T&K’s début album

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T&K are a French ElectroPop duo who are gearing up for the late October release of their début album on On The Fruit Records.

Having had a few tracks floating around for the last few years this album represents everything the pair have been building over their career. Both he tracks ‘Line Of Light’ and ‘On Your hands’ are doing the blog rounds right now and both are very good examples of the type of ElectroPop to be found on the record. T&K’s sound is, confusingly, 50% really French, but also, strangely,50% really English. Their sound is deeply rooted in early British SynthPop, both in attitude & approach and sound but is given such a distinct French twist it’s unmissable. Much of the album sounds, to me, like a purely electronic, female fronted version of The Teenagers, the tracks have a similar structure, with a hint of Saint Etienne. This is easily one of the purest SynthPop albums to be released this year. With it’s intricate attention to melody and it’s quirky French leanings I’d say this record is pretty recommended.

♫ T&K – Unique Key

♫ T&K – Line Of Light

♫ T&K – Little Cloud

T&K’s album is out 24th October, until then check them out on SoundCloud.

Goin’ Old School: The Neon Judgement – Tomorrow In The Papers

In 1985 The Neon Judgement were shaping the future of underground electronic music with ‘Tomorrow In The Papers’ while you were watching TransFormers in your pyjamas.

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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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Expo’s new single

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It’s been a while since we last heard from Expo, did anyone ever find out who the “rather well-known Belgian DJ-formation.” that made up Expo was?

Well, they’re back with a brand new track, ‘Right Here With Me’, and it’s sheer quality SynthPop. Reeling in the tempo to a nice ‘80’s Pop pace this track isn’t so much dancefloor fodder as what I call a ‘long journey tune’, as in this is what you want on your Walkman (or whatever the kids are using these days) when embarking on a cross-country train/coach trip. Well defiantly be keeping a beady ear on Expo, let’s hope it’s not so long time until the next track this time.

♫ Expo – Right Here With Me

Expo’s new EP should be out in January 2012.

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Masters Of The Radio’s début EP

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Cheshire SynthPop duo Masters Of The Radio are gearing up for the release of their début EP, ‘The Pleasure Age’, this week.

Featuring alongside tracks like ‘Easy Now’ and one of our favourites ‘The Last Feeling’, will be this track, ‘Close To You’. The new song is a moody slice of retro Electro with some Japan-esque vocals that I can see fitting in really well amongst their other tunes. ‘Close To You’ has an epic and cinematic quality to the slightly sombre ‘80’s inspired electronics which lend the track a nice feeling of drama.

Masters Of The Radio – Close To You

Masters Of The Radio’s ‘The Pleasure Age’ EP is out this week, until then check them out on SoundCloud.

Goin’ Old School: The Art Of Noise – Close (To The Edit)

“Hello 1984, we’re The Art Of Noise, these things are called samplers, deal with it. This is ‘Close (To The Edit)’”

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Topless reMixed by Robots With Rayguns

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Topless are an ElectroPop duo from Holland who’s free ‘Topless’ EP is five tracks of pure retro Pop set firmly in the late ‘80’s and very early ‘90’s, complete with early House basslines and New Order-esque use of sampling. Add to this some insanely catchy songs and you have a very cool EP.

The lead track of the EP ‘Say You Love Me’ has been given the reMix treatment by LA ElectroPop dude Robots With Rayguns. Mr. Rayguns, Lucas Patrick Smith, takes the track further back in time a few years, to the early/mid ‘80’s, and seems to inject the tune with a little Electro-Soul from that period. He reels thins in from being frantic ElectroPop to being smooth SynthPop (yes, there is a difference, deal with it!) and in doing so give the track a bit more of a laid back summer vibe.

Topless – Say You Love Me (Robots With Rayguns Mix)

Topless – Say You Love Me

Pick up Topless’ début EP on their SoundCloud page.

Northern Kind’s new video

Here’s a new video for SynthPop act Northern Kind’s track ‘Daggers’.

This version of the track is from their limited edition ‘53 Degrees North’ EP. The video very much captures the Scandinavian electro feel.

the full version of ‘Daggers’ will be available on Northern Kind’s forthcoming album ‘Credible Sexy Unit ‘.

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DannielRadall’s new single

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This week saw the release of our favourite Méxican retro SynthPopper DannielRadall new single.

‘To Make You Mine’ features Steffaloo and is another wonderful slice of Lo-Fi ElectroPop from Danniel, loaded with slick ‘80’s licks. Buzzing synths, roomy reverb and a cool summer vibe ooze from the speakers when you a slap this track on. Not following any retro-cool pack when it comes to making music, DannielRandall continues to carve out a unique little niece in ‘80’s inspired music.

DannielRadall (Feat. Steffaloo) – To Make You Mine

‘Make You Mine’ is out now.

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Goin’ Old School: Eurythmics – Sweet Dreams

In 1982 the Eurythmics were all about androgyny, world domination, cows and pretending to play music on a BBC Micro in a box with a rack EQ and a tiny TV on top.

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