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AA.VV.
DJ-Kicks: Digitalism

The latest installment of the DJ-Kicks series showcases Digitalism with their mix including six exclusive tracks and two never before heard remixes! This is the 41st entry in the !K7 DJ-Kicks series, making it the longest running mix compilation and is now in its 17th year. For RS readers a special edition featuring not only the single tracks selected by the German duo, but also a stunning bonus track: a complete mix of the entire release.
In a few words: 3 hours of music in only one download.

ARTIST: AA.VV. selected & mixed by Digitalism
TITLE: DJ-Kicks
LABEL: !K7
RELEASE DATE: July 10, 2012
TIME: 3:07:05 min.
WEB: http://www.dj-kicks.com/

01. AXEL LE BARON & KURBATOV – Menace [04:02]
02. SURRENDER – Travellers (sharooz remix) [04:13]
03. HEY TODAY! – 83 [05:34]
04. ALEX GOPHER – Brain Leech [03:43]
05. TWR72 – Summer [07:01]
06. DIGITALISM – Falling [04:32]
07. GAI BARONE – Alicudi (digitalism electro-clash remix) [04:45]
08. DIGITALISM – Simply Dead [04:28]
09. WHOMADEWHO – The Sun [04:17]
10. KÖLSH – Loreley [06:45]
11. GRAUZONE – Raum (ATA’s extended mix) [07:41]
12. THOMAS BARFOD – Came to Party [04:30]
13. DIGITALISM – A New Drug [03:11]
14. DIGITALISM – Silenz [04:46]
15. HIROKI ESASHIKA – Kazane [05:50]
16. VITALIC – Second Lives [04:25]
17. DIGITALISM – So Totally Good [04:22]
18. HOUSEMEISTER – Sommer [04:54]
19. THE RAPTURE – Sail Away (digitalism remix) [04:58]
20. THE SNEEKERS – Teddy [04:54]
21. AUTOTUNE – Keep It Wrong [05:28]
22. DIGITALISM – The Pictures [06:39]

23. DIGITALISM – DJ-Kicks Mix [76:57]

Digitalism – A New Drug

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KARIN PARK
Highwire Poetry

Highwire Poetry is no synth-pop pastiche turning up late to the 80s revival party: dustup and industrial are also touchstones, while Karin Park owes a clear debt to the creepy soundscapes of the other fantastic Karin (Dreijer Andersson, voice and former member of The Knife and Fever Ray projects), with whom she shares a producer, Christoffer Berg. That’s why, when she calls her sound “electro goth”, it’s difficult to object, even if we must say that she doesn’t wear her influences lightly, but she’s dynamic enough to fashion her own distinct style, with her fantastic voice, flexible enough to recall both Shirley Manson and Björk.

ARTIST: Karin Park
TITLE: Highwire Poetry
LABEL: State of the Eye
RELEASE DATE: June 4, 2012
TIME: 38:30 min.
WEB: http://www.karinpark.com/

01. Restless [04:26]
02. Fryngies [03:35]
03. Tension [04:54]
04. Tiger Dreams [03:48]
05. New Era [03:32]
06. Wildchild [02:18]
07. Explosions [04:08]
08. 6000 Years [03:18]
09. Thousand Loaded Guns [04:25]
10. Bending Albert’s Law [04:06]

Karin Park – Fryngies (moullinex remix)

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SPINELESS LAUGH
LG4RS

Well, you know music industry’s insecure and completely afraid of music diffusion through the internet. They call it piracy and they’re not smart enough to turn it to its benefit. But it’s a long-time matter, an almost unsolvable issue. Anyway, one of the most influential electronic-music blog has got the bulk of it: LastGrooves has been removed just a few weeks ago. But our partner in crime Sick Mix is not the kind of buddy used to give up: when a place collapse, what’s better than building another one up as soon as possible? So please welcome on the net the brand new tumblr version of LastGrooves! And to celebrate such an event what’s better than a brand new mix? So listen and enjoy LG4RS, a stunning collection of electronic tracks selected by Sick Mix and mixed by Spineless Laugh. Pulsing beats and mid-time bpm.

