We posted MNDR’s new single, ‘#1 In Heaven’, on Tuesday when it dropped and it’s been on repeat ever since.
It’s already got itself a video that sees Amanda is full on ‘80’s Pop star mode, sans giant glasses!
‘#1 In Heaven’ is out now with MNDR’s full length album due out this summer, both on Ultra.
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Mausi are a Newcastle based four peice who are about to release their début single. The Disco tinged IndiePop of ‘Sol.’.
The tracks been around for a while now but has just been picked up for release in February. It’s got a nice summery Pop feel that owes much to the likes of Passion Pit but with more of a beach party Disco vibe to it. It’s probably the most straight-up Indie thing we’ve featured in a while but they’ve got enough of a French Indie-Electro groove going on that some of you might be into it, we are.
‘Sol.’ is released 20th February.
Check out more from Mausi on SoundCloud.
producer Lenno is fast becoming a name to watch with a string of amazing reMixes. This time he’s teamed up with Jesse Oliver to rework Miami Horror’s hit of last year, ‘Holidays’.
It’s a rapid fire bassline that keeps this tune pumping. Bright retro synths stab away at the tune but the machine bass never falters from it’s course and lends the tune a slight Italo flavour. Leno and Jesse Oliver have crafter a really nice Dreamwavey update to the song, keeping the Indie-Electro feel to the vocals but bringing them straight to an electronic dancefloor.
♫ Miami Horror – Holidays (Lenno & Jesse Oliver reMix)
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Charleston are a London based three-peice who are drawing in a range of eclectic influences for their moody début single, released next month.
If ‘Peice By Peice’ is an introduction to Charleston’s sound, then they will definitely be a group to keep an ear on in the coming year. Initial comparisons, both musically and vocally, would be to Portishead, but there is something more contemporary going on here too. ‘Peice By Peice’ is a deep, soulful tune that has it’s roots in Trip-Hop but displays a more experimental attitude, even including elements of Dubstep and ChipTune in the mix to create something that, despite it’s low groove, is pretty majestic sounding. The smokey, sultry vocals don’t hurt either.
♫ Charleston – Piece By Piece
‘Piece By Piece’ is released 6th February via Good Bait.
Check out more from Charleston on SoundCloud.
Hot on the heels of his début album, ‘If You Thought There Was Any Doubt’, Derbyshire based producer Pinemarten has dropped another EP of mellow synth jams,
The ‘Here It Is’ EP contains three tracks of dreamlike electronic soundscapes and distant, hazy vocals. Pinemarten conjures up feelings of sunsets and lazy summer nights as he skilfully layers shimmering synths. Three prefect chilled tunes for the morning after.
The ‘Here It Is’ EP if available now, for free!
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We just commented last week about how much good stuff there is coming out of Russia these days, and to prove it website/label/community WeAreRussians have released a free compilation of Russian electronic artists.
The whole eighteen track album is top quality, practically every track is a winner and whilst the collection keeps quite a retro synth feel is spans quite a few styles. Lovinsky, represented here both alone and partnered with Quasars and Sohight are all artists we’ve featured before, highlighting their slick Dreamwave and Nu-Disco sounds and they sit on the album alongside new-to-us acts like Ziroberto and Valotihkuu who bring a more Funky side and some soundtrack atmospheres respectively. From these SynthWave sounds to epic Electro-House and introspective Indie-Electro WeAreRussians volume one just reinforces out opinion that Russia is definitely one of the places to look to for the next big synth acts.
♫ Quasars And Lovinsky – Made In The 80’s
♫ Sohight – Boys (Original Mix)
You can download the whole album on WeAreRussians’ SoundCloud.
Young Empires ‘Exit Through The Sun’ is the tune to reMix of the moment, so your version has to be something special to stand out from the crowd. ¡borracho! new mix does just that.
