See team of Emmy®-winning “Stranger Things” Music
Editor, Hearts of Palm UK vocalist’s “Losing
All of You” video via 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
“Unabashedly starry-eyed.” — BuzzBands LA
“Dreamy.” — Magnetic
Magazine
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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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More Music by Dream System 8
“A wistful but buoyant quality — yes, it is
unabashedly starry-eyed.” Hear “Color
The Stars” at BuzzBands.LA.
“The song is dreamy.” Head
over to Magnetic Magazine to
check out “It’s All Happening” by Dream System 8.
“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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About Dream System 8
Dream System 8 is the 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 now 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.
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.
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.
At this point in the story, Dream System 8 might be conjuring images of a Nick Rhodes-ian utopia where racks of gear stretch to the sky,
surrounding an isolated man who looks absolutely perfect in an expensive linen
suit and make-up. But just in time, Elektra’s
lyrics and vocals take these tunes out of the atmosphere and ground them in
feeling – heart-tugging and delivered with emotion – exposing the roots beneath
these musical landscapes.
“I grew up in a musical household, my Mom is a piano
teacher and songwriter,” she says. “I’ve always loved songs with good melodies
and classic chord progressions, but I’ve been held back by the technical
aspects of music making.”
And then a Tinder match with Klotz yielded a band instead of a romance. Moreover, it gave Elektra the opportunity to make the
greatest use of her strengths as a songwriter and vocalist.
“We’re both single parents, both musicians, and both
live in Pasadena, so I thought we might still have a bit of a connection,” Klotz says. “It was a short date but at
the end of it we decided to meet up again to collaborate on music.”
Emotional maturity in the age of app-based dating is
hard to come by, but when it happens, great music is the result.
“I honestly thought I’d never hear from her again, but
she reached out,” Klotz continues. “Dream System 8 is the perfect name for
us,” Elektra concludes. “For me,
it’s literally a musical dream come true.”
We
Sleep Again, the debut album by
Los Angeles-based duo Dream System 8
is out today. David Klotz and Erica Elektra are available for
interviews. Contact Josh Bloom
at Fanatic for more information.
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Dream System 8
We
Sleep Again
(Minty Fresh)
Out Now
Track Listing:
02. It's All Happening
03. Color the Stars
04. This Ride Called Life
05. Shine a Little Light
06. Heather Runs the Marathon
07. Dedication
08. You Are
09. Little Ghost
10. Help Me See
11. Jenny's Ocean Drive
12. I Think of You
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Dream System 8 Links
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Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion
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