Anyway, it’s one of the most infectious records we have come across in a long time, with a remix pack that seems almost frankenstein on the surface, with house music heavyweight Ian Carey bringing his A-game, along with some deep house beats and disco sampled treats from Plastic Plates and Moonchild. But it somehow comes together as a single remix pack, which is just a moment of total musical completedness. It’s out at the end of August, so you have a couple of weeks to prepare your soul for this.

All The Lights – Chasing Colours by etcetcmusic

Trading in his main-room bleep-house for a sound fresher than a new pair of socks, UK house meister Ridney has over-filtered his way back from the future to reverberate his way through the loins and into your soul with his new jam Always With You. This is truly the good kind of music. Always With You is aurally viral; heaps of hats and full of warmth and vibe…. Soo much vibe. It’s a strobe-lit stereo popper, set to burn a whole through main-rooms, back-rooms, iPods, iPads and all other devices you can use to play music on these days.

Re-working this wonder, His Majesty Andre (Cheap Thrills/MODA) waives his musical wand across the track, compressing and sequencing the track into a four-minute-and-seven-second floor filling edit. Taking a few steps back from that front-left speaker stack, is James Curd (DFA/Greenskeepers) who provides no less than three loving re-workings of the track, each defining their own moment of beauty and perfection.

It’s due to hit Juno/Beatport/iTunes on August 4th, so set yourself an ical.
Ridney – Always With You by etcetcmusic

PNAU have always caused a bit of fuss and fluster with every project they’re invovled with, and delivering their latest album Soft Universe was no different. “It’s the sound of now…” according to Rolling Stone, and we would tend to agree with them in this instance. Soft Universe is an amazing expression of emotive electronica, defining a point in space, time and music for the band. With the duo taking to the main-stage at Splendour In The Grass sooner than you can imagine, you’re running out of time to learn the lyrics, so grab your copy of Soft Universe from JB Hifi or iTunes today.

PNAU – Soft Universe by etcetcmusic

After an eternity of mixing, re-recording, polishing, buffing, sequencing and synthesizing, the debut album from indie rockers Jump Jump Dance Dance is now up and available for pre-order through iTunes and JB Hi-Fi. Featuring a bunch of singles which you have heard, alongside a lot that you haven’t, the album is full of flare, oozing West Coast charisma in every bass line and chord stab.

Jump Jump Dance Dance Album by etcetcmusic

Both pre-orders also include a bonus 4 Remixes, including a previously unreleased remix of City On Fire by Magik Johnson. So jump in and reserve your copy today.

Electronic powerhouse PNAU return with Solid Ground, the second single from their eagerly anticipated album Soft Universe – due to hit stores on July 22. It’s the kind of emotionally charged electronica that is expected from the band, rich with intricate musicality, catchy lyrics and infectious hooks, Solid Ground surges with energy and melodically rules the current electro-pop landscape. With the track hitting radio this week, and the duo’s album and East Coast + Splendour In The Grass tour in the coming weeks, all eyes (and ears) are definitely on PNAU.

PNAU – Solid Ground (Radio Edit) by etcetcmusic

What makes a music video amazing?  Is it about the scope, depth and darkness of the industrial junkyard the clip is shot in? Does it contain fire or worm-holes? Is there a robotic-babe who needs to be rebuilt and upgraded to a two-point-oh? If all of these things are determinants in a scale of music video amazingness, then the video for Jump Jump Dance Dance’s single 2.0 ticks every box! With L.A. outfit Skinny providing production and direction, the clip provides the perfect visual stimuli to this electronically charged indie-pop weapon.

Enjoy.

Aren’t big shiny things just the best?

Combining our love of shiny things with some tropical weather patterns which descended upon Sydney on New Years Day, etcetc slipped, slopped and slapped our way across the Domain to Field Day and presented A-Trak and Armand Van Helden with what could have made the perfect centerpiece for any festive feast – Platinum Records – for Duck Sauce’s club jam ‘Barbra Streisand‘. With the boys performing their only Australian show on the day (along side a 12 foot tall inflatable duck), it’s clear that 2011 is going to be the year of the duck.

