Synth artists on Bandcamp

48 independent artists in this guide.

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Synthesizers crackle with restless intent: SOFT RIOT's Crux channels the early '80s DIY synth spirit into an ever-evolving blend of darkwave, Italo, EBM, and synth post-punk with strategic minimalism and subtle humor. Modern Ideas' This Is How It Hurts offers Melbourne garage-made '80s synth-pop where "plastic dreams, electric romance, and machines hum with human desire" — dramatic, cinematic, and emotionally ambiguous. Franks' Casper drops a deep hypnotic tech groove for his debut on 5DNET, while Max Kutner's The Illustrated Interior builds an imagined landscape of industrial textures, hypnotic grooves, and metallic percussion assembled entirely at home through daily unscripted experimentation. theJLM's Bicentennial: Original Score rounds things out with a 23-minute ambient score critically examining the pernicious unreality of the American Dream.

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    Ukuphambana

    Chris Castiglione. has been making music with technology since the late 1990s. IDM, noise, xenoharmonic music, electroacoustic instrumentatio...

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    Demiurgo

    Demiurgo invites listeners into electronic worlds: "50% music, 50% your imagination". Each track is built as a journey through dystopian lands...

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    Stop Sleeping

    Stop Sleeping is the dark side of the cosmos where punk rock and synths collide in a ruthless interstellar brawl. Delivering blistering riffs ...

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    Aloes

    Semi-modular and analog synth jams from Reid Weigner (Giant Giants, Axxa/Abraxas, Reptar, Organs of Sight)

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    Harmolodic Dreamer

    Experimental Artist With a background in Jazz,Hip-Hop,Choir Music, Rock, Heavy Metal, Death Metal, Noise, Electronic, Indie, Singer Songwriter...

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    Caught In Joy

    Blending synthesizers into sonic landscapes that defy convention and push the boundaries of music genres.

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    Michael HERTER

    I am a classically trained composer and multi-instrumentalist from Germany, holding a Master of Music degree in Orchestral Instruments (Violin...

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    Mukamba

    Mukamba is Underground sound producer and sound designer from the demoratic republic of congo

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    Ambient Death Machine

    Stew Shepherd's modular synthesis channels and blows apart Stu Orchard's self-made string instrument 'diadophone'. Together Stew and Stu becom...

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    capxul

    Words in spaces. Abrasive, harsh soundscapes composed with post-techno and noise elements. A provocative and feminine spoken word voice over d...

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    NTSC Rider

    NTSC Rider is the new star on the Vaporwave-, Krautrock- and Chillwave-Horizon.

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    pathetique

    I simply love music that trips you up, makes you feel lost, and combines this with an air of familiarity. My horribly mixed songs are more abo...

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    Velo di Ferro

    Dungeon synth from Naples, Italy NO AI

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    Synth Satan

    Synth Music for Satan. \m/

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    Lonkero Twinz

    Midi king octopuses with grey tentacles.

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    10000 Megaton Exchange

    Drones and Tones

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    Lürgid

    Lürgid is a WA based musician. Born and raised in NZ, Lürgid has gelled with, and been inspired by, the vibrant experimental and modular synth...

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    Revok

    Revok is a hole in the forehead. Revok is a raw. Revok is sound exploration. Revok is dungeon crawl. Revok is uncertainty. Revok is liminal.

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    Sunny Gianni

    Metamorphic instrumental experimental electronica.

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    Hex Formes

    Electronic / Darkwave / Goth / Post Punk / Synthpop

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    Von Helfenstein

    The Baron occasionally emerges from his residence atop the five valleys of Geislingen to share his thoughts and musings.

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    Human Energy Field

    Complete and total freedom breaking the time barrier through sound. Experimental ensemble anywhere from 3 to 15 musicians on stage.

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    T.O.U.C.H. Samadhi

    T.O.U.C.H. Samadhi is an influential American psytrance record label and collective based in Asheville, North Carolina. The label serves as a ...

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    Generik*

    Nearly 2 decades of uncompromising alternative hip hop of the conscious, abstract and psychedelic variety. An introspective misfit skeptical o...

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    Dr Trousers

    Dr Trousers is a Musician and Producer from Naarm

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    BlakLight

    BlakLight is a Los Angeles–based dark synthpop trio featuring Adam Collier (Beautiful Crisis, SilverScene), Brian Belknap (Mind Machine), and ...

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    SOFT RIOT

    Soft Riot’s Jack Duckworth (JJD) has clocked in a few decades of musical output in various bands and projects while being continually active i...

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    Marikhi

    Alexander Mishelashvili is a Georgian electronic music producer, classical percussionist, and interdisciplinary artist. A former percussionist...

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    Modern Ideas

    Modern Ideas is a Melbourne/Naarm multi-instrumentalist songwriter who creates 80s sounding synth-pop from his garage. For Modern Ideas, pop i...

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    Electronic BattleSword

    ELECTRONIC BATTLESWORD is an a ctual human musician who uses non-sentient machines to make gnarly dystopian power synth music for your aural d...

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    Soth Peppy

    Soth Peppy is an experimental musician who uses synths, drum machines, effects, loopers, and the occasional electric kalimba to create texture...

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    Press any Key

    Hi I’m a modular synth artist from the Netherlands. I make dark drone ambient music and released my first album.

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    Mombi Yuleman on Cosmic Frequencies

    Mombi Yuleman is a Raleigh-based producer bringing a cinematic flair to a dynamic BPM range of visceral, driving Darkpsy. Rooted in the world’...

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    YCK

    Electronic music that contains styles as: house, techno, minimal, idm, edm, ambient, noise.

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    coffeebug

    i make music on the internet i also do a whole bunch of other stuff but i forgot what that was

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    Ephysus

    One man dungeon synth / dark ambient project, creating a series of melancholic music.

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    Draisine

    A vehicular tool for exploring of the more brooding corners of guitar-driven, loop-based improvisation.

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    Fixed Expression

    Fixed Expression synth, drone, instrumental from Argentina

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    Franks

    Venturing into techno, dubstep and the space in between Franks' production is solid and his sound deep and true to the underground.

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    Paixomenos

    ambient/retro electronic styling

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    Calamity Jane & Wild bill

    Dynamic, playful synth-pop duo based in Berlin and Malmö

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    Max Kutner

    Max Kutner is a Brooklyn-based guitarist, composer, improviser, and curator originally from Las Vegas, Nevada. His work explores the electric ...

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    the figurehead

    the figurehead is a musical project devoted to the exploration of the weird and uncomfortable, to find solace in the liminal areas of our exis...

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    theJLM

    It often starts with a deep kick and ends in a wall of sound with various polyrhythms and waves occurring somewhere in between. theJLM is Jer...