electronic tracks
Track: Peggy Gou – It Makes You Forget (Itgehane)
Following on from a spate of brilliant releases on labels such as Rekids, Phonica White and Technicolour, Korean-born, Berlin residing producer Peggy Gou is set to releaase her new EP, ‘Once’ on the ever brilliant Ninja Tune label on March 2nd. Talking of the EP, Gou says “I really wanted to represent different styles and …
See: James Blake releases new track / video for ‘If The Car Beside You Moves Ahead’, plus European tour dates
Thing with having your own Radio 1 Residency is it’s the ideal place to premiere your own material, which is exactly what James Blake did last night. It’s another surprise following his atmospheric reworking of Don Mclean’s Vincent that he dropped on Christmas Eve. It’s introspective, blurring electronic soul, Blake’s vocal obscured and altered giving …
Track: Vowws – Esseff
“‘Esseff’ is like James Bond spy music updated for the modern world”, say LA-via-Australian based duo Vowws. “We wanted to create a sound that felt like you were being chased by something scary, but enticing”. The single is from their forthcoming album Under the World, out on February 3rd on Anti-Language Records. It lives up …
Track: Uppermost – Slide ft. Yudimah
Lifted from his upcoming album, Perseverance, Slide ft. Yudimah is the latest single from Paris based, producer Behdad Nejatbakhshe aka Uppermost. His recent singles ‘Make A Change’ and ‘Step By Step ft. Sôra’ have seen his stock rise, and he’s turned heads in many of the more influential magazines and blogs. This latest effort features …
Track: Dita Von Teese – Bird Of Prey
After seeing Dita Von Teese performing at the Crazy Horse in Paris to one of his tracks, French electronic music maestro Sébastien Tellier composed an album especially for her. The latest track to be unveiled from it being “Bird Of Prey” – Dita’s breathy vocals float over a shimmery background of space age harp music, before …
Track: Gundelach – Duck Hunting
If his debut EP and follow up ‘Games’ which featured his friend – artist ARY, then Duck Hunting, the new single from Norwegian singer-songwriter Gundelach is really going to set the cat amongst the pigeons. Not in a literal sense though, this is smooth, post-Fleetwood Mac soul, full of sweeping analogue synths, and his own …
Track: Fischerspooner – TopBrazil
Fischerspooner have just released a new single, TopBrazil, from their upcoming album Sir, which drops on February 16th via Ultra Records. Its the bands, essentially the project of Warren Fischer and Casey Spooner first album in ten years, and was produced in its entirety by Michael Stipe, with additional production by BOOTS (Beyonce, Run The …
Track: Güero – Night Cruising
Set to be the first fully feldged album on Rebolledo’s You and Your Hippie Friends sister label, My Way My Rules is the debut album from Güero. If his name rings a bell then his Convertible Ride appeared on the notorious “A Very Nice Combinado Volume Uno” 12” release, under the moniker of El Güero …
Track: Haus – Shameless
Tottenham five piece Haus have returned with a new single, Shameless, produced by Everything Everything’s Alex Robertshaw and mixed by Duncan Mills (Peace, The Vaccines, Erol Alkan). It flits between this anthemic indie and electronic cut ups with buzzing effects and synth lines. Of the track, frontman Ashley Mulimba says Speaking about the track frontman …
Track: Nathan Fake – Sunder
Nathan Fake has revealed the title track from his new EP, out via the ever brilliant Ninja Tune label on 23rd February on 4-track 12″/Digital release. “These four tracks are like snapshots captured in a single moment. They were all recorded on an old Marantz tape deck, Jupiter 6, broken Akai drum machine and a …