https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upgCCAUI6TI
i like pic related a lot, a bit too long though
Perturbator's work is very varied between albums and that warrants respect i believe
https://newretrowave.bandcamp.com/track/iron-pumper
I love how well they nailed retro on this one, it's like watching an 80s movie, those synths with that funky beat
>>60904805
Perturbator is awesome indeed. Quality work after quality work.
>>60904932
Check out "adrenaline" from that album too, it's awesome.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKv0Rev5H_k
Are you guys subscribed to "The 80s Guy"?
Retrowave shouldn't exist tbqh stepfam. No need to do the same as 35 years ago.
Essential:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix_fCX6q2Ao
>>60906582
>Retrowave shouldn't exist tbqh stepfam. No need to do the same as 35 years ago.
>implying it's the same thing as actually old synthwave
careful with that edge son, don't cut yourself
HIGHLY underrated album right here:
Xander Harris - Urban Gothic.
Horror synth is the best form of retrowave.
I was watching Tales from the Dark Side movie and the soundtrack was like half of this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9m1NsdotRt4
>>60906947
>Horror synth is the best form of retrowave.
I love horror synth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hyALGKwluA
>>60906947
googled it and found this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jml5wEpN2QY
It reminds me of something but I can't really tell what, and it's fucking awesome.
do these count?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKzcushtz18
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKzcushtz18
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szbYgcDmaz8
>>60907810
I guess they do, although I don't really dig them
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yergWdn968o
so this vaporwave without any hint of satire or commentary to make it interesting? This is pure buttelectro
>>60908602
>comparing retrowave with plebeian hipster music only made to be ironic instead of made to be enjoyed
>>60908729
>Retrowave fan calling others pleb
Lol I love cheesy repetitive synths ripped straight from sci-fi movies! #80skid!
>>60908729
>liking mindless revival music with no edge to it, just wankery about some romanticized version of the 80s that never was
>>60908729
Nostalgia is worse than irony.
>>60908774
>cheesy repetitive synths ripped straight from sci-fi movies
>implying
>>60908779
>mindless revival music with no edge to it
>implying cyberpunk ever lost its edge
>some romanticized version of the 80s that never was
>implying there's a problem with that
we're making those romanticized 80s right now, bud. There's even the threat of a world war, just like in the 80s.
>>60908850
it's not, besides, retrowave isn't just nostalgia. It's quality music that happens to evoke the 80s.
And synthwave (the old one) couldn't be defined as nostalgic because there wasn't anything similar to it before.
kill yourselves
>>60906892
movie?
>>60909027
>buttelectro fan gets mad at people pointing out his music is shallow brainless garbage with nothing to say
kek
>>60909027
this nigga is so triggered people don't like his shit genre, i love it
>>60909150
>movie?
idk, seems dope though
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IsouEMe8Yg
>>60909166
>triggered people don't like his shit genre
it's not that they don't like it, it's that they keep saying moronic shit
bumping based thread, I was glad to find synthwave in the catalog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Cw0lK6n5Y8
>tfw electroclash is dead and synthwave is king
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTYJZtnUuF0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZEyXCqexuk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6jaYJx7yeI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWYiO16RJyA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JukJgxLiFLE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UW2o0i0d-m4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2hLqPQqw9k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49cTfddnNFU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EGYVS7jUn8
Anyone been listening to Le Matos - Chronicles of the Wasteland?
Just got to it yesterday and it sounds incredible.
>>60910309
sorry, not yet. I love Le Matos tho
>>60906582
Its taking important lost elements of a different time and making it relevant in 2015. Its a great thing
>>60910245
WTF is this shitty mainstream electro?
>>60910426
agreed
>>60910450
It was mainstream maybe 15 years ago. Synthwave is now as mainstream as you can get without being "EDM".
>>60910567
that's not synthwave
Sparks and Giorgio Moroder, 1979
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zGxzbVwDcQ
>>60908729
holy shit haha. pot calling the kettle black
i like both synthwave and vaporwave, but you gotta admit theyre both really derivative and dont take themselves too seriously
>>60910714
Retrowave sometimes has a tongue-in-cheek nature but it's not designed to be musically ironic, it's just about letting nostalgia take control, but it's not supposed to be shitty. And sometimes it even takes itself seriously.
I'd compare the less "serious" synthwave artists to Immortal in the black metal scene. They do lots of tongue-in-cheek, over the top stuff, but the musical quality doesn't suffer because of it.
