electronic tracks
Track: Ideomotor – Away from here (ILARI remix)
There’s a distinct Finnish flavour to ‘Away from here’, the new track from Ideomotor. The pair, Erkka Wennonen and Kimmo Myllviita, hail from Helsinki and have been mixing up the intoxicating mix of pop, indie and synth/electro since 2014. They in turn have allowed fellow countryman, producer and one half of White Balance, ILARI, to …
Track: Protoje – Who Knows ft Chronixx (shy fx remix)
Legendary London drum and bass producer/DJ Shy FX has got hold of the Who Knows from Jamaican artist Protoje. Already no stranger to radio play, the track comes from his breakthrough 2015 album Ancient Future, and features fellow Jamaican Chronixx on the vocals. Originally a straight up reggae belter (do people outside Wigan refer to …
Track: Beyond the Wizards Sleeve – Diagram Girl
It was always going to be brilliant, the collaboration of Erol Alkan and former Grid member Richard Norris, under the moniker of Beyond the Wizards Sleeve, and their many reanimations (as they refer to their remixes) as well as a 2012 single ‘Black Noise’/’Door To Tomorrow’ proved the assumption to be correct. Now there’s a …
Track: Cavern of Anti-Matter – Void Beats / Invocation
Cavern of Anti-Matter (CAM) are Stereolab mainman Tim Gane, original Stereolab drummer Joe Dilworth and synth meister Holger Zapf. This is their second album and is a collection of mainly instrumentals, bar two of the twelve tracks which feature guest vocals from Bradford Cox (Deerhunter) and Sonic Boom (Spacemen 3) also as a bit of a bonus we get …
Track: Karl Bartos – I’m the message (Matthew Herbert remix)
Karl Bartos knew his place and so did everyone else it seemed. Second from the left in the most influential band in the world, Kraftwerk. And there he remained, from 1975 till 1990, co-writing some of their iconic hits – The Model, Computer Love. You might have thought that would set him up for a …
Track: We Are Temporary – Who’s going to love me now?
“I feel left out by all of the love around. / What absorbs me, holds me in?” questions Brooklyn’s Mark Roberts, aka We Are Temporary in his new single, Who’s going to love me now? Written while separated from his wife, it’s a raw and almost desperate song. Taken from his debut album Crossing Over, …
Track: Essaie Pas – Retox, plus album news
What happens when you arrive back off a years worth of touring. Well, if your Montreal duo Essaie Pas, aka Marie Davidson and Pierre Guerineau, it coincided with eviction from their home and, separately, rehearsal space. Moving to a desolate industrial complex in the height of winter, they pair ran around corridors playing old acid …
Track: TEEN – Tokyo
Ahead of the release of their third album, Love Yes, out on Carpark Records on February 19th, TEEN evoke the spirit of The Human League, drag it into 2016, and sprinkle it with ideas of sexuality and spirituality with a new single, Tokyo. Described lead singer and multi-instrumentalist Teeny Lieberson as being about “ a …
Track: Three Trapped Tigers – Silent Earthling
It might have taken a while, five years to be exact, but London trio Three Trapped Tigers are back with a follow up to their debut album ‘Route one or die’. Titled ‘Silent Earthling’, the bands new album is due out on April 1st via Superball Music. Talking of the bands evolution, guitarist/keyboard player Matt …
Track: Wild Palms – Temper Gold
Things are getting busy with Wild Palms following their mammoth five year hiatus. A second single, Temper Gold, comes out through One Little India on 4th March, produced by Liam Howe (Lana Del Rey, FKA Twigs) and the band’s bassist Gareth Jones. It eases its way in, stripped back with these tentative synth lines just …