Name: New Horizons by Timecop1983 in Best Synth/Retro/Darkwave 2015
Duration: 4 min 10 s
Description: Get the full album at https://timecop1983.bandcamp.com/album/reflections

Timecops in service to others are heros. Send them a postcard from the past to thank them. Love wins. 🌈⚖️🧬

Wildest Synthwave in existence, goosebumps each and every time I turn it on.

great tune! reposted! liked! audio levels could be louder one tick here in my studio! could u rate my track too?

wow..quite risky very big reverb.. surprisingly very well seated in the mix

Remind me "Before The Storm" by Jan Hammer <3

I proudly present to you my Best of 2015 Synthwave/Retrowave/Darkwave/Whateverwave Playlist. 4 hours of delicious synthy delights that will tickle your face/fancy/butt/whatever.

WARNING: this is a long writeup. Feel free to skip and just start listening.

In 2015 I went down many musical rabbit holes, some pleasurable/successful, others a big waste of time. The sounds of Synthwave have been around for years, but it was only last year that I began to really appreciate it as its own genre and started exploring ancillary content much like I have before with heavy metal and hip hop. Holy shit, am I so glad I did! I rarely make “best of” lists, but it felt so wrong not to do this one.

Assembling this was incredibly hard; I spent tons of time and energy tinkering with the ordering, pulling in/dropping tracks, relistening, but damn it was fun and rewarding.

Give this a listen, tell me what you like, what you didn’t, what I missed, but most importantly I hope you enjoy it; I made this list for myself but mainly to spread some joy to friends and to share my love of good fun music with others.

This could have easily been 40 hours instead of 4. On that note I purposely omitted some of my favorite artists’ tracks with the hope that 1), you will like the ones I did include and will seek out the others (note on that later), and 2) I can hopefully expose you to some of the lesser-known but certainly as-awesome artists in the scene.

A note on the ordering: tracks are certainly not put 100% in a sequential listening order, but if you choose to listen from start to finish, it should flow nicely. The music gets progressively heavier/darker from start to finish. That being said, just shuffling the list should also produce a nice result. You can’t go wrong either way. Generally speaking, the songs are grouped into three general categories:

Part 1: “Classic” Synthwave: Starting off with Timecop1983 (album of the year) I have the shall I say, smooth, upbeat, positive, make-you-smile-and-puts-a-skip-in-your-step more or less classic synthwave tracks. These are the sexiest tracks. Good for the beach or daydreaming or day drinking. Here, Duett and Timecop1983s entire albums could have been included. They were seriously that good so check them out on their own.

Part 2: Drive-wave: starting at around Robert Parker's jamming “Rebel Heart”, we begin to have liftoff; the tracks have a notable uptick in tempo, become more danceable, sounding more Drive-inspired, more sci-fi/robotic. Get in your spaceship, grab some champagne, grab a lady/dude (or both), turn the volume up to maximum overdrive. Here you get the incredible back-to-back “Hardware Passion”/”Accelerated” back-to-back combo, two of my favorite songs of the year that deserve to be listened to one after the other.

Part 3: Darkwave: Finally, starting at Gost’s “Without a Trace”, things get dark, intense, brooding, downright evil. Here I have put all the dark, loud/abrasive stuff, the scary stuff. Some inspired by John Carpenter/80’s horror movie soundtracks. More dystopian themes, and Satan. Can serve as straight-up party/dance music or a good soundtrack for grave robbing. This section could have been nothing but Carpenter Brut/Dan Terminus/Gost but that would have been too easy. I end the playlist on Gost’s “Master”, in my opinion the heaviest/hardest/dirtiest Synthwave track of the year (that I have heard).

Some last final notes:

* Most all of these artists have their stuff for sale on bandcamp; please support some of these artists if you can! A lot have great vinyl, and oh my god the merch/shirts are awesome with all the crazy imagery
* Shout out to NewRetroWave, great site/lots of inspiration and worth keeping up with if you want to follow the whole movement
* All my own opinions obviously, I’m no expert so please don’t be butthurt if I omitted something or incorrectly categorized a song

Thanks for reading/listening!

Best Synth/Retro/Darkwave 2015

Get the full album at https://timecop1983.bandcamp.com/album/reflections

This track is accompanied by a great, custom made video by Gabriele Mariotti: https://vimeo.com/131645487

Check out Josh's work here: Josh Dally: https://soundcloud.com/josh_dally

Also check out Gabriele's work: www,gabrielemariotti.com

Lyrics: 

So lets talk, talk all night long 
But this time, say what should be said 
I know its hard, but this for the best 
Now its time, that we go separate ways

So for now 

Lets just dance 
You and I can dance 
Lets just dance 
This is our last chance 

For a while, you have built up walls
And I don’t know why, but I can’t brake them down

And all we ever seem to do is shout, but I never know what its about 
So lets turn the lights down low, its alright I know you like it slow 

So for now 

Lets just dance 
You and I just dance 
Yer lets dance 
This is our last chance x2

So tonight yer lets dance



Let's Talk (feat. Josh Dally)

Get the full album at https://timecop1983.bandcamp.com/album/reflections

Check out Trevor's work at: https://trevorsomething.bandcamp.com/

Lyrics:

