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God of Love

RENAISSANCE POETRY
REINVENTED AS TRIP-HOP

  • Released Valentines Day, February 14, 2012

Concept

God of Love is a collection of 10 songs based on Renaissance and Romantic era poetry, by writers such as Christina Rossetti, John Donne, and Lord Byron. Stylistically the project is rooted in electronic music of the 90s: trip-hop, synth pop, and a touch of industrial. All the songs are about love in its various forms: from idealized, to devotional, to unabashedly erotic.

Guest Artists

The album features guest vocals by singers Melissa R. Kaplan (of Universal Hall Pass and Splashdown), Mozez (of Zero 7), and Lia Rose (of Built for the Sea).

Background

In 2009, celebrity fashion photographer Yu Tsai reached out to Christopher Tin with a special project: actress Lindsay Lohan was pursuing a modeling career, and wanted to cultivate an edgier and more risqué image to break from her Disney-starlet past. Yu Tsai needed music that was raw and sexual, and so Christopher contacted his friend, producer Kametron, and together they wrote ‘A Rapture’: a slow-burning, trip-hop setting of Renaissance poet Thomas Carew’s notoriously erotic poem by the same name. They decided to call their producing partnership Stereo Alchemy, and embracing the full-blown indulgence of their source material, called their 90s-retro sound ‘decadent electronica’. God of Love is their first album.

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I think that this is the future of electronic music... As it begins to pervade our culture, we'll see it used more artfully within other forms of music. They turn negative soundscapes into sexy, euphonic compositions of righteous synth, virtuous instrumentalism, seductive vocals, and just the right amount of bass.
LessThan3
... I felt sex dripping from almost every track... like a lover walked through the door with "A Rapture," and left with "Love Is Love". Cue 'God of Love' and the exhilaration ensues: a dirty, Lohan-esque love affair, teeth catching lips and hair being pulled, all chased with clear liquor; you can thank Stereo Alchemy during the pillow talk.
Paradigm Magazine
... a broad spectrum of electro elegance. The sheer complexity of some of the tracks is mind-boggling, from the percussion to the little nuances and frequency changes in all the instruments as they go. It's these things that elevate a good album to a truly great one. Quite frankly, 'God of Love' is one long eargasm from start to finish...
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