Olga Kouklaki

   
  Olga was born in Athens (Greece) . She starts playing the piano at the age of 8 and never quits music since: While doing her classical music studies, curiosity brings her into the electronic scene .She starts djing to greek bars and clubs and learns music production. Sept 2001 she moves to Paris djing, taking courses in interior design and contemporary music .

  In January 2003 she releases her first track in the UK (sumsonic.rec.uk) called `Don`t look at me` by the name of ODD and starts cooperating with the french label Fcommunication. She participates at the live project of Jay Alanki (aka Reminiscent Drive) and starts giving concerts as a programmer-keybord player.

   In Dec 2003 she records vocals for Fred`s Avril track `tv dinner` (album `Members Only`- Label Fcom) and in April 2004 she records vocals for Poni Hoax`s track `Budapest`(label Tigersushi). Budapest is released in December 2005, enters compilations as Fabric in the UK, ‘Les Inrocks’ mag ‘s monthly compilation in France and receives great reviews all over Europe.

   She also participates at the live project of Bang Bang (Yellow prod.) and Nouvelle Vague (Peacefrog) as a programmer-keybord player. Then, she works on her own project produced by Marc Collin (The Perfect Kiss / PIAS) . Her EP ‘Getalife’ with Blackstrobe’s remix is now in stores.

01 - getalife

02 - how do you feel
03 - before the night ends
04 - melted torch
05 - call me liar
06 - right shot
07 - ballade
08 - her own right
09 - afissos
10 - calling you
11 - pick up your pieces

getalife 2008 

 

 Tracklist
01 I U Need
02 Hollow Lives (Feat Liset Alea)
03 Who Are U (Feat Tim Keegan)
04 Antivirus
05 Sweetheart
06 Jukebox
07 Gazstation
08 Stop
09 Ready
10 One Way
11 Time Goes By

 I U Need

Adventure - Lesser Known (2011)

   Adventure is yet another contemporary act infatuated with the epic sound of 80s electronica. The Baltimore based musician behind Lesser Known, Benny Boeldt, uses a palette of sounds and beats to recreate and expand upon the indulgent atmospherics that groups like OMD and Visage came up with the first time round.

   The opening track, 'Song 1', sounds like an instrumental remix of New Order's 'Bizarre Love Triangle', and this is soon followed by 'Smoke and Mirrors' and "Fools Paradise".  Boeldt creates a lush sound that is melodramatic, urban, melancholic and rapturous; In short, Boeldt is a musician, a technician and a post-modern romantic.

   At its best, Lesser Known crescendos to create a big sound using melodic hooks, electronic strings, samples and simple vocals.

   For some people this kind of music will sound derivative and nostalgic, but it's not really as simple as that. Although the template may be very similar to 80s electronica, the schematic has changed and Lesser Known does sound like the next generation of synth-pop.

01. Open Door

02. Feels Like Heaven

03. Smoke and Mirrors

04. Fool’s Paradise

05. Rio

06. Lights Out

07. Relax the Mind

08. Another world

09. Electric Eel

10. Meadows

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The Opiates - Anatomy of a Plastic Girl

   The Opiates is a collaboration project between Billie Ray Martin and Robert Solheim that began 3 years ago when they performed songs together (including Anatomy of a Plastic Girl) at the Rough Trade record shop.
   They are set to release their debut album, Hollywood Under the Knife, next month. Anatomy of a Plastic Girl is the second single and explores the devastating consequences of a hopeful Hollywood starlet who is scarred emotionally and physically by a botched facelift. 
   The Opiates are radical because they do not shy away from the rare match of songwriting and cutting-edge beats and bleeps.
  The Opiates will boldly go where the best of electronic duo crossover albums have gone before and will appeal as much to the charts as to the underground, to film and television as much as radio and beyond.
  Their debut album "Hollywood Under The Knife" will be released on Disco Activisto Records on 21st October 2011.

  Directed by Jörn Hartmann

Billie Ray Martin 

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Flying Turns - As Good As

   French Cold New wave band Flying Turns from Paris, with beautiful deep dark voice and energetic post punk guitar riffs made such a great videos that make me excited to find a real high-quality band that reminds a lot to Joy Division, the first album of Depeche Mode, Bauhaus, Devo and so on..

