Despite coming to this EP with low expectations, having heards hundreds of takes on the whole LA, synth city theme with varying degrees of success, I was pleasantly surprised. The tracks are expertly, expertly produced with slick synths that perfecly coallesce.
French electronic gadget maestro Tommy ’86 is back with a brand new EP entitled “Disco Machine” released via 86′ Records . This shiny and glamorous assortment of songs is going to travel in through your ears and wear you like a sparkly outfit, its going to make you wanna move and its going to make you wanna party!
Following 2014’s brilliant ‘Metropolis’, Nightcrawler returns with perhaps his darkest work to date, ‘Strange Shadows’. The EP featuring 5 original and 4 remixes take great inspiration from Italian Giallo and horror movies of the late 70s and 80s.
Plug & Play, the swan song of Pittsburgh, PA’s Betamaxx, is the latest album to blow me away with its sometimes dreamy, often emotional, and consistently cool sounds.
Dan Terminus, pseudonymous darkwaver extraordinaire from Lyon, France, has released a real earful with Finland’s Blood Music, The Wrath of Code. And let me tell you, it’s a dizzying doozy of a musical ride.
Many of John Carpenter’s films have common threads that stitch them gently together. For instance, the majority of the visuals (camerawork, exposures, etc.) create a mood that is not only nightmarishly dark but also thrown into stark, bold contrast. It creates the effect of a spooky slap in the face. Carpenter is also known for scoring many of his own movies, and doing a superb job of it.
Street fighter II: The World Warrior is where the franchise started for most fans; though its prequel enjoyed moderate success, it was this one that truly caught on and blew new air into arcade fighting games as a genre.
Some wonderful Synthwave artists are trying to raise a bit of money for a handicapped girl, named Layla, who needs a new wheelchair. Daniel Deluxe, Dance With The Dead, Flash Arnold, VHS GLitch and more have kindly donated their albums and EP’s for this good cause.
I first became familiar with Musician/Composer Rich Vreeland AKA Disasterpeace after hearing his mystical and beautiful score for Nicolas Ménard’s 2013 short film, ‘Somewhere’. With a bunch of awesome game soundtracks already under his belt, including Fez and Bomberman Live: Battlefest, Vreeland’s latest musical adventure has seen him team up with Director, David Robert Mitchell (The Myth of the American sleepover) for a new horror movie entitled, ‘It Follows’. I was lucky enough recently to catch up with him for a chat.
Fred Perry the well known UK clothing brand for casual and sportswear has just launched a one-off line of gear inspired by the 80’s arcade classic Space Invaders and will definitely catch your retro-interests.
This lemon first premiered during the infamous Ninja Craze of the mid-eighties when martial arts ads were everywhere… Ads like “Ninja Power” or “Art of the Assassins” with pictures of masked caucasians with black masks, dressed like members of the caliphate, holding sharp swords, shurikens, posed beneath 1-800 numbers, next to other ads for weight-sets and muscle gain creams. You saw them in your comic books.
“The film is a short derived from a feature-length film script. The short will be used to raise further investment money to produce the feature.”
For all the retro producers out there. We need your submissions to make this soundtrack a success. Specifically the darkwave and cyberpunk specialists.