sellorekt / la dreams – NewRetroWave – Stay Retro! | Live The 80's Dream! https://newretrowave.com Stay Retro Sat, 04 Sep 2021 14:58:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://newretrowave.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/cropped-10906530_846941002018082_8508920941385779369_n-1-32x32.jpg sellorekt / la dreams – NewRetroWave – Stay Retro! | Live The 80's Dream! https://newretrowave.com 32 32 Sellorekt/LA Dreams – Cherry Vice https://newretrowave.com/2021/09/04/sellorekt-la-dreams-cherry-vice/ https://newretrowave.com/2021/09/04/sellorekt-la-dreams-cherry-vice/#respond Sat, 04 Sep 2021 14:56:29 +0000 https://newretrowave.com/?p=37128 It’s time to pick up your receivers, retroheads! Sellorekt/LA Dreams’s on line one and is demanding that you check out his latest album Cherry Vice, an album drenched in commodified office-space romance. With his efficient blend of Synthwave and officewave pastiche aesthetics, Sellorekt shows us why he’s second to none in delivering the saccharine sweet feel of eighties hypercapitalist pop-culture. For this latest record, Sellorekt/LA Dream takes us straight back to the idyllic fantasies that rest in the withering memories of old corporate VHS training videos. So sit back, kick your feet up and let your mind wander once more in the bittersweet embrace of the past’s ‘what ifs’, as in “what if I had asked my secretary Shelly out for dinner that weekend when her husband was out of town…”.

Favorite tracks : Heat, Night with you.

Sellorekt/LA Dream ‘Cherry Vice’ is out now via Bandcamp and Spotify

]]> https://newretrowave.com/2021/09/04/sellorekt-la-dreams-cherry-vice/feed/ 0 Top 10 Retrowave EP’s of 2020 https://newretrowave.com/2020/12/23/top-10-retrowave-eps-of-2020/ https://newretrowave.com/2020/12/23/top-10-retrowave-eps-of-2020/#respond Wed, 23 Dec 2020 19:48:30 +0000 https://newretrowave.com/?p=31279 10. Waveshaper – The Disk Hunter

The Gothenburg Synthwaver takes us on a night cruise through a majestic technopolis.

Listen to The Disk Hunter

9. Powernerd – Destroy to Create

Powernerd suits up in chrome battlegear and delivers an action-packed EDM-meets-Synthwave EP full of electrifying basslines and punchy beats.

Listen to Destroy to Create

8. Sierra – All About Love

Sierra’s existential angst reaches meets new depths of violence, lust and depravity.

Listen to All About Love

7. Gress –  MMXX

Pure industrial dark synth Armaggedon made in Russia. The soundtrack to your neighbour’s moving out.

Listen to MMXX 

6. Nightstop – Stalking Danger

Night driving music full of scintillating synths and funky beats. Old tropes shine anew through brilliant execution.

Listen to Stalking Danger

5. Makeup and Vanity Set – Tesseract

The masked Synthlord teams up with cyberpunk artist Liam Wong for a short trip down the murky back-alleys of NeoTokyo.

Listen to Tesseract

4. Florida Skyline – Machinekore. (Demos)

A collection of tracks by a young prodigy from Russia, who tragically passed last December.
Blending Vaporwave, Synthwave and EDM, Sophia’s posthumous demo EP is an unrivalled display of sophistication and raw talent.

RIP Sophia

Note:  100% of proceeds collected from Florida Skyline’s Bandcamp are donated to Transgender Equality Related Organisations.

Listen to Machinekore. (Demos)

3. Mitch Murder – Artifact

A fantastic set of leftover tracks from the Swedish producers’ Cyberpunk 2077 sessions, compiled into an EP. Perfect to fuel up your shootouts across Night City.

Listen to Artifact

 

2. STRNGR – Bumping Uglies

A filthy couple of dark electro tracks by Cincinnati’s bloodthirsty STRNGR.
For those who like their Synthwave black and unsweetened.

Listen to Bumping Uglies

1. Sellorekt/LA Dreams – Back at the Office

A brilliant throwback to Office life in the 80s’ at the crossroads between Synthwave and Vaporwave.

Listen to Back at the Office

 

 

 

List Compiled with help from Andrew Zistler.

]]> https://newretrowave.com/2020/12/23/top-10-retrowave-eps-of-2020/feed/ 0 NewRetroWave Weekly Selection 16 https://newretrowave.com/2019/09/20/newretrowave-weekly-selection-16/ https://newretrowave.com/2019/09/20/newretrowave-weekly-selection-16/#respond Fri, 20 Sep 2019 18:51:53 +0000 https://newretrowave.com/?p=28272 Welcome wavers to NewRetroWave Weekly Selection!

Friday afternoons mean one thing – the NRW Weekly Selection.
We’re striving to bring you the best of the best. From outrun to darksynth, we have your weekend covered!