   One of the band members is Gesaffelstein, a french producer of techno/electro music.

  Their first single was called as good as, listen to this promising and talented trio. Enjoy!!

Directed by Francesco Colombo 

Video by Marie Athénaïs - marieathenais.com

myspace/flyingturns

soundcloud/flying-turns 

BRAHMS - Repeat It

  Amazing track 'Repeat' It is taken from BRAHMS electronic trio from NY,self released debut 7"

  BRAHMS turn things upside down on us in the video for ‘Repeat it’. Apparently, the band shot this visual in Tokyo, using nothing but their iPhones and some surveillance cameras.The city shots also make an appropriately angular background for “Repeat It”‘s clean lines. The video was edited by Adam Bennett. 

  That feeling of removal and disconnection in the footage works well with the track, which, like other BRAHMS songs, keeps some emotional distance between the vocals, the instruments, and the listener.

  This one will get your heart racing. The dark, intense, flickering, digital vibe is the perfect complement for these New Wave revivalist’s sound on this cut ,like it's straight out of a 1980s new wave club.

  Enjoy in Video, 

Worth for every repeat it again...

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Tesla Boy - Rebecca (Modern Thrills)

  Tesla Boy is a Russian Electro/Pop/New Wave band formed in 2008 in Moscow. The band members are Anton Sevidov (vocals and keyboards), Dima Dimborn (bass and background vocals), and Boris Lifshits (drums). 

  The band's name is taken from the title of a song written by Anton and Dima during the beginning of their collaboration about a boy who could conduct electricity but could not control it and hurt those who came too near him. The idea was inspired by the apartment in which Anton lived for most of his life which was above a huge electrical transformer that made him constantly feel the presence of electricity.

  The band started by recording a five-track demo entitled "The Tesla Boy", distributing it amongst friends and on the internet. It was later published under the title "The Tesla Boy EP." The promo CD features full artwork by DW Design studios. Bloggers took note of the demo, describing the band's music as "some of the most exciting electronic music of the year", "the best thing to come from Russia since vodka" and "the finest pop group in the world today".

  The band were quickly booked for sold-out concerts in many major Soviet cities and headlined three major Russian music festivals: Afisha, Stereoleto and MIGZ. In July 2010, they played the Elektrana stage at Serbia's EXIT Festival.

  Since August 2009, the band has been signed to the British label Mullet Records. The label released the aforementioned demo "The Tesla Boy EP" along with a "The Tesla Boy" remix EP, and the band's debut LP "Modern Thrills" in May 2010, which was followed by the three singles "Electric Lady, "Thinking Of You" and "Liberating Soul". The debut album is the band's first official physical release on CD, with the cover design contributed by the New York City-based design studio Mogollon.

  In 2010, Tesla Boy collaborated in a live-only project with Poko Cox  for many live performances, which included some of Poko's tracks. Their first live performance together was in Kiev, Russia, followed by shows in the country.

Their songs "Fire," "Electric Lady" and "It's Not Loving" have been in heavy rotation at Radio Maximum since 2009, as well as the track Spirit of the Night starting in 2010. "Electric Lady" and "Fire" entered Radio Maximum's 2009 Top 100. The music video for "Electric Lady" has been featured on Muz-TV Russina since 2010. "Electric Lady" was featured on the Nu Disco compilation released by Hed Kendi Records, and an extended mix of the song was featured on the A Blues from the Gutter compilation mixed by Blackstrobe.

 The band has remixed tracks by Anoraak, Manicure, Sally Shapiro and Alla Pugacheva.

All music and lyrics are written by the band members; all stylistic decisions, regarding the concept, the direction of music and production, are made by the band.

 It is a brilliant showcase of their mixing skills – nu-disco, deep and dreamwave-y.

Fans of ’80s synthpop/new wave sound, it’s time to get thrilled!

Tracklist:

Track list: 

1. Electric Lady 

2. Synthetic Prince 

3. Rebecca 

4. Synchronizing 

5. Minsk-2 

6. Dark Street 

7. Liberating Soul 

8. Fire 

9. Make Believe Ballroom 

10. Thinking of You 

11. Speed of Light

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Chew Lips - Unicorn

   Chew Lips are an East London based dance-pop trio consist of singer Tigs, and multi-instrumentalists Will Sanderson and James Watkins^.

