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feels like the 80’s but it’s new

happiness of sadness | POST-PUNK/LO-FI/COLD WAVE/DREAMPOP/SYNTH/DARK WAVE

Synth Pop

PITY.WAV - Synthpop, Postpunk, Darkwave, Shoegaze & Alt Rock

Abandono

The Perfect Girl

Let's KEEP ON DANCING and get the party going. There's no reason to slow down the pace. We keep on delivering high quality dance-floor proofed and highly danceable music.
FERNANDO ACERO is next and he provides one of those rare tracks that cover the modern house, tech house and bass house genres perfectly. No matter what sub-genre of house you are supporting, this track will fit right in. Just give it a shot.
This week ONACITY drops a latin influenced tech house banger with tribal beats and some awesome female vocals that make this track the perfect dancefloor weapon. Don't miss out here. This track can make the difference in your future DJ-sets and playlists.
https://soundcloud.com/NoDefinitionRecords
https://www.facebook.com/NoDefinitionRecords/
https://soundcloud.com/FernandoAcero
https://www.facebook.com/FernandoAcero

Keep On Dancing

Fernando Acero - Keep On Dancing

Glory of Romance

Au fond de mon cœur

https://open.spotify.com/artist/2h3u3wJ0xRr93FoibwB3hd

painintheyeahs.bandcamp.com

Petrified

Shot In The Dark  (with Aisle 9)

Erotomania Ft. Kim Little

A thoughtful "fuck off" to haters everywhere

Bandcamp

Sally Farther

Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me

Just Like Heaven

Floating In The Feelings

¿Hoy a qué vamos a jugar?

Well, here's something very different for me - Here's a light and quirky acoustic #folk / #singersongwriter version of my sad song called 'Promises', with the amazing 3VSound (Ava Suzanne) on vocals.

I wanted the simplest (and hopefully most effective) string arrangement and quirky counterpoint vocals, and I think I got it. :-)
This track is out for a nervous spin to see if anyone likes it.
 
Updated and released in Jan 2025.

I'll Try Till I Die

Promises - feat. 3V3Sound (Acoustic Version)

heart shaped bed

UNHAPPINESS

Superficially meditative and 'ambient', but conjuring alternating emotions of relaxation and tension, darkness and light.

Paramedic Jukebox Club

The Hierophant In The Room

A Joyful jaunty handpan tune evoking the joy of a sunny May afternoon. This tune bounces through melodic shifts and different time signatures to create a fun little celebration of spring! 

Spring Hope

The Lure

Chimpanzees

All We Are (Are Memories)

Changing Colors

Out of Flight

Out of Flight (Radio Edit)

Deux Sons

Deux Sons (ASHRR Soundsystem Version)

Tuff Turf - Topic – Speed Demon.m4a

Lebanon Hanover - Babes Of The 80s

Age of Consent's 2nd single Heartbreak
 Released 11th June 2012 on Inside Animals Records  
Available on CD and name-your-price digital download here:  http://ageofconsent.bandcamp.com/album/heartbreak-single

Find us on Facebook:  http://www.facebook.com/ageofconsentmusic
 Twitter  http://www.twitter.com/age_of_consent

Heartbreak is the second single from experimental London based duo Age of Consent. Exploring the territory between pop music and something all together more strange. Heartbreak is a dark, bittersweet, danceable track.

With a percussive Prince-like drum sound and skittering analogue synthesizers that fizz into forlorn, melodic vocals, Heartbreak is an after-dark hymn to a long-dead love affair. The song takes it's inspiration from the death of loved ones and reimagines the loss as the harrowing end of a relationship.

Drawing upon a passion for brooding electronic music such as Fever Ray and Soft Cell, Age of Consent produced this single along with previous collaborator/producer Luke Smith who has previously worked with Depeche Mode and Foals. Including on the B-Side their metronomic cover version of Suicide's 'Ghost Rider', which has become something of a live favourite.

Directed by Gareth Phillips (Cat's Eyes, Is Tropical) and the band themselves, the video is partly inspired by Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies, and his idea of setting specific limitations before starting creative work. The band eschewed post-production techniques and only shot effects that could be achieved live. Using a series of projectors connected to cameras filming their own output, they created an intense succession of visual feedback, in some ways indebted to Henri-Georges Clouzot's film 'La Prisonierre' as well as a tongue in cheek nod to Bonnie Tyler's Total Eclipse of the Heart.

Age of Consent are Joe Reeves and Darren Cullen. After meeting at Glasgow School of Art they moved to London to make music and produce remixes for the likes of La Roux, Gary Numan and The Toxic Avenger. Their first single 'The Beach' was released in late 2011.

PRESS PHOTO: http://www.spellingmistakescostlives.com/ageofconsent/press/images/Age-of-Consent-Dark.jpg

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Heartbreak

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Cave Of Weary Smiles

We welcome to the mighty Moustache records family : https://soundcloud.com/kendal3000 a french producer based in Toulouse. His 4 tracker hits "Manifesto Ep" bring us a dystopian italo vibe from the past, present and the Nofuture where the flesh merging with the machine. The A1 track here premiered called : "Ultimo" It's a tale about a world where jesus turns the water into proseco and the preacher jams on his 707 to bring new believers into italo disco church. A2: Profondo rosso: Humanity as gone. One spaceship drifts into space seeking the new promised land. Maybe this big red planet with its lush jungle. B1 Giallo Inferno: She put on her favourite blue velvet dress and her red lipstick. She's alone in the mansion. Black leather gloves is hidding in the dark B2 Corpo Meccanico: When Deckard chasing some fuckin renegade replicant over Los Angeles 2019 that what it turn up loud on his radio. Perfect OST for cyborg's killing spree. This in a great full colour sleeve and an even greater 12inch Artwork. Watch out for this cult italo disco dance classic. Gone is Gone ! 
Preorder there : https://clone.nl/item57555.html

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PREMIERE : Kendal - Ultimo

6) Up

Streaming data and flowing blood.

Dream pop / synth pop / dark wave / indie pop / indietronica

Floating In The Feelings

Roundtrip to Tiny