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DOWNLOAD: Villa Nah - Daylight
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You'd say this was 'Eighties', but does the past exist in Scandinavia? Everything 'Eighties'-influenced that comes from that part of the world - Air France, jj, Telephones all spring to mind - sounds so clean, as if to make the suggestion that anything ever had any influence upon the music would be rude. Must be the snow, and it's piled on "Daylight" in fresh blankets - see if Villa Nah can keep their tracks covered for the duration of debut album Origin, out May 17th.
Sounds Like: Future Trends, Cut Copy, Black's "Wonderful Life"
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DOWNLOAD: Apparatjik - Antlers
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Grown, most-likely bearded men - with houses and children and wives and everything - from Coldplay, a-ha and Mew decide to go glo-fi. Seriously (sort-of - it's very Sincerely Yours, anyway). This is what we've been waiting for folks. All the walls have collapsed! Generic music and generation gaps is dead! And it sounds pretty good, actually! Apparatjik's debut album We Are Here is out now.
Sounds Like: M83, Air France, Delphic
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Two Door Cinema Club - Undercover Martyn (Softwar Remix)
Before 2004, when young people finally realised they could listen to more than one type of music and still wear tight jeans, this is what indie rock heard when it dreamed of dance music: treble- rather than bass-driven, with a young, clean male on vocals instead of some nameless, wailing diva; horizon-bound synth wooshes and a reliable snare to drive yr gut pangs. All in all, Softwar's remix of Two Door Cinema Club is brilliant, alive stuff, whether you've been awake in clubs or not this last half decade.
Sounds Like: Cut Copy, The Juan Maclean, Memory Tapes
Two Door Cinema Club - Undercover Martyn (Softwar Remix)
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Boy 8-Bit - Baltic Pine (Run Hide Survive Remix)
This Run Hide Survive remix of "Baltic Pine" is so club floor-ready I feel like it should be accompanied at all times by an intermittent soundtrack of whooping and hollering glittered girls, macho boyfriends guns out swaying lustily behind, spraying rum all over said club floor 'til it's so sticky you couldn't leave even if you wanted to. Which you probably wouldn't. Because Boy 8-Bit's in charge. Find the cute/sinister video to his original above if you still don't believe me.
Sounds Like: Fake Blood, being chased by murderous elves, "Destination Calabria",
Boy 8-Bit - Baltic Pine (Run Hide Survive Remix)
Previously:
Boy 8-Bit - Baltic Pine (Radio Edit)
DOWNLOAD: El Perro del Mar - Change of Heart (Robyn's Rakamonie Remix)
People complain about Christmas. They say it's turned from a celebration of faith and family into a festival of greed. But what's wrong with greed? Greed is logical. Like, why would you settle for one beautiful, slighly-androgynous, maudlin Scandinavian woman when you could have two beautiful, slightly-androgynous, maudlin Scandinavian women? Here, Robyn's first ever remix chooses El Perro del Mar's "Change of Heart" as its subject matter, with predictably beautiful, maudlin results.
Sounds Like: The Knife, Lykke Li, Feist
El Perro del Mar - Change of Heart (Robyn's Rakamonie Remix)
Previously:
El Perro del Mar - Change of Heart
El Perro del Mar - How Did We Forget
El Perro del Mar - Glory To The World
El Perro del Mar - You Can't Steal A Gift
El Perro del Mar's RCRD LBL Page
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Mat Riviere - FYH
If Interpol's bid for artistic recognition had failed and they decided to go their separate ways and just carry on being miserable alone, they might sound something like Mat Riviere (on a good day). The Londoner holds off on thrusting, post-punk guitars and instead meddles with synths that sound like sherbet but taste like warm tears. I guess when that happens, you know you're shit out of luck. Anyway, Brainlove Records have kindly given us "FYH" from Mat's debut single Follow Your Heart. It's out now, before a debut album arrives in January.
Sounds Like: Interpol, Gentle Friendly, Television Personalities
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Active Child - When Your Love Is Safe + Wilderness
Active Child is hard to pin down. "When Your Love Is Safe" burbles with those same, Prozac synths Passion Pit are so fond of - and shit's not been that optimistic since the Fifties. Then there's the voice, which belongs to LA's Pat Grossi and moans, beguiling and brilliant, like the ghost of Celine Dion's soulmate (i.e. Leo Di Caprio when he floats off shivering into the Atlantic). We're gonna neck a few Ritalin and try to get into Pat's headspace. Wish us luck, and bask in the greatness of these til we return, sunk-eyed and worn down.
Sounds Like: Antony & The Johnsons, Telepathe, The Cars' "Drive" as sung by Justin Vernon and Celine Dion
Active Child - When Your Love Is Safe
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Clouded Vision - Neon Rain (Astronomer Remix)
It's quietly satisfying when a song truly lives up to its name. This Astronomer remix of Clouded Vision's "Neon Rain" is one such song: somehow sounding exactly like vivid-lit electric water falling from the sky. The full deluge finally arrives when the track can no longer contain its massive house chords and singing Eighties synths, and gets wet paint all over its umbrella. Or Skittles. Whatever it is, it sure beats the weather here in grey olde London at the minute.
Sounds Like: Memory Tapes, Depeche Mode, The Knife
Clouded Vision - Neon Rain (Astronomer Remix)
Previously:
Brodinski - Oblivion (Clouded Vision Remix)
Clouded Vision's RCRD LBL Page
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