Burn down the disco! Volume 2 - electronica

It is high time for my second play list, this time it is all about electronics with the slight predominance of electroclash. I have included some stuff, which is somewhere in between electronica, ambient and pop and still not to be heard in your regular club. The list is compiled only of stuff I actually listen to and is not meant to include everything. Plus every group/performer is represented with only one song!

Here is the list:
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1. M.I.A. - Bamboo Banger
2. Candie Hank - We All Go Die Tonight
3. Teddybears - Cobrastyle
4. Roisin Murphy - Cry Baby
5. Ladytron - Seventeen
6. Lesbians On Ecstasy - Tell Me Does She Love The Bass
7. Uffie - Ready to Uff
8. Robots in Disguise - The Sex Has Made Me Stupid
9. Client - In It For The Money
10. Peaches - Tent In Your Pants
11. Felix da Housecat - Hunting Season
12. Miss Kittin - Frank Sinatra
13. The Knife - Girls' Night Out
14. Zeigeist - Bunny
15. Regina - Elokuva
16. Cansei de Ser Sexy - Superafim
17. Yelle - Je Voix Te Veur
18. Santogold - Say Aha
19. Fischerspooner - A Kick In The Teeth
20. Le Tigre - Well Well Well
21. Chicks On Speed - Wordy Rappinghood
22. Warren Suicide - Addiction Mother
23. Tiga - 3 Weeks
24. Ladyhawke - Dusk Till Dawn
25. Marsheux - M.A.R.S.H.E.U.X.
26. Kleerup - With Every Heartbeat
27. Jay-Jay Johanson - Automatic Lover
28. Mylo - Drop The Pressure

Do not forget to hear the compilation and delete the tracks afterwards! Support your favourite music by going to concerts or buying their releases!

Recommendation Weekly: Uffie

"I am ready to fuck" is one of the most famous lyrics' lines of the 21-year old electro singer Uffie. She' s pretty much new to the scene, but already rocking it and she is yet to release an album. Her real name is Anna-Catherine Hartley and is an American-born, Hong Kong-raised and Paris-based. Her music is somehow reminiscent of M.I.A., but with more electroclash influences and her own distinctive rapping. Although born in the USA, Anna-Catherine is surely part of the European electronic scene, being signed to the French label Ed Banger Records and predominantly working with French musicians and DJs.

Uffie's entrance in the music perhaps, not like in a dream, but it all began as her combined effort with her then-boyfriend, who gave her the needed push to start a career. She's been active almost three years and despite still not having released an album, she manages to be one of the current names in the electroclash scene. You might think of her as an electro version of Hilary Duff, but with no Disney crap and with lots of profanity to come out of her little mouth. Of course, she is still far from the goddess of the sexually explicit lyrics and the I-don't-give-a-damn lifestyle Peaches, but one thing after the other.

I do hope that her debut will be like a kick in the teeth for those mainstream bitches, who just whine about her hubbies and bfs, and will show them that it is Uffie's time to pop the glock, cause she's ready to fuck.

Recommendation Weekly: Yelle - Pop Up

She's French and dangerous. She's not a role model and certainly not the one you'are going to see on the cover of a beauty magazine. More likely she'll be friends with Peaches and will spit on your face if you try to be original in front of her. Her name is Julie Budet, although she's better known as Yelle. Her debut album "Pop Up" is an electronic mixture gathering clashy beats, witty texts and extravagant fashinosta under one name. Yelle's big breakthrough was the song "Je Veux Te Voir", which is an altered version of the 1994 hit "Short Dick Man" by 20 Fingers. This song disses Cuizinier of the French rap group TTC and turned her into the freshest newcomer in electroclash for an overnight. The video to "Je Veux Te Voir" has the impressive amount of more than 6,5 million plays in YouTube, which is quite astonishing for a little French girl like Yelle.

Giving a listen to "Pop Up" I was very pleasantly surprised by the quality of the album. I am not very much into French music and I had my doubts about it, but after a try I was hooked. Actually I did so like her that I watched almost every live performance of her in YouTube. Her music came like a kick in the teeth after a long break from cheerful electronica (too much Clan of Xymox :D). But Julie made not just my day, but my whole week as well.

Don't worry, pals! You don't need to know French in order to like her. At least I can't say a whole sentence in her native language and still I am enjoying her to the max. Yelle is one of these performers that can make you stand up and slowly, but surely getting into the rhythm until you find yourself partying all around the place. Still, if you can't get enough of her wait until I show you Uffie!