Posts tagged "retro"

Let’s light up your Friday with a little bit of retro-disco from Vancouver-based producer Sleepy Tom. Earlier this week the producer released his first single in three years: ‘Call My Name’ via MNRK, featuring Dawn Pemberton and the Vancouver Youth Choir. To friends and family, the artist is known as

Oh, electroclash. That glorious moment between the late 90’s and early 2000’s when the sound of the European underground was defined by a seedy sort of glamour, simultaneously grimey and glittery in the name of vanity, hedonism, and deliciously louche excess. Pulling both visual and sonic aesthetics from the New

Sometime in the mid-2010’s, Boy Harsher was the coolest thing. Simultaneously straddling the growing trend of mid-fi darkwave and the post-punk synthpop of Crystal Castles and The Knife, Boy Harsher’s formula couldn’t have been more perfect for the time. 2014’s Lesser Man EP was a louche, gothic aural feast that

Image by Jon Simo and Brad A Kinnan From veterans of the scene to a new guard of artists shifting the genre into the future, these are the essential synthwave artists you should be listening to right now. In no particular order, here’s who we have on repeat:  At 1980

Image by Bethany Vargas Six years ago, Los Angeles producer TOKiMONSTA was diagnosed with a strange and rare brain disease which caused her to temporarily lose her hearing and her ability to perceive music. Two years and two brain surgeries later she mostly re-learnt the process of music making, an

Holy Wave | Interloper (single) | The Reverberation Appreciation Society / Levitation Single Release Date: 1 May, 2020 Album Release Date: 3 July, 2020 With the ebb and flow of Holy Wave’s ethereal, dreamlike tide we find ourselves soaked in walls of sound, the fluidity of which lapping lovingly at

By Jenna Dreisenstock Synthwave is a genre quite like no other. The honeyed nostalgia, woven intricately within a shimmering city-lights soundscape and neon aesthetic is a masterful art exhibition of unique ways to wield a synth. With artists showcasing endless possibilities of what it means to create electronic music; the

Interview by Maya-Rose Torrão Swedish synthwave master Robert Parker has been making music for over 20 years, fusing electronic genres such as synthpop, chiptune and disco together to create his own retro synth-saturated sound. Robert Parker trained classically in piano when he was growing up but then began to experiment with

Written by Maya-Rose Torrão British music composer Manzur Iqbal is the brains behind one of the biggest names in the retrowave world, making music inspired by the 80’s, dreams, nostalgia, sci-fi adventure, fantasy and mysticism: Futurecop!. The music project started in 2006 when Iqbal wanted to get in touch with

Interview by Maya-Rose Torrão Timecop1983’s unique synthwave sound washes over the listener like an 80’s dream; steeped in romantic nostalgia and vintage sounds, this musician has taken the genre and made it completely his own. Timecop1983 has been making music since as young as 12 years old, without any background

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