Who's up for some 80s throwback perfection? I was, at least when I started this over a year ago. The theme of fear of technology back then was huge, and unfortunately, kinda prescient. So I added some ideas about sex and robots and all the potential for these heady things.
 
Thanks to Danny Danzi for his encouragement to finish this.
https://soundcloud.com/hammertoe/the-future
 

Yep... definitely the 80's!  Sounds great!!

The 80s is alive in James' head. Yay!
 
Groovy man.
 
 
Whoops, wrong decade. My bad.

I could picture the video that would accompany this. Bright colors, disco balls, big hair, dancers in Spandex with leg warmers. A great time capsule. Makes me want to do the same for the 70's, but I don't think I could handle the drugs.

Love it! Excellent 80's snapshot, though there are a few touches from later years as well. Great job on this James and I'm glad you persevered through to the finish.
 
Regards,
Dan

Excellent. As soon as the drums kicked it was certainly a retro 80's flashback for me.
 
Glad you pushed through and finished this.

FJZ, Ed, Dan , Bit, Bio:
 
Thanks for the kind words. This was a homage to the stuff I used to make fun of in college! I guess everyone goes thru that musical snob phase. Now I appreciate simple chords and cool textures more than ever.

James,
 
You nailed the fun side of the 80's, really good job.   Haven't heard that many Syndrums in a long time:)    Would be interested to hear about your production techniques, I hear some vocader work but you also have some low robotic voices, also vocader or another process?   Are you using Battery for drums?  
 
Your verbs, arps and overall dimensions are spot on 80's polished perfection.  
 
Regards  

James - definitely 80's technopop sounding!  
 
listening on cans on a laptop - sounds like a "clean" mix.
 
I really like the guitar at the break before the key change - that's my favorite part!
 
nice work!

markno999
James,
 
You nailed the fun side of the 80's, really good job.   Haven't heard that many Syndrums in a long time:)    Would be interested to hear about your production techniques, I hear some vocader work but you also have some low robotic voices, also vocader or another process?   Are you using Battery for drums?  
 
Your verbs, arps and overall dimensions are spot on 80's polished perfection.  
 
Regards  

Its the Addictive Drums 2 Simmons kit. Those Simmons drums were inescapable for most of the early 80s.
I used the new VocalSynth vocoder from Izotope for the chorus, and everything else was some Nectar 2 pitched presets that I tweaked a bit.