This is our second visit to The Philippines. This time we meet one of the most promising electro/synthpop artists there, Cerumentric, two-time nominee for Best Dance/Electro Act in the Asian Voice Independent Music Awards. With a fresh dance-oriented nu-disco style, Bleeding Into My Dreams easily makes us move following the rhythm of the frenetic -almost spacey- synths during the whole 7 minutes long, which in fact seems short to me.
After 50 consecutive songs from 50 different countries in our tour around the world, it's time we revisit a country: Belgium. In this case, the disco-styled band Aeroplane founded in 2007 by Vito De Luca and Stephen Fasano, who left the project in 2010. The chosen track is a wonderful remix version of a special song, Without Lies, both included in the single launched in 2010. In this Black Van Remix we can taste characteristic nu-disco sounds and the angelic female voice -so Swedish!- of American beautiful singer and model Sky Ferreira.
Denmark, our next stop. A cold country with warm bands. As this young Danish duo, Antilles, devoted to classic analog synthesizers. With only one album released -the wonderful Something New (2008)- and a romantic attitude, this band let us enjoy fresh sounds in their nu-disco songs. At this point of the year we are fed up with the winter and the extreme cold of the recent European cold wave, aren't we? We need hot, good weather. We need this cheerful song, at more than 120 BPM, to provide us with energy. Yes, we need the spring. We are longing for it.
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.