Blog: electronic rumors

This week's capsule of Synthesizer Zen, to carry you into the weekend, comes from a clip of Jean Michel Jarre rocking one of out favourite ever synths (and the one our mascot is wigging out on), the Moog Liberation. In honour of the late great Bob Moog's birthday this week. Video courtesy of YouTube user orbitaljoy . [...]

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 Buy Fear Of Tigers' music from: [...]

The reigning champions of euphoric SynthPop The Sound Of Arrows have a new single incoming. Taken from their amazing 'Voyage' album, 'Conquest' is released next month. The video is full of the best things ever, most notable a crystal powered DeLorean. It's also loaded with classy, fantastical imagery and Stefan & Oskar doing that back to back slow-mo thing they love doing. 'Conquest' released 25th June via Skies Above. Buy The Sound Of Arrows' music from:

Introspective ElectroPop producer Aaron Alexis is back with a new track to haunt your dreams. Not loosing his particular unique style of ElectroPop based, Chillwave leaning Indie-Electro, Aaron's new track is, at the same time, both warm and chilling. 'Saboteurs' is a throbbing electronic soundscape that draws lines between, Industrial, Chillwave and raw SynthPop. Reminiscant of parts of the recent M83 album and washed in the kinds of reverb usually reserved for Neon Indian, the contrast of the brittle synth bassline and the lush pads and LFO heavy organ sounds create a soundtrack where the instruments [...]

So, we've been fans of RAC reMix work for a few years now, they generally tend to release high quality tunes, and long time readers will know we've been supporting Chris Glover A.K.A. Penguin Prison since day one, so these idea of these two entities making a tune together was pretty exciting stuff. The end result, 'Hollywood', was surprisingly, gangly guitar laden, Indie. We were kinda' disappointed, it was actually a really good song, but far too guitary to grace these pages. Enter The Magician to make things all better. The Magician [...]

• RAC (Feat. Penguin Prison) - Hollywood (... » 3hkf.mp3

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 [...]

• Lueur Verte - Night Slasher II (The Revenge)

Here is the new video from Bastian's Happy Flight 's 'My Love's (Not Good Enough)', taken from their Mullet Records released EP, 'EP01'. Be prepared for some bedroom dancing, sulking and arson from the '80's amidst the awesome Electro Funk. Bastian's Happy Flight's 'EP01' is out now. Buy Bastian's Happy Flight's music from: [...]

Zimmer – May Mixtape 'Sage Paradis' = It's this months mixtape from Zimmer loaded with some of the best laid back Disco from the past couple of months. The tracklist drops tommorw, but we can tell you there is one of two track in there that we've been excited about for a while. This tape is perfect listening if this scorching weather is making you lazy. ♫ Zimmer – May Mixtape 'Sage Paradis' Buy Zimmer's music from: [...]

We featured London Indie-Electro duo Bluebell and their forthcoming début single 'Normal Heights'/'Cinderella' earlier in the month , now check out the brand new video for 'Cinderella'. Put together from footage submitted by fans, the clip is a heady mix of, well, everything. Bluebell will be launching the single 20th June in a live show at Ballyhoo in London (formerly Bowery). 'Normal Heights'/'Cinderella' is released 11th June on Killing Moon. Check out more from Bluebell on SoundCloud . [...]

'No.1 Against The Rush' is the new single from Californian Indie-Electro weirdos and Mute signees, LIARS . The track starts of well with some lovely electronic tones but around the halfway point slips into slightly mediocre Folktronika. Luckily one of the biggest perks of being on Mute must be access to the legend that is Mr. Vince Clarke . Vince's reMix of 'No.1 Against The Rush' is a pulsing, synthetic, joy. Combining elements of EBM, House and his love of all things analog synth this reMix whisky your up in it's dancefloor mesmerism and turns the [...]

