Halloween is Coming

Hello internet!  Fall is in full swing, and it's been a good one.  We've seen a cinematic offering that was certainly interesting, in Halloween (2018) a new generation deals with Michael Meyers...Overall pretty good, but I absolutely loved that John Carpenter still had input on the OST and film score!  I really don't think it would have been as good without it.

Tomorrow night I find myself with something exciting to do; in wonderful timing (near Halloween), Dance With the Dead (Los Angeles) is headlining a show at The Rebel Lounge in PHX.  Supporting is none other than my friend from Copenhagen - Daniel Deluxe! (DD)  I'm especially excited because I've been following (DD) for the past few years and really enjoyed his evolution as an artist.  Both of these outfits make some of the most haunting, pulsing, heavy, yet nostalgic versions of synthwave I have ever heard.  It is seriously going to be a treat of either of them happen to have visuals going as well.

I will be sure and report back on the evening, until then - here are some artifacts to check out:

2 of my favorite DD songs:

A good example of Dance With The Dead:

10 Actual Years

wow! so it's been a little over 10 years since I have updated this blog.  I found it today while internetting and figured - "hey, what if I do that again?".  so after modernizing my profile and interests, here we go!

today I found an interesting concept and vibrant site over at https://qrates.com/.  it is a crowd funding site for artists to get their music produced on vinyl.  makes a lot of sense, get pre-order commitments before going into production.  with something like a 20%-40% pre-sale of your pressing, you can gauge how many to press, and minimize risk.



the favorite project I stumbled upon, was project 17207 - https://qrates.com/projects/17207- 'Saturn Audio System Demonstration Cassette' by wilson arcade. a total vaporwave gem!

the description reads: one day, wilson arcade was looking in the glove box of his 1997 saturn sw2. what was this all the way in the back? a cassette? a beautiful red and black cassette with the saturn logo? yes. it was what he thought it was. the rumored saturn audio system demonstration cassette was real!

he popped the tape into the tape player and turned up the volume. the tape hissed as it came to life. shaking, he removed the cassette from the player. this must be shared with the masses, wilson thought. with that, he ran inside to recover all of the audio from the tape.

wilson arcade presents this cassette in its entirety. learn first-hand why saturn is ａ　ｄｉｆｆｅｒｅｎｔ　ｋｉｎｄ　ｏｆ　ｃｏｍｐａｎｙ　／／／　ａ　ｄｉｆｆｅｒｅｎｔ　ｋｉｎｄ　ｏｆ　ｃａｒ. you'll be ｄｒｉｖｉｎｇ　ｏｆｆ　ｔｈｅ　ｌｏｔ, putting down your ａｕｔｏｍａｔｉｃ　ｗｉｎｄｏｗｓ and blasting this tape on your ｃａｓｓｅｔｔｅ＋ｅｑｕａｌｉｚｅｒ （ｏｐｔｉｏｎａｌ　ａｄｄ－ｏｎ） the ｕｎｅｘｐｅｃｔｅｄ　ｑｕａｌｉｔｙ will bring tears to your eyes, tears that remind you of how empty your life is. get out your ｋｅｙｌｅｓｓ　ｅｎｔｒｙ　and drive with those ｈｉｇｈｗａｙ　ｌｉｇｈｔｓ　overhead. look beside you. someone in your ｐａｓｓｅｎｇｅｒ　ｓｅａｔ? maybe your life isn't so empty after all. enjoy the ｎｉｇｈｔｌｙｆｅ. and, most of all, ｔｈａｎｋ　ｙｏｕ　ｆｏｒ　ｃｈｏｏｓｉｎｇ　ｓａｔｕｒｎ　

 


what you find is wilson arcade did not simply rip the audio from the cassette to point and laugh as a joke, but also left his imprint on the audio in the most pleasing way possible - slightly slowed down.  it makes for a captivating, almost haunting rendition of Saturn Car owner pride, and American Confidence that can only come from the late 1990's.

favorite track: the Aside track 6 'Keyless Entry'  - the soaring guitar and vocal refrain of "stay safe tonight" that only Saturn can deliver. 
 

Enjoy!
/jry