Dan Terminus was one of the first synthwave acts I got into hard; his 2015 release The Wrath of Code is a genre classic as far as I’m concerned. It’s aggressive, it’s tight, the arrangements are lush, ...

Despite its retro fetishism and insular network of artists, the so-called synthwave genre, a future-focused sound undeniably indebted to the pop culture of the Reagan era, is pulsing forward with a ...