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R.R. Hearse :: Call Of Oedipus (1981 – 2013) (June)

Reviews 06/10/2016 by Robbie Geoghegan

R.R. Hearse fits into no category previously explored. Grainy, it’s a record that some will find difficult to grapple with. Nevertheless it’s a bold move […]

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Synth Wave Revival? “Didn’t know there was one”—A tale of four lads and three decades

Features 05/21/2016 by Robbie Geoghegan

Brendan Coyle. Mike Richardson. Neale Potts. Steven Lippert. A music revolution unfolding in their midst. “Being part of the electronic music scene in the UK […]

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Visonia / Synth Alien :: Opal’s Sunflowers / Memories (Last Known Trajectory)

Reviews 03/15/2016 by Robbie Geoghegan

The disco currents of past releases have been sidelined, a more mature and developed sound taking its place. In a strange coincidence, the latest two […]

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Pattern Behavior :: Electric Minds (Component)

Reviews 02/11/2016 by Philippe Blache

The musical result is not so far from 80s / 90s dark electronic projects like Kirlian Camera, Ordo Rosario Equilibrium, Frozen Autumn or even Killing […]

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Lena Muir / Profil Horizontal :: Untitled (Eye for an Eye)

Reviews 01/31/2016 by Robbie Geoghegan

Tough, tear streaked proto-electronics with a wave edge. Bitter, raw and now, unearthed. Forgotten echoes by a disenfranchised for a new disenfranchised. The peripherals can […]

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V/A :: The Underground Wave 7″s (Walhalla)

Reviews 11/25/2015 by Robbie Geoghegan

A varied beast. Tracks slide from style to style with little fixity of genre, but that’s what those early innovators were all about. There was […]

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Thirteen, unlucky for some; not for Kernkrach.

Reviews 11/08/2015 by Robbie Geoghegan

I find it hard to come at Kernkrach from a critical angle. For thirteen years they have been pioneering synthesizer music. The German label has […]

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The Silicon Scientist :: Outside the Night (Anna Logue)

Reviews 11/07/2015 by James Knapman

Anna Logue released one of the year’s best synth-pop albums in 2014 with Twins Natalia’s spellbinding The Destiny Room and with the late 2015 release […]

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Cygnus :: Radical User Interfaces EP (Central Processing Unit)

Reviews 11/01/2015 by Chang Terhune

Cygnus explores the tropes and memes of early techno and electro: snappy snares, pulsing, wobbling bass and shimmering arpeggios weaved around a futuristic sound and […]

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