SynthPop

#Tracks 2016

A selection of harder/trippier music to get your own little party started.

Listen Closely After Sundown

MIDNITE SPARES: COMPILED BY ANDRÁS AND INSTANT PETERSON LP/DIGI OUT 09 SEPT

On Midnite Spares, Australian music devotees András and Instant Peterson hold a candle to overlooked avant-pop and electronic works by antipodean artists and outsiders working through the 80s and 90s. Through co-presenting weekly radio show Strange Holiday, the duo slowly upturned their locale for inspiration - archives, country bookstores, private collections and convenience stores, searching for a place to anchor their own identities in the oceans of the island continent. The 10 tracks acknowledge a minor history, passed on via a network of friends, friends of friends, the libraries of radio station 3RRR and more often than not, the artists themselves.

Renowned mixed media artist Maria Kozic enters with the mysterious downbeat of Trust Me, her partner Philip Brophy responsible for digital and analogue sonic construction. A recurring character in András and Instant Peterson’s investigations, Brophy reappears with a score piece from his divisive feature film Salt, Saliva, Sperm and Sweat, recorded as →↑→ (pronounced “Tch Tch Tch”).

Other links are thread under the surface. Melbourne inner north experimentalist David Chesworth explores his Australiana songcraft leading Whadya Want?. The short lived project also featured Philip Jackson, whose duo The Couch is restored from Fast Forward’s dance issue - a pioneering cassette fanzine published by early-80s 3RRR personality Bruce Milne.

The collection binds a certain musicianship that’s indifferent to fame or chart success, although some artists unwittingly experienced this before and after. Poets of the Machine’s Grace Jones techno-wave was a modest moment for Coral Island and Red Stripe, an English migrant who once celebrated a #1 UK Christmas single with an acapella cover of Yazoo, while the morbid coming of age electronics of Foot and Mouth is a lesser known prologue to Sean Greenway and Matty Whittle’s rise as legendary teen punks heroes God. Quickly becoming a modern dancefloor hit, Mumbo Jumbo’s sole release Wind It Up is only now basking in it’s brilliance.

The remaining figures shape the diversity further. There’s Sydney dub addicts The Igniters, Mix’s groovy synth song about masturbation and the Cameron Allan/Graham Bidstrup soundtrack for petrol headed ozploitation film, Midnite Spares - the compilation’s namesake.

MIDNITE SPARES: Compiled by András and Instant Peterson (ES003)

MIDNITE SPARES: COMPILED BY ANDRÁS AND INSTANT PETERSON LP/DIGI OUT NOW

On Midnite Spares, Australian music devotees András and Instant Peterson hold a candle to overlooked avant-pop and electronic works by antipodean artists and outsiders working through the 80s and 90s. Through co-presenting weekly radio show Strange Holiday, the duo slowly upturned their locale for inspiration - archives, country bookstores, private collections and convenience stores, searching for a place to anchor their own identities in the oceans of the island continent. The 10 tracks acknowledge a minor history, passed on via a network of friends, friends of friends, the libraries of radio station 3RRR and more often than not, the artists themselves.

Renowned mixed media artist Maria Kozic enters with the mysterious downbeat of Trust Me, her partner Philip Brophy responsible for digital and analogue sonic construction. A recurring character in András and Instant Peterson’s investigations, Brophy reappears with a score piece from his divisive feature film Salt, Saliva, Sperm and Sweat, recorded as →↑→ (pronounced “Tsk Tsk Tsk”).

Other links are thread under the surface. Melbourne inner north experimentalist David Chesworth explores his Australiana songcraft leading Whadya Want?. The short lived project also featured Philip Jackson, whose duo The Couch is restored from Fast Forward’s dance issue - a pioneering cassette fanzine published by early-80s 3RRR personality Bruce Milne.

The collection binds a certain musicianship that’s indifferent to fame or chart success, although some artists unwittingly experienced this before and after. Poets of the Machine’s Grace Jones techno-wave was a modest moment for Coral Island and Red Stripe, an English migrant who once celebrated a #1 UK Christmas single with an acapella cover of Yazoo, while the morbid coming of age electronics of Foot and Mouth is a lesser known prologue to Sean Greenway and Matty Whittle’s rise as legendary teen punks heroes God. Quickly becoming a modern dancefloor hit, Mumbo Jumbo’s sole release Wind It Up is only now basking in it’s brilliance.

