RSA December 23rd 2024

The last show before Christmas, and one more week until the 2024 best of show! I'm actually having real frustrating problems with Facebook now. Enough that if it wasn't for this show I'd be deleting accounts and groups and leaving the damn enshittified platform entirely. So looks like I'll be posting shit on my phone for the next few weeks while they figure out password recovery instead of sending people into looping menus. As always, show notifications are posted on BlueSky and Instagram as well. I also noted that ~300 emails have been "bounced" off the list, so who knows how people are finding this every week. Just subscribe with your favourite podcast app. But with frustration set aside for a moment, we've got some really great stuff for everyone, especially another Destroy Me Again track, as we got a lot of great positive feedback about the track we played last week! Antibody - Vampire Frog (Teknovore) First Aid Tech - Haute Tension AD:Key - Deine Augen (Dee Jay Pari) Conscience - Access Denied (Edit) Chris Shape & Su Eko - Closely Tight Interface - Winds From The West Destroy Me Again - Altered State (Rotoskop) Echodead - Out Of Control http://synthetic.org/ https://synthetic.threadless.com/ https://www.youtube.com/@RealSyntheticAudio

RSA December 16th 2024

I slaved over a hot hard drive for an extra long time this week! Not only do I have this weeks show done for you all, but I have the 2024 best of show mixed. December 30th is going to be a good day for everyone to try out their new devices with a nice long show. This week we have a lot of great stuff, including a remix/cover that was brought to my attention on BlueSky. Get ready for everything from Futurepop to Synthpop to Stompy aggro techno! Destroy Me Again - Unhappiness (Trance) Volkoff - Awaiting Wisborg - Kalt Wie Eis (Frozen Plasma) Future Lied To Us - Complex NeuroWulf - No Guiding Light Schwefelgelb - Open World Game Phase Fatale - Altars The KLF - What Time Is Love (Bastian's World) http://synthetic.org/ https://synthetic.threadless.com/ https://www.youtube.com/@RealSyntheticAudio

RSA December 9th 2024

So I've looked at the calendar and gotten RSA all planned out to the end of the year. The annual best of show is coming along nicely, and Monday doesn't fall on any holidays, so I won't really need to take a week off this year. I think I've already taken my statuatory 2 shows off this year, so the next delay probably won't happen until April/May. Anyone speak Polish or Ukrainian? I'll be in Warsaw and Lviv around that time. This week we go through some new releases as I try to get the show posted before Europe has dinner and drinks! Frontal Boundary - Das Blut Infiziert PreEmptive Strike 0.1 - Pause In Chaos Stop The Madness (Single) DSTRTD_SGNL - Noise The Cohrsi - Fuhl Mein Herz (Desastroes) Darkness On Demand - Dust Simon Carter - Moondancer (Stefan Netschio) Interface - Zero Sum State Of Anguish - Down Here http://synthetic.org/ https://synthetic.threadless.com/ https://www.youtube.com/@RealSyntheticAudio

RSA December 2nd 2024 - Show #1415!

Welcome to RSA episode #1415! I don't really keep track of stuff like that, every few years I'll check the spreadsheet and think "I've been doing this a while haven't I?" But it isn't inertia, I pretty much start every Tuesday on a new show and spend a few days listening to music. Its really not exactly what I'd call a hardship. Though I did realize that after last weeks extra long show, I have to start compiling the annual best of. I've gotten a good start on it, and am brainstorming ideas for the extra long theme show I always try to do during the membership drive. But we'll burn those bridges when we come to them. For now, enjoy early December! Echodead - I Don't Like Humans Solitary Experiments - Traumen (Neuroticfish) Lifelong Corporation - Into The Night Lights Of Euphoria - Surrender (Tunnel) Uncreated - We Will Attack (Grendel) Pulse Protocol - Heartbeats (Pulsating Orbital) Rue Oberkampf - Solitude (Essenz) Simon Carter - Let Me Sink In Shadows (District 13) http://synthetic.org/ https://synthetic.threadless.com/ https://www.youtube.com/@RealSyntheticAudio

