Aug 24 2012

Mitch Murder’s ‘Traces To Nowhere’

Well, this is a nice surprise for a Friday. the bringing together of two of my favourite things in the world, Swedish SynthWave master Mitch Murder and David Lynch & Mark Frost’s early ‘90’s unsettling-fest Twin Peaks. Mitch’s new track is a love letter both to the show and to Angelo Badalamenti’s soundtrack.

Titled Traces To Nowhere (the title of the first, or second, episodes of the show’s first season, depending on your perspective on whether the feature-length pilot is counted as episode one), the track is an obvious homage to Badalamenti and Julee Cruise’s Falling, Twin Peak’s theme tune, but never attempts to replicate it. The track is more a cover version of a mood, an atmosphere, than any one piece of music. Building upon the same foundation of the shows soundtrack, Mitch takes those elements in his own direction, layering lush, haunting synths over a Trevor Jones soundtrack style bass. It will feel familiar, but at the same time brand new. Amazing work.

♫ Mitch Murder – Traces To Nowhere

Mitch Murder’s Glass CitiesEP is released 1st August.

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Aug 15 2012

Mitch Murder & Kristine

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‘You know what would be amazing?’ I often think to myself, ‘a Mitch Murder track with vocals’. Well, the moment has finally arrived, and who has stepped up to the challenge but non other than Greek retro Pop songstress Kristine. The whole thing is just to awesome for words.

Feel The Air is Mitch Murder applying all his abundant musical skill to a big euphoric, retro tinged, dance tune. This is the Mitch Murder sunrise tune, the Mitch Murder’s big hands-in-the-air track. The synths shimmer as Kristine’s sultry voice glides over the track like silk, shining over the ‘80’s licks and lush chords. Pure Dreamwave gold, Check it out now.

♫ Mitch Murder (Feat. Kristine) – Feel The Air

Mitch Murder’s Glass Cities EP is released 1st August.

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Jul 25 2012

Mitch Murder’s Glass Cities’ EP

I’m not sure Johan Bengtsson A.K.A Mitch Murder sleeps anymore. In the months leading up to the release of his amazing second album, Current Events, the Swedish SynthWave king was pretty quiet. Since then, though, we have been treated to a year of constant new tracks, new EPs and new reMixes, almost weekly. And never once had the man missed a beat, never once has he released something anything less than the very best SynthWave. Next month sees another new EP, the man just doesn’t stop.

At the beginning of next month the Glass Cities EP is released, not by Johan’s usual home of SynthWave central, Rosso Corsa, but on new Irish imprint DhARMA. DhARMA have given Mitch free rein to do what he does best. From the opening, and title, track you are immediately back in Mitch Murder mode. After a imposing cinematic intro Glass Cities make a brief nod to Zoolook era Jean Michel-Jarre with it’s just of woody melodies and vocal samples as an instrument. It’s a tack make of pure 80’s bliss that glides effortlessly into Last Call, which seems Mitch add a little Trevor Jones into the mix, ,and is an amazingly smooth and emotive pallet cleanser before the high-octane Outrun of Heading South, a full on post-Italo race to the boarder. Hopeful and uplifting, this track mirrors the best inspirational ‘80’s soundtrack peices and leads into the club soundtrack of Shoot The Core! with flying lead lines. Best Of The Best lulls you into a false sense of security with slick 80’s Pop drums and big emotional chords before treating you to some of Mitch’s best Malmsteen-esque synth shredding. Ever optimistic, with a hint of melancholy, like the best ‘80’s music, Mitch constantly amazes with his mix of part Italo, part 80’s soundtracks, part sheer synthesizer joy. The EP also holds a reMix from Sylvester, who bring the Electro Boggie to Glass Cities, and this bonus mix from Norwegian duo Nite Sprite who inject a little Nu-Disco electro noise into Heading South. Most of this collection has been available at one time or another in the past year, Mitch Murder’s output is verging on prolific these days, but to have all these tracks together, in high quality, is really something special. Obviously for Synth Wave fans this is a must have EP, but for any fans of synthesizer music, Mitch Murder comes so highly recommended it’s difficult to put into words.

♫ Mitch Murder – Glass Cities

♫ Mitch Murder – Best Of The Best

♫ Mitch Murder – Heading South

♫ Mitch Murder – Last Call

♫ Mitch Murder – Heading South (Nite Sprite reMix)

Mitch Murder’s Glass Cities EP is released 1st August.

