While in the studio in Jamaica, Electro-Dancehall masters Diplo & Switch A.K.A. Major Lazer put together a mixtape for La Roux, dubbing it ‘Lazerproof’.

Consisting of 14 mash-ups of La Roux’s SynthPop gold with various Dubplates, Blends and Diplo & Switch’s beats featuring the likes of Amanda Blank, Candi Redd and Matthew Hemerlein. If you’ve ever wanted to hear a Dancehall/Electro/Dub/ElectroPop/Hip Hop/SynthPop/Dubstep/Ska collision album then this is the one for you. The whole album works amazingly well and handled masterfully by Major Lazer and all given to you for free via ‘Lazerproof’s mini-site. It’s defiantly different and a perfect way to kick off the summer, in fact in the first 24 hours of release 200,000 seemed to agree and crashed Diplo’s label, Mad Descent’s servers forcing the label to backup the album download at this zShare link!

Here’s some of our favourites from the mixtape:

♫ Major Lazer & La Roux (Feat. Matt Hemerlein) – Bulletproof (Nacey reMix)

♫ Major Lazer & La Roux – Colourless Artibella

♫ Major Lazer & La Roux (Feat. Amanda Blank) – Quicksand (Mad Decent 2010 Rerub)

♫ Major Lazer & La Roux (Feat. Candi Redd) – Independent Kill

Oh, and the mix has an awesome cover featuring an Iron Man armour clad Elly!

Head on over to the Lazerproof mini-site to pick up the mixtape.

Major Lazer @ Beatport

Major Lazer @ Juno

Major Lazer @ 7Digital

May 18 2010

La Roux reMixes

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Is it time for a new La Roux album yet? Or are Elly and Ben still gallivanting ‘round the world promoting the last one?

Oh well, it’s gonna’ be while before they’re back in the studio I expect so the occasional trawl of the internet for unheard reMixes may sometimes be in order, sometimes you can find some real gems like these two!

No Roux No, out of nowhere, has dropped what may be one of my favourite reMixes of ‘Bulletproof’, like a stripped down Nu-Disco track the whole song revolves around the ever evolving lead line, it’s well worth a listen. Mr. TinoForever, however, drops a dubstep reMix of ‘In For The Kill’ to rival Skream’s, with some heavy, heavy synths.

♫ La Roux – Bulletproof (No Roux No reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)

♫ La Roux – In For The Kill (Mr. Tinoforever reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)

Interestingly, La Roux were on BB2’s documentary about Heaven 17 last night and Elly was joined by Ben for the interview, does this mean he’s stepping out of the shadows? (he probably just has a lot to say about Heaven 17, but who wouldn’t?).

Apr 24 2010

La Roux reMix I Blame Coco

I Blame Coco A.K.A Eliot Sumner (of sister to Sting fame) has reached out to tour buddy La Roux to remix her forthcoming single ‘Self Machine’.

Is this the first La Roux reMix of another artist? I’m probably forgetting someone here but no other one springs to mind. Anyway, the track is reminiscent of ‘Quicksand’ a bit and takes be back to the summer of ‘08, which seeing as how it’s quite a summery tune, is no bad thing.

Annie Mac premiered it on her show, so check the radio rip.

♫ I Blame Coco – Self Machine (La Roux reMix) (Radio Rip) (zShare) (MediaFire)

‘Self Machine’ is out soon.

I Blame Coco @ Juno

I Blame Coco @ Amazon

Feb 1 2010

Heaven 17 & La Roux – Temptation

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Following on from their meeting of electro giants old and new, in the form of Little Boots and Gary Numan, last December BBC 6Music recently paired up ex-The Human League SynthPop legends Heaven 17 with current ElectroPop royalty La Roux at Maida Vale.

The whole session is a nice affair, lots of banter between the two acts, you get the feeling that this was a more comfortable affair than the Little Boots/Numan gig where Gary always looked a little uncomfortable, especially singing ‘Stuck On Repeat’

Anyway, both sessions are hit and miss (although generally hits) but for me the highlight of both is Heaven 17 and Elly performing H17’s classic ‘Temptation’. Elly’s vocals really lend themselves well to the track.

♫ Heaven 17 & La Roux – Temptation (Live @ Maida Vale Studios For BBC Radio 6Music) (zShare) (MediaFire)

You can listen to the session in full on the BBC iPlayer here until the end of the week and digital viewers in the UK can watch the whole thing (and the Boots/Numan show) by pressing the red button (I feel kinda’ weird saying that, like a TV voice over guy, but it’s true) until 6th February.

Feb 1 2010

Spector

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Spector is a name that has been around for a while. John-Paul Denton (and occasional partner John Elliott) have had their fingers in various Dance music pies for a few years culminating in Spector releasing some sweet Pop fuelled dancefloor Electro funk.

