Top 20 Best ‘80s Synth Songs Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the most iconic and irresistible synth-driven songs of the 1980s. We’re considering any track that placed ...

In the 1980s, the synth was used in ways never seen before or since. It was as if every musician on Earth was gifted one at the turn of the decade and after that, every hit song had to include it. But ...

After the electric guitar, no new instrument upended 20th-century popular music like the synthesizer. At first, the synth’s sounds were used to create ambient, otherworldly soundtracks or for epic ...

In 1988, the Japanese company Korg produced the first Korg M1 synthesizer, an instrument whose presets would be used in lots of house music in the early 90s. From Madonna to SNAP!, here are a few ...

In 2011, M83, an indie rock band led by French singer-songwriter Anthony Gonzalez, who is the group’s only constant member, released its sixth LP, “Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming.” M83 was already well ...

Google's Arts & Culture platform and YouTube have launched a new online exhibition to celebrate the history of electronic music, part of which is an augmented reality experience where classic synths ...

Synthesizer V from Dreamtronics is an astonishingly powerful voice synthesizer which generates incredibly accurate human voices which can both sing and rap. It allows for changes to an absolute ...

Visiting Asheville, North Carolina, in December, I walked past a sandwich board that read, “Synth you’re here, come on in.” It was a pop-up store selling T-shirts, mugs, and other memorabilia ...

The early models of the synthesizer were not given a warm welcome. In the 1950s, technological developments improved the quality and usability of synthesizers. But the instrument was frequently met ...