Electric Love pairs vintage-styled lead synths with a distinctly forward-looking production approach. Dylan Tauber builds both tracks around thick bass, aggressive percussion, and Vivian West’s vocal presence. The contrast between old-school tone and modern arrangement gives the release its character. Nothing here defers quietly to anything else, creating a kind of controlled sonic friction. That tension is exactly what makes the record so compelling on repeat listens.
Dylan Tauber rarely needs an introduction. Across three decades and twenty-six albums under his Son of Waves Studios banner, he has built a body of work steeped in atmosphere, spiritual inquiry, and oceanic calm. So it lands with genuine surprise when his newest two-track release, ‘Electric Love’, throws all of that patience aside and heads straight for the dancefloor. Featuring vocalist Vivian West, the EP trades slow-building ambience for something far more immediate: pounding drums, aggressive low end, and a pair of tracks engineered to move bodies rather than simply hold attention.
The opener, “Future With You” (ft. Vivian West), sets the tone by pitting its elements against each other in a kind of controlled chaos. West’s vocal delivers something bright and vibrant against synth motifs that refuse to sit quietly in the background, while a heavy bassline and a relentless drum pattern push everything forward at once. Nothing here defers to anything else, and that friction is exactly what makes the track work. The lyrics themselves stay lean, built around the idea of imagining a shared life ahead with someone, a simple hope stretched into a hook that lingers well past the first listen. There’s no need for elaborate verses when the emotional core is this direct: anticipation, warmth, and the pull toward a future not yet written.
Structurally, the song opens with a serrated, synth-driven intro that wastes no time ramping the energy up. From there, the drops arrive with real force, each one meticulously constructed rather than tossed in for spectacle. There’s a level of craft in how the patterns interlock that rewards repeat listens, the kind of arrangement that reveals new texture each time through. It is, in short, a song built for motion, tailor-made for outdoor gatherings and summer nights when a crowd needs a track that refuses to let its foot off the gas.
What stands out most is the interplay between the low end and that lead synth line. The bass and percussion carry real weight, thick and unapologetically aggressive, yet the lead tone floating above them sounds simultaneously vintage and forward-looking, like a piece of retro-futurist hardware reimagined for a modern set. Against that backdrop, West’s vocal performance becomes the connective tissue. Her delivery is hypnotic without losing clarity, threading through the mix and giving the harder elements somewhere to land.
“Electric Love” (ft. Vivian West), the title track, shifts into smoother, more melodic territory while keeping the same underlying vibrancy alive. Initially, structurally it leans on fewer components: a driving bass, a monolithic lead synth riff, and percussion doing most of the heavy lifting. That restraint proves to be the point. Trance music has never required dense layering or elaborate chord work to land its impact, and this track is a clean demonstration of that principle. A strong groove and a well-placed hook can carry a room just as effectively as a wall of instrumentation, and Dylan Tauber clearly understands the difference between complexity and effectiveness.
However, as the track stretches ahead, additional instrumental layers begin stacking on top of one another, and the energy climbs steadily toward something close to euphoric. That climb reaches its peak around the four-minute mark, when the arrangement tips fully into overdrive and every element, West’s vocal included, gets pushed to its highest register of intensity. What began as the more melodic, restrained half of the release ends up delivering the 2-track single’s most massive, all-consuming moment. It’s a smart sequencing choice, one that rewards patience and turns a smoother opening into a genuinely explosive finish.
Lyrically, the title track leans into its concept without over-explaining it. The narrative gestures toward romance filtered through a futuristic lens, connection sparked and sustained in an increasingly hi-tech, space-age world. “We are neon hearts tonight, burning through the endless night. In a city made of dreams, you’re the only light I see,” sings Vivian West. That theme mirrors the production choices around it: suggesting rather than saturating, let the feeling do the work. It gives the song room to build, and build it does.
Taken together, these two tracks represent a noticeable departure for an artist typically associated with mood, texture, and ambient world-building. ‘Electric Love’ trades that restraint for sonic weight and forward momentum, and the results are compelling precisely because they feel earned rather than forced. This isn’t an artist chasing trends; it’s an artist who has spent decades mastering atmosphere now proving he can channel that same attention to detail into something built for physical release rather than quiet reflection.
That range makes sense given the depth of Tauber’s background. A Columbia University Visual Arts graduate, he emerged in 1996 with the ambitious Double Mirrors project, a multimedia anthology combining book, photo slideshow, and soundtrack, anchored by one of the earliest surviving artist websites on the internet. He was offering free MP3 downloads of his music as early as 1998, years ahead of streaming culture. Between 2000 and 2001, a journey across the globe in search of creative inspiration led him to a remote lagoon in the southwestern Pacific, an encounter with dolphins and undisturbed nature that would go on to shape albums like The Lagoon and the Dolphin Waves series.
Beyond music, Tauber has developed his own frameworks for understanding consciousness and perception, including the Double Mirrors Theory and the Ones and Zeros Theory, expanded further in 2025 through a new Expansion of Consciousness theory. His catalog, released independently through Son of Waves Studios, spans ambient, vocal trance, chill-out, and world music influences, with standout entries like Near Death Experience, the Dolphin Trance series, Sounds from Space, and the personal, cinematic He Loves Carmen. His reach extends across radio play in more than forty countries, television broadcasts in Israel, and a performance of his song “I Am A Mirror” before 1,500 people at his kibbutz in 2023.
His visual art has earned similar recognition, with photography exhibited across eleven galleries in cities including Berlin, Venice, Melbourne, Barcelona, and Vienna, and a 2024 honor with the Nikola Tesla World Award for cyberart. With ‘Electric Love’, that same restless curiosity finds a new outlet, proof that an artist this deeply rooted in atmosphere and theory can still surprise listeners with a record built purely to move.
OFFICIAL LINKS:
https://soundcloud.com/dylantauber
https://www.youtube.com/@DylanTauber
https://open.spotify.com/artist/1Zuq94lbWzRUjwybbF1tG2
https://audiomack.com/dylantauber
https://dylantauber.bandcamp.com/
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