S U R VI V E - RR7349 singles

The band behind the soundtrack to Netflix 'Stranger Things' is releasing a new album on Sept 30th 2016, and have some amazing dark, driving synthy tracks available for listening.






I'll be certain to get their album once it's available on Bandcamp, but I'm hoping for a release of that amazing looking cover art too.



Music that reminds me of the dreams my childhood self had of the distant future: how the past remembers the future has been a preoccupation of mine artistically. I'm happy to see series like Stranger Things give a musical platform to modern acts like SURVIVE for that reason.

Check out the io9 article for more information about their upcoming (US) tour.

A previous 2012 album by the band in full, S U R V I V E - S U R V I V E:

Tears In Rain: A Tribute Album to Blade Runner (FCR)

A very well produced compilation paying tribute to the sound of Vangelis' Blade Runner sound track. The beginning of 'Shinjuku Rose' is a bit jarring, but the rest of the track - and album are stellar.

Full size album art:

Solomon Grey - Miradors

Trevor Something - Death Dream

 I enjoy the VHS electro haze of Trevor Something's releases. Some tracks also blur into a "High Tides" style of distortion which are dreamily pleasant too:

Mirror Mirror - Raindrops and other synthpop

Mild Peril - Ape Real

NIGHTRIDE FM - GTAV Fake Radio station with DJ KRAVINSKY

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Via LE MATOS Facebook: 

GAMES - Heaven Can Wait Mixtapes - Vol. 1-3

Amazing Aeroplane remixes

Sebastien Tellier - Kilometer (Aeroplane Italo 84 Remix)


Coyote - Too Hard (Aeroplane Remix)


Friendly Fires - Paris (Aeroplane Remix) ft. Au Revoir Simone

Noir Deco

Also, while embeding is disabled - check out Noir Deco's track "Cyberpolis".

Empathy Test

Check out the catchy sounding Synthpop duo called "Empathy Test". I love the Blade Runner reference. :)






Check out all this artists work on their YouTube account, or at their SoundCloud.

Yellow Magic Orchestra in the studio

Via Le Matos' Facebook.

Tobacco - Friends Music DVDs 1 and 2

Years ago, I came across the music artist Tobacco at a tiny Toronto record store. I bought the last copy of a CD of his (right out of the CD player), but haven't heard it in a while.

I was pleased to find out some vintage footage was mixed into 30 minute long mixes of some of his music. It's well worth watching, and unlike anything except Apex Twin:


Image source.

A Gap Between

I came across an excellent artist based in Portland called A Gap Between thanks to Tycho's Dazed Mix.

The title track is also available for free download an on Bandcamp compilation, Midnight Cassette.






Check out A Gap Bettween's Soundcloud for more hazy, chilled out synthwave with an 80's sound.

http://soundcloud.com/a-gap-between

Timecop1983 - Journeys

An excellent album from Timecop1983, including some collaborative tracks with guest vocals.





For more tracks by Timecop1983, see my last post on his EPs here.

Memory Tapes - September

Future Unlimited

Amazingly catchy retrowave synthpop by FUTURE UNLIMITED:










Future Unlimited Remix:



Future Unlimited Cover of Don't You (Forget About Me):


http://soundcloud.com/future-unlimited
http://www.afutureunlimited.com

Gothgaze / Darkwave Electronica - B R A I D E R

When I recommended this album to a friend, the Australian artist "Empty" came to mind. BRAIDER is certainly more atmospheric, while Empty is more club-oriented. I feel they could easily share a playlist: both share the same dark, futuristic soundscape.

 

Tycho - Awake Album

Via NPR:

The instrumental music San Francisco's Scott Hansen makes as Tycho splits the difference between post-rock's melodic architecture and pop ambient's immersive, uplifting environments. Hansen's aims felt a little harder to grasp on the sprawling Dive, the 2011 predecessor of his fourth album as Tycho, Awake. The latter is a slickly constructed album that finds him streamlining both his setup and his aims — the sounds he uses and how he deploys them are more considered and purposeful. 

Awake is focused on the dynamic between driving rhythms that wouldn't be out of place in M83's '80s-worshipping work and the stargazing romanticism of Ulrich Schnauss. In all of these songs, electric bass and live drums are locked on cruise control as litanies of guitar and Minimoog lines peel off in divergent, kaleidoscopic patterns. Things never crystallize into narrative song structures, but Tycho never loses the plot, offering the listener a steady succession of thematically united vignettes. In contrast to both the tension-and-release tactics employed by the likes of Mogwai and the wintry narcolepsy of Kompakt's Pop Ambient compilations, this succinct album — clocking in at just under 40 minutes — contents itself with being a seamless, vaguely melancholic reverie. 

Awake humbly suggests itself as the soundtrack to a sunbaked road trip, capturing the inexplicable nostalgia you feel imagining a new life in a new town glimpsed from the highway. Transitions within and between individual tracks take place so smoothly they register mostly as changes in atmospheric pressure rather than plot points. So when the album concludes with the floating "Plains," there's a nagging sense that it has done so prematurely. Music often requires some acclimatization before it can be fully appreciated. In Tycho's case, it's returning to the real world that takes effort.

The full album can be streamed from the NPR posting, found here.

Update: 

The full album is available for streaming/purchase links on SoundCloud:

Sources of Dreamwave

One of the few uses I have for Facebook is to access an RSS feed-like updates to various graphic artists and music groups.

One of the best gateways to what's available in the genre of 80's-esk modern music is "The Future Sound of the Past":
https://www.facebook.com/TheFutureSoundofthePast

It's well worth subscribing to if you're interested in seeing Dreamwave / Space Synth-wave / Electronic Dreams / Gold Funk / and Film Soundtrack posts in your news feed, and less into photos of what people had for dinner.