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Single Review by William Ruben Helms

Matteo Longbois is an emerging, 20-something, Honfluer, Normandy, France-based electronic music producer and electronic music artist. He can trace the origins of his love for electronic music to when his father played David Guetta‘s 2006 Sensation White Festival set for him. Since then, Longbois has created his own original music, influenced by Daft Punk, Paul Kalkbrenner, Lauant Garnier (a.k.a. Chance) and Todd Terry among others.

Clocking in at a little under three minutes, Longbois’ latest single, the minimalist “Techno Medicament” is centered around hypnotic repetitions of dense synth arpeggio layers, tweeter and woofer rattling polyrhythmic thump. Sonically, the song strikes me as a sleek and energetic synthesis of Kraftwerk and The Chemical Brothers‘ “Star Guitar.” Interestingly, as Longbois explains the song is influenced by several different electronic music styles and genres including minimalist techno, IDM and house. Ideally, the song was created as a a way to escape one’s troubles after a hard day’s/night’s work.

Single Review by William Ruben Helms

Speakman Sound is a somewhat mysterious Glastonbury, UK-based sibling production and electronic music artist duo, Todd and Guy. As the story goes, the Glastonbury-based sibling production and artist duo spent their childhood in the Glastonbury area immersed in music through their father, a well-known and highly-regarded guitarist, who was heavily involved in the psychedelic music scene. When the duo were teens, they immersed themselves in Somerset‘s rave and drum ‘n’ bass culture, which has influenced their sound quite a bit — although their latest single “Pangea” finds the duo pairing shimmering and ambient synths with thudding, tweeter and woofer rocking low-end and explosively funky drumming possess a cosmic glow, all while nodding at Trans Europe Express-era Kraftwerk and The Chemical Brothers‘ “Star Guitar.”

 

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New Video: The Trippy Postcard-Inspired Visuals for Gold Panda’s “Chiba Nights”

“Chiba Night,” Gold Panda’s latest single sounds as though it owes a major sonic debt to classic, Larry Levan-era house, The Chemical Brothers’ “Star Guitar”and Kraftwerk as the song is comprised of twinkling and cascading synths paired with thick, choppy keyboard chords, swirling electronics and skittering yet propulsive drum programming before quickly fading out.

Directed by Dan Tombs, the recently released music video for “Chiba Night” is a trippy and kaleidoscopic travelogue of Japan featuring footage shot in Tokyo and the surrounding areas of Chiba and Minowa.

Single Review by William Ruben Helms

New Audio: M83’s Anthemic, Arena Rock-Friendly, New Single

With the release of Platinium selling single “Midnight City” and the Grammy-nominated album Hurry Up We’re Dreaming, indie synth pop/dream pop multi-instrumentalist, producer and artist Anthony Gonzalez, the creative mastermind behind M83 not only achieved the […]

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New Audio: M83’s Cosmic Yet Playfully Bubblegum Pop-Inspired New Single

  After the release of Grammy nominated album Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming and Platinum single “Midnight City” and two years of relentless touring across the world, Anthony Gonzalez the creative mastermind of M83 is set […]

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London UK-based Mike Green, best known as Fort Romeau received international attention for the deep groove-based house music sound of his 2012 full-length debut, Kingdoms. Naturally, in the years that followed, Greene’s sound evolved as […]

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With the release of his debut, full-length effort, Kingdoms three years ago, the London, UK-based producer and electronic music artist Mike Greene, best known to fans as Fort Romeau has received international attention for a […]

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A couple of weeks ago, i wrote about a collaboration between the Turkish house production and DJ duo Paradisko’s collaboration with German electronic music outfit  Final DJs on the Turkish duo’s sophomore effort Astropine,  an EP slated for a November […]

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Turkish house production and DJ duo Paradisko collaborate with German electronic outfit Final DJs on the Turkish duo’s sophomore effort Astropine,  an EP slated for a November 24 release through On The Fruit Music. And the EP’s […]

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The Munich, Germany-based producer and electronic music artist Justin Faust has won international attention for his remixes of Justin Timberlake’s “Like I Love You” and Treasure Fingers and The Knocks’ “My Body” – both of […]