adrian star
ABOUT
Adrian Star is a 1980's anachronism in music. His synth-pop sound is influenced heavily by genres of the '80s such as New Wave, Top 40 Pop, and R&B Dance. He uses vintage synthesizers and older analog recording equipment to achieve his signature sound. He does not use "soft synths" (software/virtual based instruments). He plays his basslines & melodies humanly on actual keyboards and uses real saxophones & guitars. No auto-tune vocal technology is used on his songs.
Lately, Adrian has been on the bill with legendary pop/new wave acts such as Berlin and Missing Persons.
Adrian Star has had 14 songs featured in films & commercials, appeared on many radio podcast shows, as well as more than a dozen directed music videos. Most recently, he has provided songs for the official soundtracks of the feature films available to watch on Amazon Prime or DVD: Stealing Sunrise, Stealing Sunrise 2: Malibu Trail, & Hello, Are You There?.
Adrian has released 3 albums to date, EMULATOR, EMULATOR II, & EMULATOR II+ which you can sample below.
Gear List:
- EMU Emulator II+ (sampler/synthesizer workstation, circa 1984/85 & operates on 5 1/4 inch floppy disks)
- Korg Poly 61 (synthesizer, circa 1982)
- Yamaha DX27 (synthesizer, circa 1986)
- BOSS DR 550 (drum module, circa 1989)
- Steinberg Cubase VST 5.0 Production Software (circa 2000)
- Apple MacIntosh Computer OS 9.2 w/ only 512mb RAM (circa 2001)
Lately, Adrian has been on the bill with legendary pop/new wave acts such as Berlin and Missing Persons.
Adrian Star has had 14 songs featured in films & commercials, appeared on many radio podcast shows, as well as more than a dozen directed music videos. Most recently, he has provided songs for the official soundtracks of the feature films available to watch on Amazon Prime or DVD: Stealing Sunrise, Stealing Sunrise 2: Malibu Trail, & Hello, Are You There?.
Adrian has released 3 albums to date, EMULATOR, EMULATOR II, & EMULATOR II+ which you can sample below.
Gear List:
- EMU Emulator II+ (sampler/synthesizer workstation, circa 1984/85 & operates on 5 1/4 inch floppy disks)
- Korg Poly 61 (synthesizer, circa 1982)
- Yamaha DX27 (synthesizer, circa 1986)
- BOSS DR 550 (drum module, circa 1989)
- Steinberg Cubase VST 5.0 Production Software (circa 2000)
- Apple MacIntosh Computer OS 9.2 w/ only 512mb RAM (circa 2001)
LISTEN
Listen to album samplers below by starting the appropriate player underneath the album covers. If you like what you hear, you can instantly order the album via digital download at 1/2 price by selecting the album cover image.
You can also stream full albums at BANDCAMP.
You can also stream full albums at BANDCAMP.
"EMULATOR"
"EMULATOR II"
"EMULATOR II+"
Audio players below are segments containing Adrian Star's music on various radio podcast shows.
NEWS
Adrian Star appears on the soundtrack to many of his his feature films in which he wrote, directed, & starred. Tap HERE for all of Adrians' movies.
Adrian's new short film/music video for "CRIMES" is now live & posted below. It has been selected for several film festivals.
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