London’s The Black Ghosts are what’s right with music today. We are excited to be collaborating with The Black Ghosts and IAMSOUND Records to bring to you, a series of music videos featuring The Black Ghosts music, made by talented filmmakers. Get your stream on!

Over the next two months, Missingtoof and our bigger bro, Big Stereo, will be debuting new videos from The Black Ghosts every Monday (alternating between our site and theirs). This will be building up to The Black Ghosts debut self-titled release on July 8th! I know I’m excited. Will the record be this generation’s “The Sounds of Silence” with a bassline? Perhaps! I’m very optimistic.

We typically avoid using press-release information verbatim, but the sentence explaining the video above can’t be improved on: “An ordinary day in the life of a gay couple of thieves with relationship problems.” The video is directed by young Brazilian film maker, Paulinho Caruso.

The next video, for the single, ‘Anyway You Choose To Give It’, will be premiered next Monday, May 12th, on Big Stereo (it alternates, get it?).

More to whet yr chops, here’s The Black Ghosts, ‘Mixtape’ mixtape. Courtesy of IAMSOUND & Southern Fried Records.

Tracklisting:

1. Boy 8-bit – The Suspense is Killing Me
2. Armand Van Helden - Je T’aime (Switch Mix)
3. SMD - Cliktrak
4. Ben Westbeech - Hang Around (Karisma’s Kaytronic Dub)
5. The Black Ghosts - Something New (Live Re-version)
6. Rustie - Pendulum
7. Frankmusik - Three Little Words (The Black Ghosts Mix)
8. Boy 8bit - Fog Bank
9. Trabant - The One (Black Ghosts Mix)
10. Siriusmo - Discosau
11. Proper Villians - Trick Baby
12. Lord Skywave - Something
13. Alter Ego - Fuckingham Palace
14. The Gossip - Listen Up (The Black Ghosts Remix)
15. The Black Ghosts – I want nothing (Extended Mix)
16. Fil Ok - Wink wink (Touché Mix)
17. The Black Ghosts - Some Way Through This (The Replicants Mix)
18. Bonde do Role - Marina Gasolina (Fake Blood Mix)
19. Fake Blood - Mars
20. The Black Ghosts - Face (Switch Mix)
21. The Whip - Muzzle #1 (The Black Ghosts Mix)
22. The Black Ghosts - Anyway You Chose to Give It (Extended Mix)
23. The Black Ghosts - Anyway you choose to give it (Fake Blood Mix)

MP3: The Black Ghosts - Mixtape (63:40 | 108MB)

Currently on tour through the US with Thunderheist, as part of the Colt 45/VICE Tour, The Black Ghosts whirlwind through Los Angeles, Atlanta, Chicago, Philadelphia and New York City all this week (RSVP here!) before returning to shows in Europe and Japan. Full tour information on The Black Ghosts MySpace tour page.

Visit The Black Ghosts on MySpace or their official site, Theblackghosts.co.uk.

More from The Black Ghosts in the Missingtoof archive.

Liverpudlian synthpopers Ladytron have a glorious return to form with their brand new track, ‘Black Cat’, the opener of the yet-to-be released fourth studio album, ‘Velocifero’ (full tracklisting on Wikipedia). The new record is produced by Ladytron with assistance from Ed Banger’s Vicaraous Bliss, Jim Abbiss of Arctic Monkeys production fame, and Alessandro Cortini (currently of seminal Industrial band Nine Inch Nails). The single ‘Black Cat’ carries a gothic synthpop sweetness with morose-toned Bulgarian verses from ‘tron’s Mira Aroyo.

MP3: Ladytron - Black Cat

The full-length ‘Velocifero’ has a street date of June 3rd and will be released on Nettwerk, the groups’ first for the label (Nettwerk was one of the first labels to abolish DRM and incredibly, paid legal defense for a teen downloader sued by the RIAA).

Ladytron always sounds better in bunches, so enjoy these—some we’ve posted before, some you’re likely to have heard before—all should be heard again. …These are remix collaborations with London new wavers Playgroup & Chicaco house heavyweight Felix Da Housecat, as well as Nine Inch Nails and Vicarious Bliss:

MP3: Ladytron - Destroy Everything You Touch (Playgroup Vocal Edit)

MP3: Ladytron - Play Girl (Felix Da Housecat Glitz Clubhead Mix)

MP3: Ladytron - Soft Power (Vicarious Bliss Gutter Mix)

MP3: Nine Inch Nails - The Beginning of the End (Ladytron Remix)

Ladytron tours through Europe, US and Canada beginning April 30th in Manchester. See if they stop by your town on Ladytron’s MySpace.

