Synthentral! 20170327

New episode of Synthentral is now online!

Today’s episode features music by Meter Bridge, Vierance, R. Missing, Kindest Lines, Shadows & Mirrors, [ Cell 7 ], Voltaire Twins, The Harrow, SIN.SIN., Wiccid, Static Shore, Metroland, Ys Atlov, Com Truise, Front 242, Monstergod, Orange Sector, Lust For Youth, Synthesis, Autodafeh, Rational Youth, Diversant:13, Sleepless Droids, Cryogenic Echelon, X-Marks The Pedwalk, CygnosiC, Tiers, and Colouroid

Just click on the synthesizer below to listen!

Music Time! 2016 New Music, Volume 2

Nov29

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 2, with album titles F through O. 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: Sin.Sin
SONG: Moving Sands
ALBUM: Fairytronics EP
YEAR: 2016

ARTIST: Day Twelve
SONG: Lie In Wait
ALBUM: Fin
YEAR: 2016

ARTIST: Blinky Blinky Computerband
SONG: Killing Machine
ALBUM: For a Better World
YEAR: 2016

ARTIST: A Covenant of Thorns
SONG: Resurrection
ALBUM: Forgotten EP
YEAR: 2016

ARTIST: Blinky Blinky Computerband
SONG: Tolerance Is Freedom
ALBUM: Fractured Sign
YEAR: 2016

ARTIST: Clicks
SONG: Take Control
ALBUM: Glitch/Machine
YEAR: 2016

ARTIST: Eloquent
SONG: Mixed Emotions (Nórdika Remix)
ALBUM: Global Remix Extravaganza
YEAR: 2016

ARTIST: THYX
SONG: Don’t Get Alive
ALBUM: Headless
YEAR: 2016

ARTIST: The Crüxshadows
SONG: Helios
ALBUM: Helios EP
YEAR: 2016

ARTIST: Dismantled
SONG: The Hero
ALBUM: The Hero EP
YEAR: 2016

ARTIST: Voicecoil
SONG: Screaming To The Sky
ALBUM: Inertial Fault
YEAR: 2016

ARTIST: Mesh
SONG: Paper Thin
ALBUM: Kill Your Darlings (CD Single)
YEAR: 2016

ARTIST: Aesthetic Perfection
SONG: LAX
ALBUM: LAX (Single)
YEAR: 2016

ARTIST: Magic Sword
SONG: Legend of The Keeper (Extended Mix)
ALBUM: Legend EP
YEAR: 2016

ARTIST: Body Of Light
SONG: Come Down
ALBUM: Let Me Go
YEAR: 2016

ARTIST: Mesh
SONG: The Traps We Made
ALBUM: Looking Skyward
YEAR: 2016

ARTIST: Timecop1983
SONG: Come Back
ALBUM: Lovers, Pt 1 EP
YEAR: 2016

ARTIST: X-in June
SONG: Love Made Of Wax
ALBUM: Magus
YEAR: 2016

ARTIST: Vanguard
SONG: They Are Watching
ALBUM: Never Surrender
YEAR: 2016

ARTIST: Saft
SONG: Aldrig Som Förr
ALBUM: Norrbacka
YEAR: 2016

ARTIST: The KVB
SONG: Night Games
ALBUM: Of Desire
YEAR: 2016

ARTIST: Twisted Destiny
SONG: Let’s Play
ALBUM: Offline
YEAR: 2016

ARTIST: Information Society
SONG: State Of The Nation
ALBUM: Orders of Magnitude
YEAR: 2016

Music Time! “Women of Synth” (Volume 6: S – T) 11/19/16

Nov19

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: Seize
SONG: Wishful Thinking
ALBUM: Constant Fight
YEAR: 2009

ARTIST: Sensuous Enemy
SONG: Shiver v.2.0.0.8
ALBUM: Fragments (Deluxe Edition)
YEAR: 2008

ARTIST: Shiny Toy Guns
SONG: Somewhere To Hide
ALBUM: III
YEAR: 2012

ARTIST: Shutterdown
SONG: Prisoner
ALBUM: Dreamwalker
YEAR: 2013

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