Silence is traditionally golden, except when you have been waiting too long between drinks… and when drinks actually means a new single from PNAU, then silence can be unbearable. We can finally reveal what’s next from the duo of Peter Mayes and Nick Littlemore – Unite Us. We could have revealed it a little earlier, but we thought that we’d make you sweat it out a little bit first, but the remixes and videos for Unite Us are well and truly in, and are have hit the internet.

Having already primed combustion tanks of their interstellar ‘Soft Universe’ voyager, PNAU have broken orbit to deliver their next single – Unite Us. An anthemic re-entry into the musical stratosphere, Unite Us is the lovers sonnet of the electronic age – hitting the soul with emotionally charged vocals, deep arpeggiated synth lines and stadium readied synth stabs which scream the sadistic woes of stretched heartstrings.

Never before has heartbreak sounded this good.

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

Why wasn’t this up on the internet earlier! The video for PNAU’s latest single ‘Solid Ground’ takes everything that is amazing about NYC, and compresses it into a nice little streamed video production that rames ‘Solid Ground’ perfectly. Album is out at the end of the month, and we’re already beaming about it. It’s definitely going to be huge.

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.

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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

It takes a certain type of man to look sharp in a bath robe and pop bubbles in the day light hours… A-Trak is obviously one such man. Bringing thanks and well wishes to Australian Duck Sauce fans in a way which only the internet can allow, we received this video-thank-you in our inbox this morning as we broke the news that Duck Sauce’s single ‘Barbra Streisand’ has officially gone double platinum!

Hold tight for more news on all things Duck Sauce…

Yes, we all know that PNAU are returning to Australia to play at Splendour In The Grass, but for those who are not lucky enough to get tickets – feel free to rejoice. In preparation of their fourth album ‘Soft Universe‘, Nick and Pete are heading down the East Coast of Australia on a their Soft Universe Tour! Albeit a brief love affair, this is one experience set to rival creation itself.

Tickets are on sale now through all usual outlets, so grab them while they’re still available.

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.