Sep 13 2013

[Audio] FM Attack’s ‘Deja Vu’ album

This week, SynthWave innovator and one of the most underrated producers around, Vancouver’s FM Attack, released his long awaited new album. As one of the producers on-board with the Dreamwave sound in it’s infancy, FM Attack has been a constant staple of the scene who’s releases are always looked forward to with anticipation. Clocking up some pretty high profile reMixes in-between albums just goes to show the regard Shawn Ward is held in amongst dance music producers. This new records, Deja Vu, sees FM Attack lean more in a traditional song direction, and the results are well worth your attention.

From the opening beats of With You Tonight, you know you’re in for an Italo infused SynthPop treat. It;s a breezy, romantic tune, full of musical nostalgia and human vocals, and sets the scene for Deja Vu. The Greek voice of retro Pop Kristine makes her first of two appearances on the album on Magic which, like it’s counterpart Runaway, is a emotionally charged slick of authentic 80s Pop laden with icy synths played against a warm bassline and Kristine’s powerful Pop-Rock vocal style. It’s a classic Pop tune, as opposed to Runaway’s more infectious Electro Boogie stylings. Elsewhere on the album you’ll fine the compelling Robo Disco of Corazon, otherworldly and machine-like rub shoulders with the finger snapping, soulful Italo groove of Activate, a vocoder fuelled android’s lament. Tears Don’t Lie and Lost Angeles bring something a little more traditionally SynthWave to the table, showing of their 80s soundtrack music DNA in two very different ways, energetic & Poppy and pensive & resonant. In the middle of the release sits the Julian Sanza featuring Fade Away, an unusual excursion into Balearic Italo with 90s euphoric Trance leads. Deja Vu definitely lives up to what we hope for with a new FM Attack release. Shawn has outdone himself again, we suggest you check it out.

♫ FM Attack (Feat. Kristine) – Magic

♫ FM Attack – Activate

♫ FM Attack (Feat. Kristine) – Runaway

♫ FM Attack – With You Tonight

FM Attack’s Deja Vu is out now.

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Sep 13 2013

[Video] Icona Pop’s ‘All Night’

This is the video for ElectroPop rabble rousers Icona Pop’s presumable soon-to-be smash hit All Night, that’ll be more shouty, chaotic, thumping Pop music then.

Dori Oskowitz directs the clip, which is 30% celebration of New York’s ballroom scene, 70% product placement. But, hey, we’ve all got to earn a living.

This duo’s début album, to be titled This Is… with drop in September.

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Sep 12 2013

[MP3] Final DJs reMix Janet Jackson’s ‘That’s The Way Love Goes’

One of our favourite German exports, the awesome duo Final DJs, are on a bit of a reMix roll at the moment. having recently turned in a storming mix of Stevie Nick’s Stand Back, the guys now turn their attention to Janet Jackson’s 90s hit That’s The Way Love Goes. Unusually choice for a track, but the Nu-Disco twosome really run with it.

More House oriented that Final Djs usual output, this reMix keeps the original’s soulful swing and pairs it with a shuffling, Garagey beat and pulsating warehouse bassline. Staying true to the early 90s sounds of the Jackson single, Final DJs conjure a Pop-Dance vibe true to the era. sustained strings, a trope of the time, are utilised to great effect here, tempering the tough groove to allow Jackson’s vocals to flow over the track like water.

♫ Janet Jackson – That’s The Way Love Goes (Final DJs reMix)

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Sep 11 2013

[Audio] MiGHty mOUse reMixes Decibels

Last week we presented the reMix of UK Electro-Art-Poppers Decibels’ Regulator/Moderator from Earl Grey, here’s the other inclusion, in a pretty stunning reMix package, that had us excited. It’s a version turned in by MiGHty mOUse. Standing out alongside work from Bufi, Tronik Youth, Discotexas head honcho Mr. Mitsuhirato and Earl Grey is no mean feat, but the mOUse gets cosmic freaky with this one. Prepare to go deep down the mOUse hole.

Setting things up in pretty eerie style, MiGHty mOUse goes for a slow build crafted from mysterious tones and spine-tingling synths before launching into a deep, hypnotic track that blurs the lines between Cosmic Disco, Nu-Disco and Deep House. Giving the vocals a House twist, the mOUse lawyers them over a thrumming bassline and warehouse beat peppered with Disco licks and galactic keys. An otherworldly slab of Boogie for you.

♫ Decibels – Regulator-Moderator (MiGHty mOUse reMix)

Decibels’ Regulator/Moderator is out now.

