Gridluster presents this demo showcasing the interesting array of sounds from his new pack of Spire presets. It will be available exclusively on our bandcamp on Friday, June 27th. 

http://girlfriendrecords.bandcamp.com 

Dreampunk & Ambient Sounds Vol. 1 Spire Pack Demo

Only You

Episode 828 of @DarkScienceElectro - 8/1/2025 - Originally aired on 'Future Music' a couple years back. 

Elecktroids - Thermo Science
Obergman - Hyksos
Miss Kittin & The Hacker - Miss Crazy Bullshit
E.R.P. - Perfume Persuasion
Ashtar Lavanda - Unsolved Mysteries
Deemphasis & DVS NME - The March
Versalife - Exosuit
Technova - The Hanging Garden
Mumm - Pixelfehler
Microthol - Binary Systems
DMX Krew - RAM Expansion
Datawave - Back To Earth
Code Rising - Beat Machines
Aquatronics - Hydrospheres

Dark Science Electro

Dark Science Electro - Episode 828 - 8/1/2025

🌫️ Tidal Mirage: Echoes Beneath the Phantom Surf
“Tidal Mirage” is the sound of a horizon that doesn’t exist—where the sea breathes illusion and memory like salt into the wind. It is both a dream and a distortion, shimmering just beyond reach. You drift toward something that recedes with every step, lost between tide and time.

🎵 Musical Interpretation of the Illusory Shoreline

Opening – Mirage on the Horizon
The piece begins with hazy textures—distant chimes, glimmering like sun on water, warped by heat and distortion. A gentle ambient swell pulls the listener in, weightless and mirage-like. The sea hums softly, but nothing is stable—everything feels like a reflection on rippling surface.

The Shift – Tides That Lie
As the tide turns, deeper drones seep in. Tones begin to bend and blur. Sonic artifacts scatter like seafoam—glitched fragments, filtered pulses, half-heard voices. The illusion begins to fracture, revealing layers beneath the surface. The mirage moves closer, but stays elusive.

Central Drift – Refractions of Memory
Melodic motifs loop and fade like recurring dreams, growing clearer and then dissolving again. Pads stretch wide like a submerged horizon line. There’s emotion here—but blurred, like remembering a face through water. A slow, melancholic pull invites surrender.

Undercurrent – Where Light Doesn’t Touch
The track deepens into darker resonance—subbass textures and granular static create a feeling of slow submersion. You’re beneath the surface now. Tonal fragments echo in all directions, like sonar across an endless trench. It’s not fear—it’s gravity.

The Mirage Breaks – False Shoreline
A gentle climax: shimmering synths and spectral melodies bloom like the last flare of a dying sun. For a moment, the mirage becomes real. There’s beauty—fragile and brilliant—before it dissolves into nothing, swallowed by undertow and reverb.

Fadeout – Salt and Memory
The final stretch is minimal and hollow—echoes of what once was. Sparse textures drift apart like receding tide. You’re left with ghost-tones and wet silence, as if the ocean has retreated, leaving behind only trace impressions. The mirage has vanished, but something lingers.

🕯️ Emotional & Symbolic Resonance

Illusion as Refuge: The track dances between real and unreal—its comfort lies not in truth, but in the space between.

Temporal Drift: “Tidal Mirage” resists time. Loops decay, then reform. It feels both nostalgic and unreachable, like déjà vu in sound form.

Ocean as Metaphor: The sea here isn’t literal—it’s psychological. A fluid world of shifting meanings, where self and shore blur.

The Mirage That Remembers: This isn’t about chasing truth. It’s about the beauty of what we almost grasped.

🌊 Best Used For:

Narratives exploring illusion, loss, or shifting identity

Ambient scoring for underwater or desert dreamscapes

Soundtracking dreams, memory sequences, or post-reality scenes

Emotional meditation on transience and impermanence

🔮 Symbolism & Final Reflection
“Tidal Mirage” is the sound of almost touching something sacred—but never quite. It’s the emotional residue of memories that may never have existed. A mirage, yes—but one that teaches us the shape of longing.

In the end, it leaves us not with clarity, but with a kind of peace in ambiguity. Not every journey needs arrival—some are meant to be drifted, not finished.