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Jul 16 2012

New tune from Mitch Murder

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This brand new track from the king of SynthWave, Mitch Murder, is an almost perfect ode to Saturday mornings as a kid, getting up and sticking the cartoons on. For me that meant, on a Saturday or School Holidays, the Wide Awake Club, with TransFormers, Battle Of The Planets (G-Force), Thundercats, Spider-Man & His Amazing Friends… you get the gist.

With Saturdays Mitch has captured the mood with his usual flair. The innocence of youth, the excitement of a Saturday morning are represented by shimmering bright synths that ring out over that particular kind of stuttering FM bassline so often used in Kids TV themes. As the track progresses (into the action?) Mr. Murder gets his Trevor Jones/Vince DiCola on with some digital slap bass. After a rash of moody Sci-Fi epics, it’s awesome to hear Mitch Murder in fun mode, you can’t help but smile at this track.

♫ Mitch Murder – Saturdays

Mitch Murder’s MARS EP is out now on his Bandcamp.

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Jun 29 2012

Mitch Murder’s ‘Daybreak’

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Hot on the heels of his recent MARS EP, which was hot on the heels of his awesome Current Events album, comes this new hot track from SynthWave legend (Yes. I said legend. What?) Mitch Murder. All that being hot on the heels stuff must be pretty hard to keep up with, but Mr. Murder keeps releasing tune after tune that literally blows 95% of his peers out of the water. When Mitch drops a new SynthWave track, it;s in a totally different ballpark.

Daybreak is his latest offering, captures the good vibes of Tropical Disco and the sunrise euphoria of Balearic House, takes those feelings and applies them to his deeply musical SynthWave. The ability to conjure a mood in music, and to let that music resonate the mood back to the listener is on of Mitch Murders biggest strengths, and here the man delivers the ambience of sunrises, deserted beaches, waves lapping at their shores. Not a place Mitch has taken us to before, but one he handles with effortless perfection. This is synthesizer art, Mitch paint a aural picture for the listener with rich synth textures.

♫ Mitch Murder – Daybreak

Mitch Murder’s MARS’ is out now on his Bandcamp.

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Jun 18 2012

Mitch Murder’s new EP

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Mitch Murder, the master of all things SynthWave, dropped a new EP over the weekend. The amount of new material Mitch is treating us to is amazing, and all of is literally blows the cometition out of the water. The ‘MARS’ EP is Mitch Murder on fine soundtrack form. Hold on to your space boots, we’re in for a wild electronic Sc-Fi ride.

The ‘MARS’ EP is somewhat Mitch Murder’s tribute to the artist and designer of the future Mœbius, who passed away recently. A red planet themed journey through science fiction soundscapes in that way only Mitch Murder can. The man’s skill with a synthesizer is only matched by his production chops. ‘The Deimos Incident’ is good indicator of what the EP holds, it’s a moody atmospheric peice, ominous like the planet itself but shot through with the optimism of exploration. Mitch has totally nailed the reflective ‘80’s drums and dreamlike synths. ‘Valles Marineris Pursuit’ is a twisting, sparkling slice of synthesizer gold, much like it’s EP companion ‘Phobos Gun Run’ which we featured previously, it;s got a strong Vince DiCola flavour realty capturing the ‘80’s futuristic mood with it’s lush stabs and winding melodies. We can’t really stress enough how Mitch Murder is the cream of the Synthwave crop. Flawless production & musicianship to such a high level he leaves others in his dust. Go pick up this EP right now if you are at all into electronic music.

♫ Mitch Murder – The Deimos Incident

♫ Mitch Murder – Valles Marineris Pursuit

Mitch Murder’s MARS’ is out now on his Bandcamp.

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May 22 2012

Mitch Murder’s ‘Race Day’

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Mitch Murder keeps knocking them out of the park, time and time again. Whist relatively quite during the record in his last album, the awesome ‘Current Events’, now the album is out Mr. Murder is treating us to a new track almost weekly, and they are all killer, no filler!

‘Race Day’ is slick as hell. A bouncy Italo track loaded with nostalgia, what we have here is four and a half minutes of thoughtful and uplifting SynthWave. The track pumps along on a staccato FM bassline that lays the groundwork for some seriously shimmering synths to dance around. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, the is no-one making Synthwave who has a command of melody, and the production skills of Mitch Murder. Everything in his track just sits right in the mix, and his melodies interweave around each other like they have always been part of the whole. A master at work.

♫ Mitch Murder – Race Day

Mitch Murder’s amazing ‘Current Events’ album is out now.

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May 21 2012

Yeah/Dish!’s ‘Prom Night’ compilation

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Parisian Disco label Yeah/Dish! has been releasing some really nice stuff, for free, over the past year. Many of these releases we’ve featured right here, now the crew are coming out with a full blown compilation. Released today ‘Prom Night’ is nine tracks of pure, Funk fuelled, synth nostalgia.

