Terra Olympia and Why the Olympic Synth Era Keeps Coming Back for George Voukanos
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
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Soft Cell’s Danceteria Is One New York Night That Ends Back at the Club
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
The TD-3 Acid Bass Behind The Contrarian, and Where Erick Castrillon Took It
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
Alibii Turn a Battle with Coeliac Disease Into I Think My Body Hates Me
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 Swedish Fishing Village Behind Tove Lo’s ESTRUS
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
Slayyyter Booked Thirty Shows Across Three Continents
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
The Retro Synth Sound and Where 90s Double Vision Takes It
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
Sugar Relics Put Can’t Stay Awake Back in Play on Caught in the Middle
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
Empire of the Sun Follow a 220,000-Ticket Tour With 31 More Shows
Two hundred and twenty thousand people bought a ticket to the last one. That is the figure sitting underneath the Ask That God: Afterlife tour,... Read More
Kid Ørbit Slide: the 808 Sound, and Where It Went After 1983
How A Melbourne Melodic Rap Single Inherits the Drum Machine That Built Trap Roland discontinued the TR-808 in 1983, and the machine refused to disappear.... Read More
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