SummersRadio™ New Music! Kriece - 'Paranormal Codeine Steampunk' (Kriece Mash)
Kriece has just released a new EP called 'Kriece Mashups Volume 1'! Kriece aka Shamatha is a dj/ producer from Perth, Australia. His new EP features two tracks - 'Paranormal Codeine Steampunk' and 'Wire Propaganda' - and it's released on the Illegal Ninja Moves label. It's currently available exclusively on Beatport: http://www.beatport.com/#release/kriece-mashups-volume-1/989770
'Paranormal Codeine Steampunk' reminds me of a magical night at the last Soundwave Music Festival on Vancouver Island in 2010. All of my friends were at the drum and bass stage but I wandered off to the main stage where I saw Neighbour with DJ Trevor and friends. Their entire set was literally a perfect groove/ mix of original disco/ house/ funk and electronic music - complete with guitars, an mc and backing vocalists.
If there was such a place as a dance heaven it would sound just like that night - and the dj's would be playing this song in high rotation for the next few months (as it will be at Club English Bay aka my livingroom)... Enjoy!
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SummersRadio™ New Music/ Remix! Friendly Fires - 'Why Don't You Answer' (Hot Since 82 Remix/ Eberhard Schoener & Sting - 'Why Don't You Answer' (Lukas T. Velvet Remix)
Hot Since 82 have just released a new remix of Friendly Fires new single online today! The Leeds dj/ producer just posted this remix of Friendly Fires new cover of 'Why Don't You Answer' from the latest 'Late Night Tales' compilation on Soundcloud this morning.
This is 30th installment of the series and it's compiled by Friendly Fires. The 'Late Night Tales' series has always embraced diversity and this edition is no exception as it features twenty tracks from artists such as Junior Boys, Stereolab, SBTRK, Slowdive - and Olivia Newton-John!
'Late Night Tales' is available as a download, cd, a cd plus art print set, and on limited double vinyl. It's available on itunes and from the label's official website here: http://latenighttales.co.uk/product.php/184/friendly-fires-late-night-tales/7a59bd7db193116f8fa3a366acfae61f
For their own exclusive track (a staple of the 'Late Night' series) Friendly Fires chose an excellent song to cover - 'Why Don't You Answer' - a song recorded by Germany's Eberhard Schoener featuring the vocals of Sting, which first appeared on his 1978 album 'Flashback'.
The compilation is out now and this new remix by Hot Since 82 will be released on November 19th... Enjoy!
Bonus Track! The Friendly Fires cover of 'Why Don't You Answer' made me want to check out (revisit?) the original - which was familiar to my subconscious although I'm unsure of just when and where I heard it. This led to this remix of the original by Lukas T. Velvet - which appears on the digital reissue of 'Flashback' that came out last year.
This remix makes the original a bit punchier - more techno if you will... Enjoy!
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SummersRadio™ New Music! Flight Facilities - 'Clair De Lune' (Instrumental)/ Flight Facilities Featuring Christine Hoberg - 'Clair De Lune' (Original Vocal Version)
Australian production duo Flight Facilities have just released their new single called 'Clair De Lune' today! The single is released in Australia and New Zealand today - and it's released in North America and Europe next week - on the Glassnote label.
The band have posted both the vocal and instrumental versions - and thus far I'm a bit partial to the instrumental as it provides more opportunity to let the music sink in and for your mind to wander in it's warm glow... Enjoy!
This is the original vocal version featuring Brooklyn (via Wisconsin) singer Christine Hoberg: christinehoberg.bandcamp.com
Enjoy...!
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SummersRadio™ New Music! Bart Skils - 'Midnight Moving' (Original Mix)/ (2000 And One's 1984 Electro Synth Pop Mix)
Amsterdam's Bart Skils has just released a new EP called 'Midnight Moving' today! The two track single includes the original mix and this remix from 2000 And One - it's released on the 100% Pure Records label and it's currently available exclusively on Beatport: http://www.beatport.com/#release/midnight-moving/984534
'Midnight Moving' is an interesting mix of 70's disco, 80's synth pop, 90's house, 00's Electroclash, and whatever it is you call this decade we're in techno! I've listened to both versions numerous times trying to decide which mix is most to my liking and it's too close to call, so I'm posting both. I think I'll buy both versions and then and play them back to back so the song is a 13 and a half minute time warp of hypnotic synths and good times... Enjoy!
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SummersRadio™ New Music! School Of Seven Bells - 'Secret Days'
Brooklyn duo 'School Of Seven Bells' have just released a new song online called 'Secret Days'! 'Secret Days' is the first single from the band's forthcoming new EP called 'Put Your Sad Down' which will be released digitally on November 13th on the Ghostly International/ Vagrant labels.
The 'Put Your Sad Down' EP features five tracks - four new original songs - and a cover of the Silver Apples song 'Lovefingers'. 'Secret Days' is the second song on the EP and it features their lovely layered vocal harmonies and effects over a hypnotic shuffling dance beat... Enjoy!