ARTIST: AA.VV. selected by Sick Mix & mixed by Spineless Laugh
TITLE: LG4RS
LABEL: Spineless Media / Mu-Sick
RELEASE DATE: June 22, 2012
TIME: 60:26 min.
WEB: http://www.spinelesslaugh.com/

01. SPINELESS LAUGH – Intro (terratech mix) [@00:00]
02. GLITTERBUG – Undertow [@04:19]
03. TWO ARMADILLOS – These Feelings [@08:40]
04. GUI BORATTO – This Is Not the End (ame mix) [@14:25]
05. TENNIS – Make It Good (larry heard vocal mix) [@22:06]
06. TOM TRAGO – Being With You (linkwood remix) [@19:36]
07. TINI – Mine Has A Shower (pushar remake) [@33:00]
08. TERRANOVA – Paris Is For Lovers (mylove) [@36:26]
09. WHOMADEWHO – Running Man (dave dk mix) [@42:24]
10. YAKINE – Disaster Drop [@47:41]
11. MANO LE TOUGH – Even Now [@52:53]
12. SESSION VICTIM – Good Intentions [@57:50]

AA.VV. mixed by Spineless Laugh - LG4RS (promo mix)

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HOT CHIP
In Our Heads

In Our Heads is the 5th album from English quintet Hot Chip. It’s eleven stellar tracks of hyper-infectious pop, fizzing percussion and addictive bass line. Well, yes: there is even a gorgeous ballad or two, but that’s a secret.

ARTIST: Hot Chip
TITLE: In Our Heads
LABEL: Domino
RELEASE DATE: June 12, 2012
TIME: 56:54 min.
WEB: http://hotchip.co.uk/

01. Motion Sickness [05:18]
02. How Do You Do [04:44]
03. Don’t Deny Your Heart [04:32]
04. Look At Where We Are [04:00]
05. These Chains [04:15]
06. Night and Day [04:31]
07. Flutes [07:05]
08. Now There Is Nothing [04:00]
09. Ends Of the Earth [05:40]
10. Let Me Be Him [07:40]
11. Always Been Your Love [05:09]

Hot Chip – Night and Day (erol sebadosh mix)

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SAINT-ETIENNE
Words and Music

Deluxe 2CD edition from the British electronic pop trio Saint-Etienne: their first album in seven years and their eighth studio album overall. Words and Music features collaborations from long-time Saint-Etienne associate Ian Catt, as well as producer Richard X and Nick Coler. Words and Music is an album about how music affects your life: how it defines the way you see the world as a child, how it can get you through bad times in unexpected ways, and how songs you’ve known all your life can suddenly develop a new attachment, and hurt every time you hear them. More than how it affects and reflects your life, though, the album is about believing in music, living your life by its rules. Pop begins here.

ARTIST: Saint-Etienne
TITLE: Words and Music
LABEL: Universal
RELEASE DATE: May 29, 2012
TIME: 1:54:06 min.
WEB: http://www.saintetienne.com/

01. Over the Border [05:05]
02. I’ve Got Music [03:47]
03. Heading for the Fair [03:45]
04. Last Days of Disco [03:36]
05. Tonight [04:38]
06. Answer Song [03:26]
07. Record Doctor [00:53]
08. Popular [03:24]
09. Twenty Five Years [03:41]
10. DJ [04:40]
11. When I Was Seventeen [03:38]
12. I Threw It All Away [03:28]
13. Haunted Jukebox [04:15]

01. Tonight (two bears remix) [07:18]
02. Last Days of Disco (erol alkan remix) [03:47]
03. DJ (stay+ remix) [03:45]
04. I’ve Got Your Music (golden filter remix) [07:09]
05. Popular (tom middleton cosmos remix) [08:18]
06. Heading for the Fair (the time and space machine waltzer remix) [07:57]
07. Tonight (club clique remix) [04:40]
08. Answer Song (white horses remix) [03:37]
09. Haunted Jukebox (summer camp remix) [03:27]
10. I’ve Got Your Music (kisses remix) [04:23]
11. DJ (muddyloop remix) [04:17]
12. Last Days of Disco (beat connection remix) [04:42]

Saint-Etienne – Tonight
Saint-Etienne – I’ve Got Your Music (golden filter remix)

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WALLS
Coracle Remixes

The duo of Alessio Natalizia and Sam Willis, a.k.a. Walls, have released a remix package of their 2011 album Coracle. The remixes take each track deeper into the lo-fi ambient vibe that characterized the original album. Synth murmurs and minimal drum machine beats leave you feeling lost in a dreamy haze and provide a perfect soundtrack for an afternoon laying in the grass under the sun.

