synth-pop Archives

Concept In Practice: Hysteric’s ‘Sunscreen Tears’ Mix

November 28, 2018

He's known as the brains behind Mothball Record, AKA the "Italo connection down under," but Hysteric's tastes extend far beyond the eccentric, synth-fuelled disco sounds of 1970s and '80s Italy. As electronic o...

“A moment in time”: Looking back at Solid Space’s ‘Space Museum’

Aine Devaney

July 12, 2018

In 1983, a 19 year old North Londoner Dan Goldstein started a job as sub-editing temp at the Cambridge-based music magazine Electronics and Music Makers. In a retrospective piece recalling his time at the magaz...

Stroom reveal compilation focused on Latvian multi-instrumentalist Ingus Baušķenieks

If-Only

June 12, 2018

Ziggy Devriendt, AKA Nosedrip, has long mined the fringes of electronic music for curiosities new and old. Keeping that tradition alive, the Belgian has assembled a 10-track compilation of material recorded by ...

Premiere: Shelter – Chipo Sleep

Jess Dymond

May 24, 2018

Shelter has released an intriguing stream of music over the last couple of years, and his new EP titled Chipo Sounds, to be released on Camisole Records, lives up to the mark. The Parisian's music is sun kissed...

A Colder Consciousness looks to Yugo synth-pop band Bastion for its first reissue

If-Only

February 26, 2018

Inaugurating a label of the same name, A Colder Consciousness host Flora Pitrolo has announced the reissue of Bastion's sought-after eponymous release. A grail of sorts for collectors of obscure Yugoslav synth-...

Premiere: Sonoko – L’oiseau Bleu

Suthan Logan

December 6, 2017

It was in 2016 that STROOM brought us a compilation aptly titled An Introduction Into The Insane World Of Alain Neffe. A journey through the obscure and often strange, quirky sounds produced by label owner of t...

An End Isn’t Necessarily a Bad Thing: On the threshold with The Golden Filter

Matt Blair

November 8, 2017

Much like the March of Progress, you can trace the evolution of The Golden Filter's sound through their various Optimo releases, starting with 2015's Optimo Music debut, PSII03. Penelope Trappes and Stephen Hin...

If-Only Podcast #16: Field Work

If-Only

July 18, 2017

The Field Work Tumblr feed is a miscellany of outlandish visuals, most recently taking a satirical turn, posting GIFs of Donald Trump and Bill Gates and videos of London stock brokers and an aggressively confid...

Bahnsteig 23 pick 10 tracks to make you tanz, fall over and repeat

If-Only

April 21, 2016

Bahnsteig 23 is a clandestine operation, devoted to excavating and obscure gems from the depths and recontextualising them for modern ears. Helmed by an equally mysterious figure in Ziggy Sternenstaub, the Germ...

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