DOWNLOAD: Karl x Johan - Fantasies
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Karl X Johan have been our dudes since their Ennio Morricone-Untouchables-score-referencing days. On "Fantasies" they're delivering twinkling, emotive moves. With sythns that evolve from looming to high-speed church noodling and smooth percussion, we've got a wintry, medieval cut. The single is out now from Emotion. There couldn't be a more perfectly named label for this release.
DOWNLOAD: Solvent - Loss For Words (Solvent's CompuRhythm Remix)
Technology and relationships do not really go together. Tablets, smartphones, laptops, the attention vortex of the Internet–an addiction to these things can tear people apart, and this is the essential premise of Solvent's "Loss For Words," realized above in a lightly heartbreaking animated clip from Simeon Tennant. Plenty of food for thought in there, but lest we send you away without an MP3, Solvent's own CompuRhythm mix is below, wherein his synth-pop receives a slight facelift of blips and bleeps. Subject To Shift, Solvent's first album in six years, is out now via Ghostly.
Solvent - Loss For Words (Solvent's CompuRhythm Remix)
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DOWNLOAD: Solvent - Loss For Words + Vector Lovers Remix
O.G. Ghostly artist Solvent (aka Toronto's Jason Amm) hasn't put out a proper LP since 2004's Apples & Synthesizers. That was two Summer Olympics, one President, and the invention of Twitter ago. His return to the fold begins with "Loss For Words," a bright, airy, DayQuil shot of a synth-pop song and the first single from his new LP Subject To Change (due May 25). The single release also contains a remix from Berlin's Vector Lovers that plays Depeche Mode-in-a-planetarium to Solvent's New Order-on-echinacea. Both versions are below. Welcome back, Mr. Amm.
Solvent - Loss For Words (Vector Lovers Remix)
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DOWNLOAD: Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms (BRAHMS Remix)
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Neon Indian's music, though predominately electronic, doesn't lend itself easily to reinterpretation. It's too sonically dense, its parts too interwoven, that to siphon off a piece of it would be to lose that engulfed-by-static effect. BRAHMS' version of Psychic Chasms' title track is accordingly more of a fleshing out than a full-on redux–an added pack of hypoallergenic synths here, some dip-diving drum rolls there, and a brushstroke of new wave dramaticism to finish it off. You're still spread out on a fuzz cloud, just one captained by a different set of charmers.
Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms (BRAHMS Remix)
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DOWNLOAD: Boy 8-Bit - Florence And The Machine & La Roux Remixes + July 2009 Mixtape
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South London’s Boy 8-Bit is currently halfway through his North American tour with fellow knob-tweaker (and mentor) Fake Blood, and to celebrate we’re providing a few slept-on favorites from the vault. First up, Boy 8-Bit’s redheaded muses, Florence and The Machine and La Roux, are jolted with electro-tech beats before getting dipped in a steel drum patina. Then, it’s last summer’s mixtape, which swiftly wore out floors when it emerged back in July. To be real: there’s a lot of excellent dance music to be had below. Enough for you to have your own Boy 8-Bit mini-rave, if you're not lucky enough to make these tour stops.
Florence And The Machine - Drumming Song (Boy 8-Bit Remix)
La Roux - Quicksand (Boy 8-Bit Remix)
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EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Katsen - Constellation
Keeping the light on in Brighton is Katsen, a likable duo that gives their gear bed-privileges (above) and, in return, gets a higher level of synth-pop dedication out of them. "Constellation" is a punchy, catchy tune about the things that bind us confused little pin-pricks of light into something larger and more meaningful. It comes from Katsen's great debut album — after eight years together! — It Hertz!, which has better songs and way more snap to it than the usual synth-pop workout these days. The album arrives stateside next month but if you get it here, you get the music early.
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Fenech-Soler - I Need Love
Fenech-Soler seem inevitably destined for hugeness. The synth-pop outfit just released their debut single "The Cult of Romance" through Vulture Records and "I Need Love" picks up where that track left off, its hooks bigger and more glorious, if anything, its gauzy, leaping stabs of disco fuzz hitting that sweet spot just above the gut. It sounds like a load of other things - Sting fronting Chic, Enigma sidling up to Bloc Party, Klaxons turning diva for Walter Jones, Late of the Pier dreaming of the "Good Life", but there's something so overwhelmingly pleasing about Fenech-Soler's sound that authenticity seems a distant concern. There's moaning, then there's dancing. Which you gonna choose?
Sounds Like: Klaxons, Chic, Cut Copy
EXCLUSIVE NEW VIDEO: Hearts of Palm UK - I Flow
This new video by the new wave-esque, electro-pop girl band, Hearts of Palm UK, was shot in LA by photog/artist Ian Broyles and set on various green screen backdrops - giving it a DIY film-school feel that is comical and appropriately 80's-esque. We are guessing the pyramids, moon and other significant mystical symbols has something to do with Erica Elektra, the heavily-tatted keyboard player who writes the songs; word is she's an astrology expert and "resident mystic."
PS: The song from I Flow EP (see below) is the first of SIX EP's coming from Hearts of Palm UK's debut album For Life.
Sounds Like: School of Seven Bells, A-Ha (Think "Take On Me"), Goldfrapp, Camera Obscura
Hearts of Palm UK - I Flow (Radio Edit)
Hearts of Palm UK - Would You Believe
Hearts of Palm UK - Super Tuesdays
Hearts of Palm UK - I Flow (Velapene Screen Remix)
Hearts of Palm UK - I Flow EP (Full Album Download)
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