Northern Ireland’s hottest export TWO DOOR CINEMA CLUB, have put together a unique Tour Edition version of their album Tourist History for their second trip downunder. The new edition of Tourist history includes a whole second disc of handpicked remixes by acts like Whatever Whatever, French Horn Rebellion, Is Tropical, Cassian, Ted&Francis, The Twelves and more PLUS a link to a documentary on the making of the album.

Having turned Splendour In The Grass into a jumping castle last August, TWO DOOR CINEMA CLUB continued on with a SOLD OUT Australian headline tour. Now the trio are gearing up to do it again come February and set this summer sweltering. Whilst down here to join the solid lineup of the 2011 St Jerome’s Laneway Festival, TWO DOOR CINEMA CLUB will also include a handful of headline shows in Sydney and Melbourne and Byron Bay on their jaunt to Oz. The 18+ show in Melbourne is already sold out, but tickets are still available to the Byron Bay show on Thursday Feb 3rd, the under 18s show in Melbourne on Tuesday Feb 8th and the Sydney ALL AGES show on Monday, February 7th.
These newcomers have been setting hearts a flutter across the world with the release of their debut album “Tourist History” selling out shows in the USA, UK and Japan and Australia.

TOUR DETAILS:

TWO DOOR CINEMA CLUB
Proudly supported by Video Hits, In The Mix, and Street Press Australia
With special guests PARADES.

BYRON BAY
Thur Feb 3
THE GREAT NORTHERN HOTEL (18+)
Tickets from www.thenorthern.com.au, www.oztix.com.au or Oztix Outlets

SYDNEY
Mon Feb 7
ENMORE THEATRE (ALL AGES) – ON SALE NOW
Tickets from Ticketek, www.ticketek.com.au, Ph 132 849

MELBOURNE
Tue Feb 8
PRINCE BANDROOM (UNDER 18’s) – ON SALE NOW
Tickets from Polyester Records, Greville Records, Prince Public Bar, www.princebandroom.com.au, Ph 03 9536 1168

MELBOURNE
Wed Feb 9
PRINCE BANDROOM (18+) – SOLD OUT

KITSUNE MAISON 10: The Fireworks Issue

Tilting your beret and dimensional perceptions, the latest installment from Kitsuné Maison is here. Breaking into the double-digits, Kitsuné Maison 10 is a celebration of musical talent, a showcase featuring 25 of the best in electronic club, Parisian pop, Swedish folk, and countless other nation-bound genres.

It’s an interracial house party, with a guest list including Yelle, Digitalism, Two Door Cinema Club, Black Strobe, as well as a whole collection of intercontinental content. This is diversity at its artistic best.

Dubbed ‘The Fireworks Issue’, Kitsuné Maison 10 is an explosive addition to the Maison series, which has previously featured the talents of trend setters like Hot Chip, Klaxons, Bloc Party, Gossip, Soulwax, La Roux, Delphic, and Simian Mobile Disco. There’s more bang, more boom, more music, more Kitsuné, more Maison… Just more of what you want, along with more of what you should be listening to.

Kitsuné Maison 10 - ‘The Fireworks Issue’, ionically charged and ready to launch, sir.

Kitsuné Maison 10 – ‘The Fireworks Issue is out November 26^th on etcetc with iTunes running a special promotion with the compilation at a special price for a limited time only!

PREVIEW: Check out a preview of Maison 10 here.

1/ Casacadeur – Walker (Early Mix) – French. Gentle. Atmospheric. Dream-like and almost sad. Five years in the making. The CQFD prize of (French weekly) Les Inrockuptibles. A good start to the power of ten.

2/ Guards – Don’t Wake The Dead -  Americans playing garage-rock. Typical NYC brutal energy. MGMT, Chairlift & Cults are friends and contribute to their recordings. Richie, the guy behind it all, posts free tracks on line. A bit of catching up for those who don’t have internet at home, or the right bookmarks or the time even.

3/ Is Tropical – South Pacific -  The lastest band signed to Kitsuné. With an impressive masked look (watch those hands whilst on stage). Brilliant sound. Play this track a thousand times, we have.

4/ Yelle – La Musique – Always and again and again. We put out her first single. Here she’s produced by Germany’s Siriusmo who’s a bit of a don. We like Yelle.

5/ Two Door Cinema Club – What You Know (Mustang Remix) – An italo-disco remix by the Mustang djs from Bruxelles. Two Door Cinema Club is booming. « One of the most loved bands in the UK » as read in the NME last week.

