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Ontario weather struck again, and while its nice and sunny, its downright cold in the small town I grew up in. So the weekend trip of nostalgia and family duties will have to wait until the end of the summer. But that just means that I have extra time this weekend, so RSA is out at the usual time! I doubt we'll be going back to the old "Summer Hours" where I'd post the show on Mondays. I don't live in the saddle anymore, so I have time for all of my various hobbies! Now who wants to import a Jonsbo N5 computer case or two into Canada so I can save some space! Great show this week with some new and some returning names! Modulo One - The Cliffs (Olming) Adam Ra - The Poisoned Chalice Core In Motion - Not A Game (Sonic Sound Factory) Beborn Beton - American Girls (Agent Side Grinder) Fictional - Your Whisper f. Christian Schottstadt (Club) Cold Sequence - Echoes In The Dark Velvet Velour - Spoiled Devoid - Memories http://synthetic.org/ https://www.youtube.com/@RealSyntheticAudio

A quick heads up that I'm already hard at work on next weeks show. I'm going to be away most of next weekend, so I'm trying to get everything done ahead of time. Fingers crossed that I can get everything done on time (and its looking good) and I can just get home on Sunday evening and hit "Publish". Its been a good week though, having the extra time to myself meant I could listen to more music. While I can do that while working, I'll "lose" time where my attention is 100% on work, and then have to figure out how far back to go to restart. I just wish the weather had been better. I quite enjoy sitting on my balcony with my headphones. Still too windy. Still too rainy. Lucifer's Aid - Coming Back Aesthetische - Selling Fear KY - Off My Meds Exsequor - Forged In Fire eXcubitors - Burning Bridges Aesthetic Perfection - Architecht Die Sexual - Pulse (Hexmaschine) Formato Negativo - Judgement Day (Eleven-FX) http://synthetic.org/ https://www.youtube.com/@RealSyntheticAudio

A gray overcast day makes sense while we in Canada celebrate our ever increasingly anarchonistic holiday "Victoria Day". Traditionally this is known as the May two four weekend. Two four being common slang for a case of beer. While I don't really drink anymore, I'll be going out to resupply my stock of Root Beer, as I seem to have slightly regressed a bit back into childhood. Sex Code - Your Silent Face Studio-X - Clouds & Trees (Elektrostaub) Retrojunkies - Unterwelt (Massiv In Mensch) Exsequor - The Fallen Digital Energy - Addicted To You MONO_XYD - Lessons II (Monya) Core In Motion - Fire In My Eyes (Sonic Sound Factory) VNV Nation - Station 21 http://synthetic.org/ https://www.youtube.com/@RealSyntheticAudio

Managed to get some cycling in this weekend, so I get to spend Sunday morning lamenting the lack of exercise I've done in the past few months and get RSA complete! I'm going to take another week off some time in July as I take a vacation of some sort, but we'll burn that bridge when we get to it. A happy Mother's day to those that celebrate at this time of year. I always make sure to call my Mom if I can't visit. I mean, she's on the membership Friends of RSA! Have a great week and enjoy this weeks show! Rotoskop - Old White Men Future Trail - Panic (People Theatre) Monody - Gaslight Sine - Control (Leaetherstrip) Synapsyche - Deafness Nordstaat - Sympathetic Detonation Fractal Age - Tremors (Audiocall) Skren - STROM http://synthetic.org/ https://www.youtube.com/@RealSyntheticAudio

Took a week off last week to get some stuff sorted out. Should called it a vacation weekend, but the fact is when your folks are gone for half the year that when they come back we make a point of visiting. I tried to sit down and finish the show last week, but I was burnt out. *I* sounded like hell, so I scrapped it and took a week off. Its better to recharge the batteries a bit than put out something substandard. I tried to let everyone know, but with the enshittification of social media, its hard to get the word out. I await the day people stop using Facebook as their primary way of communicating to the world! Core In Motion - Lost (Sonic Sound Factory) Volkoff - Shine One Studio-X - Clouds & Trees (Kyoko Baertsoen) Deviant UK - Access Denied! (Nature Of Wires) Uncreated - Diktator Antibody - My Enemy (Binary Division, Czarina) All The Ashes - Inkompatibel (MissSuicide) Aiboforcen - Dead End (EP Mix) http://synthetic.org/ https://www.youtube.com/@RealSyntheticAudio

