where a live Indie feel rubs shoulders with raw Disco. Driven by a hazy, buzzy, guitar riff and waves of blissful synths these guys coax a sense of summertime nostalgia with just a hint of mystery in their music, allowing Matt’s vocals to sound both introspective and anthemic at the same time. Two songs down and Du Tonc have a flawless record so far, let’s hope they can keep it up. You should definitely try to catch Du Tonc live is they are in your area, dates here.
♫ Du Tonc – Surging Memories
Du Tonc’s Surging Memories is out now on Cheap Thrills.
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Hammer & Sickle is the forthcoming new single from Welsh ElectroPoppers Neon Neon, the second to be taken from their sophomore album Praxis Makes Perfect. Expect bouncy, introspective, catchy synth Indie vibes here.
Check out the video, a tribute to maverick Italian publisher Giagiacomo Feltrinelli, put together but the duo themselves.
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Ronika – Escalator To The Equator Mixtape = Here’s the ultimate collection of laid back summery tunes for your holiday weekend. Coming courtesy of Ronika who delivers over an hour of smooth grooves and infectious funk with tunes to make you smile, and tunes to make you move.
♫ Ronika – Escalator To The Equator Mixtape
The tracklist:
01. Kassav – Langue Moin
02. Tim Maia – E Necessario
03. Amadou And Mariam – Sabali
04. Sophia George – Mek You Feel Fine
05. Jensen Sportag – Jareaux
06. Alison Valentine – Peanut Butter
07. Ronika – Rough ‘N’ Soothe (The HICS reMix)
08. Pegasus – Cool Runnings
09. Miami Sound Machine – Rhythms Is Gonna’ Get Ya
10. Mzekezeke – Ngihambha Phantsi
11. Sunless ’97 – Aurora I
12. Robert Ffrench – Heart On Fire
13. Ronika – Rough ‘N’ Soothe
14. Rihanna – If It’s Loving That You Want
15. Aaliyah – Rock The Boat
16. Princess – Say I’m Your Number One
17. Swimming – Kid Global
18. Rita Lee – Maria Mole
19. Herbie Hancock – Watermelon Man
20. Free Life – There’s Something Better
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Tell Me is our first hint of LA SynthPop/Minimal Synth duo Soft Metals’ long awaited sophomore album. The new full length LP, titled Lenses, follows the bands acclaimed 2011 self titled record and is set to drop in June. Tell Me gives us just a little taste of what to expect from Lenses.
It’s a track that is severely whetting out appetites. Hypnotic bests, robotic apreggios, metallic chords, all tempered with Patricia’s gentle, haunting vocal. Delivering an almost classic Italo groove, with just a hint of the kind of cosmic vibe you’d expect from Sci-Fi Italo, the ice cold electronics work together to produce something that is far warmer than the sum of it’s parts suggest, far funkier too. By the time the big vintage keys kick-in you can;t help but be drawn back into Soft Metals world. It’s a welcome return that has us eagerly awaiting the album.
♫ Soft Metals – Tell Me
Soft Metals’ Lenses is due to be released 16th June via Captured Tracks.
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Out this week is the new compilation from Kitsuné Music, Kitsuné America 2. Amongst the many great tunes held within is this gem, the new track from New York Indie-ElectroPop princess Alison Valentine, Circles And Triangles. So settle back and prepare to be enveloped by Valentines musical dream.
As it;s title suggests, Circles And Triangles is a daydreamy, doodley piece of music. A swirling audio painting with an almost Chillwave atmosphere underpinned by some solid Funk bass and drums. Alison delivers her hazy vocal with the kinds of intriguing quirk that we haven’t really heard since the first Marina And The Diamonds records. Managing to somehow be both and smokey and insanely catchy Circles And Triangles is utterly intoxicating.
♫ Alison Valentine – Circles And Triangles
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Here’s a lush bit of Shoegaze SynthPop to help soften the edges of the mid-week. Brooklyn four piece Selebrities have unleashed the first new track from their forthcoming second LP Lovely Things. To be released by those fine folks at Cascine, our first flavour of what’s to come is delivered in the form of the swirling Temporary Touch.
It’s a track that makes me feel seventeen again, as it wraps up the best in British early 90s Shoegaze in a bouncy electronic blanket. Temporary Touch slips along with Indie sensibilities and a pulsating synth bassline accompanied by a swathe of post-Chillwave soundscaping. But the hook here is the song, and Maria Usbeck introspective vocal, which have the ability to draw you right into Selebrities world and makes you feel like it’s 1993 again.
♫ Selebrities – Temporary Touch
Selebrities’ Lovely Things is set for release 25th June on Cascine.
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Goin’ Old School isn’t a trip down music memory lane, it’s a mugging in the dark alleyway of nostalgia:
First up today it;s one of our favourite tracks from London’s Soul II Soul. The track that started it all, 1988’s Fairplay, featruing Rose Windross.
Here’s Robert Palmer’s synth driven Johnny And Mary from 1980.
And lastly some obscure British Pop from 1983 and Nine Ways To Win’s Close To You.
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MiGHty mOUse – Spring 2013 Mixtape = Here’s the new mixtape from London’s finest MiGHty mOUse, his first of 2013. Cramming into it’s hour length some of the funkiest Cosmic and Soulful Disco sounds around right now, this should keep you going all week.
♫ MiGHty mOUse – Spring 2013 Mixtape
The tracklist:
01. Beethoven’s 74th Rendition of a Humpback Whale (In Scottish)
02. Akshin – Cut A Few (Original Mix)
03. Yuksek (Feat. Juviniles) – Truth
04. Lady Kiss – Walk In (Original Mix)
05. Fernando – Non Stop (Fabrizio Mammarella reMix)
06. Little Boots – Broken Record (JDH ‘Chupacabras’ reMix)
07. Paradise 45 – Baby C’Mon (Original Mix)
08. Andre Laos – Alternating Currency
09. Sugar Hill – Before You Wake (Leoni reMix)
10. Blackstrobe – The Girl From The Bayou (Extended Mix)
11. Tigerskin – Windfall (Original Mix)
12. Gregor Salto & KiT (Kuenti I Tambu) – Otro Dia (Original Mix)
13. West K (Feat. Natacha) – Kata Llorando (Original Vocal Edit)
14. Theophilus London – Wine & Chocolates (Andhim reMix)
15. Nora En Pure – Come With Me (Original Mix)
16. Fed Conti (Feat. Sara Grimaldi) – Touch Me
17. Supernova – The Circle (Original Mix)
18. Renato Cohen – Suddenly Funk (Original Mix)
19. Pitchben – Soda (Lorenz Rhode reMix)
20. Mighty Mouse – Love Is Gonna’ Lift You Up (Sunrise Mix)
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