Electronic
Track: Alice Jemima covers No Diggity
Ahead of her debut self-titled album, out on Sunday Best Recordings on March 3rd, pop newcomer Alice Jemima has released her cover of Blackstreet’s No Diggity. In Jemima’s own words, ‘I first chose to cover ‘No Diggity’ after hearing Chet Fakers striped-back version of it – but I wasn’t planning to do anything with it, …
News: Bronski Beat’s Larry Steinbachek dies at 56
Keyboard player Larry Steinbachek, a founder member of Synth-pop trio Bronksi Beat along with Steve Bronski and Jimmy Somerville, has died at 56 following a short battle with cancer, his sister has revealed to the BBC. Tributes were paid from Somerville, who posted a link to a demo version of Screaming on his facebook page …
Track: Be Charlotte – One Drop
With ‘One Drop’ Be Charlotte demonstrate, in one exhilarating track, why they’re on every sane person’s ones to watch list for 2017. The Scottish three-piece comprised of the captivating Charlotte Brimner (programming, guitar, keys, vocals), James Smith (keyboard, bass) and David Calder (drums) ended 2016 on a high performing at the Hogmanay celebrations in Edinburgh …
Track: The XX – Say something loving
South London indie wonders The xx have released the second song from their forthcoming album “I See You”, due to be released on 13th January via Young Turks. The highly anticipated album follows the massively successful “XX” and “Coexist”, which garnered the band massive praise from the music press and saw many of their songs …
See: Tempers Drop New Video For “Strange Harvest”; Ready New EP
NYC- based Tempers create dark electronica that lingers within the more sinister impulses as disco beats pound into your skull. Their brand of electronica can be heard on their upcoming EP release Fundamental Fantasy, which will be released on February 24th via The Vinyl Factory. They have just dropped a new video for EP track …
Track: MÒZÂMBÎQÚE Remixes Dan Deacon’s “Change Your Life(You Can Do It)”
Southern California producer MOZAMBIQUE drops a new remix of Dan Deacon’s “Change Your Life(You Can Do It)”. Deacon and his label Domino Records partnered with WeTransfer to allow the world to remix his new single. MOZAMBIQUE’s version is a soaring IDM groover. If Boards of Canada, Tycho, and Aphex Twin are your thing, check the …
Album Review: Wojciech Golczewski – End Of Transmission
Just when you think you’ve got the year in music all wrapped up with a nice, decorative bow an album pops out from the great ether and grabs you by the lapels and says “You’re not done yet, pal!” That album for me is Wojciech Golczewski’s End Of Transmission. Golczewski is a film composer that …
Track: Elkka – Try
Newcomer Elkka has released her debut solo track Try on her own label Femme Culture, ahead of her ‘Try’ EP, which drops in December. She’s big plans for 2017, including a further two EPs as part of a series – titled Us and Them, and all three will be accompanied by a three part video …
Track: ISLE – Faults
ISLE provide the soundtrack for celebrating our mistakes with euphoric new single ‘Faults’. ISLE are Liam John Rutherford and Ben Singer – a duo based in the Scottish Borders with a DIY ethic that sees them producing their artwork and videos as well as epic, but intimate sounding, electro-pop. ‘Faults’ (out now) has an air …
Album Review: Battery Operated Orchestra – Radiation
Initially out in September, we hang our heads in shame that it took us until now to discover and write about Battery Operated Orchestras second album, Radiation. Much as you’d be right to be wary of well-turned-out folk touting synths these days (by now Half Man Half Biscuit’s Adam Boyle will have further ditched the …