synth
Album Review : Tangerine Dream’s ‘Quantum Gate’
It’s not very often that a band can continue on after the heart of that band passes on. There’s just something that goes when the center of a musical universe supernovas into the next existential plane. It seemed that when Edgar Froese passed on in early 2015 his constant musical project for the last 45 …
Track: Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark – The Punishment of Luxury, plus album news
One of the best synth bands of the eighties, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD), are back with a new single and video “The Punishment of Luxury” in anticipation of their album of the same name due out on 1 September 2017. As I have often written before, creativity does not have a use-by date, …
Meet: Pattern Language aka Chris Frain
Colorado-based synth-electronic crafter Pattern Language has just released his debut mini-album ‘Total Squaresville’ via London’s Happy Robots Records. In these six tracks, he has managed to create a sound and vibe similar to krautrock legends like Kraftwerk, Cluster, Harmonia, and La Dusseldorf. Pattern Language is the new project of Chris Frain. Currently based in Boulder, …
Album Review : R. Missing’s ‘Unsummering’ EP
There’s both a quiet cool and a dark tension that permeates R. Missing’s EP Unsummering. Even in their promotional material it says “You won’t find love songs here. You’ll find unloved songs. You won’t find summer, you’ll find Unsummering.” Now if that’s not enough to convince you of something dark and mysterious what will? Maybe …
Album Review : Delia Gonzalez’ ‘Horse Follows Darkness’
Just by mere chance the one time in the last year I’m on Twitter looking through my feed I see a tweet from Death Waltz Originals guru Spencer Hickman talking about how great this album Horse Follows Darkness is by Delia Gonzalez. I believe the line that stood out to me was “pure blissed out …
Album Review : Timothy Fife’s ‘Black Carbon’
Timothy Fife seems to have locked into another realm on his Mondo/Death Waltz Originals debut Black Carbon. Within these three key tracks there seems to be worlds and entities that bubble up from the cascading synths and eerie oohs and ahhs he creates with nothing more than circuitry, wires, and electrical impulses. You get a …
See: Ronika releases video for ‘All Comes Back 2 U’, plus live dates
In support of her recent second long player ‘Lose My Cool’, out now via RecordShop, Nottingham born singer-songwriter/producer Ronika has announced a couple of live shows, and revealed a new video for the track ‘All comes back 2 U’. As with the rest of the album that dips its toe in disco, hip-hop, R&B and …
Track: Empathy Test – Demons/Seeing Stars
There’s something really enigmatic about London-based electronic duo Empathy Test. Even without listening to a note, there is a lot of mystery attached to the art work that accompanies previous releases ‘Throwing Stones’ and ‘Losing Touch’. Aesthetics are obviously an important factor to them as a band, and on listening, the emotive and cinematic sound they …
Album Review: Stranger Things S/T Volume One : Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein
I can’t remember the last time something enthralled the public’s eyes and ears like Netflix’ Stranger Things has. Maybe the Macarena? Or the Blue Collar Comedy Tour? The Pam and Tommy Lee sex tape? Regardless, none of those things lived up to the hype that preceded them, except for Stranger Things. This is a show …
See: Scandroid releases lyric video for Empty Streets
Scandroid, aka Detroit based artist/producer Klayton, best know for his project Celldweller, has released a lyric video for Empty Streets, taken from his as yet untitled album, due out in mid-November. Described as a 80s/NewRetroWave/Synthwave/Cyberpunk inspired project set 500 years in the future in Neo Tokyo, Scandroid deals in Industrial sounds, with propelling beats and …