Bedroom-Producers are always a force to be reckoned with. Isolated they sit in their cozy beds, laptop on their knees, and tinker the most marvelous sounds. 26 year old Rob Jones is no exception and his latest album The Grandad Galaxy is playful proof of his endeavors. The 15 tracks are brimful with creativity and joyfully mix Indie-Rock and Electro-Pop aesthetics into a weird experience.

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After 15 years of electronic music Kid Loco can be described as one of the classics – especially with his sixth album “Confessions Of A Belladonna Eater” heavily reminiscing the Trip-Hop and Big-Bit aesthetics of the mid-1990s. The guy featured on the earlier albums sings on most of the tracks and is joined by a female singer, so the sound is very organic, light and uplifting. Overall the sleaziness of earlier days seems to be gone and replaced by sheer joy and optimism. He still might be Loco, but he definitely is no Kid anymore.

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With Lupercalia musical wunderkind Patrick Wolf not only releases his fifth studio album, but also once again a melodramatic operetta. Named after an ancient fertility-festival it is an uplifting album about love from the very first moments of opening track and second single “The City”. Although the album gets slower in the middle part and pianos and strings dominate the sound, the straight kicks return at the end and are joined by synthesizers to leave you with a big smile on your face. Well done, Mr. Wolf.

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Hearing the beginning of this album one might think it is the soundtrack for a Pulp Fiction sequel, or at least for a surfer drama. But with the next tracks the laid back Surf-Rock of the beginning is joined by Blues and even Country-Music elements, and ballads joined by Rockabilly dance tracks. That said Eilen Jewell’s fifth album is a varied mix of guitar based, American music – not my usual cup of tea, but its creativity just got me.

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I’m sure by now everyone of you has seen the new Vodafone-Spot and wondered what the great song is that plays in it. Now you get to know that it is “Way Back Home”, taken from the debut album by Australian DJ-producer duo Bag Raiders. The two are around since 2007, mainly remixing other Australian producers and bands, and are now, obviously, on their way to conquer the other six continents. My company HearDis! carried out the music consulting for this spot and we selected Bag Raiders for their driving Rave-Anthems, heavily reminiscing the glorious days of Acid-House with a light touch of Big-Beat to them. It is a fun dance album, brimfull with creativity and perfectly suited for long nights in the club.

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With their fourth album In Flagranti seem no longer to dwell in the soft-porn aesthetics of their earlier output, but instead explore the darker side of the nightlife. Just as with the society-girl-turned-terrorist Patty Hearst in the video above something seems to have happened to these two New Yorkers. I don’t know if they listened to too many John Carpenter soundtracks or visited too many dark wave parties, but they decided to depart from their disco roots and instead to ad a very moody edge to their music. With two tracks being longer than nine minutes the results is an epic journey through dark clubs in which shady characters and ecstatic dancers meet.

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After a whole load of singles and EPs Holy Ghost! from New York finally release their self titled debut album. As you would expect from these two it is a quirky Electro-Pop album with catchy synth-melodies and vocals. Most of the tracks have the radio-length of three to four minutes, but with “Say My Name” and “Static On The Wire” you get two epic dance tracks that are twice as long. No big surprises here, but isn’t it great that Holy Ghost! can keep up to the big expectations one had for their first full length? I think so.

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