Synthetic Pleasure

Synthetic Pleasure (Plaisir Synthetique) (formerly known as "Uptempo Instrumental EDM") is a formerly unidentified electronic song by New York based musician Don Slepian, released in 1983.

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The song was posted to WatZatSong by user NY80sTapes/Kenny Cathead on November 19th, 2023, giving it the placeholder name “Uptempo Instrumental EDM” and providing a longer snippet on Vocaroo. It was recorded in New York or New Jersey in 1984.

On November 24th, 2023, on the FMM Discord thread for the songs he posted, Kenny said that he wasn’t the person who recorded the tapes, but instead a friend who was trying to make a sound collage, but he recorded a few things.

Later that day, when user Tyx asked Kenny why multiple songs weren’t featured in the original video Kenny posted on June 10th, he said there was so many clips that the friend recorded, and it was hard to keep track of them.

On July 14th, 2024, the song was identified by user Max Many Mix as Plaisir Synthetique (Synthetic Pleasure) by Don Slepian. The following day, it was confirmed that the song was made by him and a live performance of it was discovered alongside it.

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Kenny Cathead’s Lostwave Songs
Identified	(No 467) Spielplatz • All The Way (by Bohemia) • And Many, Many More • Angels • At Night • Autobahn • Baby Happy • Boogie • Break Down Those Walls • Breakaway • Carving The Future From Soap • Chelsea • Chemistry • Dancing In A Trance • Der Tag Schlägt Zu • Different View • Electric Gnome Dance • Étude In Sine • Find Her • Flesh And Steel (Extended Version) • Four Minutes With God • Gdansk • Grey At Present • I Am A Vapour • I Go So Low For You • I'm Not Your Doormat • Iron Curtain • Jenny's Doin' Fine • Jericho • King’s Gambit • Love Dance (Love Mix) • Middle Class • Music Machine • No Stranger To Glenda J. • Paradise Eyes • Poland • Rain (by Art Fleury) • Sixes And Sevens • Someone's Changing • Somewhere in New York • State St. • Stranger (by Shöx Lumania) • Synthetic Pleasure • Terra Nova • The Biggest One • The Deaf Mute • The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter • The Iron Compass • The Lesson • The Merger • The Station I'm In • Tribes • Violate the Video • Waiting For The Night • Woman • You Make It Hard
Unidentified	Above Me • Bruce Haack-Like Song #1 • Bruce Haack-Like Song #2 • Chiptune Track • Classical Electronic Piano Piece • Country Rock Oriented Excerpt • Dream Infinitely • Dream Through The Door • Dissonant Trombone • Dramatic Pipe Organ • Echoey Drums • Electronic Barking Dog Sample • Early 80s Post-Punk Excerpt • Energetic Power Pop • Experimental Guitar • Fairlight Demo • Fashion Hurts Remix • Frightful String Quartet • Funhouse Electrp • Happy Pure Electronic • How Happy Life Can Be • I'm Only Dreaming • I’m Just A Boy • Intense Electronic Piece • Klaus Schulze-Like Song • Liminalist Spacey Ambient • Mannheim Steamroller-Like Song • Melancholic Synth • Mid 80's New Wave Excerpt #3 • Mid 80's Synthpop Excerpt #1 • Mid 80's Synthpop Excerpt #2 • Minimal Synthwave • Minimal Wave #1 • My Uncle Pete • New Age Piece Ending • New Wave Guitar Riff • Nothing Had Changed • Ominous Electronic Piece • Progressive Rock Excerpt • Prolonged Guitar Strum • Psychedelic Folk Tune • Pure Electronic Piece • Pure Electronic Piece #4 • Radical Synthpop • Rapid Minimal • Rapid Spooky Synthpop • Rockin’ Garage Tune • Screaming Punk Rock • Scratching Electro • Silly Synth • Skipping Punk Rock • Smooth Jazz Excerpt • Soft Piano Ballad • Spacey Electronic Pieces • Spooky Electro • Suspenseful Electronic Piece #2 • Tangerine Dream-Like Song • Twangy Pop Rock
Verification Needed	Dark Synthpop [Chemistry Set - Carpe Diem?] • Walls Of Fire [Armand Zone - Walls Of Fire (Demo)?]