Thursday, 15 March 2012

SummersRadio™ New Music! Miike Snow!

SummersRadio™ New Music! Miike Snow featuring Lykke Li - 'Black Tin Box'/ Miike Snow - 'Devil's Work' (Alex Metric Remix)

Swedish electronic pop trio Miike Snow have just released their new album online this week! 'Happy To You' is the band's second album and the follow up to their self titled 2009 debut. There will be several versions of the release available - the deluxe digital version features 14 songs - two regular tracks plus two additional remixes, along with two video tracks and is available now on itunes.

The album will also be released physically on a single cd, double cd, and on vinyl on March 26th (U.K.)/ 27th (North America). The single disc features only ten tracks, the vinyl has all 12, and the 'Happy To You' Deluxe Edition double cd features the same 12, plus the two remixes featured on the deluxe digital version, plus an additional three remixes exclusive to this package!

'Black Tin Box' is not a single - yet - but I suspect it will be soon. It's certainly one of the album's standout tracks and it features guest vocals from fellow Swedish singer Li Lykke Timotej Svensson Zachrisson aka Lykke Li... Enjoy!



This is one of the remixes featured on both the deluxe digital and double cd version of 'Happy To You' - a remix of the album track 'Devil's Work' by Alex Metric... Enjoy!



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Wednesday, 14 March 2012

SummersRadio™ New Music + Bonus Tracks! Gossip!

SummersRadio™ New Music! Gossip - 'Perfect World'/ 'Standing In The Way Of Control' (Tronik Youth Remix)/ 'Heavy Cross' (Burns Remix)

Portland's Gossip (now sans 'The') have just released their new single online today! 'Perfect World' is the first single from their forthcoming fifth album which is called 'A Joyful Noise' and is set for release on May 22nd. The eleven track album is produced by Brian Higgins aka Xenomania and 'Perfect World' is available on itunes as of today.

I have mixed feelings on this song - Beth Ditto's vocals sound amazing as always -but I find the musical backing terribly ordinary. I reckon that this has more to do with the 'hit' producer than the band itself. Regardless, I should mention that this is not unprecedented - although I'm indeed a fan of the band I tend to favor some of their remixes over some of the regular singles themselves. Thus I look forward to some remixes of this new single - and in the meantime I will feature a couple of remixes of their earlier tracks as well!

For now - this is the first taste of their new album - this is 'Perfect World'... Enjoy!



Bonus Track #1! 'Standing In The Way Of Control' was Gossip's breakthrough single - although it took a couple years to do so. It was first released as a single in North America in 2005, it was released in the U.K. the following year, and then it reached the top 10 when it was re-released in 2007. This remix is from the 2006 U.K. 12" single - this is the 'Tronik Youth Remix'... Enjoy!



Bonus Track #2! 'Heavy Cross' was the first single released from their 2009 album 'Music For Men' - this is the excellent 'Burns Remix'... Enjoy!



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Tuesday, 13 March 2012

SummersRadio™ New Music! Superhero!

SummersRadio™ New Music! Superhero - 'Drugs And Choices' (Original Mix)

Superhero have just released their debut EP called 'Drugs And Choices' today! Superhero are a new duo - a collaboration between two Italian artists known as Leon and Toky. Their debut EP features three tracks - the 'Original Mix' of the title track, a remix of it from Pirupa, and a third track called 'It's Not For You'. It's out today on the German label Noir Music and it's currently available exclusively on Beatport: http://www.beatport.com/#release/drugs-and-choices/876725

This is the 'Original Mix' of 'Drugs And Choices' - the song has a great bassline, funky hi-hats, and lyrics that I suspect many of us can relate to... Enjoy!



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Monday, 12 March 2012

SummersRadio™ New Music + Bonus Tracks! Air!

SummersRadio™ New Music + Bonus Tracks! Air - 'Cosmic Trip'/ 'Sonic Armada'/ 'Playground Love (Vibraphone Version)/ (Nosferatu Mix By Flower Pistols)

Air is everywhere. It's true - even as I'm writing this a commercial just came on for a Samsung Galaxy tabletphone featuring their song 'Alone In Kyoto' - which was first featured in the 2003 film 'Lost In Translation' - and included on their 2004 album 'Talkie Walkie'. Although I've already featured four songs from their new album 'Le Voyage Dans La Lune' including the first single 'Seven Stars' back in December: http://summersradio.blogspot.com/2011/12/summersradio-new-music-air-featuring.html and three other standout tracks 'Astronomic Club', 'Parade', and 'Lava' on the day the album was released (in North America) last month: http://summersradio.blogspot.com/2012/02/summersradio-new-music-air.html I'm going to feature a couple more tracks from it today - because it's that good!

