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Blue Stahli - "Antisleep Vol. 4"

13/8/2017

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Everyone has their favourite…it doesn’t matter what you’re talking about, everyone has a favourite something…let’s use genres as an example as there’s a lot of choice in a variety of mediums. Take movies, some people like rom-coms…I on the other hand like classic horror movies, none of this modern day “Paranormal Activity 15: The Conjuring Of Insidious Annabelle vs The Vvitch Part II: The Revenge Of Saw” type bullshit…give me a black and white Nosferatu any day…the same can be said for music. Some people are really into R&B…I don’t understand these people, I really don’t…now, while I have to remain open minded and impartial here, personally I will always gravitate to electronic pop-rock, 80’s vibe stuff…and goth rock…however like I said I get to cover a wide variety of bands on this blog so I have to remain open minded and address things fairly…today we have a first. The lovely people over at FiXT sent me an email that contains the new record from genre-masher BLUE STAHLI…the record is called “Antisleep Vol. 4” and…it’s a 100% instrumental record! No lyrics…no stories…just the notion of vague concepts and ideas; a clusterfuck of content aimed at YouTuber’s and for Movie/TV trailer licencing…it’s essentially a sampler of sorts, available for marketing…let’s check it out…

We open up with “Sunset Neon” and it’s a very light, very vibrant electronic pop piece, it’s a touch retro and utilises slightly warped, autotune-driven synths, it’s very easy listening and generally sounds like the basis for a Summer dance pop record in the early production stages, before vocals are added…the kind of thing you might see on an advert promoting like, an alchopop or a new fruity perfume…elsewhere, further use of electronica can be found within tracks like “Car Chase Club Action”, which is heavier on percussion and overall has a more hard techno / EDM based core sound, there’s easily more attitude here, and the slightly contradictive “Futureproof”, which primarily consists of pulsing, spacey synths…simplistic techno beats, there are subtle vocal samples here but they really don’t count, more like blurts of noise as opposed to lyrics, practically a stutter…

The general idea of this record though was to showcase a variety of styles or stylistic themes that Stahli is able to produce and work with to cover a variety of platforms upon request…as I stated this kind of thing is useful for movie trailers, for intro themes for videos…basically he can produce for a multitude of projects and what we have here is practically a catalogue of products he’s able to supply…”Secret Agent Business”, as cliché as it is, gives off the classic undercover spy, Pierce Brosnan era James Bond vibe…you can easily imagine this music accompanying a gadget crazy highly exaggerated, ridiculous montage where Bond uses a shoelace to laser through a revolving door to obtain missile codes that Soviet’s intend using to blow up Bosnia from the moon because they gave them Nul Points at Eurovision 27 years ago…(use your imagination OK)…while “Red Carpet Rush” sounds like he’s taken FLO RIDA and tweaked things to sound like it would on a click-bait site that has nothing to offer but celebrity gossip from wannabe news reporters who have nothing better to do than comment on what dress Kim Kardashian was wearing…(Newsflash; no one gives a fuck!)…but you get the idea, if you follow celebrity culture, you’ll know what I’m talking about when you hear it…elsewhere, really it’s just playing with sound. There are heavier, rock fuelled tracks with more prominent guitar elements, there’s hints of dark country blues, hints of soft jazz…it’s a bit of everything. Not really an album as such, but, if anything, it’s a good advertisement. If you’re interested, the ‘album’ is available for pre-order now and is released August 25th…if you’re working in media and are looking for some audio content, this may very well help you out! Otherwise it’s more of a fans/collectors thing. [4]

Click here to pre-order "Antisleep vol. 4"
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