ARTIST: Walls
TITLE: Coracle
LABEL: Kompakt
RELEASE DATE: May 24, 2012
TIME: 41:37 min.
WEB: http://www.kompakt.fm/artists/walls

01. Sunporch (holy other mix) [04:43]
02. Drunken Galleon (john tejada mix) [06:23]
03. Sunporch (perc mix) [09:41]
04. Into Our Midst (esperanza mix) [09:08]
05. Raw Umber / Twilight (voigt&voigt mix) [05:57]
06. Into Our Midst (capracara mix) [05:45]

Walls – Sunporch (holy other mix)

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SCISSOR SISTERS
Magic Hour

No lesser an authority than Bono has called them “the best pop group in the world,” and their first three works have sold more than seven million units worldwide. This is the brand new studio album from Scissor Sisters, featuring the smash-hit single Only the Horses.

ARTIST: Scissor Sisters
TITLE: Magic Hours
LABEL: Polydor
RELEASE DATE: June 5, 2012
TIME: 57:37 min.
WEB: http://www.scissorsisters.com/

01. Baby Come Home [03:00]
02. Keep Your Shoes [02:52]
03. Inevitable [03:54]
04. Only the Horses [03:39]
05. Year of Living Dangerously [03:53]
06. Let’s Have a Kiki [03:50]
07. Shady Love [03:56]
08. San Luis Obispo [03:48]
09. Self Control [03:13]
10. Best in Me [03:44]
11. The Secret Life of Letters [03:49]
12. F*** Yeah [00:28]

12. Let’s Have a Kiki (dj nita remix) [06:54]
13. F*** Yeah (seamus haji remix) [03:53]

Scissor Sisters – Only the Horses
Scissor Sisters – Let’s Have a Kiki (dj nita remix)

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DNTEL
Aimlessness

Pop and electronica eye each with mutual curiosity: the latter longs to get stuck in a listener’s head like a pop song, the former longs to incorporate the exuberant sonic richness of electronic sounds. From his home base in Los Angeles, Dntel has transformed this mutual desire into an inexhaustible love affair. The magical, unforgettable melodies and strange, outlandish sounds of his new album Aimlessness generate an intimate, unique universe.

ARTIST: Dntel
TITLE: Aimlessness
LABEL: Pampa
RELEASE DATE: June 5, 2012
TIME: 50:17 min.
WEB: http://www.dntelmusic.com

01. waitingfortherest II [02:49]
02. Jitters [04:11]
03. Still [04:47]
04. My Orphaned Son [04:49]
05. Bright Night [04:18]
06. Retracer [03:48]
07. Puma [04:01]
08. Santa Ana Winds [04:00]
09. Trudge [03:37]
10. Jitters (geotic mix) [04:39]
11. Doc (dntel mix) [04:54]
12. Paper Landscape [04:27]

Dntel – Bright Night

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RS HOT SPOT #06
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Together with the release of the new video The Sun, comes Big Charlie‘s latest single from Too Little Too Late: it features three great remixes of one of our favorite tracks of this album, by Sun Glitters, Flowers of Razorwire and Windefalk (the winner of the online contest promoted by the band a couple of months ago). Only for RS readers also Spineless Laugh comes to join the party with his Numbers version of the song that you can find here below. The EP is downoladable for free @ rock.it.

Big Charlie – The Sun (spineless laugh numbers remix)

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MARINA & THE DIAMONDS
Electra Heart

Electra Heart is the second album from Marina Diamandis, better known as Marina and the Diamonds. It is tasked with maintaining the standards of her debut album The Family Jewels and is produced by a cache of old school and A-List producers: Dr. Luke (Katy Perry) and Liam Howe (Sneaker Pimps) but mostly (9 out of 12 songs) Greg Kurstin (Lily Allen, Kylie) and Rick Nowels (Madonna, Stevie Nicks, Lykke Li).

ARTIST: Marina & the Diamonds
TITLE: Electra Heart
LABEL: 679
RELEASE DATE: May 15, 2012
TIME: 46:55 min.
WEB: http://www.marinaandthediamonds.com/
PURCHASE: http://www.amazon.com/

01. Bubblegum Bitch [02:33]
02. Primadonna [03:41]
03. Lies [03:46]
04. Homewrecker [03:23]
05. Starring Role [03:27]
06. The State of Dreaming [03:37]
07. Power & Control [03:48]
08. Living Dead [04:03]
09. Teen Idle [04:14]
10. Valley of the Dolls [04:14]
11. Hypocrates [04:01]
12. Fear and Loathing [06:08]

Marina & the Diamonds – Primadonna (walden remix)

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SPINELESS LAUGH
X-Spine (vol.13)

It has been a long long time: did you miss it? Of course you missed it.
We’re quite late with the first X-Spine release of the year, but that’s it: anyway, here we are. So, get ready for #13, as usual a nasty’n'pumpin’ compilation of the newest remixes of the coolest indie tunes hardly mixed by Spineless Laugh, ready to be burned and to rock your parties. Spread the love and enjoy!

