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A Space Love Adventure – Synth Punk EP

bryan.eddy@newretrowave.com — Tue, 07 Jul 2015 19:11:21 +0000

A Space Love Adventure has released an EP, and it’s everything his fans and supporters have been waiting for. Since 2011, ASLA has been producing synthwave music and honing his skills. You may have heard him on the Outrun Europa comp, as well as a few other places, but ASLA has finally given us his first full EP, a true-to-form set of tracks that is very 80’s, very cool, and very easy to enjoy.

Synth Punk EP by A Space Love Adventure

It’s only four tracks, but all of them will kick you straight in the ass and make you ready to rumble. “Red Blaze” is the opening anthem, and it’s an excellent way to start things off. A driving mid-tempo thump races alongside chord hits, guitar wails, and celestial high-end. The breaks and change ups are timed fluidly, and the track flows very well. “Avalanche 29” definitely has more of a darker sci-fi feel to it, with a similar tempo to the previous track but a more wandering, brooding feel. It is strong and intense. Once again, high and low blend beautifully, and the ever-present guitar continues to sing. Its keening solos are very realistic. ASLA (Alessandro) told me himself: “I normally like to use a real guitar, but for the Synth Punk EP, since I have no guitar with me, I used Garageband’s electric guitar VST, which I think is dope.” I’m inclined to agree with him!

We go even grimmer with “Reign of the Outlaws,” a slower track that nonetheless matches the others in raw intensity. Its arpeggio bass line, dreamy high notes and vast back-end invoke images of a post-apocalyptic sunset… gloomy, yet oddly hopeful. “Thunderchrome” wins me over as my favorite track on the EP; I love nothing more than to hear an artist wrap up a record with a track that has balls of steel. True to its brothers on the album, it has a driving tempo to it, and that old-boombox fade in effect is always a cool way to drop us into the action. In some superficial ways, it is similar to the first track, but definitely has its own character.

Alessandro posted this EP on social media with the disclaimer that it was “100% DIY” and said “don’t listen if you’re looking for polished sounds.” He was trying to be modest, which I appreciate, but let me clear things up: This is pretty damn polished for a DIY synthwave album. It’s very clear that a lot of effort and passion went into creating the music, and it’s obvious that ASLA will only continue to climb in altitude from here. I give Synth Punk EP an enthusiastic eight out of ten. Sunlover’s asking €3 for it, but it’s worth much more. I’d suggest you grab it!

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REMEMBER THIS… Part 5

JimBootstrap — Mon, 08 Dec 2014 07:34:00 +0000

Remember
This… Celebrity Crushes

Remember the time before
you discovered nudie magazines or what to do with it if you had it? Remember
watching the television from your bowl of Coco Puffs and seeing a woman that was
set apart from the others on screen. Remember how sometimes you’d watch that
program just to see that chick again? Who cares if it was just a Jordache jean
commercial? Who cares if they were only comic book characters? You would think about
that person after the credits rolled. You would find her spontaneously appearing in
your dreams. They fascinated you and in some indirect way you coveted them- you
cut out pictures from magazines and taped them to your wall and you followed their careers in
entertainment. They stole your heart, wore your ring and kept your
varsity jacket over their shoulders. It was love. Until you found the next
crush or discovered the lurid and treacherous game of real life relationships
and sex.

We
are talking about the childhood crushes here. No, not Sally or Tamika from
across the street. I mean the broads, ladies and dames of entertainment.
The hot members of the X-MEN, the sexy actresses from your favorite movies,
even the ladies of cable television; yes, even MTV’s Kari Wuhrer and Gadget from
the Rescue Rangers. I am talking about the crushes that nocturnal waterfalls
are made of.

I
can’t speak for each and every one of yous specifically. I can
only try to reach as far back into my own memory and pluck the celebrity crushes
that made me blush as a kid. Starting with:

Julie Brown – I was maybe 7 years old
when Just Say Julie was airing on MTV and I couldn’t keep my eyes off the
screen. I guess I’ve always had a sincere attraction to redheads, not a fetish,
and Julie Brown was my first. You may have noticed the easter egg I left in part
4 of this column, her music video for “The Homecoming Queen Has Gun” from
her first album Goddess in Progress. She
is a comedian, writer and actress who has helmed a number of television series
and appeared in such films as Clueless, the cult classic Shakes the Clown and
writing, producing as well co-staring in Earth Girls Are Easy. Her first appearance
in a feature film was the 1981 slasher film Bloody Birthday.

