experimental synth · a damn fine cup of coffee
WAKE UP DALE COOPER
It is happening again.
/// FIRST TRANSMISSION
The signal broke through
The debut record reimagines video game and television themes as experimental synth, broadcast from the Red Room, with originals taking shape. Thirteen tracks have arrived. The rest is still decrypting.
STATUS: SIGNAL ACQUIRED · 01 IT IS HAPPENING AGAIN · PRESS PLAY
0:00 / 2:24
- 01 3:17
- 02 2:24
- 03 3:14
- 04 2:49
- 05 2:19
- 06 2:18
- 07 3:14
- 08 3:18
- 09 2:59
- 10 3:34
- 11 2:33
- 12 2:59
- 13 4:19
- …∞
/// THE DOSSIER
Diane, it’s… well past midnight
Wake Up Dale Cooper began in the eighteen hours we spent begging a man to remember his own name. He sat in a casino, in a suit two sizes wrong, and we waited. And waited. The waiting became the music.
This is ambient synth for the in-between: the convenience store, the waiting room, the gap between one world and the next. The first record takes themes you already know, from video games and television, and slows them until they dream. Familiar melodies, returned to you wrong, warm, and humming under sodium light.
There is always music in the air. We are simply turning up the part you weren’t meant to hear.
/// LEAVE A MESSAGE AT THE THRESHOLD
We’ll wake you when the next signal goes live
No spam. No noise. One message, when the next transmission breaks through.
/// THE QUESTIONS
What you keep asking in your sleep
What is Wake Up Dale Cooper?
Wake Up Dale Cooper is an experimental synth music project. Original songs and reimagined versions of well-known video game and television themes, slow and atmospheric, with a cinematic Lynchian aesthetic. The name comes from Twin Peaks’ Agent Dale Cooper.
Is this connected to Twin Peaks?
Wake Up Dale Cooper is named after Twin Peaks and shares its aesthetic, but it’s an independent music project: not affiliated with, authorized by, or endorsed by David Lynch, Mark Frost, Showtime, CBS, or any official Twin Peaks rights holders.
What does “Wake Up Dale Cooper” mean?
It nods to Twin Peaks: The Return, in which Agent Dale Cooper spends most of the season trapped in the identity of Dougie Jones while the audience waited… and waited… for him to wake up. We turned that long, dreamlike wait into music.
What genre is it?
Experimental synth. Ambient one track, something else the next, with synthwave and drone around the edges. Slow, cinematic, built for the space between waking and dreaming. Whatever comes from the Red Room.
When is the first album out?
The debut, original songs plus video game and television themes reimagined as ambient synth, is in production. The first thirteen tracks are streaming on this page now. Join the mailing list to be notified when the rest of the transmission goes live.
Where can I listen?
Thirteen tracks, including It Is Happening Again, One-Winged Angel, Pineapples and Poison, Midna, and Criminal Minds (Lynchian Jazz Version), are playing on this page right now, on Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon Music, and on YouTube with new videos twice daily. Sign up and we’ll wake you.
Is there a jazz or Lynchian version of the Criminal Minds theme?
Yes. Criminal Minds (Lynchian Jazz Version) is a slow, smoky, noir-jazz reimagining of the main title theme from the CBS crime drama Criminal Minds, playing on this page now. It is an unofficial, transformative arrangement, not affiliated with CBS or the theme’s composers.