
Tens Sunglasses and Sunglasses Kid make viral 80s commercial
When the guys behind online radio station Poolside FM and Tens sunglasses asked me if I was interested in making some music for their 80s inspired spoof infomercial, I was like, err YES FREAKING PLEASE! So the Director of Tens, Marty Bell, is also behind Poolside FM, a website that streams 80s archive video to the soundtrack of emerging soundcloud artists who make cool retro electro - it's basically Last FM but only awesome retro synth music is allowed. Via Poolside, I've had

What is synthwave?
Back in 2010 when the Ryan Glossling (sorry Gosling - I call him Glossling cos his lips are creepily shiny) movie Drive came out, hipsters' minds imploded everywhere with the awesome 80s inspired soundtrack that accompanied it. Artists like Kavinsky, College and Electric Youth were thrown into the spotlight and suddenly the 80s was cool (as if it wasn't already). Meanwhile, across the other side of the world, a blogger by the slightly cray-cray nick-name of Rick Shithouse was