Fear Of Tigers – The Guestlist 25/05/2012 = Oh you can tell the summer is coming, Fear Of Tiger’s The Guestlist is back as our regular Friday start to the weekend. Some huge tunes this week and a guestmix from the crew from micromix.fr.
♫ Fear Of Tigers– The Guestlist 25/05/2012
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French SynthWave master Lueur Verte returns this week with a brand new track. A follow up to a track released late last year. The original ‘Night Slasher’ was a moody, atmospheric slice of synthetic dread. How does ‘the Revenge’ measure up?
‘Night Slasher II (The Revenge)’ shared a lot in common with it’s predecessor. I suppose that’s natural for soundtrack inspired music, soundtrack normally have running musical beats and themes throughout to tie them together as a whole, and that’s the approach Lueur Verte has taken here. I’s still the same kinds of mysterious, dark SynthWave but the lurking horror has been replace with something more befitting an action sequence. The addition for more layered synths and a nod toward Industrial percussion gives the track more of a driving energy. If you want your Outrun Electro to cosiest of Italo basslines to give you a kick in the ass and Ice synths to send a chill down your spine, then Lueur Verte has you covered. SynthWave tune of the week.
♫ Lueur Verte – Night Slasher II (The Revenge)
‘Night Slasher II (The Revenge)’ is released today.
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This week the new single by one of our favourite acts, Muscovite retro SynthPop act Tesla Boy is released . Hopefully this signposts the lead in to their new album, although their début full length record, Modern Thrills’ still get’s a hell of a lot of play around these parts, it’s definitely time for a new one.
Tesla Boy are one of a seriously tiny handful of bands who have successfully merged SynthWave, Nu-Disco and ElectroPop, in that they write proper Pop songs but I can think of few other vocal Pop artists who’s tracks sound like Nu-Disco tracks, or Dreamwave tracks. How they haven’t gain more attention if a mystery to me. ‘Fantasy’ is a smooth, perfectly Tesla Boy track. The deep funk synth bass is there playing against the choppy New Wave guitar, the Disco beat and vintage synth work. But the centrepiece of any Tesla Boy track is Anton’s trademark impassioned croon. This new track is just as catchy and warm as we’ve come to expect from Tesla Boy, who really are one of the best ElectroPop bands in the world today. Hopefully this years releases will seem them reaching the wider audience they deserve.
♫ Tesla Boy – Fantasy
‘Fantasy’ is out now on Gorby Regan Records with hints of a new EP on the horizon.
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OK, fist up Rave Me is a terrible terrible name. Shudder. Sometimes I really don’t think producers care about how their music is presented to the public. I got sent Rave Me’s new EP from Keiz Beats, a label I trust, so I listened to it, if it had come form an unknown source, with a name like that, I would have probably passed it over. Right, now I have got that out of my system, Rave Me is a 17 year old Ukrainian producer who is actually making some awesome tunes, so it’s a good job I did end up checking it out.
This insanely young producer is mashing up Electro-House and SynthWave into one powerful, noise and emotive dance monster, and with no releases recently from Danger, we kinda’ need someone doing this. His ‘Dance’ EP (this kid really isn’t good with names) kicks off with ‘Round’, a massive stomping Electro track that comes at you with chainsaw synths. This leads into the rest of the EP which contains a few, more Pop oriented, tracks. These tracks, like ‘With You’ are surprising beasts, starting you off with plumbing Electro then dropping a slick vocal on you. It makes for a weird combination, but the mixture of jackhammer stadium Electro and big anthemic vocals works incredibly well. Then out of nowhere Rave Me drops a track like ‘That Night’, a Ukrainian take on Chromeo’s Funk. Sure, the EP is a little rough around the edges, the production could be smoothed out a little, maybe mastered properly, and that name (oh that name!), but all-in-all this is a damn impressive, and mature, début from this youngster and one that it is definitely worth checking out.
♫ Rave Me – With You
♫ Rave Me – That Night
♫ Rave Me – Dance
The EP is released 4th June.
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Mitch Murder keeps knocking them out of the park, time and time again. Whist relatively quite during the record in his last album, the awesome ‘Current Events’, now the album is out Mr. Murder is treating us to a new track almost weekly, and they are all killer, no filler!
‘Race Day’ is slick as hell. A bouncy Italo track loaded with nostalgia, what we have here is four and a half minutes of thoughtful and uplifting SynthWave. The track pumps along on a staccato FM bassline that lays the groundwork for some seriously shimmering synths to dance around. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, the is no-one making Synthwave who has a command of melody, and the production skills of Mitch Murder. Everything in his track just sits right in the mix, and his melodies interweave around each other like they have always been part of the whole. A master at work.
♫ Mitch Murder – Race Day
Mitch Murder’s amazing ‘Current Events’ album is out now.
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Sweden’s Autostrada maybe be a little more guitary than we would normally post, but their début track, ‘You & I’ is just so good it’s hard to ignore. It’s loaded with massive ‘80’s synth chords and big tom rolls, and we have a sneaking suspicion where that comes from. One of this IndiePop combo’s four members is SynthWave genius Mille.