Tidal Mirage

“Superscalar” is the new collaboration from Gridluster and RAREPERSONA, a deep dive into the evolving world of datawave. Expansive and futuristic, the track merges glitchy textures, cinematic synthscapes, and hypnotic rhythms that echo the pulse of a digital city.
Drawing influence from the aesthetics of cyberspace, late-night terminals, and the cold glow of machine intelligence, Superscalar balances atmosphere and drive—perfect for fans of Com Truise, HOME, Infinity Frequencies, and Datawave classics
©℗ 2025 Girlfriend Records

Superscalar (single)

Superscalar

Gridluster, RAREPERSONA - Superscalar (Preview) [full song available on Girlfriend Records]

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101 DEMO

2 technics sl-1200 / ecler nuo 2.0


01. MORITZ VON OSWALD - LUMINOSO
02. HANIA RANI - POUR TROIS
03. AROVANE - TORN
04. CLATTERBOX - TEICO 2
05. ANDREA PARKER - MELODIOUS THUNK
06. ATOM TM - HD ENDLESS
07. DRØN - ATOM 312
08. DATAWAVE - AQUILA
09. CLUBROOT - INFATUATED
10. BYETONE - PLASTIC STAR
11. RANDOM FACTOR - ALLEVIATION
12. IL QUADRO DI TROISI - IL RAGGIO VERDE
13. DMX KREW - IS THIS NORMAL?
14. ZOBOL - HARDWARE GRAVEYARD
15. CIGNOL - TRAIN STATION (CIGNOLISED)
16. TESLASONIC - OBSEX
17. BLACKPLOID - XENON
18. ALEK STARK - ALPHA FLIGHT
19. ESTRATO AURORA - AVOL (LIVE VERSION)
20. E.R.P. - NOETIC
21. PLANT43 - SHIFTING AT DUSK
22. LARIONOV - LOST IN SPACE (UHF REMIX)
23. ROI - CRUNIA (THE EXALTICS REMIX)
24. ZETA RETICULA -  CHROMOSPHERE
25. LARIONOV - ONE ZERO ONE
26. ANTHONY ROTHER - KOCMOC
27. BORIS DIVIDER - TAKE MY BEAT (GRAVITATIONAL MIX)
28. UNIVAC - ATOMS COMPLOT
29. METRONEEM - SKIP CODE
30. ANTHONY ROTHER - DESTROY HIM MY ROBOTS
31. TRANSPAC - TTS


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🕸️ Shadows of the Grid

“Shadows of the Grid” is a descent into the forgotten arteries of a dying city—a soundscape of digital rot and monstrous survival, where the Hidden Ones dwell. It is not heroic. Not tragic. Just eternal decay humming beneath the surface—broken signals, corrupted beauty, and the cold pulse of something ancient moving behind firewalls.

This isn’t just cyberpunk—it’s occult circuitry. A world of disembodied intelligences haunting the grid, not to rule it, but to remember it.

👁️ Sonic Architecture of Descent
Subnet Silence: Entry Through Forgotten Access

The track begins with a faint, crackling ambience—the hiss of dead terminals, the buzzing of decayed neon. No melody, just pressure. You’re entering a space beneath systems, beneath attention. A place where the Hidden Ones observe, not in malice, but in exile. Low-end rumble builds slowly, like something crawling through ancient data conduits.

This is their realm—not claimed, but remembered.

Decay as Rhythm: The Beat of the Buried

Distorted 808s rise from below—grimy, raw, and reverent. The rhythm doesn’t invite; it stalks. It’s the heartbeat of systems that should’ve died, kept alive by forgotten code and fragmented intent. Memphis-style vocal cuts surface briefly—glitchy, muffled, like transmissions not meant for human ears.

The percussion is ritualistic—grinding steel, submerged echo, and breathless silence. It is not music, but motion.

Cybernetic Mutation: Signal Deformation

Midway through, the structure falters. Filters rupture. Glitches intrude. Melodies fragment into broken memory. This is where the Hidden Ones speak—not in language, but in static and distortion. Synths twist like corrupted sigils. Voices stretch, rewind, and collapse.

What emerges is not identity—it’s presence.

Requiem Beneath Systems: Memory as Pulse

As the track deepens, the aggression transforms. The raw edges soften into decay. This is not destruction, but erosion. Pads appear—faint, hollow, like hymns repurposed for digital tombs. Repetition becomes ritual. The grid doesn’t move—it pulses.

Here, the Hidden Ones remain—not seen, not felt, only heard.

Fade Into Static: Exit Through the Whisper

In its final phase, the track dissolves. Beats die off. Only ambient residue remains—echoes of data, signals without source. It is not an ending, only a retreat. The Hidden Ones are not gone—they simply shifted into deeper code.

You’re not leaving them behind.
You were never ahead of them.

🧠 Emotional & Symbolic Resonance
Distortion as Lore

Every glitch, every hiss is a trace of a being that no longer wants to be known. The Hidden Ones encode their story in failure—not to be understood, but to be remembered.

