New Rave for newies

Listening too much to Klaxons made me search for similar artists on Last.fm (Klaxons have only one album.. yet: too good, but I want more!). I found a line of really cool bands, even one more lost song from Circolo degli Artisti: Late Of The Pier - Heartbeat. XD

And soon I discovered that I'm too much in New Rave.

Wiki says:

New Rave (sometimes labelled Nu Rave or Neu Rave) is a term applied to several types of music that go from fusing elements of electronic, rock, indie, to techno, hip house, electro, breakbeat. In Australia, it is also known as Electrindie.

No doubt that I would come to this: indie, electro, hehe..

So, in New Rave we have not so many but quite interesting bands. Here is some part of the stuff that I have heard:

Klaxons - perheps the most famous and still my favourites

Late Of The Pier - funny guys, like them, they have a drive

Crystal Castles - more 8-bit (need to explore this style more), but nice, more electro, female vocal)))

We Smoke Fags - listened to all the demos I guess.. waiting for the debut album. They are quite good!

Shitdisco - hmm... light, but.. O! K! XD

Hadouken! - too much hip-hop

Does It Offend You, Yeah? - they didn't impress, need to listen to more

MGMT - too... American. Didn't like so much.

In fashion, New Rave appears colourful. No surprises, it comes from the past! Exactly, tasteless 80s, it's like a reborn of Rave culture, where everything was neon, in different colours, and music was electro, techno, trance. But.. I like it!

New Rave now mostly touches rock scene, where there are too many dance-punk bands. Most of them combine exactly these 2 styles.

Wiki says:

The British music magazine NME is largely responsible for popularising the term throughout 2006 and 2007, despite having claimed in mid-2008 reviews that "New Rave is over".

I hope this music has a long way to go, because I like it! And I hope Klaxons will finally release their second damn album! Been tooooo long! :@