Tag: 80’s

Door #19: Sonnengruss – Talking In Your Sleep

Pretty boy Toby scores with each track he releases. This one is a co-op/feature with Kids X-factor runner up Richard Istel who has a mind-blowing voice for a now 18y old fella. The original is one of my favourite 80’s tracks so i was at first skeptical, but anything that is positive, danceable with a good vibe is a score in my book when everything is systematically narcissistic, aggressive and pretentious if measure msuic by todays overhyped mainstream. The tracks Sonnengruss pumps out are positive, funky, get the crowd hype and the younger generation seem to completely dig it in his sets.

Sonnengruss, Toby had somewhat of a tragic story with many of his releases. Scoring a Nr 1 at the then still relevant Hypem Charts, before it became a farce, the song suffered from Universal musics inability to pump the track out within a week or two (took em 3 months w/o any promotion) and hurt the track severely. Same goes for his EP and now this track, that came out early this year, performed well on Spotify (over 1 Mio). But the officially greenlighted track by it’s composers, had a sweet video that (ironically) used the old original music video from 1983, lip-synced to the Sonnengruss Version, with some hilarious 80’s effects. Of course a major label/Vevo controlled the content so the new video couldn’t even be released and thus the promotion felll flat.

Seems like a lot of complaining, when most smaller to middle sized dance acts would be thankful for Sonnengruss play numbers, but Toby has the potential to grow immensely as an act, and he has all it takes, musically, as a dj/producer and as the earnest fun personality he is. And he is still in his early 20’s. Well Sonnengruss had learned from these missteps, Toby & his producer have made an excellent roadmap for 2019. They will work with us, have a great release plan and just had another super successfull songwriting week in Berlin. No more covers, samples and other peoples material – no matter if licensed or not. And this time the entire team supporting him and working for/with Sonnengruss is finally a 100% right. Tried and tested.

 

Playlist : Not The 80s [outrun, synthwave, new retrowave]

This playlist has the feel of a classic 80s movie with all the JCVD Sly Stallone Ninja Michael Dudikoff action and coolness packed into it. Inspired by Outrun and catches the vibes 100%. Everything Kung Fury tried to accomplish but failed with everything that followed the initial promo clip on Kickstarter. Get in touch with your inner karate kid and +1 the stranger things nostalgia. Perfect for classic games, fist fights with cyborgs, rescuing maidens from ninjas, a classic dance off and getting your crew together for a bout of D+D. Love this one!

by patreeeek

Sonnengruss & Richard Istel “Talking In Your Sleep” (Savage 80’s Cover – Power Level 9000!)

Freaking awesome. My guys Sonnengruss aka Tobi & Dominique with their buddy Richard, recorded this monster of a fun pop song. I had it on repeat and their video wins the 80’s nostalgia award I was also involved into the fun creation to a minimini – mal degree, but them guys had too much fun doing it. So hooray, best Sonnengruss release so far and Richard Istels vocals actually sound like he is made for that kind of big tunes. And the video is Awesome AF.

I don’t know if it’s just my 80’s fanboy-ism but i have been missing power anthems, everything is sad and dragging these days or totally degenrated voyeurism, but this one is postive all the way through, and is sure to land on every party playlist, form the lazy ones to the bog rooms. Love it! Put it on and see how often you will have it on repeat ;)

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Soundclown Link for Hypem. I heard some people out there are still using Soundclown. Must be the Russian Bots the FBI is talking about, but wait the FBI was caught lying about it… confused…

Wake Up by Loud Forest 

The first song of Loud Forest i have come across and they impress at first listen! This is what they wrote about the tune and i couldn’t agree more

“This song is about loving someone who is super independent. You love them, you have all the feelings of intense love, but they are always out there, at arms length, just beyond your reach…so it feels like a dream…so I say to myself “you’re imagining this, it’s a dream you’ll forget, wake up it’s over”. Because it feels like a love affair with all the emotions and feelings, but one that is ever so slightly unreal because that independent person is never totally there within reach. It’s kind of like “pinch me, is this real?” But not because it’s too good to be true, but because it’s a love, a distant love that does kind of feel like it’s not real.”

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My Body by Saunas

Man, i wanna jump in my Trans Am, and go to my prom dance, start a brawl, then have a ball and then hang out with my fellow 80’s reagenauts, Brad & Chad. This has 80’s retro feel and soundtrack written all over it! Solid effort gents! This one is a slow burner though. At first you like it, but then you really like it ;)

This way to the sauna please:::

LAZER BLADES – Heartbreaker

This one goes so deep in the retro feel, that i wonder why there is not a goth in 8bit on the cover. A lot of elements that you will recognize from the early to mid 80’s synth bands and an instrumental that would make any video game or cyber warrior movie proud. Great!