Synthwave Sounds

The latest 80s-influenced synth-driven pop, updated every Friday! Get a synthwave classic on CD for free <a href="https://colortheory.com/checkouts/free-majesty-cd">here</a>.

Vocal Synthwave Retrowave

Vocal Synthwave Hits

Vocal synthwave to add some pop to your night drives with the windows down.

Night_Drives

Nothing for Me

Highway Chase

Days Of The Running Man

Trevor Something - Into Your Heart

I Wish (Original)

A neon soaked, late night, sonic getaway drive.

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Tech Noir (Carpenter Brut Remix)

Renegade

I Cannot Rain

This downtempo retro-futuristic remix transforms an unashamedly optimistic original song about my lifelong journey towards space into a subtly dark cyberpunk track. “The Great Unknown (Cassetter Remix)” combines the melodic nostalgia of synthwave with modern production chops seamlessly.

The Great Unknown (Cassetter Remix)

Listen/download ➤ https://ffm.colortheory.com/punchingshadows

Earlier this year, German film director and longtime Color Theory fan Louis Bennies asked me to produce an end credits song for his upcoming film Signals.

The film tells the story of a high school boy with autism who falls in love with a girl who sees him for who he is, despite others labeling him as “weird.” The song began to take shape after a Zoom conversation where we discussed the broader themes of love, identity, and standing up for yourself.

It wasn’t until I watched a rough cut of the film that the direction for the track truly came into focus. A pivotal gym scene, where the protagonist confides in two older mentors while hitting a punching bag, became the emotional core of the track.

PUNCHING SHADOWS
©2024 Brian Hazard (ASCAP)

Lace up my gloves
Check my stance
Alone with my shadow
Ready to dance
It’s about time
I stood up for myself
Roll with the punches
Come out of my shell

I’ll protect my face
Keep the weight on my toes
Try to find my reach
When I’m punching shadows
No it’s not your fault
That you don’t understand me
When I’m punching shadows
(gotta fight my fears)
Punching shadows
(through the sweat and tears)

Falling in love
With every strike
A heart that knew only darkness
Suddenly light
Growing into
A new identity
A man with a future
Set finally free

If they only knew
How I see the world
And my place within it
Let me find the words
I just need a minute
You know it’s not my fault
That I don’t understand you
So I’m punching shadows

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Punching Shadows

Singularity

Odyssey

Listen/download ➤ https://ffm.colortheory.com/thecurve

“The Curve” is my favorite of the four tracks I sang on for the upcoming Second Complex album. It harkens back to the classic synthie-pop sounds of the 2000s from bands like Camouflage, De/Vision, and Wolfsheim.

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The Curve

A city with no roots. People moving through shadows of past lives, chased and hunted, searching for something solid. Two worlds collide, hesitantly, in the electric hum of dislocation. A hand reaches out, asking not for answers, but for a sign: Play human.

The melodies echo, layered and pulsing, wrapped in the tension of distrust and the fragile promise of connection. "I’m the familiar face you don’t know by name. I’m the voice that echoes in your brain." A message flickers between strangers, carried by waves of synths and refrains that linger long after the sound fades.

Displacement, shared emotions, and the quiet pull of an unspoken bond. One step forward, with hesitation. One step closer, despite everything.

Play Human

Let Go

Why can't you go away

Produced and Mixed by: Magnavolt
Mastered by: Magnavolt
Artwork done by: Ariel Zucker Brull
Story created by: M.K. Magnavolt
Story Written by Razorredd


Night Force //////
Original track written / produced by Power Glove
Cover done by Magnavolt
Mixed and Mastered by Magnavolt

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Light's Not Far Away //////
Written / Produced by Magnavolt
Mixed / Mastered by Magnavolt
Vocals written and performed by Megan McDuffee
Vocals mixed by Tonebox

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Released by Kenta Records.
©2024 Kenta Records· All Rights Reserved.

Light's Not Far Away

Listen/download ➤ https://ffm.colortheory.com/tigers

This song is about the need to experience things for yourself instead of relying on hearsay and assumptions. And also, tigers.

I’ve been told this one is “classic Color Theory,” whatever that means.

WHERE TIGERS ARE SAID TO ROAM
©2024 Brian Hazard (ASCAP)

They say that tigers roam free
In these lands
You wonder how that could be
When you’ve never seen one
Legends of mist-covered hills
Perilous thrills

The mighty roar
The savage gore
Rumors and idle folklore
Map out a route
Remove all doubt
Only one way to know for sure
Set out for the great unknown
Where tigers are said to roam

Don’t be content to rely
On hearsay
To confirm what you deny
Explore every region
Seek out the cat in its den
Time and again

It may be dangerous
Who knows what you might find
Embrace the wilderness
The courage to face
The nature of your own mind

You must do this on your own
Set out for the great unknown
Where tigers are said to roam

COLOR THEORY
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Where Tigers Are Said to Roam

The Midnight - Gloria

We Were Young

Written by Jessie Frye and @OllieWride 
Producer, Mixer and Guitars- Matt Aslanian 
Photo by Charis Kirchheimer 
Graphic design by TLP Media Works 

©2020 NewRetroWave Records. NRW Records is under exclusive license to NewRetroWave, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

LYRICS:
I’m so tired of waiting for you to be mine 
And I know that there’s lightning 
When I look into your eyes 
I dig a little deeper into my soul- 
Find out what I want to say 
I never wanted to stop talking to you 
But you drifted far away 

All my dreams are broken in Malibu 
Thought the sun was golden in Malibu 

This love is a slow dance- 
A kiss in the rain 
And in the midnight hour 
I am calling out your name 
I dig a little deeper into my soul- 
Find out what I want to say 
I’ve been losing sleep in the summer heat 
I just need to escape 

You can play your cards right 
Be one of the good guys 
It don’t mean that you’ll come out the other side
credits

released March 20, 2020 
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Malibu Broken (feat. Ollie Wride)

The Drunken Sailor

The Drunken Sailor (feat. Eric Fish, Vito C., Alea der Bescheidene, Malte Hoyer, Chris Lennon, Gunnar Schröder, Masha Mysmane, Micha Rhein, Sandro Schmid, Georgij Alexandrowitsch Makazaria & Thomas Lindner)

Somehow I never outgrew the 80s.

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