A.D. Amorosi After weeks of grueling work on Kanye West’s “Donda” album, producer and self-proclaimed ‘synth god’ Mike Dean is ready to kick back with a new project of his own.Two sold-out solo headlining shows at the Echoplex in Los Angeles on August 21 and 22 provide the contents of a new visual album, “ECHOPLEX (Live 2021),” released Friday, September 3.Directed and produced by Jonathan Josell, the hour-long, live visual “ECHOPLEX” project — heavily strobe-lit with a hoodie-wearing, blunt-smoking Dean engulfed by banks of synthesizers and laptops — is based on his last two albums, “4:22,” and his pandemic-isolation mixtape, “4:20.” The visual album features two guests across its 21 tracks: video game music composer Sarah Schachner on.
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