I've been listening to the cd several times this weekend - and I found a solution to my one criticism of it - that it's a bit short - as it clocks in at a mere 31 minutes and 22 seconds. I've discovered that if you play the recording on repeat several times that it sounds much longer - and strangely familiar :)

So lets travel deeper dans la lune - 'join us with no fear on our fantastic trip to the moon'. This is the ninth track on the album called 'Cosmic Trip' which features some wonderful xylophone style synth sounds and some truly cosmic backing strings action... Enjoy!



This is the fifth track on 'Le Voyage Dans La Lune' called 'Sonic Armada' - an instrumental jam featuring an electric sitar and synths that occasionally sound like a record scratching - perhaps the closest Air will ever come to writing a Beastie Boys tune... Enjoy!



Bonus Tracks! Of course 'Le Voyage Dans La Lune' is not Air's first foray into film inspired recordings - there was of course their score to the 2000 film 'The Virgin Suicides' - which included the single 'Playground Love'.

'Playground Love' was cowritten with - and features the lead vocals of - Gordon Tracks. Here are two very different remixes of the song - starting with the instrumental 'Vibraphone Version' which was released as a bonus track on the Japanese version of the cd, and on the 'Playground Love' EP/ single... Enjoy!



This is another remix from the 'Playground Love' EP - the 'Nosferatu Remix By Flower Pistols' - a radically remodeled version featuring some drug induced saxamaphone and even some cowbell... Enjoy!



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Sunday, 11 March 2012

SummersRadio™ New Music! The Junkies!

SummersRadio™ New Music! The Junkies - 'Au Jour Le Jour'/ 'Tuco'

Toronto duo The Junkies have just released their new EP called 'Au Jour Le Jour' this week! The EP features five tracks - the title track, 'Tuco', and 'Werq This' - as well as two dj tool tracks. It's released on the SCI-TEC Digital Audio label and is currently available exclusively on Beatport: http://www.beatport.com/#release/au-jour-le-jour/868770

                   

We recently featured the The Junkies (along with Carlo Lio) remix of Ron Costa's new single 'La Cage Invisible' which you can check out here: http://summersradio.blogspot.com/2012/02/summersradio-new-music-remix-ron-costa.html and you can keep up with them on Facebook m'here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Junkies/378651985599

The Junkies cover a lot of ground within just three songs on their new EP - minimal, tech-house, and techno - and I've chosen my two favorites. First up we have the title - and third track - 'Au Jour Le Jour' - an excellent mix of jackin' house and spacey techno. Please note that only edits are available for sharing - if you decide to purchase the track it's an amazing 8 minutes and 40 seconds long - so over five more minutes of trippy greatness... Enjoy!



This is the first song on the EP called 'Tuco' - the full version of this song is 7 minutes and 22 seconds... Enjoy!



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Friday, 9 March 2012

SummersRadio™ New Music! Clouds!

SummersRadio™ New Music! Clouds - 'Optic'

Scotland's Clouds have just released their new EP called 'Optic' this week! 'Optic' is a four track EP featuring the original mix of the title track, 'Future Blaster', 'Vaults', and a remix of 'Optic' by Jesper Dahlback. It's released on Tiga's Turbo Recordings label and it's available on both itunes and Beatport. Helpful hint: if this song is to your liking it's much cheaper on itunes :)

We previously featured a couple of tracks from their excellent EP called 'Matter', which was released on Turbo's new sublabel Twin Turbo in December - which you can check out/ revisit here: http://summersradio.blogspot.com/2011/12/summersradio-new-music-clouds.html

All four songs on the EP are solid, but it's the original version of 'Optic' that I like best. This is one quality tune from start to finish - I particularly dig the ultra spaced out feedback-induced vocal bits, and the funky driving percussion... Enjoy!



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SummersRadio™ New Music! Bart Skils!

