Jun 6th
Sunday
Mirage is a new danceable single from the Swedish synthpop legends, Lowe, from their upcoming album, Evolver. Great stuff!
Jun 2nd
Wednesday
A classic synthpop song from DE/VISION, performed on their current tour at a club in Russia called TeleClub. Awesome performance! I’d love to see these guys live!
May 20th
Thursday
This amazing video was shot entirely in one take, and features the members of a Polish DM fan club lip-syncing to “Just Can’t Get Enough” to commemorate the band’s 30th anniversary – very, very cool!
Long live Depeche Mode!
Apr 18th
Sunday
Arguably the best song from DE/VISION’s new album, Popgefahr.
Apr 18th
Sunday
Lightforce is an excellent instrumental track from Mind.in.a.box’s new album, R.E.T.R.O. – which is a tribute to the old 8-bit electronic music that was made on a Commodore 64 computer many years ago. Highly recommended!
Apr 17th
Saturday
A hauntingly beautiful electronic ballad by Schiller, featuring the unmistakable voice of Peter Heppner from Wolfsheim.
Apr 5th
Monday
DE/VISION is an excellent German group that has been on the scene for many years, and continues to produce some of the best synthpop music in the world. They’re one of my all-time favorite groups.
Here’s a list of my 10 favorite songs from DE/VISION, along with the album on which they appeared:
- A Word in Season (a great instrumental from Antiquity)
- Take Me Over (Six Feet Underground)
- Uncaring Machine (Two)
- Heart-Shaped Tumor (Two)
- Digital Dream – Icon of Coil Mix (Devolution)
- See What I See (Noob)
- Try to Forget (Zehn)
- Free From Cares (Zehn)
- Time to be Alive (Popgefahr)
- Until the End of Time (Popgefahr)
I tend to like their faster songs more than their ballads. But some of their ballads are quite good, too.
Hopefully, DE/VISION will be coming to the States this year – and I definitely want to see them when they hit Chicago!
Apr 3rd
Saturday
Mesh recently posted this club-friendly instrumental version of Trust You on YouTube – complete with posterized video of the group dancing to it. It’s a really great arrangement of this song – lots of layered synth goodness and a strong, driving beat.
Mar 13th
Saturday
“Rage” is the first single from the new De/vision album, Popgefahr.
Feb 22nd
Monday
There is some very good modern synthpop produced around the world that is not sung in English. Among the best of these groups is Silica Gel from Spain. Here is their club-friendly hit, ¿Dónde Estás?, from their 2008 album, Exodo.