Is anyone here into synthetiser music?

qube · Mar 1, 2003

Baseley09:
I listen to a ton of music with synthesizers in, but its mainly late 70's - 80's electro - rock, the likes of Ultravox, Gary Numan, Depeche Mode.......

and more modernly "The Faint"(sp?) look like a nice electro group that could be worth a look.

hey I'm into synth-pop and industrial almost exclusively! Just to let you know The Faint are from Omaha, NE. and have been around for quite a few years. My younger sister has known them since she was like 12 or something.

16-bit · May 16, 2006

I find the new Morgan Geist single "Most of All" to be the best synthpop release in several years. Yeah, it even surpasses Goldfrapp.

Also, the new Pet Shop Boys album comes out next week. Looking forward to it.

Darren870 · May 16, 2006

Wow a thread bump from 2003....

but +1 for the pet shop boys cd coming out.

RAINBOW PONY · May 16, 2006

Whoa.

Buro Destruct · May 16, 2006

16-bit said:
I find the new Morgan Geist single "Most of All" to be the best synthpop release in several years. Yeah, it even surpasses Goldfrapp.

Also, the new Pet Shop Boys album comes out next week. Looking forward to it.

I gave up on PSB after Release, but I'll probably give this a listen since its been so long.

rarehero · May 16, 2006

rentals are getting back together.
good stuff.
also check out the epoxies, kinda new wave punk.

Lagduf · May 16, 2006

at really old thread bumpage.

EVIL NICK · May 18, 2006

Wow, one of my old threads...

twalden · May 18, 2006

16-bit said:
Also, the new Pet Shop Boys album comes out next week. Looking forward to it.

Have you heard the I'm With Stupid single from it? It's easily the worst PSB single I've heard in years. As a long time PSB fan, I'm hoping the full album will be a lot better.

GregN · May 20, 2006

I'm into some of the new wave stuff, euro techno, industrial. Synth music is making a comeback with newer bands like the Killers. Doesn't even Motion City Soundtrack use a Moog? The local progressive/modern rock station 105 plays lots of bands with synths.

Front Line Assembly has a new one coming out next month.

16-bit · Aug 11, 2009

I've been really impressed with the amount and quality of the synth music that has come out in the past two years--especially all of the 80s nostalgia stuff from France (valerie collective, lifelike), and artists like Fear of Tigers and Keenhouse

Check'em out:

www.valeriecollective.com
http://www.myspace.com/keenhouse
http://www.myspace.com/fearoftigers

The newest Depeche and PSB are so underwhelming, I think the torch has been passed on...

Darren870 · Aug 11, 2009

Im going to say the same thing I said in 2006...

LustForLard said:
Wow a thread bump from 2003....

but +1 for the pet shop boys cd coming out.

OMFG · Aug 11, 2009

I guess we'll see this topic again in 3 years.

SPINMASTER X · Aug 11, 2009

why is this topic here? It got started the year I joined the Air Force and i've been out now for 3 months.

Darren870 · Aug 11, 2009

OMF2097 said:
I guess we'll see this topic again in 3 years.

Its funny because 16-Bit bumped it both times.

Hopefully he is around to bump it in 2012.

qube · Aug 11, 2009

Bow down

16-bit · Aug 11, 2009

SPINMASTER X said:
why is this topic here?

Because it is unrelated to neo geo.

Synth music has been around for decades. I don't get how a general, genre-spanning topic such as this would be considered "oh that is so 2003"

Carlson

16-bit · Aug 11, 2009

LustForLard said:
Im going to say the same thing I said in 2006...

Did you like "Yes"? I thought Etc. was pretty good for about 20 listens or so, but hardly a classic like their late 80s product.

OMFG · Aug 12, 2009

Some recommended listening:

Cryonica Tanz Vol 5.
Technoir: Deliberately Fragile.
Deviant UK: Defiance (Numan clone).
Any of the Electrisch compilations.

jamie666 · Aug 12, 2009

Post up some more links guys to some of the best stuff.....

The Chief · Aug 12, 2009

Thanks for the bump Carlson, there's a ton of great stuff in this thread.

GregN · Aug 12, 2009

Still listening to it..
Has anybody heard of Glitch music? It takes sounds like HDD crashing, static, and computers breaking down and integrates it into music.

Chip music is getting to be more common - Beck used it in his new album...

16-bit · Aug 12, 2009

GregN. said:
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Chip music is getting to be more common - Beck used it in his new album...

Chiptunes are great. Philly has a really strong chiptune scene and there are concerts every month at 8Static

www.8static.com

Cheap Dinosaurs is my favorite chip act (chiptune+synth+live guitar and live drums)
Their song "Stroll" is one of my favorite songs of all-time

http://www.myspace.com/cheapdinosaurs

aria · Aug 12, 2009

I like the early 70s synthesizer you find in songs like Living for the City, which got me into Stevie Wonder's great music from that period.

Plisken · Aug 13, 2009

any of John Carpenters 70's/80's themes. Assault on Precinct 13, The Thing, They Live, Halloween, Starman, Escape from New York.

The 65days of static version of Assault on Precinct 13 (called Assault on Precinct 65) is really good too.

Also, i would like this opportunity to say i definetely do not listen to children of bodom and van halen anymore. I was 18 then now i'm 24. For shame. :mr_t:

(tho to be fair, dreams from van halen is a synth masterpiece)

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