Mille influence is all over this track, it’s pure retro Pop dressed up for contemporary summery Indie fans. At it’s core it’s perfect retro Electro. No one does big rousing synth music quite like Mille, he’s got a knack for uplifting chords and soaring lead lines and that knack lifts this track up above it’s peers. Atop this gorgeous synth work is some classic ‘80’s guitar and the kind of catchy vocal that buzz bands dream of. This track could be a big hit this summer, it’s good to know Mille isn’t letting his talents go to waste.
♫ Autostrada – You & I
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Parisian Disco label Yeah/Dish! has been releasing some really nice stuff, for free, over the past year. Many of these releases we’ve featured right here, now the crew are coming out with a full blown compilation. Released today ‘Prom Night’ is nine tracks of pure, Funk fuelled, synth nostalgia.
The tracklist reads like a who’s who of up and coming Nu-Disco artists with a couple of established names and some SynthWave thrown in for good measure. Featuring the likes of Luminaire, Cyclist, Stereocool and Hemmingway you know you;re in for a groove treat, full of laid back summer vibes and lazy Disco with a French flavour. There’s a collaboration between SoHight & Cosmonaut Grechko called, ‘Night Moves’ that’s ever bit as slick as you;’d imagine coming from these two. With a jump-out-your-seat beat and funk synth soloing that just sails through the track, ‘Night Moves’ is what retro synth and Nu-Disco should be all about. The king of SynthWave and Outrun Electro Mitch Murder contributes a sweet, emotional slice of his ‘80’s soundtrack inspired work, ‘Vanilla Sky’ is an atmospheric four minutes of synthesizer gold, with tons of soul. Moustache Machine’s second appearance on electronic rumors today comes from ‘Brenda’ and whiles less frantic that his other work, this more laid back peice is loaded with electronic nostalgia and a smooth groove. Also included is Stay Ali’s recent comeback track ‘Oh Tom’, a twisted and infectiously catchy little experimental peice that never forgets to create a melody that will worm it’s way into your brain. Yeah/Dish! have put together a pretty amazing collection of tracks, for free, and we salute them for it. Salute!
♫ SoHight & Cosmonaut Grechko – Night Moves
You can download the whole compilation, for free, here.
Check out more from Yeah/Dish! on SoundCloud.
One of Manchester’s finest exports, Mr. Jules Schimmer, has been working his retro synth magic once again, this time on Tokyo based DreamPop outfit alloapm. I almost called alloapm an ‘avant-garde DancePop outfit’, as they can get a little weird, but in a good way, and they never stop bringing the Disco, so we’ll just stick with ‘DancePop outfit’ for now and see how the post unfolds.
Anyway, Schimmer is riding high right now with a string of really top quality reMixes, and the on-going development of a bigger and bigger sound, bringing some hands-in-the-air to it’s ‘80’s core. Unfortunately most of the time it’s buried away on SoundCloud. Seriously, more people need to hear JS’ tracks, I think the word underrated really does apply here, the word on Schimmer needs to get out. Just take this new track, like I said, hands-in-the-air with an ‘80’s core. And over the bouncy retro bassline the epic stuff gets really epic. Beautifully orchestrated strings that weave in an out of a piercing lead line lift the track up to such heights and play around the highly effected vocals to produce a track with a huge scope. nostalgic and majestic at the same time. Jules Schimmer, like an ‘80’s movie, brings laughter, tears and eventual triumph in just under five mins of uplifting ElectroPop.
♫ alloapm – Di Di Di Da Da Da (Jules Schimmer reMix)
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Fear Of Tigers– The Guestlist 18/05/2012 = Hold the phone, stop the press and make sure your horses aren’t going anywhere! It’s Back! Fear Of Tigers returns with the best big room dance, Dreamwave, ElectroPop and Nu-Disco show on the planet. This week there’s Futurecop! in the house and music from Kris Menace, Cosmonaut Grechko and more….;
♫ Fear Of Tigers– The Guestlist 18/05/2012
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Germany’s digitalfoxglove, easily one of the finest, and most underrated Nu-Disco producers on the planet, spends most of his time these days mucking around with a bunch of Californians as one quater of Dreamwave Supergroup Ride The Universe. Luckily the man can still find time in his busy schedule to sneak in some new digitalfoxglove tunes, or at least dust off one ones and give them a new lick of paint.
As is the case with ‘Unsteady’, a warbling slice of synthetic Disco. The track is actually quite SynthWavey for DFG, the progression and sounds are pretty retro but it’s all held in place with some frantic arpeggios and Disco siren synths. ‘Unsteady’ is a nice mixture of epic cinematic and in-your-face dancefloor action and makes a nice primer to a summer of releases with DFG input including two forthcoming Ride The Universe reMixes, for Quinten 909 and rodent-chomping-monster Jane Balder, and a reMix of She’s The Queen’s ‘Talk To Me’, to be released by, well, me. So, yeah, we’re keeping him busy!
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