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Helado Negro: Dance GhostHelado Negro’s experimental electro-pop single ‘Dance Ghost’ is a piece to take note.
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Disclosure: White Noise (feat. Aluna George)As the Coachella countdown begins, I’m growing more and more excited to see the line up of epic and understated artists handpicked by the genius’ at Goldenvoice.
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Breakbot: One Out Of Two Ft. IrfaneBUY HERE French Producer and DJ, Thibaut Berland aka Breakbot, always comes out with the right track at the right moment. First single off of his new By Your Side EP, set to be released by Ed Banger Records this coming September, the song ”One Out Of Two” is promising a groovy summer. Same old recipe for the [...]
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Bonde Do Role: KiloBUY HERE For some, time is money. For others, time is means for a grand entrance. For Brazilian electro-pop trio, Bonde Do Rolê, time was the perfect opportunity to assemble an all-star team for an album five years in the making–not to mention, rally some fan anticipation.
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Hortlax Cobra: Stinging NettlesLikely for its brevity, or perhaps because it is merely obsolete, or, for the magic in the snap and pulse of Swedish collage-pop that “Stinging Nettles” is on track repeat. Despite his latest buzz track “Berlin”, John Eriksson, aka Hortlax Cobra, reeled us back to his early days with “Stinging Nettles,” a weighted compilation of mastered drum [...]
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Starfucker: Mona VegasBUY HERE BUY HERE Emerging from the sidelines after a pinwheel of projects in 2011, the noise-pop Portland four piece Starfucker (STRFKR) are about to release new material (knuckle taps ensue). After their debut album in 2008, Starfucker (Badman Recording), the talents cemented a place among neo-pop crowds with dance beats and introverted melodies. From [...]
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SoSo: Who’s Gonna Love MeBUY HERE With a caustic beauty in narrative, oriental soundscapes and vocal force kicking listeners to the edge, SoSo (Sophia Somajo) drops her debut album That Time I Dug So Deep I Ended Up In China (self-produced, Do It Yourself Bitch Productions) as the dominatrix in her mise en scène. Drenched in emotion, the Swedish bombshell collages an industrial [...]
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Stepdad: Must Land RunningBUY HERE In less than three and a half minutes, Stepdad wraps you in a cape and lofts you out a window with “Must Land Running”. The quintet will keep you soaring with their electropop energy as they unleash their debut LP “Wildlife Pop” (Black Bell Records) out June 12. A melting pot of creatives, [...]
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Wild At Heart: DarlingBUY HERE At the altitude of beat brilliance and lo-fi pop-tronica, Stockholm-based Wild At Heart (WAH) launches an unfulfilled love story in their latest single, “Darling.” The track, produced by The Sound of Arrows, carries underlying tones of MGMT, noting their cover of “Electric Feel” in 2008 (Ministry of Sound), which brought about widespread
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Minus The Tiger: Home Is Where The Heart IsListen to “Home is Where The Heart is” here BUY HERE For a split second the room fills with a tinge of Karen O. Then Minus The Tiger strikes you with their synth-pop single, “Home Is Where The Heart Is,” and you are pleasantly surprised. Then Anne Broekman and the family – Maarten Besseling (husband), Jesse Broekman (Anne’s sibling), [...]
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New Build: Finding ReasonsListen to “Finding Reasons” here BUY HERE The muscles of electro-rock are contracting under the epithet New Build. The anatomy: LCD Soundsystem and Hot Chip. Al Doyle, Felix Martin and Tom Hopkins have rolled out their debut 12-track album, Yesterday Was Lived And Lost this month (mastered by New Build and Club Ralph). They further [...]