This is like Double Dragon (by Kazunaka Yamane) and Darkness Descends (by Dark Angel) getting into a fierce PvP match of DOOM. This is not only obvious but welcome on the album's three singles, "80486DX," "80386," and "8086," where the frenetic and ornate collide in orgiastic musical pixels. The software modernization squarely differentiates Personal Computer from any in Master Boot Record's history. The upgrade (from Cubase 8) allowed for a complete re-build of the synth guitar and bass, while another improvement in the form of Superior Drummer 3 had a direct impact on the his on-the-fly mixing efforts. Personal Computer finds the Italian smithing with Cubase 11 Pro, a popular music production software suite made by endorser Steinberg. With Master Boot Record, Love's compositional process relies on no physical instruments. That is what I would call musical hacking." I did this because I wanted to have a faster way to compose. So, essentially what I did was hack the sound of metal guitars, making a synthesized version of it. It's a hack in the music field because, for example, the guitars aren't actual guitars - they're synth. In my process as an artist, I've always been very focused on this aspect. All that is driven essentially by curiosity. " Hacking is essentially the art of bypassing boundaries and limitations to achieve something better to improve. " I think of myself more of a hacker in the music field," Love says. Master Boot Record (and side project Keygen Church) was born as a result of Love funneling his technological predilections into a musical expression. A scene naturally formed out around that called the demoscene. See, pirated software often had clever musical tricks called 'cracktros,' short musical pieces that hackers/crackers added to show off smarts and enterprise. That's when his interest in synth-originated music came into view. Naturally, Love got into software and its verboten counterparts - namely Warez - to quell his ceaseless curiosity of all things cyber. From there, the Master Boot Record madman got even more involved, first as a sysadmin for a local university and then as a new-frontier marketer and bellman. He went head-first into CPUs, motherboards, RAM, and peripherals. He got his start in tech by working at his father's computer business in Rome. Love's background is different from most of his musical colleagues. So, in a way, the starting point is still the same. As far as what I listen to, it's the same stuff as always - from classical music (especially Beethoven and Bach) and thrash/death metal to chiptune music and crack intro/keygen music. My approach is familiar to me and my audience, and I really enjoy working in an interactive environment. So, it's a continuous songwriting process. " When I have enough material to bundle an album together, I finish it off and prepare it for release. " I live stream from my desktop," says Love, who composes Master Boot Record songs on his YouTube channel. To put it simply: this is metal done with a synth. Just don't call Personal Computer synthwave, or whatever new-fangled term is being used to describe Master Boot Record's masterful video game-like scoring. Now, he's returned (like a carriage) to right-click on devotees with yet another easter egg and symbolism-rich mélange of intensely ornate yet driving digital orchestrations. The follow-up to FLOPPY DISK OVERDRIVE (2020), Personal Computer is Love's eighth full-length album since emerging - as an 8-bit ghost - from the bulletin board system (BBS) scene in 2016. Helmed solely by technologist/songwriter Victor Love, Master Boot Record is, if anything, creatively prolific. Italy-based electronic metal maven Master Boot Record (MBR) recrudesces on striking new full-length album, PERSONAL COMPUTER.
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