The tracklist reads like a who’s who of up and coming Nu-Disco artists with a couple of established names and some SynthWave thrown in for good measure. Featuring the likes of Luminaire, Cyclist, Stereocool and Hemmingway you know you;re in for a groove treat, full of laid back summer vibes and lazy Disco with a French flavour. There’s a collaboration between SoHight & Cosmonaut Grechko called, ‘Night Moves’ that’s ever bit as slick as you;’d imagine coming from these two. With a jump-out-your-seat beat and funk synth soloing that just sails through the track, ‘Night Moves’ is what retro synth and Nu-Disco should be all about. The king of SynthWave and Outrun Electro Mitch Murder contributes a sweet, emotional slice of his ‘80’s soundtrack inspired work, ‘Vanilla Sky’ is an atmospheric four minutes of synthesizer gold, with tons of soul. Moustache Machine’s second appearance on electronic rumors today comes from ‘Brenda’ and whiles less frantic that his other work, this more laid back peice is loaded with electronic nostalgia and a smooth groove. Also included is Stay Ali’s recent comeback track ‘Oh Tom’, a twisted and infectiously catchy little experimental peice that never forgets to create a melody that will worm it’s way into your brain. Yeah/Dish! have put together a pretty amazing collection of tracks, for free, and we salute them for it. Salute!

♫ SoHight & Cosmonaut Grechko – Night Moves

♫ Mitch Murder – Vanilla Sky

♫ Moustache Machine – Brenda

♫ Stay Ali – Oh Tom

You can download the whole compilation, for free, here.

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May 17 2012

Nite Sprite’s début EP

Nite Sprite are a Norwegian double act whose harsh Electro/SynthWave we recently featured reMixing Mitch Murder’s ‘In The News’. The duo have just released their début EP and it’s a no-nonsense, dark robotic journey through the night. Check it out.

Their self-titled EP contains four originals, named ‘Scene 1’, ‘Scene 2’… and so on which only adds to the ambiguity of these tracks. This isn’t sweet Outrun/SynthWave inspired by ‘80’s teen movies, this is holy-shit Electro SynthWave inspired by ‘80’s “what the fuck is after me” movies. They actually remind me a lot of Coloureds, in that way they can make Electro noise terror but still retain a Disco groove or a cinematic SynthWave progression. it’s not an easy thing to achieve and Nite Sprite pull it off with ease. Highlights of the EP include ‘Scene 1’, which sets up the EP with harsh digital bass and melodies filled with dread anticipation, ‘Scene 3’ which channels a little Kavinsky and Vince DiCola together into a noise, but emotionally driven tune, ‘Scene 4’, the most melodic of the tunes, maybe the finale of the Originals. ‘Scene 4’ is a brooding, but ultimately optimistic slice of chainsaw electron with a tune. Also, their are reMixes from Totem and the king of SynthWave Mitch Murder, who takes the heavy elements of ‘Scene 1’ and works them into a flawlessly produced, post-EBM slab of pure retro synth work. Mitch’s reMix drops some really interesting elements, the crunch synth guitar playing against the sparkling leads to create a rich, full sound. An interesting EP to be sure, and an in-you-face début form Nite Sprite.

♫ Nite Sprite – Scene 1

♫ Nite Sprite – Scene 3

♫ Nite Sprite – Scene 4

♫ Nite Sprite – Scene 1 (Mitch Murder reMix)

Nite Sprite’s self-titled EP is out now.

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May 8 2012

Mitch Murder’s ‘Phobos Gun Run’

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The undisputed king of SynthWave, Mitch Murder, dropped another new track over the weekend, proving he’s still on top form, still an innovator and still light-years ahead of most of the pack in teams of musical ability and pure flair for, and understanding of, retro synth music.

Obviously for someone so influenced by electronic ‘80’s movie soundtracks this was bound to crop up sooner or later, but this is probably the most Vince DiCola-esque peice that I have ever heard Mr. Murder produce. Drawing from DiColoa’s trademark mixture of both arpeggiated & sliding digital slap bass and staccato orchestral hits with big powerful progressions, Mitch Murder adds this to his own repertoire of urgent vintage synth lines and Moroder grooves. The synth solo in the track is simply stunning, it takes synth shredding to a whole new level and lifts the track up to stratospheric heights. Mitch Murder had produced another huge slice of otherworldly, nostalgic, synthesizer brilliance, and with amazingly clean, subtle production highlighted just how much work the much of the SynthWave scene has to do to be on his level.