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🎶  Get ready to breathe new life into a synth legend! The next Fantomacs release has been fully mastered with cutting-edge mastering tools adding the final finishing touches 🛠️✅. What to expect? A refreshed and fully reimagined cover of Jean-Michel Jarre’s iconic 1976 hit “Oxygène Pt. 4.”

While JMJ once orchestrated his masterpiece with a stack of analog synths and his beloved Korg Mini Pops, this modern revival was crafted entirely on the Roland Fantom EX workstation. Thanks to its internal models of classic analog gear and the powerful Zenology sound engine, the original soundscapes have been faithfully recreated — and then elevated with today’s sonic capabilities.

Expect lush textures, deep layers, and a richness in polyphony that goes beyond the analog limitations of the past. 🎧 Pro tip: Put on your headphones and dive in — you’ll hear (and feel) the difference.

Scheduled Release: 30th April, 2025

Fantomacs’ next project, OUTER SURFACE, is an evocative and finely textured musical journey into the boundary — or boarder — between our intimate, internal landscapes and the often overwhelming, fast-paced outer world. This track is not just a collection of sonic ideas; it’s a conceptual voyage that reflects on how we perceive, protect, and project our identities across this fragile, shifting line.

We all live on the edge — constantly navigating between thoughts and actions, emotions and expressions, fears and desires, solitude and connection. OUTER SURFACE is the space where those contrasts meet and sometimes collide. It’s where inner truth brushes up against external expectations. It’s where vulnerability meets resistance, and where silence is transformed into signal.

In a world driven by hyperconnectivity, algorithmic attention, and curated selves, OUTER SURFACE invites listeners to pause and reflect: What do we reveal? What do we withhold? Where does the skin end and the self begin?

Musically, the project fuses atmospheric sound design with crisp, tactile rhythms — combining analog depth with digital sharpness. Expect immersive textures reminiscent of ambient and downtempo electronica, layered with drum beats that pulse like the very interface of human and machine. Both, synthetic and acoustic instruments occasionally emerge through the mist, like fleeting memories or intuitive truths pushing through noise.

This song speaks to those liminal moments — the feeling of standing before a mirror and seeing both yourself and a stranger; the sensation of being surrounded by people yet profoundly alone; the transformation that happens when thoughts become words, when emotion becomes movement, when the inner becomes outer.

OUTER SURFACE is, at its core, a meditation on authenticity, self-expression, and the tension between exposure and protection. It's for those who feel deeply but speak quietly. For those who struggle to bridge the gap between their mind’s inner sky and the world’s relentless light. For those who believe that between impulse and action lies art.

This project is for the listeners who don’t just want to hear music — they want to feel the surface of it. And maybe, if they listen closely enough, understand a little more about their own.

Coming soon to all platforms. Step to the edge. Touch the Outer Surface.

Release Date: 18th July, 2025