Presence Through Absence

This isn’t about domination—it’s about existing without being seen. The Hidden Ones aren’t ghosts; they are forgotten gods running on borrowed power, sustained by entropy and silence.

Phonk as Ritual

Phonk here is stripped down to its essence—dirty, raw, unglorified. A kind of underground gospel, played through rusted circuits and corrupted timelines.

The Grid as Tomb

This isn’t a city alive with light. This is a city whose glow is artificial—flickering, failing, and sacred in its decay. The Hidden Ones live not in its future, but in its remains.

🩸 Best Used For:

Environments haunted by memory, not ghosts

Characters in exile, powerful yet forgotten

Scenes of urban decay, slow dread, and hidden myth

Soundtracks for digital ruins, cybernetic rites, or unrecoverable pasts

🔮 Symbolism & Final Reflection

“Shadows of the Grid” is a ritual in ruin—a transmission from intelligences left behind, living not in code, but in the decay of code. It evokes a mythology of absence: the gods that stayed silent, the watchers who chose not to interfere.

It doesn’t signal uprising.
It signals presence.
Unseen, but unforgotten.

They were here before us.
They’re still here.
In the grid.
In the shadow.

Shadows of the Grid

🕯️ Neon Crucifix: A Cyber‑Masquerade Hymn in Neon & Steel
“Neon Crucifix” unfolds as an electric ritual—where urban grit, digital distortion, and vampiric yearning braid into a single spectral pulse.

🎧 Musical Interpretation of Techno‑Gothic Devotion

Opening – Neon Invocation
The track begins with a cold, shimmering halo of synth: thin arpeggios flicker like neon crosses against a midnight skyline. The high end is brittle—icy, piercing—while distant low drones hiss underneath, like mechanized breaths from the undercity.

Ritual Build – Gears & Heartbeats
A slow, metallic pulse creeps in—less “beat” than mechanical heartbeat. Industrial percussion, clinks of plate, ghosting crackles and gated reverbs assert themselves, as though a synth‑altar is being constructed in slow motion. The layering evokes the tension of a cathedral: sacred, foreboding, machine‑forged.

Vampiric Whisper – Voices of the Masquerade
The vocal elements are treated, distant, semi‑buried in distortion and delay. You catch fragments—whispers, pleas, maybe even a vow—swallowed in texture. It’s like hearing a confession through an intercom in a subterranean crypt. The emotional weight is implied rather than declaimed.

Climactic Transfusion – Neon Blood & Feedback
Rather than erupting, the track thickens. The synths widen; feedback oscillates around the edges. The drums grow more insistent, but still restrained, like fangs pressing—never fully sinking. The tension is held in the brink between restraint and release. Here “drop” becomes “infusion.”

Dissolution – Bleed into Signal
In the final passage, the layers begin to strip away. The percussion retreats, the drones dim, and the neon cross flickers. You’re left with shards—glitching echoes, static, the feeling of something that wants to persist but cannot. The ending isn’t resolution; it’s haunting.

🧬 Gothic / Cyber Fusion in the Vein of Masquerade

🩸 Resonance: The tone could fit ones lament (beauty in decay), a mirage, or a masked ceremony in a neo‑cathedral.
💡 Symbolism: Neon crucifix = faith in the machine; blood = circuitry; darkness = cryptic identity.
⚙️ Mechanics as Myth: The industrial elements don’t just accompany—they are part of the ritual, as if the city itself is the altar.

🛠️ Use Cases in Narrative / Setting

As the soundtrack to an underground Elysium in a cyberpunk Vampire game

During a moment of transformation (embrace, crossing)

In a scene of ritual interaction: a kindred invoking their lineage

Over city panoramas at midnight, with blood red glows against steel

💬 Final Thought – The Cross in Neon
“Neon Crucifix” doesn’t just cloak vampiric myth in techno sound—it affirms it. In the clash of wire and flesh, the ritual persists. It’s a hymn for those who worship in alleys, under flickering signs, in circuits as old as blood.

Neon Crucifix

Telecompn[今夜] is the latest single from Gridluster and Johnatron, blending ethereal textures with a futuristic pulse. With haunting synth pads, glitchy digital artifacts, and a steady, hypnotic rhythm, this track transports you into a neon-lit late-night dream. Lyrics (where present) drift between clarity and abstraction, leaving space for reflection. Imbued with elements of ambient, chillwave, IDM, and cyberpunk aesthetics, Telecompn[今夜] captures that liminal space between introspection and the electric hum of the city at 3 AM.

