Welcome to Original Synths, our neon-lit corner of the internet dedicated to the pulsing heart of modern Synthwave. This is where analog dreams, retro beats, and futuristic vibes collide.
LukHash’s Home Arcade feels like someone cracked open a time capsule from 1989, wired it into a modern DAW, and said, “Yeah, let’s make this thing glow.” It’s pure neon energy—bright, buzzy, and unapologetically retro in that way Gen‑Xers don’t have t...
Some albums don’t start so much as appear, like headlights cresting a hill on an empty highway. Nothing by Hotel Pools is one of those records — a slow, glowing drift that feels like you’ve slipped into someone else’s late‑night drive. The first notes hum like dashboard ...
The cat puns! The synth-minded tails! The awesome (C)attitude! Synthriders are going to lose their minds to what Cat Temper, hailing from Boston, Massachusetts, has served up with his latest release! ...
Read more: Heavy Petting: Cat Temper’s Something Whiskered This Way Comes - Music Review
Jon Anthony Thomas has done a very brave thing. He let it all go. Every single thing and this includes his spellbinding blips, bleeps, and glitches. The Ethereal Delusions that once was, well, is currently no more. Exhibit A is Gravis, this producer’s ...
Read more: Running Down a Central Reservation: Ethereal Delusion’s Gravis - Music Review
What do YOU dream of? That’s the opening question in the debut EP from Simpler Times. Named Replicants, this EP is a pulse-pounding trip back in time to a Berlin dance floor from the early 1980s. Bowie-esque, think of his production on Iggy Pop’s The Idiot, and you ...
Read more: Androids Do Dream: Simpler Times’ Replicants - Music Review
Corsair Hyperlane, the latest release from Ionstar, is not unlike a righteous journey through a distant galaxy. Hang on tight and don’t look back seems to be the message. With 6-tracks only, the mad skills of this producer demonstrate both purpose ...
Read more: A Kid from a Trailer Park: Ionstar’s Corsair Hyperlane - Music Review
Iconic. Groundbreaking. Hypnotic. Toss a dark suit jacket over your sunshiny yellow tee and let’s all get the feels with this brand-new release from Your Sister is a Werewolf as we hit the coast and rock out to some truly inventive instrumental jams. Mark my ...
Read more: Broadcast VICE: Your Sister is a Werewolf’s C.H.A.D. - Music Review
No matter how many times it is said, the cosmic g-funk sounds of vaporwave are not dead. Fake news, y’all. That blissed-out merging of MALL MUSIC MUZAK, constant online consumerism, and sweet, sweet nostalgia is here for the long haul - especially now ...
Read more: I Begin To Touch: Vector Graphics’ DESTINE Returns - Music Review
Dangerously addictive and beyond deadly, the robotic future sounds EXACTLY like this. Glitch Black returns from the final frontier with his latest mechanized masterpiece!...
Read more: Rock 'Em SHOCK 'Em Robots: Glitch Black’s Age of Machines - Music Review
The reverb. The chopped-up smooth jazz. The POWER and the hypnosis of it all. What I immediately LOVE about default.cfg’s i hope you get wet with the rain is the fact that what was once disposable background vibes and random cues from ...
Read more: Stormy Weather: default.cfg’s i hope you get wet with the rain - Music Review