By Ljubinko Zivkovic, Rock At Night Amsterdam
Review: C-BEEM – Keys to the City
Where has the classic electro-pop the eighties version gone? Well, nowhere, it has been around all this time, only slightly slipping out of favor with the critics but seemingly never with the audiences themselves. The popularity is there, but the quality of ‘classic’ electro-pop can vary, with quite a few of the artists taking it on missing the point either by trying to copy too hard, or slipping in elements there that don’t belong, making it all sound like something else.
One artist who seems to be hitting the bullseye with the classic electro- pop sound is our old pal Chris Mills, aka C-BEEM. He is preparing a new album “Keys To The City,” and has released the title track as a preview to the album itself.
The sound? No ifs and buts about it, Chris obviously knows his eighties electro sound inside out, and the single is the proof in itself – while picking up ob all on the original trademarks, Mills gives us a brief digest of the eighties electro sound in a single song without really copying anybody in particular, giving us his own version of that sound, and in that respect, making it sound brand spanking new.
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Rock At Night had previously the opportunity to talk to electronic boy extraordinaire Chris Mills, aka C-Beem,
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