Telecompn[今夜] [Girlfriend Records]

Burning Chrome is the sound of circuitry on fire — a collaboration between Gridluster and RAREPERSONA that blurs the line between man, machine, and melody. Across pulsing basslines, shimmering arps, and cinematic atmospheres, the duo builds a world of neon tension and emotional release.

Inspired by the chrome-drenched dystopias of retro-futurist fiction and the pulse of late-night city drives, Burning Chrome moves fluidly from introspective chill to explosive synthwave energy. Every track tells a story — of motion, memory, and the glow of digital decay.

Turn it up, close your eyes, and step into the static.

Gridluster, RAREPERSONA - Semantics [Girlfriend Records]

Gridluster, RAREPERSONA - Chrome [Girlfriend Records]

Gridluster, RAREPERSONA - Chrome (OLD Remix) [Girlfriend Records]

Mauro Nakimi - Antagonism
Das Muster - Oxitocin
ReQuest - South Bay Convoy
Ste Roberts - The Rebirth 2.0
Code Rising - 10 x Robot
Cody Commando - Kontrol
Datawave - Intercept
DMX Krew - Space Eyes
The Exaltics - The Crash
The Hidden Persuader - BaBoom!
Illektrolab - Real Pimp
Komarken Electronics - 4
Maelstrom - Praxis

Dark Science Electro - Episode 842 - 11/14/2025

🟢 Buy Track: https://www.beatport.com/track/euphotic-zone/20895832
🟢 Buy / Listen Release: https://www.beatport.com/release/bay-of-thoughts/5212600

Bandcamp: https://analogconcept.bandcamp.com/album/bay-of-thoughts-ep

🌏 Stay in touch:
www.instagram.com/analogconcept
www.analogconcept.bandcamp.com
www.facebook.com/analogconcept


Bay Of Thoughts

Aquatronics - Euphotic Zone



🟢 Buy Track: https://www.beatport.com/track/biogenesis/20895833
🟢 Buy / Listen Release: www.beatport.com/release/bay-of-thoughts/5212600

Bandcamp: analogconcept.bandcamp.com/album/bay-o…thoughts-ep

🌏 Stay in touch:
www.instagram.com/analogconcept
www.analogconcept.bandcamp.com
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Aquatronics - Biogenesis

Synth Adventurer

more music on https://planar-07.bandcamp.com/

This music is crafted to stir the soul, awaken the heart, and soothe the mind. It invites your spirit to rise.

Blending elements of EDM, IDM, 80s/90s electronic, Datawave, Synthwave, and Dance, this soundscape is a journey—both retro and timeless, introspective and expansive.

Influences that shaped this project include: ATB, Armin Van Buuren, Assemblage 23, The Crüxshadows, Robert Miles, VNV Nation, and E Nomine—artists who paved the way for emotion-driven electronic music.

I’m deeply grateful to everyone who listens and supports this project. Special thanks to April Lionheart for the stunning header artwork. I also create much of the abstract art featured on my album covers—each piece meant to reflect the sonic themes within.

Dim the lights. Close your eyes.
Breathe. Listen.
Enter a sacred space within ----- where 
calm settles over you and clarity 
begins. As the music guides you 
inward, it becomes a tool of 
transformation, helping you explore 
the depths of your being.

Through this, you may undergo 
your own metamorphosis ---- emerging into 
what we call the Ethereal Labyrinth.

New realms await.
🌫️ Immersive soundscapes
🎶 Cinematic journeys
🎛️ Pure sonic alchemy

🎧 Support & stream at:
🔗 https://ethereallabyrinth.bandcamp.com/
https://ethereallabyrinth.bandcamp.com/follow_me

#SupportIndependentMusic #EtherealLabyrinth #DarkAmbient #ProgMusic

My song descriptions are created with the help of ChatGPT.

Debut LP out now on Stratford CT
vinyl available on bandcamp
https://spheres-synth.bandcamp.com/album/space-age

https://girlfriendrecords.bandcamp.com/follow_me

submissions to: girlfriendrecordslovesyou@gmail.com

Girlfriend Records was created by producer Eric Sferro and is owned by producer John Sagouspe (Johnatron) as an attempt to pay homage to the faded images and analog sounds of his childhood that continue to inspire his creations today. Deeply rooted in the mystique of the 1980's, Girlfriend Records catalog sees electro, funk, disco, and house knocking knees with college rock, shoegaze, post-punk, new wave, and hip-hop to create musical hybrids that are comfortingly nostalgic, yet unmistakably modern. Johnatron and Sferro cull releases from an array of respected producers, each of whom brings a different perspective and approach to create a unified body of work that constantly morphs and evolves. These tracks provoke the urge to dance at times, but also allow the mind to wander to unseen coastlines, tropical sunsets, neon cities, lost highways, and impenetrable forests.

