SPT.IMG.001 Danger Beach & Gemma Nourse – Speed of Light

“Speed of Light” is the latest single from Danger Beach. The music is a return to more conventional pop song structure following years of sonic exploration. Taking inspiration from genres like Italo-Disco, Vietnamese New-Wave (V-Wave) and Freestyle, Danger Beach has crafted a tight dance track that recalls the glamour of Studio 54 and the sonic blissfulness of Blondie and Donna Summer. “Speed of Light” features vocals by Melbourne musician Gemma Nourse (of bands Sylvia and Earache), ethereally crooning about the hope and expectation of new love.

The B-side to the single is “Collider”, an arcade token fuelled instrumental that recalls the excess of late 80s electro and dance.

Danger Beach is the moniker of L.A. Thomas from Canberra, Australia. Since 2010, Danger Beach has been releasing a diverse range of material through the Canberra independent label Dream Damage Records. Danger Beach has gathered millions of listeners across multiple platforms over the last decade.

Danger Beach’s debut album, Milky Way, a self-recorded, quaint release recorded through one internal laptop microphone, saw a viral reception for the single “Apache“. The colourful animated music video was widely distributed and nominated for a number of music video awards and global usage of the song. The following 2012 album Pacific doubled down on nostalgic retro-futurism with the single “Black Rain“, earning broad play across Australia’s radio stations. In 2016 the conceptual soundtrack album Contact was recorded and released while Thomas was living in New York City.

Thomas has been an active member of the Australian music community, collaborating with Jonny Telafone, TV Colours, The Fighting League, Earache and many others. He has also been a member of DIY garage rock pioneers Assassins 88 and TV Colours, as well as post-punk band PTSD and recently the dream-pop group Vanishing Sound.

Spitting.img Records is a new Canberra-based record label established by L.A. Thomas.

Picking up the thread from Dream Damage Records, the much-revered noise-pop label of the 2010s, Spitting.img will focus on digital and physical releases of independent Australian artists – particularly from Canberra.

Future releases will include Danger Beach, Assassins 88, Vanishing Sound, PTSD and more.