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JBS Playlist

by Jake Bradford-Sharp

1. Doctor Chrome - from the forthcoming album NIGHTTOWN. A cyberpunk, retrowave, and synthwave inspired track with heavy guitars, punchy drums and intense basslines. All topped with big synths.

2. Sky Market - also taken from the forthcoming album NIGHTTOWN. A heavier and groovier track, but still very much in the cyberpunk, retro/synthwave genre. The track starts with an epicly heavy riff and loud guitars, building into a huge 80’s synth middle 8, finally finishing with a coda to the main melody.

3. In The Fade - taken from the recently released double album TRIGGER WARNING. A dark, brooding atmospheric track with a distorted choir, haunting melody and suspenseful string section.

4. Arriving, Departing - taken from the recently released double album TRIGGER WARNING. A dark and grooving track, building throughout. Inspired by the likes of Thom Yorke solo, Atoms For Peace, and Nine Inch Nails.

5. Hack - taken from the forthcoming album DARK FUTURE, a concept album set in a dystopian future about a group of rebels taking down a large data-collecting corporation. The track is a big drum driven track, starting as an intense ‘battle’ between percussions, eventually morphing into a swarm of Vangelis/Ridley Scott-esque 80’s synths. The culmination of the track fuses the two for an epic finish.

6. Rework, Rebuild, Restart - another track taken from DARK FUTURE. This track blends the natural sounds of the orchestra with the unnatural sounds of electronic synths. Big pounding drums provide the backdrop to the build, until the synths and strings converge for a powerful and uplifting melodic passage. They unify at the end of the track for an epic climax.

7. Ready For This - taken from the album HERE WE GO AGAIN. This track is on my last Electro Swing release. It fuses big band, big bass, and big grooves. A unique blend of 30’s and 40’s big band swing and modern electronica.

8. Moonlit Orchids - taken from the unreleased album TAKE TWO. This track is unreleased due to the inclusion of currently-uncleared samples taken from Dick Pierce and His Orchestra’s track ‘Orchids in the Moonlight’, found on Archive.org (and claiming to be out of copyright). I am in the process of clearing them in order to release the Take Two album. Another synth bass, big band, and funky grooves-driven track.