Following on from the original Deadmau5 Touch Mix comes the new version (App Store link), featuring 20 tracks including tracks from his new album For Lack of A Better Name, new effects, tilt control and an integrated Twitter feed.

It retails for $2.99.

Laurent Garnier’s Pay TV

If you thought that simulated sex sounds went out of style in dance music back in 1975, think again.

NSFW: This is the music video for The Toxic Avenger’s Toxic Is Dead.

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Free Music Friday: Electronica artist and music blogger Mark Mosher has released a new album, Reboot, that’s just a little spooky.

Mosher says:

Two years in the making, REBOOT is an album containing 7 richly layered electronica songs that blend contemporary synthesizer sounds with classical music motifs. The end result is dark electronica for those who love synth “ear candy” with a “dirty” industrial edge.

Make sure you check out the track They Walk Among Us. It dives straight into B-movie territory, with its use of theremin, flying saucer sounds and vintage horror sounds. Could be a perfect soundtrack for Halloween.

Mosher has released Reboot with a pay-what-you like model. You can preview the album above or check it out at his Bandcamp site. If you like it, you can download it for free or pay Mosher whatever you like.

Mosher’s suggested price is $6 for the album (7 songs, 22 min. + digital booklet) and $1 for singles. Enter $0 for free download.

This is the music video for The Crystal Method’s Come Back Clean, Kascade Remix.

If you’re like a lot of Synthtopia readers, you thought that Little Boots shows a lot of potential, but that she blew it with the mix for her latest single, Earthquake, embedded above.

If you think you can do better, check out her Earthquake remix contest. See the contest site for details.

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Sunday Synth Jam: BT rocks the crowd at Full On Ferry 2009 in Rotterdam, using Sonifi on the iPhone. 

Note to BT: This segment is too short to see how much of an individual spin you can bring to a Sonifi performance. Let’s see you melt some faces!

This is the video for Velvet Acid Christ’s Caustic Disco, Mindless Faith Mix.

via Hexfix93

This lp and single are the best things I have done in ages. This is the proof. The new lp is half acoustic goth and half ebm trance ELECTRO. I love the Mindless Faith Remix, Mindless Faith Kicks ass, I will interview them soon.

Basement Jaxx – Scars (ft. Meleka, Kelis & Chipmunk) – Video by Jan van Nuenen

.Jan van Nuenen created an animation exclusively for the song “Scars” by Basement Jaxx. The animation can be seen during their 2009 European tour, where it is used at the beginning of the performance.

via EnterTheMothership:

Check www.janvannuenen.com and www.enterthemothership.com

Title: Onomastica
Artist: Offlaga Disco Pax
Director: Marco Molinelli (Postodellefragole)
Dop: Giovanni Troilo

extended version (6 min.)

NSFW?

La Film Fabrique
Playboy’s Bend
Mefamo et le collectif Physalis

présentent
Production/ Jonas Luyckx
Réalisation et cadre/ Jonas Luyckx
Avec/ Caroline Dehareng
Amandine Bevalot
Marie Airo
Alice Piette
Emilie Hermans
pour le collectif Physalis
Estelle Bibbo
Ornella Vernica
Melody Willams

Montage/ John Pirard
DOP/ Shaban Krasniqi

Avec le soutien de Oxfam solidarité et de Jules Gazon

Madonna may have crossed over into AARP territory, and her lyrics haven’t evolved much since the days of Holiday, but she still puts 9 out of 10 dance music divas to shame, as she demonstrates with her latest track, Celebration.

This is the video for Don Diablo’s Hooligans Never Surrender.

via selloutsessions:

The video was criticized on its violent character by the media long before the official release, after a set video had leaked on the internet.

Don Diablo responded on the criticism as presumptuous.

Don: ”I think this video gives a good representation of what goes on in my head when I am asleep, it’s like a drug free LSD trip for pros. Welcome to the future!”

The band announced it via SoundCloud about a month ago and they received 849 tracks.

You can check and download the US entries below.

See the contest site for entries from the UK. Australia, Germany, France and more.

The winners will be announced the week of October 26th on Röyksopp’s website.

Sunday Synth Jam: Torley invites you to revisit the 80’s with his Disco house synth jam to Maethelvin Delight.

via Torley:

REVISIT THE 80S @ www.myspace.com/maethelvin

DOWNLOAD MY MUSIC @ http://torley.com/music

KEYBOARD is NOVATION 49SL MkII

This is some fantastic vintage footage of a young Kraftwerk, in 1980, performing Das Modell on German TV. Make sure you check out the crowd shots!

Amazingly, their current performances are amazingly faithful, both sonicly and visually, to what’s captured here.

Can you imagine how this would have blown people’s minds thirty years ago?

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In the interview, Dolby shares some fantastic stories, like this one:

I remember word going around that the UK branch of the Musician’s Union was going to vote on a motion to ban synthesizers. A friend of mine from a band called Landscape told me this, and said we had to get some people down there because they were actually going to put it to the vote. The motion that was on the table was that synthesizers would be banned altogether, because they were taking work away from musicians. So ten of us went down there, one row of about 30, 40 people, and the rest of the people were like, out of work flugelhorn players, people who occasionally did West End musicals, and they were all half asleep. Each of the ten of us in turn got up and spoke very passionately and very articulately about how we felt it was progress and it was a good thing, and ultimately would lead to more work for musicians. Then it went to the vote and it got voted in! The British Musician’s Union had banned synthesizers! I think it was only afterwards that the executive manager of the Musician’s Union realised how impossible it would be to implement, so it was sort of swept under the carpet and we never heard about it again.

Depeche Mode sounds as Depeche Mode as ever on Hole To Feed, and their music video for the track is sure to haunt you for a while.

Kelpe – Microscope Contents

via bangonsocialhub:

The official video for Kelpe single, ‘Microscope Contents’ from the album ‘Cambio Wechsel’ out on DC Recordings October 19th 09, an infectious bass-driven, electro melody pulsating over a evolving percussive groove.

Video directed by Kelpe.