Yumi Zouma - Keep It Close To Me

As Yumi Zouma sails closer to the release of the their debut LP, they drop this breezy new single, Keep It Close To Me. With a propulsive beat and cloud-like chord progression, Zouma maintain their own brand of glassy-disco. Like Saint Etienne, Yumi Zouma has a keen sense of how to blend the best aspects of house and twee for light, yet poignant pop songs. Look out for new tunes from the New Zealanders this Spring and hopefully it will help us all inch closer to Summer!!

New Order - Tutti Frutti (Hot Chip remix)

Hot Chip spin one of New Order's latest tunes into a web of truth and club-banging. Lying somewhere between Pet Shop Boys and Giorgio Moroder, Tutti Frutti is an extra fun dance track with expansive synths and intricately laced drum samples. Like a sticky, dry-ice cloud enveloping the dance-floor, Hot Chip have deconstructed the track and rebuilt it stronger, and heavier. Like an extended Depeche Mode cut or the danciest breakdown off Kid A, this remix carries on with a hypnotic pulse, not unfamiliar to Disco, and Darkwave, but what else should we expected? It IS Hot Chip. Dude. Get into the groove:

Belle and Sebastian - The Party Line (video)

Belle & Sebastian have released one of their catchiest singles in years and now there's a video. The Disco leaning, Saint Etienne indebted dance track has a wonderfully shot clip of some pretty young things out on the town. Its super fun to be young and hot (in the 1970s), until that dude you're mad into ends up with another chick! (Ughhhhh). Mondo bummer, but hey this be B&S, and not some other BS.

Yumi Zouma - Alena

New Zealand Soft Pop conduits, Yumi Zouma, explore a danicer realm with their latest single, Alena. The fluttering guitar lines are not so much abandon, as they are put to the side here, while room is made for some swollen string patches and bouncy piano chords. Its very easy on the ears and reminds me a little of Air France. Elements of House, Disco, and Dream Pop are stewed together in this crock:

Jessie Ware ft Dev Hynes - Want Your Feeling

Jessie Ware's latest single is a plush covered, disco extravaganza. Mega-hit mastermind, Blood Orange, blanket's Ware's croons in a deluge of tip-toed guitars, cinematic strings, and a super groovy bass-line. It's a building, and building to a super fulfilling crescendo worthy of Donna Summer. Git into it people:

Blood Orange - Uncle Ace (a/jus/ted Remix)

Blood Orange's crypto-sexual subway ode gets a Darkwave re-imagining, by way of a/jus/ted. big A churns Uncle Ace's Disco leanings into throbbing grime-synth thrill-pop. Its a soundscape to the sulfur-scented shadows, that linger in the back alley behind the club. You know what i mean:

Arcade Fire - Reflektor ft. David Bowie

Here it is. The latest from Montreal's finest, accompanied by two mind warping videos. One of them directed by the post-punk visual master himself, Anoton Corbijn. Upon first hearing this new single my ears were quickly reminded of David Byrne and epic Talking Heads dance tracks, but after 4mins into this fantastically dark, black & white clip I had a brief flashback to My Chemical Romance. Win Butler's painted eyes and the rest of the band dressed in black, marching through a bleak landscape seems oddly enough, very MCR-esque. Don't get me wrong Arcade Fire are no My Chemical Romance (ROFL!) , but seriously am I the only one seeing a connection here? I think this sort of relation to bands of the past, whether highbrow or lowbrow, always seems to erupt when a familiar act gears up to release a 'concept album.' You could say all of Arcade Fire's records have been concept albums of some sort, but this one has been marketed as more dance oriented. Employing James Murphy to man the production helm is always a great sign when someone tells you they're getting into dance music, but for Arcade Fire, a band that has singularly risen above all of their Indie compatriots and subsequently contributed to defining the last decade of music, it means its gone be some next level shit. Point being? This record could be super dope and is def worth a listen. Also DUHHH did you not read this post title??! This jam features BOWIE, BRO!

She Wolf

Everyones jumpin on the disco revival train these days! I was never a big Shakira fan, but I guess she wised up and got someone to lay some synths on a track. not only is this new single pretty bangin but this video is probably the hottest single "Single Ladies." Get yo wolf on, Shakiras back!

Shakira - New Music - More Music Videos

SOLID GOLD

More on that revival of disco...here's The Golden Filter's "Solid Gold"...a jam I've become obsessed with:



HOLY SHIT THIS SONG IS TIGHT

shut up and dance but first run, then swim, then dig - while being a model

Glass Candy

As everyone is fully aware we are in the thick of a major disco revival in popular music, see: Hercules and Love Affair, Sebastien Tellier, Justice, Justin, new Madonna, etc...

Anyhow one of my favorites of the group is Glass Candy from Portland, Oregon. On their 2007 (better late than never) dance masterpiece B/E/A/T/B/O/X, off of Italians Do it better, come some stellar tracks for dancing, looking good and doing mountains of coke off of a glass table - all at the same time. Think Blondie a shade darker. Begin your studio 54 fantasy...now:

Glass Candy - "Beatific" (featured in last year's Karl Lagerfeld for Chanel runway show along with the disco revival's staple Hercules and Love Affair's "Blind")



Class Candy - "Candy Castles"



SUMMER 2009 IS FOR DANCING