Jul 30 2010

Champagne Riot

Champagne Riot are a Danish duo, comprised of Caspar Bock and Anders Reuter, who make wonderful melodramatic Electro Indie-Pop.

Their début single is being released in September and if you give it a listen (128kbps previews below) you will find a swirling mass of 80’s sounding Pop. Uplifting and bombastic in that way only 80’s Pop ever was, there’s more than a little Erasure in these tracks, the production and arrangement is incredibly sophisticated. Most of all though, Champagne Riot are fun Pop music, but intelligent in a way that makes you forget about any rubbish chart music ever released and reinstates your love of the pure Pop song.

♫ Champagne Riot – A Friend Of A Friend

♫ Champagne Riot – Heart Stab

The ‘Heart Stab’/’A Friends Of A Fried’ double A-side is released 27th September, until then go show them some MySpace love!

Champagne Riot @ MySpace

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Jul 29 2010

Ellie and her Friends Electric

New Single ‘The Writer’ isn’t the first time Welsh Indie-ElectroPop outfit Friends Electric have reMixed Ellie Goulding. Their Mix of ‘Under The Sheets’ made our top 20 songs of 2009 and they have come on in leaps and bounds since then, both in popularity and production.

Their new mix couldn’t have been easy, it’s an awesome song but I can’t imagine it lends itself well to reMixing. But the lads have risen to the challenge and dropped this chilled summery dance track, almost Balearic in places (this is a real sunrise tune!) that still highlights Ms. Goulding’s stunning vocals.

♫ Ellie Goulding – The Writer (Friends Electric reMix)

‘The Writer’ single is released 9th August.

Ellie Goulding @ Neon Gold

Ellie Goulding @ 7Digital

Ellie Goulding @ Amazon

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Jul 28 2010

Faded Paper Figures

Faded Paper Figures are a trio from LA who make some of the quaintest ElectroPop you’ll ever hear.

Like a slightly more Indie Freezepop, cheap drum machines and toytown synths are the order of the day here. Faded Paper Figures have an immediate charm about them that is helped, in no small part, by both male and female vocals which, rather than duel, compliment and intertwine around each other. Occasionally you can hear bit of The Postal Service creeping into things, maybe some Passion Pit too, but for the most part Faded Paper Figures have a pretty unique sound of their own, one that sounds honest and heartfelt.

It’s ElectroPop that makes you feel like everything is, in fact, going to be OK!

They have just released their second album ‘New Medium’, check out two of the tracks from it:

♫ Faded Paper Figures – Invent It All Again

♫ Faded Paper Figures – Small Talk

‘New Medium’ is out now.

Faded Paper Figures @ Amazon

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Jul 27 2010

LexiconDon & NightWaves

We’ve got another reMix of LexiconDon’s awesome ‘December Sunset’, a track we’ve featured a couple of times already, this time by label mates NightWaves.

NW’s Josh and Kyle give the track more of an organic groove. Less electronic sounding, more sounding like a jam. Sweeping synths are replaced with organs giving the track a live music feel. The original is one of the best ElectroPop tracks of the year so far and this reMix takes it into the ‘best Pop song’ category too.

Still can’t kill the Simmons rolls though!

♫ LexiconDon – December Sunset (NightWaves reMix)

Be sure to check out the original track too right here.

If you’re fans of Binary records and that sweet LA SynthPop sound then keep it locked to electronic rumors in the coming weeks, we have a pretty special Binary even planned for y’all!

The album, ‘Pink + Blue’ is due to drop 24th August on dubFrequency/Binary.

LexiconDon @ Beatport

LexiconDon @ Juno

LexiconDon @ 7Digital

LexiconDon @ Amazon

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Jul 27 2010

Active Child reMixed by Classixx

Can you even get a smoother jam than this?

