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What 'Electronic Music' are you listening to these days ?

Wow, that Caretaker album... was an instant switch-off. :rolleyes:
Anyways. It is mostly Mathias Grassow, Klaus Wiese, Steve Roach, Ishq, Lucette Bourdin, Kip Mazuy, Jaja, 2350 Broadway, Ashra here... and of course E2-E4.
 
From my fellow countryman. If you like faaaat vintage synth sound and some melody, I strongly recommend checking it out. It has 80s vibe to it, melodic-wise:


While I mostly listen to acoustic music I have a great fondness towards retro/synthwave. I've recently recorded one of my ideas, but still far from what I'd like to achieve. Would like to get some constructive critique on that:
 
Of course, me being the current weirdly cheesy-sax-sounds-loving me, your synthwave tune’s somewhat sax-y lead melody struck a nerve in a positive way. I think that bit could do with some more Lexicon 1980s swirliness but is pretty cheesy-but-in-an-intended-way otherwise. The drums sound very 1980s Linn-drum-y but could do with a tad more compression and reverb as well, those breaks are very well done I felt. As for the overall esthetic, to make it a bit more old and vapourwave-like, maybe add tape saturation with something like Denise Bad Tape or BABY Audio Super VHS. It could use some wow and flutter. It’s missing a dirty edge. Pretty cool idea and do tell what is generating that lead sound! ❤️
 
I'm missing the 'dreamy, retro feel' from it as well, but not sure how to achieve that. Thanks for suggestions! So those goes on my checklist: tape saturation, more compression and reverb on drumkit.

The lead (sax) is, Se..xnxnxsual from Embertone ;)
 
I'm missing the 'dreamy, retro feel' from it as well, but not sure how to achieve that. Thanks for suggestions! So those goes on my checklist: tape saturation, more compression and reverb on drumkit.

The lead (sax) is, Se..xnxnxsual from Embertone ;)
I suspected the Embertone being the culprit haha! Thanks for confirming my suspicion. That ‘dreamy’ floating Boards-of-Canada feeling is created by adding tape wow and flutter in subtle ways. A really subtle vibrato effect on selected inserts can emulate it as well, when combined with some other form of noise and saturation.
 
Noisia are a cool bunch though…


And De Jeugd Van Tegenwoordig (“Youth These Days”) have a brilliant producer / beat maker in Bas Bron aka Fatima Yamaha and many other monikers. That guy is just… brilliant. Their brand of Dutch hiphop has never sounded like ANYTHING else…

Some more classics then:








 
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