Mar 30 2010

Penguin Prison & Starsmith; who could ask for more?

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After his sterling work on Ellie Goulding’s number 1 album, SynthPop prodigy Starsmith is back in the reMixing game and there’s not an artist I can thin of who I rather hear him reMix than Penguin Prison.

Tackling ‘The Worse It Gets’ for Penguin Prison’s recent double A side Starsmith turns in a sheer brilliant slice of Nu-Disco styled electronic Pop. The man was one of the most talented electronic music producers around anyway but I think his time chillin’ with Messrs Chimes and Grum has been a good influence on him! Really looking forward to his solo EP!

♫ Penguin Prison – The Worse It Gets (Starsmith reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)

‘The Worse It Gets’/‘Something I’m Not’ is out now on Neon Gold.

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Mar 27 2010

Penguin Prison; The Worse It Gets

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It’s hard to say which is better between Penguin Prison’s ‘Something I’m Not’ and this track, it’s B-Side, ‘The Worse It Gets’. ‘Something I’m Not’ is more infectious, but this track is more upbeat and poppy. Tough call!

Listen for yourself, along with these two remixes by R.A.C. (reMix Artists Collective) who give the track a lightweight funky overhaul and minimal neo-classical electro artist ELOF who turns the track into a cute Lo-Fi SynthPop masterpiece.

♫ Penguin Prison – The Worse It Gets (zShare) (MediaFire)

♫ Penguin Prison – The Worse It Gets (R.A.C. reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)

♫ Penguin Prison – The Worse It Gets (ELOF reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)

‘The Worse It Gets’/‘Something I’m Not’ is out now from Neon Gold:

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Mar 15 2010

Penguin Prison reMixes

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We’re still kinda’ reeling over how addictive Penguin Prison’s ‘Something I’m Not’ is and it’s not even out yet!

So a whole mess of reMixes is gonna’ keep us from jonesing for the single for as while, kicking off with (again!) the Cardiff crew, Friends Electric, who seem to be infiltrating electronic rumors on the sly, not that we mind if they keep dropping Electro monsters like this one! Luxury Living go deep into the subs with this heavy dub/80’s Electro hybrid that has a killer payoff toward the end of the track. Finally Krispin Korg gets straight up funky with a New York disco-esq Dreamwave mix.

♫ Penguin Prison – Something I’m Not (Friends Electric reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)

♫ Penguin Prison – Something I’m Not (Luxury Living reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)

♫ Penguin Prison – Something I’m Not (Krispin Korg reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)

‘The Worse It Gets’/‘Something I’m Not’ is released 22nd March on Neon Gold.

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Feb 23 2010

Penguin Prison reMix Jack Peñate

electronic rumors fave, Penguin Prison, has reMixed Indie/alternative singer Jack Peñate’s track of last year ‘So Near’ and effortlessly made it his own.

Creating a funky, soulful, ElectroPop gem, this could be a PP track. It so different from the original whilst keeping the song structure and making it sound like it was always written to be an ElectroPop track. Genius!

♫ Jack Peñate – So Near (Penguin Prison reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)

Penguin Prison has such a huge year ahead of him!

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Feb 17 2010

New Penguin Prison single

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Like a tidal wave of awesomeness, more goodness comes crashing out of the Neon Gold camp.

In March Penguin Prison is releasing his new single ‘Something I’m Not’, which will be a double A-side with ‘The Worse It Gets’.

Slightly darker and dirtier than PP’s previous outing, but this is no bad thing. ‘Something I’m Not’ has a real raw electronic Pop sound, the song itself is expertly crafter modern pop but the use of rough sounding analog synths gives it that edge that works so well.

♫ Penguin Prison – Something I’m Not (zShare) (MediaFire)

‘The Worse It Gets’/‘Something I’m Not’ is released 22nd March.

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Feb 1 2010

Penguin Prison reMix Ellie Goulding

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Ellie Goulding’s ‘Starry Eyed’ appears to be taking the world by storm (the UK at least)! Make no mistake, this is a good thing The more Neon-Gold-knows-how-to-pick-‘em intelligent Electro tunes the better!

Of course, there is the inevitable flood of reMixes, but this one by Penguin Prison and Theophilus London stands head and shoulders above the crowd. PP is New York’s latest hip bedroom ElectroPopper who floored us all a few months back with his ‘A Funny thing’ and continues to keep us interested with a string of really good reMixes like an American Starsmith.

Check it out:

♫ Ellie Goulding (Feat. Theophilus London) – Starry Eyed (Penguin Prison reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)

Ellie’s ‘Starry Eyed’ is out on 22nd February. It’s already doing well, help it along here:

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Dec 2 2009

Penguin Prison reMixed by Monarchy

Neon Gold certainly live up to their name, time and time again they churn out top act after top act.

Last month NG’s next hot artist Penguin Prison released his début single ‘Animal Aninal/A Funny Thing’, which generated a lot of hype with it’s bubbly ElectroPop catchiness.

Here we have a reMix of ‘A Funny Thing’ by London Indie-Synthsters Monarchy who make the track just that little bit deeper.

♫ Penguin Prison – A Funny Thing (Monarchy reMix) (zShare) (MediaFire)

Penguin Prison have also released into the wild an instrumental of the tune.

♫ Penguin Prison – A Funny Thing (Instrumental) (zShare) (MediaFire)

‘Animal Aminal/A Funny Thing’ is out now.

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