...is the name of French Vitalic's excellent new album that was released two months ago. Flashmob means that a large group of people assembles suddenly in a public place, performs an unusual action for a brief time and then quickly disperse. 
After a long week of watching movies at Stockholm Film Festival and playing around with my new dj tool Pacemaker it's time for me to get back in business. Normally I don't post other people's mixtapes but I will do an exception this time.
First of all I must send a big thank you to our fellow Englishman Edwin van Cleef who made me discover this fine track. It was one of the tracks on his mix "Space Disco 3" that we posted a while ago.
Stephan J was brought up in the north of Germany by a pair of professional musicians. Naturally he started playing instruments as a kid; violin, later drums, guitar and the piano. After living in London and becoming fascinated by London’s music culture, he started 'playing laptop' in 2008. Since then he's been combining club and electronic music with classical instruments as I'm Not A Band. In 2009 he was joined by Jana D for vocals and live shows and the question is if that doesn't technically makes them a band?
In 2009 a guy (a producer) and a girl (a singer) met. They hit it off and the result was Joypop. The only track they've made so far is this piece of adorable synthpop, but they're working on a second track and an EP is in the horizon.
Don Diablo is not from France, and not from Spain either despite his Spanish sounding name, but from Holland. He's been as productive as he's been reliable, spitting out great tracks on what has seemed on a daily basis. "I'm Not From France" will be the name of his EP that will be released for free on December 11. All you have to do is sign up on his website! The EP will include remixes from Linus Loves, Cagedbaby, Louis La Roche and Hugo Van Dyk as well as the track "Rave Rave Rave".
Flashworx is a producer/DJ duo hailing from the Italian part of Switzerland. And what type of music does a pair of italo-swiss guys born in the 80s and heavily influenced by the fashion, music and spirit of that time make? Why, melodic nu italo of course. The pair is currently working on an EP, but in the meantime, here are some rad remixes and a great original track.
I can't resist. I just have to. Can't fight the feeling any more. I must post these fine remixes even if the last post also were about Monarchy. Maybe it's against all common sense to make two posts in a row about the same group, but what the heck. These are remixes made of Monarchy on other artists so I can claim the post are about them...
A while ago I posted the Monarchy's original track "Gold In The Fire" in a post with great music that was right to me for the moment. Now two remixes has popped up for "Gold In The Fire" and they are bloody awesome too.
Who aren't in love with an orchestra? Noah and the Whale are for sure deeply in love with one. So in love that these three remixes were made. As earlier remixes of Noah and the Whale the remixes diverse from one another.
As we wrote earlier this week, one of the remixers on Edwin Van Cleef's "Overtaken EP" is welshman Neo Tokyo. He's also responsible for this great Phoenix remix, which (stop the presses!) is not of "1901". Mr Tokyo take the french trash-electro sound but evolve it by using cleaner synths and then cutting it all up to the point when it sounds you're play. Hmm, wonder where my old Amiga 500 is...
Let me introduce Upstation to you. It's a Russian band consisting of LeV and Eugene who make catchy electropop with influences from 80s new wave and funk. Sounds familiar? Yeah, they'll remind you quite a bit of Tesla Boy, even if they're a little bit more disco. And reminding of Tesla Boy can't be a bad thing, can it? Here's their five track demo in all it's glory:
...aka Ernest Greene is a young guy from Georgia who makes balearic dreamy synth-pop. I discovered him today actually and I fell in love right away when I heard "New Theory", a song that would be perfect in a movie I think. He said himself he has only been doing music as Washed Out for a couple of months....so I guess we can expect a lot more dreamy stuff from Mr Greene in the future. He recently released an EP entitled "Life Of Leisure" available on his MySpace page here.
Great news from that windy island north of Europe! Finally the Brits have made something to make up for their terrible football (apart from West Ham United of course). Two of our favourite British producers are making their long-awaited début releases this autumn. Fear of Tigers is releasing his album "Cossus-Snufsigalonica" as a free download on December 1 on his Facebook page since all record labels are busy barfing out "Absolute Idol Hits 999" or whatever...
The second début is Edwin van Cleef's EP "Overtaken" which also marks the début of the Space Disco label. The EP was released Monday and includes, apart from a remastered and reworked version of the great original we posted quite a while ago, a Radio edit and remixes by Neo Tokyo, FM Attack and Stockholm's own Mille. The EP is available exclusively on Beatport so head over there and by a copy!
I don't know how many versions of "1901" I've heard so far, but this is a brand new remix by Walter Sobcek. My collegue Jonny Puma wrote about the amount of remixes in an earlier post. This cool version is definitely a fresh French touch to this frequently remixed song...
I like Canadian quartet Dragonette. I like that they have supported both Basement Jaxx and Sugababes, and there's a bunch of remixes of them that I really like. Two such remixes have been floating around recently; Richard X's of "Pick Up The Phone" and Buffetlibre's of "Easy". I have been meaning to post them for a while, but the autumn coma made me miss the train so to speak. Thing is they're too good not to post, so I was really glad when Beaumont bailed me out by sending over his take on "PUTP" today!
I've been lazy writing posts lately due to a slight lack of inspiration as some of you have noticed (I'm talking to you Tyler). That's all going to change now, since despite all the good music I listen to and that get sent to us there are two tracks that really have made me fall in love with music again recently. Too bad one of the tracks hasn't been available on mp3 and the other was "stolen" by Jonny in his post yesterday; ODahl's kamp! remix. Damn you Jonny!
Ok I'm back now in Stockholm after four days of party madness in Berlin, celebrating the 20 years anniversary of the old Berlin wall. Today I discovered this fine pearl of beat-driven psych-pop; a Brooklyn trio called Sensual Harassment. Just the name wanted me to know more about these guys.
Yes, some fine tracks that are right just right now. My favourites for the moment and for some others too and soon for you guys also. Today the words will be few and I let the tracks sing for themselves. But don't forget to give the artists all your love!
New exclusive single from "80's car chase soundtrack master" Stephen Falken, also with a suitable name "Cruising". The track is from the limited 7" white vinyl "The Last Escape/Cruising" with two fine acts such as Maethelvin and Stephen Falken together. Buy one of the 500 copies made here at Valerie.
I was longing for the third album from the great band Hail Social when I got the sad news that Hail Social is no more. That's a shame on such a fine band. In June this sentence was published on their blog: "Hail Social is no longer an active band and has not been for years now". So instead of waiting I can only hail them.
Peter Visti is not quite a newcomer in the business, he's been active for about 20 years now worldwide. He's from Denmark and he's the King of Balearic. I've been following him since the release of the single "Balearic Love" in 2007. Long and kind of slow tracks and I know you are going to like it big time!
By now you should already know that we are big fans of La Roux. What you don't know is that we recently received a very nice remix of "Bulletproof" by LA-based Religion. They have remixed Justice, Busy P, Mr Oizo... just to name a few. I'm not a big fan of that fidget rave house sound, but I really liked this remix. So here it is.
The great indie rock band White Lies that I wrote about earlier in May has the fine gesture to visit Berns in Stockholm for a gig tomorrow (Wednesday, November 4th). With the fantastic album "To Lose My Life", that I still believe will be one of the greatest this year, and a lot of fine remixes I envy those who will attend Berns tomorrow. I'm stuck in the middle...
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