Klotz, vocalist Erica Elektra chat
about upcoming debut album with Billboard, share music video for “Losing All
of You” single, out now.
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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 chats
with Billboard and shares the music video for “Losing
All of You.” Watch here
or listen at the links below!
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[YOUTUBE]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk1crh8I2TM
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Dream System 8 – In The Press
“Touches on a nostalgic, shared love for ‘80s synth
pop that evokes a dreamlike wonder.” –
Billboard
“Jam packed with vintage synth tones that meld
together into a straightforward pop track. While synthesizers form the core of Dream System 8’s unique electronic pop
sound, the song is elevated to a higher plane by its ethereal female vocals.” –
mxdwn.com
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About Dream System 8
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
(out Feb. 9th, 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 band
recently
released its first single “Losing
All of You,” and is now
sharing 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.
The video for the single was directed by Chip Yamada, a self-professed “whole-hearted
believer in the power of love,” a belief that he brings to life in the clip.
Yamada explains, “In 2017, with transhumanism set to become the game-change
of our lifetimes, we wonder whether the passions of love will survive the shift
into a time governed by machine minds.” The video features the image of a
teenage “Robot Girl,” adrift in deep space, picking up a signal from Earth and
watching a love story unfold. “She’s feeling her emotions awaken for the first
time,” Yamada says.
The debut album by Los Angeles-based duo Dream System 8 is scheduled to arrive
on Feb. 9th, 2018. David Klotz and Erica Elektra are available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.
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Dream System 8 Links
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Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion
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