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  Lovelock - Washington Park [BEWITH107LP UK 2022 24-Bit 176.4kHz FLAC] Some of you may have worked out this was coming, so prepare to be totally lounged out. New York state musician Lovelock went totally downtempo with this six track album of instrumental lounge and synth-exotica. This is music for seventies American soap operas, Italian b-list movies, hotel lobbies and purple rinse ballroom all performed on a mix of Moogs, Prophets, Rolands, Fenders and a lone saxophone.  Consider yourselves warned. A1 It Means Love A2 Washington Park A3 We'll See B1 Seduction B2 Center Square B3 Rhythm 77

  Lovelock - Pino Grigio [MINDLESS 021 BEL 2010 24-Bit 176.4kHz FLAC] If you enjoyed last month's Burning Feeling album by electronic music whizz Lovelock (if not why the hell not), then this may well entertain you even further. The American musician got to grips with neo-disco and bashed out this twelve inch EP for Belgian remix label Mindless Boogie way back in 2010. The title track uses the classical score to Brian DePalma's eighties movie Body Double by Pino Donaggio, blending in gorgeous synth loops & hooks to form earworms of an almighty modern ital-disco classic. If you think that sounds intriguing, just wait until you hear what he has done with the pounding eurobeat of This Fear Of Gods by Simple Minds. To finish things off, Lovelock gets to grips with Tubular Bells and turns into a Balearic delight. Prepare to be entertained. A1 Pino Grigio B1 Singing Shower Gods B2 Totally Tubular

  Lovelock - Burning Feeling [BEWITH106LP UK 2022 24-Bit 176.4kHz FLAC] It seems weird that in what follows, I will be 'raving' about a 2022 remaster of an album originally released as a compressed compact disc in 2012. Whilst this double vinyl set by New Yorker Lovelock (also answers to Steve Moore ) was a modern digital recording, the mastering to vinyl is remarkably considerate with the stats coming in at around DR13. Read on.... If you are of a certain era, like me, then this album will feel very familiar. Burning Feeling is set in the years of Italian cosmic disco, Michael Mann, John Carpenter & Jan Hammer film soundtracks, Morodor electronica, Patrick Cowley's sequenced synths and British synthwave but recorded in New York state during 2006 using a Sequential Pro-One and Prophet 600, a Korg Polysix, a Yamaha DX7II FD, a Moog Little Phatt, plus of course a Fender Jazz Bass and a Fender Strat. Be With Records have scheduled a new album by Lovelock for later in 2023...