Synthwave is an interesting genre

[Complexion]

Usually its made by modern kids looking back at the 80s aesthetic with modern eyes combined with some futuristic techno-dystopia thrown in:















Basically a hybrid of the real 80s, the movies they made about the future and the current times. What gets my attention is this recreation of a past that doesn't exist for those that didn't live it. Quite interesting, yes? Speaks about the coming digital world full of recreations...

Can you get jiggy with this?

 

[Double Burger With Cheese]

It’s horrible. And this recreating music from genres before your time is nothing new. People do the same thing with soul music. Be some 21 year old nikka talking about, I’m using the same mic that Fats Domino used, or making they shyt purposely sound like the old soul classics. Even down to the aesthetic. All that recreate the past music the exact way it was type shyt usually come off gimmicky as fukk. nikkas wanna be in the 70s and 80s so bad

 

[east]

it's excellent music to zone out and speed to, second only to goa/psytrance

last one isn't synth but i was tearing up the track the other day to that artist

 

[DaKidFromNoWhere]

All they did was watch AHS 1985 and got inspired

 

[Unknown Poster]

Synthwave is corny to me. And it all sounds the same. Just cold, sterile, and soulless.

 

[Complexion]

Yeah, a load of it is so boring and derivative but what got me thinking was the whole fake past nostalgia for kids that weren't even born then.

That is something new in the game as no other generation did (or could do?) it like this. For those of us who were there the difference between the real and imitation is obvious as they're just churning one isolated section again and again.

When it does hit though its quite delicious.

 

[Michael's Black Son]

All they did was watch AHS 1985 and got inspired

Exactly. A lot of this shyt sounds like generic versions of legit music music licensed by the last couple of Ryan Murphy shows

 

[Stir Fry]

It’s horrible. And this recreating music from genres before your time is nothing new. People do the same thing with soul music. Be some 21 year old nikka talking about, I’m using the same mic that Fats Domino used, or making they shyt purposely sound like the old soul classics. Even down to the aesthetic. All that recreate the past music the exact way it was type shyt usually come off gimmicky as fukk. nikkas wanna be in the 70s and 80s so bad

 

[Rembrandt]

All they did was watch AHS 1985 and got inspired

I would say drive was the big reason it got popular again. The shyt far cry blood dragon, hotline miami, hell, even strangers things more than 1974 or Murphy's shows

 

[Complexion]

nikkas wanna be in the 70s and 80s so bad

This is so true and back then we wanted to be in the future. This is a great example:





If only modern rappers would bite this trend and bring it back to the 90s in terms of skills and beat selection...

Dust off the Avirex, unpack the Girbaud.

is alive...

 

[UncleTomFord15]

Isn't this just instrumentals to 80s music?

 

[DaKidFromNoWhere]

I would say drive was the big reason it got popular again. The shyt far cry blood dragon, hotline miami, hell, even strangers things more than 1974 or Murphy's shows

Great poin I didn't think about Drive

 

[Roid Jones]

Some of it is ok but as others have said a lot of it is generic and bland

 

[Complexion]

Drive definitely put the Synth in the Wave and started it all moving. Speaking of do you recognize the break?

Like I said, when it hits it hits and thats because this track actually has structure and composition versus a flat loop of synths and Linn drums so many do as they churn out track after track.

 

[Pool_Shark]

Yeah, a load of it is so boring and derivative but what got me thinking was the whole fake past nostalgia for kids that weren't even born then.

That is something new in the game as no other generation did (or could do?) it like this. For those of us who were there the difference between the real and imitation is obvious as they're just churning one isolated section again and again.

When it does hit though its quite delicious.

Hate that post nostalgia with kids reminiscing about the 90s. It was ok but today is way better.

I hear a lot of it in rap. They already did it improve on it.

Tbh the only rapper I've heard that takes that 90s style to another level is Payroll Giovanni. The other guys are stuck in the 90s