More bouncy, madcap, Pop-House from Australian producer of much prolificness BeNi.
This new single ‘Someone Just Like You’ is taken from BeNi’s acclaimed album of last year, ‘House Of BeNi’. Check the video, it;s a kaleidoscope as BeNi’s music.
‘Someone Just Like You’ is out soon.
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We’ve covered Newcastle based Indie-Electro outfit Mausi’s new single ‘Sol.’ a couple of times in the past month, including the awesome Lightwaves’ reMix. The single is out this week, so what better time to check out the video.
Mausi seem to be having a good time! Well, you would if your début single was about to be released wouldn’t you?
‘Sol.’ is released this week.
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Sometimes a track comes along that just makes your face hurt from smiling. Out friends Coloureds have delivered the goods again, in the form of their take on Peter Gabriel’s ‘Sledgehammer’.
The Yellow and Blue noise terrorists give Gabriel what can only be described as a “right sonic seeing to in a back alley” as the layer their trademark chainsaw synths over ‘Sledgehammer’s Pop-Funk vibe. Coloureds are maturing so fast in their sound, shown by how intact they keeps the original song structure, and how much of the underlying groove they retain whist still blowing your ears with their aural assault. No longer a choice between dirty, distorted, confusing in-your-face Electro and dancefloor working Disco. Coloureds have mastered both.
♫ Peter Gabriel – Sledgehammer (Coloureds reMix)
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We were pretty excited about the return of Saint Etienne with a studio album and it;s initial single ‘Tonight’, now we can get excited all over again with the video!
British city streets at night, that’s exactly what comes to mind when you think of Saint Etienne!
Download ‘Tonight’ for free at www.saintetienne.com.
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British DJ Shit Hot Soundsystem shows us how edits should be done with his dancefloor rework of Junior’ ‘Mamma Used To Say’.
First off, it’s an inspired choice of track to edit, just on track choice alone SHS has already got the dancefloor in the palm of his hand, by layering the big beats and squelchy cosmic synths. Shit Hot Soundsystem brings the best bits of the original and makes the work harder than they’ve ever worked before.
♫ Junior – Mama Used To Say (Shit Hot Soundsystem Edit)
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Goin’ Old School isn’t a trip down music memory lane, it’s a mugging in the dark alleyway of nostalgia:
This week we’re kicking it TOTP style with three performances, first up The Human League in 1982 with ‘Mirror Man’.
A year later Yazoo’s ‘Nobody’s Diary’ from 1983.
And finally, ‘Things Can Only Get Better’ in 1985 from Howard Jones.
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Here’s the new video for Graph Gonzales’ wonderfully ‘80’s ‘Eyes In The Dark’, which we featured last year.
Jason Bowers directs this slick Pop clip. We’re still finding the tune pretty addictive, it;s the big retro chorus that Graph pull off so well!
‘Eyes In The Dark’ is out now.
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In the continuing saga of Edit/reMix confusion Venice Beach’s latest ‘reMix’ shows us exactly how an Edit should be done with their take on the Dub version of Rockwell’s classic ‘Somebody’s Watching Me’.
At their core, edits should just be pretty much the original track but with the parts that work best on the dancefloor accentuated. They used to be things DJs made from themselves or their friends, taking a track they loved and, cutting and pasting it, bringing the bits that worked better in the Disco to the front. They were closely guarded as the DJ’s secret weapons. These days of people selling Edits and uploading theme everywhere the questions of “what is an Edit really?” and “should you credit an edit as your own work?” are hot topics right now. So, if an Edit is taking a track and making it all about the best bits of groove then Venice Beach have made a perfect Edit here. It’s all about the bassline and the wicked synth solo here. This is Nu-Disco Synth Funk gold. Something so simple as dropping some bits and looping others turn it into a completely different track, and one that completely rocks!
♫ Rockwell – Somebody’s Watching Me (Dub (Venice Beach reMix))
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Australian ElectroPop duo Sneaky Sound System must be feeling pretty pleased with themselves, they had an awesome 2011. they released their third album, ‘From Here To Anywhere’ to critical acclaim, which spawned a bunch of singles, most notably the massive ‘Big’ featuring that Oliver reMix.
They start the new year with a new single. Taken from the aforementioned album, ‘Really Want To See You Again’ get the single treatment which kicks off with an epic extended mix. This version really highlights the late ‘80’s/early ‘90’s DancePop influences on this track. Connie’s soulful and slightly gritty vocals switching from Pop Soul to House Diva effortlessly. The reMix package is pretty loaded too. Azari & III do their deep, mysterious, ‘90’s thing with the track. Cutting and pasting vocal snatches over their bass heavy Roland grooves and Sci-Fi synths. Pure deep Chicago House. Funkagenda bring us back into DiscoHouse territory adding wicked little guitar licks and a new male vocal as counterpoint to the original vocal and new heavy synth bassline. KiNK’s reMix is making some waves right now, I wouldn’t say it was my favourite of the mixes, but it’s definitely worthy of the attention, taking the track in an almost Techno direction with it’s droning synths and, er, cuckoo clock. This is the one that’ll blow up dancefloors in Europe.
♫ Sneaky Sound System – Really Want To See You Again (Extended)
♫ Sneaky Sound System – Really Want To See You Again (Azari & III reMix)
♫ Sneaky Sound System – Really Want To See You Again (Funkagenda reMix)
♫ Sneaky Sound System – Really Want To See You Again (KiNK reMix)
‘Really Want To See You Again ‘ is out soon on Modular Recordings.
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Singer/songwriter Louisa Rose Allen’s recently had a second wind, as Foxes, when Neon Gold, always with the finger on the pulse of eclectic Pop, snapped her up for the release of her new single ‘Youth’. released earlier this month.
Appropriately for Neon Gold, the single exists in the nexus between Ellie and Marina. Take Marina’s quirkiness and Ellie’s percussion led bombast and wrap them up with impassioned vocals and a sense of accessibility and it should see Foxes make quite a mark in 2012. You know Neon Gold has an eye for these things. The internet has been graced with some wonderful reMixes of the tune too. Pyramid, who début is still regularly playlisted round these parts, delivers an seriously impressive, driving, SynthWave mix. With a real analog rawness to it, yet still with a Pop sheen. Some majestic organs elevate a track which is probably my favourite version of the song, which is saying a lot when you hear the other reMix. Monsieur Adi, who since his début has done no wrong in our eyes, turns in an awesome, rhythmically exciting, slice of soaring Nu-DiscoPop. Frantic drumming and dagger sharp synth leads and a hint of Samba all fall into Adi’s melting pot and the result is a seven minute aural party.
♫ Foxes – Youth (Pyramid reMix)
♫ Foxes – Youth (Monsieur Adi reMix)
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