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Mar 27 2013

[Audio] L’Equipe Du Son’s ‘Transmissions’

It’s been about a year since the release of Dutch SynthWave and Nu-disco producer L’Equipe Du Son released his début album, Supersonic. We’ve been writing about this guy for a while now and eagerly awaiting his second full length offering. Transmissions, his sophomore record sees L’Equipe Du Son taking a slightly harder route, injecting his laid back Boogie with some tough Electro elements and influences as wide ranging as Acid and House.

There’s nothing on Transmissions as overtly retro as Playground Rebels, instead we find fifteen tracks of synthesizer Funk with gritty dancefloor edge. The album is interspersed with skits and interludes that create a nice cohesion to the collection, but from the first proper track, Transmission 1 Le Rocker, with it’s cut-up Disco and grinding synth leads you get a sense of what you’re in for. Taking the rough Dirty Disco leads to an Acidic extreme whist keeping a huge French Touch groove going. This is swiftly followed by Supermarche, wich sees L’Equipe Du Son’s SynthWave roots shine though with warbling basslines, stabbing vintage chords and electro tom rolls. L’Equipe Du Son the proceeds to hit you with all the colours of the dance music rainbow. C’Est L’Equipe Son! is fairly standard Nu-disco, Beauty Is The Light delivers full-on Chicago House and Lesson 2 swings back to an explicit filtered house groove. But it’s when L’Equipe Du Son strays from the standard Disco path that this album rally shines. Little Maniacs is a gruff Disco tune with more than a spoonful of Industrial Techno while Love Connection is the albums concession to pure SynthWave, a rolling synthesizer epic, providing the album with some much needed soloing. The album closes on Transmission 2 Snowballing and Falling Down, two tracks that send off the record by returning it to it’s hard hitting beginnings as the synths get turned up to eleven for the finale. Transmissions is a solid release, a bit of a departure from the urban Boogie of Supersonic maybe, but storming enough for any dancefloor.

♫ L’Equipe Du Son – Supermarche

♫ L’Equipe Du Son – Little Maniacs

♫ L’Equipe Du Son – Transmission 1 Le Rocker

♫ L’Equipe Du Son – Love Connection

L’Equipe Du Son Transmissions is released this week on Silhouette Music.

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[Video] Chris Malinchak’s ‘So Good To Me’

Here’s the video for New Yorker Chris Malinchak’s dreamy new single, So Good To Me. Already Pete Tong’s ‘Essential New Tune’, this summer slice of electronic haze looks poised to do big things.

The video was premièred at the weekend by Ministry Of Sound TV and presents a youthful innocence that fits the track well. And Giraffes.

Chris Malinchak’s So Good To Me is released 5th May.

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♫ Arcade High – On The Edge Of Summer (Jordan F reMix)

[MP3] Arcade High reMixed by Jordan F

Well, this is just a meeting of two SynthWave minds that we’ve been looking forward to for a while. Back in July last year, Pittsburgh producer Arcade High released his track On The Edge Of Summer, which closely followed his excellent The Art Of Youth album. Now, with summer approaching (hello UK, yes, this is sarcasm) a year later the mighty Jordan F has delivered his reworking of the tune. Time to get on the edge of summer once more.

Jordan smoothes out the spikey production of the original, give it more of a sunkissed feel. If the original heralded the warmer months from an urban rooftop, Jordan F’s reMix welcomes the sun from a prime position on a lounger by the pool. Loaded with lush, thick, synths and playful melodies, Jordan, never one to get complacent with his music, performs a brilliant tempo adjusted breakdown before launching into the track’s Disco’d out finale. Synthesizer bliss.

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[Video] Toro Y Moi’s ‘Never Matter’

The new single from Chillwave superstar Toro Y Moi is Never Matter, another cut taken from his excellent album, Anything In Return.

Here’s the video. The clip’s directed by Steve Daniels, who also directed the Still Sound video, and is full of dancing as flea-markets.

Toro Y Moi’s Anything In Return is out now.

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[MP3] Neon Workout’s ‘Discotheque’

Here’s the new one from Sweedish Electro producer Neon Workout. he’s been pretty prolific in the last few months with a string of reMixes and originals. His latest, Discotheque, is a free download and the prefect piece of robotic Disco. This is what Cybermen get down to.

Pounding drums, punchy synths and a rolling Italo bassline all slot in place, but the track has more to offer than that. Interesting little live sounding fills and a robo’d up sample give the tune a quirky edge, injecting a little fun into a hard hitting dance track. Littered with dancefloor pleasing drops, and 80s references, Discotheque is one for the peak of dancing.

