French post-punk / synthwave music project Blind Delon have released Chimères on Manic Depression Records / Icy Cold Records. Started by Mathis Kolkoz in Toulouse in 2016 and utilizing style and influences of electro-punk and synthwave, Blind Delon now give us a new 8-track LP that is available today in vinyl, digipack and digital formats via Bandcamp. Mixed by JP… Read more →
Vandal Moon is back with a new album, Black Kiss, featuring 10-tracks that bring us uptempo synths as well dark electronic rhythms that showcase the influence of the new wave, post-punk, synthpop and darkwave scenes of the early 80s and of bands like The Cure, The Chameleons, New Order, Gary Numan, Depeche Mode, Joy Division, Sisters of Mercy and The… Read more →
120 Volts #025 – A new playlist featuring a special selection of music starting with “Dead” – a new track off Vandal Moon’s latest album Black Kiss, “Alone” by Forever Grey, and “Insecurity” by Neon Lies. Also included on the playlist are new and classic tracks by NNHMN, The Human League, Hante., Max Durante, Ministry, Cervello Elettronico, Blush Response, Kraftwerk,… Read more →
Synthicide, the Brooklyn monthly dark-synth party, has announced Asphyxia Remixed, a collection of remixes of Statiqbloom’s tracks taken from the 2019 album Asphyxia. A variety of remixes on 8-tracks includes work by Star Eyes, Mædon, Khadija Bhuiyan, Kontravoid and Multiple Man, and Mark Solotroff. Asphyxia Remixed will be released April 28th is now available for pre-order via Bandcamp. Asphyxia Remixed… Read more →
Italian label Avant! Records has released Year Of The Mask, a new 10-track sampler for 2020 featuring music by Profit Vision, Veil of Light, Buzz Kull, M!RIM, Nuovo Testamento, Pleasure Symbols, HØRD, Qual, SDH, and Skemer. The album is free on Bandcamp. Year Of The Mask by AVANT! Records Read more →
Vandal Moon has released “Hurt” the first single from the upcoming album Black Kiss. The new 10-track album will be released May 15th, 2020 by the duo based in Santa Cruz, California comprised of Blake Voss (vocals, guitars, synthesizers, principal songwriter) and Jeremy Einsiedler (drum machines and synthesizers). About the new album, Black Voss says, “This record is more purely… Read more →
Looking back at the last ten years, we have enjoyed an abundance of coldwave, electronic, post-punk, and goth music releases. We may consider the decade a rebirth for alternative music, so here are some of the most-played tracks for each year we could find among the hundreds of our favorites. 2010 Nunhood – Merciful Nuns 2011 Dead Sun Rising –… Read more →
Having recently toured the US, cold wave and minimal synth French duo Lovataraxx have a new 11-track album Hébéphrénie to be release on November 1st, 2019 via Unknown Pleasures Records. You can now preview three tracks, “Subjugué,” “Angst,” and “Ana Venus” off the new album on Bandcamp. Also watch the newly released video for “Ana Venus” and an interview with… Read more →
120 Volts #024 – A new playlist featuring a special selection of tracks starting off with “Fleurs Du Mal” by synth artist Julia Bondar, the new track “Hold Tight” by S Y Z Y G Y X off their Cold Transmission / Negative Gain Productions album Fading Bodies, and “Downplay” by Rosetta Stone from their first new album in nearly… Read more →
Barcelona-based musician Julia Bondar has released her new single Dramatique Waters, along with a video of the track that showcases her style of hypnotic industrial-tinged modular-synth electronic sound. She also recently released the equally mesmerizing single Fleurs Du Mal as well as a video. Both tracks follow-up her second album In My Neighborhood released this year on the Detroit Underground… Read more →
