Eternal Sunday presents a new electronic music release by Softcore Express. This time, it's a rendition of Maurice Ravel’s Boléro, also serving as an homage to synth pioneer Isao Tomita’s 1980s version.
Eternal Sunday presents a new classical music crossover EP by Softcore Express, this time featuring electronic versions of four well-known waltzes, including the immortal “Blue Danube”. As usual, the tracks were produced using analog and vintage synthesizers as an homage to Wendy Carlos and other synthesizer pioneers.
Eternal Sunday presents another electronic tribute to the best of classical music. This time is Electronic Vivaldi: The Four Seasons, in which Softcore Express covers the four concertos originally written for violin and orchestra using analog synthesizers, with amazing results.
Eternal Sunday presents Electronic Debussy: Clair De Lune, an EP containing 4 pieces written by the French composer Claude Debussy produced with analog synthesizers. The Ep is also an homage to the album Snowflakes Are Dancing, released in 1974 by the Japanese synthesizers pioneer Isao Tomita, which was the first electronic Debussy album and gained some popularity.
Eternal Sunday presents another classical music album made by synthesizers by Softcore Express. This time is a collection of the most famous pieces written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, including the serenate Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, the Rondo “Alla Turca” from his Piano Sonata No. 11 and the overture to the opera The Marriage Of Figaro.
Eternal Sunday presents another inmortal piece of classical music recorded with synthesizers by Softcore Express. This time is the famous Toccata and Fuge in D Minor composed by Johann Sebastian Bach.
Eternal Sunday presents Electronic Baroque: Switched-on Versions,the third album by Softcore Express paying homage to Walter/ Wendy Carlos and to the other late 60s/ early 70s pioneers that recorded classical music using synthesizers. This album features 12 tracks by some of the best Baroque composers (Monteverdi, Scarlatti, Handel and Bach), all made with analog synthesizers.
Eternal Sunday prsents a new electronic tribute by Softcore Express, this time featuring four inmortal songs made famous by the rock band Creedence Clearwateer Revival. As usual the songs have been produced in a synthpop/ synthwave style using vintage analog synthesizers.
Eternal Sunday presents anothe tribute album by Softcore Express, Electrostones. The album features 11 tracks made famous (in the 60s) by the legendary rockers The Rolling Stones,
this time produced as synthpop/ electropop/ synthwave tracks. A variety
of classic analog synthesizers and drum machines were used to give the
album a classic, retro feel. A must for any electro fan.
Eternal Sunday presents the second volume of the Electronic Bach series, Electronic Bach II: More Switched-on Versions. Like
the first one, it features 14 inmortal pieces composed by Johann
Sebastian Bach recorded with vintage synthesizers, as an homage to the
early work of Wendy Carlos and many other synthesizer pioneers of the
late 60s and early 70s.
Eternal Sunday presents yet another killer electronic cover version by Softcore Express, this time the inmortal instrumental Peter Gunn. The piece was composed by the legendary Henry Mancini for the first original detectiver series for TV, Peter Gunn (1958), created by Blake Edwards
(who also created the Pink Panther, which would also use music by
Mancini). Along the years several versions of Peter Gunn were released.
The original one, a guitar-based one by Duane Eddy, a very well known version by Emerson, Lake And Palmer, arranged as progressive rock in the 70s, and a nice electropop version by the Art Of Noise during the 80s, made using samplers and top technology of the time (this version won a Grammy award). Now, Softcore Express releases a version for the new generations, arranged in the usual synthpop/ synthwave style using analog synthesizers.
Eternal Sunday presents a new electronic tango single by Softcore Express, this time Libertangoanother composition by Astor Piazzolla,
the composer that fusioned tango with contemporary music in the second
half of the XX century. As usual the track is produced using analog
synthesizers and drum machines, with no acoustic instruments whatsoever,
including no bandoneon (tango accordion) which is the instrument that
gives tango its distinctive sound. A very fresh version of a classic
composition.
Eternal Sunday presents another landmark album by Softcore Express: Electronic Bach Switched-on Versions,
an album that features 12 tracks composed by the immortal Johan
Sebastian Bach produced with analog synthesizers. Of course, the album
is an homage to the first ever synthesized classical music album, done
by Wendy Carlos in 1968 (back when he was Walter Carlos). That album
produced dozens of clones, creating a new musical genre: classical music made with synthesizers.
Now Softcore Express pays homage to that late 60s/ early 70s craze with
this lovely album. The cover features a picture taken on the Recoleta
Cemetery, Buenos Aires.
