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Bulletproof Gets Heavy

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

I think one of the best things about the rapid ascendance of this current crop of electro-pop songstresses (see Boots, Little, Goulding, Ellie, The Diamonds, Marina and) is that they are, to a person, proving to be ripe, varied and exciting remix subjects. And we’re not talking just the straight up space disco/electro-house rewrites either; [...]

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Third time lucky?

Monday, June 1, 2009

Duran Duran did it back in 1998 with Night Versions. Soulwax did the same in 2005 with their own Nite Versions. It is 2009 and Van She have ‘reworked’ their debut album, V, into Ze Vemixes.
‘Reworked’ is the word because Ze Vemixes doesn’t sound like the Van She Tech remixes that went out [...]

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No Sense in Moderat(ion)

Friday, May 29, 2009

I have no end of love for German electronica maestros Modeselektor, and am at least moderately fond of German minimal/IDM don Apparat, so when I heard that they were rekindling their German collaborative project Moderat (geddit? It’s a portmanteau!) I was very, very excited. So excited that I may have actually fallen off my chair. [...]

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Knightlife - Crusader

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

With his brand-new track, ‘Crusader,’ we can finally catch a glimpse of Knightlife’s second EP, the appropriately titled, II. Melbourne’s Cutters Records will of course be looking after this release, with more news of it to come in the following months.
I’d love to gush about how nice this track is (because it is) but [...]

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Jesse Rose + Zombie Disco Squad + Oliver $ = STROBE

Monday, May 18, 2009

Every time I look at the title of this blog, my mind flies back to the heady days of 2007; the year when electro first exploded into the mainstream, propelled forward on a wave of stomping house beats spliced with synth-rock and electroclash sensibilities. I remember thinking at the time how amazing it was that [...]

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More Evil Nine, More!

Thursday, May 14, 2009

This photo notwithstanding, I really like Evil Nine, and have done for quite a while. I was (electronically) coming of age in the nu-skool breaks scene just as their debut album ‘You Can Be Special Too’ really started making waves in late 2003, so from the get go their particular brand of stomping, rock-tinged, snare-kick [...]

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Passion Pit

Friday, May 8, 2009

I think that when I look back at this grand music blogging adventure and start tallying up all the hits and misses of my career, the one that’s really going to sting was the time in June last year when I picked up a track called ‘Sleepyhead’ from the now defunct Good Weather for Airstrikes, [...]

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