Welcome back to another exciting week of electronic music! Its the Easter weekend in Canada, and I have a 4 day weekend, so obviously on day 3 I'm finishing off the show. Gotta procrastinate as much as possible! I have a couple of packages to drop in the mail this week, my call out to everyone "Are you missing a prize?" did get some responses. I am quite glad that I didn't miss anyones name from the 2025 membership drive list. This week is a little synthpoppier than usual, but like I've always said, this is a big tent. Room for all sorts of variation and diversity in music! CYLiX - End Of Decay Vintage Voltage - Into The Void Unify Separate - Dark Heaven (Extended) Implant - Vampier State Encephalon - Synthskin6d SynthAttack - In Hell (Miseria Ultima) Sektor Six - Hopes Lies and Fear (Frontal Boundary) Minuit Machine - Creatures (RAUMM) http://synthetic.org/ https://www.youtube.com/@RealSyntheticAudio

This week I'm actually getting the show done early so that I can get out on my bicycle today! Lets see how far I get today without collapsing, gasping for air. I can feel that I haven't done any significant excercise since the late fall. But I'm cycling out to have a late lunch, so Sushi is my motivator! This week we delve into some great new releases and put a few discs to bed. I guess I'm going to have to think of another long theme show. I keep getting requests, so maybe a nice mid spring treat in May? Aiboforcen - Executions (Single Edit) Echodead - Wake Up Dead Kontrast - Manifest (Bunker Mix) Nordstaat - Crosses Grow Evo-Lution - Lichter Und Sturme DSTRTD SGNL - Face The Sun (Ruined Conflict) Future Lied To Us - Useless (Rework) Machinista - Bring Me The Blood http://synthetic.org/ https://www.youtube.com/@RealSyntheticAudio

We're now officially into spring, and its safe for me to leave the house without freezing. Which means that RSA will slide into its summer schedule and the show will most likely be posted late on Sundays as I get chores done. The exciting life of an internet DJ! This week we've got an interesting mix of new stuff, including a mystery with Wolfgang Flur! Plus a nice bit of retro-ish stuff from Extize that reminds me of a great Val Solo track! SynthAttack - In Hell Millimetric - 35286 Wolfgang Flur - Uber All (Peter Hook & ?) Penetrate The Facade - Tree Of Life Revolt - Shaolinquan (Incendie) VNV Nation - Silence Speaks Blut Reaktor - Scars (2025) Extize - 80s Were Better http://synthetic.org/ https://www.youtube.com/@RealSyntheticAudio

Its thoroughly "Great Britain" outside this weekend, only with the extra Canadian advantage of getting freezing rain overnight to make today a skating rink. Apparently. I did all of my errands yesterday so I wouldn't have to go out in this weather! All of teh US and Canadian packages for the membership drive have been delivered, and it looks like Overseas will be arriving next week! But this week we've got a great show for everyone as I clear out a tiny bit of stuff carried over from 2024 and a lot of brand new stuff including a release from a Remixer that I really like! Kontrast - Manifest (Club) Blood Rave - Can't Resist NNHMN - Dressing For Pleasure Psyhound - Life's A Glitch Minuit Machine - I Don't Give A Damn Alex Braun - Zeitfresser (Ruined Conflict) Kaos! - Gone Astray Dmt Berzerk & Noble Savage - Cadere (Ego Bliss) http://synthetic.org/ https://www.youtube.com/@RealSyntheticAudio

All of the membership drive prizes are officially in the post and making their way to you. Apparently there was a delay at the Niagara Falls bridge taking stuff over to the USA. But USA packages should arrive in the next couple of days, and overseas will probably be another week or so. I basically spent all last weekend getting everything packaged up so there would be less of a delay than usual. After 20+ years of this I might finally be getting organized. Encephalon - Survivors Bias Die Sexual - Tremble For Me (Harlander Hack) Autodafeh - Fastlane Noemi Aurora - The Alchemist (Aiboforcen) Sex Code - O.R.Gasm Skren - Transporter Fermion - Unity With Chaos (Frontal Boundary) DSTRTD SGNL - Der Eisberg (Martin Bodewell) http://synthetic.org/ https://www.youtube.com/@RealSyntheticAudio

I'm quite happy to tell everyone that nearly every prize for the membership drive is in the mail. I can also tell from my shipping dashboard that a few of you have received your gifts! I really hope you like the USB and the Spreadsheet! Its likely that next year the prizes for

The prizes have all be "created" and are now sitting next to a box of small mailers. This afternoon I'll be sending out the first batch and I figure that barring crazy circumstances everything will be in the mail and done in a week. Hopefully you'll be able to enjoy your little gift very soon! But this week we've got a great show for you, I've managed to avoid having too much stuff "hanging around" from 2024, so unlike most years I'm not struggling to put square pegs in round holes. We've got a great show for everyone, and once again thanks to all of my wonderful supporters! DSTRTD SGNL - Shine A Light (Club) Massiv In Mensch - Procrastination (Rana Orborea) E_Lect - Empty Streets Happy707 - Metallic Sky Encephalon - Illusions Dark-O-Matic - Trash Darkvolt - White Lie (Novakill) Death By Love - Strong Inside http://synthetic.org/ https://www.youtube.com/@RealSyntheticAudio

