Blaklight / Mind Machine - Los Angeles based dark synthpop duo

Los Angeles based dark electronic pop duo Brian Belknap (Mind Machine) & Adam Collier (Crush333, MDA and Beautiful Crisis).

BlakLight is Los Angeles based dark synthpop duo Brian Belknap (Mind Machine, SilverScene) and Adam Collier (Beautiful Crisis, Crush333, MDA, SilverScene). Formed in early 2020, the band released the singles “Isolation” and “Unknown Love” before quickly unleashing their critically acclaimed debut album, ‘Music in a Time of Uncertainty’. After an additional single, “Control”, an onslaught of remix EPs, compilation tracks and numerous remixes for other artists, BlakLight set their sights on a second album. “Nightmares” and “Reset” built anticipation for the follow-up, ‘Into the Void’, released in late 2021. ‘Into The Void’ crafts songs of both light and darkness, while expanding the band’s electronic musical template. Finding the album on top of many year-end lists, they closed out 2021 with another single, “Crack”, backed with their take on the Echo & The Bunnymen classic, “The Killing Moon”. 2022 saw the band release the title track from ‘Into the Void’ and make their live debut playing shows alongside Aesthetic Perfection, Matte Blvck, Josie Pace, genCAB, Vain Machine, Blood Handsome and others. They soon assembled the sprawling twenty track, remix double album, ‘Out of The Void - The Remixes’. featuring two unique twists of every song from ‘Into the Void’, constructed by the likes of Aesthetic Perfection, Assemblage 23, Beborn Beton, Black Light Odyssey, Eisfabrik, Kontraviod, Solar Fake and many more. BlakLight closed out the year with the release of 'Innocence Lost' EP, which includes two songs from their forthcoming instrumental based project, ‘The Padded Room’, while 2023 began with the re-release of two previously released exclusive compilation tracks, “Coma” and “Wicked Face”. BlakLight believe that music can make a difference and has contributed multiple exclusive tracks to compilations curated by Los Angeles based music collective Darkness Calling, https://darknesscalling.bandcamp.com, with all proceeds donated to The Trevor Project in support of LGBTQ youth and suicide prevention. The duo has now expanded to a trio for their live shows, adding the talented and versatile Omar Quiñones from Vain Machine on synths and backing vocals, and have supported Anything Box and Solar Fake, and secured slotsat this year’s Out from The Shadows Festival in Portland, Oregon and Absolution Fest in Tampa, Florida. Always looking forward and hard at work on their third album for release later this year, 'The Haunting of Us’, while simultaneously working on their fourth, Adam and Brian show no signs of slowing down, with new releases from their other projects, Beautiful Crisis, Mind Machine and SilverScene
also coming in 2023.

https://linktr.ee/blaklightband
blaklightband@gmail.com


Mind Machine

Established in 1989, Los Angeles based synthpop duo Mind Machine released their album 'Return to the Machine' in 2019, after a 24 year hiatus. Their most recent release, 'Saying Sorry' EP, was released in November 2020, and work on a new album starts in early 2021.

Members: Brian Belknap, Brian Olsen
Former Members: David Blatty, David Mongan, Eric Miller

Website: https://www.blaklightband.com/
http://mindmachineband.com/
Facebook: http://facebook.com/BlakLightband
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Instagram: http://instagram.com/BlakLightband
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Twitter: http://twitter.com/BlakLightband
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Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@BlakLightband https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbC3DXNJgB0n_klXW10mT1g
Mind Machine http://www.youtube.com/mindmachineband
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0y7JhOBu0FZde-SENp1mJQ
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/mindmachineband
Bandcamp: https://blaklight.bandcamp.com/
http://mindmachineband.bandcamp.com/


BlakLight // Innocence Lost




Blaklight // Away From Me




Beyond Border // Perfection (feat. BlakLight)




BlakLight // A Stranger Calls (Lyric)




BlakLight // Nightmares (Lyric)




BlakLight // World




Blaklight // Nightmares (Aesthetic Perfection Remix)




BlakLight // Into The Void




Mind Machine - Return To The Machine




Mind Machine - Here And There (Ruined Conflict Remix)

tHE pADDED rOOM
by BlakLight



releases May 12, 2023

BlakLight:
Adam Collier - Synthesizers & Programming
Brian Belknap - Vocals

All songs written by Adam Collier & Brian Belknap

"Curtain Call" written by Adam Collier


BlakLight - // Redefine




Wicked Face
by BlakLight



Coma
by BlakLight



Out Of The Void - Stripped
by BlakLight



Innocence Lost
by BlakLight



Out Of The Void - The Remixes
by BlakLight



Into The Void
by BlakLight

Prey
by BlakLight




released July 26, 2023

BlakLight:
Adam Collier - Synthesizers & Programming
Brian Belknap - Vocals

All songs written by Adam Collier & Brian Belknap

Guitar - Pano Coromelas
Cover Photograph - Kevin Collier
Layout - Brian Belknap

© & ℗ 2023 BlakLight

Blind Vision
by BlakLight



"Blind Vision" is the first single taken from BlakLight's forthcoming album, 'The Haunting Of Us', due for release this summer. It's backed by two instrumental tracks, "Don't Assume That We Are Alright" and "Broken Soul".

This is the Los Angeles based dark synthpop's trio's first release to include newest member, Omar Quiñones, on additional backing vocals. BlakLight will release a 'Maxi Single' of "Blind Vision" featuring remixes of the title track plus b-sides "You Will Never Be Alone" and "Reptile", a cover of The Church classic, this May.

The band plays June's Mechanismus Festival: Defiance in Seattle and is plotting additional live dates throughout the year.

released March 8, 2024

BlakLight:
Adam Collier - Synthesizers & Programming
Brian Belknap - Vocals
Omar Quiñones - Backing Vocals

Cover Photograph - Kevin Collier
Layout - Brian Belknap

© & ℗ 2024 BlakLight


BlakChristmas
by BlakLight




released December 25, 2023

BlakLight:
Adam Collier - Synthesizers & Programming
Brian Belknap - Vocals
Omar Quiñones - Synthesizers & Backing Vocals

Cover Photograph - Kevin Collier
Layout - Brian Belknap

© & ℗ 2023 BlakLight








Complications
by BlakLight






'Complications' is an assortment of odds and ends which have yet to exist in the physical world. It's compiled here in a cardboard sleeve, strictly limited to 50 copies.

released April 8, 2022

BlakLight:
Adam Collier - Synthesizers & Programming
Brian Belknap - Vocals

"A Stranger Calls", "So Gone", "Blinded By The Sun", "Crack" (Dark Mix), "Into The Void" (Cold Mix) & "Isolation" (Quarantine Extended Mix) written by Adam Collier & Brian Belknap

"Effigy (I'm Not An)"
Originally performed by Ministry
Written by Al Jourgensen

"Careless Memories"
Originally performed by Duran Duran
Written by Andy Taylor, John Taylor, Nick Rhodes, Roger Taylor & Simon Le Bon

"The Killing Moon"
Originally performed by Echo & The Bunnymen
Written by Ian McCulloch, Leslie Pattinson, Peter De Freitas, & William Sergeant

"Nowhere Girl"
Originally performed by B-Movie"
Written by Richard Holliday & Stephen Hovington

"All You Ever Think About Is Sex"
Originally performed by Sparks
Written by Ronald Mael & Russell Mael

"No Doubt"
Originally performed by Erasure
Written by Andy Bell & Vince Clarke

Guitar - Pano Coromelas
Cover Photograph - Kevin Collier
Layout - Brian Belknap