Tony Anve – Closer to you (Spotify)
Tony Anve with his nw track "Closer To You", a wonderful melodic EDM production with a powerful drop and good production, gives you the right positive summer goosepumbs.
Marcus Arch – Carnivore (Spotify)
We all have things we fight against. Sometimes they’re just in our heads, and sometimes they’re really out there. Either way the fight is always real.
Carnivore came about while experimenting with various sounds and samples on Logic. The opening rhythmic hook laid down the foundation which then further evolved. The song revolves around the idea of fighting a shadowy figure, real or imagined. The animistic vocal hook represents the primal struggle that we face - against the worst part of the human nature, or against a real life predator out to get us. The first half of the song is more subdued, giving an impression of quiet resistance, that becomes a much bigger fight or struggle, that in the end finishes with a blow - did I kill the Carnivore? Or was I killed?
Few words about Marcus Arch:
Australian Indie-Rock Trio Marcus Arch took their folk beginnings and fused them with elements of electro-rock, synth-pop and thick harmonies, landing with a dynamic musical experience.
Thoughtful lyrical compositions and reflections delivered in punchy pop-choruses reflects the analogue/digital crossover that is the basis of Marcus Arch. Earthy, yet covered in the pizazz of the electro-age, Marcus Arch takes you back and forward through a musical escapade that indelibly disrupts.
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George van Wetering – New Kid (piano version) (Video)
This year George is set to make his solo debut, starting with the release of his piano ballad “New Kid”, featuring artist Kristeen Young, mixed by the legendary producer Tony Visconti.
“You have to be a conscious artist to mess with the rules, and George van Wetering’s music embodies a free spirit that finds harmony with disparate elements and a pattern without a formula. This is music of the Non-Conformist. Here, the dark and the light intertwine to make some really great tracks with great electronic elements.” George van Wetering, Dutch singer and songwriter, was once part of the growing roster of foreign acts released by Chinese record company Modern Sky. In the US and the Netherlands, his albums were released by Zip Records / Sony. George has toured extensively across China, the Netherlands, Canada and the USA. “Taking cues from artists across the cultural spectrum, this is the industrial goth band before the EDM cult of personality took over”. George and his band gained a large following in China while also gaining traction in North America. He also frequently participated in China’s growing music festivals, including performances at the Strawberry Music Festival, World Expo in Shanghai, and the Modern Sky Festival in Beijing. Highlights of his shows in North America were performances at SXSW, NXNE, CMJ and the Sled Island Festival (Canada) at which the show was considered the highlight of the festival.
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Becky Hill, Sigala – Heaven On My Mind (Video)
Hitmaking singer-songwriter Becky Hill releases brand new single ‘Heaven On My Mind’ in collaboration with Sigala.
https://beckyhill.lnk.to/HeavenOnMyMind
‘Heaven On My Mind’, which is written by Becky Hill and MNEK and produced by Sigala, is the second single to be lifted from Becky’s upcoming debut album release. It sees Becky reunite with Sigala, who she collaborated with last year on top 10 hit, ‘Wish You Well’, which she recently performed as part of a bedroom session medley for Radio 1’s Big Weekend 2020 and is now certified Platinum after selling over 750,000 records in the UK alone.
“‘Heaven On My Mind’ has had a different journey and creative process from my other songs I’ve released.” Says Becky. “When Sigala first sent me ideas for the song, it was during a dark time for me last year, and so it wasn’t a track that I would have ever started writing myself – it was so pure and carefree… But that actually made me want to work on it and make it as personal as possible and release it. And after having big success with Sigala on our track ‘Wish you Well’, I had such a high respect and love for him and was over the moon he wanted to collaborate with me again!”
The second single to be lifted from Becky’s forthcoming debut album, it follows the release of ‘Better off Without You’ (ft Shift K3Y), which, after garnering Becky Hills’shighest-charting position for a solo single release, spending 5 weeks in the Top 20 of the UK Official Singles chart, scoring a top 5 on the UK Radio airplay chart and on iTunes, hitting no. 1 on the Official Trending Chart and accumulating over 65 million streams to date, is now Certified Gold.
A Summer anthem in the making, ‘Heaven On My Mind’, is set to cement Becky’s reputation as one of Britain’s most in-demand musical exports of the moment. With an irrefutable aptitude for writing chart smashing pop songs and an impressive string of hits to her name, Becky has now garnered over 1.5 billion combined streams and 18 million + monthly listeners on Spotify after being crowned the 2nd most-streamed British Female Artist on Spotify UK in 2019.