ARTIST: AA.VV. selected & mixed by Spineless Laugh
TITLE: X-Spine (vol.13)
LABEL: Spineless Media
RELEASE DATE: Apr 20, 2012
TIME: 79:23 min.
WEB: http://www.mixcloud.com/spineless/

01. SPINELESS LAUGH – Intro (comin’ remix) [@00:00]
02. KYLIE MINOGUE – Come Into My World (fisherspooner remix) [@03:00]
03. IMOGEN HEAP – Hide & Seek (hot noizes bootleg) [@06:24]
04. SIA – Clap Your Hands (fred falke remix) [@11:41]
05. GOTYE feat. KYMBRA – Somebofy that I Used to Know (dumme jungs remix) [@17:35]
06. VANDROID – Master/Slave (van she tech remix) [@22:04]
07. THE KNIFE – Heartbeats (rex the dog remix) [@26:38]
08. LA TOURETTE – Eclipse (the s remix) [@30:06]
09. THE IRREPRESSIBLES – In This Shirt (feature cuts remix) [@35:06]
10. MORNING PARADE – Us & Ourselves (st. lucia remix) [@38:22]
11. MARTIN SOLVEIG – The Night Out (a-trak remix) [@42:21]
12. DRAGONETTE – Let It Go (the knocks remix) [@48:05]
13. LILY ALLEN – Not Fair (wize remix) [@52:27]
14. SBTRKT – Hold On (joneses remix) [@55:27]
15. M83 – Reunion (mylo remix) [@60:56]
16. BIG CHARLIE – The Sun (spineless laugh numbers remix) [@65:24]
17. THE TOXIC AVENGER – Escape (the bloody beetroots remix) [@69:27]
18. FELIX CARTAL – Love (tits & clits remix) [@73:49]
19. SPINELESS LAUGH – Outro (echoin’ remix) [@78:50]

Spineless Laugh – Intro (comin’ remix)
Spineless Laugh – Outro (echoin’ remix)

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LADYHAWKE
Anxiety

One of the brightest stars to light up the pop firmament this millennium is back. Thanks to her brilliant self-titled 2008 debut, Ladyhawke (a.k.a. Pip Brown), shot to stardom around the world. Her follow-up will surely even exceed those achievements, and establish the wildly talented young tunesmith as one of her generation’s most beloved pop heroines. Eighteen months in the making, Anxiety carries ten instant classics, each brimming over with irresistable hooks, fresh beats and ear-grabbing synth sounds.

ARTIST: Ladyhawke
TITLE: Anxiety
LABEL: Island
RELEASE DATE: March 28, 2012
TIME: 36:10 min.
WEB: http://www.ladyhawkemusic.com/

01. Girl Like Me [02:56]
02. Sunday Drive [04:05]
03. Black, White & Blue [03:55]
04. Vaccine [03:34]
05. Blue Eyes [03:17]
06. Vanity [03:01]
07. The Quick & the Dead [03:49]
08. Anxiety [03:24]
09. Cellophane [04:15]
10. Gone Gone Gone [03:54]

Ladyhawke – Black, White & Blue (treasure fingers remix)

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THE ASTEROIDS GALAXY TOUR
Out of Frequency

Out of Frequency is the brand new release release from this Danish pop band. As their name might imply, The Asteroids Galaxy Tour are somehow less of a band than they are a many-legged, ever-evolving, constantly moving party machine. Unlike so many of their Scandinavian contemporaries-bands that often attack pop music with an almost surgical precision. The Asteroids Galaxy Tour‘s vision of pop music is a much more a freewheeling affair: a symphonic collision of big pop hooks, soaring horn sections, retro-synth flourishes, and epic beats. Inspired by everything from Blaxploitation soundtracks to Primal Scream to old reruns of Dynasty, The Asteroids Galaxy Tour evolved from a bedroom recording project between friends into a psychedelic big band of the future.

