Boyd Jarvis, a producer and musician whose driving synthesizer bass lines became an important facet of New York dance music in the 1980s, and whose popular song “The Music Got Me” anticipated what ...

The drama of 1980s synth-pop lay in the keyboards. At the start of the decade, synthesizers became ubiquitous with increased ...

Back in 1981, “Don’t You Want Me” by The Human League was an insanely big hit. It’s not an overly complex song, either. Martin Rushent, who produced the song, added a drum machine, a very basic synth, ...

With TV soundtracks increasingly turning to nostalgic ’80s tracks, hear a playlist of essential hits and deeper cuts. By David Renard It’s Dave Renard, an editor on the Times Culture desk. It feels ...

There are so many ways to create a synth bass, from processing the simplest of sine waves with analogue gear to frequency modulating complex wavetable oscillators in the digital realm. Though the ...

Skies and sewers are uniting for a double record release party that will encourage matching track suits, '80s dance moves, and perhaps a Cure T-shirt or two. The Rochester-based electropop group Enemy ...

This is the history of Native Instruments’ massively influential wavetable instrument, from development and release to its rebirth as Massive X Player ...