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Efecto Pasillo feat. O’Funk’illo – Chacho [2020 Version]
Ten years ago, Canarian band Efecto Pasillo released their first, self-titled album. In 2020, the band will celebrate this jubilee. They’ll release updated versions of ten tracks from their four albums to date, which haven’t been singles yet. In addition, Efecto Pasillo is working on three brand-new songs.
Each new version will include a contribution by a befriended band. The first of these singles is Chacho, originally a track on their debut album. This fierce new version features a band that served as a huge inspiration for them to start making music: O’Funk’illo. For fans of Red Hot Chili Peppers in their early days.
Recommended as well:
Efecto Pasillo – Las Banderas
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Fletcher Gull – Deciduo [2020 Version]
Fletcher Gull is a 21-year-old singer-songwriter from Melbourne, Australia. His musical career so far reads like a boy’s adventure tale. He first picked up a guitar and started gigging at the age of 8. His first EP followed at 13. Two years later he toured China with an orchestra. He started his own band, Galb, at 17. Right now, Gull is a solo artist, who describes himself as a ‘song boy’.
Two years ago, he released his first solo EP Remember That you’re Gone. A remake of the opening track Deciduo has now been re-released as a single. It’s got a colourful, bright alt-pop sound. Think of a cross between MGMT’s Kids and Walking On A Dream by Empire Of The Sun.
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Larkins – Hit And Run [2020 Version]
Manchester-based band Larkins follow their 2019 EP TV Dream with a second 4-track release. Their new EP Hit And Run contains their previous singles Make You Better, Pieces and Flood, and the brand-new title track. Or, to be more precise: a brand-new version of the title track.
In 2015, Hit And Run was the first single Larkins ever released. Guitarist Dom Want says about it: “It’s always been a favourite from the live shows but we knew that when we recorded it years ago we didn’t do it justice. We took it back to basics in the studio with (producer) Mark Crew. Feel like we’ve been searching for that Foals vibe for years, hopefully we got it right this time around.”
Recommended as well:
Larkins – Not Enough Love
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The Radar Station – Subtle Science [2020 Version]
Brent Buckler, Sander Cliquet, Vincent Lembregts and Marijn Geerts have two main activities: making music and renaming their band 😉. After releasing two albums as Barefoot & The Shoes, they went on under the Sun Gods moniker. Following a good start with the strong debut single Subtle Science, another act claimed the rights to the band name. Bad timing, since the Belgians were just finishing their debut album. Yet the quartet decided to continue as The Radar Station.
From that moment on, their career took a turn for the better. Belgian alternative pop station Studio Brussel picked the band from 999 submissions and entered them in the pre-selection of their talent program ‘De Nieuwe Lichting 2020’ (the new class of 2020). On behalf of the contest, The Radar Station recorded a new version of Subtle Science. They improved the song’s structure and dynamics, but kept its secret weapon intact: Brent’s characteristic, warm voice. Effectively, they turned this War On Drugs– and Snow Patrol-like song into an earworm of their own.
In the end, the StuBru listeners proved them right, and chose The Radar Station (alongside Crooked Steps and Sunday Rose) as one of the winners of the competition. Their prize: airplay and professional coaching throughout the year. Hopefully, this will help Subtle Science become the hit it should have been 16 months ago.
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Spo Dee O Dee – Colours [2019 Version]
In 1988, singer/guitarist Ross Curry, bass player Ralph Brink and drummer Jan Holtman formed Spo Dee O Dee. The Dutch rock band took its name from one of the first prototypical rock ‘n’ roll songs: 1946’s Drinkin’ Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee by Stick McGhee. That was named after the alcoholic fruit drink ‘spodi’, a cocktail of red wine and bourbon. In the early ‘90s, they got more and more popular in the live circuit and on alternative radio stations. Their debut album Goin’ Walkabout was produced by Richard Jansen of legendary Dutch rock outfit Fatal Flowers.
For their third album, Spo Dee O Dee got the chance to record in Dublin with U2 producer Flood. Because of equipment failure however, the band returned home without any recordings. In 1995, they called it a day.
