This is a representation of how life is going after breaking up. After seven years, it's just me and it isn't easy, but life always has its moments. This is dark, heavy, groovy and the kind of stuff I like to headbang to. It also represents my struggles with addiction and mood changes, going from euphoria to sadness and anger in a question of minutes. Life is hitting hard and this one is supposed to hit hard too. Enjoy.

The Lone Wolf

This is the last track of The Lone Wolf EP. Into The Night is a track about  exploration. Whether life is going well or not, part of the thrill is getting to know yourself and experiencing new things. Sometimes when I'm feeling really crappy, I just hop onto the car and go out for a drive. The inspiration came a lot from there too. Sometimes, literally or not, you gotta keep driving until you find where you want to go.

Into The Night

Track 3 of my new project, Feels. This is a mashup of Fury and Duel, both tracks from my first EP, Arise. It is very interesting for me to revisit older tracks and see how far I've come in terms of production, mixing and arrangement, whilst not just purely remaking them. The idea of this new album is getting tracks from the Arise EP and The Lone Wolf album and mixing them together, exploring how they sound with my new skills.

Fight (Duel x Fury - Mini Set II)

Journey is the last track of this project, which is now an album. The Feels album. I'm very happy that I was able to put out two albums worth of tracks this year, which was the hardest, but also the best year of my life. High and lows, lows and highs, strong depression and anxiety, an incredible bounce back, getting back together with the love of my life and pretty much living through this rollercoaster ride that was 2023. This is Journey, which represents, a little bit, what I felt during those almost 12 months. Darkness, pessimism, optimism, euphoria and a new found pleasure for living, even if life has its problems and presents its struggles more often than not. It's not always pretty, but here we are, doing what we can to make the most out of it.

Journey

I said Journey was the last release of the year, but I lied. I was digging through "the vault" and I found this track, decided to remake it. This is the original version of Lost in a Labyrinth of Neon and the concept is basically what my idea of a night in Tokyo would sound like. My grandfather was Japanese as well, so this is my homage to him. He passed when I was 17. 

This doesn't sound like the synthwave I always do, feels more like a club track, but retro. Enjoy!

Tokyo

Glow is my first track of 2024. I just wanted to make something dancey, kinda mysterious, groovy and I love the soundscape/atmosphere on this one. I hope you enjoy it as well. 

This one comes at the happiest moment of my personal life and I believe it shows. Happy New Year and let's dance.

Glow

I wanted to make something different, so I did. The Rising Sun is heavily inspired in cinema scores and a homage to eastern scales, chords and music in general. It is supposed to feel more cinematic, dramatic and the retrowave intro is just there to deceive you hahaha. It is the first of the a two part song. This one is about the rise of civilization, exploration and thriving. You can imagine what the second one is about.

The Rising Sun

Fever is a re-imagination of Heat, which is one of my favorite creations. I made it funkier, dancier and shorter. The concept is that it is more minimalistic and less aggressive than Heat, as this is a Fever. So it keeps growing and growing, and then it goes away. I love the idea of just revisiting older stuff at times and making it a different way and I hope you enjoy this one.

Fever

The Falling Sun is the continuation to The Rising Sun. The Sun pieces chronicle the history of mankind, from its beginning and maturity, to its possible fall. 

The sun is setting, but not the way you think so.

The Falling Sun

The third of four Sun pieces. This is The Dying Sun. You probably have already guessed that the Sun is not really the Sun by now, right? 

This is a bit more introspective at first, but it goes out with a bang. Interpret this as you will - this is the beauty of music, after all.

The Dying Sun

In the end of every cycle, a new one begins. For billions, trillions of years, for every dead sun, a new arises, and for some more billions of years, that's how it will be.

Rebirth of the Sun is the last one of the Sun pieces, or as I decided to call it, The People of the Sun EP. We are the people of the Sun, we arose, decayed, we have fallen, but we will rise again. 

The work is now complete. Again, this is heavily inspired by Hans Zimmer, Vangelis and their art. For the people who told me "but I miss the Synthwave", this one has synthwave, I promise.

I don't know what to do in musical terms after this one, but I will figure it out and I will keep making music for as long as I breathe.

The Rebirth of the Sun

As we find a way to survive, our little space opera goes into Space. We have depleted the planet, its resources and it is now inhospitable. Will we find a new home? What awaits us in the depths of space? 

Odyssey is a piece, metaphorically, about the journey to find oneself and how difficult it is to reach your destination. 

Enjoy.

Odyssey

Chaos is the next piece from my next album, People of the Sun. It is a continuation of our space odyssey and it is meant to represent our struggle to find a home. This can be literal or figurative. Aren't we always struggling to find who we are?

Our fictional human population at first embarked on a trip to find a new home. Then it had to deal with the vastness of space and the feeling of Isolation, the previous track. Now, desperation strikes.

This is a more Tim Burton-esque cinematic track - at first you will feel you are at a psychedelic circus and this is the idea. Enjoy my little psychedelic space waltz as we edge closer and closer to the end of our journey.

Chaos

Delirium - a state of euphoria, ecstasy. Also, a disturbed state of mind or consciousness, especially an acute, transient condition associated with fever, intoxication, and certain other physical disorders, characterized by symptoms such as confusion, disorientation, agitation, and hallucinations.

