Beat the Monday blues with a motivating song to get you through the rest of the day, maybe even the rest of the week. Today’s music is “Better Without You” by Robert Parker.
Robert Parker is a Swedish electronic musician from Stockholm. Making tracker music during the 1990s, he started making synthwave in 2009 after buying a Korg Polysix analog synthesiser. He uses a variety of hardware synthesisers in his music such as the Roland Juno 106 and the Moog Minimoog.
His style takes elements from 1980s music and movies, as well as from French house and disco. In 2013 he released his debut album Drive. Sweat. Play followed by the EP Modern Moves on Future City Records. In 2015 he released the EP Cardinal and the album Money Talks.In 2016 he released the vinyl Crystal City on NewRetroWave Records collaborating with Maethelvin from the Valerie collective. In 2017 he released the EP “Awakening” on Lazerdisc records, also appearing on the Lakeshore Records 2018 soundtrack release to the motion picture “Videoman”.
Parker featured in the 2019 documentary film The Rise of the Synths which explored the origins and growth of the Synthwave genre, appearing alongside various other composers from the scene, including John Carpenter who also starred in and narrated the film. Parker also appeared on the film’s soundtrack compilation “The Rise Of The Synths”, also released on Lakeshore Records.
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