The remaining figures shape the diversity further. There’s Sydney dub addicts The Igniters, Mix’s groovy synth song about masturbation and the Cameron Allan/Graham Bidstrup soundtrack for petrol headed ozploitation film, Midnite Spares - the compilation’s namesake.

MIDNITE SPARES: Compiled by András and Instant Peterson(ES003) OUT NOW

World Trip

"Equivoke" is the first single taken from Here Is Your Temple  debut album (Oct. 2015).
Release: March 18, 2015
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/se/album/equivoke-single/id963786161
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/5y3acz2tlrtq0HQAnNFN6L

You Tube: https://youtu.be/vUg28MLfXXI
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Here Is Your Temple | "Equivoke"

This is a secret remix I made of one of my all time favourite tracks, Olive's "You're Not Alone". I always found the Original a bit too fast to fit into my sets so I decided to make my own, more house- and techno-friendly version.

It's mastered by my favourite engineer Chris Alexander and ready to play out. Enjoy!

Olive - You're Not Alone (Patrice Baumel Secret Mix)

Taken from Gothenburg based duo Pale Honey´s debut album "Pale Honey"
Release: May 4, 2015

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Pale Honey | Tease

Welcome to the lead track off the Dirt Hand EP! The EP is out now on Spotify and iTunes and Google Music and in physical format at shows.

The thorn in her finger

Patriarchaeth is a track from Gwenno's debut album titled 'Y Dydd Olaf.'

'Y Dydd Olaf' is released on Heavenly Recordings on 24/7/2015.

Y Dydd Olaf

Patriarchaeth

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Mastered by Kevin Tuffy @ EAB Studios

Lyrics:

Never met a woman
with eyes so soft
I bet she’s above 
getting jealous of another girl
Is she only 21?
I feel so small
stood next to her

When she comes in the room

When she comes in the room
It feels warm like the heating’s been on
Can I learn to be like you?
I wonder if, your lure can be taught 

I must admit
I fell in love
Back when we were six in the country
and love was a drug and I didn’t know it yet
So young and toothless
So young and clueless
Even Cupid said goodbye
When its all said and done, really hun
anyone could be you, don’t lose your light
But when it’s all said and done
All I’m saying is baby don’t lose your sprite
If you don’t love me don’t tell me that

When she comes in the room (Don’t tell me that)

How does it feel
To not doubt?
How does it feel
To not want to be different?

Woman (ft. Appleby)

Back in May, we Debuted a track called "Just"; you might just have heard of it. @feelmybicep are no strangers to breakout belters, but even by their standards this one has been picking up a heap of plaudits. So naturally we're more than willing to help facilitate their next step toward world domination, especially given as it arrives via their own cherished namesake imprint.

This, the title track from another forthcoming collaborative release with Hammer (an artist the Belfast boys are putting serious muscle behind) is equally tense and beguiling. It hooks you in from the word go, with a nagging piano lead, ooft-y mini breakdown and shiver-inducing sirensong calling through the mist. Close your eyes and you can imagine "Dahlia" laying waste to festival stages – oh wait, that actually did actually happen at Bicep's homecoming BR. Go figure.

You can physically feel FMB005 from September 7th.

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Bicep & Hammer "Dahlia" - Boiler Room Debuts

The new collaboration between Natasha Khan and Dan Carey with Toy. 
Pre-order the album out 29.9.15: 
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Helelyos

Luke Vibert is back on Planet Mu with a new album called ‘Bizarster'. It's his seventh full-length under his own name with others having been released on Mo Wax, Warp and most recently Hypercolour. Luke first came to prominence in 1994 with his debut Wagon Christ album 'Phat Lab Nightmare' on Rising High records which was quickly followed by the evergreen classic 'Throbbing Pouch' with which he cemented both his sound and reputation. He has released on Rephlex and Ninja Tune as well as major label Virgin too.