The annual membership drive is over, and you'll no longer have to listen to me beg for money! It was a great success this year, and really made me feel good that so many people are willing to part with their hard earned money for my little show. Now of course I have to get my act together, fill dozens of USB keys to mail out, and a number of cards and thank-yous. But without any further ado, here's what your donations bring us! A brand new epsiode of RSA! Happy707 - Alsina Noemi Aurora - The Alchemist (Aesthetische) Asymetric80 - Innocent Stigmata Sto Desyat - Ball Of Vampires Urban Matrix - From The Skies Monody - Stand Fermion - Unity Within Chaos Parralox - Teardrop v10 http://synthetic.org/ https://www.youtube.com/@RealSyntheticAudio

Welcome to the final week of the 2025 membership drive! We'll be accepting donations until next weekend, and then the list will be set in stone! The USB sticks have been ordered, and some will come laser etched with the RSA logo! Your donations are appreciated beyond beleif, it keeps RSA going for another year. But part of that is me delivering new shows for everyone, and this week we've got some great stuff for everyone, including the return of a band that we haven't played since 2017! http://www.synthetic.org/membership.php DSTRTD SGNL - Echoes (Extended) Robota Robotny - Fass Mich Nicht An (Das Schwarze System) Antibody - Dios, Goodbye! (Modulate) Extize - Renaissance Rave Massiv In Mensch - Scharlatan (Club) E_Lect - Schizo Phaser One - Closer (Echodead) Welle Erdball - Lady Dracula http://synthetic.org/ https://www.youtube.com/@RealSyntheticAudio

Welcome to the third week of the 2025 membership drive! Thanks for all of your support! http://www.synthetic.org/play.php We're almost done and will return to even more mispronunciations and start mailing out prizes and thank you's! But never fear, you've still got just under 2 weeks to get in on the fun! This weekend in Toronto we're being treated to something like 36 hours of straight snow, fairly heavy for this part of Canada. So I've stocked up on snacks and I've got to get caught up on Severance. I'm getting everything done early for the weekend so I can enjoy the last few days of my stay-cation on the couch. Might even get the final Membership drive show started! But I'm getting ahead of myself... Blut Reaktor - Lovers Virulents - Basilisk Cryptic Echoes - Fractured Reality Dezeption - And You Never Hear What I Say Darkvolt - White Lie (Andy De Baeke) Massive Ego - In Your Own Darkness Frozen Plasma - Amnesia (Feat. SITD) Syncfactory - Peace Of Mind http://synthetic.org/ https://www.youtube.com/@RealSyntheticAudio

Welcome to the second week of the 2025 membership drive! http://www.synthetic.org/membership.php Yes, we've survived the first week of Todd begging for money, but how about another? Those of you who have been with me for a while will know the drill. A Patreon where I don't bother you every single week. Just the shortest month of the year. Over and done. But your support means the world to me, and I'm always really pleased to see the names of people who have given thier support for years as well as the new names the pop up every year. Welcome and thank you! But enough of that, lets get down to some really great music this week. We hit South America at least twice this week I think, and get some new acts some airplay as well as some returning favourites! MissSuicide - Narziss (Blue Ant) DSTRTD_SGNL - Body to Body (Bigod 20) Black.N - Deforestacion (KRSSV) Uncreated - Alliance State Of Anguish - If Only Happy707 - Inercia Expandida Phaser One - History Repeats (Echodead) NECR0 - Desolate http://synthetic.org/ https://www.youtube.com/@RealSyntheticAudio

The 2025 membership drive is upon us! http://www.synthetic.org/membership.php Yes, we take the month of February to plug what would be called our Patreon. But since RSA has just turned 27, we're keeping it old school. I don't like having to plug anything other than the music so we get it all out in Feb. Help keep RSA going another year by considering visiting the Membership page. Everyone who donates will get something in the mail from me, even if its just a card saying thanks! But enough of that, lets get down to some great new music that is a little synthier-across-the-board than usual. But as I've mentioned in the past the mood I'm in when selecting the tracks does affect my choices. This week its upbeat and dancey! Decence - Interstellar Stars Crusaders - Eternal Dance Cryptic Echoes - Ghosts In The Alley Front Line Assembly - Mechvirus (Ultra Sunn) Electron7 - The Rise Cicero - Weekender (Extended) E_Lect - You Kite - Heartless Places http://synthetic.org/ https://www.youtube.com/@RealSyntheticAudio