In the next chapter of our little space odyssey, we've just lost it. Too long without a home, too long wandering through the depths of space and we have given in to imagination, psychedelia and the wildest dreams of our mind. Delirium is Electric Dreams Part II, but now we are in space. Still lost, but very high. Sometimes all we can do it get high and make it through the day and on to the next one.

Enjoy.

Delirium

The Dark Sun is the penultimate track for the People of The Sun album. These are our final moments in space, when we find comfort in what remains and know that there is no plan B, no other place to go, we are stuck with what we have and what we have will not last forever. It is perishing.

A final glimpse of light, before darkness arises. The end is near.

The Dark Sun

The People of the Sun is the title and final track of my latest album. This is the end of our space odyssey that started with the rise and fall of our society, and the realization that there was nothing left for us on planet Earth - because we depleted it of its resources and it became inhospitable.

The People of the Sun represents a double-edged ending to our journey: the death of the human race with flashes of memories (in this case, past tracks) going through our eyes and mind for one last time. In the introspective universe (the odyssey of self-discovery), this piece is the retrospective of everything we have been through. Furthermore, it is an acknowledgement of the endeavor of our mind through life and of our skill to experience, struggle, learn and overcome.

Such is life and its meaning, in this author's own perception - we were put into this planet for a reason: to live. Live, take care of yourself and other people, take care of the planet itself and do your best.

The People of the Sun

The Lone Wolf was the first track I made that gained some traction. I made it more than a year ago, and I decided to re-explore some of the tracks I've made for my first album, using newfound knowledge and skills learned throughout the last 12 months.

This version is not as dark as the original one, but it's rockier and groovier. Enjoy!

The Lone Wolf (2024)

I just heard this riff in my mind and decided to do something about it. Hope you enjoy it - this is a mix of heavy metal, hard rock and synthwave.

Heavy Metal

The Retro Rave is pretty much the juice of everything musical that keeps me going. A lot of stuff I like using in my tracks, a lot of melodies and harmonies and basslines, a mesh of yours truly favorite musical stuff put together in a track. An 80s dance music, with a bit of disco, a lot of synthwave, a homage to New Order and more.

The Retro Rave

The title track of my new project, The Night is a psychedelic, bass-heavy, synth-heavier downtempo tune inspired by the 80s aesthetic. It's a moody piece, meant to be heard especially while driving during the night, staring at the lights and just contemplating life. 

Enjoy!

The Night

The penultimate track of this new project, Into the Night is a remake from an older track. It's dancey, pop, full of synth and more optimistic than most stuff I do. Again, very suited for a night drive, which is the whole theme of this album.

Into the Night (2024)

When the world ends, this is what I hear playing in the background.

Dream Apocalypse

This is The Rising Sun, but fully reimagined and orchestrated, as part of my new project to orchestrate and bring new versions of the Sun pieces.

The Rising Sun (Orchestra Version)

Following the release of The Rising Sun's orchestra version, which was basically an experiment, I decided to bring new versions online for The Suns set featured in The People of The Sun. They are still true to their original synthwave versions, but arranging a piece for orchestra is a completely different thing, so there are adaptations and new parts too, which I like.

The Falling Sun is a more dramatic counterpart to The Rising Sun, and they work in tandem. The latter representing our rise, the first representing the subsequent fall. I do not intend to remake the whole People of the Sun album in orchestral form, only the Sun songs. I hope you enjoy this one, because damn, it was a struggle to make, but I'm ultimately happy with how it turned out - a far superior version to the original one, I must say.

Lemme know what you think, hit me in the comments or my DM! Thanks and enjoy.

The Falling Sun (Orchestra Version)

This is the orchestra version of The Dying Sun, which is part of my new project to remake The People of the Sun as fully orchestrated album. Re-imagining these tracks has been a lot of fun and this one in particular was very interesting, as it is probably the one that I have changed the most from the original. I love the original, but it is somewhat repetitive and very melancholic, and I wanted it to sound darker and apocalyptic, while retaining the core melody.

I hope you enjoy it.

The Dying Sun (Orchestra Version)

Strip (Orchestrated)

The Rebirth of the Sun, orchestrated. Oh, yes, there is synthwave in this one.

Enjoy!

The Rebirth of the Sun (Orchestra)

The orchestrated version of Odyssey. Enjoy!

Odyssey (Orchestrated)

The orchestrated version of Delirium. One of my favorite ones, I love how this turned out. The two things I love the most: orchestra and synthwave, finally together.

Delirium (Orchestrated)

The orchestrated version of The Dark Sun, which is my favorite track from the original album. The whole vibe of this track is to make it sound like a credits roll song from a sci-fi/action movie, and I believe that's exactly what it sounds like. This is a mix of orchestra with Darkwave - another genre I'm starting to explore more. One of the lengthiest tracks, but trust me when I tell you there's a great payoff for those who listen to it until the end.

Thank you and enjoy.

The Dark Sun (Orchestrated)

Hello, I am RetroRave. I'm a sucker for the 80s and I make electronic music - Disco, Retrowave or whatever starts playing into my mind. Thank you for listening to my stuff.

Newest release: The Dark Sun (Orchestrated)

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