“Mars Wind are 2 hard techno kids from the streets, and the lovely Marta who sings from her cold heart into the fast night. Rip it up to this!”

Mars Wind is a project that  was created by in_tense and dblue created in the haze of an extended drinking binge… yay, vodka! They decided to deliberately limit themselves to the SID chip for all of their melodic and percussive needs (or at least an emulation of one, courtesy of QuadraSID VSTi by reFX), abandoning the traditional approach of using more advanced synthesisers which would have us wasting far too much time browsing endless presets. Working within these constraints actually created a great sense of freedom and forced us to be more creative. Their intention was to create short, fun tracks with a high replayability factor.

Enjoy Mars Wind – She Is A Subwoofer !

Tracklist

01. 80’s Style
02. Trans AM
03. She Left Me At The Beach
04. What The F…
05. Marching Towards The Light
06. Highway
07. Hello
08. 1, 2, 3, 4
09. Liftoff
10. ASCII Gangster
11. Ninja Style
12. Hit The Street
13. Sex (Yeah)
14. Victory Motorcycle (And Final Lap)
15. Knightrider (Bonus Track)
16. Miami Vice (Bonus Track)
17. 80’s Style (Beach Edit) (Bonus Track)

The Volt Per Octaves - Grace

So being the thrift store lover that I am, I find myself there way to often. It’s bad really, it’s almost an addiction. There was a time when I would hit up 3 Goodwills after work. Everyday. It got to the point where the workers knew me by name. There just something about the ambiguous findings of the thrift store.

Normally CDs at the thrift store just aren’t worth looking at but one rainy afternoon i decided to peruse the CD collection at Goodwill. This particular Good will was opened up next to a now closed original Tower Records store. R.I.P. T.R. It seems that Goodwill inherited some of Tower’s ear and eye candy. After a few minutes of flipping through endless amounts of BS I come across the interesting cover with a drawing of  two characters, one playing the thermion and the other singing and playing a Mini Moog. I thought to myself “Ooo what spacey sounds await me here!”.

It was a group named The Volt Per Octaves, an unsigned Synth Pop group from Santa Barbara.

The album “Moogsaic”.

enjoy!

Tracklist

1. Intro

2. Moogtronic

3. Origami

4. Grace

5. Science

6. Analogic

7. Clarity

8. Outro