Synth

Synth includes all synthesizer-based music from 1970s Synth Pop to modern Synthwave and Vaporwave, and including New Wave, modern takes on Italo Disco, Post-Punk, Electropop, Electro, Dance Pop and Alternative Dance.

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True, Necessary, Kind: Gems from Lay-Far’s album remix project

Seventeen remixes of five album tracks from Lay-Far's True, Necessary, Kind album, covering various flavours of house, broken beat, bass, techno and drum & bass.
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Manifesto is an esoteric downtempo masterpiece from Glo Phase

Glo Phase takes an excursion into left-of-field downtempo and electronica with an oily vaporwave sheen on Manifesto.
5 Mag Issue 213 with Laurent Garnier, photo by Bazil Lamy

Rooted: Laurent Garnier in the new issue of 5 Mag

Electronic music pioneer Laurent Garnier, Monty Luke, Petals In Sound, Henna Onna, Paul Johnson and more inside the new issue of 5 Mag, released May 2024.
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Nini Nobless of Canadian electro disco pioneers Lime has died

A "dazzling innovator of this art form," Nini Nobless broke new ground in electronic music in the early 1980s with synth disco duo Lime.
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The impossible meeting of Ellen Allien & Ash Code

"Dance and Kill" is a "bridge from cold wave to techno" but the energies flow both ways in this impossible collaboration between German techno producer Ellen Allien and Italian Darkwave artists Ash Code.
Alexander Robotnick Problemes d'amour Moodymann remix

Moodymann, Carl Craig remix Alexander Robotnick’s seminal “Problemes D’Amour”

The surprise sleeper hit of an illustrious career - Alexander Robotnick was already working on video art, soundtracks and world music when it began to gain a cult audience - "Problemes" has been reissued many times but never quite like this.
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Hugo LX & DJ Spinna remix the fiery Brother Sister / Candlelight

Cho and Random Impetus' sensational record gets remixed with Hugo LX's single-soul powered funk revival and DJ Spinna's icy electro fever dream of Brother Sister and Candlelight.
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Ströme team up with Nick McCarthy and the Moog IIIp on Right Now

A delicious slice of slick '80s influenced synth-pop made on the same Moog IIIp on which the Beatles performed "Here Comes The Sun" and Giorgio Moroder "I Feel Love"
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Moog launches GIANTS video series on pioneering electronic music

GIANTS is a new documentary series exploring the early days of electronic music and the untold stories of its pioneers.
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Two guys & a room of analog gear: The Analog Session return on Seven Textures of...

The new album from the Alexander Robotnick and Ludus Pinsky side project.
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Moog launches Animoog Z free for iOS and macOS

Animoog Z, the new iteration of Moog's first professional synth launched today and is a free download for iOS and macOS.
More Ghost Than Man

More Ghost Than Man: The Worlds We Made There

Terry Grant didn't break up with club music - they're just taking a break. Inside the More Ghost Than Man project and the new album The Worlds We Made There.
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Matthias Zimmermann drops the atmospheric Kontakt EP

It's 1983 again, but better. Matthias Zimmermann evokes the spirit of classic synthpop post-punk post-disco and all around melodic music on Kontakt, his new EP on Back Office.
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Ethereal_Interface is releasing an album for cassette & VHS tape

Dream_Logs is a music and video collaboration from Modal_Plane and Sara Goodman debuting on cassette tape, VHS cassette and a chapbook.

#StayHomeDisco – DJs Under Lockdown

5 Mag is launching a new project to help hold our community together and feed our souls with good music. DJ sets every day, several times per day.
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Review: Kai Alce Remixes Alexander Robotnick’s “You Have Time”

Kai Alce takes on Robotnick and Robotnick takes on the zeitgeist on this new remix/reissue vinyl from Adeen.
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#ListenUp Hear the Opening Track from Andrew Emil’s New Change Request Album

Desolate Diligence leads off the 10 track RiteOnRed from Change Request aka Andrew Emil, out on Dufflebag Recordings July 19.
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Naked Lunch & Other Bands They Never Play On The Radio

Songs too weird to make it on classic rock radio with '80s synth pop cult band Naked Lunch.
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Rediscovering Trees, the Best ’80s Synth Band You Never Heard Of

Dane Conover was San Diego's answer to Prince. Working nearly alone and playing everything himself his album Sleep Convention as "Trees" is a synthpop masterpiece.
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Giorgio Moroder is 78 and Just Announced His First Live Tour

One of the most influential musicians in history, Giorgio Moroder will appear with a live band at several dates in 2019. Donna Summer will appear on screen and in sync.

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