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Waveshaper (musician)

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Tom Andersson, known professionally as Waveshaper, is a Swedish electronic musician[1] specialising in synthwave. Inspired by artists like Jean Michel Jarre, Kraftwerk and Daft Punk, as well as 80s movie soundtracks, his music is retrofuturistic and is composed with a variety of hardware synthesizers, including the ARP 2600, Roland Jupiter-4, and Korg MS-20.[2] He released his debut album Tracks To The Future on the label Lunar Boogie in 2013,[3] and the EP Sounds That Kill on Telefuture Records in 2014.[4] In 2015 he released the four-track vinyl record Solar Drifter on the Swedish synthwave label Rad Rush Records.[5]

Discography

Singles

  • Dangerous Love (2013)
  • So French Disco (2013)
  • Modern Technology (2014, with Robert Parker)[6]
  • Chasing The Clone Of Myself (2014)
  • Radio Signal (2014)
  • My Faust - Death Race (Waveshaper Remix) (2015)[7]
  • Crystal Protocol (2015, NewRetroWave Records)
  • 66 MHz (2017)[8]

Albums

  • Tracks To The Future (2013 , Lunar Boogie)
  • Sounds That Kill (2014, Telefuture Records)
  • Solar Drifter (2015, Rad Rush Records)
  • Exploration 84 (2015, Self Released)
  • Station Nova (2016, NewRetroWave Records)
  • Velocity (2017)
  • Lost Shapes (2018)

Other

  • Part of the soundtrack for Furi
  • Remixed the song "Eden" for the 2016 synthwave album Scandroid

References

  1. ^ "Waveshaper - Music". Soundcloud. Retrieved 22 June 2015.
  2. ^ "Interview: Waveshaper". Neon Vice. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
  3. ^ "Waveshaper - Tracks To The Future". Lunar Boogie. Retrieved 13 May 2013.
  4. ^ "Waveshaper:Sounds That Kill". Telefuture Records. Retrieved 3 April 2015.
  5. ^ "Waveshaper - Solar Drifter". Rad Rush Records. Retrieved 2 February 2015.
  6. ^ "WAVESHAPER TEAMS UP WITH ROBERT PARKER IN “MODERN TECHNOLOGY”". Noiseporn. Retrieved 5 February 2014.
  7. ^ "Interview: My Faust - Dark Rider E.P.". Retrieved 13 April 2015.
  8. ^ "Q&A: Waveshaper Brings Us Back to 1993" Vehlinggo. Retrieved 6 July 2018.