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Eddie Bengtsson has a lot of music in him. With the last Page album, Hemma, still gaining momentum, he’s getting ready to record new tracks for his Sista mannen på…
Eddie Bengtsson has a lot of music in him. With the last Page album, Hemma, still gaining momentum, he’s getting ready to record new tracks for his Sista mannen på…
German-based label, Vinyl on Demand, has earned a reputation for lovingly reproducing rare sounds from the heroes of industrial and electronic music. VOD presses lost classics in heavy-duty vinyl, collected…
Rational Youth front man, Tracy Howe, recently joined Joe Reilly at Ottawa radio station, CKCU, to talk about the band’s plans and revisit some of their history. LISTEN HERE
This song was our top pick for 2013, impressed as we were by its synthetic heritage and the emotions pulled from circuitry by veteran synthers Page. The band has now…
With Depeche Mode touring a new album, thirty-two years after they played this show, there is a good chance that they will hang on as long as The Rolling Stones.…
Vanguard are one of Sweden’s most talented synth acts. Their new album, Retribution, is scheduled for February 2014, and it will include this track. The single version features remixes from,…
Canadian synthpop duo, The Beautiful Spies, produce 80s-influenced music with classic style. Formed by Dave Rout (Datafreq, Rational Youth) and Dina Naskos (Colecovision), they already have one album notched on…
Swedish synth legend, Eddie Bengtsson, remixed this track as part of his project, This Fish Needs a Bike, back in 2004. I Satellite is Sault Ste. Marie native, Rod MacQuarrie,…
Christmas, disappointment, Close Encounters, space, rockets, technical drawings – check, check, check, check, check, check. Synthesizers, nose piercing, headband – check, check, check. This one is ready.
With Robert Görl’s immaculate drumming and a looped Korg bassline chugging along under xylophone- and brass-phrases, as Gabi Delgado practically chants the lyrics, this is classic DAF. Organic, rather than…