Magenta Vice

Magenta Vice are an electronic duo formed in 2019 whose members have deep roots in Twin Cities music going back nearly 30 years and spanning several styles. John W and Erik W approach synthwave as a band rather than as producers, focusing on live hardware instrumental performance and the freedom and spontaneity that come from working outside the world of DAW-based production. A mixture of both vintage and current gear bring a wide variety of sounds to the table, and a healthy mix of humanity and machine. Heavily influenced by Italo disco, old school electro, and Hi NRG (Patrick Cowley, Giorgio Moroder, Paul Hardcastle, Newcleus, Egyptian Lover) but also balanced and informed by the spacey sounds of '70s German kosmische musik and early New Age (Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Michel Genest et al), Magenta Vice offer a wide range of moods and BPM’s with a sound that tries to blend past and present in their own way.

John W - synthesizers

Erik W - rhythms, sequences, bass synth, guitar, Simmons drums