These video clips are not so fresh feeling - coming from the 1980’s, but if you haven’t seen them yet, they offer a fun look at electropop synth guru Vince Clark and his synth programming style.
Enjoy the eighties hairstyles!

The Regeneration Tour - a chance to revisit some of top bands of the 80’s is underway, featuring the Human League, ABC, Belinda Carlisle, A Flock of Seagulls, and Naked Eyes on most dates, plus Missing Persons, the Romantics, 10,000 Maniacs, and Tommy Tutone on a select few.
Dead or Alive, originally part of the package [...]

Falco continues to be loved/hated for his 80’s synth-pop hits Der Komissar & Rock Me Amadeus - probably in no small part because of his premature death in a car accident in 1998.
Looks like there’s going to be a Falco movie:

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Robot Goes Here is an electropunk project of Dave Rand. After eight years playing in punk bands, Rand switched to laptop retro-chip sounds and a DIY approach.
There’s a lot of interesting 8-bit style synth work on Robot Goes Here’s The Byte Is In My Blood, including chip-noise drums and arpeggios. It sounds like Rand [...]

The Music of Kraftwerk, by the a group of lo-fi groups collectively known as the 8-Bit Operators, is more fun than any CD we’ve heard in ages.
8-Bit music is a fairly obscure genre of electronica. The 8-Bit operators, though, made a smart move, organizing many of the most influential 8-bit musicians together to create this [...]

Thomas Dolby has announced a new March tour, with shows in Northern California and Texas, including SXSW in Austin on March 15. Dolby is pioneering a new blend of instruments: high-tech electronica plus live jazz brass.
His spring touring ensemble will feature real-time looping on a computer laptop, along with a three-piece horn section (the Jazz [...]

Puremagnetik has released Eight Bit, a selection of 1980’s SID chip samples.
Recorded directly from an original 6581 SID chip (as manufactured in the Commodore 64 home computer), the Eight Bit library includes a unique palette of basses, leads and pads. Puremagnetik has captured the sonic qualities of the SID and reprogrammed them into the Ableton [...]

The Pink Noise Sessions, an EP from punk/electropop band A Kiss Could Be Deadly, reworks the eighties sounds of bands like Berlin but throws in punk and even goth elements to create something new.
The group, made up of Lauren Baird - Vocals, Chris Qualls - Synthesizers, Programming, Tim Floyd - Guitar, Kelly Cairns - Bass [...]

ZTT Records has released Andrew Poppy on Zang Tumb Tuum, a 3 CD box set compiling classic recordings, unreleased and rare material commemorating the 20th anniversary of Poppy’s period with the label.
One of the UK’s leading contemporary composers, Poppy arrived at ZTT in 1984 having studied under John Cage and founded the avant-garde collective The [...]

ElectroKraft.com has announced the resurrection of the 1980’s video game Space Invaders in a cool modular synth box called the Space*Synth.
Using the original synth chip from the 1980’s video arcade game Space Invaders, ElectroKraft has captured the familiar, yet otherworldly sounds of classic video games.
Tony Amendolare from ElectroKraft.com is creating experimental electronic instruments and effects [...]