Browsing Tag disco
Eckhardt & The House – Put Me In A Cape
The higher the tempo in Eckhardt & The House’s music, the faster their star begins to rise. Good news for them then, that their new single is an up-tempo affair. Their most energetic song to date, to be exact.
In recent months, Eckhardt & The House developed a danceable indie sound, based on elements from pop to avant-garde to disco-funk. However, they managed to turn these influences into a unique sound of their own. Remember their great single If She Cannot Talk? This one is even better.
More than ever, Put Me In A Cape sounds like it’s the eighties all over again, and I’d be the last to vote against that. The song is full of retro ingredients, wrapped in smooth, contemporary production. Not only made for playlists, but sure to become a live staple as well!
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.
Werner’s Weekly (week 30)
A-typically, since it’s mid-summer, last week was a good one for rock music. Adelitas Way, Imagine Dragons, Man With A Mission, Metric, and Spring King are among the acts that delivered great guitar tracks, all of which you can find in my 2018 container playlist Carte Blanche Music. But it also welcomes new songs by Mary J. Blige, David Bowie, Kodaline, and Muse, to name but a few. In other words: it comes close to the holy grail of music discovery 😉.
If you have less time, or trust me to make the right choices for you, Werner’s Weekly is your compass to the music that matters. Always short and snappy, with only the best of the best new music. The songs are listed below and you can listen to them all through the Werner’s Weekly player in the sidebar. Click the links for more background!
- Lizzo – Boys (Wildcard this week)
- Satellite Stories – Carried Away (Wildcard last week)
- Joan – Stop And Stare
- Leoniden – Kids
- Nona – It’s Alright
- Stillmode – Wild One
- Waylon – That’s How She Goes
For more great new music follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
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.
Werner’s Weekly (week 29)
A diverse set of music acts, ranging from Suede and The Hunna, via Galantis and Sigrid to Sofi Tukker and Confidence Man, was added to my 2018 gross list Carte Blanche Music last week. That playlist is updated constantly and contains the best music that the year 2018 produced so far. It’s impossible for me to review all of those tracks here, so please follow that list for a bigger picture of great new music. All killers, no fillers.
Every Monday I present you with a more condensed overview. Werner’s Weekly features only the best of the best, and is your compass to the music that matters. You can listen to them all via the Werner’s Weekly player in the sidebar and get more information by clicking the links below. Enjoy!
- Satellite Stories – Carried Away (Wildcard this week)
- Carlos Jean feat. Teyou & Annya – Yucatán (Wildcard last week)
- DRMS & L’Isle – La Vague
- Johnny Marr – Day In Day Out
- Laurence Jones – Don’t You Let Me Go
- teddy<3 – I Was In A Cult
- TenTemPiés – Only You
- The Bamboos – Night Time People
- Vanille – Glace Vanille
For more great new music follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
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.
Wildcard (week 28):
Satellite Stories – Carried Away
Satellite Stories is the most successful Finnish indie band ever, with over 60 million streams to their name, as well as playing 300 headline shows in 17 countries on three continents (record labels don’t lie about that kind of stuff, you know).
Next question, then, is: why have they decided to call it quits? I can only imagine they intended to stop at their peak. If that’s indeed the case, they did a wonderful job with this new single. I think it’s their best yet.
Carried Away will of course be featured on the band’s final album Cut Out The Lights, out on 7 September. A week later, Satellite Stories begin a farewell tour through Europe, which ends on 27 October in Oulu, the Finnish town where the band was formed, 10 years ago.
As a thank you to this wonderful band, Carried Away by Satellite Stories is this week’s Carte Blanche Music Wildcard (all of which you can find in the Wildcards 2018 playlist). Stream it as much as you can and make it their biggest hit ever! Enjoy it while it lasts…
For more great new music follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
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.
Étienne Daho feat. Flavien Berger – Après Le Blitz
French singer-songwriter Étienne Daho had his first successes in 1984 and worked with William Orbit, to name but one, long before he gained international recognition. At the end of last year, Daho released his 11th studio album Blitz, which he recorded in London. Its title is a reference to the climate in the city after the Brexit and the terrorist attacks. Clearly, it’s not his most uplifting work to date.
First single Les Flocons De L’été relates to the month of August 2013, which he spent in a hospital, after almost dying from peritonitis. Second single Le Jardin is an ode to his sister, who went missing in 2016. Après Le Blitz, which lasts over 6,5 minutes on the album, has been edited for release as Daho’s new single.
