Dubmood releases a Hotline 2 inspired Synthwave Album

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Hotline Miami 2 track and unused demos become foundation for all new ’80s electronic concept album available now for pre-order

Press release:
Marseilles, France – December 3, 2015 – Electronic artist Dubmood is pleased to present Force de Frappe, an original and hard-hitting synthwave album that features Dubmood’s Hotline Miami 2 track, “Richard,” and unused demo submissions as a foundation upon which to build a unique and twisted story about an evil Swedish defence system AI, a French nuclear deterrence program gone bad, and AI-built female androids flying vintage SAAB jet fighters over a dark Gothenburg archipelago in 1981. Fans of the Hotline Miami 2 soundtrack should feel right at home as the entirety of Force de Frappe is heavily influenced by the soundscape and mood of the award-winning soundtracks to both Hotline Miami and its recently-releasd sequel.

Force de Frappe will release on December 21, 2015 in digital formats as well as on 12″ vinyl, C-60 cassette tape, and on a CD housed within a 5.25″ floppy disk via the renowned chiptune and electronic music label, Data Airlines. Pre-orders are now open:

Force de Frappe De Force from Data Airlines

“When [Hotline Miami Co-Creator Dennis Wedin] approached me about working on Hotline Miami 2, he asked if I could do something more along the lines of a film soundtrack,” recalls Dubmood. “The creative process for the game was inspired by the generation of ’80s movies that in Sweden are known as ‘VHS-Violence’ or ‘Video-Violence,’ like Robocop, Escape from New York, the Mortal Kombat movies, etc., so with the unused demo submissions I had created, it was easy to sequence them together with new tracks to create a movie scenario because they weren’t written to accompany just a level, menu or boss fight. In that way, this album tells a story, setting the stage of a dark, cold and dysotopic Gothenburg at the brink of nuclear war.”

As a quick guide to the album, listeners will enjoy the opening car chase scene, “Älfsborg 1981,” where cyber punks hijack a Swedish government fighter pilot android followed by an introduction to the AI-controlled military defense system in “STRIL-60,” built by DataSAAB (a real company remembered for smuggling missile guidance technology to the Soviet Union). The SAAB Draken fighters are explored in “J35 Draken,” followed by “Att Bygga En Robot,” which accompanies a scene in a lab where the protagonists try to save their fallen comrade by turning her into an android.

From there, STRIL-60 system becomes self-aware and decides that the best way to gain the complete control but also the trust of the humans still able to shut it down is to stage an attack, provoking NATO and the French to launch such an attack. The rest of the album follows the dog fights in the skies above Europe when SAAB Draken fighters with their android pilots attempt to intercept the incoming French nuclear bombers. The ending is left intentionally vague but may be more easily interpreted after listening to GEM TOS’s French lyrics in the last track, “Force De Frappe.” We will say, however, that war never ends well for anyone involved…

About Data Airlines
Data Airlines is a record label focused around retro-gaming, indie electronics, chiptune and retro-future design founded in 2006. Data Airlines is run by a crew of pilots from Marseille, France and Göteborg and Malmö, Sweden with roots in the demo and crackscene computer subcultures of the ’80s and ’90s.

Their vision is that in the age of Internet, it is important to exploit new technologies to make and spread good music without also forgetting the love for sound on physical media. Even though celebrating the sound of old machines, they do not intend to engage in pointless nostalgia or overuse of the aesthetics associated with the culture of the scene. They like bands and love live music.

Learn more about Data Airlines: http://www.dataairlines.net
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About Dubmood
Dubmood is a Swedish chip music producer ex-pat in Marseilles with roots in the pre-Internet software piracy scene. Long-time member of the infamous Razor 1911, active since 1996 and considered somewhat of a style-originator and reference in the chip music community, Dubmood has brought mainstream popularity to the genre and inspired hordes of kids to bring out their Game Boys and shout 8-bit on the Internet.

In 2004, Dubmood left cyberspace to tour the world in different coalitions, founded Data Airlines, and gained recognition as a popular producer and remixer. Dubmood’s music is best described as a dance floor-friendly fusion of ’80s computer game music, IDM and electro house
with a lot of indie rock and hip-hop references.

When performing live, Dubmood is Maskinoperater on drums, Zabutom on bass, and Gem Tos on guitar and vocals.

Learn more about Dubmood: http://www.dataairlines.net/dubmood/