The LP, which follows 2022's 'Personal Computer' and 2020's 'Floppy Disk Overdrive', comes from the expansive mind of Love, an Italian producer who emerged from the underground as an anonymous project in 2016 to create the soundtrack for the cyberpunk point-and-click adventure game 'VirtuaVerse'. The project seamlessly evolved into a standalone entity, releasing over 14 albums in just a few years. To create 'Hardwarez', the technologist worked by live streaming his desktop on YouTube while composing new music. Everything is programmed via MIDI. 'The very first song I wrote is actually also the first single, 'CPU,' he says. 'Even though the other songs on the album have a quite different style, the type of riffing and the different melodic section of this track worked as a base to upgrade the sound before moving forward'. 'CPU' is also where Love decided to test the real guitar overdubs and was inspired by the results.
Track Listing:
1. Bios - Master Boot Record
2. Mobo - Master Boot Record
3. CPU - Master Boot Record
4. GPU - Master Boot Record
5. Ram - Master Boot Record
6. FDD - Master Boot Record
7. HDD - Master Boot Record
8. PSU - Master Boot Record
9. Case - Master Boot Record
Year of Production: 2024
