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21-year-old Oregon native Tyler Burns knows a thing or two about pop music. Having learned four instruments by his teens, Tyler was struck one day with the desire to pursue songwriting. When all of his musical friends were playing in garage-rock bands, Tyler looked to expand his musical options, and began sequencing his arrangements on synthesizers. It wasn’t long before he found his niche… In 2005, Tyler was a featured programmer on Clavia's website for their Nord Lead 3 subtractive synthesizer.
Attracting the interest of a publisher, Tyler began composing short songs for TV in his late teens. In 2006, he signed a second-season publishing deal with MTV's signature show, "Rob and Big," which reached over 70 million viewers during its first season. This opened up deals with several networks, including a universal deal with MTV, covering over 30 of his tracks.

Listen to any track off of Tyler Burns’ debut record, however, and a different era of MTV pop comes to mind. Uptown Boys Regular is reminiscent of a time when acts like Duran Duran and The Human League dominated the airwaves, bringing sleek, synthesized pop/rock and a feel-good vibe to audiences looking for a new sound. That time has come again.

“In all the music I write, my goal is to create a composition that is sophisticated on an artistic level, with all the catchiness of a simple pop song.”

With his extensive knowledge of music theory, love for the classic pop song, and a debut EP recorded primarily with vintage analog equipment, Tyler Burns is ready to show you just what an “Uptown Boys Regular” is all about.


-David Pollock (Paper or Plastic)

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Title: Stop the World

Description: Analog-style synth sounds mixed with a George Michael R&B sound.

Title: Monty Becker's Wine

Description: Synth-infused rock song about stealing from an old man's wine cellar.

Title: Red Rope of Jericho

Description: New Wave dance track relating a female obsession to the sack of Jericho.

Title: Fir Tree Spies

Description: An electropop song about a group of friends spying on a girl from the top of a fir tree. Nord Lead 3 used for synth patches. Korg OASYS used for drum samples.

Title: Uptown Boys Regular

Description: New wave fun! An amalgamation of guitars, drums, hairspray, and Nord Lead 3 arpeggios!

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my influences

Duran Duran Kajagoogoo The Cure Japan The Human League ABC Soft Cell Tears for Fears Depeche Mode Donald Fagen

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my comments

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aeronaut | 12 months ago

Hi Tyler,
I've enjoyed listening to your very fine popsongs!
I voted for your entries in the contest.

Wishing you all the best,

Jef

Music2Work2 | about 1 year ago

Thanks for the friends request, Tyler. I really enjoyed listening to your music. Glad to have you as a friend.

Music 2 Work 2

10th finger | about 1 year ago

Hi Tyler,
Thanks for the request.
Great music you´ve got here.
Monty Becker´s wine makes me think of my hometown when I grew up.
Uptown boys regular got my vote, it is really good.
Cheers,
10th

Richard Thomas | about 1 year ago

Hi Tyler, thank you so much for your appreciation. It means a lot to me.
Writing songs regularly starts off with some instrumentation, a riff on the guitar (a chord progression) or on the keyboard (I actually don't know how to play the piano, but I more or less know how to hit the keys, and when it sounds good I work my way out from there). I guess this is a well known procedure for many other songwriters. Although I don't know how to play the piano, the piano, or the synth rather, takes me to much subtler aereas of music making. So I found the piano to be very helpful to composing. But perhaps there is also an element of childlike surprise in the keys and their sounds which my old guitar, through many years of habit, can't bring. Lyrics is a difficult aspect of composing. I really want them to mean something and there's one other difficulty: English is not my native language. Does this answer your questions?
Good luck with your music making!
Bye for now,
Richard

Richard Thomas | about 1 year ago

Hi Tyler, how are you? Thanks for responding to my friend request. Came by to listen and vote. 'Fir Tree Spies' sounds great. It's description made me smile. Gave my ratings to 'Red Rope…' also.
Please check out my songs. I hope you like them.
Greetings and all the best from the low grounds of the Netherlands,
Richard

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