Getting things ready for the 2025 membership drive (which starts NEXT week) and listening to this weeks show. I did find the dumbest mispronunciation of a bands name that I've made in quite a while. I'd go and fix it, but perfection is not what people who listen to RSA are expecting. I'd be highly amused with an AI rendition of my voice. Could you imagine training it on all of my mistakes? It'd probably try to end every sentence with "Anyways...". Thanks for the help in the last couple of weeks, folks have pointed out bad links and other general mistakes. I'm sure I'll be thanking you even more next week! But lets get back to the present and after you've all watched the Live Front 242 show on YouTube, we've got a great show with some really nice dancey stuff! MissSuicide - Narziss Ankomst - Dancing In Warsaw (Colony 5) AD-Key - Deine Augen (Extended) Code 64 - The Running Man Black.N - Just A Little Simon Carter - Pain & Pleasure Schwefelgelb - Open World Game (UFO95) Tachion-X - The Opposer http://synthetic.org/ https://www.youtube.com/@RealSyntheticAudio

Whoa. I got up bright and early this morning to post RSA, and was merrily away updating the site when I suddenly finished. Wait, I don't have to look up amazon links! This is almost liberating with how much less time its taking. This week we delve a little more into the whole amazon referrals, streaming, and a sudden revelation that a rule I made up and followed was really from the era of physical releases. But there's much less of me talking about myself and RSA this week. Guaranteed! In 2 weeks we'll be starting the membership drive, so next week we'll be reformatting the website a bit and starting a new list of supporters for 2025! But enough about that! Lets listen to some great EBM and techno beats! Any Second - Out Of Control Petros Spatharos - Datura Destroy Me Again - DMA (Matt Hart) Penetrate The Facade - Like Sand In Hand NECR0 - Cold Cut JG Outsider - Faith Virulents - Null Unit Cryptic Echoes - Decay Of Dreams http://synthetic.org/ https://www.youtube.com/@RealSyntheticAudio

Its been a very event filled couple of weeks. I took last week off to recharge and reevaluate what I do with RSA. I was feeling a little irrelevant, as I wonder from time to time if well my time has come. Facebook has taken care of the first part. I was very frustrated with the "return" on tagging bands in the RSA posts. So I'm not bothering anymore. Generating Amazon links that aren't used is a big time sink for me. So thats stopped as well. Rather than get frustrated with the whole experience and walking away from it, I'm just cancelling the aspects that "don't bring joy." So while I do talk a bit this week in greater depth about this stuff, lets not forget the purpose of RSA! Getting great new music to you! State Of Anguish - Still The Same Destroy Me Again - Tomorrow Yohann Ko - UnVerso Clan OF Xymox - Blood Of Christ (Matte Blvck) Urban Matrix - Step Inside, If You Dare KRSSV - Protones Infected Sound Machine - Bad Pussy Future Lied To Us - Searching http://synthetic.org/ https://www.youtube.com/@RealSyntheticAudio

I decided last night that I've sat on the Best Of show for 2024 too long. Lets get it out there so people can enjoy it! After painstakingly re-listening to every show from Dec'23 to Dec'24 I've come up with a list of I think were the best discs that passed through my hands in the last year. I always say its the hardest, yet most fun to do. A lot of listening, referring to notes I've made throughout the year, and then making some hard decisions. But I was quite happy that the stuff I had picked in my head as the year progressed didn't "fade" with each listen. I also took all of the "shackles" off and said "This show will be as long as it has to be." But it came in at about the same number of tracks and length as in most years. Its not about quantity, its about quality. So sit back and turn the volume up as we delve into the best of 2024! Negative Format - Molecular Stability Simon Carter - Fat One Neuroticfish - How To Suffer Nordika - Lost Generation Aiboforcen - Executions (Life Before Death) Mondtraume - Pictures Of You Ashbury Heights - Sleeping With A Knife Czarina - Exoskeleto Train To Spain - My Spirit Is Free (Janousek Club) Faderhead - Burn All Night (Electra Black) Massiv In Mensch - Lonesome Lighthouse DSTRTD_SGNL - Atmosfear Teknovore - Oubliette DHI - Chemical Land (1990 Mix Remastered) http://synthetic.org/ https://synthetic.threadless.com/ https://www.youtube.com/@RealSyntheticAudio

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I hope you're all ready for Hallowe'en! Only a few more days to go, and I've got to start hoarding candy for Thursday. For the kids. I swear. But I'm up at an ungodly hour on a Sunday to make sure the show gets posted nice and early. It's already 2pm in Europe and I've not even had my tea yet! But I have a strange way of thinking, I usually think about the folks who have donated and thus shared where in the world they live. I have to get it online before people in Edinburgh or Stuttgart get tired of waiting! I always put a face or two to tasks I do. But this week has got some great stuff with a little lean to the Techno Industrial! Our Graves - System Overload MALWERE - Along The Riverbank NeuroWulf - Havoc (ft. Smooth) Re.Mind - Free Your Liberty Destroy Me Again - Titan (Rob Dust) VOLKOFF - Belongs To Us AUDIOCALL - The Tower (Steril) Conscience - This Life (Nsm) http://synthetic.org/ https://synthetic.threadless.com/ https://www.youtube.com/@RealSyntheticAudio

