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New Album 'Technology For The Youth' releasing in 2022
The alias of Irish electronic artist and songwriter Peter Fitzpatrick. Circuit3 produces a stunning blend of analogue synth ear candy and 5 minutes into-the-future lyrics in a style not seen since the 1978-1982 era of electronic pop.
His upcoming album Technology For The Youth, named after a long-running Russian science and technology magazine, arrives like a fragment of an abandoned space station that was all but destroyed as it re-entered Earth’s atmosphere.
Crisp electronic pop songs and atmospheric instrumentals built from an enviable array of analogue synthesisers assembled in his home studio. Fitzpatrick’s focus is squarely on that period before digital synthesis, much like how the lyrics on Technology For The Youth are informed by the endeavours in space exploration that existed before the first Space Shuttle left Cape Canaveral.
A childhood fascination with space provides the emotional narrative arc for Technology For The Youth, it also informs the sonic structures that his lyrics float over. The pieces are fragile and minimal, built from layers so sparse that you can almost see the stars between them, each one edged with reflective, metallic textures like the exterior surface of an orbiting rocket.
A career founded in the 1980s home taping scene followed by stints as a synth-player-for-hire. His early 1990s move to New York move led to studio session work and an award-winning sound design career at the dawn of the CD-ROM revolution in the 1990s.
His debut album siliconchipsuperstar is a rare collectible sold-out vinyl release. The follow-up The Price Of Nothing & The Value Of Everything was acclaimed by no less than Martyn Ware: (The Human League, Heaven17) “The album sounds great! Glad current artists are keeping the faith with quality songwriting.”
Technology For The Youth is the album he always hoped he would make and one that he has poured his entire heart and soul into. Retro-futuristic but undeniably human, Technology For The Youth is electronic pop constructed from the brave ambitions of forward-thinking scientists and politicians, and the remembered hopes, dreams, and fascinations of a young Dublin boy.
