Delos - Trace Decay Attack, Decay, Sustain, Release. The floor melting bass sounds, full of shredding growls has the texture of a razor, with an epic lead line blistering through the stratosphere, rising like an expanding horizon. Trace Decay is full of mind exploding arps, twisted FX, outrageous
Stellar Dreams - Dimensions Stuttering, lurching, arped basslines, synthetic voices pitched up and down before the reverbed voice scatters across the rhythmic drums and bass. A voice that chimes of haunting beauty amongst the throbbing synths. Neon lights oscillate while a giant inverse pyramid hangs above
Wolf and Raven - On The Run You can feel the sway of the waves beneath you. Gliding, rising, dropping to synth melody lines so vast and expansive they sound like binary stars, both repelling and igniting each other. Rushing arps, twinkling at interstellar-travel-speed, the synth-waves trapping
Top 10 Newcomers of 2018 -2018 was a fantastic year for synthwave with new and established artists releasing vibrant and important works. -Here are 10 of the best newcomers to the Retrowave/synthwave scene and the releases that need to be heard: 10. Rolly Rocket https://rollyrocket.bandcamp.com/releases 9. Lost Outrider https://lostoutrider.bandcamp.com/ 8. Jessie Frye https://jessiefryemusic.bandcamp.com/ 7
Top Ten Collaborations of 2018 Collaborations. When two (or more) artists come together to mash together beautiful sound waves. Music is truly at its most original when creative forces work towards a common goal, pushing one another further, inspiring, coercing, igniting their musical imaginations. Here are 10 of
Top Ten Songs of 2018 What a year. It's never an easy task to select the best songs to be featured on New Retro Wave channel within a year, especially given the incredible artistry and diverse range of sounds/styles that exist within the Retro Wave genre. It has once
GUNSHIP - Dark All Day - Album Review Taking stylistic and audio cues from Carpenter's brooding shadows, Cameron’s neo-noir chrome, Spielberg's uplifting interstellar lights, Dark All Day perfectly riffs on all the 80’s sci-fi you adored from your yester-years-youth whilst exploring entirely ‘New Retro’ themes. The very
THE MIDNIGHT – The Nocturnal In preparation for The Midnight's new album we take a look at their previous masterpiece 'Nocturnal'… A VHS musical fueled adventure through much loved 80’s tropes, blending action, romance and horror in equal measure. Nocturnal promises not only splendid nostalgia-drenched-analogue-soaked sounds, but
Maethelvin - As We Were A lazy VHS synth bent out of shape, mangled in the tape and beautiful for it. Trapped in the throbbing-to-pop sensation in your ears, adrenaline’s muscular drive through the veins. Sharp moving leads, a painless thump of synths glistening like transparent fireworks.
ALEX - Youth (feat. Rachel McAlpine) Manoeuvring its way through the strange, tense landscape like an allergic reaction to everything, the tracks accelerator pedal pressed down, a trip to a long past time. Mimicking a classic, a timeless dance groove you’re familiar with, unique sequencers work their
New Arcades - Into The Skyline The lights go out slowly, the crowd holds their breath. The musicians get ready in the dark, fingers hovering over the synthesizer, guitar feedback reverberating, the singer enters the stage, grabs the microphone, the spotlight goes pure white, blistering neon,
80s Stallone - Quantum Leap Nobody sleeps when 80’s Stallone is awake. His driving pulsating synths bathe you in their melodics, a cathode blue maelstrom of sound. The rich humming of a television with no television, through to the past then back again. Power chords of