First heard about the Northern Irish act called Gunstar when I downloaded The Dream Machine (from Fried My Little Brain) which was blogged at a lot of places around the sphere. It’s not a surprise, the guy making the music supposed to be only 20 and he brings the vibe of many nu-electro artists like GRUM and Neo Tokyo from the UK and among them his sound might be the closest to Russ Chimes and Valerie’s 80s fetish and fascination with video games and sci-fi. On the other hand, the tracks bang hard. Sometimes he builds the songs on Sebastian-esque machine noises and stuff. His sound can be bass-heavy but he never crosses to the fidget territory. Or maybe he does. Nevermind, he’s still more similar to South Central than to the Crookers. He certainly is capable of creating heavy and hypnotizing beats and the synth-sounds are a perfect fit. (Idea for new category ’space banger’.) Here are 4 tracks I love. Dream Machine and the ambient-like The Lonely Cloud (featuring Silvercord) have beauty, the others are tension-building dancefloor-destroyers. Give him some love on myspace and follow him on Twitter!

Gunstar - The Dream Machine [mediafire] // [ysi]

Gunstar - Death Star Disco [mediafire] // [ysi]

Gunstar - Idee Fixe [mediafire] // [ysi]

Gunstar and Silvercord - The Lonely Cloud [mediafire] // [ysi]

This entry was posted on Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 at 12:35 pm and is filed under gunstar, silvercord, synth, space disco, intelligent banging, uk.