This is sort of a pretext to direct you to the Data Sapiens blog in general because there is so much amazing new stuff on there. But specifically Boy 8-Bit can do very little wrong these days and this has almost an old Hardcore sound to it, which I'm a huge fan of (as you can see here).
Ok, I do have a bit of a soft spot for disco-ish sounds. Louis La Roche is a new artist doing some very fresh 80's/disco type house work - very in the vein of late 90s french house. On the Floor and Do You Remember are excellent.
I also got sent this today by Rough Trade and it's not all over the net yet. I LOOOOVE the Long Blondes and Guilt is a great track. This mix is very beautiful but more on the mellow sound.
I don't make the sins, I just point them out. I've paid serious money over the years to collect Disconet remixes, which were made by original disco stars such as Tom Savarese back in the day for djs only and never released commercially. I was looking this evening for Magnifique-Magnifique, which is a fantastic italo disco classic and found 18 volumes of Disconet remixes all of a sudden available for all. The Magnifique track is on volume 13 but I will also let you download it here.
I don't generally find much relatively good music out of the blue without it being blogged by others first. But increasingly a lot of bands are sending me their music. And today I happened to find three really good ones all in one day.
PDf Format looks like it's out of Toronto and it's 8-bit computer songs that are really good. I love this sound, but sometimes the music is busy and soul-less. These songs are really well done covers, though I'm not sure if the guy's original work is as good.
Fan Death is probably the most well done/commercially likable of the 3 bands on this post. They sound like they are in the vein of older Metro Area and some of the new stuff being put out by Glass Candy. Very nice, particularly on Veronica's Veil, though I think the quite good technical skills need to include a few more slightly more original, maybe even wonky, songwriting ideas, maybe on the vocal side. You can download tracks on their myspace.
DVAR is probably the oddest and most interesting of the three. Some band out of Russia and I so I can't read much about them, their songs sound sort of like goth synths/vocals mixed with dancehall sort of beats and supposedly they sing in their own made up language. I quite like it and fresh to see someone doing something new of sorts. I've put up one track for you.
Download their latest cd below. For those who are more technically inclined on extracting files, the first part has all the songs but a little tiny bit of the last one.
I can't believe I missed this when it first started appearing late last year. Full anthem with a little tiny bit of a breakbeat. Lots of Switch mixes out there and a lot are good but I don't always get a chance to go through them all. This one will definitely be dropping into my sets.
Sort of in the same vein as Chromeo, I somehow missed this when it came out last summer. This is excellent 80s synth funk redone by current (Uk?) residents Tek Box. You can also find more tracks to listen on Bibabidi here. The One Day Later blogger must have an ear similar to mine because he's also posted more recently a bunch of early 80s electro funk that is amazing. Check out the Jerome Prister.
The original didn't inspire me for some reason, but these simple piano chords (which are too missing these days with all the squelchy electro bitsy) are pretty awesome.
Just a little something that I found intriguing - a eastern euro brass band cover of the James Bond Theme - surprisingly good. You can download the full Fanfare Ciocarlia album at the link below, and I have supplied the one track here.