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SummersRadio™ New Remixes + Free Downloads! Falco - 'Der Kommissar' (E.M.B. Project Remix)/ INXS - 'Need You Tonight' (E.M.B. Project Edit Mix)
Elias Mariano aka the E.M.B. Project has just released new remixes of two classic 80's songs online this week! The Brazilian producer has just remixed Falco's 1981/82 hit 'Der Kommissar' (which translates as 'The Commissioner') and INXS's 1987 hit 'Need You Tonight' from their 'Kick' album.
Both are great remixes and he's released both of them on Soundcloud as free downloads! If these remixes are to your liking you can download them for free here: http://soundcloud.com/embproject (or simply click on the download icons below)
First we have his remix of Falco's original 'Der Kommissar' - which I've always found superior to the rather plain English cover version by After The Fire. I like the looped guitar in the sustained intro in this remix - especially when it kicks in around the 2:04 mark... Enjoy!
This is his new 'E.M.B. Project Edit Mix' of INXS's 'Need You Tonight' - I like the 'Come over here' vocal sample loop and the guitar effects in this one... Enjoy!
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SummersRadio™ STARTLEFEST 2012 Halloween Spectacular! Saint Etienne - 'Haunted Jukebox'
It's time to bring STARTLEFEST 2012 to a close - I hope you weren't too startled by what you've heard! We've got one more scary song though - 'Haunted Jukebox' is the closing track on Saint Etienne's latest album 'Words And Music By...'. I mentioned being haunted be ex-lovers previously - this song relates to that, but in this case it's the memory triggered by music itself that gets you.
'Haunted Jukebox' is certainly and apt title for Halloween - and let's be honest - what band is more frightening and evil than Saint Etienne - the Marilyn Manson of British electronic pop? Actually this post is the perfect segue - it's Halloween night, and tomorrow I travel to Seattle to see Saint Etienne live at the Showbox! I can't wait!!!
Behold the malevolent Saint Etienne and 'Haunted Jukebox'... Happy Halloween everyone! :)
Enjoy...
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SummersRadio™ STARTLEFEST 2012 Halloween Spectacular! The 6ths Featuring Neil Hannon - 'The Dead Only Quickly Decay'
Halloween is at odds with itself. It's a fun time - and also a celebration that revolves around evil and fear. Ghosts, goblins, witches, demons and devils - what does it all add up to? What really happens when you die? Will you spend enternity in some fiery cave below the earth's crust because you told a lie when you were five, or because you once smoked a joint and said that you didn't inhale, when you really did?
Perhaps such things are just a bunch of bruhaha - maybe when we die, we simply die.
The average pop song is usually around three and a half minutes long - and the average dance tune maybe six minutes. There's aren't a lot of memorable tracks only a minute long - but we have an exception here. 'The Dead Only Quickly Decay' is a song from the 6ths second album called 'Hyacinths And Thistles' - say that one ten times fast - I dare you!
The 6ths are one of many side projects of Stephin Merritt of The Magnetic Fields - although he writes all the songs he chooses a different singer to record the vocals on each track. This song features Neil Hannon from the Irish band The Divine Comedy. 'The Dead Only Quickly Decay' is both creepy and cheeky - who else but Merritt would think to rhyme decay and soufflé... Enjoy!
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SummersRadio™ STARTLEFEST 2012 Halloween Spectacular! Rare Remix! Siouxsie & The Banshees - 'Fear (Of The Unknown)' (12" Vertigo Mix)
Halloween allows humans to have fun with their fears - of death, what happens after death - and of the unknown in general. This Siouxsie & The Banshees remix is quite rare for a number of reasons - 'Fear (Of The Unknown)' was only released as a single in the U.S. - it's the band's only single that was never released in the U.K. And this '12" Vertigo Mix' was only released on vinyl, so it can be difficult to find. It's also likely Siousxie's only rave hit. Whaaaaaat? Yes, it's a rave remix!
'Fear (Of The Unknown)' was released as the third single from their 1991 album 'Superstition' - the original was produced by Stephen Hague. The U.S. 12" single featured two remixes from Junior Vasquez - this '12" Vertigo Mix' - and a dub version. While some may peg 1991 as the year that punk broke with the rise of Nirvana - it was also the year that club music and raves erupted in the North American underground scene.
And so it was this context that explains the massive keyboard hooks which may frighten some hardcore Siouxsie fans - and delight some others. I love the production on this... Enjoy!
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SummersRadio™ STARTLEFEST 2012 Halloween Spectacular! Classic! Love & Rockets - 'Haunted When The Minutes Drag'
What's scarier than being haunted by a thousand ghosts, spirits and demons? Being haunted by one person - who's still alive - an ex-boyfriend or girlfriend! Few musicians have summed up that experience as perfectly as Love & Rockets did with their song 'Haunted When The Minutes Drag' on their debut album 'Seventh Dream Of Teenage Heaven', which was released in October 1985.
Although never released as a single 'Haunted When The Minutes Drag' was featured in John Hughes 1988 film 'She's Having A Baby'. These guys know how to create a mood - Daniel Ash and David J did of course co-write the goth classic 'Bela Lugosi's Dead' as members of Bauhaus in 1979. So whatever you may be haunted by, may you find comfort in the chilling sounds of this atmospheric Love & Rockets classic... Enjoy!
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