Synthwave #6

Synthwave Gaming Vol. III

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Synthwave Dream

Synthwave

January 2020

::: e radio: january 2020

WL//WH - FEBRUARY 2020 \\ Post Punk/Coldwave/Darkwave/SynthPop/Minimal Synth

WL//WH - FEBRUARY 2020 \\ Post-Punk/ Coldwave/ Darkwave/ SynthPop/ Minimal Synth

::: e radio: 2020 retrowave

Telepopmusik - Breathe Extended Mix

"Separate Ways" - Maxthor Cover

Dark Wave tribute to Bergman's masterpiece.

Chorus:
In the place between night and dawn
In the space where we die and are born
In the deepest of our fear
that is when we are so near
x2

Verse:
On the footsteps of your door
Images from long before
A picture of you and me
Huddled up in each others arms 
Protected from hurt and harm
Images from long before
On the footsteps of your door

Chorus:
In the place between night and dawn
In the space where we die and are born
In the deepest of our fear
that is when we are so near
x2

Bridge:
The wolf is outside now
Waiting for your next move
The wolf is inside now
It has always been here, locked inside our womb
So unleash the hounds of hell
'Cause nothing can stand between us and the fangs of doom

Chorus:
In the place between night and dawn
In the space where we die and are born
In the deepest of our fear
that is when we are so near
x2

Hour Of The Wolf

Maxthor's debut LP "Another World", released July 21 (2016).
BUY link:
https://maxthor.bandcamp.com/album/another-world


Another World

Set Your Wheels On Fire

Original track by A Flock of Seagulls.
If you want to download the track for free send me a PM ;)

"I Ran (So Far Away)" - Maxthor Cover

Master System - Daily News

Alex Bent - Vanilla Blue [We Were Lovers Remix]

Crushing Infiniti

Mach Pursuit

23h of Love

Forward To The Past

Space Ferrari

Buy Now

ZAYAZ - Sputnik

Here is my new album, back to sounds that could be found on Sunset Riders album (Juno, Prophet, Korg Polysix...) still dreamy but a little more powerfull, with a great nostalgia for this period of my life, and the sign of a new departure. With as inspiration, artists like Mitch Murder, The Midnight, Hello Meteor, who are part of my greatest teachers of electronic music, so its an album of which I am particularly proud, I hope you'll enjoy it!

Tonight

Download

The Stolen Years [LIMITED EDITION CASSETTE]

Time In Slowmotion

Step Forward

A little tribute to two bands that we like very much!

VNV Nation vs Daft Punk - When Will We Get Lucky In The Future (Mashup by Xenturion Prime)

Phase Of Space

"After daybreak, everything is perfect… majestic."

The sun is rising; just the right moment. Idyllic, as the cold night dew returns back to the sky the majesty of the world shines. The city wakes up without us, the skyline of neon lights give way to the fiery sky as the new day is welcomed.

Golden Hour

Single

Miracle of Love

Miracle Of Love(feat.Daria Danatelli)

Lorelei

Still waiting in mars station playing Turbo Tomy

Still Waiting

Hand In Hand

DRAFT 9/30

One thing you won’t be able to avoid on Bambara’s Stray is death. It’s everywhere and inescapable, abstract and personified  – perhaps the key to the whole record. Death, however, won’t be the first thing that strikes you about the group’s fourth – and greatest – album to date. That instead will be its pulverising soundscape; by turns, vast, atmospheric, cool, broiling and at times – on stand out tracks like “Sing Me To The Street” and “Serafina” – simply overwhelming.
 
Bambara – twin brothers Reid and Blaze Bateh, singer/guitarist and drummer respectively, and bassist William Brookshire – have been evolving their midnight-black noise into something more subtle and expansive ever since the release of their 2013 debut Dreamviolence. That process greatly accelerated on 2018’s Shadow On Everything, their first on New York’s Wharf Cat Records and  a huge stride forward for the band both lyrically and sonically. 
 
The album was rapturously received by the press, listeners and their peers. NPR called it a “mesmerising...western, gothic opus,” Bandcamp called the "horror-house rampage" "one of the year's most gripping listens," and Alexis Marshall of Daughters named it his “favorite record of 2018.”  Shadow also garnered much acclaim on the other side of the Atlantic. Influential British 6Music DJ Steve Lamacq, dubbed them the best band of 2019’s SXSW, and Joe Talbot of the UK band IDLES said, "The best thing I heard last year was easily Bambara and their album Shadow On Everything."  The question was though, how to follow it?
 
