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Who is Highway Superstar ( Alex Karlinsky ) ?

Highway Superstar   Alex Karlinsky (known under his stage name Highway Superstar) is an Israeli record maker of synthwave music. Having been brought up in the 1980s, Karlinsky says Highway Superstar is his endeavor to reproduce melodic components from the period, while consolidating them with current creation systems and soundscapes.[citation needed] After a few web singles between 2012– 2013, a full collection was discharged by means of the USA/Canadian name Rosso Corsa Records. His track "Watchful Shouting" was included in the 2015 short film Kung Fury.     Karlinsky is likewise dynamic in the Israeli music scene as a session console player, arranger, maker, blending and acing engineer.[citation needed]   Highway Superstar YouTube Spotify Deezer Style: Dans/Elektronik Albums: Kung Fury (Original Motion...

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What is Scandroid ?

Scandroid Scandroid is an electronic music venture made by Klayton, and recently included Varien in 2013. The venture discharged its introduction single, "Salvation Code", on August 6, 2013, which was added to the presentation collection Scandroid upon discharge. Scandroid can be depicted as incorporating the retro synth songs of the 80s while as yet adjusting to present day generation, along these lines making another retro sound. A picture was prodded of a skull-like logo, by means of the Celldweller Facebook page on July 16, 2013 implying at an approaching undertaking. On July 24, 2013, an official declaration was presented on Celldweller, basically titled "What is the Salvation Code?" In continuation with the mystery, their site SalvationCode.com propelled, requiring a secret...

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Who is Mitch Murder (Johan Bengtsson) ?

Mitch Murder Johan Bengtsson (known under his stage name Mitch Murder) is a Swedish electronic artist from Stockholm, known as one of the numerous craftsmen that advanced the synthwave sort. His first EP, After Hours, was discharged in 2009, trailed by Current Events and Burning Chrome on Rosso Corsa Records in 2010 and 2011. He clarified in a meeting of his motivations being "jazz, mushy 1950s bossa nova, 1970s motown or 1980s pop", and referenced Paul Hardcastle, Jan Hammer, and Vince DiCola as precedents.     Background His essential programming for music is the tracker program Renoise. In 2013, he was reached by executive David Sandberg with respect to his film venture Kung Fury, where he would make the greater...

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Who is The Midnight (Band) ?

The Midnight The Midnight is a synthwave band made out of New York based vocalist musician Tyler Lyle and LA based Danish-conceived maker, lyricist and artist Tim McEwan. Background The band was framed because of Tyler and Tim meeting amid a co-composing workshop in 2012 in North Hollywood, CA. Propelled to a limited extent by the score for Drive and the retro synth sort developing around its discharge, the match composed two singles "WeMoveForward" and "Gloria", that would be discharged two years after the fact in 2014 as a component of their presentation EP titled Days of Thunder. In 2016, the team discharged a 12 track LP Endless Summer, followed in 2017 with the arrival of Nocturnal which put in...

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Who is Gunship (Band)?

GUNSHIP Gunship (stylised as GUNSHIP) is a British synthwave band framed in 2010 by Dan Haigh and Alex Westaway and later joined by drummer Alex Gingell. Gunship's music has been depicted as "impacted by the soundtracks of 80s film, TV programs, computer games and kid's shows" and "a neon splashed, late night, sonic escape drive, trickling with delectable simple synthesizers, realistic vocals and cyberpunk esteems, detonating from the title page of a dusty plastic VHS case which has lain overlooked since 1984." The band are attributed with advancing the synthwave scene and developing it by including rock tune structure and broad utilization of vocals to a dominatingly instrumental type. Background Gunship have a notoriety for making imaginative and fascinating music...

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