This week I'm getting the show posted nice and early because its going to be the last 20c sunny Sunday, and I've gotta get outside and soak up some of that vitamin D. But this week we dive a bit into the growly aggro stuff that I do love playing, but I find I really only like the "exceptional" tracks. But with the number of talented people working on stuff like that, there's a fair bit of great stuff. This scene is a "big tent" and we have room for all! I'm also very pleased at finding a Reservation Dogs sample in the wild. I'm a trend setter! (lol) Device Noize - I'll Kill You (C-Lekktor) FabrikC - Take Control Chains Of Agony - Munging (Fezter) Freakangel - Crawling In The Dark (Eleven-FX) Frontal Boundary - Runaway Menschdefekt - Tears In The Rain (The Saint Paul) Revolt - Multidisciplinary Denial (Endless Nothing) Amnistia - Theory In Strings http://synthetic.org/ https://synthetic.threadless.com/ https://www.youtube.com/@RealSyntheticAudio

Last week was a lot of fun. Its a lot more work, especially picking tracks, but the end result is a little gift for you all to enjoy! Now, this week is a lot more digestible but we've got a lot of great music including the first appearance on RSA for a number of acts. I hope we hear more great stuff from them all in the future! I'm also kinda sad to report that we're going to be looking for a new Merch vendor. Apparently the one that I had previously used has erected a 12 foot tall "Vote For Tr*mp" lighted sign. Sorry, homie don't play that. Not even on Christmas. So I'm looking for your help for what to do with the 2025 membership drive prizes. We need your input for! So listen to the show, and drop me a line! Wisborg - Berlin (Solar Fake) Rue Oberkampf - Solitude (Buzzkill) AUDIOCALL - The Tower (Fractal Age) The Russian White - We Disappear Dataman - Inner Sanctum Devil Machine - Speak With Me MALWERE - The Challenger DSTRTD_SGNL - Atmosfear (v1.0) The Cohrsi - Fuhl mein Herz (Ruined Conflict) http://synthetic.org/ https://synthetic.threadless.com/ https://www.youtube.com/@RealSyntheticAudio

I'm glad the realization that we haven't done a "Best of the best" since 2017. That gave me a good 7 years of best of shows to pick out my favourites, and a maybe give an overall view of the great music thats been released and continues to. Of course, I forgot how much work compiling something like this is, and the longer show means more work. But it was definitely worth it, and I hope this one gets a fair bit of play. So sit back and enjoy a couple of hours singing along with the stompy, growly, synthy, and the best part of all. Me rambling on! Entrzelle - Everyday Criminal Stabbing Westward - I am Nothing (Replicant 2121) Cubanate - Vortex Suppressor - Shaman (v.2) Soman - Blue Flame (Single) SD-KRTR - Rise (Aesthetische) Zynic - Free To Decide Lights Of Euphoria - Puppeteer (Popcorny) Menschdefekt - Secular Days (Rob Dust) TOY - The Darkness & The Light Kirlian Camera - Sky Collapse (Dancetronic) Red Cell - The Ladder (Xenturion Prime) Mondtraume - Free (Kant Kino) Culture Kultur - Refugee Solar Fake - Arrive Somewhere (Solitary Experiments) Elektrostaub - Wake Up (Culture Kultur) Ashbury Heights - Tomorrow Is Dead To Me Unity One - Reality Elegant Machinery - Wheels In Motion (Parralox) Dark-O-Matic - Zugzwang (Unity One) Psy'Aviah - Pretender (Device Noize) Solitary Experiments - Crash & Burn (SITD) Assemblage 23 - Bravery (Interface) http://synthetic.org/ https://synthetic.threadless.com/ https://www.youtube.com/@RealSyntheticAudio

OK, I have made the commitment. Next week is going to be our extra long best of the best show. This is actually a long weekend for some folks (myself included) so I'll have all day Monday to slave over a hot hard drive to get it out! But lets not forget the great show we have for everyone this week. A little bit of everything! Revolt - Dark Warrior (Asymetric80) Decence - Monuments SINE - From Beyond (Leaetherstrip) Vaylon - Stellar (Extended) Alienare - Midnight Queen Device Noize - Cada Que Hablo (Alien Nation) Freakangel - Gods Blind Game Amnistia - Fr34k5 http://synthetic.org/ https://synthetic.threadless.com/ https://www.youtube.com/@RealSyntheticAudio

