synthwave Archives

Retro Motors Feature – The Wish List

Mike Belshaw / 31st January 2019

Happy belated New Year synth fans, and welcome to the year of the Blade Runner. Much like poor ol’ Roy […]

TIMECOP1983 – Night Drive Night Drive contains the dynamic characteristics of ocean waves, dark melodics, cinematic textures, riving analogue bass

Delos – Trace Decay Attack, Decay, Sustain, Release. The floor melting bass sounds, full of shredding growls has the texture

Andrew Zistler / 17th January 2019

Adult Swim, long celebrated for their famous taste in music from bumps to show soundtracks, has released a smashing new

Stellar Dreams – Dimensions Stuttering, lurching, arped basslines, synthetic voices pitched up and down before the reverbed voice scatters across

Wolf and Raven – On The Run You can feel the sway of the waves beneath you. Gliding, rising, dropping

Joey Edsall / 16th December 2018

With the end of the year upon us, check out NewRetroWave’s picks for the Top 10 Synthwave / Retrowave EPs

Top 10 Newcomers of 2018 -2018 was a fantastic year for synthwave with new and established artists releasing vibrant

Top Ten Collaborations of 2018 Collaborations. When two (or more) artists come together to mash together beautiful sound waves.

Top Ten Songs of 2018 What a year. It’s never an easy task to select the best songs to be

Joey Edsall / 30th November 2018

Scandroid has always had a flair for the dramatic. The Darkness and the Light is, in itself, an operatic

Mike Belshaw / 10th November 2018

If, like me, your childhood was in the 80s, it would be almost impossible to ignore how much of an