Next week sees the release of the new single from Welsh ElectroPop sensation Bright Light Bright Light . Long time readers will know we've been following Rod's career since the 'olden days', in the last two years he's released some of the biggest, slickest, ElectroPop tracks out there. Every one of BLx2's tracks to date have been modern classics, each one addictively catchy, and each one increasingly indulging Rod's love of all things '90's. And 'Waiting For The Feeling' revels in it's retro-ness. From it's Darude-esque bass riff to the big Piano House riff, that could have [...]
'Idle Talk' is the lasted video from Scandinavian electronic ice-queen iamamiwhoami . In true iamamiwhoami style the video (kinda') carries on from the last, 'In Due Order'. The track is a much smoother side to iamamiwhoami, nice spacey ScaniPop. The 'Good Worker', 'Drops' and 'Server' singles are out now. Buy iamamiwhoami's music from: [...]
We had a listen to the MiGHty mOUse reMix of Nyteowl 's forthcoming new single 'Love of Mine' loast month. the single has been pushed back to the end of April, so that give us a chance to check out the new video for the track. Directed by Erin Michelle Vassilopoulos and Raechel Bosch and it's generally pretty unsettling. Luckily that is soothed by the sweet analog DiscoPop of the track. With reMixes from Boy 8-Bit, Brassica and Hyboid as well it should be an awesome release. [...]
Awkoder - Mixtape Sauvage III = Here's the new mixtape from SynthWave producer Awkoder. it's an awesome thirty minutes that switches between huge Nu-Disco and quirky synth goodness. Save this one for the weekend! ♫ Awkoder - Mixtape Sauvage III The tracklist: 01. Vangelis - Pulstar (Anthony Atcherley reMix) 02. The Flirts - Passion (La Royale Edit) 03. Oliver - I Need You 04. Madeon - Icarus 05. Oliver - Dirty Talk 06. Thony Ritz - Rockin' Feeling (First 2005 Club [...]
I'm not actually sure if Dermot McGowan sleeps. the man you know better as Figure Of 8 is like a song-writing machine. Since the release of the Belfast based producer's acclaimed 'No One Cries For Me' EP he given us new material practically weekly. What's even more unbelievable, though, is that it has all been awesome. And he;s not breaking that run just yet. his latest reMix is a beautiful peice of work. Gráinne Holland is a fellow Belfast resident and Gaelic singer-songwriter. Gaelic has always been a language that lends itself well to [...]
The Magician – Magic Tape Twenty-Two = 'Magic Tape' time of the month comes around so fast! What have we got in here then. Some nice Tropical Disco, some nice '90's vibe. Is that the new Yuksek reMix I hear? Chris Malinchak? Some TEED? Let the guessing games begin. ♫ The Magician – Magic Tape Twenty-Two Buy The Magician's music from: [...]
This is kind of a weird one. The Polymuse is an Arab-American soprano and internationally renowned Opera singer (I'll have to take their word for that) Anymuse who has taken on this moniker to drop an EP of five ElectroPop tracks that celebrate her love of dance music. It sounds like an awesome proposition, and Anymuse is definitely and passionate and talented singer, there's just one time thing that irks us about the 'Rebelution' EP. The Production, courtesy of Dave Wrangler, is terribly dated. To highlight what is great on this EP (and there is [...]
We haven't written about Pégase since way back in 2009 ! Pégase is, of course, the side project of Raphaël, the lead singer of the utterly amazing Minitel Rose . Both of which we have heard far to little from in recent years. Better later than never though, as Pégase releases his début (really?) EP. Here's the video for 'The Bad Side Of Love' the lead track on the 'Without Reasons' EP, directed by Nicolas Davenel. The EP contains reMixes from Giraffage, Les Et Les Garcons, Ruckazoid & Equateur and is a welcome [...]
I don't use the word 'Numnaoid' much, but be warned, somewhere in this post the word 'Numandoid' will come into play. That's because we're going to be talking about Claude Violante (one half of analog avant-garde DiscoPop duo Haussmann ) and her début solo EP. The record retains the vintage Disco of her other output but adds a raw, and sometimes ethereal, quality to her music. The lead track on her self-titled EP, 'For You', sets the tone perfectly. With an Numandoid backbeat reminiscant of Tubeway Army coupled with a late '80's pre-Shoegaze-y vocal style. [...]
This week sees the release of Dutch Nu-Disco & SynthWave producer L'Equipe Du Son 's début album. 'Supersonic' is, in part, a compilation of all the awesome stuff he's been releasing over the past couple of years, but with a few surprises thrown in for good measure. Prepare for ten track of some of the slickest retro Disco around. The album kicks off with the smooth Disco primer and possible L'Equipe Du Son's best known track, 'Lesson 1'. It had to really, and it makes a rad into peice as well as being cool laid [...]
