synth-pop Archives

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

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...

Premiere: Strange Culture – Transfer Lounge

Premiere: Frankie Castle & DJ Ford Foster – Bounce That

Premiere: Cabaret Du Ciel – Skies in the Mirror

Premiere: Kris Baha – Fuels A Liar

Premiere: Trenton Chase – Untitled 1

Premiere: Andy Rantzen & D. Sudmalis – Barren Ground

Premiere: Sleep Forever – Triad

Fortnightly Freebies #24

Sim Hutchins reminisces on the ’90s nostalgia that inspired rave requiem, ‘Clubeighteen2thirty‘

Hybridisation of Culture: Talking polyrhythms and physical modelling with Don’t DJ

Fortnightly Freebies #56

Moire Shimmers and Loop-Finding Jazz Records: Jan Jelinek in conversation

Acid House Corner #15

Fortnightly Freebies #55

There's a Tangerine Dream documentary in the making

Commune to host screening of Suzanne Ciani documentary in London

An in-depth look into the Synth Sounds of John Carpenter

Tom Ellard of Severed Heads to release “video game music album”

Øyvind Morken’s imagined soundtrack transports you to the site of an alien invasion

Browse through a collection of wonderfully weird Italo sleeve art

Listen to a 40-minute mix of ambient video game soundtracks

Is a 'Lifestyles of the Laptop Café' repress finally on the way?

Mannequin Records to reissue music from Italian avant-garde producer, Doris Norton

Haruomi Hosono to make UK debut at the Barbican

Allergy Season and Discwoman link up to release charity compilation, Physically Sick 2

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

Lena Willikens next up for Dekmantel Selectors compilation series

Tangerine Dream and Midori Takada to join Krankbrother for London shows

If-Only Podcast #8: Crucial & Fresh

If-Only Podcast #26: E.L.M.S

If-Only Podcast #24: Front Left Life

If-Only Podcast #23: Fred und Luna

Concept in Practice: Iona’s ‘Apocalmix’

If-Only Podcast #22: Randstad

If-Only Podcast #21: IVVVO

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

Premiere: Sonoko – L’oiseau Bleu

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

If-Only Podcast #16: Field Work

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

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