The most popular June downloads:
1. Yelle – “Qui Est Cette Fille”
2. Marina & The Diamonds – “I Am Not A Robot” (Starsmith’s 24 Carat Remix)
3. Bag Raiders – “Turbo Love” (Flight Facilities featuring Louis Austen Business Class Lounge Version)
4. Pony Pony Run Run – “Hey You” (NROTB remix)
5. Phoenix – “Lisztomania” (Der Die Das Remix)
6. [...]

The next 2 songs have been a couple of my favs from the start of the year.
First the Flight Facilities remix of Japanese band The Lowbrows has piano, horn, and sexed up guitar to die for.
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The Lowbrows – “Dream In The Desert” (Flight Facilities Red Tailed Hawk Remix)
Secondly [...]

Lost Valentinos long awaited Cities of Gold album produced by Ewan Pearson is going to be released on September 4th. If you can’t wait until then the next single “Thief” will be out August 7th through etcetc. The remix by Nile Delta (Joel Belgium of Riot in Belgium and Comets fame) is quite superb. Looking [...]

There’s only one King.
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Futurecop! – “Gateaux Blaster” (Jesus Juice Edit)

Tenderlions are an incredible duo that I’ve been trying to show some blog love to for quite a while. They are constantly working on something new and fresh. Concentrating more on the live show has been their main focus, and it’s a good thing because once these guys hit the big leagues their live show [...]

Burns has another original out the gate. “Heatbeats” is a little less grittier than his previous work. There is more an emphasis on melody, maybe even some dream wave influences on the track. But it still packs some heavy punches so maybe we should call it dream rave, oi. Anyway, “Heartbeats” is definitely a warmer [...]

Marina and the Diamonds – “I Am Not A Robot”
Marina (and, uh, the Diamonds) sports body paint and bedazzles for her new video, “I Am Not A Robot.” You already know the single is out on Neon Gold.

Edit savvy The Revenge has Part Three of the “Instruments of Rapture” series coming out soon. It features more pitched down house tunes from him and fellow Scotsman OOFT (they also run L.E.S.S productions). I was lucky enough to catch The Revenge when he was in Australia last month, and he didn’t disappoint. He keeps [...]

WhoMadeWho – “Keep Me In My Plane”
While Gomma is known for putting out great records, they don’t always have the best history for videos. Priorities, right? So that said, I kept my expectations for WhoMadeWho’s “Keep Me In My Plane” low, but overall not a bad clip (like, it actually has a narrative) — so [...]

O.Children – “Dead Disco Dancer”
Omg, this song.

Bitchee Bitchee Ya Ya Ya have been gone for a couple minutes, but they are back with a new song and video and promises of an upcoming ep. “Super Rick” might be a small nod to Rick James’ “Super Freak” but it is one hundred percent BBYYY.
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Bitchee Bitchee [...]

Futurecop! recently took on Thunderheist with an unofficial remix for “Nothing 2 Step 2.” Futurecop! creates a thick dreamwave track by replacing a lot of the boom of the original with drops of synth. You can almost hear the neon.
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Thunderheist – “Nothing 2 Step 2″ (Futurecop! Remix)

EtcEtc has sent over some more promo which gets me excited because it’s always good. This time it is for the Kitsune release of Phoenix’s “Lisztomania” remixes. The release features remixes by Holy Ghost!, Classixx, and the one below by Der Die Das which is one half of Digitalism – I’m not sure if it’s [...]

NROTB is back with an official for Pony Pony Run Run. In typical NROTB fashion, this is a pretty huge club track with great attention to the vocals. They’ll be taking you on a ride. And hey, the whistle will get anyone in the mood to dance away their sins.
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Fever Ray – “Triangle Walks”
Another creepy video from Fever Ray, this time for “Triangle Walks,” my persoanl fav song from the LP. Hopefully Karin Andersson keeps the clips coming.

Pearl Fiction is the solo project of Pearl from the much missed Zeigeist (r.i.p.). We won’t dwell too much on what happened and the drama, but we are anticipating some good things from this. Pearl made all of the music for the band, so we know to not expect any less. You can also go [...]

Continuing on from my Bottin post last week, I now have his remix of one of my favourite Melbourne bands The Emergency. Bottin’s remix is going to be released digitally alongside the original of “Fantasy” and a b-side track called “No Motion” on Metal Postcard or Exo in Australia. The Emergency also has a LP [...]

It’s been a minute or two since we’ve heard anything new from Hercules and Love Affair. Well Hercules’ mastermind Andrew Butler has been busy with a new mix cd for Sidetracked, a new remix series from Renaissance. As you’d expect the track listing promises loads of late night disco and house. The best part for [...]

Oh J.P.! He’s at it again with All Leather, maybe he has the record for being in the most bands ever. Seems we are going backwards in time, fuck electroclash, we are going even farther. These guys are on Dim Mak and are sure to turn some heads. I personally am into it, reminds me [...]

We’re Tapes dropped a special treat today — “Bicycle” is the first product of a “collaboration” between Weird Tapes and Memory Cassette.
So.
Memory Cassette + Weird Tapes = Memory Tapes… or, what a strange long journey to create a record that basically sounds like Hail Social at their best:
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Memory [...]