Mar 13 2012

Marina And The Diamonds’ new single

Marina And The Diamonds’ next single from her forthcoming ‘Electra heart’ album is ‘Primadonna’.

this time she’s rocking a big Electro sound, as far as attempts at a big Marina dance track it’s a million times better than the Stargate produced mis-step ‘Radioactive’, I still can’t shake the feeling that Marina is being forced in with bland dance producers by her record label. Which is a shame, given room to do her own thing, as with her first record, the results are amazing.

‘Primadonna’ is out soon.

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Mar 12 2012

Little Boots’ new mixtape

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Little Boots – Into The Future Mixtape = Here’s yet another mixtape from ElectroPop queen Little Boots. She’s on a roll with them these days! Expect forty minutes of slammin’ electronic dance with an unexpected darkness.

♫ Little Boots – Into The Future Mixtape

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Mar 4 2012

FM Attack reworks Richard Marx

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Pure gold! One of Canada’s best synth exports and one of our favourite producers FM Attack taking on Richard Marx 1987 power ballad début ‘Should Have Known Better’.

The wavy mullet’s voice with FM Attack’s sweet retro synths is a match made in heaven. No only does FM Attack provide a slick as hell ‘80’s sounding Electro backing that works the right bits of the song at the right time, but he also liberally applies some lush vocoding to Mr. Marx’s vocals. The whole thing shows a great respect to the original track, but take it so much further, to the point where you couldn’t listen to the original again without somehow feeling that the stuff here was missing. Powerful, uplifting, nostalgic synth awesomeness.

♫ Richard Marx – Should Have Known Better (FM Attack 2012 Radio reMix)

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Feb 29 2012

Radio INK’s ‘Who We Are Tonight’ video

We haven’t heard from Australian ElectroPopsters Radio INK since last years ‘Rocket’ single, but they’re back with a brand new track, the first off of their forthcoming début album, and a shiny new video.

‘Who We Are Tonight’ is the kind of massive electronic Pop that we’ve come to expect from this Antepodean troupe with a massive chorus. Not too sure what’s going on in the Jefferton James directed video, but it looks nice.

Radio INK are going on tour in Oz with Aqua of all people! Details on their website.

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Feb 28 2012

Ronika’s ‘Automatic’

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Woo-hoo! It’s new Ronika single time! Ron’s been really busy recently, running all over the place doing stuff for, amongst others, the Red Bull Music Academy, Shook and Me, how she’s crammed in the time to get her groove back on with a new EP I have no idea. The girl’s a workaholic, or a grooveaholic if you will.

‘Automatic’ is PopJustice song-of-the-day today, PJ claims Ronika isn’t from the ‘80’s but I’m not convinced. Frankly I’m not sure what is actually more likely, that someone can make tracks this good, and this authentically ‘80’s DiscoPop or that someone could have invented a time machine in secret sometime around 1983/84. With ‘Automatic’ Ron has dropped a massive slab of Pop-Funk with an addictive bassline, a catchy chorus and a solo that flies. It’s not all retro goodness though, there’s enough modern elements in the track to keep it sounding contemporary, inn fact, it sounds like a Nu-Disco edit of ‘80’s Pop hit. Also 5 Star.

♫ Ronika – Automatic

Ronika is stepping out in the next couple of months, catch her here:

22nd March – Manchester @ The Castle
23rd March – Nottingham @ Bodega Social Club
24th March – Bristol @ The Thekla
10th April – London @ The Old Blue Last (Single Launch)
21st April – Glasgow Death Disco @ The Arches
17th June – London @ Lovebox Festival

You can pre-order the pay-what-you-want ‘Automatic’ EP here.

Ronika also appears on ‘electronic rumors Volume 1′, out now!

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Feb 28 2012

Goin’ Old School: Eurythmics, Bronski Beat, Art Of Noise & Max Headroom

Goin’ Old School isn’t a trip down music memory lane, it’s a mugging in the dark alleyway of nostalgia:

ZZT experimentalists The Art Of Noise teamed up with the best thing on TV in 1986, Max Headroom, and released ‘Paranoimia’, an ode to Max’s insanity.

