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A mysterious SBTRKT‘s remix hit the ground during these days: Hold On comes from heretofore unheard of artist Sisi BakBak. And here’s the strange thing: how can exist an artist that no ones ever heard of, in the internet age? Something smells fishy here and actually it seems to smell like Radiohead! In fact everyone has decided that Thom Yorke is behind this (very good) remix, and it definitely has his spasmodic lilt to it. So check out this super secret one (and its robotic-looped video, directed by Sam Pilling) and let’s hope it’s really him or we’ll all look foolish.

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SLOVE
Le Danse

Welcome to the addictive sound of Slove where the guitars purr and the synths glisten. Slove are a French band bridging the between addictive indie pop and electronica, and doing it successfully, may we add. They bring with them a talented gang of vocalists including Olivier Rocabois, Maik and Anne Laures and it makes for a pretty formidable mix. You may think you’d know what to find when you see the label “French dance music” but Slove take a sidestep away from what you’d expect.

ARTIST: Slove
TITLE: Le Danse
LABEL: Pschent
RELEASE DATE: November 28, 2011
TIME: 47:08 min.
WEB: http://plaisirdefrance.net/artistes/slove

01. Le Danse [04:58]
02. Do We Need [05:46]
03. The Brightest [06:10]
04. Flash [04:49]
05. Noisy Neige [04:28]
06. DMGM [01:24]
07. My Pop [04:50]
08. Carte Postale [06:14]
09. Find Out [03:29]
10. If Only I Had [05:00]

Slove – Flash

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VIDEO OF THE WEEK – #95
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ARTIST: Modeselektor (feat. otto von schirach)
TITLE: Evil Twin
ALBUM: Monkeytown
WEB: YouTube

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WE HAVE BAND
Ternion

If prizes could be awarded for sheer variety of sonic scope, We Have Band would nab every one going. For the dynamic two lads ‘n’ a lass trio, their sophomore effort Ternion plays out as a mish-mash of clever indie ingenuity, electronica and synth-pop. But even that doesn’t do them justice, because, frankly speaking, just so much is going on in every track: like a zoo of assorted instruments let loose, Ternion’s disparate elements are free to play to their own devices.

ARTIST: We Have Band
TITLE: Ternion
LABEL: Naïve
RELEASE DATE: February 28, 2012
TIME: 84:35 min.
WEB: http://www.wehaveband.com/

01. Shift [04:38]
02. After All [04:13]
03. Where Are You People? [03:50]
04. Visionary [04:59]
05. What’s Mine, What’s Yours [04:11]
06. Steel in the Groove [05:00]
07. Tired of Running [04:38]
08. Watertight [04:00]
09. Rivers of Blood [03:12]
10. Pressure On [04:57]
11. Ternion Aside [26:57]

12. Shift (acoustic) [03:56]
13. After All (acoustic) [03:19]
14. What’s Mine, What’s Yours (acoustic) [03:35]
15. Watertight (acoustic) [03:10]

We Have Band – Where Are You People? (walls remix)

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APOLLO 440
The Future’s What It Used to Be

We guess that someone of you was waiting this one for quite a while. Apollo 440‘s previous album, Dude Descending a Staircase was released in 2003, and nine years is over an eternity in music industry nowadays. Kids of today probably have not even the memories of Ain’t Talkin’ ’bout Dub as probably they don’t have a clue who the hell is Eddie Van Halen. Still and unsurprisingly, Apollo 440 came back with The Future’s What It Used to Be: a powerful and fresh album, the trendy dubstep frequency oscillations and bass wobblings are incorporated into their noisy electronics and rocking construction, and definitively they delivered (once again) a killer album as they mandatory should.

