Oct 8 2011

Goin’ Old School: Fiction Factory – Feels Like Heaven

Chillin’ today. 1983’s ‘Feels Like Heaven’ from Fiction Factory.

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Oct 3 2011

Queen Of Hearts’ ‘Shoot The Bullet’ video

Boom! It’s the video for Queen Of Hearts’ ‘shoot The Bullet’ which, having a video, we presume is the lead track from her ‘Arrival EP’.

The The Sound Of Arrows produced track less catchy dancefloor, more sweeping SynthPop epic and might just possible be my favourite Queen track so far. Gotta’ love a bit of majesty in your Pop, and ‘Shoot The Bullet’ is huge and powerful.

The Arrival EP’ was released yesterday, but it now. Really. Do it.

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Sep 30 2011

Goin’ Old School: Men Without Hats – The Safety Dance

Men Without Hats. ‘The Safety Dance’. 1982. SsssAaaaFfffTtttEeeeYyyy…

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Sep 28 2011

Goin’ Old School: Kon Kan – I Beg Your Pardon

Kon Kan’s ‘I Beg Your Pardon’ from 1988. Maybe you had to be there?

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Sep 24 2011

Zebra And Snake’s ‘Empty Love Song’

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Can you hear that? That’s the sound of Zebra And Snake channelling early New Order and Joy Division with a twist of their own.

Not what I expected from the Finnish twosome, ‘Empty Love Song’ is cute and dark art the same time, sparse yet indicate. With a sound reminiscant Ian Curtis’ vocals and the snare from ‘True Faith’ those early ‘80’s comparisons are inevitable, but on further listening it’s actually the style of songwriting that is most evocative of that era. I think up until this point I’d only heard reMixes from these two, definitely looking forward to hearing more original work.

♫ Zebra And Snake – Empty Love Song

‘Empty Love Song’ is taken from Zebra And Snake’s album ‘Healing Music’, due out Spring 2012.

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Sep 24 2011

Laidback Luke & Black Cards reMix Anjulie

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I’ve not come across Anjulie before, apparently she’s rockin’ gold records in her native Canada, obviously not made it this side of the Atlantic yet.

What I do know, however, is Laidback Luke has done his big Disco-House thing to her latest single ‘Brand New Bitch’ and loaded it with simple but infectious riffs and massive synth sounds. It controls the room with it;s builds like only Laidback Luke can. Black Cards also contribute a reMix, apparently this is someone from Fall Out Boy’s electronic project. It’s a tad dated, but now bad really. I’m saying ‘apparently’ in this post a lot, not really got a lot to say about either Anjulie (I don’t think I’d be a fan un-reMixed) or Fall Out Boy, the tunes are pretty good though, kinda’ what I’m in the mood for today.

♫Anjulie – Brand New Bitch (Laidback Luke reMix)

♫ Anjulie – Brand New Bitch (Black Cards reMix)

‘Brand New Bitch’ is out now.

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Sep 23 2011

Van Go Lion’s ‘Colors’

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Here’s the ElectroPop epic from Portland’s finest export Van Go Lion.

‘Colors’ is a nice slice of glitterball Pop that sees Josh slide a little Disco into his flawless ElectroPop production, this new track has a definite Kylie sheen to it in both the music and the production of Amy’s vocals, which are typically perfect power Pop. We would expect no less. More dreamlike that previous Van Go Lion tracks, ‘Colors’ isn;t as instantly catchy but washes over you in waves of electronic Pop goodness that seems to be ultimately more satisfying.