RSA November 25th 2024 - "Project 2011"

So are you ready for a deep dive into the "oughties"? I think thats what the kids are calling the 2000-2011 time period these days. I'm not sure. Get off my lawn. But its been pointed out that I should do a special theme show where I focus on the first decade or so of RSA. While we started in 1998, I don't think the show reached its standard form until 2001. I think thats when we went for a straight "new material" focus as opposed to "whatever the hell I feel like" previous to that. So I spent a week or so getting a nice big list from the first 10 best of shows, and condensed them down to this theme show. I do try to get a superficial "Where are they now?" and give my thoughts, Maybe even an anecdote. But history is best left to historians. I just like to play music loud. So strap in for a very nearly 3 hour show, and lets see if we rediscover something together. Stromkern - Re-Align (Seabound) Exilanation - Infinity (Live Recorded) Nebula-H - Mobilis In Mobile The Crystalline Effect - When The World Ends (Blank) Interface - North Star Angel Theory - Black And Blue Backlash - Alter Ego Diskonnekted - After Einstein (Extended) State Of The Union - Fall From Grace Zentriert Ins Antlitz - Geschaeftsfrau Negative Format - Origins Auto Aggression - Das Nyquist Theorem Alien 6 - Ice Machine Bobby - So Many Scars (Dynamikk) Obscyre - Liebe Und Wahnsinn Mono Chrome - Sold Morph - Banish Me (DJ Shadow) Mechanical Horizon - Promise The Way (Tool Box) Lost Signal - Drowning Access Zero - Years Of Wasted Time Real Life - Oblivion (Nevarakka) Lost Area - Soulhunter (Accessory) Conetik - Cold Star (Dead Eyes) Syntax - Pray Informatik - Flesh Menagerie Culture Kultur - The Only One Oomph - Augen Auf Iris - Unknown (Sub Rosa) Monofader - Mimic Minerve - My Universe (Club) Necessary Response - Tomorrow (Edit) Fictional - Opportunities http://synthetic.org/ https://synthetic.threadless.com/ https://www.youtube.com/@RealSyntheticAudio

RSA November 18th 2024

We're now in the hom stretch for 2024. I'm getting very close to completing the last theme show for the year, a 3 hour extravaganza I'm calling "Project 2011". We're going to dive into the shows played ~20 years ago and see how much has changed, how many acts are still around, and whatever happened to... This isn't even mentioning that some time in the next 4 weeks I have to get the annual best of show compiled. But I do enjoy getting out extra long shows at this time of year so everyone can have someething new to play on their new devices on Christmas morning! Chains Of Agony - Munging (Tazento) Avarice In Audio - Coffin On The Dancefloor NeuroWulf - No Guiding Light Freunde Der Technik - Peng! Cryptic Echoes - Toxic Horizon Malwere - It's All About Honour Wisborg - Unter Menschen (Beyond Border) Chris Shape & Su Eko - Nada http://synthetic.org/ https://synthetic.threadless.com/ https://www.youtube.com/@RealSyntheticAudio

RSA November 11th 2024

This weeks show is dated for Monday, which is Remembrance Day in Commonwealth countries, and Veterans day in the USA. This year I think more and more about my Grandparents as veterans, but what strikes me the most is having visited both Berlin and London in my lifetime, each time I visited I'd look up and picture the sky and imagine it black with bombers, fire and smoke. Its unfathomable now. Lets just hope that it always stays this way. But to show how far we've come lets give multiculturalism a spin by listening to great music from around the world! Silicodisco & Bias - Primal Tension First Aid Tech - Tech Under Your Skin Phase Fatale - Lament Configuration Amnistia - Phoenix Rising Avarice In Audio - Faith Czarina - Dark Star Solitary Experiments - Every Now And Then (Machinista) Insect Skin - We Are Lost (Again) http://synthetic.org/ https://synthetic.threadless.com/ https://www.youtube.com/@RealSyntheticAudio