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Who is Betamaxx ?

Who is Betamaxx ? Betamaxx is a 80's synth recovery venture by Nick Morey, hailing from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania U.S.A. The task was framed in mid 2012 with the arrival of "Lost Formats" LP in late September of that year. The name "Betamaxx" was created from Sony's "Betamax" film player which equaled VHS in the early-mid 80's, at last losing the organization war. Betamaxx's sound is motivated and made with an utilization of simple and computerized equipment synths from the 80's and today including the Roland Juno-60, Sequential Circuits Prophet-6 and, Korg's M1 workstation. Consolidating these sounds in light of a soundtrack motivation, Betamaxx has made a neo retro-future sound like any semblance of John Hughes, and John Carpenter. He has...

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Who is Anoraak ?

Anoraak   Anoraak is the melodic undertaking of French performer Frédéric Rivière, multi instrumentalist, vocalist, maker and DJ, previous drummer of Pony Run. furthermore, individual from the Valerie Collective alongside craftsmen, for example, College, Maethelvin, The Outrunners, Minitel Rose and Russ Chimes. Originating from the stone scene at first, he later came to electronic music, beginning Anoraak adjacent to his drummer position. Background His music is identified with the retro-synth and 80's motivated scenes as of late featured by the film Drive's soundtrack. His sound is depicted as "fantastic synth-filled tracks that fall some place on the range among disco and new wave", "contemporary yet retro-tinged" or "simple, blustery [...] chugging along on vaporous synthesizers like an end of the...

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