Synthwave

Between two worlds

My new album “End Of The Night” is now on all major digital platforms. 

Bandcamp: https://newretrowave.bandcamp.com/album/end-of-the-night 
iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/album/id1366309082?ls=1&app=itunes
Google Play: http://bit.ly/2K3XpRR
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2Kkh6Fp

Robert Parker - End Of The Night (Feat. Doubleboy)

Music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq4cE2In6-o&

Finalist in the Synthwave Production Competition hosted by r/outrun on Reddit and the Synth Production Discord Community.

Check out the Neon Nights mix of the finalists here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoIPFbx2yUI&t=741s

Lyrics:

Winner takes all
Lawlessly abide
Well into morning
Seventh eightball
Abstinence denied
To you

Midnight
Genetic insight
Magnetic moonlight
Symmetric sleep
Starlight
Aesthetic knife fight
Electric eyesight
Symmetric sleep

Because I thought that I had crossed
Weightless, lost into a dream
We can't anticipate the cost
I'll find you again downstream

Senses in thrall
No place left to hide
Ignored the warning
Mind in free-fall
Bracing to collide
With you

Midnight
Genetic insight
Magnetic moonlight
Symmetric sleep
Starlight
Aesthetic knife fight
Electric eyesight
Symmetric sleep

Symmetric Sleep (Neon Nights Dreamwave Mix)

Forest: 5 Years

Fly Again

Lyrics:

Over and over and over again
These rosy-colored shades let me see with such imprecision
Thinking is harder than saying amen
The present looks the same as the past through my retrovision

We'd rather our reality be virtual than virtuous
Vintage vivisection makes the worst seem reversed to us
Filtered through a screen
What was blue became green
And humanity's a word pronounced dead at the scene
Some assembly required
No more preaching to the choir
This dissembling's more unsettling than may be desired
But believe me, I'm not joking
This is meant to be provoking you to action, not abstraction
Putrefaction of the mind's obscene

Doing alright
Doing alright
We're doing alright
(Over and over)

Over and over and over again
These rosy-colored shades let me see with such imprecision
Thinking is harder than saying amen
The present looks the same as the past through my retrovision

Retrovision

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You can check out ROXI DRIVE here:
https://soundcloud.com/roxidrive
https://roxidrive.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/RoxiDrive/
https://twitter.com/RoxiDrive
https://www.instagram.com/roxidrive/

Check out all the artists featured on today’s show:

COMPUTER MAGIC:
https://soundcloud.com/computer-magic
https://www.facebook.com/zdanz
https://twitter.com/zdanz
http://www.thecomputermagic.com/
https://www.instagram.com/danz_cm/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfK1lrDi8MOjCe_-h-28UVA


ANDERS ENGER JENSEN - “A Song Long Ago”
https://soundcloud.com/eox-studios
https://www.youtube.com/user/HariboOSX
https://www.facebook.com/eoxstudios
http://eox.no/
https://eoxstudios.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/eoxstudios/
https://twitter.com/eoxstudios


NTSC - “Symmetric Sleep”
https://soundcloud.com/ntscband
https://ntsc.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/ntscband/
https://www.instagram.com/ntscband/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSe7WeLz3L-8M8Uwswrw3zg


JAMIE BATHGATE - “Synthetic Regrets”
https://soundcloud.com/jamie-bathgate
https://jamiebathgate.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/jamiebathgatemusic/
https://www.youtube.com/user/jamiebathgate


CARPENTER BRUT - “Paradise Warfare”
https://soundcloud.com/carpenter_brut
http://carpenterbrut.bandcamp.com/
https://twitter.com/carpenter_brut
https://www.facebook.com/carpenter.brut


THE AFFIRMATION - “Future Tides”
https://soundcloud.com/theaffirmation
https://theaffirmation.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/theaffirmation/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl7HkWrwEKrem0X0CyhWhnQ
https://twitter.com/the_affirmation
https://www.facebook.com/theaffirmationmusic


THE PROBLEM OF TIME - “Sally Ride”
https://soundcloud.com/theproblemoftime
https://www.facebook.com/TheProblemofTime
https://www.instagram.com/theproblemoftime/
https://open.spotify.com/artist/3VZgX3PxkHqBRhpcB63ayO