About Becky Hill
Renowned for her show-stopping vocal prowess and her credentials as a hitmaking song writer, 25 year old Becky Hill is one of Britain’s most in-demand musical exports of the moment. Following a killer 2019 with the release of three hits – including ‘I Could Get Used to This’ (with Weiss), and ‘Lose Control’ (with Meduza and Goodboys) – Becky Hill closed the year as the 2nd most listened to British female artist on Spotify in the UK. Becky has not only notched up over 1.5 billion streams, but also 18 million monthly Spotify listeners. She has an impressive string of hits to her name, having written and performed on eight singles which charted in the top 40 of the UK official singles chart, including the recently released ‘Better Off Without You’ (currently in the top 15), the chart-toping, number 1, (‘Gecko (Overdrive)’ with Oliver Heldens) and two top 10 singles (‘Wish You Well’ with Sigala and ‘Afterglow’ with Wilkinson). Over and above this, she has collaborated with the likes of Rudimental, Matoma, Lil Simz and more, while her songwriting skills have been enlisted by artists ranging from MK, Tiesto, Jax Jones and Martin Solveig through to MNEK and Little Mix. This is no mean feat considering only 17% of PRS for Music’s registered songwriters are female. Indeed, Becky Hill is flying the flag for women in the music industry, both as a songwriter, and behind the scenes. Before signing a Joint Venture deal with Polydor in 2017, she founded and self-funded her own independent label, Eko Records (named after the 12 string guitar she watched her late uncle play as a child).
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About Sigala
With 7 UK platinum singles, 9 global gold singles, 7 million UK sales and 12 million worldwide sales Sigala has had an impressive few years. Sigala is a London based DJ/Producer with over 1 million followers on Spotify, he has spent 130 weeks in the UK charts and in 2016 he became the number one most played British male on UK commercial radio. From there, his debut studio album, Brighter Days became the highest charting dance debut of 2018, containing 6 UK Top Ten singles, including the massive Lullaby, which received a BRIT Award nomination for ‘British Single of the Year’. Since then, the album has been BRIT certified Gold, and he has released a further platinum selling euphoric old school house single ‘Wish You Well’ with powerhouse vocals from Becky Hill.
Dolche – Big Man (Official Videoclip) (Video)
Christine Herin, previously known as Naif Herin and now known professionally as Dolche, is a Rome based Italian-French singer, songwriter, composer and record producer who already boasts a 20-year music career and more than 500 concerts in Europe with and key collaborations with Grammy Award winning professionals. Her work is well- known for its distinctive musical style and blending of different genres such as folk, chanson française, world music, classical music, funk, electronic. She now releases the second single of her forthcoming album Exotic Diorama (out Oct 2020) – is the bold track Big Man, out now.
Big Man throws a challenge out to society: What would happen if all the ones who feel superior took a DNA test? This is the provocative question Dolche asked her fans when announcing her powerful new song. In the end we are all made of the same imperfect mix of cultures and races. The ‘Big Man’ she sings about is a symbolic creature incarnating all differences and all outcasts. “All white supremacists, homophobes and fundamentalists will hate this song” she writes in her socials but she declares that her hope is to inspire them to think differently. We all felt excluded, feared, judged or refused for our differences but those are what makes us unique. The human race is in constant evolution. ‘Contamination’ is what makes us stronger and more beautiful.
Dolche wrote this song because she felt inspired and outraged by the spreading culture of fear and hate promulgated by too many political representatives (might it be ‘building walls’ or letting fleeing refugees die at sea). “I love the Big Man” – she sings in this song as a joyful, strong and powerful response to that. We are, despite the protestation of the metaphorical divisive ‘Big Man’, one in humanity and by recognising this fact we find our power and freedom.
In this song Dolche, who composes, arranges and plays all of her music and most of the featuring instruments, chose to enrich the sound using different types of percussions (including some traditional Japanese ones). The tribal, powerful soul of this song is a crescendo of sounds and emotions leading to a cathartic final explosion.
BIG MAN (VIDEO):
What you see in the video to the new single has literally never been done before thanks to Extreme Deep Fake technology. This is the first time that the technique is used to mix more than 2 faces and there are more than 14 face mixes here. Some of the characters have many different faces mixed up!
The video was shot in the built up, bustling streets around Union Square in NYC last November around the theme of ‘contagion’. This was the concept before Covid -19 and so the coincidence is strange and, indeed, striking. The video, created and directed by the talented Chris Shimojima (Wild Factory Production), tells the story of a ‘disease’ that spreads around people in the streets of NYC, the disease of diversity. This contagion generates fear, violent reactions and derision for the first two characters getting infected in the beginning. But it is than embraced and celebrated by the following characters. The faces of the many actors mix into a superior/wild creature that symbolizes the power of diversity and union.
The resulting effect is scary and fascinating at the same time. Genders, ages, religions, different skin colours mix up creating more powerful and free beings. In a real life parallel – the Covid-19 epidemic spread and physically divided people. But through it we are discovering that we all are truly in this together; belonging to one big world, in unprecedented times. We can see that same message of union and empathy in Dolche’s video: a call to be ‘as one’
GET THE SONG HERE: https://ffm.to/dolchebigman
odol – One small thing (Spotify)
The lead song from their newly released EP, “essence of life” was composed to be the original theme for the brand movie of “radiko”, a Japanese web radio. Created while exchanging ideas with the film director, it’s based on the theme of the little pleasures and happiness that we can find in everyday life. Ryo Mizobe’s sweet and clear vocals bring us back to our childhood and its innocence. It’s a pop song that places importance on giving an analog and organic feeling, and the use of real strings in the recording adds a rich and deep color to the song.