ARTIST: The Asteroids Galaxy Tour
TITLE: Out of Frequency
LABEL: B.A.R.
RELEASE DATE: January 31, 2012
TIME: 47:19 min.
WEB: http://www.theasteroidsgalaxytour.com/

01. Gold Rush (pt.1) [01:05]
02. Dollars in the Night [01:59]
03. Gold Rush (pt.2) [01:40]
04. Major [03:58]
05. Heart Attack [03:51]
06. Out of Frequency [04:34]
07. Cloak and Dagger [04:08]
08. Arrival of the Empress (prelude) [00:42]
09. Theme from 45 Eugenia [05:24]
10. Mafia [04:09]
11. Ghost in My Head [04:37]
12. Suburban Space Invaders [04:26]
13. Fantasy Friend Forever [03:15]
14. When It Comes to Us [03:31]

The Asteroids Galaxy Tour – Heart Attack (cosmic kids remix)

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METRONOMY
The English Riviera (unreleased remixes)

The title of the new Metronomy album is pretty self-explanatory: The English Riviera (unreleased remixes) is a collection of unreleased remixes from their album The English Riviera, and in normal circumstances, that would be the end of this review. But it’s not. On the surface, this might sound like easy listening electronic pop, but these guys are good at what they do, and with the assistance of remixers like New Villager, Benoit & Sergio, Wax Cotton, and Ewan Pearson, you get to hear The English Riviera album in an all new fauna. If anything, these remixes might help to bring new life to the original album, which wouldn’t be a bad thing.

ARTIST: Metronomy
TITLE: The English Riviera (unreleased remixes)
LABEL: Because
RELEASE DATE: April 8, 2012
TIME: 66:51 min.
WEB: http://www.metronomy.co.uk/

01. Corinne (benoit & sergio remix) [04:14]
02. Everything Goes My Way (ewan pearson dub) [07:16]
03. The Look (two inch punch’s shook shook refix) [03:46]
04. Loving Arm (soul clap’s shake a leg mix) [05:26]
05. Corinne (night angles remix) [04:56]
06. The Bay (clock opera remix) [06:07]
07. The Look (camo & krooked remix) [05:18]
08. She Wants (c-berg remix) [04:14]
09. Corinne (leodoris remix) [05:53]
10. Everything Goes My Way (jesse rose & duke dumont re-dub) [05:11]
11. Some Written (new villager remix) [03:10]
12. Corinne (mario basanov remix) [05:44]
13. The Bay (wax cotton remix) [07:12]

Metronomy – The Look (camo & krooked remix)

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BATTLES
Dross Glop

Before you question the relevance of this news post by assuming that a glaring error has been made in regards to a certain album name, Dross Glop is a project consisting of various artists from a multitude of musical backgrounds remixing material from Battles‘ latest LP, Gloss Drop. Designed as a series of 12″ singles, it has since been revealed that the project will in fact culminate with a full CD release of the mixes. So here we are.

ARTIST: Battles
TITLE: Dross Glop
LABEL: Warp
RELEASE DATE: April 16, 2012
TIME: 69:48 min.
WEB: http://bttls.com/

01. Wall Street (guy boratto remix) [07:03]
02. Sweetie & Shag (the field remix) [08:53]
03. Futura (the alchemist remix) [03:47]
04. White Electric (shabazz places remix) [07:04]
05. Africastle (Code9 remix) [07:04]
06. Inchworm (silent servant remix) [06:07]
07. Toddler (kangding ray remix) [05:30]
08. Dominican Fade (qluster remix) [03:43]
09. Ice Cream (brian de graw / gang gang dance remix) [04:06]
10. Rolls Bayce (hudson mohawke remix) [04:19]
11. My Machines (patrick mahoney remix) [09:12]
12. Sundome (yakatama eye remix) [05:43]

Battles – Africastle (kode9 remix)

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WHOMADEWHO
Brighter

A disco-infused alt-pop album. Doesn’t sound like something which really fits in with the current zeitgeist. Somehow though, WhoMadeWho, the Danish three piece with a religious European following, have made an album which not only sounds pretty fresh, more interesting than a blasé first listen might suggest, but also is actually just pretty enjoyable: combining the schizophrenic sides of the band with a hint of experimentation and a growling crescendo of synths and harmonies, Brighter is essentially a good dance pop album. Heaven forbid.

ARTIST: WhoMadeWho
TITLE: Brighter
LABEL: Kompakt
RELEASE DATE: February 28, 2012
TIME: 50:50 min.
WEB: http://www.whomadewho.dk/

01. Inside World [03:37]
02. Running Man [05:20]
03. Greyhound [03:56]
04. The Sun [04:17]
05. Fireman [03:58]
06. The Divorce [04:25]
07. Never Had the Time [04:42]
08. Head On My Pillow [04:53]
09. Skinny Dipping [05:29]
10. The End [04:01]
11. Below the Cherry Moon [06:12]

WhoMadeWho – Inside World (digitalism remix)

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