Shop Ladytron albums and downloads on Amazon.

Visit Ladytron on MySpace or their official Ladytron.com.

Our love for trippy Londoner songstress Martina Topley Bird runs deep (we told you so), as does our lust for Aussie techno-shoegazers Van She, that’s why I was ecstatic when I heard the sexy pair went half on a music baby (and don’t forget Danger Mouse did the original production for one hot Ménage à trois)! The tune came on my radio last this last Friday, part of The Crystal Method’s exceptionally good radio program “Community Service Radio” for Indie 103.1 (they stream it online, yo!). I immediately set out get that track(!), but sadly, it was beyond my reach. …Until now. Low and behold what’s just found its way to the ‘toofbox:

MP3: Martina Topley-Bird - Poison (Van She Mix)

We likes it! The full ‘Poison’ single drops on May 5th with an additional remix by British electro-rockers The Officers. Martina’s full length ‘The Blue God’ following up shortly after on May 12th, both released on London’s Independiente.

More Martina Topley-Bird in the archives (including her hip hop cover of a Chill Rob G classic!)
Oh and don’t neglect to check out tons Van She related goodies in the archives.

Visit Martina Topley-Bird on MySpace.
Visit Van She on MySpace

Bordeaux, France has a new powerhouse for hard-hitting techno and glitchy house in Strip Steve. The 20th release in the growing Boysnoize Records catalog (the new imprint founded by Berlinian electrophile Boys Noize, of course), Strip Steve’s debut EP, ‘Skip School’, is a credit to to the emerging label; it keeps pace with the ubiquitous mix friendly releases that have come before, from artists such as D.I.M., Shadow Dancer, Les Petits Pilous, PUZIQUe, and, naturally, Boys Noize. Here’s a pair from ‘Skip School EP’:

MP3: Strip Steve - Tommy Boy

MP3: Strip Steve - Ready Steady

Strip Steve made his first noise on Ed Banger affiliate label Arcade Mode, with the 2007’s B-side single ‘Skatin” (split with Das Glow’s ‘Sunburnt’ on the A-side):

MP3: Strip Steve - Skatin’

Strip Steve has shown his remix skill in this work for moody French pop-rock act Adam Kesher and one mysterious Chromeo remix that’s been floating around (even rearing its head in the recent Clifford Lidelle mix on this here blog) has presumably morphed into an instrumental track of it’s own, titled ‘You & I’ on the ‘Skip School EP’—just FYI. Now here’s Adam Kesher:

MP3: Adam Kesher - Irene (Strip Steve’s MTV Remix)

Visit Strip Steve on MySpace. And for those who read French, hyperlink over to the homie-blog Kidsbycolette for a Strip Steve interview.

British indietronica boys Hot Chip new record, ‘Made in the Dark’ dropped last week and, oh man, it’s the jam. Released on Astralwerks (they can do no wrong!), ‘Made in the Dark’ takes us through the the dark and the light—providing soft and thoughtful hymns that leave our ears dilated and inexpectant for the next blazing and glorious indie/dance groove. In other terms, the new record is a exciting and joyful music journey.

Anyone recall, ‘Shake a Fist’ that we hosted briefly last year? That track holds down track 2 among thirteen. Still fantastic, but let’s have another, a beautiful indie pop song titled, ‘Ready for the Floor’, with it’s official remixes by Floridian Hollertronix homeboy Diplo, the undeniably supreme Ghentlemen Soulwax and German houser Jesse Rose. Additionally a fine bootleg electro remix from one Marian Pramberger out of Austria.

MP3: Hot Chip - Ready for the Floor

MP3: Hot Chip - Ready for the Floor (Shake a Fist Diplo Mix)

MP3: Hot Chip - Ready for the Floor (Soulwax Dub)

MP3: Hot Chip - Ready for the Floor (Jesse Rose Mix)

MP3: Hot Chip - Ready For the Floor (Marian Pramberger Remix)

And for good measure—because we’re still not sick of this remix, and ’cause our missingtoof girl got a buncha Grammys last week—we’re bringing back Hot Chip’s remix of ‘Rehab’. So heat.

MP3: Amy Winehouse - Rehab (Hot Chip Remix)

Buy the new album ‘Made in the Dark’ on Amazon in either CD/DVD or Mp3 download formats.

Visit Hot Chip on MySpace or their official site, Hotchip.co.uk.