6/ Beataucue – Disque Oh – Our new favorite kids. From Caen and not even eighteen yet. They’ve remixed Kylie, Two Door Cinema Club and released their debut single on Kitsuné in april 2010.

7/ Strange Talk – Climing Walls – Straight from Melbourne, Australia. Alt pop, as they say there. Sounds like vitamin C. No embarassment or inhibitions here, this is solid FM music as we like it.

8/ Punks Jump Up – Blockhead (Edit) – Good London djs with consistent track record. They’ve remixed Robyn, Yelle and Kele. Typical 3am peaktime when the dancefloor’s rockin’.

9/ The Aikiu – The Red Kiss – French. Rankin shot the video. Nile Rodgers gave his blessing. And voilà !

10/ Flight Facilities – Crave You (feat. Giselle) – A cult classic that’s tailored to cross-over and turn into a summer hit. A song as safe as a white t-shirt. The people in the know love it, but then again you don’t need to be in the know to get it. More Aussies. There’s good stuff in Australian orange juice at the moment, isn’t there?

11/ Jolie Chérie – Insomnie - Because finally some French people – namely Melina, Samir et Etienne – have realised that a French band name is also very good.

12/ Wild at Heart – Get Related – Erik & Li are Swedish messengers of what some call slow-pop, pop although you could simply say they have charm.

13/ Clock Opera – Once And For All - Great lyrics, music shot on wide-lens, the kind admen will soon steal for their car or friendly banks ads. The electronic Coldplay? And we’re not even joking.

14/ Icona Pop – Manners (Extended) - Two Swedish girls who want the world to sing along to their heartbroken songs, dark feelings and brief euphoric moments. Rugged and persistent.

15/ Young Empires – Glory Of The Night – A young band formed last October and already celebrated by the blogs, unsurprising considering the amount of teenage sensuality at work, shadow play frolics and the likes.

16/ Housse de Racket – Château - The French band with the strangest band name since The Doors turns up with a very, very good song, which predicts a very, very good second album… keenly watched by Kitsuné.

17/ Teeth – See Spaces -  Ximon, Simon and Veronica warn in their official biog: « We destroy anything we touch. All our equipment’s ruined, the sound blows out everywhere we go…» . Made us want to listen. They produce themselves their own videos, pictures and fanzines…

18/ The Heartbreaks – Liar, My Dear – British pop as we love it. Spicy and lyrical. They’re The Drums’ favorite band, so there.

19/ Waylayers – Fire - Harry, James, Jon and Alan form a brand new band fresh out of Harry’s bedroom, they have a sound that demands attention, ever so particular that their early demos instantly attracted attention.

20/ Digitalism – Blitz - Solid track that combines grace and strength, in some kind of trance. The track is called ‘Blitz’ and was indeed designed to slay dancefloors.

21/ Black Strobe – Me & Madonna – (The Twelves Remix) – The 2010 remix of their cult hit ‘Me and Madonna’ which was bang on at the time. It’s remixed by Kitsuné’s favorite Brazilian producers: The Twelves.

21/ Justus Köhncke – Sorry - This talented yet underrated German producer (he is disco!) teams up with Hot Chip’s Alexis Taylor for a lo-fi slice of heavenly soul. The rest of the band will be jealous.

11/ Psychobuildings – Terror Management – They’re from Brooklyn (who isn’t these days? it’s a joke). Peter, Peter and Juan are on a dark wave tip. That video they had on YouTube where a guy’s dancing  to the track wearing horrid pyjamas in an American Apparel shop kinda made us want to sign them. We thought wow, you got to believe to go through all that.

12/ May68 – The Prisoner (Cecile remix. – Jerry Bouthier edit) – To start with it’s a great band name with all its generational implications (May 68 is the date of the student uprising in France). Camille, Matt, Owen, Jonny and Jude (the vocalist, from Sheffield) are behind this Manchester band that fuses dancefloor and pop sensibilities in its own inimitable way. Remixed here by Cecile, the rising producer from Milan.

13/ Palmbomen – Moon Children -  It’s one boy on his own, Kai, with a lot of synths. Perfect track for mornings when you’re deciding which Kitsuné shirt to wear.