Electronic artist and musician Dubmood is releasing a new synthwave album titled Force de Frappe. Gamers who have played Hotline Miami 2 will recognize his name–Dubmood provided his track, "Richard," to the game's soundtrack.
According to the musician, the album features unused demo submissions that served as a foundation upon which he builds a "unique and twisted" story about a Swedish defense system AI gone rogue, a French nuclear deterrence program gone bad, and AI-built female androids flying vintage SAAB jet fighters over a dark Gothenburg archipelago in 1981.
"When [Hotline Miami Co-Creator Dennis Wedin] approached me about working on Hotline Miami 2, he asked if I could do something more along the lines of a film soundtrack," recalls Dubmood.
"The creative process for the game was inspired by the generation of '80s movies that in Sweden are known as 'VHS-Violence' or 'Video-Violence,' like Robocop, Escape from New York, the Mortal Kombat movies, etc., so with the unused demo submissions I had created, it was easy to sequence them together with new tracks to create a movie scenario because they weren't written to accompany just a level, menu or boss fight. In that way, this album tells a story, setting the stage of a dark, cold and dysotopic Gothenburg at the brink of nuclear war."
If you're a fan of synthpop, definitely check it out when it releases on December 21, 2015.
It'll be out in digital formats as well as on 12" vinyl, C-60 cassette tape, and on a CD housed within a 5.25" floppy disk. Data Airlines is releasing the album.
