PREMIERE : Video Burnout - Shame Spirals

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Creating an international name for itself the past decade as a sample pack label, Samples From Mars makes its venture into the music world as a home for founder Teddy Stuart’s original productions. Long before making samples, Stuart garnered credits working as a grammy-nominated engineer in the hip hop world, and DJing / producing with Justin Strauss as A/JUS/TED, for DFA, Domino Records, Southern Fried Records and more. Samples From Mars plans to release a variety of genres with a vintage tinge and a focus on high quality, analog production. Video Burnout is the collaboration of Adam Stegemann and Teddy Stuart, inspired by the loft parties of their youth and a love for archaic gear, they have crafted a sonic world of cinematic instrumentals, displaced by disco basslines, negative space, and chaotic IDM beats. In 2020, Stegemann acquired a bunch of old samplers and drum machines. With no production experience he loaded up floppy disks and connected the gear, chaotically punching in drum patterns, arpeggios and basslines inspired by his fave disco records, 90s IDM, and a burning desire to impress his friend. "Stegs" filmed all of this and sent the videos to Teddy who was blown away. There was just one problem: no audio had been recorded yet. Teddy selected his favorite videos, and over the course of many months, the two developed each track further, painstakingly re-creating and expanding upon the magic moments Stegs had captured on his phone. After a lot of production, editing and therapy, what came out was Video Burnout's debut EP, ‘Shame Spirals’. ‘ Shame Spirals ‘ is a five track EP full of brooding, lo-fi instrumentals created using archaic gear and floppy disks. Inspired by the dollar-store disco records of their youth and IDM vanguards of the 90s, Stegemann and Stuart have crafted their own sonic world as Video Burnout. Merging unlikely ingredients such as cinematic synths, glitchy beats, lush soundscapes, and syncopated disco basslines, equally at home in your headphones or on the dancefloor.