To start, the band did what they always do: they locked themselves in their windowless Brooklyn basement to write. Decisions were made early on to try and experiment with new instrumentation and song structures, even if the resulting compositions would force the band to adapt their storied live set, known for its tenacity and technical prowess. Throughout the songwriting process, the band pulled from their deep well of creative references, drawing on the likes of Leonard Cohen, Ennio Morricone, Sade, classic French noir L’Ascenseur Pour L’Echafraud, as well as Southern Gothic stalwarts Flannery O’Connor and Harry Crews.
 
Once the building blocks were set in place, they met with producer Drew Vandenberg, who mixed Shadow On Everything, in Athens, GA to record the foundation of Stray. After recruiting friends Adam Markiewicz (The Dreebs) on violin, Sean Smith (Klavenauts) on trumpet and a crucial blend of backing vocals by Drew Citron (Public Practice) and Anina Ivry-Block (Palberta) Bambara convened in a remote cabin in rural Georgia, where Reid laid down his vocals.
 
The finished product represents both the band's most experimental and accessible work to date. The addition of Citron and Ivory-Block’s vocals create a hauntingly beautiful contrast to Bateh’s drunken baritone on tracks like “Sing Me to the Street”, “Death Croons” and “Stay Cruel," while the Dick Dale inspired guitar riffs on “Serafina” and "Heat Lightning" and the call-and-response choruses throughout the album showcase Bambara’s ability to write songs that immediately demand repeat listens.
 
While the music itself is evocative and propulsive, a fever dream all of its own, the lyrical content pushes the record even further into its own darkly thrilling realm. If the songs on Shadow On Everything were like chapters in a novel, then this time they’re short stories. Short stories connected by death and its effect on the characters in contact with it. “Death is what you make it” runs a lyric in “Sweat,” a line which may very well be the glue that binds the pages of these stories together.

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Bambara - Heat Lightning (from the 'Stray' album out 2/14)

A slow track to listen to whilst u shoot long exposures

Long Exposures

Highway Drive

Wide Awake And Waiting

Flashing neon lights in the night

Photo used for cover art by Adam Nieścioruk: https://unsplash.com/photos/rE6hXITBMXI

Flash In The Night

From the new album ''Nothingness'', released on January 1st, 2020
Cover artwork by Chris Bahr / La Fin Absolue du Monde

Glaring - Adhil

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9-V30Yn6Zo

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Held out for days but I've fallen at the crux
I could read it out now but the meaning's all but lost

Trembling in the shadows
Constantly heavy and hollow

We could walk along the edge and tell each other what it's worth
It's only natural to worry about the truths you'll unearth

Trembling in the shadows
From malevolent plagues of Apollo

The underlying thought isn't definite or true
It's hard to relax when they're calling out for you

Trembling in the shadows
Constantly heavy and hollow

The underlying thought isn't definite or true
It's hard to relax when they're calling out for you

I get a lot done when the pressure is on
But I can't be expected to relate
To every fucking thing on your plate

erebus

Free download

Live Fast, Die Quicker

Друг

Peel Dream Magazine is the musical vehicle for NYC's Joe Stevens, who launched the band in 2018 with the critically acclaimed album "Modern Meta Physic." With it Stevens created a mysterious, liminal tribute to the hazy end of ‘90s dream-pop – a masterful mix of first-class songwriting precision and train-window sonic impressionism that duly found its place on numerous "Best of 2018" lists.

After 18 months of writing and live shows with a shifting cast of band members, Peel Dream are back with "Agitprop Alterna," an album that pushes the group's dreamy, motorik-heavy sound to a deeply melodic and beautifully discordant place. The album pays homage to a strain of mod-ish U.K. pop that spans early My Bloody Valentine and Talulah Gosh, up through early Stereolab, Belle & Sebastian, and even Broadcast. It's also indebted to stateside pop bands that were cut from a similar cloth -- Rocketship, Lilys, Yo La Tengo, and even "Nevermind"-era Nirvana.

Where the creation of "Modern Meta Physic" was a solitary pursuit, "Agitprop Alterna" found Stevens channeling the collaborative spirit of the band's ever-rotating live incarnation in the studio. The album is ultimately defined by the tension of difference: between itself and its predecessor; intertwined male-female vocals; the music's languid dreaminess and concrete sonic immediacy.

