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