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DOWNLOAD: Sebastien Tellier - Cochon Ville (The Magician Remix)
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Sebastien Tellier as Jesus? Why not. The always outrageous disco indulger is a commander of joie de vivre. Whether it’s his porno guitar licks, lush synths, or vocals ever teetering on the edge of ecstasy, the dude has a cult-like quality where you can honestly believe he’d die for your sins, as long as he got to watch first. On The Magician’s revise of “Cochon Ville,” the thrusting bass and beat repeat go full throttle as Tellier’s enticing chant of 'come to us/come to us/be with us' lulls listeners into dance bacchanalia. Buy the rest of the EP on Beatport before his new album drops on Record Makers. And do not miss the best and most NSFW video we’ve ever seen for a track, right here.
DOWNLOAD: Hortlax Cobra - Berlin
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You know Hortlax Cobra. He puts the John in Peter Bjorn & John. He’s also a wild composer whose alter ego work is so blithe and dark and dancey and vintage, it could inspire a Drive sequel for the soundtrack alone. “Berlin” reads like a night in the city for which it’s named: it’s a walk down an alley, past peeling street art and into a refurbished hospital-cum-club. It’s where tall blondes smoke cigarettes under chandeliers and grind to gloriously disco-dipped synthpop. And it’s all yours on Night Shift come June 4, dropping on INGRID, the artist collective launched by Lykke Li, Miike Snow, Teddybears, John himself and of course, Peter and Bjorn.
DOWNLOAD: The Ice Choir - Two Rings
People from the '80s sure did sound mean. But I guess that meanness can sometimes come in handy. Would I, for instance, have had to sit through so many boring Friday night dinner parties if I could have repelled the advances of idiots and dullards by hitting them with ice blasts of frozen-hearted synthpop? Kurt Feldman, the guy behind The Ice Choir, also drums for The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, AKA the nicest guys in music ever. So who knows, maybe Kurt got tired of spooning creme brulee into his mouth and decided to take action. "Two Rings" – out November 15 through Shelflife, and highly reminiscent of New Order – certainly works for me as idiot repellent.
DOWNLOAD: Frank Alpine - Dark Places
You know what? I kinda get the impression that Frank Alpine actually enjoys being in dark places. Wierd are releasing his self-titled debut album on Halloween, for Christ's sake. Who does that if not the sort of person who sprints home from work so they can spend a larger proportion of the evening hiding in the cupboard under the stairs? It's from that dark place that I imagine the lo-fi hum of Alpine's electronics and his deranged and echoing bark emanate, chasing me up to bed like when I was a kid and the only person who gave a shit about vampires was Sarah Michelle Gellar.
PREMIERE: Monarchy - You Don't Want To Dance With Me (Moonlight Matters Remix)
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Who doesn’t want to dance with Monarchy? I want to meet the misanthrope after which this track is named, the one who hates Grade A nu-disco overflowing with bubbly bass, hooky piano keys and ingratiating sugarpop vocals so that I may look into the face of evil itself. Moonlight Matters’ remix of Monarchy and Britt Love’s “You Don’t Want To Dance With Me” proves there is good—and good music—still left in this world. Jiggle around to it (with someone amenable) until the proper single drops on October 24 via 100% Records.
Monarchy - You Don't Want To Dance With Me (Moonlight Matters Remix)
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PREMIERE: Bright Future - Mit Dir + 2 More
True story: We were having a standard vanilla Thursday, when from the mist, Bright Future's Frank Midnite shimmies out in his skinnies and geode necklaces and handed us two witchy nu-pop tracks he’d made out of rain puddle synths and swollen beats and pained indie vocals and when we said “Dude?” he showed us how a zombie would dance to them, and before we could get any more information like where he came from and how we could ever see him again, was like, “Yea, whatevah!” and totally just disappeared into the night. Maybe, we thought, forever. But then he came blazing through our inbox with a super-duper DIY cover of 1984 German analog hit “Mit Dir” and it turns out he wasn’t gone, just making that, and well, we decided that we couldn’t keep any of these tracks or this tale to ourselves a minute longer and this post was born.
PREMIERE: Mathieu Santos - Northern Mentality (Friendly Ghost Remix)
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You may think of Mathieu Santos as the founding bassist and chorus crooner in Ra Ra Riot, but after today you’ll think of him as the wondrous nerd in the popsicle windbreaker who gets electro-whipped to his knees by Friendly Ghost. Synthpop bomb “Northern Mentality” forgoes the chamber-pop lean of Santos’s past for slappy breaks, bullish synths and flaming bass. And oh how they fit. Check the rest of his highly melodic solo effort over on Barsuk.
Mathieu Santos - Northern Mentality (Friendly Ghost Remix)
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DOWNLOAD: The Drums - Money (Beat Connection Remix)
Given that I've spent the last three days writing about gangs of kids fighting police in the streets and unprecedented looting sprees in London, Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham and other English towns and cities, it's hard for me not to see everything through a riot prism. (Ie a prism that doesn't have any glass left because it's all been smashed.) I go to get the milk out of the fridge for a cup of tea, I hurl it across the room at an imaginary police officer. I go to take the bins out, and I'm setting them on fire and dragging them down the street to form a barricade. I listen to this remix of The Drums by Beat Connection, and all I think when I hear the line "I want to buy you something/but I don't have any money" is 'Awwww, those guys in hoodies and ski masks broke into all those shops because they wanted to get presents for their girlfriends.' I am a fool, and I hope that this delusion passes quickly, because I would not last a second in jail.
The Drums - Money (Beat Connection Remix)
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