Synthwave

Fleurs-Start Again (Droid Bishop Remix)

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The empathy test in Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner is based on the premise that machines, no matter how advanced, lack compassion. But for childhood friends, Isaac Howlett (vocals) and Adam Relf (production), Empathy Test is all about wearing their hearts on their digital sleeves. With soaring synthetic chords, precision beats, and jubilant 80s melodies — all coated in soft, irresistible melancholy — the London-based duo takes inspiration as much from modern acts like CHVRCHES and Purity Ring, as it does from Vangelis and Depeche Mode. But, instead of sounding like a mere update of 80s’ electro, Empathy Test produce a mesmerizing and immersive identity which sets them apart from pretty much everything else currently on the scene. Shadows envelop hymns, a note sustains too long, a lyric confesses too much: It’s the heart of darkness, not compassion, that beats slow and steady.

While the lingering nighttime aesthetic that Relf conjures up provides the initial hook, Howlett’s vocal mastery pushes the stakes ever higher, providing the urgency and romanticism to Relf’s crystalline production. Little wonder that the duo has amassed a sizable and passionate online following: With an insistence on glorious hooks and instantly memorable vocal lines, Empathy Test are refreshingly unafraid to be pop music. Since self-releasing their debut EP “Losing Touch” in February, Empathy Test have picked up thousands of fans via sheer word-of-mouth and late-night tweets, and collaborated with Richard Swarbrick on numerous viral animation videos for ESPN and Liverpool FC. Empathy Test signed to Brooklyn’s Stars & Letters Records in the spring of 2014, with their follow-up EP “Throwing Stones” releasing December 9th, 2014.

© 2014 Stars & Letters Records
℗ 2014 Empathy Test

Losing Touch

Throwing Stones EP

Empathy Test - Throwing Stones

Falling in love - Niky Nine with Tristan Casara & Nicolas Monier FEB 2016 release

Empathy Test - Throwing Stones - Lost Years Remix

"Drive 80’s: Synthwave Escape" is a neon-soaked journey through retro-futuristic cityscapes, inspired by the golden age of 80’s electronic music. Created by Polish producer AURΔ (Krystian Gacek), this album blends lush analog synths, pulsating basslines, dreamy pads, and shimmering arpeggios into a cinematic soundtrack for night drives, glowing skylines, and endless summer nights. Each track tells a story — from high-energy outrun anthems to atmospheric soundscapes — capturing the spirit of synthwave, retrowave, and outrun culture. Perfect for fans of The Midnight, Kavinsky, FM-84, and anyone chasing nostalgia on an open highway. This is more than music — it’s motion, memory, and the magic of neon dreams.

Midnight Shutdown

NOW STREAMING EVERYWHERE! Wheat Weather - All In Your Mind

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Last Time

Roy lies amid the wreckage of his bike as a police droid closes in. He is sentenced without trial and found guilty of violating curfew, reckless endangerment, destruction of municipal property and high treason! Surely he's been set up. The punishment is 15 years hard labour on the Kepler mining colony, light years away. A death sentence. No one survives the hellish conditions of the off world mining colony. 

Roy is grievously injured, almost dead. He passes in and out of consciousness. A medic droid rebuilds him from the ground up to withstand the heightened gravity and hard labour of the mining colony.

ACT 1

Sentenced To Space

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Also check out the song @ youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73B_ra0R7Z4&t=6s

Facing The Ultimate Challenge

The feeling of revenge.
Music video@ https://youtu.be/8KcYStamLwU

TurboVCR - Darkness

The Javelin That Pierces The Sky

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Sunset Radio

Photon

Presenting our new single 'Space Bound' ft. Colin Lee.

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Enjoy!

Space Bound

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Space Bound (ft. Colin Lee)

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Lost Years - Park Avenue 1989

Lost Years - Amplifier

Exclusive track for "Need For Synth" Compilation!
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Need For Synth

Sunrise Road

MicroMatscenes - Sunrise Road [Need For Synth compilation out now link at Buy link]

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Fleurs-Start Again (Droid Bishop Remix)

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