The Midnight | |
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 The Midnight live at The Globe Theatre Los Angeles 2017 | |
| Background information | |
| Origin | Los Angeles, CA |
| Genres | Synthwave, electronic |
| Years active | 2012–present |
| Labels | Independent |
| Associated acts | Tyler Lyle, Nikki Flores, FM-84, Timecop1983, Scavenger Hunt, Jesse Molloy, Thomas Edinger |
| Website | themidnightofficial |
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The Midnight is a synthwave band composed of Atlanta based singer-songwriter Jamison Tyler Lyle and LA based Danish-born producer, songwriter and singer Tim Daniel McEwan. [1]
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The band was formed as a result of Tyler and Tim meeting during a co-writing workshop in 2012 in North Hollywood, CA [2] . [3] Inspired in part by the score for Drive and the retro synth genre growing around its release, [3] the pair wrote two singles "WeMoveForward" and "Gloria", that would be released two years later in 2014 as part of their debut EP titled Days of Thunder. [4] In 2016, the duo released a 12 track LP Endless Summer, [5] followed in 2017 with the release of Nocturnal, [6] which spent several weeks as a best seller on the music distribution website Bandcamp and reaching #17 on Billboard's dance/electronic charts October 2017. [7] The band went on to perform their second sell out concert, taking place at the Globe Theatre on Broadway in Los Angeles in November 2017. [8] The band had multiple collaborations with Timecop1983, another retro synth genre producer. One of the collaboration appears on The album Nocturnal, titled "River of Darkness". The other collaboration between them appears on the album Night Drive of Timecop1983, titled "Static".
Drive is a 2011 American action drama film directed by Danish filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn. The screenplay, written by Hossein Amini, is based on James Sallis' 2005 novel Drive. The film stars Ryan Gosling as an unnamed Hollywood stunt driver who moonlights as a getaway driver. He quickly grows fond of his neighbor, Irene, and her young son, Benicio. When her debt-ridden husband, Standard, is released from prison, the two men take part in what turns out to be a botched million-dollar heist that endangers the lives of everyone involved. Bryan Cranston, Christina Hendricks, Ron Perlman, and Albert Brooks play supporting roles.
An extended play record, often referred to as an EP, is a musical recording that contains more tracks than a single, but is usually unqualified as an album or LP. Contemporary EPs generally contain a minimum of three tracks and maximum of six tracks, and are considered "less expensive and time-consuming" for an artist to produce than an album. An EP originally referred to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play (SP) and LP, but it is now applied to mid-length CDs and downloads as well.
The LP is an analog sound storage medium, a vinyl record format characterized by a speed of 33 1⁄3 rpm, a 12- or 10-inch diameter, and use of the "microgroove" groove specification. Introduced by Columbia in 1948, it was soon adopted as a new standard by the entire record industry. Apart from a few relatively minor refinements and the important later addition of stereophonic sound, it has remained the standard format for vinyl albums.
