Dreamwave. After listening to a dreamwave track, that word will likely mean different things to different people. For some it will evoke a night drive in a bustling downtown cityscape. For others looking out the window of an airplane on a blanket of clouds at sunrise. Some may remember making a first nervous phone call to a serious junior high crush.
It doesn't really matter what it evokes though, because dreamwave fucking kicks ass. After many producers spent a good chunk of time dedicated to making the loudest wildest synths and basslines possible, a few dudes and dudettes have been drawing back from the distortion and leaning heavily on big clean synths and nostalgic vocal lines. The result is a refreshing new direction for electronic music, and one that is currently being done very well by some very unknown artists.
First is Tesla Boy, a Russian outfit who by the looks of their myspace have a couple of dates coming up in London... big opportunities ahead it seems! At any rate, Neon Love is typical dreamwave: shrouded lyrics, yearning synth lines, relentless bass.
Tennishero shows us all what seduction sounds like in Sweden... with an opening line like "I was yours and you were mine," this track is pure nostalgia in three minutes and fourteen seconds, but not in a shit cheesy way. This track brings back all the positive memories of first love and steamy makeout sessions with your parents sleeping upstairs..
We Plants Are Happy Plants, aside from having a name that happily straddles awesome and weird as fuck, have a pretty psychedelic dreamwave offering that got some serious love on hype machine last week... starts with an awesome sample of philosophical musings and proceeds into mind-melting synths. Enjoy!
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