Wednesday, May 20, 2009  12:01 am 

My Girlfriend was a Victim in an ’80s Slasher Movie

And now she’s dead.

Girlfriend Records heralds from the USA and is a sweet label full of nostalgic Atari aural attacks, a label that lounges on the same beach that spreads across a degraded bitmap sunset landscape where Ghost Car and Valerie collectives are busy building crystalline sand citadels and working on their tan.

Head-honcho Sferro hot-wires the Outrun car and steers it away from the scrolling 8-bit roads of the sun-kissed coastal backdrops and onto the skeletal neon Tron-scape, too flash to be stomped by the Recognizers and too laid back to bother with the headstrong antics of the Light Cycles racers. “Replique” is the sound of Vangelis making music for arcade games, massive chunks of synth echoing through a nite sky made of gradually darker strips of royal blue that weighs down on a pneumatic beat synchronised with the yellow machine-gun flare of the end of level boss.

Sferro – Replique

Pelifics ooze through the air like a shimmering miasma, coiling around the marbled columns of a stately Florida drug-money mansion gliding across the lawns and up the white staircases past the rows of fountains and dog statuettes, like a new wave death infiltrating the filming of the gunfight apocalypse finale of “Scarface”, leaping on the unsuspecting pretend dead and killing them for real with precision hi-hat drums, silently passing through the blank-firing guns by way of osmosis and depositing fiery bullets of decadent Moroderian lust, before resting in the coke mountain on Tony Montana’s desk morphing him into the male latino version of the mechanical death machine made by the supercomputer at the end of “Superman III”.

Pelifics – He was the Best

(image sourced by TommyBoy)

Finally The Sweeps chime in with the moody love-synthballad for the end credits to our somewhat bizarre Scarface/Tron crossover movie, “When in June” – a gilded chrome stallion galloping across the grey clouds hanging over the rain soaked streets of ‘84 LA, creating a soft focus beat that would cause tears to well up in the eyes of Lovelock and Miami Horror as they slow danced together in a deserted disco shrouded in dry ice in a pastel coloured galaxy far far away.

The Sweeps – When in June

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Parallels, those of great blacklight new-waveEBM beauty, have released the new “Ultralight” 12″ – available from This Is Not An Exit Records, or alternatively you can hit up the iTunes store. In celebration they have a new mixtape available to download that will make you throw shapes like Kate on the cover of “The Kick Inside”:

Parallels – Mix for Thisisnotanexit Records

1. Tangerine Dream – Astral Voyager
2. Roni Griffith – Spies
3. Parallels – Midnight Voices
4. Padded Cell – Far Beneath London
5. Gino Soccio – Remember
6. Ladies Choice – American Man
7. George McCrae – Don’t You Feel My Love (12 Inch Version)
8. Magenes – Back to Singapore
9. Severed Heads – Petrol
10. Parallels – Ultralight
11. Tuxedomask – Illuminati
12. Kate Bush – Watching You Without Me

labels >> Girlfriend Records, Parallels, Pelifics, Sferro, The Sweeps, mixtape

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