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At 1980 / JOSH DALLY / TIMECOP1983

JOSH DALLY – Speak Your Mind (2022)

Even if you’re a casual fan of the booming synthwave genre you’ve probably heard JOSH DALLY‘s voice. The singer and multi-instrumentalist has appeared on the stone cold classic synthwave album with Timecop1983’s ‘Night Drive’ (featured at 0dayrox), as well as his other brilliant another alliance with Adrian Quesada Michelena for two albums as AT 1980 (yes the genre loves those ’80s year references) both reviewed by 0dayrox too.
Now the songwriter is finally going it alone for his debut solo album “Speak Your Mind“.
JOSH DALLY’s music is much, much more than synthwave. There’s a lot of guitar work on this album. This is a true ’80s inspired record utilizing real instruments; he play electric guitar / bass / drums as well as synths of course.
The unmistakable timbre of Josh’s voice takes you back to 1987 when talented solo artists populated the rock&pop charts. “Creating music that sounds like a soundtrack to the movie of your life has always been a goal for me” says Dally. Listening to “Speak Your Mind” I think he’s succeeded…

LeBROCK / THE MIDNIGHT / TIMECOP1983

TIMECOP1983 – Night Drive +2 (2018)

As you may know, retro synthwave music is one of the guilty pleasures of this blog. After the excellent new album from TIMECOP1983 featured here few days ago, many of you asked for his debut ”Night Drive”, including two bonus tracks.
We’ve been following TIMECOP1983 singles and EPs from several years now, and we can say “Night Drive” was the culmination, the full circle into the first LP from this talented Dutch musician.
TIMECOP1983, otherwise known as Jordy Leenaerts, had been making music since he was 12 with music-making program Scream Tracker, a DOS-based software a friend had showed him, and of course, later, synthesizers. He has worked with many artists, including Frontiers-signed THE MIDNIGHT which singer appears here on one track as guest, alongside wonders Le BROCK…

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TimeCop1983 – Faded Touch (2021)

We already featured here an album from TimeCop1983, a Dutch musician / producer considered one of the first, forerunner artists of the retro ’80s / synthwave movement. Now he has joined reputed vocalist Josh Dally to co-write more proper rock&pop songs and they are delivering their new album “Faded Touch”.
This beautifully nostalgic album is catchy and heartfelt, pumping out what may be Timecop1983’s most moving album to date, combining the ’80s arcade video-game culture and Miami Vice incidental music with radio-ready rock&pop / lite AOR.
Emotive music that takes you back to a lovely era and it’s like a soundtrack to your memories…