Why the Mid-2000s Pop Synth Keeps Coming Back on Rebel by Dana Rexx
A Distorted Synth Patch, a Chanted Hook and a Dubstep Drop Built for Outsiders The first thing Rebel by Dana Rexx puts in front of... Read More
Kit Hargreaves
Kit Hargreaves covers electropop, synth-pop and the Y2K revival for ElectroPop.News. Writes about the machines behind the sound and why a twenty-year-old preset keeps coming back.
Why the Bedroom Pop Era Keeps Coming Back on ยังคงรอเธอ by NackSgro
A Bangkok Singer-Songwriter Turns Three Thai Words, Still Waiting for You, Into Bedroom Pop Bedroom pop began as a production choice: record at home, and... Read More
The Missing Kick on Imvula by Mphara, and How to Hear It
A KwaDukuza Producer Turns a Song About Rain and Lost Homes Into 3Step Take one kick out of a bar of house music and the... Read More
Fascination by Lakeside X: The Eighties Synth Sound and Where It Went
A Prague Synth-Pop Single Travels Through a Remix, a Harmonium Mix and Three Live Takes Fascination by Lakeside X is the sound of a comeback.... Read More
Chris Harper Hides the Lover in four leaf cLOVER, and How to Hear It
A Two-Minute Summer Pop Single with a Light Afrobeats Groove and a Hidden Word Look at the title before you press play. Chris Harper wrote... Read More
The Two-Voice Weave on Hidden People by Musspell, and How to Hear It
Cluj-Napoca’s Musspell Turn Nordic Folklore Into Dark Synth Pop with Producer Steve Dub Steve Dub produced and mastered Hidden People by Musspell. The Grammy-winning engineer’s... Read More
The Coldwave Synth Sound and Where It Went on the STRIDULUM Album Paradigm
Marita Volodina and Arkadiy Berg Steer Silesian Darkwave Toward Melodic Synth-Pop The STRIDULUM album Paradigm gets its synthesizers from Arkadiy Berg, stacked in layers under... Read More
The Marimba Sound and Where It Went: Zelipercussion Carries It Into Naja
The Same Channel That Hosts Bach on Marimba Now Carries a Seven-Minute Electronic Single The lead line on Naja is a marimba, the wooden mallet... Read More
The Dark Electro Sound of Mr. StarZ and Where It Went After Electric Found
A Two-Track 2021 EP Where Dark Wave Mood Meets the Club Floor Two tracks, nine minutes and 20 seconds, one name stitched from both titles:... Read More
Shimmering Synths Over a Sleeping House, and How to Hear Them in Junifer’s Thoughts for the Night
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A Chico Folktronica Artist Turns Sleeping Children and Kitchen Whispers Into Alt-Pop Thoughts for the Night opens on a wash of ambient synths, soaked in... Read More
Why the Mid-2000s Pop Synth Keeps Coming Back on Rebel by Dana Rexx 
Why the Bedroom Pop Era Keeps Coming Back on ยังคงรอเธอ by NackSgro 
The Missing Kick on Imvula by Mphara, and How to Hear It 
Metallic Fuzz by Disco Dreams: The Acid Bass Sound and Where It Went