Futurecop! Voltrana
Futurcop!’s dreamy sonics flash back to the 80’s melodic-pop-soundtrack-soundscape of your retro dreams.
It’s as if they have wandered into a garage sale littered with retro gear from the 80’s, picked up as many authentic retro machines as they can carry and then set about creating an entire world of retro-future classics in their childhood basement.
The tracks resemble some forgotten gems from a lost 80’s fantasy film, with luscious pads and synthetic strings, served with up in a variant synthwave/retrowave genres, from electronic pop to chillwaved-chillstepped filmscored-dreamwave.
The production is sharp and clean whilst at the same time retaining an essence of decay, of a time passed. It sounds as though their electronic waves were mapped onto a retro tape recorder and then filtered back into a modern day DAW. They let loose on their 80s-style synthesizer-infused film scores with chunky basslines, analogue modelled pads, and chilling vocals melodies. All laced with passion, an ache for past time, a jolt of modern pop tilting into the future with heavy enthusiasm. The mesmerising sound of ricocheted pads are littered throughout the album, with instrumental tracks offering small intermissions, a break from the choreography of beats and sung melodies at just the right times to create space to reflect and consider what went before.
The overall ambience is light, creating space, making it appear as if there is a distance being travelled, a distance between things. Like the suns warmth that is a thousand lightyears away but still burns, so far, so close that it doesn’t even seem like a distance at all.
They demonstrate with each new synthesiser that there is poetry to these lost machines.
