Our buds at Groupie Mag take us through their new electro music discoveries for the month. Engage:


  
Banjo Or Freakout

Banjo Or Freakout is an Italian gent living in London that makes the kind of dreamy, wispy sample-based pop that makes perfect sense in a post Go Team/Animal Collective/The Tough Alliance world. Impressing the pants off media and fans alike with a continual stream of releases through his blog that includes some colourful interpretations of modern classics and his own original material, Banjo Or Freakout will like find a home and a major release very soon.

www.myspace.com/banjoorfreakout
 

Softwar

Straight outta Sydney but sounding more like a French production outfit with a NY disco fixation, info on Softwar is nothing if not scarce. With tracks like the Kano-sampling 'Paris Knights' sounding more than dancefloor ready and sharing an agent with Mock N Toof, The Studio and Quiet Village, it’s unlikely they can keep up the façade of mystery for long.

www.myspace.com/hellosoftwar





Crocodiles

Crocodiles are a US duo taking the foundations laid by the likes of The Jesus & Mary Chain, Suicide and Black Rebel Motorcycle, that be some very melodic, noisy foundations, and flipping it out with a nice layer or synthesiser in the mix. Recently signed to Fat Possum in the US, home to Wavves and R.L. Burnside amongst others, they’re due to release a joyous explosion of a record before the years out.

www.myspace.com/crocodilescrocodilescrocodiles
 




Dollskabeat

Optimo have made a name for themselves through having a long-running, top quality weekly night running in Glasgow and their exquisitely broad taste in excellent music, so when they get to starting a record label you know its one worth watching. Dollskabeat is a new act to come under their roof, with her Zodiac Rising EP coming in May. A mixture of the icy synthscapes of Glass Candy and Chromatics with a nod to Kate Bush in the vocal harmonies, Dollskabeat is Glasgow’s futurist banshee shining light.

www.myspace.com/dollskabeat





Den Haan

Also from Glasgow and on the Optimo Music label, Den Haan are orbiting in a similar lunar loop to London duo Heartbreak, making the kind of pumping Italo-disco that walks that very fine line between Cerrone and cheese with aplomb. It’s a very danceable, catchy beast and one that’s bound to find fans from Hackney to Hobart.

www.myspace.com/denhaan


Glen Goetze from Groupie.com.au