His parents also played video games on an NES throughout his childhood. When his stepfather was the musical director at church, Vreeland would sneak down to the church basement to play drums. Vreeland grew up in a musical household in Staten Island, New York. His roots, however, speak of a typical middle-class upbringing in America. Both works deal in sharp contrasts, and Vreeland wraps them in serene yet dread-laden textures, coaxing and unsettling in equal measure. It Follows, last year’s scariest supernatural horror by director David Robert Mitchell, infuses the comfortable idyll of suburban America with an inescapable sense of doom.
Heart Machine’s new 2D action RPG for PS4 and Xbox One is a tranquil take on dystopia, an 8-bit picture-postcard of a broken world on the verge of an even greater disaster. Play a short section of Hyper Light Drifter and this becomes clear. But duality lies at the core of the film and game composer’s recent output. This is a man, at least in my head, synonymous with decaying dystopia and tense horror paranoia, not cycling, wind in his hair, in sunny California. I can hear the wind down the phone and it’s kind of jarring. Richard Vreeland, aka Disasterpeace, is cycling. As Hyper Light Drifter makes its way to PS4 and Xbox One this week, Lewis Gordon talks to the American composer about his most intimate score to date. Disasterpeace’s innovative scores for acclaimed indie game Fez and cult horror film It Follows are already considered modern classics, blending 8-bit nostalgia with John Carpenter’s synth-led doom.
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