Tracks of 2020 Series: Electronic – Pop R&B Soul Dance Downtempo Chill
Home to the more sensitive, softer and more accessible side of groove laced electronic music, this Tracks of 2020 Series playlist using the Spotify streaming platform covers every independently released track featured in the 30 track New Electronic Pop R&B Soul Dance Downtempo and Chill Playlist during 2020. A total of 870 A Grade tracks […]
Plastic Estate Craft Two Divergent Gems
Cardiff duo Nicholas James and Stanley Fouracres aka Plastic Estate have gifted us their new double sided 7″ single via Bologna label Avant! Records. It features two inventive and divergent cuts of 80s inspired new wave and synth pop gold with a little injection of melancholy in the mix. While the upbeat and unpretentious sophistication […]
Tracks of 2019 Series: Electronic Pop – An End of Year Independent Music Playlist by Indie30 on Spotify
If you’re into your genres that coalesce around the broad term Electronic Pop — synthpop, downtempo pop, independent R&B, Balearic, chillwave, lounge, soft rock, nu-disco, neo-funk, neo soul + beats and hip-hop influences — and want to hear the best that 2019 had to offer, the 900 or so fine musical exhibits we’ve playlisted during […]
LISTEN/WATCH: AFFET ROBOT RELEASES HUZURSUZ SEYIRLER EP + VIDEO FOR OPENING TRACK “FIRTINA’
On Friday Affet Robot, the darkwave/synth pop project of Istanbul multi-instrumentalist Eren Günsan, released a more than impressive new EP called Huzursuz Seyirler (Restless). To mark the occasion he’s shared the more than appropriate video for its mood oscillating opening track ‘Fırtına’ (Storm). Reflective and tense, the pacy three minute affair takes its fascinating cues from […]
NEW VIDEO FOR SHOCK FRIENDLY DEBUT “TAKE WHAT YOU WANT”
Completely missed it here but last month post punk cum goth quartet Shock Friendly, from the town of Bacchus Marsh in Melbourne’s western hinterland, released what is ultimately their first recorded material. ‘Take What You Want’ is an enthralling piece of raw angular beauty, immediately enticing and ultimately enduring despite or partly because of its […]
ROBOTALCO’S CALLISTO IS AN ECLECTIC TRANS-ATLANTIC ODE TO THE SUMMER
Today saw Milan left field house veteran Sebastiano Urciuoli aka Robotalco (formerly Club Silencio) release his new full length album Callisto through Los Angeles label 100% Silk. On it he unleashes 10 tracks full of left field interpretations of a range of electronic influences, both sun kissed and nocturnal, retro and futuristic. Each metaphorically commute with […]
NEW & NOTABLE: FRENCH POLICE (USA) – PEDALEO NOCTURNO
Hot on the heels of their self titled debut long player released in January this year, Chicago post punk quartet French Police return with a compelling new EP Pedaleo Nocturno. Clocking in at just under 15 minutes, the brevity comes with a new wave urgency and a more minimal and angular approach to sound and […]
DRAB MAJESTY DO LONG DIVISION AHEAD OF EUROPEAN TOUR
Los Angeles synth duo Drab Majesty have released ‘Long Division’, the second single from their forthcoming third album, Modern Mirror. Essentially a track about the ironic point in a relationship when both parties realise that compromise has not only cost them their individual identities but created a mutual and self-resentment and an unbridgeable rift of […]
NEW & NOTABLE: PRUDENCE (AUS) -MAJOR TOM EP
UK based Sydney artist Tom Crandles, formerly one half of electronic duo Au.Ra recently launched his new dream/jangle pop and post punk inspired solo project, Prudence. His debut EP Major Tom was released on Friday and its one hell of an intoxicating affair. We featured the angular and melodic swoon of first single, ‘Euphoria’ in […]
NEW & NOTABLE: JAKUZI (TUR) – HATA PAYI
Istanbul synthpop outfit Jakuzi have released their second full length album Hata Payı, the follow up to their 2016* debut Fantezi Musik. The first taste of the record surfaced in February with the pulsing circularity of ‘Yangın’ while we featured the the streamlined pop stylings of second single ‘Toz’ in our New Independent Postpunk, Wave, […]