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To help celebrate this elongated Easter weekend, "Slow Light" gets a remix as Pistol Disco, whose Alexander Palmestål helped produce IKONS' self-titled debut album, extend the Gothenburg band's eight-minute kraut-rock odyssey into a nine and a half-minute kraut-rock oddysey. That aforementioned debut album arrives on April 19th through the Service label. That's all your essential info - I guess all that remains now is to ask 'Which member of IKONS boasts your favourite pair of nipples?'
IKONS - Slow Light (Pistol Disco Remix)
It's not surprising, upon hearing "Colors In Time", to learn that Nicolas Fromageau was a founding and integral member of M83 for their first four years, his new outfit Team Ghost a kind of exploded, adult version of what Anthony Gonzalez is now doing alone under that moniker. Like all adults, Fromageau trades a raw and former innocence for expanded horizons and a broader vision, welcoming warm house piano lifts, synthpop chill and starker vocals into the mix. The result is something sullen and quite brilliant - hear more from Team Ghost on their new You Never Did Anything Wrong To Me EP, forthcoming through Sonic Cathedral on May 3rd.
Sounds Like: Psychedelic Furs, Virgo, M83
Team Ghost - Colors In Time
French name, German sound, London's Allez Allez take a break from releasing legendary Seventies bands to issue a single of their own that sounds like the national anthem for a new krautopian state. Buffeted along on a steady, driving beat, "Slump"'s curious synths find a home on the b-side of "Defeatist", the blogger/remix duo's debut single for Kompakt's Kickboxer imprint.
Sounds Like: Harmonia, Blondes, The Emperor Machine
Allez Allez - Slump
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A ton of scenes and sounds try to claim it, but I reckon if Friday night could sing it'd gargle and hum like Eurodisco: throbbing, ecstatic and covered in post-work sweat. The Phenomenal Handclap Band's original is more chill - more Tuesday night, really - but Ilya Santana straps on one of those arpeggiated, Moroder synths and "You'll Disappear" goes woosh, jetting off into the stratosphere in search of stardust and alien love. What's that? Friday night's tonight? Fuck yeah.
Sounds Like: Giorgio Moroder, Harmonia, Vangelis
The Phenomenal Handclap Band - You'll Disappear (Ilya Santana Remix)
The Phenomenal Handclap Band - You'll Disappear
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How's this for a line-up, London? Tomorrow night Italians Do It Better are taking over KOKO in Camden to parade their vogueing, sullen selves before you like odd animals retrieved from a distant, more glamorous past. Label boss Mike Simonetti will be first behind the decks and live sets will follow from Twisted Wires, Desire, Glass Candy and special guest Lindstrom. Johnny Jewel and Ida No are taking a break from recording their new album to play the show, so here's a reminder of what they're capable of: "Beatific" a lunging, lycra-clad eurodisco stomper with more kohl-eyed regret than Robert Smith alone in bed at night, while Desire's offering is similarly wired; elegant, corny and - yes - sexy all at the same time, with a string sample I just can't place. Any help would be greatly appreciated and full details for tomorrow evening's event lurk after the jump.
Sounds Like: Chromatics, Liquid Vega
Glass Candy - Beatific
Desire - If I Can't Hold You (Part 2)
Previously:
Glass Candy - I Always Say Yes (Baron von Luxxury Remix Parts II & III)
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Straight-up, Andy Meecham is a clubland hero. He's one of those men who seems to have been everywhere, anytime something important was going on - whether it was catwalking the early '90s house scene into the pop charts with Bizarre Inc., pioneering the turn-of-the-century '80s revival with Chicken Lips' dark disco or getting all tribal and dubby with Big Two Hundred a couple of years back. It's in his Emperor Machine guise, though, that you feel Meecham's most at home: revelling in a miasma of cosmic synths and shimmering guitar lines as a warbling bass glugs away, the whole thing punctuated with delightfully camp disco handclaps. Kraut, disco, funk and space-rock - that's pretty much everything covered. Dig in now, before all the world's rhythm runs out.
Sounds Like: Brian Eno & David Byrne, Pivot, LCD Soundsystem
The Emperor Machine - You Clapper (Remix)
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