EMMETT BROWN

What Inspired Me?

Although my available music as EMMETT BROWN holds almost no similarity to the above video, it was indeed what sparked my journey into synthwave. By the time I was ready to create my first synthwave album, my musical tastes had evolved. I was listening to Justice, Noisia, Koan Sound, and of course Carpenter Brut - artists who were just beginning to gain recognition around that time. While the chill version of synthwave remains my origin point, these early works are now considered demos and work-in-progress files that I never released.

MANIC!

My first release, “Manic,” aimed to blend my early synthwave influences with complextro and electro elements. Throughout the album, some tracks showcase greater variation in inspiration, but the general theme of the album’s title - bouncing between aggression, upbeat energy, and melancholy - remains consistent across individual tracks.

VOID

This release incorporated more complextro elements and “Justice-style” production. On most of my albums, I include one track that serves as a technical benchmark for my production skills. For this track, I prioritized sound design over hooks and catchy rhythms, creating something that sounds good purely through its sonic qualities.

The Beast From Beneath

This marked a tonal shift as I began incorporating more film score elements into my music. I became more comfortable exploring the cheesy horror aesthetic I had always wanted to pursue, rather than the serious tone prevalent in other artists’ work. This was before “Colour Bass” became widely known, but I was already using some of those techniques.

Weird Science

My final release as EMMETT BROWN, originally released through Lazerdisc Records. Unfortunately, they handled the promotion poorly, placing only a few songs on their Spotify playlists before abandoning the project after taking 50% of the revenue. Despite this, I consider it the best EMMETT BROWN release. By this point, I was fully comfortable with the cheesy horror aspect, and I believe it remains one of the best dark-synth flavored synthwave releases.

Special thanks to “The Sequencer” for featuring on “Synthetic Horror” - a We Are Magonia fan who transformed the latter half of that track into what many would call a rip-off (AHEM, I mean HOMAGE). The track “Collider” has mixing issues due to computer transitions and missing plugins, and “88” had to remove a Back to the Future sample due to Lazerdisc’s restrictions. This created a noticeable difference in quality between these tracks and the rest of the album.

Thanks to everyone who helped me!

Sunesis, The Sequencer, John Konstantine, Alex of BlakOPZ, Maybe Straplocked, and definitely not Lazerdisc Records. The Encounter committed to be a feature on “The Beast From Beneath” but he was unable in the end. This resulted in a shorter album with an added interlude.