Ace Combat 3 uses an electronic soundtrack similar to that of Namco's Ridge Racer series, but with more focus on atmosphere and dissonant synth instruments than electronic beats.
He also plays with the band Melodie du Kronk, and is an occasional member of improvisational synth-jazz group Zukanican and its spin-off project Zukazeit, featuring Harry Sumnall, James Pagella, Tom Sumnall and Phil Lucking.
The show features a drummer-less band (including Mike Rathke on guitar/synth, bassist Fernando Saunders, and the cello of Jane Scarpantoni).
The American synth-pop band Information Society featured a track entitled "300bps N, 8, 1 (Terminal Mode or Ascii Download)" on their album Peace and Love, Inc. that could be decoded to a text message by holding a phone handset connected to a Bell 103 modem up to the speaker playing the track.
In early 2012, Joey was tapped to add additional synth programming to the new Fear Factory record "The Industrialist".
"Bad Times" lyrically touches sensitive topic, including unemployment, child sexual abuse, AIDS, Salvadoran Civil War and even nuclear war, in contrast to uptempo synth-funk melody and soulful vocals.
In March 1980, Hammer recorded guitar-synth tracks for David Bowie on the album Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps), including multiple textures across "Ashes to Ashes" and "Teenage Wildlife", both of which marked the earliest use of guitar-synth in Bowie's catalogue.
Lolita plays Roland V-Synth (with its D-Beam system that allows her to control some parameters with her hand) and Akai MPC
The project started as a long-distance collaboration between vocalist Chad Ackerman (As I Lay Dying, Austrian Death Machine, Destroy the Runner, and Chapter 14), Kevin Kelsey (Programming, Synth, and Keyboards) and Sean Sallings (Guitars, Bass, & Percussion).
Dead Inside the Chrysalis, or DiTC, an Australian electropunk/synth rock band
This is due to a chaotic blend of disturbingly high pitched distorted guitar (by guitarist David Rhodes), as well as occasional jarring synth bass stabs (Tony Levin) and an expansive performance by Manu Katché on the drums.
Loren Nerell — Oberheim Synth in "Demon Train" and "Eulogy" on New Dark Age.
The soundtrack for Front Mission 5: Scars of the War, which is the longest in the series, was primarily composed by Hidenori Iwasaki, with contributions from Kenichiro Fukui and one track written by Iwasaki's synth operator Yasuhiro Yamanaka.
He thought the device looked "pretty good", and bought a Roland Jupiter synth to go with it.
In Kershaw's version, the synth tune was produced with an Oberheim OB-8 played by Paul Wickens (Wix).
His sophomore album, Synth City included features from E-40, San Quinn, Mac Dre, Mistah F.A.B., and The Jacka.
Anton - The Happy Prankster EP (2000, Mjäll/Slask Independent Media ) - synth on "Junkland"
He also uses a wide variety of effects, including an envelope filter expression pedal, wah pedal, a Line 6 tap delay, a Roland GR-55 guitar synth, a Line 6 M13 Stompbox Modeler Guitar Multi Effects Pedal, and a Talk Box.
According to Daryl Hall, Eddie Van Halen copied the synth part of this song and used it for the song "Jump" by Van Halen.
"Land of the Innocent" is the first track on the 2013 full-length If All Now Here by the American electronic/synth band Feathers.
Paul Hanson - bassoon (tracks 2, 4, 7, 11, 14), synth bassoon (track 5), tenor saxophone (track 1)
The song starts with Eddie Van Halen (lead guitar, keyboards) playing a slow synth, and kicks into the song.
Musically, Machine + Soul carried on with the synth-rock/funk style of Metal Rhythm and Outland; in fact, the two Prince covers, "U Got the Look" and "1999" (the latter of which was relegated to B-side status), were recorded during the Outland sessions and at one point were set for inclusion on that album.
The new musical orientation was presented to the wider audience on the second synth-laden studio album "Izleti" ("Excursions"), featuring songs "Pobuna bubuljica" ("Acne Uprising"), "Nestašni đački izleti" ("Naughty School Excursions"), "Javna kupatila" ("Public Bathrooms") and "Federico u bačvi" ("Federico in a Barrel"), the latter being inspired by the Federico Felini film Casanova.
Gleeson began experimenting with electronic music in the mid-'60s at the San Francisco Tape Music Center using a Buchla synth and other devices.