Eternal Sunday presents yet another synthpop EP by Softcore Express,Memphis, Tennessee,this time a tribute to one of the most important (and forgotten) bands in the history of the genre: Silicon Teens. Silicon Teens
was one of the first virtual projects (this is, the band didn’t
actually existed) in the history of electronic music. They were created
in the UK by Mute Records owner, Daniel Miller, and they only released one album, Music For Parties, in 1980. The late Fad Gadget
provided the vocals. Though the project didn’t have a great success, it
paved the way for the early 80s synthpop revolution in the UK,
inspiring upcoming acts like OMD and Depeche Mode. Memphis, Tennessee features four cover songs that were part of Music For Parties. The song that gives name to the release (originally by Chuck Berry), “Let’s Dance” (a cover of the 1962 hit by Chris Montez), “Judy In Disguise” (originally by John Fred and his Playboy Band) and the Kinks’ hit “You Really Got Me”.
These four songs were recorded close to the Silicon Teens versions,
using heavily synthesized electronic sounds from (mostly) vintage analog
equipment.
Eternal Sunday presents an amazing album: Synthango, by Softcore Express, an album that compiles instrumental versions of 11 of the best known tango pieces in the Universe produced with a synthpop/ synthwave sound, made with vintage analog synthesizers.
Electronic tango or electrotango became popular as a
genre around the year 2000, but was mostly a combination of tango
classic sounds, especially the bandoneon/ tango accordion, with loops
and electronic percussion (not always produced in good taste). This is
not what Synthango is: there’s no bandoneon/ tango accordion or any other acoustic instrument in this album, everything
was replaced with pulsating lines of analog synthesizers that create a
surprising sound collage that was never done before, very catchy and
overflowing with naïve freshness.
Synthango is both an homage to tango from
Buenos Aires and to the synthpop sound of the pioneer producers that
developed electronic music based on synthesizers during the 70s and 80s.
The sound and arrangements evoke legendary producers and artists like Kraftwerk, Giorgio Moroder, Cerrone and synthpop pioneers like Yazoo, SoftCell o Depeche Mode, giving as a result a tango album that’s unique, revolutionary and apt for a global public and market.
Eternal Sunday presents a new single by Softcore Express, the label exclusive tribute and covers makers. This time it is an amazing rendition of the Kraftwerk song “Neon Lights”, originally released by the German electronic music pioneer group in 1978 as part of their Man Machine album (and covered many times by electropop artists like Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, who covered the song in their 1991 album Sugar Tax). The single features two versions of the title track.
Eternal Sunday presents a new single by Softcore Express,
the label’s exclusive tributes and covers makers. In this occasion they
present two songs made famous in the 80’s by the girls group Bananarama, “Venus” (which itself is a cover of the 60’s, the original version was done by the Dutch band Shocking Blue) and “Love In The First Degree”.
Both songs were classic examples of the sound of legendary pop producers Stock Aitken & Waterman, whose bands and artists dominated the teen pop/ dance music scene in the UK in the mid-80s (Kylie Minogue, Dead Or Alive, Rick Astley, Bananarama, Mel & Kim, Samantha Fox among many others).
“Stock Aitken & Waterman were criticized, both by rockers and by ‘serious’ electronic musicians, because they made pop hits for teens”, says Emiliano Canal, the label director. “But it is very difficult to come up for pop hits for teens. People not always realize this, and SAW did it worderfully for a decade or so”.
The vocals were provided by the very young and very talented Pauline Q, a 17-years old singer from Buenos Aires, Argentina, who also works as a voiceover artist for Disney
and other companies. This single is her phonographic debut and, judging
for the results, she’s got quite a bright future in her hands.
Eternal Sunday presents another electro tribute by Softcore Express, this time featuring the amazing Poletteon vocals.
Maybe some people are too young to remember, but during the late 80’s ABBA
was a very uncool band, a cheesy thing from the 70’s. No one was doing
ABBA covers, except for some synthpop/ electropop bands like Information Society, Men Without Hats and, later, Erasure.
Strangely, for synthpop fans too young to remember the originals, these
were the first glimpses of ABBA’s master songwriting. Much later, the
whole A*Teens/ Mamma Mia craze started and ABBA became fashionable again for the masses. This
is not only an ABBA tribute, it’s a tribute to all these pioneer
synthpop and electropop artists that covered ABBA when no one was doing
that.
As usual, Softcore Express’ sound combines a classic and a modern electropop sounds and, this time, it is the wonderful singer Polette AKA Paula Varela (an amazing vocalist and sessionist who sung countless jingles and shared stages with Shakira and Deep Purple among many others) the one who sings, making this electro tribute a perfect ABBA listening experience.
Hasta ahora el podcast de Eternal Sunday era en inglés y en audio, y debido a los pedidos implementamos un videopodcast en idioma español, presentado por Emiliano Canal.