It's always with some degree of trepidation that I approach email that mention Errors . When they are good, they are very good. Lush, moody ElectroPop that channels the best of Sheffield and Manchester in the '80's, when they aren't so good, it's Indie dirge and contrived lyrics. Thankfully they normally fall into the latter category, but every new song is still a gamble. So let me put your mind at rest, their reMix of letthemusicplay 's forthcoming single is good. Relax. 'All I Can Give You' marks mysterious producer duo letthemusicplay's third release [...]

• letthemusicplay (Feat. U.T.R.B.) - All I... » 3h9w.mp3

Here's the video for Karin Park 's "crazy good" single 'Restless', Yes, when we wrote about the track we called it "crazy good", and we're sticking with that. An amazing slice of ElectroPop. The video was apparently shot in the church Karin lives in. Let's just absorb that statement for a while while we watch the clip. She lives there! The 'Restless' single is out via State Of The Eye Recordings on this week with her début album 'Highwire Poetry' coming [...]

This week saw the release of the new single from last years king of blog-hype, Woodkid , 'Run Boy Run'. It's a typically introspective slice of avant-Pop, the kind we have gotten used to from Woodkid in the past year, the man has a skill for crafting really thoughtful tracks, both musically and lyrically. Remember how huge 'Iron' was last year. While the internet is bound to get all excited about the fact that there is a SebastiAn reMix on the single, to be honest it's kinda' mediocre. The easy highlight of the bunch comes from one [...]

Mirana is a new Swiss ElectroPop duo formed by the coming together of singer/songwriter Mirana and Anthony Hammer, who's work you probably know as part of Dreamwave outfit Flashworx . The two are spurned on by a love of Italo and SynthPop and have developed a pretty authentic mid-80's Italo sound. They just let loose a bunch of demo tracks in anticipation of a couple of single followed by an album release later in the year. The highlights of the demos are 'Dark Ride and 'Don't Forget'. 'Dark Ride' is a journey through European SynthPop, with [...]

• Mirana - Dark Ride (Demo.) » 3h9x.mp3
• Mirana - Don’t Forget (Demo.) » 3ha7.mp3

The Penelopes - Charts April 2012 = Despite the Shoegazey intro track, this month's mix from ElectroPoppers The Penelopes is an awesome 32 mins of interesting, and unusually pretty bouncy, Poppy electronics. There's just a hint of Disco thrown in for good measure too. Enjoy. ♫ The Penelopes - Charts April 2012 The tracklist: 01. Bushwalking - Visual Jam Doughnut 02. Dana Buoy - So Lucky 03. Peter Nilsson - Home Tonight 04. Lana Del Rey - Blue Jeans (RAC reMix) 05. [...]

Way back, last month, we posted a track by French outfit Kool Bandits , then called 'I Want You' the track has now been renamed 'Dancefloor Hold Up' and has been given the full vocal treatment for it's single release. The vocal is actually quite weird, really self-referential. It kinda' works, but I'm torn as to which version I prefer, this or the Instrumental version. The vocal version is definitely more of a commercial party starter. The track itself, as we said last time , is unashamedly poppy with it's hook, with a dirty [...]

• Kool Bandits - Dancefloor Hold Up  (Rad... » 3h9t.mp3

Don't forget, this Saturday is the launch party for awesome new SynthWave/Nu-Disco compilation We Are The Future'. Hosted by Lemonade at The Nest in Dalston, London it's going to be an awesome night. Come and party 'til the early hours with The C90s , Edwin Van Cleef , Fear Of Tigers (live), Futurecop! (live) and little old me spinning some glorious synth music (and maybe dropping in some previews of forthcoming electronic rumors releases! Find all [...]

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 [...]

The next video from Jonna Lee's iamamiwhoami has been released. 'Kill' maybe the most impressive of the 'second album' tracks to date. Both the video and the track start off in a familiar place, it's a pulsating ElectroPop track with a panoramic video. At the track progresses the song becomes rapidly more fatalistic and the video descends darker and darker until, oh hello!, we're back in the iamamiwhoami uncomfortable place. The 'Good Worker', 'Drops, 'Server', 'Rascal' and 'Kill' singles are out now. Buy iamamiwhoami's music from: [...]

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 [...]

• Rave Me - Round » 3gxd.mp3