Meltdown Deejays Recordings has been going since 1993, run out of Helsinki as a DJ collective and a record label at the same time. RV820 landed there in 2025 with 'How Bleep Is Your Love'. RV820 also has records on Electric Appliances, which took 'Kasberget' and the 'World Unwired / Antistalking' single.

'Star System H4262' is a four tracker, loaded with electro warez. We’re consistently excited by what Meltdown Deejays Recordings puts out, and RV820’s awesome EP is no exception to that rule.

We’re jettisoned into the stratosphere from the off. The title track opens with a tight electro beat and sustained choral synths, before stunning arpeggiating keys drop in, accompanied by the familiar sounds of the little silver box. We… friends… are in space.

Back to earth next, though, and more specifically Northern Holland, for ‘Zandvoort’. Quite why we have landed here is not explicit, but we are glad we did. Distortion rings around the soundstage, panning and oscillating while they create soul-soaring harmonics. Quite the cinematic piece!

Next up is the futuristic electro funk of ‘Remote Access’, which boasts quite the acid wash. The 303 sound takes care of the bottom and top end in this track, which has a certain melancholy to it once those pads come into play.

We close out on the Blade Runner-esque dystopia of ‘Night Walks’, which couldn’t be more rain-slicked and neon-lit if it tried. It governs with a heavy dose of post-apocalyptic futurism thanks to the dexterous synth programming and insistent breakbeat.

It is up at RV820's own Bandcamp page. Fill your boots.

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