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Let's Talk Synth... Seriously!!Let's Talk Synth... Seriously!! #17: &TillyMany people consider "&Tilly" a one-woman-project since their vocalist T. is among the most remarkable vocalists of the independent music scene, but in fact - as we learn in this episode - &Tilly is a project of three. Not the only interesting thing to learn here. We also hear about their attitude towards Synthesizers in their genre-bending project, how they produce their amazing music videos and how they use them to push their career. But most of all we learn about their honesty, modesty and down-to-earth approach, and that's perhaps the most important thing of all.
2025-06-081h 04
HeartBeatHeroMini Hero #2 April 17th 2025all episodes: https://soundcloud.com/heartbeathero/sets/the-mini-hero-podcast
This week on The Mini Hero Podcast, your weekly synthwave digest hosted by HeartbeatHero and Nicolas Rixon, we bring you a neon-soaked dose of the latest synthwave news and fresh releases!
📰 Synthwave News:
Power Glove drops a brand-new cyberpunk-metal soundtrack (out April 3rd, 2025), featuring Evanescence and Alex Seaver (League of Legends). Dive into the dark, cinematic vibes—check out the track Makai by Alex Seaver.
🆕 New Releases – Singles:
Warlock – Dance Macabre
Palm Lakes – Motorcycle at Night
RogueFX – Great Escape
Late Night Hour – Flynn’s Arcade
SIXMIXSIX – Watch Her
Arkavoid – Black Eyes
Synthetica – Shadows Deep
Light and Sou...
2025-04-1727 min
Let's Talk Synth... Seriously!!Let's Talk Synth... Seriously!! #16: Interview MARK STANWAY (Magnum // Kingdom of Madness)I am extremely excited that I have an interview with a true keyboard legend for you today: MARK STANWAY has played for British Rock Band MAGNUM from 1980 to 2016 and has seen it all: Working with star producers like Keith Olsen, Queen's Roger Taylor and Jeff Glixman, world tours with giant stage sets (including the feeling of being pulled up with your keyboard setup like 15 feet in the air), seeing the technology evolve from the times of the Mellotron up to the rise of modern Sampling technology.MARK STANWAY has also worked with Phil Lynott, forming "Grand Slam"...
2025-03-1854 min
Let's Talk Synth... Seriously!!Let's Talk Synth... Seriously!! #15 VINCENZO SALVIAThe first guest from Italy on "Let's Talk Synth... Seriously!!" is the master of Horror meets Comedy meets Synthwave, maestro Vincenzo Salvia!
He's gathered millions of streams on Spotify and his track "Italian Gigolo" was featured on Season III of Netflix' record breaking series "Stranger Things"!! So, how did he do that? Learn about it in this episode, along with endless philosophizing about the beauty of Italian Home Organs, the origins of Italo Disco, Movie Soundtracks from Goblin and the Oliver Onions, and why Vincenzo Salvia has arrested a DX7 in his basement. 😳
Lots of exc...
2024-11-261h 08
Let's Talk Synth... Seriously!!Let's Talk Synth... Seriously!! #14 MARC MATTHEWSIn episode 14 I have a chat with Marc Matthews who some of you know as a fellow podcaster who’s the mastermind and host of the “Inside The Mix” podcast. Others of you may admire his music that he releases under his own name Marc Matthews and again others might have recently booked Marc as their mastering engineer, since that’s
a part of his activities as well. So you see you get the full package on episode 14 of "Let's Talk Synth... Seriously!!" in
my interview with the smart guy from Exeter.
2024-10-041h 29
Let's Talk Synth... Seriously!!Let's Talk Synth... Seriously!! #13 THE BEVERN CASTLE GIGUAP has never been live on stage so far, but 2024 is a special year since we'll have a major live open air event at Bevern Castle, a beautiful Rennaissance castle near Hannover in central Germany. Together with THE MARTIN BROTHERS from Switzerland and KATIE TICH from the USA, UAP will rock the stage for the first time. This podcast episode gives you all the details!