This track ‘near The Mark’ is taken from Spector’s forthcoming ‘Infrasound’ EP and it’s a jittery banger with an infections funk bassline.

♫ Spector – Near The Mark (zShare) (MediaFire)

To promote the release Spector is also dropping this noisy Electro-House reMix of La Roux’s ‘Bulletproof’ with some seriously growling synths!

♫ La Roux – Bulletproof (Spector’s Wings Of Steel Mix) (zShare) (MediaFire)

The ‘Infrasound’ EP is out soon on Rogue Industries.

Spektor @ Beatport

Spektor @ 7Digital

Dec 2 2009

La Roux Vs. The Subs

The Subs have had a good couple of years, with the release of their first album ‘Subculture’ on Lektroluv and a host of 12”’s and remixes.

They round off this year with a reMix of one of my favourite racks from La Roux’s self-titled début, ‘Colourless Colour’. They completely change the vibe of the track, making it more frantic which adds an urgency to Elly’s vocals

♫ La Roux – Colourless Colour (The Subs’ Popup Mix) (zShare) (MediaFire)

it will be interesting to see if ‘colourless Colour’ will be the next single, after the re-release of ‘Quicksand’.

Jun 7 2009

The week in Bangers: 07:06:09

The week in Bangers: While electronic rumors isn’t strictly an Electro-House blog, we do cover a lot of Electro-House that crosses over in to our realm. So many good club tunes and reMixes surface each week we can’t (and wouldn’t) cover them all, so this is a round up of some of the best from the week that we didn’t have time to dedicate individual posts to…

This weeks club roundup starts off with another reMix of La Roux’s ‘Bulletproof’ by tEPr and a Vitalic reMix of Birdy Nam Nam’s ‘The Parachute Ending’. Friendly Fires get reworked by Stuart Price A.K.A. Thin White Duke and Death To The Throne take on a Lykke Li cover of a Kings Of Leon song. Fredrick Carlsson reMixes Jonathan Johansson as Johan Agebjörn does for Friday Bridge. The Preset’s K.I.M tackles Bag Raiders’ ‘Turbo Love’ and the forthcoming Simian Mobile Disco single is given the treatment by Naum Gabo. Enjoy!

♫ La Roux – Bulletproof (tEPr reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)

♫ Birdy Nam Nam – The Parachute Ending (Vitalic reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)

♫ Friendly Fires – Jump In The Pool (Thin White Duke reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)

♫ Lykke Li – Knocked Up (Kings Of Leon Cover) (Death To The Throne reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)

♫ Jonathan Johansson – En Hand I Himlen (En Fot I Graven reMix Av Fredrick Carlsson) (zShare) (MediaFire)

♫ Friday Bridge – This Case Is Closed (Johan Agebjörn reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)

♫ Bag Raiders – Turbo Love (K.I.M reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)

♫ Simian Mobile Disco (Feat.Chris Keating Of Yeasayer) – Audacity Of Huge (Naum Gabo reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)

Most of these artists can be picked up here:

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Photo credit: Sergio

May 11 2009

La Roux – Bulletproof video!

Sorry for the lack of post last week guys. Things are busy IRL, this week is pretty busy too but I’ll try to post as often as I can. Next week normal service resumes!

So, La Roux have just dropped the new video for their next single ‘Bulletproof’. Check out the neon goodness!

‘Bulletproof’ is out on June 15th.

Apr 29 2009

La Roux Vs. Wookie

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With ‘Bulletproof’, La Roux’s third single, incoming it’s time to brace ourselves for the inevitable tide of reMixes…not that that’s a bad thing.

Here La Roux are taken on by London House Award magnet Wookie who gives us a odd, but compelling, tom-tom-tastic reMix.

It’s all 909’s and heavy bass!

♫ La Roux – Bulletproof (Wookie Mix 2) (zShare) (MediaFire)

‘Bulletproof’ is out on June 15th.

Apr 19 2009

The week in Bangers: 19:04:09

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Wassup peeps? This week in Bangers kicks off with Joris Voorn’s Electro Acid ‘Addict’ before crashing straight into the vocoder Disco of the Tronik Youth reMix of Drlkt Freddie Freddie’s ‘Airtight’. The Nu-Disco continues with Fenech-Soiler reMixed by Combo and the Amazing Mad Decent mix of ‘Quicksand’ by ElectroPop superstar La Roux. The Twelves keep it funky with their take on Metric whilst Neon Indian provide some quirky dancefloor Noise-Pop. Mark Lam reworks Streetlife DJs hit of last year ‘We ♥ The Disco Sound’ and bring it back banging and we leave you with our favourite anthropomorphised tigers, Tigersapian, and a new reMix by Clockwork.