Bunny X, released Love Minus 80 (The Remixes) yesterday to compliment their sophomore LP release Love Minus 80, which came out earlier this year. 

A darker and more introspective album than their 80s retropop-leaning and John Hughes-themed debut album, Young & In Love (Aztec Records), Love Minus 80 was inspired by science fiction/fantasy novels, films and television shows including Love Minus Eighty by Will McIntosh, Neuromancer and Virtual Light by William Gibson, The Forever War by Joe Haldeman and The Expanse TV series, among others.

Love Minus 80 (The Remixes) brings Bunny X together with a number of exceptional producers in the Synthwave genre and beyond including Earmake, Cassetter, jacket., The G, Dilemma Machine, Future Analog, Grammy Award winner Tony Lake, Diamond Field and more. Each artist delivers unique interpretations of the songs contained on the original album and the result is nothing short of extraordinary.

Bunny X, founded in 2012, is an Italo Disco/Retrowave duo based in New York City. Their influences include Madonna, Depeche Mode, Pet Shop Boys, New Order, FM Attack, Timecop1983, Ken Laszlo, Sandra, Savage, Valerie Dore, Sally Shapiro and more.

Ships Have Sailed released two new songs today and this is what they say about it:

"We're so excited for you to hear the stripped down versions of "Skin" and "Edge Of An Ocean", collected together on a double a-side...please enjoy: "Every Little Bird"."

After his latest single 'Follow You', Italian producer Fulvio Colasanto returns with a new single entitled 'If You Can Dance'. A retro Dance-Pop song inspired by the 80s/90s, created thanks to the extraordinary collaboration of Synth-Pop artist I Am Boleyn. This track will be included in Fulvio Colasanto's upcoming EP due in 2024.

Evoking the passion and fun of a night out, 'If You Can Dance' is when love meets dance and the music leads the way. Sometimes the best way to express yourself is to let the music move your body and see what happens next!

Black Like Oil's first EP, 'Past Perfect Continues', can be compared to a video store with soundtracks to episodes of our lives. That's why their songs, despite how different they are - some of them are melancholic, some are full of passion and energy - all are dreamy. Cinema is a dream factory, just like the 'past perfect continuous' - it offers you to plunge into the atmosphere of your favorite movies and feel like one of their characters.

Each song - each 'soundtrack' - of their EP has its own source of influence.

'Happily Ever After' plays with David Lynch's 'bad guys in leather jackets' breaking the hearts of young and dreamy girls.

'The Aid' - with images of Highlander, Terminator and David Bowie's Goblin King.

'Icarus' explores the duality of synthwave music, reactiveness and thoughtfulness - and looks back at Marty McFly's journey.

And, of course, there is a particular track inspired by Nicolas Winding Refn's 'Drive' - 'The Day I Met You' - but the influence of the film extends to the entire album.