Kerim Khan — Sea­side Ren­dezvous (Seaside-Dub) (320k)

Binary Enter­tain­ment came up with this genre tag called “Dreamwave”. So this one here would prob­a­bly end up in that cat­e­gory if made in year 2009? Check the Binary blog reg­u­larly for get­ting grips with this whole dreamwave thing. Here’s a quick intro­duc­tion to clar­ify what this genre tag might mean:

Tak­ing mod­ern dance pro­duc­tion tech­niques and forms, and apply­ing them to clas­sic, great songs. This isnt any­thing new, in our minds two of the big­ger alter­na­tive records of the last year or so were dreamwave, Cut Copy and Empire of the Sun. Those guys are mak­ing great dreamwave music. It makes peo­ple feel young, pure and sim­ple. And that’s what this music is all about. Often times peo­ple asso­ciate this music with the 80’s, or just being a fad in the end­less cycle of past decades’ reemer­gence in pop culture…but that’s all just a side effect for what it’s really about. Dreamwave is about nos­tal­gia. It’s about hear­ing some­thing that makes you think of the last day of school, get­ting off the school bus and run­ning through bright green lawns that’ll be your play­ground for the rest of sum­mer. It just so hap­pens that we’re all kids of the 80’s. We feel good hear­ing it. We feel at peace, one with inno­cence. We remem­ber what it was like when emo­tions made us feel des­per­a­tion, like every­day was the most impor­tant day of our lives. Before we’ve grown up and moved on to the real world, become jaded by the respon­si­bilites and pres­sures of a more adult life in the 21st cen­tury, we lived in a time of bright skies and big dreams. Dreamwave is music that makes you remem­ber what it was like to fall in love.

- Binary blog: The Dreamwave Hour 2

Also,

Dreamwave itself is kind of an amal­gam of dream­pop and new wave music. That’s where it started and it blos­somed from there. Pitch­fork uses the term and ABC News did a lit­tle fea­ture dur­ing South by South­west last year. We coined it and we’re try­ing to cham­pion it.

- http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/synthful/binary-entertainment/

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