Demi Moore – I had a crush on her
when she first walked onto Moon Lighting
as a cameo. I had a crush on her in One
Crazy Summer. She broke our hearts in The
Seventh Sign. She made your mom cry in Ghost.
She was Nothing But Trouble and
killed it in Mortal Thoughts. It’s
not a perfect filmography but Demi Moore has been in a lot of good and great films. Hands
down and without a doubt one of the hottest women of the era and still hot and holding it down today. Possibly my longest lasting crush alongside Jennifer Connelly.

Cassandra Peterson – Jet black hair,
dressed to kill and drives a 1958 Ford Thunderbird, I’m either talking about a
pimp or I’m talking about the Mistress of the Dark Elvira. I remember one time
going to the video store with my mom and picking out Neil Jordan’s The Company
of Wolves on VHS… or was it Children of the Full Moon? I had no idea what the movie was
about or who was in it, all I knew was that on the cover it said Elvira’s
something, something, something, and there was this very buxom ivory pale woman
on the cover with her hair up in a beehive and I just knew I had to see what
was on that VHS. To this day I still have no recollection of what movie was
actually on the tape but, Elvira will remain a part of pop culture. Elvira’s Mistress
of the Dark (1988) is one of those movies that I will watch whenever it
comes on.

Jennifer Connelly – I didn’t know about her
scenes from The Hot Spot till years
later when I was leaving my teens and for many years I didn’t need to. All it
took was seeing her in Career Opportunities,
The Rocketeer, Dark City, and I was sold. 1996’s Mulholland Falls is a very slept
on noir and 2000’s Requiem for a Dream
is the closest thing to a genuine real world horror movie as you’ll get. For
some of you followers, she was half of maybe the first mainstream on-screen
lesbian kiss we had seen (Higher Learning
1995). She is the recipient of the 2002 Best Supporting Actress Oscar for
her performance in A Beautiful Mind. If Gary & Wyatt could use their weird science to create Lisa, then my genie
would look like Jennifer Connelly.

Nicole Lyn – Late 90’s, I was flat
on my back on the sofa watching boring Sunday morning television and Mighty Max
had just finished. Flipping through channels with the remote clicker and I came
across this odd random and out of place teen series on Fox 5. I couldn’t figure
out what the show was actually about but, I didn’t care I was sucked in and
fixated on the main star, or one of the main stars, named Nicole Lyn, one of the most jaw dropping beautiful black women I’ve seen on
film. I couldn’t stop watching the episode and before I knew it, it was over.
These were the days before TiVo and some programs weren’t listed so if you
missed it, guess what, you had to try and remember what time slot it aired and
hope to see it again. I had OCD over this show for 3 weeks just to look at this
chick. The series was called Student
Bodies and was a Canadian production however; Fox only carried it for a few
months in the States. In time I forgot about the show with the help of my
,then, limited attention span. A year or two later, Anne Rice’s The Feast of All Saints was premiering on Showtime as a
mini-series and behold one of the main stars was the same Nicole Lyn from
Student Bodies. It all happened again, only this time I actually watched the
drama. Some time after, I moved on. Until now, when the flashbacks all of
a sudden came back and with the help of the interweb I see she is still a
bombshell and still acting as well as DJ’ing under the name Ms. Nix.

Honorable mentions: Gillian Anderson (X-Files), Sherilyn Fenn & Madchen Amick (Twin Peaks), Nicole Ari Parker (Boogie Nights), Julianne Moore (Hannibal), Kristy Swanson (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Kathleen Robertson (Splendor), Melinda Clarke (Return of the Living Dead 3), Madonna (1982- 1991), Lisa Wilcox (Nightmare on Elm Street 4).

So, who were your celebrity crushes? List ’em if you got ’em in the comments below or where ever. Beauty never fades and neither will that rewind button your pressing.

TREVOR SOMETHING DROPS A HAUNTING MUSIC VIDEO FOR HALLOWEEN!!!

NewRetroWave — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 14:41:00 +0000

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

ENJOY!

………

TREVOR SOMETHING IS BACK AT IT!!

NewRetroWave — Mon, 28 Jul 2014 20:14:00 +0000

Pay close attention retrolovers. Trevor Something is planning something big …

Click below to see the greatness

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/summer-love-music-video-by-trevor-something

Please support and lets make this music video possible!!

CHILLED SYNTH BLISS – TREVOR SOMETHING DROPS A GEM

NewRetroWave — Thu, 20 Feb 2014 22:32:00 +0000

TREVOR SOMETHING – SYNTHETIC LOVE – REVIEW

Synthetic Love by Trevor Something

It’s been a month or so since Trevor Something dropped his highly-anticipated and we are excited to finally get around to reviewing it here on NewRetroWave. Right from the album’s intro Trevor Something drops where he comes from and what he is trying to achieve with the nostalgic sound of loading a tape into a recorder.