Sometimes they had guest musicians performing on their albums and live shows, such as Sakari Kukko (saxophone) and Kimmo Kajasto (synth).
It was Wendy Carlos' Switched-On Bach records that inspired him to study and create the synth sounds that he later used on his hit records in the 1980s.
During the mid-1980s, synth pop became even more prevalent in Portuguese rock, with the success of Sétima Legião and Heróis do Mar, which were heavily influenced by acts such as Joy Division, New Order, Depeche Mode and Gary Numan.
After spending time in college studying music theory and composition, Richard moved to Los Angeles where he became a sound designer for E-mu Systems in Santa Cruz and engineer/synth programmer for EFX systems in Burbank.
He was once Steve Wright's radio sidekick and was the writer of the hit comedy song "I'll Be Back" by Synth-Pop group Arnee and the Terminaters that was a parody of the film Terminator 2.
R4 instead explored music styles encompassing funk, breakbeat, acid jazz, UK garage, progressive house, and neo-soul mixed with traditional Namco synth melodies.
Lead vocals, rhythm guitar and piano were provided by Tom Smith, lead guitar and synth by Chris Urbanowicz, bass guitar by Russell Leetch and percussion by Ed Lay.
Joe Knapp (as Joseph Knapp) - Snare, Whistle, Vocal Cuica, Classical Guitar, Electric Guitar, Vocals, Drum Kit, Analog Synth, Broom, Snare, Cymbal, Wood Block, Piano, Electric Bass, Glockenspiel, Acoustic Guitar, Tarpaulin, 12-String, Cabasa, Knee-Slaps, Mellotron, Hand Claps, Mouth Noises, Fake Strings, Rhodes
Elaborating on their previous full-length album, A Wintersunset... released a year before, with Songs of Moors... Empyrium delve into a more sophisticated intricacy of what is sometimes called "romantic metal", offering a complicated mix of percussion, flutes, bass guitars and synths, together with its will-be trademark deep baritone male vocals performed by Schwadorf himself (who also plays virtually all the instrument parties, except for keyboards).
The synthesizer, rhythm and synth bass arrangement, sound design, and programming was done by David Frank of The System and the horn arrangement was done later based on the motif from the bassline.
Album came about when The Emotron played with Chicago Synth-Pop Act The Mystechs, Singer/Label Owner Emil Hyde asked The Emotron if they would like to record and put out a DIY release on his label Death By Karaoke Records.
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Teenage Jesus is the debut diy release from One Member Synth-Punk Band The Emotron.
Later, Field Mice members Wratten, Annemari Davies (Wratten's ex-girlfriend), and Mark Dobson briefly formed Yesterday Sky before becoming the more synth-oriented outfit Northern Picture Library, and then Wratten went on to form Trembling Blue Stars in 1995.
Victor Wooten - Fodera 4 string electric (tracks 1-5, 7, 8, 10, 13) and Compito fretless 5 string electric (tracks 6, 9, 11, 12) basses, synth pedal (tracks 4, 7)
Visiting This Planet (1980's) Muñoz: synth guitar, keyboard, synth keyboard, shenai, congas, flutes & percussion, Paul Shaffer: piano & synth keyboard, John Hicks & Bernie Senensky & Michael Cochrane & Jon Weiss: piano, Pharoah Sanders: tenor saxophone, Dave Liebman: soprano saxophone, Bob Moses & Idris Muhammad & Adam Nussbaum & Guillermo Cantu: drums, Guillerme Franco: percussion, Art Davis & Dennis Irwin & Cecil McBee & Don Pate & Ratso Harris: bass
Unicorn Kid was the support act for synth-pop musician Owl City on his rescheduled UK and European tour in September/October 2011.
Jay Oliver – keyboards, rhythm guitar programming, computer programming, synth programming
The band experimented with many different sounds with a mixture of folk and electronic sounds using many instruments which included synth, acoustic guitar, bass guitar, glockenspiel, accordion, giving them the unique “We Voyagers” sound.
Chicago Tribune writer Mitchell May gave it 3 out of 4 stars and called it "a dance record you can listen to", noting that "pulsating synth chords, slashing guitar riffs, thundering drums and the gospel-like wails of Tinny Ford combine to give Snap a riveting sound".
Lack of current comparisons in the German pop music and only the synth-pop band Crown of Creation, which grossed in 1993 with Rick J. Jordan from Scooter the CD "Real Life" in Hanover and Bückeburg, has musical parallels.