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Lau.ra aka Laura Bettinger
Song of the Day: Brimful with brilliantly boinging, wonky bass, beats and synth riffs topped with sassy vocals by Eliza that explode frustrations, this great dancefloor single by the British producer, singer and DJ Laura Bettinson is from her just released EP Vol. 1 The Mixtape, out on her label Needwant Records
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Steamy Sworn Virgins
Songs of the Day: A pair of stomping electro-pop tracks with a sexual twist and echoes of Suicide from the by side project featuring Clams Baker from Warmduscher taken from the EP Strangers Hands, out on Soulwax’s Deewee label
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Destroyer’s forthcoming new album, Labyrinthitis
Song of the Day: Restless, catchy and a little irreverent, this second single from the forthcoming album Labyrinthitis by Dan Bejar from Vancouver features his distinctive vocal delivery underpinned by jazz intro then a infectious funk disco beat
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Rheinzand’s forthcoming second album Atlantis Atlantis
Song of the Day: Taken from their forthcoming second album Atlantis Atlantis, and released originally in Danish, but with French, Italian, English, Spanish and Dutch versions, with images of fantasy pink elephants, pills, mushrooms an more, catchy disco electro-pop number is “about drugs and good times, but also about hangovers, loneliness, and a twist of identity crisis.” It is decorated with wonderful string flourishes and rising swells of sound.
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From the cover of Lucius’s LP Second Nature, out on 8 April
Song of the Day: From their forthcoming album Second Nature, superbly funky disco pop by the LA-based quartet fronted by Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig, about dealing with grief, paranoia and depression, but how it is help by being in the right company
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Hitting the hot-spot: Warmduscher
Song of the Day: Sweary, grumbling grandiloquence by Clams Baker and co in a catchy piece of disco-funk where everything gets the finger with this new single by the mischievous collective ahead of their forthcoming fourth album
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Liraz’s second album, Zan.
Songs of the Day: Taken from the fantastic second album, Zan, by the Israeli-Persian singer, actress and activist Liraz Charhi, two wonderful fusions of electro-pop, dance rhythms and Persian music from a work that traverses borders, and gender repressions
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Chrysalid Homo’s new single
Song of the Day: Fabulously dark, dancey, catchy fuzzy synth-rich electro-pop by the Manchester artist describing an LGBTQ experience from beginnings on a council estate before their protagonist has a very physical queer awakening
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Hey! It’s Gaspard Augé
Song of the Day: A pair of swirling orchestral electro-disco-pop 70s-style instrumentals from one half of the French duo Justice that gallop into full-on chorus after chorus and are taken from Augé’s solo album Escapades out on Ed Banger Records and Because Music
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Horse Meat Disco’s Love & Dancing album
Song of the Day: Wonderfully dance-infectious, catchy retro mix of 70s disco and funk, this new Ray Mang Extended Remix of this title track number from the 2020 album Love & Dancing featuring the NYC band and the London DJ collective
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TOKiMONSTA and Channel Tres
Song of the Day: Superbly catchy disco-funk-hip-hop collaboration between the American LA-based producer and DJ also known as Jennifer Lee and the rapper aka Sheldon Young from Compton, California
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Desire Marea
Song of the Day: From the Durban artist with an extraordinary soulful voice who is also one half of South African duo FAKA, this single taken from the album Desire fuses club sounds with an operatic falsetto and the Zulu language
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Gilligan Moss
Song of the Day: After recent birdsong-related entries, more avian sound effects, but this time framed in catchy disco-funk-pop by the duo Ben and Evan from Chicago from their self-title debut album
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Neil Frances aka Jordan Feller and Marc Gilfry
Song of the Day: Hugely catchy disco funk about an inspirational person wearing that colour by the Los Angeles duo of Jordan Feller and Marc Gilfry from their new EP Stay Strong Play Long, with bass groove by Greg aka The Wombat
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SeeMeNot aka Renee Thompson
Song of the Day: With lyrics and vocals by Renee Thompson aka SeeMeNot and co-written with Alberto Cohen, a beautiful, eerie eclectic mix of electronica and disco soul by the New York-based Canadian artist from her latest EP which also includes a remix by Gerd Janson
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C’est le pop magnifique …
Song of the Day: Glorying in all things Gallic, the new solo EP project by Dan Synge of Daniel Takes a Train is an joyfully unrestrained embrace of 60s and 70s French pop styles from Gainsbourg to Dutronc, Françoise Hardy and Johnny Hallyday
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Sports sport their sunglases
Song of the Day: Taken from their EP Take A Good Look Pt 1, this smooth funk-pop number with a nod to Prince, by the duo of Cale Chronister from Christian Theriot from Tulsa, Oklahoma, parodies the culture of male fashion modelling
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S.A.A.R.A’s new single Forest
Song of the Day: Continuing a mini-theme of horticulture after Billie Marten, plus William Doyle and Chad VanGaalen in the album section, a fabulously catchy new single by the London multi-instrumentalist who mixes funk, disco and electronica sprinkled liberally with flute and saxophone
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Stretching the influences: cover of Arp Frique’s latest album
Song of the Day: Electro-pop, Chic-era New York City 70s disco vibes, African, Caribbean and Cape Verdean influences are interwoven in this infectious, eccentric newest single by Amsterdam’s Niels Nieuborg, with guest Americo Brito
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Planet Battagon’s new album Trans-Neptunia. Artwork: Victoria Topping
Song of the Day: This mind-bending number of brilliant, experimental cosmic jazz-electronica with wonky, twisting sonics and rhythm by London’s Nathan Curran-Tugg is a cavalcade of musical wit, infinite jest and energy from the new album Trans-Neptunia
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