Cold Beats Records – A Simple Reflection

Cold Beat - A Simple Reflection

Cold Beat is a San Francisco-based quartet fronted by Hannah Lew (synths, vocals) with Kyle King (synths, guitar), Luciano Talpini Aita (synths) and Sean Monaghan (guitar).

Formed in 2013 the band has released three albums and two EPs. ‘A Simple Reflection’ is a 7-song collection of Eurythmics covers, yet feels just as personal as any of their original material. While digging through a collection of 12″s for her record shop Contact Records, Lew stumbled across the earliest Eurythmics B-sides and was floored. This lead to the discovery of their debut album ‘In The Garden’. Annie Lennox’s abstract and poetic lyrics really struck a chord with Hannah. What had started out as a single cover quickly snowballed into a full blown obsession. The synth and drum programming resonated with her songwriting process, so reimagining them was very creatively fulfilling. The covers on this EP are simultaneously dynamic and atmospheric post-punk that plays to Lew’s ethereal vocals and King’s crystalline guitar.

LP / Digital Album

Posted on October 14th, 2018 under Releases,

Cold Beats Records: Another Cold World 2

Another Cold World 2

Here’s a compilation from Cold Beats featuring NONE, Aus Tears, Paradox Obscur, Lola Kumtus, L’Avenir, Non Lieu, La Mécanique, A V G V S T, Vacant Stares, Palissade, Antidolby, Blind Seagull, Delayscape and The Detox Twins.

CD / Digital Album

Posted on August 31st, 2018 under Releases,

Cold Beats Records: L’Avenir – Soir

L'Avenir - Soir

L’Avenir is the cold synth side project of veteran electronic musician and sound artist Jason Sloan. Known throughout the space and ambient music scenes for his contemplative electronic soundscape work for over a decade; Sloan founded L’Avenir as a side project in 2012 to explore his long time love of synthpop and minimal wave music created purely from analog and vintage equipment.

While releasing over a dozen solo albums and E.P.’s under his own name, Sloan has played live all over the US, Canada and Europe including the influential Live Constructions radio program at Columbia University, STEIM in Amsterdam, CMMAS in Morelia, Berlin’s Liquid Sky TV and Philadelphia’s The Gatherings concert series, one of the country’s oldest continuing ambient and electronic music series.

Sloan is a Professor teaching full-time in the Interactive Arts department along with being the founder and program coordinator for the Sound Art program at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland.

LP / CD / Digital Album

Posted on June 7th, 2017 under Releases, ,

Cold Beats Records: Le Cliché – Consumer Manoeuvres – Collaborations, covers and reimaginations

Consumer Manoeuvres - Collaborations, covers and reimaginations

Le Cliché is about the ironies and inconsistencies of the postmodern consumer society seen through the medium of electronic music.

The music is inspired by the synthpop & technopop of the early 1980s and the 2000s.

12″ / CD / Digital Album

Posted on January 18th, 2017 under Releases, ,