Tomorrow sees the digital release of Yuksek‘s début album ‘Away From The Sea’ (the physical release is 2nd February) and it promises to be a noisy Nu-Disco ElectroPop scorcher.
A French producer making French Electro; Yuksek has plied up loads of big name reMixes over the last couple of years, everyone from Kaiser Chiefs to GhostfaceKillah , making this album pretty eagerly awaited.
If the likes of ‘Extraball’ are any indication, it’s not going to dissapoint!
Joe And Will Ask? will finally received the Kitsuné Music seal of approval when their track ‘Claymore’, originally off the ‘Hell Hawk’ EP, gets released as a single by the French Electro label on the 26th January.
I loved the ’09-14 2007′ 12″, that ’11H30′ comes from, just loved it. A huge, noisy, Electro-House, Nu-Disco monster that threatened to steal Kavinsky‘s synth solo crown!
Danger does a good job on ‘Into The Galaxy’ one of my favourite Midnight Juggernauts songs too.
January 26th (23rd on digital) sees the release of Kitsuné label bosses Gildas & Mayasta‘s follow up to last years ‘Paris’ mix album, this time it’s ‘New York’.
Looking at the tracklist on Amazon…
Heartsrevolution – Ultraviolence (Vitalic reMix)
Joe And Will Ask? – Claymore
Treasure Fingers – Cross the Dancefloor (Laidback Luke reMix)
La Roux – Quicksand (autoKratz Drags To Riches reMix)
In Flagranti – Business Acumen (Holy Ghost! Cover Version)
A-Trak – Say Whoa (Alex Gopher Edit)
The Faint – The Geeks Were Right (Boys Noize Vs. D.I.M. Mix)
Moulinex – Breakchops
Edu K (Feat. Madame Mim) – Headbanger
DJ Mujava – Township Funk
Fan Death – Veronica’s Veil
Beni – My Love Sees You (In Flagranti reMix)
Laidback Luke – Shake It Down
Guns ‘N’ Bombs – Riddle Of Steel (Para One reMix)
Lykke Li – I’m Good, I’m Gone (Fred Falke Vocal)
…It looks like the same mix (with the inclusion of the Laidback Luke track) that they presented on CD with Tsugi Magazine last year. That this mix is now being generally released is fantastic news as this is a seriously good 45 minuites, taking some of late last years biggest Electro-House and ElectroPop tunes and wrapping them up in a really well thought out mix. Oh, and it’s just the same length as the amount of time it takes me to walk to work…handy!
If you don’t know what you’re in for heres a couple of tunes from the album:
‘Ultraviolence’ is a crazy good tune, and with remixes by Streetlife DJs, Vitalic, Château Marmont and a Spank Rock version, the whole package is well worth your attention.
Like their previous single ,’C.Y.O.A. (Choose Your Own Adventure)’, ‘Ultraviolence’ is a almighty soundclash of melody and…well…funk, with 8-bit noise and Lo’s distorted vocals.
ElectroPunk this is!
I like bands that have got the whole package and Heartsrevolution have certainly got that, from the image to the merchandise to the Heartschallenger, the pink ice cream truck they drive to parties.
Have a butcher’s at a couple of tracks from ‘Ultraviolence’, I know you’re gonna’ want the whole thing!
Don’t you just love it when you’ve got tickets to see a band you want to see (in this case Simian Mobile Disco) and they just keep piling other bands, you also want to see, onto the bill!
I found out yesterday that Fan Death are supporting!!!
Last year Fan Death released their début single ‘Veronica’s Veil’, a heady mix of dark Indie-Electro, Disco strings and Pop melodies.
I hope their live performace is as interesting as they seem to be, it should be a cool night.
Hey, another post topic decided on by gig tickets!
I just managed to get hold of tickets for Mystery Jets as part of the NME tour, I had thought they were sold out but after a bit of digging I managed to get hold of some. I’m not at all bothered about Mystery Jets, I want to see the support act, Little Boots.
So now seems a good time to blog about Little Boots because soon she is going to be huge and blogging about her will be far too passé 😉 .
Little Boots is Victoria Hesketh, ex of Dead Disco, (with a little help from Hot Chip‘s Joe Goddard) who is fast on her way to becoming one of the finest electronic songwriters this country has ever produced.
The focus of a recent article in The Guardian about women in electro, Little Boots connects with her fans by uploading videos to YouTube of her performing covers suggested to her by her channels viewers. The cover versions proove just how talented she is, she’ll just sit there with her piano, a Stylophone and her Tenori-on and knock them out! And, boy!, what this girl can do with a Tenori-On…completely made me change my mind about the device!
Ideally I’d be wanting to write about new music and stuff, but there’s also so much from the last six months or so that I want to share. I have no idea where to begin.
This morning my tickets to see La Roux (supporting Lily Allen) in Shepherd’s Bush showed up, so I guess that is a good enough place to start…
London’s La Roux, the latest signing to the mighty Kitsuné Music, is an odd beast. I think it would be fair to say La Roux is a bit like Marmite, you’ll either love it or hate it. I wasn’t so sure when I first heard it but it has very much grown on me, I kinda’ have a thing for female vocalists with quirky voices though.
So grab yourself some of Elly Jackson’s unique, to say the least, voice over some addictivly funky SynthPop…
Seeing as how La Roux is going to be supporting Lily Allen I’ll throw you this unofficial reMix of her forthcoming single, which I picked up from PrettyMuchAmazing!, too:
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