More work continues on the upcoming "Best of the Best" show, I have a track list, and now I just have to spend some time to start piecing it together. In more personal news, a valued contributor to RSA, my buddy Sundie, passsed away earlier this week. He was responsible for 3d printing the RSA tags, and even printed a replacement knob for a fan I have and embossed on the top "Real Synthetic Knob". So while we've got great new music for everything this week, its taken me more time than usual. Menschdefekt - Rays Of Light (District 13) FabrikC - Echoes To Eternity (Techno Club) DSTRTD SGNL - Amosfear Implant - It Will Mutate Deus Ex Lumina - Dopamine Nation CauseNation - Hearts Beat Strong (Novakill) Fluid Ghost - Your Destiny Eisfabrik - Greetings From Far Away http://synthetic.org/ https://synthetic.threadless.com/ https://www.youtube.com/@RealSyntheticAudio

There's a certain comfort on a Sunday morning, listening to the show before finalizing it with a grey cat on your lap, and the Orange Monster is nearby hoping to get his turn for scritches. Though it does make typing a bit harder than usual. I've been slowly working on a special "bonus" show for everyone as its been ~7 years since we last did a "best of the best" but it's really hard. Not necessarily selecting the tracks, but deciding which ones you need to leave out due to length. Its like choosing your favourite children. Not easy. FabrikC - Echoes To Eternity (Clean Extended) Zentriert Ins Antlitz - Wormhole Blut Reaktor - Dead Inside (Official) Alienare - A Thousand Miles FrontAngel - And We Dance (Club) Amnistia - Creatures Metamorph - Veridia (Grendel) Device Noize - Condenado a Muerte http://synthetic.org/ https://synthetic.threadless.com/ https://www.youtube.com/@RealSyntheticAudio

Wound up catching a 48 hour flu this week so the show is a little later than usual. Had to stay up late last night listening to music so that I could get RSA done! The cold/flu sucked, but it was nice to just relax last night and let the music flow over me. Hopefully the coming week will be a bit better. At least fall is approaching and I can enjoy the leaves changing colour and the more temperate weather. Just no more rain. Such a wet, annoying summer. Traumsoldat - The Sparrows And The Nightingales Zee Mon - Kisses In The Dark Martine - Black Noir (Revisited) Freakangel - Crawling In The Dark (Eleven-FX) Menschdefekt - Day By Day (Mark Sousa) Blut Reaktor - Scars (2024) Sine Division - Follow Cyferdyne - Everything http://synthetic.org/ https://synthetic.threadless.com/ https://www.youtube.com/@RealSyntheticAudio

Sad week week as it was announced that Héctor Marin Rios of Nordika passed away. Its especially sad as he'll never get to see how well the Lost Generation single is doing. My condolences to his friends and family. With that said, we've got a great show this week featuring a few discs we're going to put to bed and naturally the brand new stuff I've gotten my hands on over the past week. Plus no CD Baby interference, so the show will actually turn up on YouTube tomorrow. Its the labour day weekend here, so I'm going to end my labour for the weekend and get RSA posted for you! Nordika - Lost Generation (Final) Llumen - Torn Skin (Technoid) Zone Tripper - Lazer Love (Live Remix) Outsized - Frei (Kim Lunner) District 13 - I Don't Love You Anymore Ashbury Heights - Anti Ordinary 2023 Empirion - Breakneck Beats (A2DIV) Red Lokust - The Fourth Turning (Club) http://synthetic.org/ https://synthetic.threadless.com/ https://www.youtube.com/@RealSyntheticAudio

Welcome to the last week of August where we start to mourn the end of summer. Personally I think that Autumn is the most "goth" of all seasons because its cool enough that we can wear a nice leather jacket, but not so cool that you have to zip the thing up. I think I can still zip up my old jacket, but there might be some compression effect happening on my stomach. Its also the time that labels start getting things ready for the holiday season! I have a feeling we've got a great few months coming of great new music. Much like this weeks show! Moris Blak - The Unraveling World Aitee - HII Forest Simon Carter - Pain Destroys Interface - Tomorrow Is Now (Red Lokust) TourdeForce - Murder Made History Device Noize - Vida Eterna Sven Phalanx & Eleven-FX - The Battle Begins (Club) Kris Baha - Grains Of Time http://synthetic.org/ https://synthetic.threadless.com/ https://www.youtube.com/@RealSyntheticAudio

