The sun is still shining, so we need some synths to start the day with a rush. Here’s Ghosts by Lost Coast to offer something that starts off in a rippling synth vein that has echoes of Cerrone’s Supernature classic from the 70s. The track then develops into some sleaze funk electronica.
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Scandie electronica with a definite drum and bass tendency. This is Long Bright Dark with Captain Snow. Allies poppy lyrics M/F with happy drum and bass in a sugar rush of excitement.
Long Bright Dark are: Daniel Moll, Daniel Jonsson and David Wennergren. That Captain Snow is such an uplifting tune is ironic, since they explain that “it is about a guy stuck in the snowy mountains. He will not make it, but starts to talk to his girl in a feverish dream. Love and death in a beautiful combination. In the end you hear the rescue team, but its too late.” Marvellously miserable happiness.
“Low and slow” is the cry from my son (it’s from Cars). But it’s appropriate for All Night from Baltimore-based Sad Eyes. A wonderfully slow and woozy bit of lo-fi house. Full of slightly off-kilter synth sounds and classic house rhythms, this is perfect for early mornings and late nights.
Turning heads, turn on its head, turn over a new leaf. Turn is the new single from Ten Fé, a London-based indie duo. And their single turned my head with its twangy guitar melding with electronica. Americana meets Berlin’s electronics. That Ewan Pearson (Rapture, Depeche Mode, Jagwar Ma) is the producer does rather explain things.
Ten Fé are new to me. Their indie thing is not the sort what I’d normally feature. But this Americana shoegaze electronica with it’s vocal of lost lament and blissed out harmonies and approach is quite captivating. The trick Ewan pulls off is to give the guitar such reverb that it almost ends up as electronics and using the bass line to engage the hips as well as the heart. As the song says “I’ve run out of cheeks to turn.”
The 7″ of this comes with a Ewan Pearson remix. This eschews a radical remake in favour of upping the place of the bass line in the mix and maxing out on the blissed harmonies. This gives something the equal of, if not better than, the original.
Pre-order the 7” which includes the Ewan Pearson remix from Rough Trade – www.roughtrade.com/albums/106683
Blurb: New single ‘Turn’ by Ten Fé. The band’s hybrid sound of lazy Americana, driving electronics and blissed-out vocal harmonies is finding supporters and fans all over.
Previous singles ‘In The Air’ and ‘Elodie’ both reached No. 2 in Hype Machine’s most popular chart and accumulated 4 million Spotify streams, whilst debut single ‘Make Me Better’ was remixed by electronic music legend UNKLE.
‘Turn’ is out now on SOME KINDA LOVE / [PIAS] Ten Fé play Rough Trade East in London on October 26th as part of Rough Trade’s 40th Birthday and the Neighbourhood festival in Manchester on October 8th. They play the Reeperbahn festival and a number of European dates this autumn
Produced and mixed by Ewan Pearson
Available on Spotify – open.spotify.com/album/7Ku3DsiK0w6RE1TXzaGYdc
And iTunes – itunes.apple.com/gb/album/turn-single/id1144636893
Summer holidays over and feeling all back-to-schoolish? Try cheering yourself up with some bleepy synth pop from PoP Campaign. And if you’re in or near London, come down on 18 September to The Future is Electronic – closing party for Stow Festival 2016 which is being held at the Wild Card Brewery E17.
Here’s a live set from PoP Campaign from last month. 25 minutes of synthy goodness to make you smile, make you joyful, make you dance. Very much what New Life era Depeche Mode could have become had they not decided to become rock gods.
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Here’s Adam Irving from Manchester. He’s releasing an album – Tomorrow and Tomorrow – in October. Before then, here’s a track to listen. This is a down tempo bleepy kind of tune, with little bits of 8bit sounds all wrapped in experimental cellophane. A lovely little package. Find out more here.
After a run of downtempo tunes, here’s something from Egoism & Platinum Monkey that’s a bit more upbeat. Off, On has a clean electronic sound, perched somewhere between house and techno. A bit of Detroit perhaps. But it is sleeker than an otter and sharper than D’s wit.
Blurb: We welcome back Egoism & Platinum Monkey to Witty Tunes as they team up once more delivering 2 stellar tunes “Off, On” & “Chicago! We Love”. Included are remixes from our friends Stark & Sahin and Jamie Brennan.