SummersRadio™ New Music! Bart Skils - 'All About The Music' (Original Mix)/ 'Everything Just Dark (Original Mix)

Amsterdam's Bart Skils has just released a new EP called 'All About The Music' this week! 'All About The Music' is a two track EP featuring the original mixes of the title track and a song called 'Everything Just Dark'. It's released on the Break New Soil Recordings label - the German techno label founded by Gregor Tresher - and it's currently available exclusively on Beatport: http://www.beatport.com/#release/all-about-the-music/873143

Bart Skils released several excellent tracks last year including 'Dust' which made our Best Of 2011 year end lists which you can check out/ revisit here: http://summersradio.blogspot.com/2011/07/summersradio-new-music-bart-skils.html and you can keep up with Bart on Facebook here: http://www.facebook.com/djbartskils

Both songs are melodic and hypnotic - and rather seismic in nature - so I shall feature both tracks! The label's description of the EP as a double-A side is apt! This is the first A side - a song that is actually about SummersRadio™ :) This is 'All About The Music'... Enjoy!



This is the other excellent A side - 'Everything Just Dark'... Enjoy!



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Thursday, 8 March 2012

SummersRadio™ New Music + Free Download! Saint Motel!

SummersRadio™ New Music + Free Download! Saint Motel - 'Honest Feedback'

L.A.'s Saint Motel have just released a brand new single called 'Honest Feedback' online! It was only just over a month ago that the band released the new video for their previous single 'At Least I Have Nothing' which you can check out/ revisit here: http://summersradio.blogspot.com/2012/02/summersradio-new-video-saint-motel.html and they've already posted a new follow up single on Soundcloud which is available as a free download for a limited time.

                   

'Honest Feedback' includes the lines "So many people again and again, They make their enemies telling the truth to their friends" - which explains the songs title - but there's something else going on here too. The line 'Your tongue's magic' is so overtly sexual without being explicit - it's perfect! The song has a summery laid back feel - it reminds a bit of one of The Bravery's more chilled tunes - their earlier material, before they got a bit lame.

This is Saint Motel's new single 'Honest Feedback' and if it's to your liking just click the download icon for your free download courtesy of the band themselves... Enjoy!



Bonus Track! The Bravery - 'An Honest Mistake' (Superdiscount Remix)

'An Honest Mistake' was The Bravery's first single from their self titled debut album which was released in 2005. This is the 'Superdiscount Remix' by France's Etienne De Crecy aka Superdiscount which was included on the cd single for their third single 'Unconditional'... Enjoy!



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Wednesday, 7 March 2012

SummersRadio™ New Music! White Rabbits!

SummersRadio™ New Music! White Rabbits - 'Heavy Metal'

Brooklyn's White Rabbits have just released their new album called 'Milk Famous' today! White Rabbits are an indie rock band originally from Columbia Missouri - their new album features 11 tracks and is released on the TBD Records label. The album (their third) is produced by Mike McCarthy - who's best known for his work with Austin's Spoon - and is available on itunes as of today.

'Milk Famous' is also available physically, and a free lithograph is available with purchase from select indie record stores! You can find out more about locations here: http://www.recordstoreday.com/Venues and you can keep up with the latest news on White Rabbits on Facebook m'here: http://www.facebook.com/whiterabbits

'Heavy Metal' is the expertly produced first single and the album's opening track. The surreal video is beautifully shot and edited and features an ultra creepy family... Enjoy!



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Tuesday, 6 March 2012

SummersRadio™ New Music! Burial & Four Tet!

SummersRadio™ New Music! Burial & Four Tet - 'Nova'

London's Will Bevan and Kieran Hebden aka Burial and Four Tet have just released a new song online called 'Nova'! 'Nova' was just posted on Soundcloud by Four Tet yesterday - without any accompanying comments or detailed information about it - but that hasn't stopped in from amassing nearly 200,000 plays already!

'Nova' carries on nicely from last evening's experimental tunes from Ian Ross - Burial and Four Tet head in a more housey direction - albeit via a drifting, ambient route... Enjoy!



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Monday, 5 March 2012

SummersRadio™ New Music + Free Downloads! Ian Ross!

