These days, when it seems the vogue for bands from New Zealand to name drop things like: “Album recorded in London at Blah Blah by Blah Blah who recorded Blah Blah and mastered by Blah Blah at Blah Blah who mastered Blah Blah and Blah Blah”, it’s quite refreshing that one of New Zealand’s most unassuming and prolific digital-pop stars is happy to do it all himself.

Since 2002 Luke Rowell and computer, better known as DISASTERADIO, have together released around 150 songs on 5 albums (Disasteradio, The System that Never Fails, DSIR, Western Digital and Synthtease) and toured half a dozen times taking in close to 200 shows. Now with the release of his sixth album, “Visions”, we celebrate their first album to receive national distribution and the attention it deserves. Luke and computer have tirelessly written, recorded, mixed and mastered Visions, resulting in digital pop perfection

The distinctive album cover art of Visions was even created by the pair - A tribute to raytracing, that long forgotten revolution in computer animation from a simpler time when the future really was ‘Beyond 2000’ and guys preferred boobtubes to youtube.

DISASTERADIO is an attempt to create electronic music that, unlike most popular dance music, is evocative and sudden while embodying a backdrop of new wave / synthpop pastiche, tongue-in-cheek modernism and themes of camp science. Visions is a record for reminiscing to, listening to, and most of all, dancing to.

Unlike those that think that mp3s and the internet are killing recorded music, DISASTERADIO has fully embraced the fun and potential of the web. The first two DISASTERADIO albums can be entirely downloaded for free and a massive internet presence has led to DISASTERADIO’s tracks being played on several overseas radio stations and even featuring on a German porn film. DIY or DIE.

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