Future basslines and vocoding in Eurythmics ‘Sexcrime (Nineteen Eighty Four)’, the soundtrack to the movie adaptation of Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, in, well, 1984.

Sommerville era Bronski Beat best tune, 1984’s ‘Why?’.

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Feb 27 2012

Marina’s ‘Homewrecker’

Marina And The Diamonds

We don’t mind saying that Marina And The Diamonds has been, and is, one of our favourite singer/songwriters of the past few years, we also don’t mind saying that her last single, ‘Radioactive’, was a big let-down. ‘Radioactive’ was a pretty awesome song that suffered from some atrocious, and really dated, ‘90’s hands-in-the-air Trance production from Stargate. Marina’s new track, ‘Homewrecker’, thankfully restores our faith in her.

Marinas uniqueness in her personality, approach to creativity and especially her voice, is her biggest asset, ‘Radioactive’ tried to hide that and homogenize her, ‘Homewrecker’ shines a spotlight back on it. It;s big ol’ stumpy ElectroPop tune taken from her forthcoming ‘Electra Heart’ album. We’re not sure whether this is Marina or Electra talking though, probably Electra.

♫ Marina And The Diamonds – Homewrecker

Marina And The Diamonds’ next proper single will be ‘Primadonna’

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Feb 24 2012

Goin’ Old School: Camouflage, The Rock Steady Crew & Tracy Spencer

Goin’ Old School isn’t a trip down music memory lane, it’s a mugging in the dark alleyway of nostalgia:

Camouflage’s dark Pop classic from 1987, ‘The Great Commandment’.

‘Uprock’ was The Rock Steady Crew’s 1984 follow up to the amazing ‘(Hey You) The Rock Steady Crew’

From 1985 here’s some big Italo-Pop from Tracy Spencer’s ‘Run To Me’.

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Feb 24 2012

Beyoncé reMixes; don’t ask again.

Beyoncé

Have you ever seen that episode of hit-and-miss medical comedy Scrubs where the main characters see a report on TV about some new health scare and all simultaneously let out a groan of exasperation as they know that the hospital, where they work, is now going to be flooded with needy members of the public buying into the latest medial panic? Well that’s how it feels to be a music blogger when a big name, such as Beyoncé, announces a reMix competition.

That said, here’s some reMixes of ‘End Of Time’ we have liked. Monsieur Adi’s mix is unsurprising stunning work. A deep, majestic, euphoric big room jam that’s got to be a god bet for winner. Max Action delivers a top quality buzzing, cut-up, Electro mix. The reMix from Final DJs sees them getting a bit more of their Funk on than usual, mixing it up with their bright SynthWave to smooth effect. Ren Riz take a shiny Disco approach with some huge chords and gets every last drop of groove out of those horns. Lastly Big C serves up an ‘80’s Pop jam, which is actually a pretty good approximation of what this track would have sounded like if it was releases in 1986.

Right, don’t expect any more.

♫ Beyoncé – End Of Time (Monsieur Adi reMix)

♫ Beyoncé – End Of Time (Max Action Rmx)

♫ Beyoncé – End Of Time (Final DJs NuDisco reMix)

♫ Beyoncé – End Of Time (Ren Riz Re-Edit)

♫ Beyoncé – End Of Time (Big C reMix)

You can vote for the tracks here, or something.

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Feb 23 2012

New single from Vanbot

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Woo-Hoo! Here’s the new single from Swedish ElectroPop queen Vanbot!

Proving once and for all that the awesomeness that was her self-titled début album of last year wasn’t a one off. ‘Got To Get Out’ is a sublime and atmospheric slice of DancePop. Unmistakably Scandinavian and majestic ‘Got To Get Out’ is euphoric ElectroPop with a sense of urgency. In her own words “’Got To Get Out’ is about my hometown Stockholm and how it’s filled with people experiencing a sense of isolation and separation, how it makes you feel lonely in a crowd,” she explains. “It’s fascinating that people can live so close together without really noticing one another. It’s about exploring the city nightlife and the tendencies people have to chase after the experiences that will cause the best story to tell the next day instead of enjoying the happiness of the moment.”.