We've had a crazy amount of rain this summer in Toronto. Had another flooding level rain storm yesterday, and it looks like this afternoon is going to be very "Sunny UK" ... ie grey and raining. But that just gives me more free time to work on RSA. I should build up a few extra episodes as I did some calculating and I have a few vacation days left. Too bad my recent (and final!) move has left me broke with a capital B. But enough about the weather and my finances. We're here to listen to some great new music and we deliver. Zanias - Teatree (Neu-Romancer) Tevalik - Fremde Neue Welt (Endzeit) Red Lokust - The Fourth Turning (Interface) Alienare - Leave A Light On Psychosomatik - Stress (Ultimate Soldier) Ashbury Heights - A Lifetime In The Service of Darkness Nordika - Lost Generation (Other Voices) Empirion - Dark March (Analogue Blood) http://synthetic.org/ https://synthetic.threadless.com/ https://www.youtube.com/@RealSyntheticAudio

A rainy Sunday morning and clear skies in the afternoon is a clear message that I had to get RSA done this week before I went outside. This week we've got a show every so slightly leaning towards the "techno industrial" that I've come to enjoy so much. Its basically what came in this week, so it was time to get it played! A bunch of new singles with some really interesting stuff. I don't think I'll ever hate this "job" with all of the new music I get to listen to and share with you! Moris Blak - Infinite Warehouse Simon Carter - Fat One Kris Baha - Breathe Interface - Tomorrow Is Now (Red Lokust) Outsized - Frei (Kosmos) The Grab Society - Room (Cyborgdrive) Red Industrie - Nanoparticulas Letales (Remix) Slichtnacht - Gehasster http://synthetic.org/ https://synthetic.threadless.com/ https://www.youtube.com/@RealSyntheticAudio

I was going to spend my morning on the new balcony sipping my tea and generally getting used to the idea of being awake. But its another Toronto summer heatwave and I'm going to try and get out and do things before noon and the day star starts to burn my pallid skin. Managed to get some packages that have sat on my desk for months out the door this week, and I'm starting to get organized again. I've listened to this show a few times during the week, and I think you're gonna like it! Ashbury Heights - Sleeping With A Knife Zentriert Ins Antlitz - Back Burned PreEmprive Strike 0.1 - Stellar Castaway (Object) Vogon Poetry & Scala - Immortals Metroland - Cooperation In A Fragemented World Chainreactor - Welcome To The Deep (Stahlschlag) Ethan Fawkes - Dancefloor EBM (Paulitical) Rouge - Until Next Moon http://synthetic.org/ https://synthetic.threadless.com/ https://www.youtube.com/@RealSyntheticAudio

Everything is slowly coming together at the new place. My office is nice and set up, and I'm now at the point where I'm taking in photographs to get (re)framed and doing the finishing touches that change a house into a home. But for now while it's still early and I don't have direct sun on the front of my building I'm going to post RSA and finish the job covering my balcony. Phase Fatale - Magma Driver Plastic Autumn - Obsidian Glis - Ascension (Rotersand) The Saint Paul - Resistance Massive Ego - In Your Own Darkness (Night) Future Lied To Us - Code Fluid Ghost - Flesh And Fortune Antibody - Drunk http://synthetic.org/ https://synthetic.threadless.com/ https://www.youtube.com/@RealSyntheticAudio

Its another beautiful Sunday morning, so I'm up bright and early to get RSA posted. I always try to get the show up early because I'm aware that I'm technically 5-7 hours behind Europe, and I have to play catch up. Of course the West coast of the US is still asleep, so I'm nice and early for them. It always tickles me that we have listeners in practically every timezone, and a LOT of countries. I truly do wish that I travelled well because I could meet a bunch of people who listen or make music we play without having to go near a festival. (Multiple days of no rest, noise, and very bright lights do a number on me.) So as I make plans for 2025, here's a great new show for you all! Aiboforcen - Executions (Life Before Death) Rhys Fulber - The Heir PreEmptive Strike 0.1 - Numb Apparatus (2024) Psychosomatik - Stress (SEXGUN) Czarina - The Outsider TeknoVore - Sensory Malfunction (Matt Hart) Crystal Geometry - Money Has No Smell Darkvolt - Tools Of Destruction (Deafman) http://synthetic.org/ https://synthetic.threadless.com/ https://www.youtube.com/@RealSyntheticAudio

The move is complete, while the vacation is not. This is a wonderful combination. But in between unpacking and decorating I made sure I had time to get RSA done for everyone this week. Besides, I need a break for using my muscles for anything other than typing. I'd like everyone to have a listen to my commentary through the show and let me know if it sounds more echo-y than usual. The office needs a bit more echo damping I think, but you're a better judge of that than I! Solar Fake - This Generation Ends Negative Format - Molecular Stability Glis - Ascension (Single) Chiasm - Dead Trees (Blackcarburning) Cellmod - The Untold Truth (You Shriek) Eva X - Fiction Cyferdyne - We Are Ghosts Desastroes - Soulbound (TOAL) http://synthetic.org/ https://synthetic.threadless.com/ https://www.youtube.com/@RealSyntheticAudio