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Sep 11 2013

[MP3] Pat Lok reMixes Disclosure & Eliza Doolittle’s ‘You & Me’

We got our hands on this one last week, and it serves us well on our travels this past weekend. It’s Canadian House & Disco master Pat Lok with his reMix of Disclosure and Eliza Doolittle’s hit You & Me, from Disclosure’s number one album Settle, and Man is it huge! This track;s right on point to dominate dancefloors int he coming months.

Deep, bassy, swept up with Rave leads, this reMix delivers a hedonistic cacophony of concentrated electronic sounds. Brutally ripping Doolittle’s vocal from the original, Lok pairs them with a growling, system destroying, beast whos subs hit you like a gut punch while you head is kept busy with layer upon layer of Rave stabs. Already getting support from some of the scenes biggest names, expect to hear a lot more from this one if you frequent the right clubs.

♫ Disclosure (Feat. Eliza Doolittle) – You & Me (Pat Lok ‘Homies Wear’ reMix)

Disclosure’s Settle album is out now.

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Sep 10 2013

[Video] Little Boots’ ‘Satellite’

With the reMix package for ElectroPop queen Little Boots’ Satellite upon us, here’s the brand new video for the track, the fifth to be taken from Boots’ Nocturnes. It’s a good choice for a single from a very good album.

Co-Directed by Victoria Hesketh herself & Sam Brown and was filmed inside The Blackpool Tower in Boots’ hometown.

Little Boots’ Satellite single is out now.

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Sep 4 2013

[Audio] Strangers’ ‘Don’t Lie To Me’

Last week we wrote a little something about London SynthPoppers Strangers’ cover of Arctic Monkeys’ Why’d You Only Call Me When Your High?, a free download that we mentioned was September’s instalment in Strangers’ free-track-every-month-until-X-mas effort. That was a massive lie, because here, three days later, is September’s actual free track, Don’t Lie To Me. What can we learn from this? Strangers never sleep, that’s what.

Don’t Lie To Me is Strangers hitting going gritty. It’s a dark, sleazy tune in the tradition of the best 80s SynthPop. Pounding Industrial beats, growling bass synths and screaming drones make up the soundtrack as David delivers his vocals with an undercurrent of Dave Gahan-esque aggression. In fact, this is the most Depeche Mode-like tune from Strangers to date, and that’s no bad thing, especially as with their contemporary influences and David’s unique voice the cam take the DM sound and really make it their own.

♫ Strangers – Don’t Lie To Me

Don’t Lie To Me will be available to download next week.

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Sep 4 2013

[Audio] Pet Shop Boys’ ‘Love Is A Bourgeois Construct’ reMixed by The Penelopes

This week Pet Shop Boys released their new single, Love Is A Bourgeois Construct, taken from their recent Electric album. We already introduced you to the funky-as-all-hell reMix from Little Boots earlier this week, so let’s grab a listen to another reworking, this time from London based French ElectroPop duo The Penelopes.

Choosing to concentrate on, and highlight, the track’s background strings and horns brings a whole new infection to the track and pairing them with a bouncy Electro backing, fitted with chainsaw synth hooks and pumping beats, give the track a subtler dancefloor vibe to the original’s in-you-face kicks. A slick slice of ElectroPop with a baroque feel and a certain majestic quality to it. Neil’s voice has never sounded so cinematic.

♫ Pet Shop Boys – Love Is A Bourgeois Construct (The Penelopes Official reMix)

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Sep 4 2013

[Video] Tensnake & Fiora’s ‘See Right Through’

Acclaimed German House producer Tensnake’s new double A-side single single, See Right Though/58 BPM, featuring Fiora, has already had one video treatment, now the single’s lead track has gone all visual on our asses!

The See Right Through video is more narrative than it’s counterpart, being a proper story, rather and flashing lights.

Tensnake’s See Right Through is out now.

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Sep 3 2013

[Audio] Earl Grey reMixes Decibels’ ‘Regulator/Moderator’

British Electro-Art-Poppers Decibels continue to plunder the rich treasures of the UK Nu-Disco and House worlds for reMix talent as this week they released their new single, Regulator/Moderator, whose list of reMixers reads like a whos who is the movers and shakers on the scene. Alongside work from the likes of Bufi, Tronik Youth and Discotexas head honcho Mr. Mitsuhirato and MiGHty mOUse comes this huge tune from Earl Grey. Hold tight!

Mr. Ashenden dives head first into left-field House with his work on this one. Playfully weaving a track around a pulsating bass beat, that gets kinda’ hypnotic by the end of the tune, the Earl of Grey braps out with intertwining waves of synth effects and snatched melodies. The Slo-Mo tempo carries over to the modulated vocals, taking on an almost eerie quality while the track transfixes you for it’s four and a half minute duration.