– September third, 2024 –
HARDWAREZ To See Launch On October eleventh Through Steel Blade Information + Pre-orders Obtainable
Stream MASTER BOOT RECORD’s “CPU” HERE
“CPU” is the most recent single from MASTER BOOT RECORD (MBR). The observe comes by means of HARDWAREZ, the forthcoming third full-length from the Rome, Italy-based digital steel venture, set for launch on October eleventh by way of Steel Blade Information.
HARDWAREZ sees multi-instrumentalist and MBR mastermind Vittorio D’Amore (aka Victor Love) aurally exploring the duality of expertise and humanity in 9 intense and incandescent tracks. The LP, which follows 2022′s Private Laptop and 2020′s Floppy Disk Overdrive, comes from the expansive thoughts of Love, an Italian producer who emerged from the underground as an nameless venture in 2016 to create the soundtrack for the cyberpunk point-and-click journey recreation VirtuaVerse. The venture seamlessly advanced right into a standalone entity, releasing over fourteen albums in only a few years.
To create HARDWAREZ, the technologist labored by dwell streaming his desktop on YouTube whereas composing new music. All the pieces is programmed by way of MIDI. “The very first music I wrote is definitely additionally the primary single, ‘CPU,’” he says. “Though the opposite songs on the album have a fairly totally different fashion, the kind of riffing and the totally different melodic part of this observe labored as a base to improve the sound earlier than shifting ahead.” “CPU” can also be the place Love determined to check the true guitar overdubs and was impressed by the outcomes.
“Whereas the early compositions occurred throughout dwell streams, I added rhythm guitar overdubs off the data within the last phases,” Love continues. “This synergy with the synth guitars creates a large and highly effective sound within the studio, simply because it does throughout our dwell performances. Shreddy additionally recorded the lead guitars alongside the chiptune leads including numerous assault and an distinctive vitality to the solo sections.The general manufacturing degree is way larger than earlier releases, contributing to a brand new, upgraded signature sound.
“With this album the 486DX-33MHz-64MB turns into sentient via human augmentation. For we might turn into higher people with their assist, however machines nonetheless want us to shine.”
Stream MASTER BOOT RECORD‘s “CPU” at THIS LOCATION.
The album title merges the time period “{Hardware}” with “warez,” also referred to as The Scene, extra generally often known as the scene of cracks and pirated software program which has been influential to Love when it comes to crack and keygen music. Whereas Love additionally organically started listening to digital music, acid techno, industrial and synth pop, he additionally “grew up within the ’90s via all of the grunge, nu-metal and industrial scene.”
Previous-school steel in addition to ’80s and ’90s motion pictures and video video games — and music from these — additionally play a job in Love’s musical DNA. His years of music and pc fanaticism is all manifested in MASTER BOOT RECORD and HARDWAREZ. “What I’m doing with this album and to an extent with earlier ones, is to combine the sounds of cracks, keygen, demoscene and video game-inspired chiptune with heavy steel and classical music utilizing {hardware} and computer systems to provide it.”
HARDWAREZ will see launch on CD and digital codecs in addition to vinyl within the following shade variants:
Exhausting Disk (US)
Laptop Terminal Inexperienced (US)
180g Black (EU)
Experience The Lightning (EU)
Collector’s Dream (EU – Ltd. 200)
Pre-order HARDWAREZ at: metalblade.com/masterbootrecord
HARDWAREZ Monitor Itemizing:
01. BIOS
02. MOBO
03. CPU
04. GPU
05. RAM
06. FDD
07. HDD
08. PSU
09. CASE
MASTER BOOT RECORD – C:HARDWAREZTOUR.EXE:
9/25/2024 Soda Bar – San Diego, CA
9/26/2024 The Wayfarer – Costa Mesa, CA
9/27/2024 MagWest – San Jose, CA
10/01/2024 Star Theater – Portland, OR
10/02/2024 The Pearl – Vancouver, BC
10/03/2024 Substation – Seattle, WA
10/05/2024 Synthbangers Fest – Denver, CO
10/06/2024 Aces Excessive Saloon – Salt Lake Metropolis, UT
10/08/2024 The Nile Theater – Mesa, AZ
10/09/2024 Teragram Ballroom – Los Angeles, CA
10/12/2024 Hackfest – Quebec Metropolis, QC
10/18/2024 Le Molotov – Marseille, FR
10/19/2024 Backstage By The Mill – Paris, FR
10/20/2024 Le Ferrailleur – Nantes, FR
10/22/2024 Academy 2 – London, UK
10/23/2024 Satans Hole – Manchester, UK
10/24/2024 Cathouse – Glasgow, UK
10/26/2024 Grand Social – Dublin, IR
10/28/2024 Change – Bristol, UK
10/30/2024 Effenaar – Eindhoven, NL
10/31/2024 Melkweg – Amsterdam, NL
11/02/2024 Membership Volta – Cologne, DE
11/03/2024 Neushoorn – Leeuwarden, NL
11/04/2024 Brand – Hamburg, DE
11/06/2024 Stengade – Copenhagen, DK
11/07/2024 Valand – Gothenburg, SE
11/08/2024 Goldie – Oslo, NO
11/09/2024 Kollektivet Livet – Stockholm, SE
11/11/2024 Lacznick – Wroclaw, PL
11/12/2024 Gretchen – Berlin, DE
11/13/2024 Chemiefabrik – Dresden, DE
11/14/2024 Cross Membership – Prague, CZ
11/15/2024 Kabinet Muz – Brno, CZ
11/16/2024 Turbina – Budapest, HU
11/17/2024 Szene – Vienna, AT
11/18/2024 Pont Rouge – Monthey, CH
11/19/2024 Exil – Zurich, CH
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