The synth-pop music artists known as Technique have released their second LP record, УTouching the void.Ф The album contains 10 original tracks spanning an entire hour's worth of listening, making it not only a groundbreaking release for Technique, but also a broad enough collection of their material to give new fans fairly extensive exposure. The record employs synthesizers and electronic beats to deliver the same dance-floor friendly experience that was ubiquitous on FM radio during the late eighties and early nineties, and because of which the term Уalternative musicФ was originally coined. УTouching the voidФ's 10 tracks are each a solid composition in their own right. The album's general groove and beat is suitable for casual listening, bouts of dancing, long day or night drives, and more-or-less any circumstance one could imagine. It sounds every bit as good as the singles from the subgenre's progenitors, and manages to have a surprising amount of variety, something at which the artists of the early nineties were not always successful. УWe tried to create an atmosphere of the origins of synthpop,Ф Technique writes, laying out the following list describing their idea of said origins, their own sequence here preserved: Depeche Mode; New Order; Kraftwerk; Pet Shop Boys. This combination produces an amalgam that one might expect, but not expect to hear in such quality. Technique's vocals are like the hybrid of DM and New Order, exactly in between and with the same dark timbre. Technique : Alex Tibaldi (Vocal Synths) / Robert Tibaldi (Synths )

After the first and second EPs, the German-Hungarian synthpop duo Ultranoire (lead singer Josef Stapel, Szilard Kun keyboards and programming) announces their debut album ‘Disclosure’ which include six songs from Ultranoire’s first and second EPs, an instrumental interlude and another four brand new tracks which never have been aired or released before. Each song is produced by Ultranoire and mastered by the well-known Hungarian sound engineer Tamas ’Silk’ Sellyei at Hit Space Budapest. If you ever thought that in the traditional sense synthpop is dead, then here is the evidence that this musical genre is alive, kicking and can produce demanding songs. Ultranoire’s debut album ‘Disclosure’ is a deeply emotional high level mid tempo synthesis. Songwriter and lead singer Josef Stapel says ‘all lyrics are pure personal ingenuous disclosures of longing, suffering and everyday human frustrations. I needed a place where I can fall into melancholy, where I can write songs. I chose Hungary where we were both born. Our hometown is the perfect place for that’. Ultranoire songs are created consciously. All songs are built up on contrasts of sensitive baritone vocals and cold inorganic monotonous electronic sounds.