Synth Single Review: “Irrelevant” by Cassetter, Lebedev Sax & Cyberwalker

by Karl Magi

Cassetter, Lebedev Sax & Cyberwalker’s “Irrelevant” moves mournfully through space as percussive weight slows and an echoing voiceover speaks of the irrelevance of time in certain moments. A cosmic wave surfs above the vast pool of sound below while starlit veils shimmer. Impressions of lonely, vast tracts of cosmic darkness permeate the track.

Rising with tremendous power before dissolving into a subtle echo, the synth fades before the saxophone traces lustrous lines, capturing aching feelings in vibrating tones, cascading and slipping like starshine through atmospheric haze. Lebedev Sax creates a transmission of pure feeling, reaching out to fill me with trembling loneliness.

An atmosphere of compassionate understanding for the emptiness in the music fills each element. Delicate tones shiver, painting images of astral beauty, like planets glowing in the endless night. The saxophone cries out, driving home a message of desolation and melancholy. Trickling strings shimmy before the track breathes out into silence.

Synth Single Review: “Awaken” by SkelOne

by Karl Magi

SkelOne’s “Awaken” reflects a system reactivating as it trembles to life with spectral, ringing energy. A broken beat snaps under surging, technological notes to form a robotic charge. Fizzing synaptic life broadcasts signals as digital danger grows, creaking tones vibrate and charge above dark forces. Images of a city starting to shimmer and breathe swell outward now.

Creeping electricity crackles below to send tendrils growing through the reactivating network. Razor edges spin and slash while high notes spill an irradiating sheen, propelled by unrelenting broken drums, vibrating with fragility and nervousness. A synth line shifts as the drums jump.

Ever-increasing dynamism grasps me while skittering drums and shadowy bass interlock and charge. A heaviness and robotic weight snarls as uncertainty tumbles in the distance. A synth glows with unending tension while rapidly seething, boiling tones join flickering piano. As the track ends, a synth moves nervously into quiet.

Synth Single Review: “The Peak Time” by Kiomono

by Karl Magi

Kiomono’s “The Peak Time” trembles with cyberspace complexity as intertwining, razor-sharp notes fall together in a wave of vibrating life. Slipping sounds exuding technological energy permeate a wide, reverberant synth while fragments of falling code glow eerily in my mind’s eye. Impressions of growing victory, reaching skyward with encouragement, fill the medium-low synth as it radiates a phosphor glow.

Warmth pours through me despite the crushing heartbeat shuddering below, the melody caressing my face and holding me close while lifting me up to the sun. Massive muscle seethes from a pounding kick drum while bell-like, computerized notes float.

Darkness surges with balancing neon-lit brightness, transporting me out above a gigantic metropolis, night windows spilling a hazy sheen. Positive brightness billows over massive weight as breathy tones exhale in time to jumping percussion. Thunderous and guiding, the underlayer moves while melodic tenderness undulates into quiet.

Synth Single Review: “SYS 49152” by Sonic Gap

by Karl Magi

Sonic Gap’s “SYS 49152” travels down technological pathways as it sweeps into life with a computerized glow. Whirling sonorities carry images of vast digital landscapes, over which Sonic Gap guides me. A technological miasma is pierced by cascading digital sounds which slice cleanly. Urgency permeates the foundational flow while the melodic feeling is one of branching code, tendrils speeding across cyberspace. A melody which floats in the ether combines the haunting and the peaceful as it roams widely.

Rhythmic percussion forms underlying weight as tension intertwines with sharp edges. Computerized peril permeates the speeding tonal pattern while echoes propagate in the low end. Feelings of triumph, images of a programmer venturing into colossal structures within virtual space, emanate from the track, capturing me. Intensity flashes from tumbling, shadowy sounds cut by tightly wound nervousness above before silence falls.