There’s something special and crisp about 80’s music. It had such a sincere and fresh vibe that really made it unique. The synthesizers and sequencers that came out of that decade made such cool sounds that they warped minds as easily as tweaking the cut on a sine wave. That’s why I like the music of the artist, Rock Electrique. Rock Electrique, albeit a modern band, has created a superb sound that throws back to the 80’s. My favorite track of theirs so far, Beverly Hills Heat captures a pulsing, beat-kicking sound that permeates through the entire track. Beverly Hills Heat reminds me a lot of the awesome MOD file tracks that I used to listen to in the early 90’s. These files were basically a mix between midi files and mp3’s. They were pretty awesome and the synthesizers were great. In Beverly Hills Heat it cooks up this memorable synth line that dances on the keyboard like a Vice Cop waiting for a deal to go down, so he can swoop in, grab the stash and the cash and then get back to the club in time to dance.
Rock Electrique tags their music as 80’s new wave and disco among other things. I think that Beverly Hills Heat matches up to 80’s new wave pretty well. But it has production value that seethes with high quality modern equipment. So you really get the best of both worlds when you listen to it. If you like the music in Beverly Hills Cop you will really dig Beverly Hills Heat. There is a part in the middle of the song were the synths get juicy all over the place and I love it. It almost sounds like they are beams of wavy electricity that are loosing their coherence in our space time and like a lightening coming from a wizard’s fingertips, the energy is writhing violently and spreading out over time. It’s sick.
I recommend that you get Beverly Hills Heat by Rock Electrique by clicking HERE.
-Tyler