Kickstarter campaign for support: http://kck.st/4bBnzay
2024-06-071h 03
Let's Talk Synth... Seriously!!Let's Talk Synth... Seriously!! #12 AISLE9My guest in this episode is a British Yorkshire tea lover, and so you can expect an episode with some style! He’s been a professional mix and mastering engineer with his own commercially used studio building for several decades - so he lived the dream! Or did he live the nightmare? We'll find out in this episode!
He’s produced internationally acclaimed pop and rock musicians and – as we will also learn in this episode – he once met the mother of the brothers known as “Right said Fred”.
I promise you one of the most interes...
2024-03-011h 44
Let's Talk Synth... Seriously!!Let's Talk Synth... Seriously!! #11 Christmas Special 2023...with
WAINSCOTT
&TILLY
ROGUEFX
ELECTROFM
BLUE NAGOON
and the mighty COLOR THEORY!!
No further explanations needed - jump right into this almost three hour marathon of a Christmas special!! ...with many entertaining Christmas anecdotes included! 😁👍
2023-12-222h 48
Let's Talk Synth... Seriously!!Let's Talk Synth... Seriously!! #10 HeartBeatHero (Sept 2023)Interview with HeartBeatHero, the reknowned Synthwave artist and twitch podcaster. Curious about the technical setup that HeartBeatHero uses? Curious about his music? Curious about his personality? Then don't waste anymore time but start the episode!
Music from the episode:
HeartBeatHero - Neon Dreams: https://open.spotify.com/intl-de/track/1F5RIYaAY78iSl0obwA1Kr?si=c65147e88b5d4cce
HeartBeatHero - Innermost Desire: (Not on Spotify)
Stailer/HeartBeatHero - Social Crises: https://open.spotify.com/intl-de/track/1BgaML1xyrY3aY7bbwQFHa?si=ff184a30...
2023-09-261h 18
Let's Talk Synth... Seriously!!Let's Talk Synth... Seriously!! #9 SYNTH LOVER'S CAFÉ a.k.a. BENJAMIN DIGBYI bet that if you're a music producer you've already made some experiences with platforms like SubmitHub or Groover or other platforms where you can directly address playlist curators with your newest releases! So I don't know about you, but I pretty often had situations where I scratched my head quite a bit over reactions of curators about my music or where I asked myself how my pitch would be perceived on the curator's end. So I thought: "Why not interview a really influential and interesting curator who's active on both platforms: SubmitHub and Groover as well?"
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2023-06-161h 29
Let's Talk Synth... Seriously!!Let's Talk Synth... Seriously!! #8 MAXX PARKER (May 2023)Today my guest is an artist of whom I would claim for he’s at the threshold of establishing a new genre in Synth music, and I would call this genre: Progressive Synthwave! So, what do I mean with that? Just as in rock music there were bands like Saga or Yes or Rush who just tried to push the style they were in to its very limits, my artist today is pushing the Synthwave genre to former unknown grandezza.
Of course I’m talking about Maxx Parker and if you haven’t heard his latest albums like “...
2023-05-051h 37
Let's Talk Synth... Seriously!!Let's Talk Synth... Seriously!! #7 MEGAN MCDUFFEE (April 2023)Megan McDuffee is a one-of-a-kind artist: She's not only one of the most sought after creators of Soundtracks in for Video Games, TV and movies, she is also a brilliant songwriter and singer, be it with her own music or when collaborating with many renowned artists from the Synth scene.
In the interview with her we talked about Soundtrack production, how to get a foot in the door, what special gear or software might be needed perhaps but we also talked about topics like how to cope with Social Media pressure and last but...
2023-03-311h 23
Let's Talk Synth... Seriously!!Let's Talk Synth... Seriously!! #6 MARTIN BROTHERS (March 2023)Let's Talk Synth... Seriously!! #6 MARTIN BROTHERS (March 2023)
Hand on Heart: What's the first thing that comes to your mind when you think about Switzerland? Perhaps it isn't Synth music?
