electronic tracks
Track: Cubicolor – Fictionalise
Having already seemingly become the darlings of the alternative airwaves, garnering support from Tom Ravenscroft, Namone, Steve Lamacq and the legendary Pete Tong, Cubicolor – aka Dutch producers Ariaan Olieroock and Peter Kriek, along with former Duologue frontman Tim Digby-Bell, release their debut album Brainsugar this coming Friday (16th September) on the influential Anjunadeep label. …
Track: M83 – Roadblaster
After garnering much praise and admiration for his new album Junk, which fused together old school house sounds and synthesised vocals into his ambitious prog-pop, M83 aka Anthony Gonzalesz has announced that one of the albums stand out tracks, Roadblaster is to be released as a single on November 18th. Built on this brassy but …
Track: Empathy Test – Demons/Seeing Stars
There’s something really enigmatic about London-based electronic duo Empathy Test. Even without listening to a note, there is a lot of mystery attached to the art work that accompanies previous releases ‘Throwing Stones’ and ‘Losing Touch’. Aesthetics are obviously an important factor to them as a band, and on listening, the emotive and cinematic sound they …
Track: Stillhound – Time Enough For Love
Stillhound ensure that you make time for their catchy electro-pop with new single ‘Time Enough For Love’. The Edinburgh trio of Fergus Cook, Laurie Corlett-Donald and Dave Lloyd – joined by Cat Myers (also of Honeyblood) on drums – have pooled their various influences and a shared love of their homeland to create their brand of …
Track: I am Karate – Swayze
Here at Backseat Mafia we’re not the sort of people to be duped by what’s supposedly cutting edge and fashionable right now – you know, the sort of icy, cool synth pop made by icy, cool people, so we viewed the new single Swayze by Swedish duo I am Karate with a certain amount of …
Track: Gold Panda reveals John Roberts remix of Chiba Nights
If you enjoyed Good Luck and Do your best, Gold Panda’s recent album, as much as we did on its release earlier in the year from City Slang, then he’s just revealed an extra little treat in the shape of a remix of the standout track Chiba Nights, reworked by US producer John Roberts. “I’m …
Track: Adam Betts – Drumbones
Sometime member of Brian Eno’s approved Three Trapped Tigers, London based Adam Betts has heralded his debut album Colossal Squid, out 25th November on Blood and Biscuits by releasing its opening track – Drumbones. The album was written, developed and originally recorded over a the course of a few months, taking bits from the likes …
Track: Ablebody – Backseat Heart
Like we weren’t going to cover something that utilised (albeit completely independently, naturally) Backseat, right? Ablebody are LA based identical twind Christoph and Anton Hochheim, members of Pains Of Being Pure At Heart / Depreciation Guild, and they’ve been releasing records under this moniker since 2013. They’ve now stepping things up, moving from bedroom to …
Track: Blanck Mass Drops New Track For Adult Swim Single Series
Blanck Mass is no stranger to loud, experimental electronic music. His music antagonizes the listener like a cross between Throbbing Gristle, Skinny Puppy, and Pauline Oliveros, all the while still coming across like high art. Blanck Mass, aka Benjamin John Power, has taken electronic music to a whole other level, both on his own and …
Track: Dr. Meaker – Dirt & Soul + exclusive Interview
Dr. Meaker are a Bristol based eight piece band, live instruments, samples, studio electronics and big voices create some heavy underground drum and bass covered in liquid deep soul. ‘Dirt & Soul’ is their debut album and it’s going to turn some heads. Already getting the crowds going at Glastonbury, Bestival, Boomtown Fair, Snowbombing, Isle Of Wight festival and …