Forever Synth - The Podcast

Episode 139, and well well well what a bumber edition we are bringing you this month! What with the show being less regular, the guys thought they would bring you a 3 hour (!) special (this show will last the journey from London to Hemsby by car in fair weather).

In the first half the fellas speak to returning guest, the funkmeister, multi-instrumentalist that is Beckett - for a quick intro to the brand new album and touring news.

Meanwhile the 'after hours' second half features an in-depth natter with the godfather of synthwave shows, Andy Last of Beyond Synth. This conversation got sweary real quick, so make sure there are no little ears around....

You will also hear top new tracks from Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Your Sister is a Werewolf, Zayaz, The Less Dead, a Manhatten remix of Micromatscenes, and Nevermann - featuring (former guest) Dana Jean Phoenix, Waveshaper, Mskra, Touch Sensitive, TheMidnight, Fractal Man, Video Age, The Subtheory, Pogo, Chromatics, Von Kaiser, Strike Eagle, and a New Order classic!

Enjoy, and we'll see you again next month.

Episode 138 sees Jack Dyson (no relation) of SpaceJams fill the virtual host seat, as Rob is on his holibobs. Jack fills us in on the closing Synthwave show of 2022, Sunset Boulevard Bristol - a joint production from SpaceJams and ElectricEscape on November 19th.

You'll hear tracks from some of the performing artists of Boulevard including New Arcades, Infraviolet, Duett, Marvel '83, and Thorisson. The guys also discuss the recent Le Touquet Beach Festival in France, where Joe got to witness a live performance from the (seemingly now divisive) legend that is Kavinsky.

Tunes also from Knight$, and Silent Gloves. Plus the usual mediocre banter which you've grown to love from Fovever Synth over 138 episdes. The other Dyson will return for the next show next month. Enjoy!

Guess who's back by wholly neglible demand? In all seriousness, you asked and we listened! Forever Synth is resurrected from its ashes, like a never-ending slasher series - returning to Riverside Radio and "All the Casts"!

(Apologies for the appalling sound on Joe's mic in the opening minutes)

This run will be much more limited, and the boys will return on a more ad-hoc basis (no more weekly shows, folks). But we hope you enjoy the familiar chaos once again. In this quick one-hour return show, you will hear the likes of L'Avenue, OSC, Beckett, Morgan Willis, DX-Digital, Anna Yvette, Syst3m Glitch and Shadowrunner, Le Groupe Fantastique, Kid Francescoli, as well as more 'synth-adjacent' artists like Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, and French79. It's good to be back!

Episode 136 - surprise! The boys couldn't finish 2021 without providing a fitting final (final) end to the Forever Synth show, and here it is; the guys' 50 top tracks of the year...Oh and some amazing last-ever live guests in Coleurs, Farrington Mann (formerly 'When In Rome'), and Tyler Lyle of The Midnight (maybe you're heard of them?)! There may even be a World Wide Exclusive in there somewhere!

Joe, Rob and Martin spin you through 50 of their favourite tracks of 2021, where you'll hear the likes of (spoilers) Yatte, Runners Club 95, Donor Lens, Arcade High, OSC, Light Years, Infra Violet, Blackpoole, Yota, Shadowrunner, Primo and many many more (literally 39 more).

We hope you enjoy this one-off show, which genuinely ends the 3 year run of Forever Synth in a stellar compendium of synthwave and related genres. May it be the soundtrack to your new year hangovers, or cures to the return-to-work blues. All the best, and see you at live events in 2022.

Episode 135 - this is it folks, the last show ever of Forever Synth. The guys bring the curtain down in style, with a studio rammed full of talent, passion, and (by the end) beer. IVERSEN join to talk about their forthcoming 3rd long-player, 'House Plants'; Ray Garcia flies all the way over from California - to chat about his own show, 'Synthzone', and what he's been doing on his first ever trip to England; returning guest US3R joins us from Seattle so say goodbye and talk about his great new album 'Dreams and Nightmares', and (phew!) Damien Jackson - producer of 'In Search of Darkness', 'In Search of Tomorrow', and 'Rise of the Synths' also returns in-studio to turn the table on the boys - and brings gifts!

As the journey finally ends after an amazing 3 years, the guys play some BIG tracks to celebrate some of their favourite artists - with the last track going to...well you'll just have to listen won't you? Don't be sad....it was beautiful while is lasted. Now go and savour in the silliness and sizzling synthwave of the very last show. I'm not crying, you're crying.

Episode 134, and for their penultimate show, the guys have a big interview with one of the legends of the scene: Mr FM-84 himself, Col Bennett. In a wide-ranging chat, Col talks about the classic status of 'Atlas' (and how it still surprises him), taking synthwave on tour, the state of the "scene" today, and - of course a tease on the long-anticipated follow-up album!

We also get a proper vaporwave double-header from Patrick Fakeman, and new submissions from 70, BMX Escape, Zak Vortex, Blackpoole, Runaway Droid, Xyzzy, From Apes to Angels, and Network Nick. We know you are going to love this one.

But nothing is forever, and so prepare yourselves for the last ever show next week...There may be tears.

Episode 133, and this week saw returning guests Adam from New Arcades, and Vince and Jay from Timeslave Recordings / My Pet Flamingo. It's fair to say that this one gets loud and raucus as old friends reunite, and the silliness returns to the show as the inevitable countdown to The End increases.

Patrick Fakeman provides the vapor, whilst Rob joins from home after falling down the stairs and breaking a toe!

New submissions from Starletta, Terror Syndrome, Brian Sangmeister & Star Madman, Hyperdrive 1985, Ben Dring, Aspect Zero, Vertical Summer, Panoramic Duo, and ROM88.

Episode 132, and just a mere three shows left before the boys wrap this baby up, and what a wonderfully chilled guest in the form of Sweden's own smooth synthpop R&B maestro Nevermann. The guys chat about the two last albums and their influences, collabing, and coming from the same town as Roxette! Patrick Fakeman also brings his weekly 'Tapedeck' of vapor and future funk.

New submissions from Lina and the Lions, Blue Nagoon, Synthestellar, RoccoDestro, Bunny X, and Young Empress. Enjoy it while you can, friends.

Episode 131, and another in-studio stormer with Daily Express music and culture journalist Callum Crumlish joining Rob, Joe and Patrick Fakeman in the reals. Not only that but the guys had a fantastic chinwag with NYC's own Diamond Field - covering everything from advice to newcomers, Diamond's native New Zealand, working with your heroes, and collabing with John Carpenter's son Cody.

Plus plays of your great new submissions, including Infra Violet, Man Without Country, Xyzzy, Louvers, Vertical Summer, Lazermortis, Aerowolf, ELYXIR & Neilio and Dark Smoke Signal & Jnny Cobra. We know you're gonna dig this, dawg.

Episode 130, and the guys are reunited post Joe getting the 'rona. And what a belter of a show, as the "sweethearts of Synthwave" join the boys live in the studio; Dana Jean Phoenix, and Al Jenkins of Taurus 1984! We love guests IRL and these two couldn't have been more fun, friendly and game for a laugh. The team chats collabs, travel, get some bad impressions in, and more than one world 'sclusive is revealed in the two hour show!

Brand new subs too from The Digital Man, DJ Keltech, mobtek, Mahl, Michael Kross, Sandor Gavin, World Complete, Anniee and Midnight Hi-Fi, and Second Solstice. Believe us when we say, this is an absolute delight of a show. Enjoy while you can :)