Line is Neil Wells from Holland who produces great synth driven escapades. Observe The Mechanics is taken from Line’s 7″ titled A Snowstorm in a Globe /Observe the Mechanics. Think David Byrne meets Hot Chip, and your just about there.
Things to look forward too…
It seems the boys are to have a press conference in Berlin on October 6th to discuss the upcoming tour and album. For all those in Germany, now’s your chance to score some tickets to the event. You can sign-up here. Word on the net is that the album will drop March 2009 — let’s hope they drop a few singles before the end of 2008.
In the mean time, enjoy a classic track:
Depeche Mode - A Question of Time
PS. That’s a fan in the picture, not a new member of DM 
Great Depeche Mode-esque vibe on this track with a killer chorus and great backing vocals! I was turned onto this by a fellow last.fm listener, thank you KingLeerUK!
Mark Nicholas bio from Last.fm:
Electronic musician Mark Nicholas, formerly known as Cosmicity, turned in his synthpop badge to create a gritty and powerful new brand of vocal-driven, industrial-influenced Electronica.
Electronic musician Mark Nicholas, perhaps best known for his work under the name Cosmicity, began working under his real name in 2004. (You can download 7 of his best new songs for FREE here on last.fm and at dirtyelectronic.com.) Mark hails from Detroit (and is a University of Michigan School of Music grad), and though his roots are largely New Wave/Synthpop, his recent material has seen the additional influence of bands like NIN and The Prodigy. His first “solo” album - Duchess 33 - was released in 2007 on his newly-formed record label Dirty Electronic. He followed that album up with a remix album (of sorts) called Perversions in 2008.
Mark is expected to take a short hiatus (he’s having a baby with his wife Sara, better-known as DJ Ginger Snapp) and then return with the announced album “Music For Headphones” in 2009.
Hello everyone,
I have recently been working on a self release EP with Jef Vandertogt of “The Moon and Monday” fame. Together we are called, “The Long Division” We have just released our 6 track EP titled, “Multiply“.
Our sound is somewhat like Hot Chip meets The Postal Service meets The Knife and Royksopp. But speaking in a general sense you can classify our sound as indietronica.
Check it out for yourself here:
or here: http://www.myspace.com/thelongdivisionband
Video for our single: Magic Muffin:
To Stay up to date with The Long Division, sign-up at our website for our Newsletter:
www.thelongdivision.com
Here’s collaboration a between Gruff Rhys (Super Furry Animals front man) & Boom Bip. What they have managed to pull off is a very stylist version of all things 80’s. This also includes the concept for the album: An imagined soundtrack/bio pic for John DeLorean. You know the maker of the cars used in Back to The Future.
On this particular track we hear 80’s styled drum machines of old school house parties and 80’s new romantic/synth pop music.
Neon Neon - I Lust U (ft. Cate Le Bon)
Drenched in 80’s synths and drums machines comes The Defence from Edinburgh, UK, with a sound that reminds me of the Pet Shop Boys meets The Human League.
Bio from their site:
The Band:
Keith Kerr
VocalsDrew Cosgrove
SynthesizersHow we met:
In the summer of 1995 Drew placed an advert in the Melody Maker. Keith, who had already been in several bands, responded and our band was born. We sent our first demo to the Human League, asking if we could support them on the tour they were doing at the time. We needed a name and picked “The Defence” – because we wanted a name starting with “The” and “The Accused” sounded too much like an indie guitar band. Although we didn’t get to support the Human League a rep from Harvey Goldsmith was keen on our tunes. In 1997 we asked Heaven 17 if we could support them at their Edinburgh Fringe show. To our delight their manager called us and said we could – only for the whole thing to fall through because the Fringe organisers had already allocated support slots. We had to make do with VIP passes to the show. Ah, the cruel world of show business. It’s a hard life constantly failing to become international pop-stars. Still, spurred on by the success of Electroclash and the thrill we get from producing records we know that world domination is just around the corner.
By the way, their entire album can be downloaded from their website:
http://www.thedefence.com/html/music.html
Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/thedefence
The Defence - I Want to Be Alone
MGMT is an electro-pop group from NY. This track is taken from their freshman outing called, “Oracular Spectacular”, which was released this January. This entire album is Phenomenal and worth every penny. The standout tracks for me are, “Time to Pretend” (with it’s buzzing bee lead synth line and lyrics: “Let’s make some music, make some money, find some models for wives…”) , “The Youth” (with it’s synth-orgrans and John Lennon-esque vocals), “Electric Feel” (hear for yourself), & “Kids” (for it’s joy division-esque feel).
To download this track just right click on the link and select, “Save Link As…”