Rocking an amazingly infectious digital slap bassline at it’s core, this reMix is a melting pot of melodies and riffs that might not have worked together, but in ¡borracho! skilful hands the whole track flows together effortlessly. It’s quite an abrasive track, which is odd considering the tunefulness of it’s composite parts, but this just adds to the driving energy of the tune. This is a track for late night darkened dancefloors.
♫ Young Empires – Enter Through The Sun (¡borracho! reMixx)
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So of our more eagle eyed readers and Twitter followers might have had a suspicion that something like this was coming but today I can, very proudly, announce the forthcoming release of ‘electronic rumors Volume 1’ on CD and digital.
Released Monday 13th February on respected ElectroPop label Ninthwave Records (Heaven17/White town/The Modern), the album is the result of nearly a year’s work and features 15 of the some of the best ElectroPop, Dreamwave, Indie-Electro and Nu-Disco around right now. Curated to be a snapshot of the kind of music we write about here on electronic rumors, the release is crammed full of both modern classics and brand new exclusive tracks from the likes of Ride The Universe, Show Your Shoe, beaumont and Echoes.
Check the tracklist:
01. Vanbot – Make Me, Break Me
02. Fear Of Tigers – The Adventures Of Pippi Longstrump (Diamond Cut reMix)
03. Queen Of Hearts – Where Are You Now? (StardonE Radio Mix)
04. Echoes – Second Best
05. Ronika – Wiyoo
06. Cosmonaut Grechko – All I Hear (Cosmo Black reMix)
07. Ride The Universe – A Little Better (Feat. Jane Elizabeth Hanley)
08. Substatic – Gold
09. LexiconDon – December Sunset (Keenhouse reMix)
10. She’s The Queen – Waiting Game
11. Futurecop! – Me & U
12. Kid Kasio – Not For Turning
13. Show Your Shoe – Krokodil
14. Short Circuit – Let Go (NightWaves reMix)
15. beaumont – Reptile Blaze
The compilation represents many months of hard work for me and I am so pleased with the end result and so grateful to the artists and their management teams for helping bring this thing together.
‘electronic rumors Volume 1’ drops Monday 13th February’ via Ninthwave Records on digital, and on CD in gorgeous Digipak packaging designed by Sebastian Bentler (he of Overthrill), from all the usual retailers.
Ex-flipping-citing stuff!
Also, if you’re in the London area in Friday 10th February, we are teaming up with Human Error to throw a launch party for the album with Fear Of Tigers, Ronika, Queen Of Hearts, Substatic, Kid Kasio and Echoes. Details on the flyer…
…, it’s free and it’s gonna’ be one hell of a party. Not to be missed!
Here’s the Facebook event page.
More news to come…..
So here we are.
After a year when the current wave of ElectroPop, Nu-Disco, SynthWave, Nu-Italo and Dreamwave all seemed to find a maturity, seemed to suddenly become a lot more confortable with themselves and their groove, we find ourselves with a nearly impossible job for picking the top twenty songs of the year, and a winner.
To those we missed, or forgot, we’re sorry. We’ll be beating ourselves up about it for weeks to come as some awesome track from January slides back into our brain, but it’s time to stop worrying and just go for it. So here it is.
And our top song of the year comes from She’s The Queen, it’s the lead track on their self-titled début EP and it’s one of the slickest ElectroPop tracks you’ll ever hear. Because, over the year just gone, I have grown to call She’s The Queen’s Drew and Emily friends I actively tried not to place them in the top spot. So concerned was I about bias that I sought out tracks that had more of an impact on me in 2011, anything that could reaffirm my sense of integrity and make me not give the number one place to mates. But I just couldn’t. Whether friends or not, there is no two ways about it, ‘Waiting Game’ is the track I have rocked to the most this year, the track I have been most impressed with, the track that is, without doubt, electronic rumors’ Best Song of 2011.
