Wednesday, November 1, 2017

All-vintage synth-based pop songs of Dream System 8 inspired by David Klotz’s work as Emmy-winning Music Editor of “Stranger Things.”


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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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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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