The last track of the set was a file nobody outside the production could buy. As Kylie Minogue rose above the Melbourne Cricket Ground on... Read More
Month: September 2026
Club Tempo at Pop Length, and How to Hear It in My Melodies by Geminee and Andrew Pololos
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Geminee’s First Release Packs a 126 BPM House Groove Into Two Minutes and 39 Seconds My Melodies runs at about 126 beats per minute, measured... Read More
A Greek Composer Maps Ancient Olympia in Twelve Short Synth-Led Pieces Terra Olympia starts from a production choice most composers of Olympic music never make.... Read More
Soft Cell: Dave Ball and Marc Almond The music for Danceteria was built in Dave Ball’s studio in South London. Ball sent the instrumentals to... Read More
An LA Filmmaker Layers a Colombian Flauta De Millo Over Glitchy Alt-Pop Electronica About AI Roland built the TB-303 in 1981 to stand in for... Read More
A Sydney Duo Stacks Two Voices Over a Fast Pop-Rock Track Produced by Adrian Breakspear The production choice at the centre of i think my... Read More
The first sound on Tove Lo’s ESTRUS is a whirling metallic pulse. It rushes in fast, hard to place, and then the track it opens,... Read More
The Basement East in Nashville holds a few hundred people. The Roundhouse in London holds around three thousand. Both are on the same routing sheet,... Read More
An Irish Vocalist and a Brazilian Composer Build a Nocturnal Pop Record Across Two Continents The hook on 90s Double Vision arrives on a synth... Read More
A 2022 Dark Electro-Pop Single, Returned to Service on a 2026 Album The synth line on Can’t Stay Awake arrives before anything else does. It... Read More

Kylie Minogue Flew Over the MCG to an Unreleased Dom Dolla Remix
Terra Olympia and Why the Olympic Synth Era Keeps Coming Back for George Voukanos
Soft Cell’s Danceteria Is One New York Night That Ends Back at the Club
The TD-3 Acid Bass Behind The Contrarian, and Where Erick Castrillon Took It
Alibii Turn a Battle with Coeliac Disease Into I Think My Body Hates Me
The Swedish Fishing Village Behind Tove Lo’s ESTRUS
Slayyyter Booked Thirty Shows Across Three Continents
The Retro Synth Sound and Where 90s Double Vision Takes It
Sugar Relics Put Can’t Stay Awake Back in Play on Caught in the Middle
The Hyperpop Synth Sound and Where Noah Tonin Took It on LOSE CONTROL
SynRize Make You Feel: Human Lyrics, AI Production and How to Hear Both
Vera Soledad y Sangre: Why Eighties Synthwave Keeps Coming Back to Montevideo
PINLIGHT Over and Over: Why Scottish Synth-Pop Keeps Coming Back