Last winter we brought you The Magician’s Magic Tape Five mixtape, and then a little while later his BEAN mixtape he did in collaboration with oki-ni. Well we’ve obviously missed a couple (or more) mixtapes in the interim, because this week Stephen Fasano — he of ex-Aeroplane fame — is now up to his Magic […]

To celebrate the seminal effects of the Minimoog Synth, Moog Legacy is putting out a series of short documentaries following the lifespan of the legendary synthesizer from its inception in 1971 through its indelible contributions to  pop music worldwide throughout the last 40 years. “In this first installment documenting the journey of the Minimoog synth […]

New York electronic DJ/producer Brian Suarez, aka Allies, has just released an EP titled Hour of the Wolf (available on iTunes). Initially breaking through years ago with the electro-house club track “Taboo” (when he was known as Gater), Suarez has evolved his sound to include a more complex, lush and layered synth-pop sound, rounded out […]

A former half of Aeroplane (along with remaining member Vito DeLuca), The Magician — aka Stephen Fasano — has taken the sounds of the 80s and teleported them to the future. But not the 80s of robotic rhythms and beats, more so the 80s of Talk Talk, Culture Club and Human League — a timeframe […]

The latest Mad Decent purveyors of techno Depressed Buttons just released their new Mixmeat Mixtape, featuring tracks by artists as far ranging as Siriusmo, Underworld, Drop the Lime and even Bob Dylan. Which makes sense, given the band’s disparate techno sounds. Three-fifths of seminal indie synth band The Faint, Clark Baechle, Todd Fink, and Jacob […]

Wild Nothing is the musical vehicle of Blacksburg, Virginia’s Jack Tatum, and it’s justifiably finding its way to music lovers through their debut album Gemini, which was released May 25th on Captured Tracks. The band’s sound has been described as “dreamy, carefree synth-pop songs that linger with an inexplicable sense of regret”, jumpstarted with a […]

Shawn Foree grew up in the desert shrubs outside of Tucson, Arizona in a Baha’i hippie commune, which is really weird given the incredibly synthetic textures of his music. Maybe that’s where he got the name of his band, Digital Leather — a literal conflation of a most organic material with the most intangible, artificial […]