Hardwarez

Description

The LP, which follows 2022’s “Personal Computer” and 2020’s “Floppy Disk Overdrive,” comes from the expansive mind of Love, an Italian producer who emerged from the underground as an anonymous project in 2016 to score the cyberpunk point-and-click adventure game "VirtuaVerse." The project seamlessly morphed into a standalone entity, releasing over 14 albums in a few short years. To create “Hardwarez,” the technologist worked by live-streaming his desktop on YouTube while composing new music. Everything is programmed by MIDI. The very first song I wrote is actually the first single, “CPU,” he explains. Even though the other songs on the album have a quite different style, the type of riffs and the different melodic section of that track served as a basis for me to improve the sound before going any further.” It was also on “CPU” that Love decided to test out real guitar overdubs and was inspired by the results.