Tom Andersson (born 26 September 1984), known professionally as Waveshaper, is a Swedish

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musician specialising in

synthwave Synthwave (also called outrun, retrowave, or futuresynth) is an electronic music microgenre that is based predominantly on the music associated with action, science-fiction, and horror film soundtracks of the 1980s. Other influences are drawn fr ...

. Inspired by artists like

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, Kraftwerk and Daft Punk, as well as 80s movie soundtracks, his music is

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and is composed with a variety of hardware synthesizers, including the ARP 2600, Roland Jupiter-4, and Korg MS-20. He released his debut album ''Tracks To The Future'' on the label Lunar Boogie in 2013, and the EP ''Sounds That Kill'' on

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in 2014. In 2015, he released the four-track vinyl record ''Solar Drifter'' on the Swedish synthwave label Rad Rush Records. Andersson also featured in the 2019 documentary film

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which explored the origins and growth of the Synthwave genre, appearing alongside various other composers from the scene, including

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also starred in and narrated the film.

Discography

Singles

* Dangerous Love (2013) * So French Disco (2013) * Modern Technology (2014, with Robert Parker) * Chasing The Clone Of Myself (2014) * Radio Signal (2014) * My Faust - Death Race (Waveshaper Remix) (2015) * Crystal Protocol (2015, NewRetroWave Records) * 66 MHz (2017)"Q&A: Waveshaper Brings Us Back to 1993"
Vehlinggo. Retrieved 6 July 2018. * Walking in the Air (2020)

Albums

* Tracks To The Future (2013, Lunar Boogie) * Retro Future (2014, Self Released) * Sounds That Kill (2014, Telefuture Records) * Solar Drifter (2015, Rad Rush Records) * Exploration 84 (2015, Self Released) * Station Nova (2016, NewRetroWave Records) * Velocity (2017) * Lost Shapes (2018) * Lost Shapes Reinvented (2018) * Artifact (2019) * Mainframe (2021) * Forgotten Shapes (2022)

Other

* Part of the soundtrack for

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* Remixed the song "Eden" for the 2016 synthwave album

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References

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