What makes Luke's music so essential is his rare ability to blur the boundaries between genres by combining his irresistibly wonky dayglo funk with a British sensibility. Put another way, Luke's music is informed by UK dance's history. But 'Bizarster' is no empty eulogy, it’s a hall of mirrors with a happy bounce, re-tooled with skill, and always with a sense of fun.

It's these things that make the hip-hop speed bleep 'n' bass of opener 'Knockout' seems completely natural, or 'Officer's Club' with it's funky disco samples, reggae vocals and joyous synths sounding like the kind of delirious idea no one else could come up with. A track like 'I Can Phil It' is a piece of sampladelic hip hop with a punning title, but that's not to say he can't play it serious. 'Manalog' for instance, which is sharp spiralling low-slung synth funk, a gloriously deep track, while something like 'L-Tronic' is top draw spaced-out electro. The title track's cut and paste space-age samples remind one of his Jean-Jacques Perrey collaboration and 'War' is the type of groovy instrumental hip-hop reminiscent of DJ Shadow at his peak. The album finishes on the fun-filled vortex of ‘Don’t Fuck Around’, a cut-up jungle masterpiece with heart in throat chords. Enjoy the ride.

Bizarster

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Luke Vibert - Bizarster

Read more here: http://thump.vice.com/en_uk/article/huxley-inflicts-some-serious-damage-on-his-latest-aus-release-weapon

Huxley - Weapon - AUS1585

After a heavy bank holiday weekend, this week was always going to be a tough gig. Thankfully, we’ve got the perfect pick me up to help us to get through the next few days and looking forward to the weekend; hooking up with British 'all-rounder' Ejeca to exclusively share a fresh cut from his uber impressive Litmus EP.

Out now via his own Exploris imprint, the three track salvo showcases the Belfast producer's much vaunted versatility in the studio with each number on the EP seemingly designed to deliver the goods at a different time of night. Acidic, minimal and melodic in equal measure, it's one of the most impressive packages to land in our inbox in quite some time which made picking out which track we'd like to premiere all the more difficult. Eventually we plumped for the stripped back stylings of Ascension, which has had us thawing out those boogying muscles for the past few days.

Cleverly constructed and certain to rank as some of the freshest techno currently on the market, The Litmus EP suggests that Ejeca and Exploris' respective purple patches shows no sign of abating anytime soon. Enjoy.

Ejeca - Ascension

The latest offering from Belfast-raised London based boys Bicep comes in the form of the Dahlia EP. Returning home to their Feel My Bicep imprint, the Dahlia EP is a masterful follow on from their anthem on AUS Music, Just. i-D exclusively bring you the second track off the EP with Rays. Being inspired by some of the lads early morning sets at Panorama Bar, the track is another punchy number with the tumbling bass line building through vocal chops into a deep minor-key 2nd drop. Another Bicep delight set to do definite damage to dance floors both day and night.
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<3 on HypeM - http://hypem.com/track/2d925/Bob+Moses+-+Tearing+Me+Up

Artwork by Studio Joe & Nicholas Pomeroy.

Buy Days Gone By, the album, on iTunes here: po.st/DaysGoneByDL

'Days Gone By,’ the debut album from Bob Moses, is out now on Domino. Order the limited heavyweight “silver” vinyl edition with two downloadable bonus tracks here: po.st/DaysGoneByDM

Follow on Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/6LHsnRBUYhFyt01PdKXAF5