Few words about Odol:
odol is a five-piece band established in 2014 in Tokyo around Ryo Mizobe (vo.) and Koki Moriyama (pf./syn.).
Putting their unique innovative spirit into arranging freely their music regardless of genre, odol manage to update themselves every time they release a new song.
Koki Moriyama, who studied at the Tokyo University of the Arts, is the sole composer of all their work, and writes music for other artists, theatrical plays and movies too.
In July 2014, they performed on the rookies stage of the biggest festival in Japan, FUJI ROCK.
Four years later, they played at the same FUJI ROCK festival 2018 on one of the biggest stages, the “RED MARQUEE” one, establishing their fast success.
They have released three full albums apart from EPs and singles : “odol”(2015), “YEARS” (2016) and “Ourai suru mono” (2018).
In December 2019, vocalist Ryo Mizobe sang together with the famous singer YUI on “Bara no Hana x Native Dancer”, which gathered a lot of attention.
https://odol.jp/
Tova Glyt – Head Back (Spotify)
This is a popsong, but not the thypical popsong of 2020. There are real instruments playing on the recording together which makes the sound acoustic and real. It also makes it possible for the lyrics to step forward. Head Back is a lovesong using different terms of time to explain that the other person doesn't know where to go, or who to be.
Tova Glyt is a Swedish singer-songwriter born in 1998. She grew up in Kalmar, Sweden and Madrid, Spain. When she turned sixteen she studied music for three years at Kulturama in Stockholm.
Tova is also a bass player and has done many professional live performances ever since she was 14 years old.
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Kid Travis – I Want My Hoodie Back (Spotify)
With solid melodic punk/trap undertones, Kid Travis sings a wide variety of styles of music. Kid Travis has a very active YouTube Channel with over 400k Subscribers where he posts both original music/ visuals as well as Covers which have been recognized by prominent artists such as Post Malone, Bryson Tiller, Rich Brian, and Dominic Fike. Kid Travis is not subject to one genre .Music is his passion.This singer,songwriter,instrumentalist,producer has gifts to share with the world.
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Dahl – After Ours (Spotify)
Before he was collaborating on EDM hits with Demi Lovato and Fetty Wap, Trevor Dahl was making music on his own terms. With the rapid rise of Cheat Codes with bandmates Kevin Ford and Matthew Russell, the trio has also made it a priority to focus on their own creative endeavors. Going by his surname "DAHL" this is a project to parallel Cheat Codes, but returning to his solo roots.
With a hybrid of influencers from electropop acts like Bazzi and Lauv, alongside the lyricism of John Mayer, Dahl reveals his talent for being a jack of all trades; he wrote and produced all of his music.
Signed to Atlantic Records at 17. For the next five years , he toured the country, even writing songs for other major label artists like One Direction. By 21, he left Atlantic Records to pursue electronic music, which lead him to Cheat Codes.
While DAHL will be a departure from Cheat Codes music, there will be hints of the acts sound embedded in his solo work, but this project is the most candid, the now 25 year old musician has ever gotten, detailing everything from him growing up, to his serious relationships, to dropping out of high school. "It's about letting people know everything about me on a level I've never open up on", he says. DAHL's music will blend genres from electro-pop and indie-rock to hip-hop.
https://dahl.ffm.to/afterours
Suraj Mani – Rinse and Repeat (Spotify)
Rinse & Repeat is about coming to terms with the end of a relationship. More importantly it is about moving forward from the phase where you think that you cannot start another relationship. While the feeling is natural, it is perhaps not wise to completely close off your heart to others and to life. The song is inspired by a tactic from the Alcoholics Anonymous. In AA nobody says that they will give up drinking forever. Instead they say that, "just for today, I will not drink." That's brilliant. And so, I thought it'd be nice to write a song for those of us struggling with heartbreak and hoping for something better. Rinse & Repeat is a song that asks us to keep our hearts open- #JustForToday.
Few words about the artist:
Suraj Mani is one of the critically acclaimed musicians in India. His band Suraj Mani & The Tattva Trip are a band that breaks the barrier between rock and poetry. He is the former frontman of the legendary band Motherjane. His band was awarded the best rock band in Asia. He was also awarded the best rock vocalist in India.
Some highlights of his career include performing alongside both international bands like Opeth, Megadeth, Third eye blind, Mr. Big and also with many famous Indian bands like Indian Ocean, Shubha Mudgal, Thaikkudam Bridge, etc.
Although known for being a rock musician he have been experimenting with a new sound as a singer/songwriter. It is intimate and personal with unique philosophical perspectives he gained over his career spanning over 20 years
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