Listen to the first track from Eno’s upcoming release on Warp Records Small Craft On A Milk Sea. Pretty wild…

Brian Eno – 2 Forms Of Anger (taken from Small Craft On A Milk Sea) by Warp Records

This is a must-watch for all lovers of electronic music, especially those into the early days of the genre…

via Dangerous Minds:

Here is a very cool doc by Ian Collie about London’s Electronic Music Studios, the pioneering synthesizer company formed in 1969 that created such items as the voltage controlled synth (VCS3) and the Synthi A.

These and other machines changed the way we listened to music forever. They were used by some of the first pop artists to experiment with electronic music, including Pink Floyd, The Who, Eno & Roxy Music, Tangerine Dream, Kraftwerk and Hawkwind.

Collie puts together a very human and warm exploration of what sound synthesis meant to the lives of EMS principals Peter Zinovieff, Tristram Cary and David Cockerell. And in a segment that involves Hawkwind’s David Brock, he also takes on how well sound synthesis meshed with the psychedelic age.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Up and coming Swedish sisters First Aid Kit do a beautiful rendition of fellow Swede Fever Ray’s ominous track. Have a listen:
When I Grow Up by First Aid Kit

The cover is featured on the B-side of the 7-inch single “Ghost Town”.

(via 24Bit)

Duck Sauce (Armand Van Helden, A-Trak, and a Baba) have just released a fun new video featuring a Barbara look-a-like and a whole star studded cast of characters including Kanye West, Questlove, Chromeo, Vampire Weekend, Santigold, Diplo, DJ Premier and more. Oh and the cover of the single is incredibly rad.

School of Seven Bells transform Active Child’s drugged-out original into a head-bobbing electro jam…

{MP3} Active Child – “I’m In Your Church At Night” (School of Seven Bells Remix)

The 7″ is available for pre-order here.

Check out a debut track from Philly’s Moon Women. It has a cool, old-school 4AD feel to it.

{MP3} Moon Women – “A Collection of Thought”

The track is featured on the band’s limited-edition, silk-screened cassette, which will be available for purchase at their Johnny Brenda’s show with Film School and The Depreciation Guild this Wednesday.

Last Friday, while in Copenhagen representing LIV, I ventured over to the Vesterbro and visited CAN – a shop like none other. Named after the experimental German rockers, owner Martin curates the small but fashionable store with limited edition artist apparel and italo disco, art-rock and funk vinyl. There is even a high-end knitted sweater inspired by the cover of the band’s 1975 album Ege Bamyasi and designed by The Inoue Brothers for sale. Check out photos, as well as some classic live footage of the band after the jump…

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Do you love Interpol’s sound but feel like they have gotten soft? Are you looking for something heavier and more brooding? Well step into the world of Mississippi band Flight and have a listen to the ragged head rush of “Turns to Blood”….

{MP3} Flight – “Turns To Blood”

This new El Guincho is insanely entertaining…and probably NSFW…depending on where you work.

For all you New Order/Joy Division lovers out there, may I introduce Brooklyn band Selebrities.

{MP3} Selebrities – “Time”

New Wave innovator Klaus Nomi didn’t just introduce the world to the fusion of pop and opera, but he also created an other-worldly aesthetic around it. However, Nomi wasn’t limited to said genres, he also dabbled in disco and there couldn’t be a more equally alien-like track for him to cover than Donna Summers & Giorgio Moroder’s “I Feel Love”. Check it out:

The original:

Klaus Nomi’s cover:

You can learn more about the amazing Klaus Nomi by watching The Nomi Song documentary, available now on Hulu.

(via Tommy Boy)

Check out this catchy tune penned by none other than the “Godfather of Electro”, Giorgio Moroder. It was UK band Chicory Tip’s only #1 and it featured an early model analog synth! Far out!