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With the return of Sweden’s Alone 1980 means another solid imagined soundtrack. This time around it’s Street Trash From Outer Space, a title that I could have very easily eyed on the wall of Video World back in 1985 while looking for The Evil Dead or Pieces. Following up his previous Vol. 1, Vol. 2, […]
Read More Alone 1980 : Street Trash From Outer SpaceLeave it to the maestro Alan Sinclair to elevate us all with a sickly sinister slab of synth. As Repeated Viewing, Sinclair has created a vast library of imagined scores to films that seem to have been torn from my own twisted imagination. As far as dark, heavy synth music goes Repeated Viewing raises the […]
Read More Repeated Viewing : The FamilyAlone 1980 captures a certain kind of horror claustrophobia in their music. The Sweden-based imagined soundtrack provocateur builds sonic nightmares with vintage equipment, retro vibes, and a sense that you’ve stepped into some long lost video nasty on late night cable TV in the early 80s. Though the music varies from sweat-inducing panic to almost […]
Read More Alone 1980 : Vol. 1-3The musical world of Yves Malone is a dark and slinky one. Heavy synth music with touches of Giallo, 80s slasher scores, and dystopian electronic that brings to mind late night viewings and 80s tube TV video game adventures. If you grew up on NES, USA Up All Night, and caffeinated Friday nights with video […]
Read More Yves Malone : Immortal DeathWhilst in the midst of being down and out with Covid-19 back in November I watched a lot of movies. It was a great way to pass the time and took my mind off of feeling terrible. One of the movies I watched was Nobuhiko Obayashi’s House from 1977. It was one of those movies […]
Read More Alone 1980 : Lost Cues IIOkay, I’ll admit it. I completely missed out first time around when the great Hattie Cooke dropped her album The Sleepers with Spun Out Of Control back in late 2019. It wasn’t until a couple months after her cassette dropped that I started hearing folks talking about this amazing album The Sleepers. Folks like Graham […]
Read More Hattie Cooke : The Sleepers(2021 Re-master)The latest from Sweden’s Alone 1980 isn’t short on dread and Gothic doom. It seems to dig into the macabre and things that go bump in the night in a visceral and melancholy way. Given what we saw in the US just last week in the nation’s capital, I think this is the soundtrack we […]
Read More Alone 1980 : Night LightsA new album from Sweden’s Alone 1980 is always something to look forward to. The imagined soundtrack/heavy synth one-man project digs deep into the woozy sounds and shadowy worlds of old school VHS horror. Those b-movies you’d find on the back wall of the video store in the mid-80s. The schlocky sci-fi, the blood-drenched splatter […]
Read More Alone 1980 : The UnknownThe man behind the imagined soundtrack project Alone 1980 likes to keep things mysterious. It’s a one man band from Sweden that makes seedy, eerie albums that feel like music from some late 70s/early 80s sci fi/horror flick you’d find playing at 1am on USA Up All Night. I’m sort of an expert because I […]
Read More Sonic Trauma : The Music World of Alone 1980It’s been an amazing year for music. If you don’t think so, you’re ears aren’t open. In-particular, the year in electronic/heavy synth has been incredible. From artists like Hunter Complex, Skragn, Jonas Munk and Nicklas Sorensen; to Galactic Protector, Skeleton Beach, Mr. Eff, and Cory Kilduff, the year has been an overwhelming wave of forward-thinking […]
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