Synthetix Weekend Update

It's been what I'd call a Perfect Week in the 80s inspired synth music scene. Lots of great releases, exciting teasers and more new artists appearing. We had some incredible new music this past week and this Weekend Update is brimming over with even more!

New music from Spaceship Star has just surfaced with the excellent title of Space Is Died. This moody piece feels a bit 70s prog inspired and a luna dirge rife with powerful emotions. It's been a while since we've heard from this act and I'm loving these newly developed sounds.




One of the new bands I've had the pleasure of experiencing this week comes in the form of  Some Desperate Glory and their totally rockin song The Devil's In The Details. These guys are totally killing the classic early to mid 80s UK synthpop sound with totally perfect sounds and melodies. The vocals are also a magnificent example capturing the spirit of the true 80s sounds. I'm really looking forward to hearing more from this thrilling band.




Final DJ's new release entitled Synthopia exploded this week and is another work of French Touch flavoured 80s synth love. This duo always manage to get the balance of classic and modern sounds just right, and always with massive emotion throught the melodies. This track is part of the So French Records Summer Compilation, so please support them by following the links in the player.




Serial electro rocker, Flash Arnold shared a scintillating new track with us this week entitled The Streets Of Metropolis. The trademark Flash Arnold synth sounds are complimented beautifully with orchestral stabs and massive percussion. Another masterwork from one of the scene's brightest starts.




Another impressive new act made themselves aware to me this week and their brand of killer 80s synth pop is something very enthralling. Public Different's track Emergency from their Vulgar Refund Of The Proverbial Shock is a driving synth scape filled with delicate nuances and emotive melodies. I hope that this brand of 80s inspired music is something they stick with in the future as they do it very well indeed.




One of my new favourites in the scene is SellorekT/LA Dreams, who from this point on this site will be referred to as LA Dreams . This artist is blowing my mind with every new track he releases, the fact that theres numerous of these masterpieces released every week is even more mind blowing. My favourite of his releases this week is '84 Crush. Magnificently arranged and detailled throughout this is another surefire 80s heartstealer. With all these tracks out I'm really hoping an album from LA Dreams isn't far off.




80s dreamboat synthpop master Patrick Baker got thousands of teenage hearts swooning this week with a teaser release of his next number 1 hit Whatever It Takes. This is pure 80s pop gold, in the inimitiable Patrick Baker style. It's marvellous to hear the sax making a return appearance in this new song too. Super cool and rockin hard, brilliance is here.




I'd like to finish of this week's Weekend Update with a killer new video from Classique. This video document's Classique visiting Flashworx in Geneva and is set the FLashworx remix of Futurecop!'s Karate Kids. These video producers will be doing lots more work in the 80s inspired synth scene in the future and I look forward to sharing more Classique experiences with you in the future on Synthetix.




That does us for a massively rockin week I hope I get to see you on here over the next 7 days on the internet's premiere 80s inspired music site.

Synthetix Weekend Update

A great week of releases and previews has resulted in an action packed Weekend Update. Behold the week's bounty!

Synth house lovers should grt very excited by Oxford's latest. An almost Falke/Braxe styled atmosphere with synth driven melody that soars through the clouds and bursts into the cosmos. Can't get enough of Oxford's music, and in each new release he goes from strength to strength.




We keep on traversing the void of space with a more ambient and ethereal piece from Spaceship Star. The production on this piece is something special indeed, I love the "live" drum sounds, they pose as a perfect contrast to the swirling synth heavy melodies.




Nickee B's prolific production of 80s inspired music just keeps on rockin with his latest work In The Heat Of The Night. Even sexier sounds than usual add sensual layer of pure Synth Erotica to the composition. If you could see this music it would be a silhouette through horizontal blinds.




Fast becoming a scene favourite is Flash Arnold. His work continues to excite and enlighten with a pure 80s feel that is unrelenting and thoroughly authentic. Back Then is one of his most developed pieces yet with massive hooks and perfectly developed melodies. An instant Flash Arnold classic.




Jowie Schulner released a preview tracka few weeks ago that blew me away, and he's done it again this week with another deeply emotive experience titled Happy Outcome. It's instant love as the melody goes straight to the heart, I can but imagine a full lenght version of this; let's hope we get to hear it soon!




Something I'm getting notorious for is my black and white views on vocals in 80s inspired synth music. I've heard lots of songs spoiled by a vocal track that detracts from the music rather than adding anything positive. By the same token I'm a firm believer that using a vocalist that can sing in a genuine 80s style adds massively to an instrumental, the perfect demonstration of this working 1000% right is evidenced in the song It's Ok by Bastian's Happy Flight. This song is so perfectly sung by a vocalist who 'gets' what an 80s vocalist should sound like absolutely dead on. Much like with Kristine's music, I can close my eyes and it's 1985 again. Utter perfection!




On a final note for this week's Weekend Update longterm synth producer Maethelvin has joined soundcloud and posted much of his music, I'm hoping this means there is new music from Maethelvin in the offing as all his work is genre defining and superbly crafted. Be sure to give him lots of love on his soundcloud
here.