W.A.V.E. by Emil Rottmayer

Gamble by Dj Ten

Circuitry of Doom by Microchip Terror

Last Summer With You by Sellorekt/LA Dreams

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10. Sellorekt/LA Dreams – Shadow Voices
by Sellorekt/LA Dreams

9. Carbon Killer – Carbon Inc
by Jay Jackson

8. Lucy In Disguise – Unknown Frequency
by Fvckrender
7. Mitch Murder – Hardwired
by Junkboy
6. Deadlife – Variation on the Resolve
by SKEOR
5. DJ Ten – Trinity
by Fab Ciraolo 
4. Astral Tales – Seafari
By Magdalena Radziej
3. Hollywood Burns – Invaders
by View from the Coffin

2. The Midnight – Kids
by Aaron Campbell

Honorable Mention:
Microchip Terror – Illegal Experiments
by Microchip Terror

Honorable Mention:
Neoslave – Messiah
By : Andrew Tremblay 

1. Carpentur Brut – Leather Teeth
By Jesse Daubertes & Adrien Havet

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10. SID64 – Future Nostalgia

Charles Michaud’s alter ego SID64 illustrates the potential that music has to tell stories. His experience composing film soundtracks no doubt lends itself to the best parts of his summer EP Future Nostalgia. The lead synth lines are the highlight, and they shine best on “Violet City”.

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9.  Moondragon – Miramar

While many artists in theretrowave / synthwave / outrun scene focus on the atmosphere created by and created for driving, Moondragon looks to the skies. Even without the Bandcamp description, Troy Simpson’s music lives in the experience of liftoff. “Maneuvers” is the biggest standout track. 

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8.  The Starfighter – After Hours

Dustin Fraser’s retro-inspired project The Starfighter is unique in that there is an understanding of the kind of power empty space can have in music. Just because every moment of a song can show you how fancy it can be with melody or effects doesn’t mean that is neccesarily always should. The open spaces are exactly what make After Hours memorable and groovy. The best song here is “Night Hawk”.

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7.  Waveshaper – Solar Drifter

Solar Drifter opens with one of the most danceable songs of 2015, regardless of genre. While “Stellar Jupiter” is the best song on the EP, the supporting songs after it each bring a confident and catchy mix of sounds. This was one of the first new releases I heard this year, but it stuck with me since. 

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6. Raydar – Evil Squad

If the first track on your release is titled “Satan”, you know exactly what you are doing. Evil Squad is as menacing as it is infectious from beginning to end. It manages to blend in several glitch hop elements throughout the five-track run. The best song is ” Lycanthrope”, which is set dead in the middle of the EP.

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5. Sebastian Gampl – Winner

Winner is not homage to music from the 1980’s. Apart from the release date, it is music from the 1980’s.  I have a soft spot for vocal synthwave, and the vocals on this EP are a perfect match for the music, and the melodies are exceedingly catchy. “Without You” is the highlight here.

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4. Robert Parker – Cardinal

Cardinal is an EP that knows it’s cool. It expertly weaves 80’s synths with 90’s nu-disco grooves and funky bass lines.  The production is clear and punchy, serving the funk and disco. The way Robert Parker weaves music from three decades, in particular on the track “Flashback”, shouldn’t be missed.

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3. SelloRekT / LA Dreams – Sounds and Waves

Being “weird” in terms of sound is impressive in its own right. What is more difficult, however, is composing weirdly. The songs on SelloRekT / LA Dreams’ EP Sound and Waves utilize familiar sounds from the scene, but every single track contains surprising melodies and turns that you don’t expect the songs to take. The album leaves an impression of being strange while not always being able to tell exactly why. It’s the songwriting. The titular track, “Sounds and Waves”, is the standout. 

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2. OGRE – Gradients Live

And once in a very long while, an artist comes along with a release that manages to be constantly unexpected in terms of craft and sound, all the while pushing the genre into territory as of yet unexplored. The entire EP was recorded live and in one take on forty-year-old cassette. And that odd quality to the sound? You’re hearing all hardware. Nothing on this EP was created in a computer. It’s odd and catchy and atmospheric all at once. A large part of the charm is found in the improvisational quality the music has, but it’s built on a foundation of true talent. If OGRE refines it, I can honestly see him releasing the Kid A of synthwave albums. Every song on this EP is the standout, but if I absolutely had to pick: “A3”. 

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1.  The Northern Lights – Teenage Wasteland

The Northern Lights released an excellent album this summer under the moniker Astronaut Arcade. Teenage Wasteland was released shortly after, and it feels like the night following the summer day that permeated that album. The indie and nu-gaze influences can still be heard on this EP, where they are complemented by either catchy and breathy vocal performances or catchy and breathy synths. It’s chilled out, well written, and sonically interesting from beginning to end. “Say Goodbye” leads the pack as the closing track, bringing in everything that made the EP great with what I swear is some inspiration from Twin Peaks.

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