ADAM TYLER “Fade Into The Light”
This week sees the official release of the first new original song from L.A. based singer Adam Tyler since Summer ’11, when songs from his debut album Shattered Ice popped out in all the right places. He steps back as far as 2010’s “Friction” to grab some darkness for both the lyrics and melody of “Fade Into The Light”, darker in a much different way than say from “Like A Drug” from Shattered Ice. As portrayed in the video, hot off the presses today, the song broadcasts images of isolation and emotional scarring, but with the intent on letting go for something better. Both radio edit and extended versions (available on iTunes) wrap you up in mid-tempo dance rhythms that shift into Skrillex-y dubstep territory which becomes a climactic moment in the song. “Fade Into The Light” is a grower for sure and serves as both a welcome introduction for new fans and a change up for those of you like me who look forward to whatever Adam sings next. I’m looking forward to seeing some producers get their hands on “Fade Into The Light” for some remixes to help it blow up in dance clubs! Adam is great to connect with – high school students who saw him in concert recently at their schools know what I’m talking about 🙂 Join him on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/adamtylerx!
ELI ESCOBAR featuring NOMI RUIZ “Somebody To Love Me”
I love dance music that wraps itself up in many styles and then…. BOOOM! “Somebody To Love Me” benefits greatly from Jessica 6 vocalist Nomi Ruiz’s diverse and seductive voice that we fell in love with a few years back with songs like “Prisoner Of Love” from the NYC trio’s See The Light album. Since then they’ve played worldwide in clubs, and another new record will put them on the international map. Producer Eli Escobar’s melting pot of styles sends you swinging one way back to 70’s disco days (Cher’s “Take Me Home” comes instantly to mind and not for kitschy reasons) and then onward to the mid-90s to bask in flavour from the likes of Crystal Waters or The Bucketheads. “Disco -that’s where the happy people go, and they’re just dancing along, to the perfect song” sang The Trammps in 1975. Songs like “Somebody To Love Me” help put you right there.
ASHTON ZANECKI “1,000 Grand”
I’m really sold on the talent of young American singer Ashton Zanecki, who has been garnering attention online since he was 14. A few years later, and he is growing song by song. Earlier this year, I was totally abuzz in Winter Popervescence about his gloriously fun cover of Cher Lloyd’s “Want U Back” – a song I don’t even like in its original version! But his spontaneous performance and appealing sense of wacky humour convinced me (you can watch “Want U Back” again below, especially if you want to smile). “1,000 Grand”, an original (available on iTunes), might try to portray him as almost a male version of Ke$ha, but our boy has other vocal and lyrical tricks up his sleeve to say yeahhh… but there’s so much more to listen to. It’s all about bringing the entire package home and Ashton Zanecki does just that. Given more time and guidance, he should soon have a large fan base. So great to see our friends at EQ Music Blog managing Ashton for this start of promising songs to come.
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