ARTIST: Apollo 440
TITLE: The Future’s What It Used to Be
LABEL: Stealth Sonic
RELEASE DATE: January 30, 2012
TIME: 46:23 min.
WEB: http://www.apollo440.com/

01. Stay Frosty [02:45]
02. The Future’s What It Used to Be [04:47]
03. Smoke & Mirrors [04:54]
04. Stealth Cantorum [00:08]
05. A Deeper Dub [05:22]
06. Love Is Evil [05:09]
07. Odessa Dubstep [04:55]
08. Motorbootee [04:12]
09. Traumarama [03:50]
10. Fuzzy Logic [05:37]
11. Music Don’t Die [04:44]

Apollo 440 – Traumarama

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AIR
Le Voyage Dans la Lune

Revered Parisian electronic duo Air (Nicolas Godin and JB Dunckel) were asked to compose an original score for the restored version of the classic 1902 silent film Le Voyage Dans La Lune (“A Trip to the Moon”) by Georges Méliès. This new album is the fully realized outcome of that collaboration. Georges Méliès is one of the central characters in Martin Scorsese‘s new blockbuster hit Hugo and his life and work (including the iconic “A Trip to the Moon”) is attracting a whole new wave of interest as a result. Features vocals and lyrics by Victoria Legrand of Beach House on Seven Stars and Au Revoir Simone on Who Am I Now?.

ARTIST: Air
TITLE: Le Voyage Dans la Lune
LABEL: Astralwerks
RELEASE DATE: February 7, 2012
TIME: 31:21 min.
WEB: http://en.aircheology.com/

01. Astronomic Club [03:13]
02. Seven Stars [04:23]
03. Ratour Sur Terre [00:33]
04. Parade [02:33]
05. Moon Fever [03:34]
06. Sonic Armada [05:05]
07. Who Am I Now [03:01]
08. Décollage [01:38]
09. Cosmic Trip [04:10]
10. Homme Lune [00:18]
11. Lava [02:53]

Air (feat. victoria legrand) – Seven Stars

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TYING TIFFANY
Dark Days, White Nights

On this 4th studio album Dark Days, White Nights (successor of the great Peoples Temple where we saw electro-clash meeting new-wave), Italian-vamp-ex-suicide-girl Tying Tiffany has surprisingly chosen to record a new full release almost completely in the a strange dark-dream-pop style and to leave the more club-oriented electro-hardness a little bit behind. And this is nothing but an unconventional way for her to prove again that she stays one of the most important artists and style-icons of the last years in the alternative/indie/new-wave scene.

ARTIST: Tying Tiffany
TITLE: Dark Days, White Nights
LABEL: Trisol
RELEASE DATE: February 3, 2012
TIME: 37:35 min.
WEB: http://www.tyingtiffany.com/

01. New Colony [04:17]
02. Dark Day [03:17]
03. Drownin’ [03:25]
04. Sinistral [04:09]
05. She Never Dies [03:07]
06. Universe [03:32]
07. Unleashed [04:19]
08. 5 a.m. [03:14]
09. Lepers of the Sun [03:36]
10. White Night [04:39]

Tying Tiffany – Universe

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PACIFIC UV
Weekends

We left pacificUV playing their wonderful Chrysalis EP, which was said to be only an anticipation. So now we’ve got to the point. The full-length Weekends is finally out: 12 tracks to lost yourself in, either you take the usual approach and enjoy the grand concept of the album, that follows the arc of the natural trajectory of the weekend itself, or you view it more like a sweet pop record and appreciate each singular track for its individual beauty and softness. That’s it, whichever route you choose, one thing remains unflinching: this album is guaranteed to please.

ARTIST: pacificUV
TITLE: Weekends
LABEL: Mazarine
RELEASE DATE: January 31, 2012
TIME: 39:10 min.
WEB: http://www.pacificuv.com/

01. Friday Night Dream [01:43]
02. Funny Girl [03:30]
03. Just For Kix [03:03]
04. Baby Blue [05:46]
05. I’m Here (but it’s not me) [04:15]
06. Ballerina [03:52]
07. Saturday Night Dream [01:46]
08. High [03:10]
09. Be My Only Shallow Love [03:15]
10. Feels Like I’m Going Home [03:52]
11. Sunday Night Dream [02:21]
12. Unplug Me [03:50]

pacificUV – Ballerina

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ANTHONY ROTHER
62 Minutes On Mars

Brand new sonic release from Frankfurt (Germany) based electronic music producer Anthony Rother. 62 Minutes On Mars is a metaphor for life: the topic “Mars” represents a society dominated by money and materialism, the results of this we see when we look at the planet Mars of today. The music is a journey in the orbit of this planet: one floats in the highest orbit on the brink of space and thus in the area of conflict between reality and fiction. Synthesizer sounds and rhythms without boundaries.