Well... maybe it should be! Having a closer look at the land of Wilhelm Tell there's many a great Synth music act which is active in the Alps, but the most interesting among them all is maybe a project called the MARTIN BROTHERS, run by Zurich based brothers Niki and Oliver Martin.
They've been in the scene for a decade now and 2023 is their M...
2023-03-031h 13
Let's Talk Synth... Seriously!!Let's Talk Synth... Seriously!! #5: Interview MARTINIC (Martin Broerse) (Feb 2023)"Martinic" is one of the leading companies in the business of virtual instrument and FX plug-ins, also known as VSTs. Everybody who's making music on a computer will be using either virtual effects or virtual instruments to some extent, but not many know how they are actually made.
"Martinic" CEO Martin Broerse tells us about his company, how they work both under licence for big brand names (which we all know and love) and under their own brand name, how it's achieved that vintage Synthesizers from the 1980s or even analogue combo Organs from the 1960s gain...
2023-02-101h 01
Let's Talk Synth... Seriously!!Let's Talk Synth... Seriously!! #4: BEST OF SYNTH 2022 with very special guest Katie TichIn 2022 there was a lot of synthesizer driven music, and you'll surely have your own favorites. But have you ever wondered what were the favorite songs of the year by well-known musicians from genres like synthwave, synth pop and retrowave? Well, in this episode of "Let's Talk Synth... Seriously!!" I asked many musicians from different genres exactly about that. And in this episode, we'll not only hear the voices of the musicians themselves announcing their music requests, but because of that, of course, there's a lot of great music to listen to!
The Musicians who will tell...
2022-12-232h 09
Let's Talk Synth... Seriously!!Let's Talk Synth... Seriously!! #3: Interview MINUTE TAKER (Ben McGarvey) (Nov. 2022)“Minute Taker” is the musical project of Ben McGarvey, who’s active as an independent artist since the late 2000s. His latest album “Wolf Hours” is one of the most dedicated musical statements in today’s Synth Pop and will be of very high interest to fans who love actual 80s pop music like Fleetwood Mac’s “Mirage”, Genesis’ self-titled 1983 album or Tanita Tikaram’s “Ancient Heart”.
In this Episode Ben tells us where to begin when you wanna have real good music videos, why the stock plug-ins of your DAW might be much better than you think they are or why it c...
2022-11-301h 24
Let's Talk Synth... Seriously!!Let's Talk Synth... Seriously!! #2: Interview THE DEATH BEATS (Gary J. Robinson) (Oct. 2022)Gary J. Robinson is a legend in the British Drum & Bass scene. Today he's the mastermind behind the inventive project "THE DEATH BEATS" merging styles like D&B, Folk and Synthwave.
In earlier stages of his career Gary was involved in very renowned projects such as "RareForm", "PoisonFlow" and some others. He worked for Goldie's "MetalheadZ" label and founded a couple of influential record labels.
Today - besides his work as an artist, label owner and playlist curator - Gary is also an expert in Sync licensing and other aspects of publishing which are sometimes...
2022-10-251h 31
Let's Talk Synth... Seriously!!Let's Talk Synth... Seriously!! #1: Interview COLOR THEORY (Brian Hazard)Let’s talk Synth... Seriously!!! – Episode #1: Interview with COLOR THEORY (Brian Hazard)
COLOR THEORY is one of the most loved projects in today’s synth music scene.
It’s the brainchild of Brian Hazard, who is singer, songwriter, instrumentalist, professional music producer and mastering engineer, blogger and podcaster – ...all in one! Brian started his project COLOR THEORY almost thirty years ago and it's still - or maybe even more than ever before - one of the most influential projects in the scene.
Music played in the episode:
Color Theory – Crystal
https://op...
2022-09-301h 09