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The return of the 80s part IV (Neo Synthwave Music)
manwiththemachinegun
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So a random discussion in the Cyberpunk 2077 thread got much more entertaining after realizing Neo Synth was actually a full on subgenre. I'd go as far as to say its never been stronger.
It's been used in Stranger Things, Drive, and of course Hotline Miami with such groups as Carpenter Brut, M.O.O.N. and Perturbator.
And sometimes you get really, really cool music videos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jv1ZN8c4_Gs
And yes this is a shameless attempt to find more good bands, you're welcome.
It's been used in Stranger Things, Drive, and of course Hotline Miami with such groups as Carpenter Brut, M.O.O.N. and Perturbator.
And sometimes you get really, really cool music videos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jv1ZN8c4_GsAnd yes this is a shameless attempt to find more good bands, you're welcome.
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I can never have enough of this kinda music.
1st world problems. :P
I had to put it off a bit because we are still moving but I hope to buy a copy of FLstudio next year and really dive in more. I've got reaper and have messed with that a bit but having to make use of freeware softsynths while not impossible doesn't offer me a ton of flexibility to learn with.
The fucking DROP in this song rules
Also, let's put some Com Truise in here
EDIT this is what I get for composing posts while playing Overwatch.
This is a loving tribute to The Thing done in stop-motion with g.i. joes, and it's easily one of my favorite things that exists.
The rest of this album is real good too. Used it in the background during an Escape From New York themed dnd session a while back and it was a lot of fun.
Wow this rules. If I didn't know better I'd think this was directed by Panos Cosmatos for sure.
Yeah it's a fucking awesome video
I never knew this existed! Its like all the stuff from the early 80s that I heard and loved, but just missed out on. I started buying music in about 1984, after a lot of this style of music was disappearing. It was mostly relegated to movie soundtracks also.
Thanks for this thread. I'm listening to all this!
https://i.redd.it/4aa6obfhpym01.jpg
That said, I like this one:
edit: ALSO also, John Carpenter's stuff whips which makes sense because he's the guy who influenced half of these acts
In general Rémi Gallego/The Algorithm are really great
I've been on a big Synthwave high this year, which has been amusing appropriate since I started studying computer science in march, so Spotify now doesn't give me anything but Synthwave, and soundcloud well and truly knows what to feed me when I go poking about for little indie projects there
also The Megas, one of my favourite prog rock video game bands, released a Synthwave-y remix of one of their best tracks last week and it's real great
i got to see both perturbator and carpenter brut live this year. CB were excellent, but to my mind perturbator is the absolute king.
But very good.
I do love the synths in this, they're great
Just love it
john carpenter has started touring in order to show these youths who is boss! i missed him last year which was a massive mistake on my part and checking my phone just now it seems i'm about to miss him a second time :x
while i was watching the new Ghost in the Shell film I noticed that Batou's synthwave-mobile was an old Lotus Esprit with a few tweaks to the bodywork and some Knight Rider style retrofuturistic instruments. If I had the disposable income I would totally be bombing around in something similar now!
I love Overdrive but it recently got overtaken for me by Ace Attack's The Chase album
I'm not complaining, mind you - it's just funky to see hot internet playlists with a heavy rotation of Com Truise and Lazerhawk stuff I was blasting in high school
New Magic Sword
I desperately need this new Magic Sword album to be released.
Possibly because I'm still looping Reborn constantly and it just couldn't compete