CD, A Different Drum, 2008 www.blueoctober.co.uk It’s sometimes curious how success eludes certain bands operating in relatively commercial musical areas. Essex’s Blue October are now up to their third full-length [ … ]
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Kiethevez – Non-Binary
CD, A Different Drum, 2008 www.kiethevez.com As time passes by and more people are driven to form bands, so it becomes clear that all the good names are being used [ … ]
Somegirl – The Velvet Hour
CD, A Different Drum, 2008 www.somegirlmusic.com With “The Velvet Hour,” their third full-length release, Somegirl also presents the third iteration of its line-up, as Laura Hillman of trip-hop act Endless [ … ]
Alien Skin – Don’t Open Till Doomsday
CD, A Different Drum, 2008 www.alienskinmusic.com The 1980s, the golden age of electronic pop music, great bands like Depeche Mode, The Human League and Soft Cell topping the charts, it [ … ]
Neuropa – The Blitz
CD, A Different Drum, 2007 www.neuropa.biz Australian Synthpop veterans Neuropa have always been a bit of a underground fan favourite for a lot of fans of the genre and in [ … ]
Virtual Server – Setup
CD, A Different Drum, 2007 www.djram.com For those of you that aren’t familiar the Virtual Server project, the concept is quite simple. Take one talented DJ/producer/musician/song writer in the form [ … ]
Ultraviolet – Dos
CD, A Different Drum, 2007 www.ultraviolet-music.net Spain does seem to be a bit of a hotspot for upcoming Synthpop at the moment, with each and every one of them bringing [ … ]
A Different Drum: an interview with Todd Durrant
Existing for over a decade and with an extensive catalogue of quality music in the synthpop field, A Different Drum is a reference name in the American and international synthpop [ … ]
Monica Schroeder – So Far
CD, A Different Drum, 2006 www.monicaschroeder.com Monica Schroeder’s music isn’t really what you’d expect to find on a label like A Different Drum. Where as a large majority of the [ … ]
Rename – Energize
CD, A Different Drum, 2006 www.rename-music.com If there were one Synthpop release that I can say I’ve really been looking forward to hearing this year, it would have to be [ … ]