We to meet 
Down at the park
And we would stay
Til after dark
Yeah you had me 
Right from the start
You had the key yeah
Into my heart

Cause you were my
My first crush
Yeah you were my
My first crush
Cause you were my 
My first crush
Yeah you were my
My first crush
Aye yeah Oh oh
Aye yeah Oh oh

Its been so long
I can forget
All the way back
When we first met
Yeah we were kids
Back in those days
But it still feels
Like yesterday

Cause you were my
My first crush
Yeah you were my
My first crush
Cause you were my 
My first crush
Yeah you were my
My first crush
Aye yeah Oh oh
Aye yeah Oh oh

My First Crush (feat. Trevor Something)

Get the full album at https://timecop1983.bandcamp.com/album/reflections

Check out Matt's work: https://www.facebook.com/turk.vocals?fref=ts

Lyrics: 

I’m lost without you

I’ve been riding this train for so long
Searching for a place to call my own
Accelerating beyond control
I’m going faster than a speeding bullet
from where my heart calls

(lost without you)

I’m tired of running baby

(lost without you)

I just can’t forget the past I’m lost without
you I don’t know what I’d do if I lost you again
I’ll hold you through the night

I’m lost without you
I don’t know where I’d be if you weren’t in my life
Together till the end

These tracks keep running full circle
And there you are each time, I look into your eyes
There’s no doubt I can’t keep going on
Someone stop this train before
I lose my mind

(lost without you)

I’m tired of running baby

(lost without you)

I just can’t forget the past

Lost Without You (feat. Matt Turkington)

Get the full album at https://timecop1983.bandcamp.com/album/reflections

Check out their work at: https://soundcloud.com/backinthefutureofficial

Lyrics:

Lyrics written by Cory Cook and Christopher Homage.

[Verse:]

I'm tired of
Waiting here all by myself
Waiting for the future
With one thing in mind

I've been waiting all by myself
With my dreams in my hands no backup plan
I decide my own life
Dice poker face lets dance tonight

I see her shining all by herself
She's been waiting for the right touch
Work of art
Perfect heart

To make it work
She thinks it would
I understand now
Makes perfect sense

I dream the same thing
Move by emotion
Honest by deception
Got you right to the core

We could have been here
Should of known you
Would take shortcuts
Straight to my heart

[Chorus:]
   
    She shines
    Diamonds in the sky breaking all the rules
    Roll the dice
    All night
   
    Gamble with a fragile heart
    This is not enough
    To keep us up
    Above the water we're fading now

    Just pictures in a dusty dream
    Memories
    Save just enough to live another day
    And we try

[Breakdown:]

We try
To find another way
We try
To live another day

We try
To never part ways
We try
For peace everyday

[Verse:]

Big world
Maybe wrong time
Gotta be at the right place at the right time
Been doing me every night is that a crime

Bandana over eyes I swear I was blind
I swear I was lost
Now I'm found
Remember your touch

Remember were blind
Remember your voice  
Remember the lies
I was doing to much now my hands untied

[Chorus:]

    She shines
    Diamonds in the sky breaking all the rules
    Roll the dice
    All night

    Gamble with a fragile heart
    This is not enough
    To keep us up
    Above the water we're fading now

    Just pictures in a dusty dream
    Memories
    Save just enough to live another day
    And we try

Tonight (feat. Back In The Future)

Get the full album at https://timecop1983.bandcamp.com/album/reflections

New Horizons

Industrial Pulse

Taken from the album ‘Borderline', available now.

http://smarturl.it/vrwbad

Limited edition cassette also available : https://duett.bandcamp.com/album/borderline

www.soundcloud.com/wearemodal

Cover art by Forces Creative

http://www.forcescreative.com/

(c) Modal Recordings

Touch

Soulless Computer Boy and The Eternal Render

Do It Again

Mitch Murder - Call Waiting

Download

Night Dreamer

Nighthawk

new year is for new reborn - リボーン。
vocals and lyrics by @madelyndarling
mastered by @vincenzo-salvia

https://kosmetism.bandcamp.com/track/reborn-feat-madelyn-darling
https://open.spotify.com/album/7eawvvrchHynCubovBCxJN
https://itunes.apple.com/de/album/reborn-feat-madelyn-darling/1332349202

Reborn (feat. Madelyn Darling)

Ksmtk - Reborn (feat. Madelyn Darling)

https://open.spotify.com/artist/1kVXf1JEBEwhuNLLp0yLmq
https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/tv-players/1309281651

TV players feat Walras - Nightscapes

Support:
https://dondellpiero.bandcamp.com/

Also check out the song @ youtube:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9cg5FtR2IJI

Three Million Light Years Away

All songs written by Andrei Kauzanovich & Sergey Shcherbakov, except "Don't Need U 2 Stay (feat. Xav A.)" written and performed by Xavier Alden Curry: www.facebook.com/XavAMusic/ 
Mixed & Mastered by Sergey Shcherbakov 
Guitars by Andrei Kauzanovich 
Vocals on Battle of the Hearts (feat. Oceanside85) by 
Chelsea Owen: www.facebook.com/oceanside85/ 
Cover Art Photography by Yadviga Adamchik 
( www.facebook.com/adamchykphoto ) 
Design by Vera Kauzanovich: (www.facebook.com/vera.kauzanovich)

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