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