COLOR THEORY - “Feral”
https://soundcloud.com/colortheory
http://music.colortheory.com/
https://www.facebook.com/colortheory
https://twitter.com/colortheory
https://www.youtube.com/user/colortheory
https://www.instagram.com/colortheory/
http://colortheory.com/


DANGER MODE - “Crime Wave”
https://soundcloud.com/danger-mode
http://dangermode.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/dangermodemusic/


CROZET - “Harbor”
https://soundcloud.com/crozet
https://crozet.bandcamp.com/
https://twitter.com/WeAreCrozet
https://www.facebook.com/wearecrozet/
https://www.instagram.com/crozetmusic/


MARVEL ’83 - “Stay With Me (Feat. Roxi Drive)”
https://soundcloud.com/marvel83
https://marvel83.bandcamp.com/
https://twitter.com/Marvelous1983
https://www.facebook.com/Marvelsound83/
https://www.instagram.com/marvel83/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6Lon5L4ZX3jqyjHZi_44Fg
https://open.spotify.com/artist/31b6PTO6eCjLsm85tvkgXz

SELLOREKT / LA DREAMS
https://soundcloud.com/sellorekt
http://ladreams.bandcamp.com/
https://twitter.com/SLADreams
https://www.facebook.com/sellorekt
 
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RETRO REVOLUTIONS:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfqax0cikE8pDajVM3DY7cg
https://twitter.com/retrofaithgames
https://www.instagram.com/retro_revolutions/

Beyond Synth Podcast

Beyond Synth - 184 - Roxi Drive Computer Magic Color Theory

Over the last few years, western ultra-conservatives have successfully rebranded as the 'alt-right,' positioning themselves as the counterculture alternative to the so-called liberal mainstream. Their goal is to win people over by making it seem as though their racist, sexist, homophobic and xenophobic posturing is actually about freedom of speech, presumably because that sounds more appealing than what it actually is: retrograde white nationalism. Not content with lurking in the dark corners of the internet, they are doing everything they can to infiltrate popular culture, and synthwave is no exception: the appearance of the subgenres of fashwave and trumpwave should serve as a warning to all of us.

While it is true that a certain wistful attitude toward the 1980s is inherent to synthwave, this has more to do with that decade's vision of itself and the future as rendered in the films and music of the time than it does with what life was actually like back then, especially as global capitalism has made attaining those dreams practically impossible. But these conservative extremists long for their 'lost' privilege and impunity, for such leaders as Ronald Regan and Margaret Thatcher, who incidentally did more to lower living standards in the west than PC culture ever could.

In light of this, we decided to make a statement about where we stand in regard to the current political climate. It's a rallying cry for anyone on our side of the fence and a guarantee that our music will never be co-opted by bigots, whatever they might call themselves.

Lyrics:

Your ruse to come off as hip is too see-through
It won't win anyone's sympathy
Tainting art forms with hate isn't brand-new
It's the MO of tyranny
There's nothing Christian in what you pursue
Through blatant lies and hypocrisy
Facts and figures cannot be post-true
Whatever happened to decency?

Drown in your nostalgia
Stay where you belong
This will be our anthem:
The alt-right is wrong

You claim that all that you want is to subdue
And cure the ills in society
Instead of all the real good that you could do
You'd rather go on a killing spree

Drown in your nostalgia
Stay where you belong
This will be our anthem:
The alt-right is wrong

There's so much ignorance in your worldview
Because you simply don't want to see
The very leaders you claim will free you
Keep you living in poverty

Drown in your nostalgia
Stay where you belong
This will be our anthem:
The alt-right is wrong

Alt-Wrong

Reactions EP

On the Trapeze

Mitch Murder - Prism

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/1gK1WJtitgZX45a8Ry5wqB

Bandcamp: https://heartbeathero.bandcamp.com/album/the-matrix-of-synthwave

All links: https://linktr.ee/heartbeathero

Full Album playlist: https://soundcloud.com/heartbeathero/sets/the-matrix-of-synthwave

The phone rings on a ship. While it is traveling through depths of space at the speed of light trying to escape the dark pull of evil.

The Matrix of Synthwave

Trinity

Ricardo Marin-Vidal (vocals, bass, theremin)
Svyatoslav Maximov (guitar)
Sergey Rykov (keys)
Rodolfo Neri (drums)

Retrovision

NTSC

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