I found out later on that she’s a professional ‘top-line’ writer for numerous mahoosive major label popstars. Combine that fact with a nifty sideline in serious minimal techno disc-spinning and all the pieces of her puzzle begin to fall ever-so-neatly into place. We got chatting afterwards. We covered the same conversational ground you’d expect with any lektro-pop hopeful. Y’know; Black Flag, world economics etc.

Watch video of MNDR live at SXSW and her interview with NME here.

When MNDR played our monthly FADER Bowl, we were convinced the crystal necklace she was wearing was going to shoot lasers out of it, or perhaps assist in her animorphing to a unicorn and spiriting away to save a distant land. While that didn’t happen, she did look pretty superhero-like beneath the pink light of the stage, holding court with yet another one of her future mega-hits. And even if she can’t control the universe with her accessories, she clearly has quite a handle over pixel-stars and synth modules, which is good enough for us if she’s gonna keep making songs like this.

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The one-woman DJ squad MNDR (pronounced “mandar”) is spearheading the second wave of vowel-less electro acts from Brooklyn, aided by this infectious dance-pop track.

Take a listen here.

MNDR is a one-woman DJ/producer/electronic artist who’s recently remixed Major Lazer’s “Pon de Floor” and now is working on her debut full-length. Not sure if this cut will find its way to that release, but as catchy as this fractured electro-pop tune is, it could certainly seem to be a candidate for one of the album’s singles. Check out a few more tunes at MNDR’s MySpace.

Take a listen here.

…MNDR’s “Fade to Black” is a pretty stunning IDM track that I had the pleasure of hearing at Littlefield on Saturday during the Girls’ Guide to Rocking event. She’s like Annie but, dare I say it, better, though she has fewer notches on her belt.

Listen to Fade To Black here.

It’s tempting to picture currently-NY-based producer/vocalist MNDR 24-7 surrounded by hotwired gear, Frankensteinian drum machines and patched together pedals, a sort of musical robot extension of her arms—her crystal-clear pop voice and gleaming beat sequences just invokes that shit. “Fade to Black” is a total iPod burner, completely anthemic in a song-of-the-summer style with an outburst chorus that evokes the bigness of “Kids in America” or Pat Benetar’s “Invincible”—which is not to say it’s retro, just that it makes us want to walk down the street with our crew, amassing unrelated passersby until we have like a Puerto Rican Day Parade-sized posse following us down Madison, all singing the chorus of this in unison. So maybe MNDR is secretly Ferris Bueller? Listen to it on her MySpace, along with another epic, the wobbly new “Jump In.”

* Julianne Escobedo Shepherd

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