Once every few years an album comes along that reminds me of why I started writing about music the first place. “Wavefinder” – the astounding collaboration between Sferro and Makeup and Vanity Set (MAVS), is definitely one such album. On the face of it, you wouldn’t
![Sferro Makeup and Vanity Set Wavefinder Unmasked - UNMASKED! Makeup and Vanity Set & Sferro Reveal Their Latest Electrifying LP: “Wavefinder” [Interview]](https://newretrowave.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Sferro-Makeup-and-Vanity-Set-Wavefinder-Unmasked.jpg "UNMASKED! Makeup and Vanity Set & Sferro Reveal Their Latest Electrifying LP: “Wavefinder” [Interview]")
Makeup and Vanity Set and Sferro’s latest album “Wavefinder” is simply astounding. It drops today at 12pm ET / 9am PT over on Stratford Court Records. We’ll have a full review out later – but for the moment you’re just going to have to trust
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I expected nothing, and yet I'm still disappointed. Wait, no - that's not totally genuine. I expected quite a bit. Cowboy Bebop has long been considered one of the best anime of all time, and many of Netflix's recent originals have been outstanding. You would think
It's been almost 20 years (tempus fugit, huh?) since the last Matrix film was released, and today we've gotten our first look at the new trailer for the upcoming "The Matrix Resurrections," set to debut December 22nd!
EDIT: Thanks to a lot of work from the community, most of the stolen tracks have been removed. Hopefully, the Shazam will be taken down soon too. Great job everyone! Overnight, a grand drama has developed in the synth scene. The darksynth / electro producer CYBERTHING!
Sferro is back in dramatic fashion with the release of "Emotion Engine!" Out now on Business Casual, "Emotion Engine" is a delightful blend of synthwave, future funk, nu disco, and vaporwave that plucks you from your chair and deposits you in early cyberspace. This exquisite blend of
Hailing from Caracas, Venezuela, the chillsynth / synthwave producer Voyager has just dropped the out-of-this-world "Orbital" EP for the first time on cassette! Released via Seattles' Puget Sound Collective, "Orbital" is an astounding mix of chillsynth and lo-fi electronica with just a hint of vaporwave thrown