READY IN LED / UNREAL EP & REMIXES / PRINS THOMAS, GERD JANSON, KENNETH BAGER & LOVELOCK

New artist presents slamming synth pop debut EP with a heavyweight remix package, don’t miss this!

Electronic project Ready in LED has to be the Ukraine’s answer to Roisin Murphy. She is the multi-talented goddess Olya Dibrova, a singer and sound producer out of Kiev, with a penchant for vintage synths. The Ukranian scenester’s music is driven by neon pop, powerful synth-wave, analog bass, the romantic piano solos of Tchaikovsky, and just a little bit of Kylie.

The ‘Unreal’ EP features a wide range of disco. From NYC garage inspired ‘TMO’, to the highly sensual ‘Feel’. The main disco bangers are ‘Whatever’ and the super mega – ‘Only Tonight’, surely a Harvey future classic that’ll have you reaching for the sky and looking up at the Disco ball.

The four original cuts are treated to some killer remixes from a star-studded line up that kicks off with a monstrous banger from Gerd Janson. The Running Back boss delivers a prime- time bomb with shades of New Order throughout. Norwegian Disco don Prins Thomas, goes full on synth cascades and percussion with live bass and cowbells on his dancefloor deadly Diskomiks of ‘Only Tonight’. Music For Dreams boss man Kenneth Bager applies his beautiful Balearic touch to a more downtempo version of ‘Feel’. Lovelock tackles ‘TMO’ and goes in the direction of epic space funk, adding live drums and guitar strings. This is New York musician Steve Moore (Kompakt) in his solo synth-disco project moniker. All four originals are included for your listening pleasure. They were recorded in 2020 at the Kiev studio, Artreform Records. The mixing engineer is no less than New York’s Justin van der Volgen.

Release date:26 March 2021 – Buy via Bandcamp link below

Pet Shop Boys – My October Symphony (2018 Remaster)

https://www.discogs.com/Pet-Shop-Boys-Behaviour/release/102472

So much confusion
when autumn comes around
What to do about October?
How to smile behind a frown?
It’s hard to settle down

It’s so bemusing
Will they cancel the parade?
We marched each October
Now they say we were never even saved
We must be very brave

Shall I rewrite or revise
my October symphony?
Or as an indication
change the dedication
from revolution to revelation?
So we’re all drinking
as leaves fall to the ground
because we’ve been thinking
how October’s let us down
then and now

Shall we remember
December instead?
Or worry about February?
Mourn our war-torn dead
never seeing red?
Shall I rewrite or revise
my October symphony?
Or as an indication
change the dedication
from revolution to revelation?

‘Neil adopts the role of a Russian composer who has dedicated his life and work to the ideals of the Revolution but now feels confused and betrayed in the wake of the collapse of communism. His “October Symphony” had been dedicated to Soviet Union’s October Revolution, but now he wistfully wonders whether he should “rewrite or revise” it, or “change the dedication from revolution to revelation.’The strings were performed by the Balenescu String Quartet; the coda was written, at the Boys’ request, “vaguely in the style of Shostakovich” by its leader, Alexander Balenescu.

Thomas Dolby – Windpower (2009 Remastered Version)

Switch off the mind and let the heart decide
Who you were meant to be
Flick to remote and let the body glide
There is no enemy
Etch out a future of your own design
Well tailored to your needs
Then fan the flame and keep the dream alive
Of a continent, a continent, a continent, a continent, a

Windpower
There is no enemy
Switch of the mind and let the heart decide
We’re a continent, a continent, a continent, a continent, a

Shatter the lens and grind it into sand
One measured exposure
Scatter the seed and furrow in our land
The future is roses, roses
Switch off the mind and let the heart decide
There is no enemy
Lift up the hearts of this your only tribe
We’re a continent, a continent, a continent, a continent, a
We’re a continent, a continent, a continent, a continent, a

http://www.thomasdolby.com/

https://www.discogs.com/Thomas-Dolby-The-Golden-Age-Of-Wireless/master/65113