Brace yourselves, retroheads, it’s that time of the month again. In yet another unwelcome and unexpected turn of events, February of 2021 will sadly have gone by bearing the mark of a grand musical chapter laid to rest. Electronic music’s masked superheroes will have retired
One week ago, news of Daft Punk’s separation spread at lightspeed across the Internet, marking the end of a grand chapter in electronic music. Whereas the current music scene sees most artists withering into irrelevance beyond a three-year wait between releases, the sudden end of
Bittersweet news has hit the Internet music community these past few weeks. On February 8th London-based Dreampunk epicentre Dream Catalogue announced the end of their activities as a label on February 23rd. As a final sendoff to mark the end of a genre-defining 7-year run, the
Less than two years since Escape From Neon City, Belarusian retrowave artist Fury Weekend is back in business with a fresh full-length album up on the digital streaming shelves. This time around, the Minsk-based producer has teamed up with no less than eight guest collaborators
Vaporwave/Future Funk producer Karate King (spelt in Japanese Kanji as 空手王) has finally completed his IKARI mixtape trilogy. First unveiled to the world in December of 2017, the IKARI-蒸気波LP (tr: Vaporwave LP) series are an anthology of vintage funky sample-based tracks tinted with the existential
Seasoned Retrowave musician, songwriter and creative director Laura Fares has just made her Full-length debut as a solo artist with Believer. Having shared the stage and served as a trusted songwriter for NINA, LAU’s creative imprint on the scene is only further anchored on this ten-track
Stockholm-based Retrowave producer released the video to ‘Client’, off of his latest EP The Disk Hunter. Directed by Stiven Agoubi and produced by Cosmic Films, ‘Client’ is a colour-saturated, bittersweet tale of love, loss and remembrance. [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2hnAtO8fNs[/embed] So sit tight, hit the full-screen button and take a
As a girl that has held a deadly coral snake and lived to tell the tale, the album cover of what appears to be a venomous viper truly lured me in. The monster movies of old come to mind, and the horror of a nuclear-sized
French Outrun artist Niky Nine released his latest EP Black Sharken last Friday via Lazerdiscs Records. Following up where his 2019 debut album Suncore had left off, this fresh new release marks the end of the Ozuwara narrative ark and sees the artist finetuning his production
Hungarian Retrowave producer Quixotic has been making waves in the scene with his latest music video. Produced by Mihaszna Film, Highway Violence goes all-in on the retro-worshipping and delivers an all-star homage to Eighties and Eighties-inspired films and series. The short film is jam-packed with
French Retrowave/EBM artist Sierra marks her first video release with a riveting short-film drawing influence from David Fincher and Stieg Larsson’s cold-blooded, violent crime stories. The music video for ‘All About Love’ is a suspenseful, bloody tale about the search for identity, love and bloody murder. Strap
French Retrowave artist Natsukime released her first full-length album on Monday. Titled Ikigai (生き甲斐) (Japanese for ‘Reason for Being’), the debut album features a wide scope of stylistic influences ranging from Drum n’ Bass to oriental Cyberpunk aesthetics, amounting to an unmistakably distinctive take on