Fast forward to 2019. Spo Dee O Dee are back together and will start a comeback tour through the Netherlands in January 2020. As a warming-up, they re-recorded one of their first singles, 1991’s Colours. Still a great song with international class. I hope the world is ready for them now!
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Corine – Un Air De Fête À Tokyo [Japanese Version]
One year ago, French nu-disco queen Corine released her debut album Un Air De Fête. A party record indeed, to which it’s impossible to sit still. I’ve recommended several of the album’s singles, but the title track was my favourite. Not in the least because of the irresistible synth, that appears to be borrowed from Donna Summer’s I Feel Love. There’s no denying Giorgio Moroder has been a big influence, anyway.
Two years ago, Corine put out an Italian version of her debut single Pourquoi Pourquoi (called Perché Perché). Now, she chose Un Air De Fête as her next single. However, as the new title Un Air De Fête À Tokyo gives away, it’s sung in Japanese. That doesn’t make it an easy choice for radio stations in Europe, for whom French is difficult enough. But it’s a clever move for her to break through in Japan, with its 126 million inhabitants. And for those who listen first and foremost to the song as a whole, it’s still the same fun track it always was.
Recommended as well:
Corine – Je Danse Le Mia
Corine – Un Air De Fête
Corine – Maquillage
Corine – Il Fait Chaud
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MarthaGunn – Heaven [2019 Version]
MarthaGunn are a band named after the Brighton folk heroine known as the ‘priestess of the bath’. It features frontwoman Abi Woodman and her close friends Max, Humphrey, Ally and Frankie. They take inspiration from bands ranging from Fleetwood Mac and The Eagles to Mystery Jets and Haim.
Their debut single Heaven has grown into a live favourite since its release in 2016. The band just released a re-recorded version of it, which sounds fresh all over. When sharing the track to the band’s social media, Woodman explained: “When I wrote Heaven, I was playing out a fantasy in my head and exploring a path I could only dream of taking. A few years on and I have stopped living in fantasies. I go after everything my soul desires. Heaven is a song for anyone dreaming of something more.”
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Grace Lightman – Repair Repair [2019 Version]
Before going solo, British electro-pop artist Grace Lightman fronted London psych-rockers The Hypnotic Eye. Her solo work is characterized by a somewhat detached vocal delivery, over dark beats and moody production. She describes her music as ‘one part ABBA and two parts Twin Peaks’.
One of her first solo outings, at the end of 2016, was the single Repair Repair. Lightman says of it: “The track started out as a jingle for a fictional weight loss milkshake advert but became a song about people’s fear of change, and the inevitability of becoming robots.”
A new version of this song now appears on the singer’s debut album Silver Eater, along with a new video. You can check it via the player below. The original, totally different video is harder to find, but if you’re curious: it’s here.
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Maggie Lindemann feat. Travis Barker – Friends Go
Last March, Friends Go by Maggie Lindemann was the Carte Blanche Music Wildcard. The original was a funky pop song, incorporating ska elements. By then, she already hinted at a future remix that former blink-182 drummer Travis Barker made of the track. That version is out now, but it turns out not to be a remix at all.
Instead, Lindemann and Barker rebuilt the track and turned it into a badass rock version. A mix that sounds so natural, that it might as well have been the original version. Meanwhile, it wouldn’t sound out of place in the blink-182 catalogue either.
To me, this version sounds even better than the original, which I already liked a lot!
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Izzy Bizu (feat. Chris Martin) – Someone That Loves You ’19
Izzy Bizu (British singer Isobel Beardshaw, who has an Ethiopian mother) put out her first EP Coolbeanz in 2013. The year after, she already performed at the Glastonbury festival. She continued to release singles of her own (most notably White Tiger), and ahead of her debut album A Moment Of Madness, she was the featured singer on electronic music duo Honne’s 2016 single Someone That Loves You.
A year later, Bizu opened for Coldplay on their A Head Full Of Dreams tour. That same year, she and the band’s singer Chris Martin sung Someone That Love You live together for the first time. Two years later, on her new EP Glita, a studio version of this duet appears. Although Martin is uncredited as a vocalist, the male voice is unmistakably his.
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Music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Has been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, he developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart.