♫ Neon Workout – Discotheque

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[Audio] Auxiliary Tha Masterfader’s ‘Music For Discotheques’ EP

We’ve had a couple of sneaky peaks at Dutch Disco don Auxiliary Tha Masterfader’s new EP, Music For Discotheques, but the EP was released today so now we can get a better look at the chunky release. We say chunky because this is a packed EP, six tracks, four originals from Aux and two reMixes, the previously posted Phunktastike reMix and a storming tune from Worship.

The EP leads with Rule The Night, which featured vocals from Kiss The Panther’s Steve Kimber, which kicks off proceedings in fine fashion. Rule The Night is an exotic cocktail of bouncing Italo bass, vintage Disco keys and huge, dramatic, vocals. A rousing call-to-arms for Disco lovers, Rule The Night takes you down the backstreets of the genre to the best parties. One of the EP’s other highlights is the driving space Italo of Manhattan 78. Bordering on EBM with it’s unrelenting arpeggiated bassline, Manhattan 78 tempers this urgency with lush synths and magical lead lines making the track both powerful and beautiful. Alongside these, and the previously heard Sweaty Disco Night and Phunktastike’s version of Rule The Night is the 70s synth Disco groove of Ride Wit Tha Funk and Swiss Dreamwaver Worship’s take on Sweaty Disco Night. Worship combines his hazy cosmic synths and Aux’s dirty Disco for some serious Cosmic Disco with a touch of Moog Funk. Music For Discotheques is a loaded EP with enough to keep you happy for ages.

♫ Auxiliary Tha Masterfader (Feat. Steve Kimber) – Rule The Night

♫ Auxiliary Tha Masterfader – Manhattan 78

♫ Auxiliary Tha Masterfader – Sweaty Disco Night (Worship reMix)

Auxiliary Tha Masterfader’s Music For Discotheques EP is out now.

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[Audio] Shook’s ‘Tonight’

The Dutch music master Shook has dropped his final single release before his long awaited début album hits. The album is due later this spring, and this track, Tonight, give us a little insight as to what to expect. As usual it’s musically head and shoulder above most of his contemporaries.

The multi-instrumentalist in Shook shines thought in Tonight, it’s a sumptuous, Funk fuelled, juggernaut that works little guitar riffs, loaded slap bass and Shook’s beloved electric piano to ring every last drop of euphoric grove out of them. The muted riff gives the track a funky urgency that’s nicely counterpointed with the lazy piano and hazy vocoded vocals. Tonight will definitely stick in your head, maybe even until Shook’s album drops.

♫ Shook – Tonight

Shook’s Tonight is out now.

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[Audio] Silenx reMixes Phunktastike

Mid-last year Argentinian producer Phunktastike delivered his excellent single, Love In The 80s. Now that track is getting a full-on reMix package courtesy of Logical Records and amongst the packed nine track release sits this gem from our friend Silenx. Once again Silenx brings something a little different to the table and washes it in Sci-Fi synths.

Occupying a similar post-Italo territory to the likes of Cinnamon Chasers, Silenx’s mix of Love In The 80s brings an Italo arrangement right up to date with slick production. This is one of Silenx’s best to date, and that’s saying something as the man has an impressive catalogue. It’s got a smooth retro feel, but with enough dancefloor kick to keep Disco lovers happy. Layers with rich, emotional, progressions the song really strikes a chord layering a resonant track with intricate melodies and leads. Beautiful space age noise.

♫ Phunktastike – Love In The 80’s (Silenx reMix)

Phunktastike’s Love In The 80’s: The reMixes is out now.

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[Mixtape] Le Youth’s new mixtape

Le Youth – Solé Fixtape Vol. 9 = Some smooth summer vibes now from LA Disco producer Le Youth and another tape from those bike people. I’m not sure if mixtapes and bikes go together particularly week, it’s starting to look like cheep advertising, but Le Youth’s tape rocks, just the thing to warm you up this winter, complete with tape flips too!

♫ Le Youth – Solé Fixtape Vol. 9

The tracklist:
01. Fabolous (Feat. Tamia) – So Into You
02. Perseus – Russian Girlfriends
03. Moon Boots – Got Somebody
04. Lil’ Flip – Sunshine
05. Le Youth – C O O L (Le Youth Rock The Boat Edit)
06. Chris Malinchak – Beside Me
07. Avant – Reaction
08. Air Zaïre – Play
09. Jade – Every Day Of The Week (Finnebassen Remake)
10. Mase – All I Ever Wanted + Flip Tape
11. R.Kelly (Feat. Keri Hilson) – Number One Sex
12. Rotkraft – To Love You (Vancington reMix) (Le Youth Edit)
13. Behling & Simpson – Politics
14. Destiny’s Child – Say My Name (Cyril Hahn reMix)

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