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Need some classic synth pop songs for your playlist? These five tracks from the 1980s have aged pretty well, we'd say.
Today, 80s synth-pop is still very much alive and acts like Men Without are still touring and still heavily played on the radio. How do you explain this incredible legacy?
A nickname, a bet and a fellow musician’s hit single — that’s how one ’80s star ended up with a stage name fans still know today.
One of the greatest things about early ’80s cinema was the synth scores so many films had. Movies like The Terminator, and of course anything John Carpenter did, spring to mind. And with shows ...
Ray Mayhew, who was the drummer in the iconic 80s band Sigue Sigue Sputnik, has died, it has been confirmed. His bandmate ...
While most popular musicians of the 80s used one of the preset sounds of the synthesizer, it could produce an incredible range of diverse sounds if the musician was willing to dig a bit into the ...
Don Tavel, who invented the Resynator synthesizer, died in a 1988 car crash when daughter Alison was just 10 weeks old. She says the nearly forgotten invention helped her to understand her father.