electronic tracks
Track: Underworld – Listen to their No, plus Drift Songs album news
Legendary electronic pioneers Underworld, aka Rick Smith and Karl Hyde have just released a new double A side single: Listen to Their No. It brings to an end the pairs fifty-two week DRIFT series, and is accompanied by news of a new album and their biggest ever headline shows. The bands DRIFT series saw pieces of …
Track: Com Truise – Ultrafiche of you, plus European Tour Dates
Com Truise, aka Seth Haley, has released a new single ‘Ultrafiche of You’, taken from his mini-album ‘Persuasion System’, which is out now on Ghostly International. As is his want, it’s this sort of semi-retro sci-fi synth heavy instrumental that slips backward but looks forward, with layers of echoey lines bleeding into eachother to create …
Track : Quantic – Atlantic Oscillations 12″
We already know that Quantic is back, with a new album, and ahead of the album release on 12th June is a 12″ bundle of remixes for the title track “Atlantic Oscillations” – The 12″ also includes a shorter radio edit, a remix from Maghreban taking the track into a 90s rave direction, and possibly …
Track: Brian Eno – Like I was a spectator, plus Apollo reissue / new music news
There is new Brian Eno music on the horizon, quite literally actually. He’s to reissue his seminal soundtrack album ‘Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks’, written with his brother Roger and Daniel Lanois to accompany Al Reinert’s landmark feature-length documentary ‘For all Mankind’, featuring footage of and interviews with Apollo astronauts. In addition, there is a whole disc …
Track: Quantic – You Used to Love Me ft. Denitia
Taken form his forthcoming album Atlantic Oscillations, You Used To Love Me ft. Denitia is the latest single from renowned producer Quantic aka Will Holland. Returning to his electronic roots, Holland has drafted in New-York based singer, songwriter, guitarist and producer Denitia to add vocals and lyrics. It’s a bustling busy electro sound, this gluey …
See: FKA Twigs reveals new video for ‘Cellophone’, plus tour news
FKA twigs has returned with her first new music in over three years. Written and produced by FKA twigs with Jeff Kleinman and Michael Uzowuru, ‘Cellophane’ is twigs’ most vulnerable song to date and is an enticing first glimpse of what to expect from her second album; the follow up to her Mercury Prize and Brit Award nominated 2014 debut, LP1. Talking about …
Track: Sarasara – Blood Brothers
Paris born, Margate based producer Sarasara returns with a new album, Orgone, out on July 5th via One Little Indian, and ahead of that has released a brooding new single, Bad Brothers. Co-produced with Liam Howe of label-mates Sneaker Pimps, the track has this nod towards trip-hop with its foreboding, almost sufficating production. Over the …
Track: BABii – Carniivore
Margate singer-songwriter BABii has released a new track, Carniivore, ahead of her debut album Hiide (you see the double ii thing going on, right?) which comes out on July 5th via Deathwaltz Originals. Produced by uber-producer Adrian Sherwood, BABii makes this sort of smoky electronic pop/R&B, Sherwood does a shine and polish job on the …
Premiere: Karmic – X Marks The Spot
We’re absolutely delighted to premiere Los Angeles electro-indie pop six piece Karmic new single, X Marks the Spot here on Backseat Mafia. X Marks the Spot this little bubble of positivity, the co singers Laura Baruch and Kylee Katch trading harmonies and pretty much everything else as it floats around, its smart , cool pop …
Album Review: Battery Operated Orchestra – Snare
Battery Operated Orchestra might hail from Brighton but, in a previous incarnation as Katsen, they emerged on Thee Sheffield Phonographic Corporation. Which seemed very appropriate even then given the quality of their Kraftwerk-inspired synthpop, which would never have been out of place in the Steel City at any time over the last 30-odd years. Now …