Slinky, that’s probably the best way to describe LA team Classixx’s reMix of fellow LA songwriter Pat Grossi A.K.A. Active Child’s latest track, ‘When Your Love Is Safe’. It’s like mid-80’s R&B had a head on collision with Dreamwave in a Roland drum machine rimshot testing facility. And the crowd clapped on…

♫ Active Child – When Your Love Is Safe (Classixx reMix)

Oh the chimes!

Active Child’s album, ‘Curtis Lane’ is out now.

Active Child @ Juno

Active Child @ 7Digital

Active Child @ Amazon

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Jul 26 2010

Robyn’s new video

Oh look, Robyn’s doing something badass again!

Heh, the official video for the forthcoming ‘Hang With Me’ single has premiered, and although it’s pretty much just following Robyn and her crew around on promotional tours it’s really nicely shot and seems to work amazingly well with the song, which is a sweet, uplifting, SynthPop ballad.

‘Hang With Me’ is taken from the ‘Body Talk Pt. 2’ album and is out 5th September.

Robyn @ Beatport

Robyn @ 7Digital

Robyn @ Amazon

Jul 26 2010

New I Am Noxious track

Why isn’t Mr. T signed yet? It’s pretty baffling.

Well, as long as he hasn’t got a record label breathing down his neck he’s gonna’ keep letting me share his tracks with you lot!

His latest I Am Noxious track, ‘Flashback Tears’ may be his best yet, despite the underlying melancholy in his music this track is surprisingly uplifting. this track sounds like it’s moving slightly away from his usual Bedroom Pop style in to an almost Passion Pit/Miike Snow Indie-Electro territory, but with more of a cheeky British edge.

♫ I Am Noxious – Flashback Tears

I’m sure Mr. T has got some more sweet Pop up his sleeve, keep it locked to his MySpace.

I Am Noxious @ MySpace

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Jul 24 2010

HURTS new ‘Wonderful Life’ video

HURTS have just premiered the new video for the single release of ‘Wonderful Life’ and it’s pretty funny.

In a massive self-referencing in-joke the video appears to be a wake, morning the loss of the crazy dancing lady from the original ‘Wonderful Life’ video, complete with a troupe of veiled dancing girls replicating her moves.

Goodbye crazy dancing lady, you will be sorely missed…

The ‘Wonderful Life’ single drops 23rd August.

HURTS @ Beatport

HURTS @ Juno

HURTS @ Amazon

Jul 23 2010

Rosanna & Fear Of Tigers

Swede Rosanna’s début single, ‘Runaway/Waterfall’ will also be the début release for the almighty Popjustice’s brand new record label, PopJustice Hi-Fi.

There’s absolutely no one better in the world to pick quality Pop tunes (they have also signed electronic rumors fave Bright Light Bright Light) and they’ve picked a blinder to kick off with!

The original of ‘Waterfall’ is pretty sweet, it’s an ace Pop tune with a surprisingly noise drum track but it’s this Fear Of Tigers reMix that is the seriously good shit. Once again Ben from FoT makes everything sound a) like an American High School in the 80’s and b) like everything’s gonna’ be alright. It’s those layers upon layers of uplifting, retro sounding, synths that do it!

♫ Rosanna – Waterfall (Fear Of Tigers reMix)

‘Runaway/Waterfall’ is released 22nd August, until then show the girl some MySpace love!

Rosanna @ MySpace

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Jul 21 2010

Ali Love drops ‘Smoke & Mirrors’

We posted the Villa reMix of Ali Love’s forthcoming single ‘Smoke & Mirrors’ a while back, it was just one more reason to get exited about his, should-be-out-an-time-now, new album, ‘Love Harder’.

Well, ‘Smoke & Mirrors’ drops this week and right here you can check out the original, which is a funkin’ cool Disco-Pop jam that has the potential to propel Mr. Love chartwards. Bottin, who always captivates with his deep synth mixes, pushes things over to the cosmic side of Disco making Ali’s smooth funk sound like a robot invasion from the 70’s.

It’s all good…