electronic rumors’ best song: 2011
01: She’s The Queen – Waiting Game
♫ She’s The Queen – Waiting Game
…and the rest of the list:
02: Vanbot – Make Me, Break Me
03: M83 – Midnight City
04: Cordova – Paradigm
05: MiGHty mOUse – Between The Pavement And The Stars
♫ MiGHty mOUse – Between The Pavement And The Stars
06: Queen Of Hearts – Shoot The Bullet
♫ Queen Of Hearts – Shoot The Bullet
07: Holy Ghost! – Wait & See
08: Ronika – Wiyoo
09: The Magician (Feat. Jeppe) – I Don’t Know What To Do
♫ The Magician (Feat. Jeppe) – I Don’t Know What To Do
10: Monsieur Adi – Fire Fire Fire
♫ Monsieur Adi – Fire Fire Fire
11: Electric Youth – Coming Right Back To You
♫ Electric Youth – Coming Right Back To You
12: Peter & The Magician – Twist
♫ Peter & The Magician – Twist
13: Jordan F – Definitely Miami
14: Short Circuit – How We Speak
♫ Short Circuit – How We Speak
15: Clancy – Panther
♫ Clancy – Panther
16: Substatic – Gold
♫ Substatic – Gold
17: LIGHTS – Toes
♫ LIGHTS – Toes
18: Bright Light Bright Light – Disco Moment
♫ Bright Light Bright Light – Disco Moment
19: Justice (Feat. Ali Love) – Civilisation
♫ Justice (Feat. Ali Love) – Civilisation
20: Xeno & Oaklander – The Staircase
♫ Xeno & Oaklander – The Staircase
As always, you should definitely pick up some of these songs, they are all highly recommended and most can be purchased here:
Next we come to what we have optimistically called the Reader’s Choice award.
This was quite a last minute idea, we liked the idea of having an open category but really, who wants to run a poll at X-Mas? No us! So this award was given based on the number of downloads the track received, which is quite a nice representation of popularity. Of course it doesn’t take into account streaming only tracks, or videos we’ve shown, or tracks readers may have dug that we didn’t feature, but we think it nicely represents what readers have been excited about this year.
And we have a winner, the track most downloaded from electronic rumors in 2011. Fear Of Tigers’ reMix of ‘Bulletproof’ by La Roux. First given away be Mr. Tigers as a thank you to everyone who sponsored his London marathon run this year, to raise money for WSPA (World Society for the Protection of Animals). It’s an storming reMix that really should have made the official single. With a huge big room take on ElectroPop it’s no surprise that this mix as so popular.
electronic rumors’ readers’ choice: 2011
01: La Roux – Bulletproof (Fear Of Tigers reMix)
♫ La Roux – Bulletproof (Fear Of Tigers reMix)
…and the rest of the list:
02: HURTS – Better Than Love (Marsheaux reMix)
♫ HURTS – Better Than Love (Marsheaux reMix)
03: Lykke Li – I Follow Rivers (The Magician reMix)
♫ Lykke Li – I Follow Rivers (The Magician reMix)
04: Madeon – For You
05: Gypsy And The Cat – Jona Vark (Starsmith reMix)
♫ Gypsy And The Cat – Jona Vark (Starsmith reMix)
06: RüFüS – Paris Collides
07: Dirty Vegas – Electric Love (Cassette Club reMix)
♫ Dirty Vegas – Electric Love (Cassette Club reMix)
08: Avril Lavigne – What The Hell (Robots With Rayguns Mix)
♫ Avril Lavigne – What The Hell (Robots With Rayguns Mix)
09: Chromeo (Feat. Elly Jackson From La Roux) – Hot Mess (Duck Sauce reMix)
♫ Chromeo (Feat. Elly Jackson From La Roux) – Hot Mess (Duck Sauce reMix)
10: The Human League – Sky (Plastic Plates reMix)
♫ The Human League – Sky (Plastic Plates reMix)
As always, you should definitely pick up some of these tracks, they are all highly recommended and most can be purchased here:
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