For more great new music follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
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.
Werner’s Weekly (week 14)
Werner’s Weekly is like a Swiss clock: it’s here every Monday morning (even at Easter), and it always contains the best new music of the past week. It’s your compass to the music that matters, even if you don’t manage to visit this blog each day.
So, in case you missed it, these are the best tracks of the past week, starting off with the two latest Carte Blanche Music Wildcards, complemented by other choice cuts, that are presented here in alphabetical order.
As always, you can listen to all of these tracks via the Werner’s Weekly player in the sidebar.
- Tiny Fighter – New Century (Wildcard this week)
- Echosmith – Over My Head (Wildcard last week)
- Corine – Il Fait Chaud
- DMA’s – For Now
- Gang Of Youths – The Heart Is A Muscle
- Magnus Carlson & Weeping Willows – Wait For Love To Grow
- The Vaccines – Your Love Is My Favourite Band
Other notable additions to Carte Blanche Music 2018 longlist this week: Chvrches, eels, Daryl Hall & John Oates with Train, Franz Ferdinand, Sigrid, The Lemon Twigs, and Zak Abel.
For more great new music follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
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.
Corine – Il Fait Chaud
I’ve got another ‘hot‘ song from France for you. And as you know if you follow Carte Blanche Music: there’s a lot of good music coming from that country lately.
Corine is a young singer with a voluminous hairdo, whose funky disco pop has a sensual, even kitschy edge, in a way that’s typically French. It’s almost a trademark for French music throughout the decennia. You won’t be surprised, then, that her music has more than a touch of ’70s and ’80s in it.
She released her first EP Fille De Ta Région in 2016 and the follow-up, Fille De Ta Région 2 (I kid you not), will be out 13 April. Il Fait Chaud (‘it’s hot’) is the new single, which instantly brings out the sun!
For more great new music follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
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.
Yuksek & Bertrand Burgalat – Icare
French electronic music producer, remixer, singer and DJ Pierre-Alexandre Busson chose Yuksek as his stage name, after the Turkish word ‘Yüksek’, meaning ‘high’. It’s hard to think of an artist he didn’t make a remix for, but he’s also a recording artist himself. After starting off his career fishing in the same pond as Daft Punk, he gradually developed a more poppy style, without losing his electronic roots.
Bertrand Burgalat is a French multi-talent as well, who produced and remixed leftfield acts like Laibach, Renegade Soundwave and Depeche Mode in the ’80s and ’90s. Over the years, he developed the ‘Burgalat sound’, which sounds like a French response to Phil Spector, and has influenced acts Like Air and Daft Punk to a great extent.
The track Icare (French for ‘Icarus’) brings the two together for the first time. It’s a lovely slice of nu disco, that consists equal parts of both artists’ styles. Funky!
For more great new music follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
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.
Werner’s Weekly (week 8)
So here it is again: Werner’s Weekly, your compass to the music that matters, as always containing the latest two Carte Blanche Music Wildcards and my alphabetically ordered selection of the best releases from the past week…
- Shake Shake Go – Dinosaur (Wildcard this week)
- We Are Scientists – One In, One Out (Wildcard last week)
- Absynthe Minded – Kingpin
- Luz Casal – Que Corra El Aire
- Margaret Island – Hóvirág
- Nilüfer Yanya – Thanks 4 Nothing
- Raf Rundell feat. Showboy – Sweet Cheeks
- The Wholls – Going Down
The links will bring you to the stories behind the tracks and you can listen to them via the Werner’s Weekly player in the sidebar. If that’s not enough to ease your hunger for great new music, I can recommend you to subscribe to my daily updated 2018 gross list, the Carte Blanche Music Spotify playlist. Just a few of the tracks I added last week are by artists like Albert Hammond Jr., Belle & Sebastian, Jessie Ware, Simple Minds and Tracey Thorn feat. Corinne Bailey Rae, among a host of new talent.
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.
Icarus – Love Has Come Around
Icarus is the stage name of brothers Ian and Tom Griffiths, a Bristol-based DJ/producers duo. Both of them played in bands before; Ian on guitar, Tom on bass.
The two are currently working on their next EP, In The Dark, to be released in the Spring. Its first single, Love Has Come Around, is an infectious disco stomper, which lyrically represents the excitement of meeting and connecting with someone new. The track is built around a sample from the same-titled Donald Byrd track, that dates back to 1981.
For more great new music follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
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.
