I've recently discovered Windows 96 after a very long dry spell and it's very refreshing. I love it.
Yeah this is fantastic. Great new album from The Abyss.
Can you recommend me some more "happy"/upbeat stuff like Miami Nights 1984? Preferably with a hint of old 8bit music?
Is your 8bit request more akin to a chiptune sound or composition? Maybe Arcade High? Willrock?
Chiptune or composition? A bit of both.
Don't like the rock sound of willrock but arcade high is definitely my cup of tea, thanks!
Shane Have you watched the announcement video for Surge's upcoming album? If the average quality is close to that preview the album will be damn good.
Quality over quantity I know. Can't complain about both though.
Starfarer has a new album out, I worked on the track Discovery with him...
Damn Shane ... finally something that can rival Chase the Night. Need to listen to it with headphones though, there have been songs I'd thought was awesome listening on the phone ending up just ok with better sound.
I'm sure you will, pretty big sound and great production.
You're saying Chase the Night is your favourite song of the year?
Listened to it now with my headphones and the initial 'damn this is bloody awesome' faded a bit. It's a great song but a bit too, I don't know how to put it... it doesn't have the synth sounds I love and is a but too up tempo. And it lacks a killer chorus.
Chase the Night is my vocal song of the year so far. There is still more than a month to go and some releases still, including Nina's. I think it's hard to compare vocal songs to instrumentals though... and which instrumental song that is my favourite I have no clue of. There are a lot of great one but none that sticks out. Sometimes I'm not in the mood for someone singing and prefer to listen to instrumental songs and then there are a couple that I prefer to Chase the Night. And the other way around.
Some of the vocal tracks could certainly get a bit more notice, but ah well.
PRIZM presents their love letter to The Midnight and FM-84...
Really really enjoying this release from Signal Void...
Heavenly new track here from Ace Buchannon, featuring Anna Moore.
Article splitting the synth community atm, clickbait title as per with blogging but he does make some valid points and ends the article positive. probably could have been delivered better but he has his writing style. Synthwave Is Dead. Long Live Synthwave.
Discovery is imho the best track on the album, it's great.
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Nina's new single/EP is out on november 29. Heard it long ago as a live recording has been on Youtube since februari (I think). It's a damn great song, though only a remix is available right not. The original is better.
Some of the vocal tracks could certainly get a bit more notice, but ah well.
PRIZM presents their love letter to The Midnight and FM-84...
Not many people seem to know about ZETA, so I figured I'd share a song. Side project of Daniel Tompkins(TesseracT) for any progmetal fans. His vocals fit so perfectly for the 80's synth style. The whole album is amazing and I been listening to it nonstop the last week.
Good article. Probably the reason I haven't been listening to much lately. So many artists out there now.Article splitting the synth community atm, clickbait title as per with blogging but he does make some valid points and ends the article positive. probably could have been delivered better but he has his writing style. Synthwave Is Dead. Long Live Synthwave.
Good article. Probably the reason I haven't been listening to much lately. So many artists out there now.
I don't think he would disagree with you that much:The article is a bunch of nonsense in my opinion. The article even shares his other articles about complaining of "the good ol days". I can understand saying "so many artists artists out there now", but.. that's every genre of music. It's how things become genres. No genre of music is safe from a lot of artists putting out a lot of garbage. I'd consider myself a metalhead, but there's a lot of shit metal out there too.
Because there are a lot of people producing music doesn't mean there's any less good music out there. Just means there's probably going to be a lot more garbage to filter through. Because there are some 5/10/15/how ever many releases on a certain day doesn't take away the fact that any number of them could be great. (Also bombarded with singles and EPs, with LPs feeling like a rarity)
I'll go on bandcamp almost daily and just spend a few minutes browsing new releases, see if anything clicks and move on. Sure I miss great stuff since I don't check out everything, but I find plenty of shit and plenty of great releases too.
BUT, I have my concerns when I see specific artists pump out quantity over quality.