Deeply rooted in the Brechtian ideas of art as a tool to spur action, "Agitprop Alterna" deepens the connection between the existential and the interpretive first explored on "Modern Meta Physic," giving the listener space to find their own meaning in shimmering guitars, fuzzed-out synths, and buzzing organ drones. It is a rejection of manipulation in all its forms and a buzzsaw against complacency – soft-focus pop whose clear-cut message is that you get to decide the message. It's a rare trick to agitate without being obvious: perhaps that makes "Agitprop Alterna" the most Peel Dream Magazine-like statement yet.

Agitprop Alterna

Agitprop Altern

Peel Dream Magazine - Pill

Join us in a gothic cathedral at midnight in the rain for this Fall Out Boy cover

Church - Single

Church

Journey

Terminal

MemTest86

Stream / Download

Elemental

Testarossa

Out digitally on 31st January via Alphaville Records

The Vat Egg Imposition - You Don't Understand Marmite

Prvo Lice Množine / JRK

Iv/An - J.R.K.

Download here: https://mental-minority.bandcamp.com/track/the-void-of-atrocity
From an Interview with Ray Bradbury:

" - You grew up believing that to fantasize was the same as to daydream, to be idle, to be some kind of a ne'er-do-well but yet I know that you don't look upon fantasizing as something that's ... evil.

- No, and it's a shame that this concept ever got going with any people at all because I've always claimed that the ability to fantasize is the ability to survive, the ability to fantasize is the ability to grow."

From "Eichmann in Jerusalem" by Hannah Arendt:

"The judges were right when they finally told the accused that all he had said was “empty talk”—except that they thought the emptiness feigned, and believed that the accused wished to cover up other thoughts, which were not empty but hideous. This supposition seems refuted by the striking consistency with which Eichmann, despite his rather bad memory, constantly repeated, word for word, the same stock phrases and self-invented clichés (when he did succeed in constructing a sentence of his own, he thereupon repeated it until it became a cliché) in referring to every event or incident that was of some importance to him. Whether he wrote his memoirs in Argentina or in Jerusalem, whether he talked to the police examiner or to the court, what he said was always the same, expressed in the same words. The longer one listened to him, the more obvious it became that his inability to speak was closely connected with an inability to think; that is, to think from the standpoint of somebody else. No communication with him was possible, not because he lied but because he was surrounded by the most reliable of all safeguards against the words of others, or even the presence of others, and hence against reality as such." [In the german version of the text Arendt adds: "absoluter Mangel an Vorstellungskraft", translated: an absolute lack of imagination].

Original photo by Andreas Samuelsson (pixabay)

The Void of Atrocity

From the album, 'Serrures et Palmiers' by Bleu Russe.

Out on cassette on New Sinister Bandcamp.

Released in association with Petrol Chips.

Lyrics by Heptanes Fraxion
Mastered by Ray Borneo & Monsieur Willy 
Image © Arthur Maserati

Serrures et Palmiers

Gentil Par Superstition

Gentil par superstition - Bleu Russe (from the cassette album)

3 Words

Bandcamp

Cycles

big thanks to Arman02 on musescore for the transcription: https://musescore.com/user/11512151/scores/4198781

HOME - Resonance (horseshoe theory remake)

Song about my favorite X-men (Maggott 4ever).I Played Everything in this music expect the drums,it's just a mix of 2 loops.
I used Vocoloid Software for the Vocals.
And use Magix Synthesizers,for synth,bass,pad,bell and Magix Vocoder for the Vocoder x)
Voilà ^^ Enjoy :3

Lost Blue Boy

Some tracks have been deleted when I turned this account from paid to free. You can still listen to everything that is not here anymore on Youtube and Spotify, downloads are available at Bandcamp.
Get in touch: mentalminoritymusic@gmail.com

FAQ
Q: I hate your music, what can I do?
A: I don´t know, really.

Q: Where do I have to click some 'like' buttons to get access to free downloads?
A: What?

Q: Do you really think the world needs still more dreamy or melancholic music?
A: No.

Q: Will you ever do a track called "Night Drive", "Neon Future" or "Miami Sunset Boulevard City Lights L. A. Cruisin´ Replicant Force ´86"?
A: I´m not sure. [Edit July 4th, 22: Sure! Listen to it on my Youtube!]

Q: I´d like to put out a compilation including one of your tracks, remix one, use it for a filmwork or in some other way - interested?
A: !

Q: But there is no money involved, still interested?
A: !!

The Void of Atrocity

Mental Minority