Mille - Crysteena

Featuring a superb song every day by a new artist requires listening to a lot of new music. A song needs to be any of catchy, unique or simply fantastic to hold my attention—so naturally, when a song lacks any vocals it lessens the chance of catching my ear. I don't prejudge any music, including instrumental genres, but they tend to be small percentage of my heavy rotations.

Mille, electro producer from Sweden, forges mindblowing, chiptune-influenced compositions. His instrumental electro track “Crysteena” would make Daft Punk green with robot envy. One day when machines rule the earth, this will be their soundtrack.

SOUNDS LIKE Daft Punk, Röyksopp, Hot Chip, Designer Drugs

Mille - Crysteena
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Bionic Commando Theme (Surkin Remix)

The new Bionic Commando game, sequel to the 1987 arcade classic of the same name, was released last week. In the last few weeks leading up to the release, remixes of the theme song have been appearing everywhere. Here's the best of them all, by French electro DJ and producer Surkin.

Surkin's remix treatment, turning a lo-fi video game theme into a killer club tune, works surprisingly well. Whether you know the game and it's theme song or not, this track conjures an old school gaming nostalgia and the tune is insanely addictive.

Bionic Commando Theme (Surkin Remix)
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You Love Her Coz She's Dead - Superheroes

You Love Her Coz She's Dead love to write about “superheroes, superheroes & superheroes but, mainly just about superheroes”. Their song, appropriately titled “Superheroes”, is a ridiculously catchy new rave chiptune that sounds a lot like Crystal Castles but with a harder edge. This is dirty dancefloor seizure music at it's finest.

The song is available on their Inner City Angst EP and on volume 6 of the Kitsuné Maison Compilation series.

You Love Her Coz She's Dead - Superheroes
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Crystal Castles - Alice Practice

The term new rave sounds like a corruption of rave and new wave, but really all it takes from the former is flourescent clothing, neon lights and glow sticks—and from the latter, the genre fusions and the trashy, anarchic aesthetic. Crystal Castles, one of Toronto's top exports, interprets new rave as scratchy, distorted Gameboy sounds, writhing female screams and bodies dancing to a path beaten by drums. Close your eyes, experience the flashing lights and feel the urge to reach for a tablet.

SOUNDS LIKE Peaches, Digitalism, Hot Chip, The Prodigy

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Crystal Castles performing “Alice Practice” on TV show Skins. Also on YouTube.

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