While the vacation has started, the work has too. Packing up to move in a couple of days, but I'm getting RSA out while this adventure takes place. There will be a show next week too! Hopefully the acoustics are OK in my new office. I'll have to get it filled a bit before I can record the next show. Echoes. Echoes everywhere. But I'm actually posting this from my new abode, sitting on the floor because my desk and chair still need to be moved! Acylum - Oder Tod (Darkness On Demand) The Saint Paul - End Of Days Sine Division - Solitary Observer (Cold Vigor) Llumen - A Part Of Me With You The Synthetic Dream Foundation - Eine Schone Ruine Superikone - Meine Seele (Bodypop) District 13 - Hope Antibody - Beautiful Sadness http://synthetic.org/ https://synthetic.threadless.com/ https://www.youtube.com/@RealSyntheticAudio

The vacation has begun, and what better way to spend the Canada Day long weekend than finishing 2 weeks (or so) of RSA and just relaxing. I've got a move coming up in a week, but it won't affect RSA. Much like this week, lots of great music for everyone to enjoy. Luckily the summer release schedule has picked up and I have some really neat stuff to share with you! Aiboforcen - Executions Rhys Fulber - Despite The Noise Decence - Monuments (Rob Dust) Implant - The Drive Clan Of Xymox - Blood Of Christ TeknoVore - Grip Of Pain (Any Second) Pending Position - Ballerina (Rotoskop Genf) Frontal Boundary - Without A Chance http://synthetic.org/ https://synthetic.threadless.com/ https://www.youtube.com/@RealSyntheticAudio

Well the Amazon issue seems to have resolved itself, so I went back through the play lists for May and June of this year and properly annotated them. As much as the weather so far this year has either been thunderstorming or sweltering on the weekends, this sucks for my cycling, but it does give me more time on the weekends to get RSA finished. This is always good because I think of our listeners in Europe (and the UK) and I feel like I'm starting Sunday with a 6-7 hour disadvantage! TourDeForce - In Days To Come Kennelklubben - Honung Och Parfym (Xenturion Prime) Depeche Mode - Behind The Wheel (Parralox v2) White Noise TV - Drowning Winds (Neon Space Men) Desastroes - Spellbound (Club) Nox - Once Now Gone Solaris D - Fate (Rob Dust) Moris Blak x Nyxx - FERAL (Static Starlight) http://synthetic.org/ https://synthetic.threadless.com/ https://www.youtube.com/@RealSyntheticAudio

A week closer to my big summer vacation. I'm not actually going anywhere this year, but for the first time in my life I'm going to take a solid 3 weeks off work and disconnect. The usual stuff like RSA getting posted is still going to happen, but I just won't have to think about work. Its going to be glorious! So here's a great new show with great new music! Leaetherstrip - Here Comes The Rain Again Solar Fake - Hurts So Bad Blinky Blinky Computerband - Vexation Synpasyche - Anti Manifesto Pseudokrupp Project - Du Und Ich Red Deviil - Azul Instinto Butcher Boy - Blood Lust (Perdi La Luz) Xenturion Prime - Memory Lanes (Mars TV) http://synthetic.org/ https://synthetic.threadless.com/ https://www.youtube.com/@RealSyntheticAudio

Its been a bit of a rough week for me, and I thought about postponing this weeks show, but the fact is it keeps me distracted and its something I really enjoy doing, so I'm pushing through and getting RSA out to everyone! Sine Division - Solitary Observer (Dark Star Black Sun) NightCrawler - Multitasker Antibody - F.Society (C-Lekktor) E_Lect - Dimma (Patrik Kambo) Emmon - DARK The Synthetic Dream Foundation - Hammers Out The... Priest - Burning Love ee man & Retrograth - Last Lines http://synthetic.org/ https://synthetic.threadless.com/ https://www.youtube.com/@RealSyntheticAudio

Another grey and miserable Sunday morning. The bike is back on the wall, and I'm getting RSA finished instead of going for a nice bike ride. I was "proof reading" the show while out and about yesterday, so I think you're really going to like this one. As the Festival season gets truly under way, the nice thing is that my "inbox" of new material starts to re-fill again. Keep your eyes and ears open, we've got lots of great new stuff for everyone! Solar Fake - Disagree The Saint Paul - End Of Days (Levity Space) Tevalik - Fremde Neue Welt (Club) Xenturion Prime - Memory Lanes (Mars TV) Aiboforcen - Cycle Of Life (Noemi Aurora) Superikone - Eiskalt (Futurepop) Llumen - All Things Broken (Aesthetische) Clan Of Xymox - Suffer (Single) http://synthetic.org/ https://synthetic.threadless.com/ https://www.youtube.com/@RealSyntheticAudio