Formed by Brooklyn native Felix Feygin, Michael Banks and several friends, Chordashian just released their EP DON'T WAIT UP on Mullet Records. The digital EP contains three original tracks plus three remixes of the same tracks reworked by Downtown Party Network, Slow Hands and Sportloto. The first track of the lot is the "Don't Wait Up", has Michael Inge on lead vocals and he's perfect to give to the track the right funky soul touch that it needs as the band prepared for him a mix of synth arpeggios, bouncy bass lines, funky guitar riffs and spacey synth stabs. The following track is "Sea Crest", an instrumental tune characterized by analog synth pads, syncopated bass lines and funky guitar riffs. The instruments come and making it sounds like it was a nice remix and in this way they give to the track dynamic and space. The last original track is "The Jam", a sensual mid tempo with a nice synth work that prepare the field for guitar solos and piano chords. It would be nice used into a Miami Vice episode for its atmosphere. About the remixes, Downtown Party Network gave a touch of disco flavor to "Don't Wait Up" with 4/4 drum machine rhythms using handclaps and everything needed to make of it a party track. Slow Hands remixed "Sea Crest" making it turn into a atmospheric analog synth mid tempo keeping the guitar riffts and adding nice synth solos. Sportloto reworked "The Jam", which now sounds faster and a bit more disco.

SING MY BODY ELECTRIC is the newest Tobias Bernstrup album and it's his fourth one to date. Released on tape by the Russian label Other Voices, SING MY BODY ELECTRIC will be soon issued also on CD and white vinyl without two tracks: "Light Years Apart" and "A.S.F.R.". The first one has already been released, as well as "1984", "Enemies Of The Earth" and "Data Love" on the "1984" EP by Enfant Terrible in 2009. The album opens with a short introduction "Departure" and shows its value already with the second track "Dancing In The Shuttle", a vibrant electro pop song with a dancey flavor but with a bit of melancholy. "Can Play" follows the same path and it is able to please synthpop and italo disco lovers. The latter will be happy when they'll listen to the opening part of "Body Electric" as a synth arpeggio, synth stabs and a nice piano build the atmosphere of a sensual song. "Videodrome" is the first up tempo song of the album and it's there to be danced to along with the following "1984". "Light Years Apart" mix hard beats, synth arpeggios and synth melodies while Tobias sing: "We've reached the point of no return, your signal is weaker, your gravity's gone, I drift out of orbit, into the dark, away from you, tonight". "A.S.F.R." is another romantic mid tempo with dancey attitude which pairs with the following "Ugly Alone". "Roll The Camera" starts with a beat that is good to be danced by 80s b-boys but it grows into a great synthpop tune with cool melodies. "Data Love" is a classic italo influenced song with retro simmons pads taking care of the rhythm. "Enemies Of The Earth" is a mid tempo with light synth pads and bass line arpeggios where Tobias' deep vocals take the deserved attention. The album closes with "No Time To Die", a melancholic mid tempo where he duets with Miss Liz Wendelbo. This new album, in my opinion, is a huge step ahead for him because it still has a dance attitude but the songwriting is strong and catchy.