Synthia
Dr. Manhattan
Synthia is a monthly show hosted by Dr. Manhattan that airs every Monday from 7PM to 8 PM GMT and Wednesdays from 10PM to 11PM GMT on Radio Nightbreed. (www.praysilence.org)Every month the listener enjoys a delightful voyage through 80’s synthpop and new wave. Synthpop music is a type of music where the main instrument used for creating the music is a synthesizer. Often times the era of music most closest related with synthpop music is between the period of late 1970s and the early to mid 1980s at which time synthesizers first became inexpensive enough for musician to use widely. Synthpop music or synth pop was lead by synthpop artists and bands like Depeche Mode, Devo, Gary Numan, Ultravox and Erasure who all put out synthpop records and synthpop cds that embraced the synthesizer as their main instrument taking advantage of the very unique sounds and capabilities of electronic hardware. Synthpop music is often times mixed up the genre of music called electropop music which is mostly