Collection: OVERSCAPER

French producer OVERSCAPER releases his debut album Dream Recursion on 5th February, an eight-track record of melodic, analog darksynth with a touch of chiptune. Told from inside a loop, it opens a larger science-fiction saga. 

OVERSCAPER has made music since 1999, moving from rock to progressive metal, then to electronic music through trip-hop in 2012. Waveshaper and LukHash pushed him toward synthwave, and he has devoted himself to it fully for the past year. The sound sits between melodic darksynth and angrier synthwave: raw analog synths, dirty textures, and a melody that sticks even in the heaviest passages.

Dream Recursion tells a single event, from “Tears Reality Apart” to “Unforeseen Consequences.” The digital world cracks, a consciousness appears, and a dream recalls itself until it produces someone. The ’90s run through it all, from MS-DOS and grainy VHS to game soundtracks.

“I don’t write songs so much as replay fragments I’ve salvaged. Every track is a scene, and I wanted this one to feel like sliding a floppy disk into an old PC in 1994, with the certainty that you’re about to travel far away. Dream Recursion is the moment before everything I’m going to tell.”
- OVERSCAPER