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OK this is awesome. We really need to start writing about more Turkish pop stars because Nazli is our new favorite. Yesterday the singer dropped this clip for "Saygı Duruşu" and it's basically hypnotic. The song was produced by Volga Tamöz'ün (at leat we think we got that right) in conjunction with Yazz Records. The tune translates to "homage" or similar and the guy who wrote the lyrics told this website that the song is an "homage to the high energy of a full summer." And then it gets kind of odd (or maybe just Google translate is terrible?): the tune is also about "love on the eve of departure, such as those in the pharmaceutical future," the songwriter (think his name is Güven Baran) says of Nazli's new tune. Anyway, excellent electro-infused beats cross-checked with live instrumentation and eastern-leaning modalities...what's not to like? Check it.

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Today, Danish band The Asteroids Galaxy Tour debuted their latest clip and it's a stylish winner. "Major" was shot inside Funkhaus Berlin Nalepastrasse, a legendary 1950's building complex designed by architect Franz Ehrlich and originally commissioned as a broadcasting centre with self-contained infrastructure on the site of a partially destroyed veneer factory in Berlin-Oberschöneweide. Today, the site is a a recording studio and boasts band rehersal rooms (and more). Anyway, great looking clip for a fantastic song by the act, who we first wrote about last year just as their Heineken commercial was going viral in Europe (it took a bit longer for that ad, and subsequently the band, to get known in the U.S.). After touring America last fall, The Asteroids Galaxy Tour are now a known quantity in hipper indie circles Stateside (America is their biggest market now, incidentally). This new clip will only help.

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Not everyone in Scandinavia has blond hair. And not everyone is perennially perky, either. Take, for example, darkwave goddess Karin Park. The Swedish singer-songwriter who has lived in (and maybe still does) Norway has had some Scandi success the past few years with less-than-sunny material that might appeal to Depeche Mode fans or even a few fans of Goth music. But Lady Gaga lovers will also like her. Her latest is "Restless" and it's a dark pop masterpiece, with chilling synths and standout vocals. Per her bio, her latest record "combines electronica, industrial, dubstep and synth pop with her unmistakeable, truly unique voice." Her forthcoming album (Highwire Poetry) drops May 28th and "was influenced by her strict religious upbringing in a remote Swedish town and the three years she spent in a Japanese missionary school," per England's Guardian. Barry Barnett and Christoffer Berg (The Knife etc) produced the set. Not sure if she's joking or not, but she claims this video was shot in her current house, a church (spooky yet awesome).

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OK so they aren't really sweeping Switzerland, but we did discover Eklipse on a Swiss website. And they are getting popular, at least amomg German and Swiss press outlets, who can't get enough of Miss E. (violin), Scarlett (violin), Viola (viola) and Helen (cello): the four mysterious ladies who make up Berlin-based string quartet Eklipse. Their debut music video, a cover of Justin Timberlake's "Cry Me A River," is now approaching 100,000 views and the act has been touring with Nightwish across the Atlantic. Anyway, they also cover Lady Gaga, Linkin Park, David Bowie and Kate Bush (the gals have a new video dropping soon and they are managed by the same German firm that handles Guano Apes). Eklipse randomly met in St. Petersburg at the White Nights Festival. Check out their soon to go viral clip below. (h/t hitparade.ch)

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Here's a welcome return to the scene from Dutch singer Esmée Denters. We last wrote about her in 2010, when she was cold kickin' it with Justin Timberlake and she's been active on Twitter and on You Tube in the meantime over the past few years, she just hasn't been releasing many actual music videos (aside from covers, that is). However, now the singer has just dropped a little gem on her twitter followers (like us): a promotional video for UK-based make-up company 17 Cosmetics. The brand has made this song by Esmée their "summer anthem." Every time a new product comes out, the company releases a new '17 make up song' and sometimes a video. What you'll see below is one of those promo clips. Super summer vibe, check it.

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