Found you guys yesterday. Beyond synth podcast. Hooked on first listen! Great vocals!!

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Written, recorded, mixed and produced by Blake Voss & Shawn Ward

Mastered by Maurizio Baggio

Artwork by Eduardo Memphis

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FM Attack & Vandal Moon - Candlelight

Outlands - Devout (Chromatic Dream Remix)

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The empathy test in Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner is based on the premise that machines, no matter how advanced, lack compassion. But for childhood friends, Isaac Howlett (vocals) and Adam Relf (production), Empathy Test is all about wearing their hearts on their digital sleeves. With soaring synthetic chords, precision beats, and jubilant 80s melodies — all coated in soft, irresistible melancholy — the London-based duo takes inspiration as much from modern acts like CHVRCHES and Purity Ring, as it does from Vangelis and Depeche Mode. But, instead of sounding like a mere update of 80s’ electro, Empathy Test produce a mesmerizing and immersive identity which sets them apart from pretty much everything else currently on the scene. Shadows envelop hymns, a note sustains too long, a lyric confesses too much: It’s the heart of darkness, not compassion, that beats slow and steady.

While the lingering nighttime aesthetic that Relf conjures up provides the initial hook, Howlett’s vocal mastery pushes the stakes ever higher, providing the urgency and romanticism to Relf’s crystalline production. Little wonder that the duo has amassed a sizable and passionate online following: With an insistence on glorious hooks and instantly memorable vocal lines, Empathy Test are refreshingly unafraid to be pop music. Since self-releasing their debut EP “Losing Touch” in February, Empathy Test have picked up thousands of fans via sheer word-of-mouth and late-night tweets, and collaborated with Richard Swarbrick on numerous viral animation videos for ESPN and Liverpool FC. Empathy Test signed to Brooklyn’s Stars & Letters Records in the spring of 2014, with their follow-up EP “Throwing Stones” releasing December 9th, 2014.

© 2014 Stars & Letters Records
℗ 2014 Empathy Test

Losing Touch

Throwing Stones EP

Empathy Test - Throwing Stones

Empathy Test - Throwing Stones - Lost Years Remix

Music by TNL and Anthony Gonzalez.

Skin Of The Night lyrics
Like a moth she moves to the red light
Her blood warms and boils there
She skims the sweat like a new milk
And pops the buttons off her wet blouse

Oh, queen of the night
(All of her soft parts call to me)
Well, she is deep inside
(She could be mine)
And she is haunting me

Oh, queen of the night
(All of her soft parts call to me)
Well, she is deep inside
(She could be mine)
And she is haunting me

She digs her nails into her naked chest
Her face vein out like a road map
She pulls back the skin to show her ribs
That twinkle like shooting stars

Oh, queen of the night
(All of her soft parts call to me)
Well, she is deep inside
(She could be mine)
And she is haunting me

M83 - Skin Of The Night (The Northern Lights Remix)

taken from the LP 'Lovesick' (July 2015; MANIMAL)

CELLARS - A Little Bit Less

Computer Magic Remixes Stone Cold Fox's "Change My Mind"

Change My Mind (Computer Magic Remix)

Following on from her critically lauded 2013 album Crystal World, Marnie continues to develop her very own take on a modern pop sound through the release of Strange Words And Weird Wars, out on 2nd June 2017. 

Comprised of ten pulsating tracks, Strange Words And Weird Wars showcases the most impressive elements of Marnie’s incarnation as a solo artist along with those that made her band, Ladytron, one of the most respected pioneers in electronic music; soul crushing synths are wonderfully accented by hook-laden choruses as Marnie boldly explores up-tempo electro dream-pop.

The ability to effortlessly play with genres becomes more and more apparent as you work your way through what is such a sonically impressive record. Tracks such as album opener, the unashamedly melodic ‘Alphabet Block’, nods to contemporary pop artists; think an electro-pop fusion between La Roux and Kylie. ‘Girls’ expertly creates the immediacy of Ladyhawke’s best work, with ‘Electric Youth’ channeling 80’s mall pop; a glorious guilty pleasure and one of the stand-out tracks on the album. Introspection comes in the form of the shoegaze-inspired ‘A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night’, giving the air of an unreleased b-side from a cult vampire movie, while forthcoming single Lost Maps is a pop classic in the making; a single that should be heard on dance floors all over the world.

After moving back to Glasgow in September 2012, after many years living in London, Marnie continued to write music following the success of her solo project and subsequent album release in 2013. Influenced by life, love, loss, politics and all things 80’s pop, Marnie has created an album that has an intelligence and a depth behind what, on the surface, is a melodic contemporary pop record. With support having already come from tastemakers like Pitchfork, Pop Matters and Under The Radar, Marnie will be looking to build upon this through the release of her second solo record; an album that will rightly be deemed one of the most anticipated of 2017.

Strange Words And Weird Wars by Marnie is out on 2nd June 2017.

http://www.abadgeoffriendship.com/artists/marnie

Lost Maps

Samurai is a song about growing up in a gang of friends, mischief, bravery, becoming a warrior in your own life by standing up to people and things you're afraid of.

Samurai

Full single featuring remixes from Moussa Clarke &amp; Sums, Karl Montenegro, It Takes Two To Tango and of course Tyke! OUT NOW!!: 
iTunes http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/favorite-lover-dead-astronauts/id554452677?i=554452681&amp;ign-mpt=uo%3D4 
Beatport http://www.beatport.com/release/favorite-lover/958043

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Production: Paul Aspin &amp; Dead Astronauts 
Vocals: Jared K. Nickerson &amp; Hayley Stewart
Lyrics: Jared K. Nickerson

http://www.deadastronauts.com 
http://www.facebook.com/deadastronauts 
https://twitter.com/DeadAstro

iTunes

Dead Astronauts - Favorite Lover (Dead Astronauts Theme)(Original Mix)

For your fall. Mastering by John Kunkel.
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xZGzrqWXMk

Buy on iTunes

Future Unlimited - Haunted Love

My second album is now available on Bandcamp and Qrates (limited edition of 100 pieces) 

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© 2020 Marvelous 1983 Records

Into The Night

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Lost Years - Park Avenue 1989

Lost Years - Amplifier

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Stars & Letters is a Brooklyn record label specializing in electronic and indie music ★☆★ Bad Blocks, Black City Lights, Empathy Test, GPSYMTH, Misfit Mod, Ruane Maurice, Shocking Pinks, We Are Temporary

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Empathy Test - Throwing Stones

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