CONTACTS CONTACTS CONTACTS CONTACTS CONTACTS US BOOKING - - Benny Boeldt: benny@whamcity.com
EUROPE BOOKING - - Mark Lewis: mark@elasticartists.net
US PRESS - - Daniel Gill: daniel@forcefieldpr.com
EUROPE PRESS - - In House Press: info@inhousepress.com
"If Game Boy made soul music, it would sound like this. Both rinky dink and rapturously melodic, Adventure programs dense layers of synth lines and shifting beats that fall together like sonic Tetris. As addictive as a good video game - and you can't lose."
-SPIN
"..An exercise in kitten-cute hyper-melody, a boroque blend of ping and counterping with dashes of Sparks' oompah-rock and Yellow Magic Orchestra's synth sugar that pours melted happy-happy down your lugholes. New High Score."
-NME
"Benny Boeldt's (aka Adventure) debut on Carpark is a crispy, layered synth-dance assault that will knock listeners back to a time when you had finally beaten Zelda II and were ready to move on to the sweet 16-bit howl of Altered Beasts. Adventure is unrelenting, and with only a couple of Blade Runner quotes in "Poison Diamond" to break up the retro-gamer attack, after a while you might find it's best to put down the controller and go outside. But, make no mistake:this is NES nostalgia done well."
-UNDER THE RADAR
"Wildly eccentric, if Mozart was alive today, this is what he'd sound like. And whether you like it or not, Adventure's 8-bit epics will have an irreversible effect on you."
-DAZED & CONFUSED
"Adventure – aka North Carolina native and Baltimore based Benny Boeldt – delivers an unusual perspective on electronic music. You could say he's the J M Jarre of the Sega / Nintendo world."
-MANCHESTERMUSIC.CO.UK
"To make retro baroque Sega beats sound anthemic and significant is some achievement. This record sends those caught in its spell deliriously happy and back to a childhood of endless sugar frenzied hours entranced by on screen adventures. From the luminous rubix and tetris inspired graphics to a magical Legend Of Zelda journey 'Adventure' perfectly captures the late eighties 8-bit video game soundtracks and pre-programmed Casio keyboard samples. A dolly mixture of swirling and metronomic synths pushed onwards by a pounding drum machine force your body to throw shapes in a knowing, robotic rave pastiche. Working these melodic compositions beyond the realms of childhood fantasy becomes possible with Boeldt's introduction of late-seventies electro pop (Sparks and the Yellow Magic Orchestra), without ever falling in to the humourless, bleak world of Crystal Castles. A weakness for trend less, recurring Eastern European scale structures makes shifing these dance floor friendly tracks from your mind or the smile from your face impossible. Spankingly fresh simply because it is so kitsch."
-GLASSWERK.CO.UK
"Anyway, there is actually a point to all this C64 reminiscing - the release of the excellent debut album from Adventure aka Benny Boeldt on Monday. Boeldt is a part of the Wham City Arts Collective and has recorded an album for Carpark Records of Washington DC. The reason why Boeldt's brand of 8-bit awesomeness has resonated with me more than previous exponents of the genre is his brilliant use of melodies. At times it's like prime Vince Clarke crossed with Happy Hardcore - wonderfully emotive hooks and evocative bleeps, all underpinned by bonkers bouncy beats. Adventure and me instantly clicked - maybe it also had something to do with look of pure joy on my 8-month old daughter's face when the album came on and she was in her bouncer - grinning away as she boinged up and down to Boeldt's 8-bit madness. He looks like a bit of a nutter too, and that's always a good thing in my book."
-THEWHITENOISEREVISITED.CO.UK
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yoyoyo!!! hope you well :) just to keep you in the loop there are now 2 new tracks up in the ZPD!!! player.. Carolina (ZPD!!! remix) and Aint No Disco Music by Kelevra feat NineLives The Cat (ZPD!!! remix) SHIT IS HOT!!! feedback welcome... peace
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