Rise of the Synths Vol. 2 Released: Hear New Music From Gunship, Code Elektro, Com Truise, and More
Jonathan Barkan
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Earlier this year, I wrote about The Rise of the Synths, a documentary about the rising popularity of the synthwave genre that has been ushered by artists such as Perturbator, Carpenter Brut, Gunship, Miami Nights 1984, Lazerhawk, and similar. Their music is steeped in the synth sounds of the 70’s and 80’s, inspired by films like Suspiria, The Terminator, The Hitcher, Prince of Darkness, and so on and so forth.
While we wait for the documentary to arrive, two companion EPs have been released with the second coming out today via Lakeshore Records. The EP features new music from artists like Gunship, Code Elektro, Com Truise, and more. You can stream the album below.
If you want to pick up a copy of the album, you can do so through Lakeshore’s Bandcamp page.
Synopsis:
The natural way of the cultural wave: we generally experience that musical and cultural trends shift from an outstanding position within public opinion to near utter rejection, refusal and ridicule, through an ever-shortening period of time. However, if that period of time is extended, to often several decades, we can witness a renovation, a new heightened recognition – the rebirth of the wave. Through today’s global reach, powered by the internet, cultural waves and fascinations can resurface and manifest themselves, with an even much bigger fan impact than the original source.
The film is a travel in time towards the roots of a worldwide grass-root music scene known as Synthwave, an irresistible blend of modern electronic composition with 80s pop culture’s nostalgia, that over the last two years has transformed from a whisper on selected internet hubs, to an ever-growing scene, expanding rapidly as we speak. Accounting millions of plays on social media, devoted fans are legion, but nobody in the mass media knows about them.
Thousands of synthwave composers around the world are living out double-lives. Away from their normal everyday life they spend another half-life behind a faceless musical avatar, creating and uploading their own renditions of 80’s-styled film scores, sharing them with the world – surging the wave. They belong to an endless army of watchers for the master’s legacy: the sound that Edgar Froese, Giorgio Moroder and John Carpenter created in the late 70s.
A time travel into the universe of creating sounds. A love letter to human fascination and the collective memories of an universe that never existed.
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