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

RSA November 4th 2024

We've finally caught up with the rest of the world. Time change was last night in North America, the USA changed the date a few years ago, and when the US has a cold, we sneeze. I do want to say good luck to my American friends this week. The whole world is watching. Nervously. Hell, we're going to have our own turn at trying to keep the far-right out of a majority government here shortly enough. But lets block out the real world for an hour and listen to some great new music! Freunde Der Technik - Vielen Dank! E-Lektrotreib! - Aussergewehnlich Red Industrie - Forward (Extended) BlakLight - A Stranger Calls (Rework) Frontal Boundary - Shutting Down Martine - Black Noir (Mach Fox) Pulse Protocol - Heartbeats (Darkest Night) KRSSV - Trampa http://synthetic.org/ https://synthetic.threadless.com/ https://www.youtube.com/@RealSyntheticAudio