I'll stop there in attempt to keep quality over quantity. Speaking of quality, there is literally an abundance of good new music just recently. Some of it may make on appearance on this here monstrosity.
It's amazing what shuffle on your iPod can bring up sometimes, I was walking along the railway tracks before and Shinjuku came on, I never remember it being this good.
I do have Epitonic to thank for bringing TRS-80 to my attention back in the day. They've been creating a unique sound for quite sometime now, and in addition to their top tracks you can always guarantee an equally as impressive video, often directed by Ariel Pink cohort Eric Fensler. Their most recent release - The New You, simply put, is really really good. Live drums, analog synthesizers and a host of other worldly noises give an instantly nostalgic feel to their tunes. Like a more diverse Zombie Zombie or an intellectual older cousin of Cut Copy, this is grade A quality electronica. The New You is available here.
The video for Tinted has been done to perfection. A wonderful video to add to their already terrific collection. All of the TRS-80 videos are viewable HERE. If you're a fan of found film and archive footage then I implore you to check them out.
The Ilija Rudman remix L.S.B. did was one of the best disco tracks of last year, no doubt. This time they've taken a more laid back approach to Low Motion Disco's splendid Love Love Love. Low Motion Disco themselves did this edit of Chromatics' In The City quite while back. Don't forget that Chromatics are playing 3 UK dates in the coming week or so.
Released in 1984 it's Fockewulf 190 and Body Heat. Considered by some to contain the defining moments of the italo-disco sound. That's just one great track from the Clone Classic Cuts vault - go on.
I've been listening to quite a bit of Pink Skull on the move. Fusing their respective influences together into a cacophony of electronic goodness. Get with them.
The soon to be big electro pop act Heartbreak also have solo endeavours - you may have seen an earlier post on fellow Heartbreaker Ali Renault. This is Muravchix with some groovy neo-disco. Dissident are really putting out some neat stuff at the moment, in particular Tommy Walker 3 and Gweilo.
Great debut release on Tirk (who put on the best night at Snowbombing) for Norwegian whizzkid Morten Sorensen. The Start Something EP is out May 5th and is a real promising blend of tight arpeggiated synths, spacey grooves and deep basslines.