Tag Archives: dance music

IAMX – Happiness

Diffuser reports: In some circles, British musician Chris Corner is best known as a founding member of ’90s trip-hop outfit Sneaker Pimps. But in more modern circles, he’s known as IAMX – his electro-pop alter ego with five albums to his name since emerging about a decade ago and a sixth – Metanoia – on the way. Corner told us …

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First Ladies of Disco – Show Some Love

Martha Wash, Linda Clifford, and Evelyn “Champaign” King. (Via JMG reader Jonathan)

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Robyn – Love Is Free

Pitchfork raves: Pop has been playing house again for a couple of years now, but few acts have tapped the genre’s origins in sexual, social liberation as well as Robyn, Jägerstedt, and Falk do here. In brisk, unrelenting rotation, every element of the track gets a moment in the spotlight and dictates its own individual physical response: the shimmy of …

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TRAILER: New Order’s Music Complete

Rolling Stone reports: New Order will release their first album in 10 years when the dance icons return with their new LP Music Complete on September 25th. The band’s 10th studio album, their first since 2005’s Waiting for the Sirens’ Call, will also mark New Order’s first full-length release without longtime bassist Peter Hook, who left the group in 2007. …

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Janet Jackson – No Sleeep

E! Online reports: It’s the moment we’ve all been waiting for! Janet Jackson debuted her highly anticipated new single “No Sleeep” to much fanfare Monday morning. The 49-year-old singer, who is recording her first album in seven years and will kick off a world tour later this year, worked with veteran producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis on the laid-back …

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This Is An Ad For Something

After a minute or so of all these buff dancing boys, you might not notice that this is an ad for one of Eliad Cohen’s circuit parties. And an ad for Stoli and for the photo-sharing app Viber. The track is new from Sarit Hadad, who competed for Israel at Eurovision 2002.

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Madonna – Bitch I’m Madonna (Remix)

Via Billboard: Billboard has the exclusive premiere of the Sick Individuals remix of Madonna’s new single “Bitch I’m Madonna.” Listen to the thumping reworking below. “Bitch I’m Madonna,” which features Nicki Minaj, is the third single from Madonna’s Rebel Heart album. “Bitch” follows “Living For Love” and “Ghosttown,” which both reached No. 1 on Billboard’s Dance Club Songs chart. Remixes …

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Terror Pigeon – BYOYOLO

A chunky 80s pop/dance vibe, a little bit of drag, some bondage gear, and a chorus that insists you “go out and fuck the shit out of your dreams.” What’s not to like?

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Funk Bassist Louis Johnson Dies At Age 60

Via the New York Times: Louis Johnson, a bassist who had a string of funk hits with the Brothers Johnson and worked as a session musician for Quincy Jones, notably on the Michael Jackson albums “Off the Wall” and “Thriller,” was found dead on May 21 at his home in Las Vegas. He was 60. His death was confirmed by …

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Giorgio Moroder – Deja Vu (Megamix)

Via Stereogum: Next month, the Italo-disco genius Giorgio Moroder will release Déjà Vu, his first album in many years, and he’s found an innovative way to tell us how the album will sound. In a new five-minute video, we hear short clips of every track on the album, set to an effects-heavy video of a couple dancing. It’s not an …

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Icona Pop – Emergency

TIME Magazine reviews: The song moves with a sense of urgency, its cadence reminiscent of Pharrell’s “Come Get It Bae.” But it swaps out that track’s funky beat for a backbone of marching piano and trumpet solos worthy of the Gatsby era. Had it been released a couple of years earlier, it would have been a shoo-in for the soundtrack …

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Madonna Sets Billboard Chart Record

Via Billboard: The Queen of Pop is now unequaled chart royalty. Madonna makes momentous Billboard chart history, as she now has the most No. 1s ever, 45, by an act on a singular Billboard chart. She earns her 45th No. 1 on Dance Club Songs, where “Ghosttown” lifts 3-1. With the coronation, Madonna passes another icon, George Strait, who’s logged …

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The Avener – Fade Out Lines

This mellow dance track from French house producer Tristan Casara has been a huge hit all over Europe in recent months and is starting to land on summer playlists in the US. I’m getting a kind of Everything But The Girl vibe.

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Bright Light & Ana Matronic – Good Luck

Welsh cutie Bright Light (Rod Thomas) teams up with former Scissor Sisters vocalist Ana Matronic with this track from the coming Life Is Easy remix album. The pair recently covered the Pet Shop Boys classic West End Girls in a charity single for NYC’s Hetrick-Martin Institute, which serves at-risk LGBT youth. (Tipped by JMG reader Chris)

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Brandon Flowers – I Can Change

I recently posted a message from Pet Shop Boys vocalist Neil Tennant, who had alerted his fans that he’d contributed to a coming Brandon Flowers track that samples the 1984 Bronski Beat gay classic, Smalltown Boy. The track appeared on YouTube this week and you’ll have to listen closely for Tennant’s spoken line. I quite like this. (Tipped by JMG …

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Giorgio Moroder & Sia – Deja Vu

Last week we got the audio, here’s the production clip. This is the title track from Giorgio Moroder’s first album in 30 years, due on June 16th.

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The Chemical Brothers – Go

Back in the late 90s, I attended a Chemical Brothers show at the Oakland Arena. They were so insanely loud that my buddy, who sort of attends concerts for a living, readily agreed when I suggested that we retreat as far from the stage as we could and still be in the building. It didn’t help. Anyway, here’s the first …

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AB Soto – Cha Cha Bitch

World Of Wonder raves: It’s May! And you deserve some spicy, sexy sparkle in your life so praise Our Lady of Guadalupe and Charo and Mario Conchita Alonso and J-Lo’s pet donkey because hottie AB Soto has delivered a new single and video to get your cajones swinging from side to side like happy glitter balls! “CHA CHA BITCH” is …

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Adam Lambert – Ghost Town

Last week we got the audio, here’s the production video.

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Giorgio & Britney Spears- Tom’s Diner

Via TIME: Suzanne Vega’s 1980s classic “Tom’s Diner” — named after the real-life restaurant used in Seinfeld—had a pop-culture resurgence last year when Fall Out Boy sampled it in their song “Centuries.” Now, it’s having another moment thanks to Britney Spears and Giorgio Moroder, the dance-music pioneer who’s recruited pop stars like Sia, Kylie Minogue and Charli XCX for his …

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