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Kevin Rowland - "The Greatest Love Of All"

Stray - "Intoxicate"

This is to be labeled a music genre called harsh EBM. Still got that ugly album cover aesthetic from plain EBM, though.

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Vangelis - "Dawn"

The City is a 1990 album by the Greek artist Vangelis. Reportedly, it was produced entirely in a Rome hotel room, where Vangelis was staying to witness the filming of the Roman Polanski film Bitter Moon. It can be seen as a concept album in many respects, citing concepts from urban life and alluding to the big city atmosphere.

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Das Pop - "Never Get Enough"

Imagine the Klaxons writing a love song for a pretty girl they met at a beachside caravan park. Then make it more relevant.

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The Tough Alliance - "A New Chance (Juan Maclean remix)"

From Pitchfork:

TTA aren't the kind of band that makes portentous-sounding eight-minute epics. "A New Chance", at 4:34, is the longest track on the album of the same name, alongside eight other short, melodic, should-be worldwide hits. So it's a good thing Six Finger Satellite guitarist John MacLean, better known as DFA electronic artist the Juan MacLean, remixed "A New Chance" for a 2008 digital-only EP that's only now seeing the light of Klicktrack. You can hear the Cassavetes quote a little more clearly, but what this house-y remix really does best is put the original song up on a gleaming, hi-fidelity pedestal of piano and percussion and synth arpeggios, to be admired as well as felt. "I know a place where diamonds never fade away," TTA sing, and we're there, and MacLean gives it all a museum-worthy, disco-worthy frame. If you felt like you never understood these guys before, any day's a new chance. Don't fight it, stupid, feel it.

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Janelle Monáe - "Many Moons"

Janelle Monáe is a Grammy Award-nominated American singer, songwriter, and performer. She is currently signed to the Wondaland Arts Society, and Bad Boy/Atlantic Records.

Metropolis Suite I of IV: The Chase is the 2007 debut EP by American R&B singer Janelle Monáe. The EP is based on Janelle Monáe's concept of suite releases.

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New Order - "This Time Of Night"

Many New Order song titles have nothing to do with the song. In some cases, songs with normal titles appear to have had their titles swapped with other songs. For example, the phrase "This Time of Night" appears in the song "As It Is When It Was" on Brotherhood but is the title of a song on Low-Life.

Low-Life is the third studio album of the English rock band New Order. Released in May 1985, Low-Life is considered to be amongst New Order's strongest work, displaying the moment in which the band completed its transformation from post-punk hold overs to dance rock pioneers. The album shows New Order's increased incorporation of synthesizers and samplers, while still preserving the rock aspects of their earlier work.

Maskinen - "Flow Ball" [feat. Bonde Do Rôle]

It's another track off their coming album "Boys II Men", featuring the entire cast of Bonde Do Rôle!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Zero"

This next YYYs LP was bound to be one of the year's most anticipated, regardless. Because the trio are true rock stars in a time where the "rock star" is a relic, because they are serious players, because Show Your Bones proved they were, at least, unafraid to be stylistically adventurous. But that's bolstered by the unexpected sweat and sexy, jagged swagger of the excellent Is Is EP, which hinted they still had their Feverish roots beneath the increasing L.A. gloss. It's Blitz!'s central sound has remained a question mark (that queer as yolk album art gave little hint), although careful readers have noted Nick Zinner's coming "to the party with a pile of vintage synthesizers." You don't need to be a careful listener to hear them here. "Zero" is It's Blitz!'s first single, a building, billowing synth-pop anthem with a little Blondie and a big crowd-baiting hook. It sorta splits the difference between Is Is's brawn and Show Your Bones's glitz. It's Blitz!

Washed Out - "Hold Out"

Life of Leisure, Washed Out's debut EP, is out now digitally via Mexican Summer (with a vinyl release due in early October), and he plans to release a cassette-only EP, High Times, via Mirror Universe in mid-September.