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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“The Isan region of Thailand has given the world the wonders of the khaen. The khaen’s bamboo-driven drones and pentatonic harmonies are a natural partner of the modular synth.”
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“a flimsy, but decidedly bold voyage into shallow waters of guitar and synth noise, on loop. Use heaphones for binaural !”