Punks Jump Up 's 'Mr. Overtime' has already provided us with one of the best tracks of the year so far, and some of the best reMixes of the year too. Now, completing the hat-trick, it provides us with one of the best videos of the year. Maxime Bruneel directs this neon soaked, retro styled, animated exploration of utter cool. We wish life looked like this! 'Mr. Overtime' is released 30th April on Moda. Buy Punks Jump Up's music from: [...]
Panda People are a German Indie-DiscoPop trio that we featured on Pop-Fu 08 , way back in 2010, they've been pretty quiet of late but are about to finish up their forthcoming new single 'Two Sinners' and release it to the world. Apparently there are a few mixing tweaks that still need to be made 'Two Sinners' before the formal release, but the guys have let us share with you the song in it's pretty-much-finished form. 'Two Sinners' just reminds us of everything we loved about 'Sophisticated Girl', it's breezy vocals, lush synths and catchy chorus [...]
Goin' Old School isn't a trip down music memory lane, it's a mugging in the dark alleyway of nostalgia: First up is some seriously smooth early '80's, 1982 to be exact, electronic Soul from Imagination and their classic 'Just An illusion'. In the starkest contrast possible we have Front 242 , with arguably their Poppiest song, 'Tragedy For You' from 1989. And finally some relaxing, experimental, tones from Tangerine Dream 's 'Tiergarten' from 1985. Actually the flip side to 'Le [...]
Sam Sparro , the man with the croonyest voice in electronic Pop music is back with the second, and lead-in, single taken from his forthcoming 'Return To Paradise'. It's more classic Pop, less Disco, than the previous single 'Happiness'. Actually more like the Sam Sparro of old, but slightly more musically mature. The single comes complete with an eclectic reMix package, the reaction to which I have found interesting and a little bewildering. The music blog world is awash with the Azari & III reMix, which has the typically deep, stripped down Chicago House vibe you'd [...]
From the opening notes of the heavy synth bassline of the title track of 'Burning Feeling', the début album from Lovelock , you know something synthetically special is happening. Lovelock is one of the many monikers of Synth legend Steve Moore. I say 'legend' because the man has a prolific and consistently amazing out put. Whether it's as in Zombi or Miracle or as Gianna Rossi or just himself you know that with the Moore stamp on it, you're in for some amazing, emotional synth work. His latest release, Lovelock's 'Burning Feeling' is in part a collection [...]
It was the summer of 2010 that New York based eclectic ElectroPop duo of Amanda Warner and Pete Wade, better known to the discerning Pop world as MNDR , first came to out attention. A combination of stumbling across their track 'Fade to Black', and consequently the 'E.P.E.' EP, and then within a few months Mark Ronson's MNDR & Q-Tip featuring 'Bang Bang Bang' blowing up, had us hooked. MNDR manage to walk a line few people can successfully pull-off. Their music is both interesting, sometimes even experimental, and edgy, yet at the same time as catchy [...]
Nashville Indie-Electro band Future Unlimited 's 'Golden' was the highlight of their recent EP, a lush sing-a-long ElectroPop epic full of rousing chords and heartfelt vocals. Well the best on the EP just got a little bit better with a reMix from southern Californian ElectroPop four piece The New Division . the New Division bring a little more groove and a little more synth goodness to their reMix. 'Golden' was pretty anthemic to begin with, but The New Division take it to uplifting new places, places where it's constantly sunrise. Giving the track a bit of [...]
Mjolnir are back! It's been a while since we heard from this Indonesian trio of Nu-Disco gurus, but their latest reMix for, Brazilian artist Strausz , sows they have only spent their time getting better and better. The original version of the track is, well, a bit weird. Big synths and various peices of ethnic instrumentation from various cultures in a mix mixing pot. But that's why we have slick Disco remixes, right? And Mjolnir deliver 100%, with a bouncy bassline and Tropical chimes to set the scene and lush synths and a smooth '90's House [...]
Horror Machine , a relative newcomer to the SynthWave scene, is an 18 year old producer from France who is following in the footsteps of countrymen College & the Valerie collective in making sweet, soundtracky, electronic nostalgia. and what better way to do that than reMixing David Grellier's modern Dreamwave classic 'Teenage Colour'. The riff from 'Teenage Colour' is instantly recognisable, but Horror Machine takes the track into calmer, more thoughtful and emotional places. That's not to say it's not still a huge dance track, because it still is. Horror Machines Italo influenced beats and layers [...]
Cosmonauts - April Top Ten = London's most cosmic Disco double act, Cosmonauts, drop their favorite tracks of the month. Expect an hour of retro space-age grooves, deep synth Funk and the smoothest of House track. This mix has been workin' our weekend! ♫ Cosmonauts - April Top Ten Check out more from Cosmonauts on SoundCloud. Buy Cosmonauts' music from: [...]
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