SummersRadio™ New Music + Free Downloads! Ian Ross - 'The C-130 Feedback Rig Jam Pt. 1'/ 'The C-130 Feedback Rig Jam Pt. 2'

So a couple days ago we ventured sometime into the future with the new Arcade Fire song from 'The Hunger Games' soundtrack - then we were off 'Speeding Around The Universe' with Tim Xavier - and then we let go of 'Gravity' with Pan-Pot. Tonight we fly into deep space - perhaps even into a black hole! :)

Ian Ross aka C-130 is a Vancouver electronic artist who makes 'minimal/micro/techno/house with some organic leanings... periodically with eastern & latin influences'. Ross has just recorded two new ambient/ experimental/ noise tracks which came about thusly:

'So last night I'm sitting at my desk trying to find the source of a faint pulse, and realized it was gurgle of some static or something caught in a delay vst I had running in my Ableton 'feedback sculptor' set. It was a nice sound, so I hit record & started fiddling, using the other effects I have in the set, and this is what I wound up with. No synths, beats, instruments, edits, tracking or overdubs. Just effects back & thru each other. It's pretty rough going but I think quite intense & beautiful if you go right through it. And very cyclical... think Steve Reich vs Merzbow.'

                   

Parts 1 and 2 of 'The C-130 Feedback Rig Jam' are both intriguing and hypnotic, but actually quite different. Part 1 clocks in around eight and a half minutes in length with an assortment of usual sounds popping up that both startle and entrance. Part 2 runs for nearly 25 minutes and is a full on journey into the unknown! This is where we may slip into a black hole, or perhaps somewhere otherworldly.

The good news is that if either or both tracks are to your liking they're both available as a free download from C-130's Soundcloud page here: http://soundcloud.com/c-130-1 (or simply click on the respective download icons)

First up we have 'The C-130 Feedback Rig Jam Pt. 1'... Enjoy!



And this is 'The C-130 Feedback Rig Jam Pt. 2' - prepare to be transported... Enjoy!



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Sunday, 4 March 2012

SummersRadio™ New Music! Pan-Pot!

SummersRadio™ New Music! Pan-Pot featuring G-Tech - 'Gravity' (Original Mix)/ Pan-Pot featuring Cari Golden 'No One Knows' (Original Mix)/ Pan-Pot featuring G-Tech - 'Gravity' (Safeword's Outer Sunset Mix)/ (Safeword's Tenderloin Mix)

Berlin duo Pan-Pot have just released an excellent 4 track EP called 'Gravity' this week! The 'Gravity' EP features three versions of the title track - the original plus two remixes from San Francisco duo Safeword - and a song called 'No One Knows', and is released on the Mobilee Records label. 'No One Knows' features the vocals of Cari Golden - who also sang lead vocals on Pan-Pot's previous single ' Captain My Captain' which you can check out/ revisit here: http://summersradio.blogspot.com/2011/02/summersradio-new-remix-pan-pot.html

Pan-Pot are also presenting the next Mobilee label compilation called 'Back To Back Vol. 6' which is a double cd plus dvd release - with the first cd featuring Pan-Pot's 'Best Of Mobilee 2011' selections, and disc two is a mix cd. The compilation is set for release on March 26th. You can check out the full tracklisting and pre-order it from Mobilee's official website here: http://www.mobilee-records.de/releases/pan-pot-mobilee-back-to-back-vol-6-presented-by-pan-pot-mobileecd014 and you can keep up with Pan-Pot on Facebook m'here: http://www.facebook.com/PanPotOfficial

'Gravity' expands on the futuristic/ spacey theme of our last couple posts - and in fact both yesterday's 'Speeding Around The Universe' and today's song 'Gravity' feature the same trippy booming New York vocalist - although he's officially billed as George Rontiris on the former, and by his aka moniker G-Tech on the latter!

                   

All three versions of 'Gravity' are really good (as is the b-side track 'No One Knows') and I'd normally narrow it down to one or two mixes, however there are currently only four minute edits available for sharing of each track - so I'm going to post the entire EP preview so you can have a taste of each delicious track!

The 'Gravity' EP is currently available exclusively on Beatport: http://www.beatport.com/#release/gravity/872047 and here's the full tracklisting and song length times for the full length version of each track in case you're considering purchasing one or more of them - as each song contains an extra 2¾ to 3½ minutes of techno/ house goodness!

1. 'Gravity' (Original Mix) 7:35
2. 'No One Knows' 7:28
3. 'Gravity' (Safeword's Outer Sunset Mix) 6:59
4. 'Gravity' (Safeword's Tenderloin Mix) 6:46

Enjoy...



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