Passion Pit is an electronic band which formed in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States in 2007. They consist of Michael Angelakos (vocals, keyboards), Ian Hultquist (keyboards), Ayad Al Adhamy (synth, samples), Jeff Apruzzese (bass) and Nate Donmoyer (drums). They play a style of electronic music reminicent to MGMT and Friendly Fires but with a more folk approach in the Vocals.
Yes they will be at Reading Festival in 2009, On the NME/Radio 1 Tent on the Sunday.
Enjoy.
We at ElectroIndie are very excited by one of the hottest festivals of the summer – Reading and Leeds, all our writers have got tickets and will be coving the festival and doing a focus on some of the smaller artists as a run up to this exciting time of the year.
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Electro-Indie iMix 1
A tantalising selection of the best new indie bands and some current favourites, the track order has been crafted to give you a more MGMT sound towards the start, switching to White Lies finishing with some unique but fantastic artists.
1. 1981 (Boy Crisis Remix) – Cake on Cake
2. Walking on a Dream – Empire of the Sun
3. Kids – MGMT
4. No One Does It Like You – Department of Eagles
5. Leave Them All Behind – Whitey
6. The Ides – frYars
7. Farewell to the Fairground – White Lies
8. A Few Kind Words – Meursault
9. Valentine – The Moths
10. The Light At the End Of The Tunnel Is a Train – Whitey
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Friendly Fires are a English electronic post-punk band based in St.Albans. Influenced by 80’s and 90’s Dance & Electronic music, as well as the stylings of post-hardcore bands such as My Bloody Valentine (i know…strange combination…explanation: they were all previously in a post-hardcore band before Friendly Fires)
They are going to be at Radio 1’s Big Weekend as well as Reading and Leeds festival this year.
Canada is doing well at the moment, another up and coming star is electro-pop maker Lights. This 20’something from Toronto is currently propelling herself into stardom with her synths that make her sound like a female version of Owl City and her quirky personality which is delighting fans through video blogs on myspace and youtube. She has just won a Juno (like our BRIT Awards i believe – just Canadian) award for ‘New Artist Of The Year’
Check her out on myspace at www.myspace.com/lightsnoise
Oh and yes, she is beautiful.
Here’s some songs.
Yes a bit of House/Dance/Electro, but i thought we could have something a bit different.
Deadmau5 (pronnouced “Dead Mouse” is a canadian dance producer, he has rapidly become one of the most sought after names in the electronic scene, and will be appearing at the “BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend” festival in May.
I rekon i should do more artists appearing in Festivals…any sugesstions?
Lack Of A Better Name – Deadmau5
Meursault is an odd band, I’ve found one track by them that it absolutely cracking however the rest of their music seems so far away from this that you would be surprised they were even by the same artist.I can only find out a little about this band, that they’ve recently released an album, they’re based in Scotland and if they make a few more tracks like “A Few Kind Words” they’ll be on to a winner.
http://www.myspace.com/meursaulta701
Yes i know the picture is a bit odd, its all to do with their ‘Style’ im led to belive, you know, like the music style etc. Anyway, on with the post.
Empire Of The Sun are a Australian based Electro-Acoustic/just plain Electro project between Luke Steele of ‘The Sleepy Jackson’ and Nick Littlemore of ‘Pnau’ . I personally love the sound of this band, mixing in (mainly) acoustic guitars and the electronic synths, it works wonders. Sounding just a bit like MGMT, This bands rise to fame is deserved for sure.
Walking On A Dream – Empire Of The Sun
We Are The People – Empire Of The Sun
Enjoy.
La Roux is a leader in the upcoming genre of Synth-Pop, along with singer-songwriters such as Ladyhawke and Frankmusik. Made up of singer/synth player Elly Jackson and co-writer/co-producer Ben Landmaid. They are starting to appear in our charts and playlists.
Currently signed to Polydor Records, they’re album will be coming out in the summer of 2009 with single “In For The Kill” being played on BBC Radio 1 at the moment and being released soon!
Bit of news.
Frankmusik is releasing a Single. Better Off As Two will be released on the 13th of April.
To get you in the mood, here is a remix.
Better Off As Two (Starsmith Remix) – Frankmusik
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