ARTIST: Anthony Rother
TITLE: 62 Minutes On Mars
LABEL: FAX +49-69/450464
RELEASE DATE: December 11, 2011
TIME: 62:22 min.
WEB: http://www.anthony-rother.com/

01. Cirklon Vally [09:12]
02. Star Orgy [07:49]
03. Phobos [05:52]
04. Deimos [06:22]
05. Iron Dust [04:24]
06. Time Clouds [03:01]
07. Alpha Cephei [06:40]
08. Delta Ringing [06:01]
09. Wave Odyssey [06:18]
10. Thermal Tune [06:43]

Anthony Rother – Thermal Tune

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RS HOT SPOT – #02
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Not so much before ending their tour promoting their first full-length A Bunch of Love Songs and Zombies Lava Lava Love release a bunch of remixes of a bunch of songs taken from the album. Remixes features four re-works and experiments, filling their indie-pop tracks with drum-machines and synths, by Tarick1 (Andrea Calcagno of Numero6), Jacopo Gobber, The Darth Faders (Matteo Gosi and Filippo Mannello of Beaucoup Fish) and Nata Ieri (a.k.a. Natasha Romano of Qali). Remixes is dowloadable in digital format on the band’s Bandcamp page according to the name-your-own-price method: that means you can get it for free, but you’re highly recommended to pay something (it’s up to you, of course), because all the profits from the selling of this EP will be donate to ABEO (Associazione Bambino Emopatico Oncologico), an association supporting children suffering from oncological diseases, based in Verona (Italy).

Lava Lava Love – Sparkling Wine (nata ieri remix)

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PORCELAIN RAFT
Strange Weekend

Remiddi‘s androgynous vapor of a voice weaves like a ghost between Nick Gilder and The Alessi Brothers, Julee Cruise and Judee Sill. In more contemporary terms, Porcelain Raft stands confidently on a high hill between the sounds of M83 and Beach House.
Strange Weekend is made of looping and anthemic tracks, gauzy and chiming atmospheres: soft elctronics for sweet minds.

ARTIST: Porcelain Raft
TITLE: Strange Weekend
LABEL: Secretly Canadian
RELEASE DATE: Jauary 24, 2012
TIME: 34:21 min.
WEB: http://porcelainraft.com/

01. Drifting In and Out [03:14]
02. Shapeless & Gone [03:45]
03. Is It Too Deep for You? [03:46]
04. Put Me to Sleep [03:54]
05. Backwords [04:08]
06. Unless You Speak from Your Heart [03:35]
07. The End of Silence [03:10]
08. If You Have a Wish [02:19]
09. Picture [03:03]
10. The Way In [03:27]

Porcelain Raft – Put Me to Sleep

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THE BIG PINK
Future This

The Big Pink represent far more than simply the duo behind the admittedly fantastic earworm single Dominos from their 2009 release A Brief History of Love. That album and Future This, their second full-length, places the band as one of the main representatives of the radical shift that the indie rock scene (and their label, 4AD, in particular) has taken over the last decade.

ARTIST: The Big Pink
TITLE: Future This
LABEL: 4AD
RELEASE DATE: Jauary 17, 2012
TIME: 44:28 min.
WEB: http://musicfromthebigpink.com/

01. Stay Gold [03:37]
02. Hit the Ground (superman) [04:56]
03. Give It Up [04:50]
04. Morphine [03:24]
05. Ask Quietly [03:16]
06. What If [03:32]
07. Jump Music [04:38]
08. Lose Your Mind [04:09]
09. Future This [03:57]
10. 77 [04:42]

The Big Pink – Hit the Ground (superman) (king krule remix)

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RS HOT SPOT – #01
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On April 2nd, 2011 LCD Soundsystem played their last show at Madison Square Garden, NYC. Now we have Shut Up and Play the Hits, a documentery that showcases this last, incredible set and gives to us a pretty surprising portrait of the band’s leader James Murphy. The film has been directed by Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace. Here’s the trailer.

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