    The group was formed in early 2008 and wrote ten songs at their first rehearsal, and played their first show that spring at a friend’s house. After a few more gigs, the group found a champion in BBC DJ Steve Lamacq, who asked Chew Lips  to perform a session on his show and invited them to play the BBC Introducing Stage at the Electric Proms Festival that fall. After a MySpace exchange with the founder of the French label Kitsune, the band released their debut single, "Solo," on the imprint early in 2009; the song showcased Chew Lips'  distinctive mix of brassy female vocals and Casiotone beats and melodies. The single "Salt Air," which featured a video directed by Man vs. Magnet, followed that summer. Their debut album, Unicorn, appeared in January 2010, as did the Play Together EP.

   CHEW LiPS have gone on to create an astonishing, visceral debut that thrills from start to finish, each song different from the last but with the hallmarks of the trio stamped over everything, the tracks intrinsically connected and detached at the same time, grand and intimate at once. Opener ‘Eight’ creeps into life slowly, its glacial soundscapes giving way to a robotic surge of glitches and bleeps, ‘Play Together’ sees shrill synths pirouetting round Tigs’ deviant vocals, whilst ‘Slick’ is space-age soul, building to its climactic outro in a haze of cascading, kaleidoscopic harmonies as Tigs showcases her vocal allure – the CHEW LiPS frontwoman is mesmerising of voice, her prurient laments imbued with a playful menace that could break hearts and the law at the same time. 

   “’Play Together’ sums us up as a band,” says James. “It’s got an amazing bassline and some really cool keyboard sounds, whilst ‘Slick’ could signal a change into a new direction for us – the thing I really like about it is that the music could be Beyonce or something. It was one that me and Tigs were always excited about. It came on the most out of all the songs we recorded in the studio.” 

   

   “I love ‘Karen’,” adds Tigs. “I love that little break in it.”Indeed, anyone whose accustomed to its original live version should grip themselves for the moment it morphs from straight-arrowed art-rock into its swirling, mesmeric breakdown, whilst the likes of ‘Too Much Talking’ and ‘Piano Song’ reveal tenets of raw emotion within CHEW LiPS that underline the heart pumping within their mechanical beats’n’synths.

  “I like that about our record,” opines Tigs, “the suggestion that we could go in any direction afterwards and it wouldn’t be completely surprising. Like ‘Piano Song’ – where the fuck does that come from?” As it transpires, the plaintive lullaby that closes ‘Unicorn’ comes from when James sat down at a piano left in David Kosten’s studio that Stevie Wonder used to play. “It’s not a song, there’s no structure to it, it’s just… nice,” smiles Tigs. 

CHEW LiPS are looking to release their second album late this year.

Her's their demo song "Eagle"  for the new CHEW LiPS track

Eagle (Demo) by Chew Lips

    Chew Lips Official

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Metronomy - The English Riviera

   England’s brightest electro-pop band Metronomy will release their forthcoming new album The English Riviera on 11th of April on Because Music.

   Originally a solo project for producer Joseph Mount, Metronomy now operate as a four piece with Anna Prior on drums, Gbenga Adelekan on bass, original member Oscar Cash on keys/sax, and Joseph Mount on vocals, keys and guitar.).

   The English Riviera – is a brilliantly gloomy slice of twisted electro-pop, all creepy and weird synth grumbles.

   "We've been recording a new album which is pretty much done," bassist Gbenga Adelekan told Australia’s Triple J, while the band tour the country.. "Some of it is like Daft Punk meets The Eagles if you can believe that. Some of it is even weirder, more electronic. Some of it is almost like stuff from the first Metronomy album, very weird electronica. And then there's some really cool pop music on there as well."
"We've gotten a really good response to the new songs we've played," he added. "It's going to be a lot of fun to play live."
 This is the first single called "She Wants" which is more mellow than we are used to, but listen to their album, you will not miss the great big slice of their eccentric talent to make perfectly wider view on what they can give more in electro bizarre world.

