with – NewRetroWave – Stay Retro! | Live The 80's Dream! https://newretrowave.com Stay Retro Tue, 13 Feb 2018 12:15:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.7 https://newretrowave.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/cropped-10906530_846941002018082_8508920941385779369_n-1-32x32.jpg with – NewRetroWave – Stay Retro! | Live The 80's Dream! https://newretrowave.com 32 32 ROBOTS WITH RAYGUNS TAKES TAYLOR SWIFT TO NEW LEVELS! https://newretrowave.com/2015/09/17/robots-with-rayguns-takes-taylor-swift-to-new-levels/ https://newretrowave.com/2015/09/17/robots-with-rayguns-takes-taylor-swift-to-new-levels/#respond Thu, 17 Sep 2015 14:34:32 +0000 http://new-retro-wave.com/2015/09/17/2015917robots-with-rayguns-takes-taylor-swift-to-new-levels/ Is "The Swift" looking for new ways to infiltrate the synth scene again?I Watch your back folks!

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Ahem…

This is the track that got Taylor all askew. A golden oldie from RWR with smooth retro vibes.

Is “The Swift” looking for new ways to infiltrate the synth scene again?I Watch your back folks!

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]]> https://newretrowave.com/2015/09/17/robots-with-rayguns-takes-taylor-swift-to-new-levels/feed/ 0 Dance With The Dead Team up with Big Giant Swords https://newretrowave.com/2015/05/07/dance-with-the-dead-team-up-with-big-giant-swords/ https://newretrowave.com/2015/05/07/dance-with-the-dead-team-up-with-big-giant-swords/#respond Thu, 07 May 2015 16:40:49 +0000 http://new-retro-wave.com/2015/05/07/201557dance-with-the-dead-team-up-with-big-giant-swords/ NRW was lucky enough to connect with Mike and help this cool collaboration reach it's full retro potential. Featuring music from "Dance With The Dead"...we present to you

"THE CLAW"

]]> If you guys are familiar with “Big Giant Swords” that aired/ still airs on Discovery Channel, you will be no stranger to Michael Craughwell’s supreme craftsmanship when it comes to weapon making.

http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/big-giant-swords/

NRW was lucky enough to connect with Mike and help this cool collaboration reach it’s full retro potential. Featuring music from “Dance With The Dead”…we present to you

“THE CLAW”

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]]> https://newretrowave.com/2015/05/07/dance-with-the-dead-team-up-with-big-giant-swords/feed/ 0 Confrontational – Done With You https://newretrowave.com/2015/02/24/confrontational-done-with-you/ https://newretrowave.com/2015/02/24/confrontational-done-with-you/#respond Tue, 24 Feb 2015 22:12:01 +0000 http://new-retro-wave.com/2015/02/24/2015224confrontational-done-with-you/ Upon receiving this from our editor and firing it up to listen, I was immediately reminded of a stark and grim horror soundtrack… then surprised to hear the layers begin to take shape. And that was just the beginning for Done With You, a delightfully shadowy little EP from Confrontational. 

]]> Upon receiving this from our editor and firing it up to listen, I was immediately reminded of a stark and grim horror soundtrack… then surprised to hear the layers begin to take shape. And that was just the beginning for Done With You, a delightfully shadowy little EP from Confrontational. After scouring the net for a little background, all I could find was that Confrontational is from southern Europe. Mysterious suits me just fine as a retrowave fan… plenty of our heroes go that way. It detracts nothing from the impact of these songs.

