Chill, Upbeat Summer Music for a Zero Chill, Downbeat Summer: Boytavibes and Juri Love’s “Summer Love”
When music magically appears in my inbox I get excited. This has been happening more and more often as of
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Author: Retro Danger Zone
Synthwave With Substance: Von Kaiser’s “Ghosts of Miami”
Sophomore albums are tricky. In general, bands have a lot of time to write their first album. However, once they’ve
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A Deep Dive Into Neon Arcadia
Today I’m doing things a little differently. I have done album reviews in the past but I’ve never sat down
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Journey to The Stars: Baldocaster’s “Solare”
I first discovered Baldocaster via Synthwave Twitter(TM) and the #synthfam hashtag. I think someone retweeted one of Baldocaster’s many Twitter
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How to Turn Your Colecovision into a Drum Machine
I first go bitten by the chiptune music production bug a few years ago when I found out that I
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Instant Classic: Betamaxx’s “Lost in a Dreamworld”
WARNING: This article is a long one. For that reason I will put the TL;DR version here: SPOILER This album
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Get Up and Get Down: Honey Beard’s “Whispers of Light”
Full disclosure: Last summer I got to hang out with the band that made the EP I am reviewing today.
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Darkest Wave: Terrordyne’s “Rebirth”
This review is a bit of a milestone for this site as this EP is the first advance copy that
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City Pop Revisited: Beckett’s “Tapeless”
I discovered Beckett’s album, Tapeless, in a series of tweets regarding the City Pop genre: Ask and ye shall receive.
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Using a Yamaha QY10 as a Hardware Sequencer
I’m kind of obsessed with the idea of making electronic music without a computer or a digital audio workstation (DAW).
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