Today’s episode features music by Vaylon, Beborn Beton, Echo Image, A Million Machines, School of Seven Bells, Emmon, Charlotte Someone, Anoraak, Terrortron, The Rain Within, Dance Or Die, Torque Order, Mono Electronic Density, Lost Years, Blutengel, Hype, Floor Seven, BLACK LINE, Noir du’Soleil, Cabaret Nocturne, X-in June, K-Bereit, Sequential Access, Ladyhawke, Limahl, eXcubitors, The Alphabet Girls, Metroland, and Funker Vogt!
Today’s episode features music by Marc Heal, Projekt Ich, Silent Auction, The Vacant Lots, In Letter Form, Chemical Sweet Kid, NEO, School of Seven Bells, Elevn, Johan Gasso, Wave In Head, SpaceRoar, PSYCHOSOMATIK, Cadre Crimson, RE:Active, Vitriol, Topgun, New Today, Batch ID, Mesmer’s Eyes, System Syn, New Neon, Theriak, Restriction 9, Fader Vixen, Sero.Overdose, Weltfremd, and Heartbreak!
My theme this time is “2016 New Music!” I put all the music released in 2016 and sorted it alphabetically by album. This is Volume 3, with album titles P through S. Some bands put out more than one album in 2016, so you may see them twice in different volumes. 2016 was a fantastic music year if you like synth-based music! It was also a phenomenal year for concerts for me. I got to see some amazing artists in concert, from Assemblage 23 to the Pet Shop Boys. Here’s hoping 2017 is just as magical!
It’s music time again! Why do I do this? Well, in the hopes of introducing people to new synth-based music (EBM, Futurepop, Synthpop, Synthwave, Darkwave, Industrial, Industrial Dance, Electro, etc). So give the bands a listen and if you like what you hear, then go and pay for their album and support the bands!
NOTE: I own (as in paid for, or was gifted) all of the music that I feature. I also attend as many local shows that I can to support bands when they’re on tour. Please do the same and support music!
ARTIST: Abbey Death
SONG: The Outside
ALBUM: Realignment EP
YEAR: 2016
I love most everything synth-based, especially Synthpop, Futurepop, EBM, Industrial, Industrial Dance, Synthwave, Darkwave, etc. Hell, I even like some synth-based New Age music (in other words, not Yanni). But you know what I really like? Those genres with women vocalists! So it’s music time with women vocalists (and musicians) in the Synthpop, Futurepop, EMB, Industrial, and Darkwave world! I didn’t realize there were so many until I actually started thinking about it. There are so many I’ve had to break this up! So here is Volume 6: S – T!
ARTIST: Sally Shapiro
SONG: Save Your Love (Lovelock Remix)
ALBUM: My Guilty Pleasure (Remixes)
YEAR: 2010
ARTIST: Sarah P
SONG: I’d Go
ALBUM: Free
YEAR: 2015
ARTIST: School of Seven Bells
SONG: Put Your Sad Down
ALBUM: Put Your Sad Down EP
YEAR: 2012
ARTIST: Siberian Heat
SONG: Sorry
ALBUM: Mystic Time
YEAR: 2012
ARTIST: SIN.SIN
SONG: These Pretty Things
ALBUM: Fairytronics EP
YEAR: 2016
ARTIST: Somegirl
SONG: Defeatist
ALBUM: I’ve Been Known To Be Completely Wrong
YEAR: 2002
ARTIST: SPECTRA*paris
SONG: Size Zero
ALBUM: Dead Models Society (Young Ladies Homicide Club)
YEAR: 2007
ARTIST: Spider Lilies
SONG: Too Much
ALBUM: Cyclogenesis
YEAR: 2009
You need this song in your life right now. Spray has several albums and I had plenty of their songs to choose from, but this one is needed in the world today.
ARTIST: Spray
SONG: Everything’s Better With Muppets
ALBUM: Singing for England EP
YEAR: 2010
ARTIST: Static Movement
SONG: Nouvelle Vague
ALBUM: Visionary Landscapes
YEAR: 1999
ARTIST: Strawberry Switchblade
SONG: Since Yesterday
ALBUM: The Platinum Collection
YEAR: 1984 (song)
ARTIST: The Synthetic Dream Foundation
SONG: Puzzlebox
ALBUM: Tendrils Of Pretty
YEAR: 2006
ARTIST: Technique
SONG: There’s No Other Way
ALBUM: Pop Philosophy
YEAR: 2001
Julia Beyer is no longer singing for Technoir and Steffen Gehring is doing his solo thing (looking forward to that).
Apparently my body and brain think I’m still in Mountain time and I should wake up at 0600. While something startled me awake (probably a jackass slamming his car door), I couldn’t get back to sleep. So here I am… awake. Wanting sleep…
ARTIST: The Cure
SONG: Sleep When I’m Dead
ALBUM: 4:13 Dream
YEAR: 2008
Blair Scott: Synthentral 