 

The aforementioned intro track, “Wanderer In Darkness,” leads perfectly, establishing the tone and mood of the whole set. Soft organ chords and carefully faded-in rhythm establish a good sense of spookiness without being corny or over-wrought. The titular track is a bit more upbeat, and VERY 80s. Vapory guitar strumming and flanged synth accompany some excellent vocals, which surprised me with their quality. They don’t seem doctored or tuned at all… whoever’s singing is very talented. It’s almost on par with stuff like New Order, but not as monotonous as they can be. There’s more of the same on the next track, “Giving Ground (The Sisterhood),” but unless I’m mistaken, there’s a second vocalist? I’m led to believe this may not be someone’s solo work. If it is, they have a very impressive range. This track also has some great guitar solo work. It comes across as darkly romantic, which doesn’t appeal to me personally but is extremely well-executed and therefore earns my respect. Ghostly lead-ins and Vangelis-esque arpeggios open up the final track, “Under This Crimson Sky.” This time the vocals are being delivered through a filter… it’s a familiar sound setup, and maybe impresses me the least of all four tracks, but it avoids being a total drone-fest. Overall production on these tracks is commendable, very sharp and crisp with nothing sloppy about it.

 

I’d give this album seven out of ten. It’s a solid, professional effort, holds significant genre appeal, and the vocals are quite good. It is definitely worth a listen.

 

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NONE OTHER THAN
DANCE WITH THE DEAD
WITH
SEND THE SIGNAL
THIS EP IS EVERYTHING!!


NRW
]]> https://newretrowave.com/2014/12/16/wretrowave-com201412this-weeks-must-listen-to-album-is-html/feed/ 0 DANCE WITH THE DEAD DROP AN EPIC ALBUM YOUR YOUR EARS!! https://newretrowave.com/2014/08/28/wretrowave-com201408dance-with-dead-drop-epic-album-your-html/ https://newretrowave.com/2014/08/28/wretrowave-com201408dance-with-dead-drop-epic-album-your-html/#respond Thu, 28 Aug 2014 17:39:00 +0000 http://new-retro-wave.com/2014/08/28/wretrowave-com201408dance-with-dead-drop-epic-album-your-html/ Near Dark by Dance with the Dead
Having already released an album in March, music duo “Dance with the Dead” are back again with another work of retro music art that we have all come to know as “Near Dark.” Fans of the previous two albums (Out of Body, Into the Abyss) will not be let down as this album will take you on another powerful and melodic roller coaster ride (one with an undead theme of course).
 
The first five tracks are a work of non-stop energy that is put together in a perfect order. The opening song “Invader” sounds like it is giving you a preview of what you are about to experience on this album. Kind of like those appetizer samplers you can get at Applebees only instead of mozzarella sticks, quesadillas and chips you’re getting synth hooks, powerful drums, and guitar shredding. The song “Waves” might be the best song on this album as it has a catchy hook and a drum track that you will never get out of your head similar to other Synthwave epics like “So Electric” by Lifelike & “King of the Streets” by Lazerhawk.
 
 
The song “Eye of the Storm” gives you the sad feeling of expecting death. With its long, sad ensemble like sound this song could be playing on your stereo while you see a storm cloud that you know is full of acid rain slowly hovering over your city and you know what’s coming. It serves as a nice break from the non-stop energy you feel from the tracks before it.
 
The title track “Near Dark” and the song “The Pitt” might just be the two favorites of most Dance of the Dead fans and fans of anything 80s horror. If you were to put this song in the opening credits for a movie such as “Day of the Dead” or “Return of the Living Dead” you would have never guessed that this song was made in the year 2014.
 
 
Near Dark may just be Dance with the Dead’s best album yet. They’re still sticking to the horror theme that adds to the chilling but yet groovy vibe of their music and makes them stand out from the rest of the emerging music genre known as New Retro Wave. This album is a future classic and a must own for any fan of electronic music.
 
 
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– R. Lopez
]]> https://newretrowave.com/2014/08/28/wretrowave-com201408dance-with-dead-drop-epic-album-your-html/feed/ 0 ROBOTS WITH RAYGUNS AND PATRICK BAKER REMAKE GOLD! https://newretrowave.com/2013/04/10/wretrowave-com201304robots-with-rayguns-and-patrick-baker-html/ https://newretrowave.com/2013/04/10/wretrowave-com201304robots-with-rayguns-and-patrick-baker-html/#respond Wed, 10 Apr 2013 21:43:00 +0000 http://new-retro-wave.com/2013/04/10/wretrowave-com201304robots-with-rayguns-and-patrick-baker-html/
 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!!
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