Bromsen streaming at Full Speed in the Fast Lane of the “Data Highway”!

When we last checked in here with Bromsen back in February 2024, the Berlin duo were busy reviving their mid-2000s project with “Someone”, which was a track that dripped with late 70s/80s DNA, nodding to Talking Heads and New Order while firmly planting itself in today’s electro-rock landscape. It was a song of nostalgia as much as reinvention, showing Karlo and Richard could channel synth-driven memory and still sound fresh. Fast forward to now, and with “Data Highway,” they’ve not only kept that retro spark alive but wired it directly into the anxious hum of the present. “Data Highway” looks around with unease, the same shimmering synth layers, but now pulsing with the restless energy of an always-on world.

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There’s an electric, slightly dizzy feeling to the song that makes your phone vibrate in your pocket and, for a minute, convinces you the vibration came from inside your skull. It sets its tone with tactile little noises, blip-blop synth stabs, and an electronic bass texture that feels both brittle and warm, before a steady groove and layered vocals slide in. Karlo’s delivery sits on that sweet spot between urgent and weary as he sounds like someone narrating a late-night scroll, half-amused, half-alarmed. The hook’s central image. “How can we drown in the Wi-Fi...?” is cheeky but nails the song’s thesis: an examination of hyperconnectivity rendered as the modern anxiety anthem. Richard’s synth layers build a resonant undercurrent; little oscillating arpeggios and an answering synth line add depth without cluttering the chorus. Reatsch’s fingerprints are obvious in the clarity of the mix; the electronics feel polished but still raw enough to pulse. When the groove shifts and the synth bed thickens, the track moves like traffic accelerating, propulsive yet controlled. The bridge’s fluttering oscillators and slightly off-kilter vocal repetition lean into that quirky electronica sensibility, and the chorus lands each time with an earworm melody, “We’re driving on a data highway…”, repeated, hypnotic, and oddly consoling.

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The music video’s neon imagery, retro futurism, hoverboard skylines, and glitching cityscapes amplify the song’s theme: it’s a road movie for the age of broadband. There are images of wires, time slipping, and gateways, modern metaphors for dislocation, and the repetition becomes intentional, mirroring the endless loop of feeds and notifications. It occasionally flirts with vagueness, but that vagueness is also the point; the song is less about giving answers and more about conveying the feeling of being suspended in a stream of information. A few lines feel like philosophy by tagline. But then again, the mantra quality is also what will make this track singable, the sort of modern synthpop that wears its cleverness lightly. Buckle up, and embark on “Data Highway,” a ride through neon nights and digital daydreams. Listen below!

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