Scandroid

Artist

Scandroid is a new project by Los Angeles-based artist, songwriter, remixer, programmer, producer, performer (also as DJ), label founder and entrepreneur Klayton. It was started in 2013 by him and Varien who dropped out a week before the release of the third single Empty Streets, continuing on to release his similar-themed EP Mirai Sekai with 7 Minutes Dead shortly after.

Three years after the foundation, in 2016, Scandroid released their first and self-titled album which addresses the confrontation with and emotions for self-aware androids. All of Scandroid’s lore is set in Japan in a parallel timeline 500 years later. Klayton takes the role of Red while Varien was Raven for the short time being. Their origin story can be read here.

The musical style of Scandroid was described by Klayton as “a loveletter to the 80s”: It’s Synthwave re-made in a new way — in passion for detail, old tape-modulars, keyboards and synthesizers of the time are used. Notably, Scandroid covered Tears for Fears’s Shout and released a music video for it:

Since 2013, Scandroid released their debut album and a remix album containing new takes on all vocal songs from that debut album, made by other prominent artists of the Synthwave scene. In 2017, several other remix albums from their remix contest were released as well as the second studio album.