The song feels very 80s with the mid-tempo rhythm, the use of sequenced drums and synth and the guitar feeling slightly chorus-ed. 

    http://www.metronomy.co.uk/

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Sadman - Cold in the state of me

 

   Swedish electro duo Sadman have signed to the French label Keffren Productions and will re-release both their albums 'Cold In The State Of Me' and '9th And Last Life' later this summer. The band will also record two videos and start to record a new album in the spring. They also promised to keep some time left to play live.

   Sadman first came to prominence in 2008 with their critically-acclaimed debut album "Cold in the State of Me". The duo consists of Fernström and Mattias Räftegård. The duo have since been busy working on new material.

  Check out this video for "Cold In The State Of Me" , and hope to hear more good stuff from such a great artists succeeded in offering material that can surely stand next to the bigger names in the genre.

 

http://www.myspace.com/sadmanmusic 

http://www.sadman.se/

Nipplepeople - Sutra

  
      Nipplepeople are mysterious electro-pop duo from Zagreb, Croatia. 

     They are acting under the mask and do not talk a lot about themselves, they prefer that their music does it for them.

     I like this single Sutra, great song and extravagant video.
    It is a pleasant experience to enjoy their live show, especially is interesting their bizarre costumes and masks, but underneth of them is hiding incredible voice and talent.
                            
                        Enjoy!!!
                              

 

http://www.myspace.com/nipplepeople 

Ladytron - Velocifero

     Ladytron are band originally formed in Liverpool,  UK. They blends electronic pop music and New Wave, using an array of vintage analogue equipment to achieve their distinctive sound. Albums so far have focused on a balance between pop structures and digitally edited analogue electronic sound, along with some more experimental leanings including psychedelic elements.

   Ladytron released the new single, "Ace Of Hz," and it is available everywhere today. 
   They also have four studio albums:
         -  604 (2001)
         -  Light & Magic (2002)
         -  Witching Hour (2005)
         -  Velocifero (2008)

        Enjoy in videos! They have much to offer!

Ladytron - Sugar by Ladytron

 

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Van She - Strangers

      Van She is an Electropop band formed in 2005 in Sydney, Australia. 

      The band began with a sound very much rooted in the 1980s, heavy on synthesizer, although later material reflects a more textured sound, more like the perfect mix of 80's New Wave tributes.  

     They bridge the musical gap between boldly adventurous shoegaze and danceable glint disco.

             They have a lot of fresh good ideas and a driving force that keeps the tempo up and maintains an interesting and catchy feel for the whole song. 

                                   Enjoy!

                      

http://www.vanshe.com/

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Metronomy - Nights Out

Let me introduce you to Metronomy

  

   It's an electronic music group from Devon, England. 

  Their music consists of instrumental electronic music and more recently, with the release of Nights Out, vocal electronic pop music. 

Maroussia Rebecq, founder of Parisian fashion line Andrea Crews Collective, knows just how to upcycle unwanted garbs and make them into eccentric new art pieces. Her works have been seen on such artists as Santigold, Yelle, Olivia of The Do, and Metronomy.

 

  They always make me smile with their fascinate rhythm and amazing sense of experimenting with music instruments. I like their spontacity, curiosity and large potential in creating something new and never yet played.

http://www.myspace.com/metronomy

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IamX - I am Terrified (Alec Empire remix)

           Love Thirst...

    A Neverending inspiration...
   Emotion guide and its muse ...
   With a lot of energy , faith , love and intensive passion. 
   Excellent work for Chris Corner and Alec Empire , again :))



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IAMX Dogmatic Infidel Comedown OK (2010) 

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        Prepusti Svoje Sitne Strepnje da Čekaju , 

       U Naletu Žudnje , Na Raskršću Besa ,

       Ponesen Lepotom , Preplavljen Bolom ,

       Dok u Agoniji Stojiš Sam ,

       Okrzan il Slomljen Preplovi Dalje , 

       Prebrodi Svoje Mnoštvo Strahova , 

       Svoj Gnev i Grčevito Jecanje , 

       Osmehni se Jednom , Vidik je Širok ,

       Nosi Te Beskraj Blistave Svetlosti , 

       Naš Saputnik , Inspiracija ,

             M u z i k a 

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