And seriously, you might easily mistake this release for something that hails from the days of cassettes and heavy eye shadow. The mood that prevails throughout the album is that of melancholic, droning vocals awash in a deluge of analog synths and pulsating bass.

At times sounding alternately like Pet Shop Boys on quaaludes and Depeche Mode in their prime, there is still a clear chillwave trademark present throughout the album’s tracks. Most of the songs are sung in what seems to be a quartal harmony which gives that slightly dissonant effect. In the end, the impression is less “Miami” as much as “80s UK New Wave”.

Lyrically, most of the tracks cover the wistful territory of fleeting encounters and haunting romantic feelings. As such it goes really hand in hand with the above-mentioned droning vocals. And the arrangements really focus on the voice punctuated only by the drum machine and ethereal synth background.

And while the marriage of these elements is quite happy, the overall finish is not quite as varied and top-notch as some other staples in the vocal synthwave subgenre (if you will) such as Tesla Boy’s debut album. Some tracks seem simply just like rearrangements of the previous ones.

Anyway, the album still manages to produce some outstanding tracks, and there’s a chance you might have heard them in the months leading up to the release as they were also dropped as singles.

FADE AWAY

The third track on the album was already released as a single in December last year and as soon as you hear it, it’s single qualities become obvious. Low-tempo beat, lush chord progression that just ooze longing and unrequited love, it’s all here. First track on the album you might find yourself humming as you’re obsessively hitting refresh on NewRetroWave’s Facebook page.

LOVE YOU AGAIN

Love You Again is perhaps the most atypical track of the album and while I found it veers a little bit too much into the area of Usher-like r’n’b it definitely deserves a mention. For once Trevor is exchanging the guise of the forlorn lover for a suave, sex-hungry bad ass motherfucker who just wants to “fuck her again, fuck her again”. Yes, children, explicit lyrics are name of the game on this tracks which might come as surprising but goes well with Trevor’s persona of a drug-loving swinging ladies’ man.

SOMETHING ABOUT YOU

A truly danceable track, Something About You features a truly bitching bassline and a nice breathy and echoey vocal styling. It’s good to hear Trevor totally head over heels about this mysterious girl – probably wearing a tight glittery dress and ruffled fiery big hair – and I actually wished the song was a little longer in the end. The 16-bit Remix of this track is really fun and wholly recommended (for just $1.50 on his Bandcamp it’s a steal).

SYNTHETIC LOVE

A really cool, chilled track to close the album with, this one includes a nice choir of robotic voices singing about the, well, synthetic love. Whether or not they like it is unclear but it’s all about the mood anyway. Keeping the structure quite simple, Trevor forgoes most of percussions for a focus on the harmonies and creating an almost hymnic feeling.

Final verdict? Like its name, Synthetic Love – although it actually manages to innovate synthwave at times – seems almost a little bit too synthetic at times (mostly due to the vocals). Above all, serves as a nice ID card for Trevor Something and helps to flesh out the mythos of this OD’d 80s musician that came from the dead.

Article written by

FIlip Galetic

http://about.me/filip_galetic

RANDOM RETRO PICS! – PART 1

NewRetroWave — Thu, 13 Feb 2014 17:04:00 +0000

😉

ROBOTS WITH RAYGUNS AND PATRICK BAKER REMAKE GOLD!

NewRetroWave — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 21:43:00 +0000

THIS IS ONE HOT RECORD.

WE LOVE PAT BENATAR !!!WE ARE ALWAYS WORRIED ABOUT REMAKES…BUT PATRICK BAKER DOES VERY WELL AND ADDS VERY SULTRY AND SMOOTH VOCALS FOR THIS REMAKE. RWR ALSO LAYS DOWN A HOT SYNTHPOP MODERN FLAVA WITH THIS TRACK!!

VERY INTENSE INDEED!!

😉

NIGHT RIDERS COME BACK WITH ANOTHER BANGER!

NewRetroWave — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 03:58:00 +0000

TIME FOR SOMETHING SOMETHING DIFFERENT

FROM THE GREATS WHO BROUGHT YOU THE CHROMATICS “KILL FOR LOVE” REMIX COMES A NEW 2013 SINGLE FROM THEIR FORTHCOMING ALBUM “FUTURE NOIR” …

SOMBRE DANSE

Sombre Danse (Single) by Night Riders

THOUGHTS?

NRW

ENJOY THEIR EPIC REMIX HERE