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synthesizer
132 tracks.
Ryan Blyth
Once Twice feat. Rachel K Collier
'Once Twice' is a short, uplifting house track by Ryan Blyth with the Swansea singer and producer Rachel K Collier on vocals, premiered in 2016 on the Love & Other channel: bright beats, a sung topline and a hook built for the dance floor.
Pilocka Krach
La Luna Y El Sol
A track from Pilocka Krach's 2017 double album Sugar Cane & The Lost Amigos, a tour diary pinned between Mexico, Detroit and Berlin: raw sampled cuts and growling synths in the Bar25 veteran's electro post-rave style.
Paul Oakenfold feat. Pharrell Williams
Sex 'N' Money
Paul Oakenfold's breakbeat and hip-house collision with Pharrell Williams: a pulsing, provocative 2006 single about the pull of desire and money, with an animated video that ends in a warning.
Mount Sims
How We Do
A dark, pulsing piece of electroclash from Mount Sims's 2002 debut UltraSex, released on Gigolo in Europe and Emperor Norton in the US: gritty machine beats, minor-key synth melodies and a cool, defiant vocal.
Kollektiv Turmstrasse
On The Streets (Let Freedom)
Hamburg duo Kollektiv Turmstrasse's 2009 'Let Freedom' remix of Federleicht's On the Streets: melancholic, melodic house of deep beats and slowly unfolding synths, from the label that later released their album.
Justice vs. Simian
We Are Your Friends
Justice's remix of Simian's 'Never Be Alone', first pressed on Ed Banger's second release in 2003 and reissued as 'We Are Your Friends' in 2006: a UK top 20 hit whose video won Best Video at the MTV Europe Music Awards.
Bronski Beat
Small Town Boy
Bronski Beat's 1984 debut single turns a gay teenager's escape from home into a falsetto-led synth-pop anthem, built on a sequenced octave pattern and remembered for Bernard Rose's stark video.
Amanda Blank
DJ
'DJ' by Amanda Blank is a heartbreak song dressed as a club track: over a Diplo and Switch beat, the Philadelphia rapper asks the DJ to turn it up so she can dance a bad relationship away.
Marcu Rares
Camimosa
An eighteen-minute minimal track by the Romanian producer Marcu Rareș, the title piece of his 2018 EP for the Romanian minimal techno label Welter Records.
Ladytron
Seventeen
Ladytron's 2002 single: whirring synthesizers, two cool, interlocking voices and a minimal lyric that takes a swipe at an industry obsessed with youth, shiny and throwaway on the surface and dark underneath.
Chris Lorenzo & The Streets
Take Me as I Am
Birmingham bass producer Chris Lorenzo and The Streets' Mike Skinner meet on a fast, ferocious slice of drum and bass: tight drums, tearing bass synths and Skinner's dry, conversational vocal.