It expanded my tastes in music and opened my horizons to explore further retrowave offshoots. Obviously based on my scoring of this album you know I hold Redline in the highest regards. It's also easy to name some artists out there that have physical releases that may have you scratching your head as to why was this released on lavish vinyl and Lazerhawk is still digital only. It's pretty easy to name some talented artists out there that have released some incredible LPs. Today there are so many labels out there dedicated to the varying genres that seem to all be lumped together to form synthwave.

Artists like the aforementioned Lazerhawk as well as FM Attack, Protector 101, Pertubator, and Makeup And Vanity Set helped set the stage for where we are now. Again, I wonder why this took so long?В The retro scene was growing with labels like Rosso Corsa, Werkstatt and Telefuture to name a few.

I think if this happened five to six years ago the result would have been the same. When EDR put up the pre-orders the records sold out quick. Many are familiar with this label and it seemed like a perfect place to start with a cassette release at the very least? What do I know? So many questions surrounding why it took so long to get a proper release are left unanswered. Garrett Hays AKA Lazerhawk is the founder of Rosso Corsa Records. It just seems like there had to be some pylons in the way of this happening years earlier. Redline Retrowave, Synthwave Lazerhawk Luke Jacobs Wow! Where the hell do you start with a review that contains music released back in 2010? I guess I could start by asking the pertinent yet rhetorical question: Why? Why did it take 10 years to release Lazerhawks's Redline masterpiece on a physical format? How is that possible in a world of labels trying to establish themselves in the demanding physical media world? I don't claim to know anything about the details to how Electric Dream Records (EDR) scored the deal to release Redline on vinyl.

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