Tour Dates and Buy Tickets here: po.st/BobMosesSK

09/19- Symbiosis Festival- Oakdale, CA
09/23-27 – Decibel Festival – Seattle, WA
09/24- Decibel- Seattle, WA
09/30- Bowery Ballroom- New York, NY
10/01- U Street- Washington, DC
10/02- Jonny Brenda’s- Philadelphia, PA
10/03- Sinclair- Boston, MA
10/04- The Fairmont- Montreal, CA
10/06- CODA- Toronto, CA
10/08- Double Door- Chicago, IL
10/09- 7th Street Entry- Minneapolis, MN
10/10- CRSSD- San Diego, CA
10/11- Larimer Lounge- Denver, CO
10/14- Imperial- Vancouver, CA
10/15- Doug Fir- Portland, OR
10/17- Treasure Island- San Francisco, CA
10/20- Echo Plex- Los Angeles, CA
10/21- Valley Bar- Phoenix, AZ
10/23- Three Links- Dallas, TX
10/24- Red 7- Austin, TX
10/25- Rudyards British Pub- Houston, TX
10/28- Hi-Ho Lounge- New Orleans, LA
10/29- Aisle 5- Atlanta, GA
10/30- Warehouse- Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
10/31- The Garrett- Miami, FL

Days Gone By

Tearing Me Up

Electric Glitter Boogie

We kickstart 2016 in a deep and dark manner with an EP from south of France coldest producer daWad. 

daWad is a French dude from Marseilles who basically likes it dark and bassy. And sexy…In a slightly pervy way. French quoi. 

A regular of Marseilles infamous club “La Dame Noir” (think Miami Vice meets Twin Peaks with a south of France accent) he brings us three cavernous pieces kicking off with “Catharsis”, a romantic / new wave chugger of a track built around singer Catherin voice. 
Slow, dreamy and sweaty “Catharsis” develops over a sexy bass line to reach a quasi pop, goosebumps inducing climax. Imagine 1987 Depeche Mode remixed by Scratch Massive and you’re close. 

Second track “Home21” speeds things up, and is most probably influenced by numerous peak time experiences at La Dame Noire. More techno inclined, the track is a relentless machine bleeping and screeching with minimalist synth lines surfing on a a bed of electro percussions and a New Orderish bass line. That’s probably why it’s coming out on Days Of Being Wild. 

3rd track “Land Of None” is reminiscent of industrial / EBM bands of the early 80’s, with its piercing analog snare and robotic groove. A more experimental piece of music, the approach here was to do something more dissonant and oppressive. Mission accomplished, we’d say it wouldn’t have been out of place on one of Trevor Jackson Metal Dance compilation. 

To close the EP we have Nhar remix of “Catharsis”. 
Another French producer that we like very much here at Days Of Being Wild, Nhar brings his unique blend of airy, spacious sounds to the title track. Melodic and trippy his remix is epic and intimate at the same time, a superb reinterpretation of daWad’s darkness. 
Here’s to a promising 2016!

DaWad - Land Of None

Taken from The Soft Moon "Deeper Remixed Vol. 2" 12-inch 
Released on February 19th 2016. Order here: http://bit.ly/1Ry7s2e

A1 Black (Trentemoller Remix)
A2 Deeper (Fango Remix)
B1 Wrong (Dave Clarke Remix)
B2 Feel (Ninos du Brasil Remix)

The Soft Moon // Feel (Ninos Du Brasil Remix)

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Project Pablo & Wolfey - Duatang

Nicolas Jaar - 163

SeeSaw (Club Version)

Jamie xx + Four Tet + Romy - Seesaw (club version)

05 → ↑ → - Sedation 2:58 (ES003)

04 The Couch - Full Treatment (2:46)

03 Poets Of The Machine - Arabs 5:48 (ES003)

02 Whadya Want?  - Open Spaces 3:49 (ES003)

01 Maria Kozic And The MK Sound - Trust Me 4:33 (ES003)

Scott & Charlene's Wedding - Footscray Station

Full Pupp helps another new outfit into the saddle. Even though esteemed norwegian DJ Ole Martin Vilberg aka Omar V and Robin Craaford, one half of Dance Disorder with Baby G ( Bpitch, Eskimo ) are hardly young guns, they gang up together for the first time on "complete": a blinding cut that harks back to the time with good ol Jack was still the young buck and closely associated with uncle Electro Funk: tough beats, hyperactive claps, a jittering bass and a catchy, squeaking melody are still rattling bones if masterfully pieced together as it is done here.	Out june 2012 on vinyl and digitally!!

Robin C & Omar V - Complete - Full Pupp 12"

Label run by @noise-in-my-head

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03 Poets Of The Machine - Arabs 5:48 (ES003)

Efficient Space