Our trip being almost finished, time we listened to great electro stuff. In 2009 the French duo Miss Kittin & The Hacker (Caroline Hervé and Michel Amato) released a single called Party In My Head, including a remix version from a Dutch producer, Ingmar Pauli (a.k.a. Mr. Pauli), which was a synthetic bomb, mixing spacey italo sounds with the best electro rhythm, an outstanding and original mixture. Definitely, with this kind of songs there is a party in our head!
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need to pay a new visit to The Netherlands, because this list would be
incomplete without such a genius as Legowelt. He began producing music in the
early 1990s and released his first album in 1998. It is particularly curious
how he describes his music: “a hybrid form of slam jack combined with deep
Chicago house, romantic ghetto technofunk and EuroHorror Soundtrack”, and his main
influences: “early electro and the obscure pre-1983 Italian disco “. As a
result of all this mixture we have hits like Disco Rout. Unbeatable.
We visit Finland again. With 8 albums and more than 30 singles/EP released, Jori Hulkkonen is a prolific Finish musician focused on electronic music, moving between house, techno and synthpop. In I Am Dead he shows his interest in abstract, profound electro sounds, while keeping a slight trace of synthpop with the tender male vocals. A song with which it's easy to be lost in meditation.
Lithuania is our next stop. Since 2010 the trio Proper Heat, led by vocalist Karolis Ramoska, has launched fresh electronic songs in a mix of different styles: house, electro and disco, mainly. The Move combines frenetic rhythms with more relaxing sounds, with the only purpose to make our body move to a relaxed dance. The collaboration between French DJ Kavinsky and Lovefoxxx, lead vocalist of Brazilian band CSS, has proved to be a complete success. Its recreation of a nocturnal atmosphere, with eighties sounds and a cold vocoderized male voice followed by Lovefoxxx's warm touch, reaches its maximum when watching the start of Drive, the film in which this song was wisely included. Fabulous urban sounds to listen to when driving by night in a big city.