Timecop1983 is a producer from Eindhoven in The Netherlands. His style is best described as romantic and cinematic, inspired by the 80’s. He is a one-man band, creating Synthwave music with (vintage) synthesizers and a computer, but he works together with other musicians and vocalists regularly.
He started making music when he was 12 when a friend gave him a floppy disk with Scream Tracker for MS-DOS. He didn’t have any musical background and he never learned to play a musical instrument, but he was determined to learn to make his own music.
After years of experimenting and learning how to create music he got inspired by the movie Drive (2011) and he decided to create Synthwave. That’s when Timecop1983 was born and soon his music was picked up by NewRetroWave on Youtube. He is now considered as one of the top artists in the Synthwave genre and he has released multiple albums, EP’s and singles which have accumulated millions of plays on the major digital music platforms. All the while staying independent.
His music has been featured in various (short) films, including major productions like DC’s “Legends of Tomorrow”, Netflix’ “Lucifer” and “Stream” from the producers of “Terrifier”. He has also done several soundtracks for videogames and other productions. His dream is to create more soundtracks in the future.
Timecop1983 has played many international live shows, including gigs at the world famous Amsterdam Dance Event and he has done 4 US headline tours.
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Genre: Synthwave / Retrowave / Cinematic
Similar artists: The Midnight, FM-84, Electric Youth
Gear
Hardware synthesizers (last updated: 09-15-2026)
Akai Miniak
Alesis Andromeda
Alesis Ion
Arturia Microfreak
Arturia Polybrute 12
ASM Hydrasynth
Behringer Deepmind 6
Behringer JT-4000
Behringer Pro-800
Black Corporation Xerxes
Dave Smith Instruments Poly Evolver
GS Music e7
Kawai K3
Korg Prologue 16
Modal Argon8
Moog Muse
Moog Voyager
Oberheim Matrix-1000
Oberheim OB-X8
Oberheim Xpander
Roland JD-990
Roland JP-08
Roland JU-06
Roland Juno-106
Roland Juno-60
Roland JX-03
Roland JX-08
Roland JX-8p
Roland MKS-80 (+ programmer)
Roland SH-01a
Sequential Prophet-6
Sequential Prophet-12 (desktop)
Sequential REV-2
Waldorf Irridium
Yamaha AN1x
Yamaha CS-60
Hardware effects (last update: 09-15-2026)
Alesis 3630
Boss CE-20
Boss CE-300
Boss Dimension C
Chase Bliss CXM 1978
Chase Bliss Generation Loss MKII
Electro Harmonix Oceans Abyss
Electro Harmonix The Clone Theory
Empress Reverb
Erica Synths Nightverb
Eventide Blackhole
Eventide H90
GFI Specular Tempus
Hologram Chroma Console
Hotone Verbera
Lexicon PCM 80
Meris Mercury X
Mooer Ocean Machine
Roland Dimension-D
Strymon BigSky
Strymon Deco
Strymon Nightsky
Strymon Timeline MX
TC Electronic June-60
UAD Astra
Walus Audio Sloër
Software synthesizers
Aly James VSDSX
Arturia V-Collection
Keysolutions Traveler
Korg Polysix
Krakli.com The Arminator 2
Native Instruments Kontakt 7
Morphoice EightyTen
Morphoice Unstable
Roland Legendary models
Roland Zenology
SonicProjects OP-X Pro II
TAL U-NO-LX-2
Tone2 Saurus
U-He Diva
U-He Repro-1
U-He Repro-5
U-He Zebra2
Xfer Records Serum2
And many many more....
Software effects
Alex Hilton A1Stereocontrol
Fabfilter Pro-Q3
FL Studio native effects
Eventide Blackhole
TemeculaDSP effects
UAD effects
U-He effects
Valhalla effects
And many many many many more….