Fanatic Promotion: Dream System 8 collects vintage synths off eBay to construct Vangelis, Tangerine Dream, Duran Duran-inspired pop album, “We Sleep Again.”

Wednesday, January 17, 2018

Dream System 8 collects vintage synths off eBay to construct Vangelis, Tangerine Dream, Duran Duran-inspired pop album, “We Sleep Again.”

Team of Emmy®-winning “Stranger Things” Music Editor, Hearts of Palm UK vocalist releases debut Feb. 23^rd. See “Losing All of You” at Billboard.

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Dream System 8 (L-R): David Klotz, Erica Elektra. Photo credit: Polly Antonia Barrowman.

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Dream System 8 – In The Press

“Evokes a dreamlike wonder.” — Billboard

“Beautiful dream pop.” — MAGNET

“The pair are bringing back all the nostalgia.” — Earmilk

“Jam packed with vintage synth tones.” — mxdwn.com

“Coaxes beguiling textures from their array of 80s era keyboards.” – Keyboard

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Dream System 8 chats with Billboard and shares the music video for “Losing All of You.” Watch here or listen at the links below!

[VIDEO]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OD3kGQN7vBA

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[SOUNDCLOUD]: https://soundcloud.com/fanaticpro/the-dream-system-losing-all-of-you

[SPOTIFY]: http://open.spotify.com/track/53KaTuNCb89p52sWbDvxTc

[APPLE]: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/losing-all-of-you-single/id1287641431

[YOUTUBE]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk1crh8I2TM

[MP3]: http://www.fanaticpr.com/dreamsystem8/dreamsystem8-losingallofyou.mp3

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“The LA-based synth duo meld vintage gear with a modern attitude.” Dream System 8 chats with Keyboard.

Hear “Heather Runs The Marathon,” an instrumental inspired by 80’s-era film scores, at The Big Takeover.

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Dream System 8 is a newly-formed, synth-based pop duo out of Los Angeles that combines the talents of veteran musicians David Klotz and Erica Elektra.

The vintage instruments used on the band’s upcoming debut album We Sleep Again (out Feb. 23^rd, 2018 via Minty Fresh) are veterans, too, and include a large assortment of Rolands, Korgs, and Yamahas. Not only is the musical partnership of the humans in Dream System 8 new, so is the relationship to the band’s large brood of keys.

Klotz, whose day job has earned him four Emmy® awards as the Music Editor of television shows such as “Stranger Things,” “Game of Thrones,” and “American Horror Story,” started acquiring the gear in 2015.

“I was inspired when I started working on ‘Stranger Things’ in 2015 and first heard the score,” Klotz recalls. “I loved the sounds that the show’s composers created with synths. It was unlike anything I’d heard before in the world of film scoring.” Klotz, who has been making records under various band names for years, began plotting to make a record of pop songs based around the sound of these keyboards. His first stop was eBay.

Recording with synths from the early 1980’s, Dream System 8’s debut emerges from these origins of artifice with natural-sounding pop songs inspired by Vangelis, The Human League, Tangerine Dream, and Duran Duran. The latest single from Dream System 8 is “Shine A Little Light,” premiered via Earmilk alongside an interview with Klotz and Elektra. Follow this link to read the piece and to hear “Shine A Little Light” now.

“Pretty much every vintage synth we own is on ‘Shine A Little Light,’” Klotz says. “I’m pretty sure it’s the only song on the album with that honor.”

Previously, Dream System 8 recently released the debut single “Losing All of You,” and shared the music video for the song via Billboard. Klotz and Elektra also spent some time chatting with Billboard about the project. Read the full interview and see the music video for “Losing All of You” here.

We Sleep Again, the debut album by Los Angeles-based duo Dream System 8 is scheduled to arrive on Feb. 23^rd, 2018. David Klotz and Erica Elektra are available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.

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