Metallic Fuzz by Disco Dreams: The Acid Bass Sound and Where It Went
A Cleveland Producer’s Dark-Wave Single Pairs an Acid-House Bassline with Long Digital Strings Metallic Fuzz by Disco Dreams is dark wave built for the dancefloor.... Read More
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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
Why the Chillwave Era Keeps Coming Back on Dreams of Yesterday by Formoe
Formoe, Producer Alf Emil Eik and Singer June Baltzersen Turn Memory Into Slow Synth-Pop Dreams of Yesterday takes its production from the chillwave playbook: atmospheric... 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 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
Dobi Dobi: Alterkix Puts a Robot Voice on Analog Synths, and How to Hear It
A Belgian Bass Player Turned Analog Synth Artist Packs a Robotic Hook Into 108 Seconds A Korg Monologue started all of this. Sabine Vermeylen, a... 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
The Bitwig Studio Sound and Where It Went on Love 2 Love You by Pearl Project
A Dutch Producer’s Bitwig Home Studio and a Piano Bridge Shape a Slow-Building Alt-Pop Single According to the project’s own website, the Pearl Project studio... Read More
Why Boulevard of Broken Dreams Keeps Coming Back, and How Got Dibs Rebuilt It on Piano 
Elsa Eva Writes the Eerie Chorus in Fragments, and How to Hear It 
The Mild West: Space Cowboy Newt’s Tiny Synth Sound and Where It Went 
Why Big Room Keeps Coming Back on Twilight by JOYFIRE and Christine Elise