New Dance Techno Music 04/30/08

After the winter slump, dance and techno music has some new sounds for summer 2008 with excellent albums from Madonna, Robyn and Portishead out now.

Summer officially started this week, as far as heavy hitting new music releases goes. Tuesday came super-sized with new dance albums from Swedish dance pop phenomenon Robyn, and somber electro beats from Portishead. But the biggest release was of course Hard Candy from the one and only Madonna.

Nine Inch Nails continued to pour music onto the internet for free with last week’s single release of “Discipline” only to be followed this week by Coldplay who released their new single “Violet Hill” for free on the band’s website.

While technically not dance music at all, they have been in the studio working with Brian Eno who produced some of the best ambient electronic music of the 70’s and 80’s. Expect to hear some pretty interesting music from this team when the album is released in June.

UK new comer Estelle also released an album of danceable hip- hop featuring the single “American Boy” currently dominating the airwaves in the UK. And thought his single has yet to be released in the United States, Sam Sparro has released one of the strangest dance pop singles to come along in a long time.

“Black & Gold” may not be stuck in your head yet but give it a few months and everyone should be humming along to this impressive new release.