About Synthtopia | RSS News Feeds | Submit Items For Review | Feedback


3 archive page


Evil Records, a netlabel dedicado a la musica electronica, has added three new releases that are available as free MP3 downloads.
The releases include a free house EP, Manu xtc - Noches Del Sur; a psytrance EP, Aum Project - Angel Hundu; and a downtempo/breaks CD, zAnXe - Welcome.
The site is in Spanish, but is easy [...]

 

Nighttime Calls, and if you’re looking for straight-ahead euro dance/trance music to liven up the evening, Sylver delivers with this CD.
Sylver, made up of the vocalist Silvy De Bie and dj/producer Wout van Dessel, hit the charts in Europe a few years ago with their debut single Turn the Tide. As you might expect based [...]

 

Here’s a video that captures video doing a live remix of Earth Wind and Fire’s September:

Looks like this is from a NAMM session with M-Audio. Not a great set, but it gives you an idea of how he remixes in Live.

 

Electronica wunderkind BT has released a preview of is upcoming release, This Binary Universe.

It’s available as a download for iPods with video capability and also for web viewing:
The release will be a 2-Disc Set CD + DVD, with a standard stereo CD and the DVD playable in 5.1 or stereo. The DVD will feature widescreen [...]

 

Asura’s latest CD, Lost Eden, blends dance, trance, ambient and world music elements into a musical gumbo.
Asura is a French electronic group, made up of producer Charles Farewell, flutist Christopher Maze, and bassist/guitarist Alex Ackerman. There are echoes of artists like Peter Gabriel, Tangerine Dream and Banco de Gaia in Asura’s global groove style. The [...]

 


Paul Oakenfold - A Lively Mind

The first single from Paul Oakenfold’s latest CD A Lively Mind, Faster Kill Pussycat, featuring Brittany Murphy on vocals, is scorching hot. It puts Murphy’s sexy vocals on top of a great electro beat.
Unfortunately, the rest of the CD doesn’t come close to rising up to the level of the first track. Oakenfold brings in [...]

 

Madonna’s latest CD, Confessions on a Dance Floor, has been called a return to form by some. While nothing on the CD reaches the peaks of some of her best work, it’s good enough to be a guilty pleasure for electronic dance fans.
Madonna’s lyrics seem a little worn out on Confessions, rehashing ideas that were [...]

 

Iio - Poetica

06Mar06

Iio is a NYC-based dance duo that hit the charts in 2001 with the disco-flavored Rapture. The track was a hit and popular remixes were released by the likes of Armin Van Buuren, Deep Dish and Paul Van Dyk.
After disappearing from the scene for a few years, Vocalist Nadia Ali  & producer Markus Moser are [...]