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Pet Shop Boys, “Axis” (Boys Noize Remix)

Very electro, very electric.

Pet Shop Boys, “Axis”
Buy “Axis” on iTunes • Preorder Electric on iTunes

The first single from the forthcoming Electric is a slab of high-NRG madness for the duo, recalling the more rave-oriented material from Relentless and their remixes for Madonna and Yoko Ono while bringing them up to date for modern dancefloors. Judging by this first glimpse, the duo’s decision to produce an album with Stuart Price was a very smart thing.

Teaser for Pet Shop Boys’ new album, Electric, due in June.

Pet Shop Boys leave Parlophone - new album confirmed for June | Music Week

Pet Shop Boys, Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe, have left Parlophone Records after 28 years and signed their forthcoming studio album Electric to Kobalt Label Services in a global deal.

The duo, who signed to Parlophone in 1985, have cloked up 42 Top 30 singles and four No.1s on the label.

Electric was produced by Stuart Price and will be released in June 2013. The band will embark on the “Electric” tour this year, which includes a night at London’s O2 Arena on June 18th.

Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe said in a statement: “This is a very exciting point in our careers. We are hugely proud of the new album and are very pleased to be working in conjunction with Kobalt. We’d like to thank everyone we’ve worked with at Parlophone over the last 28 years both in the UK and abroad.

1992 promotional video for Cicero, who was the first artist signed to Pet Shop Boys’ Spaghetti Recordings.

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“ It’s seven o’clock on a freezing Monday evening in London and – outside the posh Grosvenor House Hotel – a large crowd of girls is, inexplicably, bawling “The Union of the Snake” at the tops of their voices.
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Neil Tennant on the 1985 Brits – a classic feature from the vaults | Music | guardian.co.uk

Friend of Disco Potential Mark Clapham (here he is on Wikipedia!) sent over these clippings he’d unearthed recently from Pet Shop Boys slightly after their imperial phase, in the space between Behaviour and Discography. Our favorite is probably the ridiculously posh “What gift would you like to receive?” answer, but the birthday tribute to his on-stage wear is also worth a laugh.

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Pet Shop Boys, “Memory of the future” (Ulrich Schnauss Remix)

The new Pet Shop Boys single is now available in the US on Amazon. (“Memory of the future” | “Memory of the future” Remixed)

Idolator has the Stuart Price extended remix of "Memory Of The Future" by Pet Shop Boys

As the Robbie Daw points out, this version shares a lot of DNA with some of the extended versions of songs by producers like Shep Pettibone from early in Tennant and Lowe’s career. Meanwhile, Rolling Stone has Ulrich Schnauss’s take on the track, which sounds very much like an Ulrich Schnauss remix of the song: spacey and full of floaty synths.

Elysium may not be the triumphant dance record a lot of Pet Shop Boys fans want it to be, but the remixes from the singles have proven that the duo is still interested in what goes on in the clubs. In fact, the most recent issue of Literally discusses how they deliberately chose to avoid the EDM sound, which is probably smart. The best Pet Shop Boys records use a dance sound that is contemporary without being faddish.

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Pet Shop Boys leave Parlophone - new album confirmed for June | Music Week

Idolator has the Stuart Price extended remix of "Memory Of The Future" by Pet Shop Boys