Grey Matter Records

  Avenue One, the electrifying DJ duo, is the brainchild of two extraordinary talents, Matt Cerf and Petr Leško. With roots in Montreal, Canada, and Zlin, Czech Republic, they joined forces in 2012, driven by a shared love for music. Both members have deep-seated connections to the electronic music world.

  What Is Synthwave? To put it simply, synthwave is a retro-inspired genre of electronic-based music, with a strong aesthetic linked to it. It draws experience from the 80’s – movies and games alike! A relatively new term to the music industry, synthwave can be used as a genre term on its’ own, or as a sub-genre of ‘retro wave’ music. Generally, it is a microgenre of electronic music. There are also smaller music genres that fall under synthwave that have their following – outrun and vaporwave are two notable categories.

 Erykah Badu, byname of Erica Wright, (born February 26, 1971, Dallas, Texas, U.S.), American rhythm-and-blues singer whose neo-soul vocals elicited comparisons to jazz legend Billie Holiday. Badu was the eldest of three children. Although she was never formally trained in music, she majored in dance and theatre at Grambling State University in Louisiana after graduating from the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Dallas.

  Eurythmics were a British pop duo consisting of Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart. They were both previously in the Tourists, a band which broke up in 1980. The duo released their first studio album, In the Garden, in 1981 to little success, but went on to achieve global acclaim when their second album Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This), was released in 1983. The title track became a worldwide hit, reaching No.2 in the UK Singles Chart and No. 6 in Australia, before hitting No. 1 in Canada and the US Billboard Hot 100. The duo went on to release a string of hit singles and albums, including "Love Is a Stranger", "There Must Be an Angel (Playing with My Heart)" and "Here Comes the Rain Again", before they split up in 1990.

  ➥ https://linktr.ee/cihangireryildiz Cihangir Eryıldız is a Turkish musician, born in Istanbul in 1977. He grew up in a musical family, with his father being a Turkish classical music singer. From a very early age, music was a big part of his life, and he started playing the local string instrument "Baglama" at the age of 9. As he grew up, Cihangir was exposed to various genres and bands, including Depeche Mode, Pet Shop Boys, and U2. However, he became truly hooked on music when he discovered early House music sounds and legends like Frankie Knuckles, David Morales, and Junior Vasquez in the early 90s.

February 2010: Soldier of Love is released, the sixth studio album the band Sade have released during their 25 year career, and the first since Lovers Rock in 2000. For Sade herself, as the lynchpin of the group’s song writing effort, it’s a simple matter of integrity and authenticity: “I only make records when I feel I have something to say. I’m not interested in releasing music just for the sake of selling something. Sade is not a brand”.