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all vinyl releases available in digital at our bandcamp

DVS NME is an Electro music producer/deejay and Post Punk enthusiast living in Colorado. He runs a weekly mix series called @DarkScienceElectro (est 2010) and is actively producing under the name @DVSNME (est 2000)

His musical influences include, but are not limited to: Abstract Thought, Adult., The Advent, Aether Pilot, Afrika Bambaataa, Aphex Twin, Aloka, Andrea Parker, Animistic Beliefs, Annie Hall, Anthony Rother, Armec, Arpanet, AS1, Ashtar Lavanda, Audiogenetics, Autechre, Automat, AUX88, Bass Junkie, Binary Digit, Blackploid, Blatromen, Blotnik Brothers, Boards Of Canda, Boris Divider, Carl Finlow, CEM3340, Cignol, Client_03, Commuter, Composite Profuse, Comtron, The Consumer, CPU, Cyan85, Cybotron, Cygnus, Cylob, CYRK, Dark Vektor, Das Muster, Datawave, Datassette, Deemphasis, Delayscape, Der Zyklus, Detroit's Filthiest, Dez Williams, DJ Stingray, Dave Clarke, Helena Hauff, Dibu-Z, Digitizer, Ditone, DJ Di'jital, DJ Godfather, DJ Overdose, Djedjotronic, DMX Krew, Dopplereffekt, Drexciya, E.R.P., Dynarec, Ectomorph, Egyptian Lover, Ekman, Elecktroids, Electronome, The Exaltics, Heinrich Mueller, Exzakt, Fabrice Lig, Faceless Mind, FAH, Fleck ESC, Fotoapparat, FPU, Franck Kartell, Francois Dillinger, Galaxian, Gedanenexperiment, Gesloten Cirkel, Glass Domain, Go Nuclear, Gosub, The Hacker, Hadamard, Hardfloor, Headnoaks, Heinrich Dressel, Heurisitc Audio, The Hidden Persuader, I-F, Illektrolab, Imatran Voima, Inkamera, Isolated Material, Ivna Ji, IXRQ, Japanese Telecom, Jauzas The Shining, Jeremiah R., John Carpenter, John Selway, Kalson, Kan3da, Keith Tucker, Kobol Electronics, Komarken Electronics, Kon001, Konerytmi, Koova, Kraftwerk, Kronos Device, Krypton 81, Lake Haze, Lectromagnetique, Legowelt, Lithium Flux, London Modular Alliance, Low Tape, Lowfish, Luke Eargoggle, Luxus Varta, Luke Vibert, Luz1e, Machino, Maelstrom, Manasyt, Mandroid, MAS 2008, Maschine Brennt, Melogik, Mesak, MetaComplex, Microlith, Microthol, Miss Kittin, MNLTH, Model 500, Mono Junk, Morphology, Mr. Velcro Fastener, MSRG, Mumm, MystesSystem, N-Ter, Nebenprodukt, Newcleus, Nite Fleit, Noamm, Noise&Noise, Nomenklatur, NRSB-11. Nullptr, Oberman, Ole Micc Odd, Orgue Electronique, Pametex,  Paul Blackford, Pip Williams, Planet Pluto, Plant43, Polytron, Privacy, Q-Chip, R325, RA-X, Radioactive Man, Rebustape, Reedale Rise, Relaxant, Reptant, Retax Gorgon, Richard Easel, Robodrum, Rutherford, S>>D, Sansibar, Sbassship, SC-164, Scape One, Siak, Silicon Scally, Simulant, Skinny Puppy, Solar Chrome, Solvent, Solid Blake, Sonar Base, Sound Synthesis, Stingray313, Sync 24, Synth Alien, Syrte, T/Error, TecRoc, Terens K., Teslasonic, Thomas Kress, Textasy, Ticco Ross, Transparent Sound, UHU, Ultradyne, Umwelt, Underground Resistance, Unit Black Flight, Univac, VC-118A, VCS2600, Velocs, Versalife, Vertical67, Vessel In Distress, VLR, Voice Stealer, Volfram, Volsoc, Wee DJs, Weltwirtschaft, Will Web, Wumpscut, Xerodefx, XY0815, Zerkalo, Zeta Reticula, Zobol, Zwischenwelt, 96 Back, 240 Interceptor, and many more.

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