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", has worked with Robert Plant ..read more

The 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 exciting things t ..read more

In 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 ..read more

UAP 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 ..read more

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 ..read more

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=ff184a30c1354a5e HeartBeatHero - I just can't wait: https ..read more

I 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?" And it gets even better, bec ..read more

In 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 us about their own ..read more

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 “Infinite Blue” or “Lodge on the Lake” you should really do that because there’s such awesome work on th ..read more

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 not least: Human Sexuality! ? Yes, folks! So let's dive right into the e ..read more