Pop quiz!

[tyggerjai]

You won't have heard of the band. But what decade is this song from?

Comments

[ladykalessia]

Treble is too crisp. Must be a modern hipster 1980's electro/new wave reenactment band.

[reddragdiva]

Bingo. Though messing around with LMMS, I've been especially playing with the Triple Oscillator, a.k.a. FM synthesis DX-7 style. All it needs is a set of painstakingly reproduced DX-7 presets and that's most of the 1983 Top 40.

[reddragdiva]

Ah, I looked them up! Not retro - Russian. Could be doing it all for themselves from first principles.

[tyggerjai]

Да, вот. The biggest thing to come out of Russia in 2009, apparently. It's another datapoint in support of my theory that Russia ( and Ukraine ) never actually left the 80s. All we saw there was acidwash denim and leopard print. And that was just the guys. And I don't think it was retro, I think it's been like this for 20 years.