>>60910649
Nice
>>60904932
What's your guys' favorite Perturbator album?
I Am The Night takes the cake for me
>>60911483
not sure if that one or Dangerous Days
>>60908602
DUDE WEED LMAO
Bitches don't know about my Franck Hueso
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYtVf0wvPpc
>>60912890
>not just calling him Carpenter Brut
>not knowing that he is one of the best known retrowave musicians, to the point that even /pol/lacks used his music
>not posting the video clip instead of the album still
0/10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fDvxlK2FMc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qaFr9LW9jA
>>60913227
>Sally Shapiro
>using a jew pseudonym while jews themselves try to hide their identities with pseudonyms
>>60911623
forget that I said that, Terror 404 is definitely my fave
honestly, what's the appeal with this shit? there's not a single track that does anything new, it's literally trying to do nothing but recycle what people were doing 30 years ago because of some pseudo nostalgia. why do people think this is good?
at least electroclash tried new things. synthwave is just fucking pitiful nostalgia music for /v/ to pretend to have a musical palette
>tfw I was born too late to experience 80s Miami and make a small fortune dealing drugs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KNaXforoks
>>60913976
hahaha stay mad, cück
you know it has lots of differences, like the fusion with cyberpunk
want even more modern sounding synthpop?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uXrXTSASK0
>>60913976
the modern drum beats tend to be way more aggressive, bassy and compressed, unlike their original 80s counterparts. Besides, they aren't doing covers, so they aren't really "recycle what people were doing 30 years ago".
>pseudo nostalgia
>pseudo
They are our 80s and we want them back, m8. If the fashion world, the instrument design world (pic related) and the car design world get to do that kind of stuff, why can't the music production world do it too?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTidn2dBYbY
>>60914159
>tfw I was born too late to experience 80s Miami and make a small fortune dealing drugs
iktfb
>>60913976
>honestly, what's the appeal with this shit?
pop music took a nosedive in the 90s and has not yet recovered, in fact the nosedive continues. This appeals to people who were either young in the 80s and miss that stuff or people that didn't live that era but were exposed to the awesome music by their parents, by watching films and shows from that era, by videogames (GTA Vice City, Hotline Miami, Burnout Paradise) or by modern films with a retro aesthetic like Drive or Kung Fury. In my case it was a mix of most of the above except for modern films (I got into modern retro films after I got into synthwave). I've been a 80s junkie since at least 2003 because of Vice City. That game greatly influenced my tastes, it was also my path to heavy metal and hard rock.
I was also always a fan of Retro (now TCM). That's how I started watching stuff like Miami Vice, Knight Rider and other things. That's also how I knew the two Coreys. And with it came the music. You can reject the modern shit too if you want to, anon.
List of based retro films I've watched and which helped shape my /mu/ tastes:
>The Godfather saga
>Terminator
>Carlito's Way
>To Live and Die in LA
>The 'burbs (incredibly underrated)
>Scarface
>Commando
>Rambo saga
>Death Wish saga
>Thief
>The Driver
>Blade Runner
>Rocky saga
>Mad Max saga
>Die Hard saga
>Full Metal Jacket
>Batman
>Back to the Future saga
>The Untouchables
>Lethal Weapon
>Top Gun
>Red Heat
>Dirty Harry saga
There are some 70s movies in the sagas mentioned above, but in this case I'm referring only to the movies launched in the 80s. The ones from the 70s are great too but they clearly have nothing to do with synthwave.
>>60914696
I forgot Cobra, I can't believe it. That soundtrack was great.
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4CCg4dYe0A
LISTEN TO THOSE DRUM MACHINES
God, I love 80s music.
>>60914696
>>60914788
For further illustration, I started listening to retrowave by listening to Lazerhawk on youtube, then I found New Retro Wave and Luigi Donnatello, then found Perturbator and Carpenter Brut, which led me to watching Fulci films (first I watched Murder Rock, which is on Le Perv's video, as I got hooked by the 80s aesthetic and after I found out it was an actual 80s movie, I watched it. I got hooked and ended up watching unrelated movies by Fulci and giallo in general, great stuff) and from there I got to Hotline Miami, from where I found more artists and the film Drive. It's really a vicious cycle, once you start it's a spiral of greatness of which you can't come out. Downloading Kung Fury right now.
BTW I forgot to mention all the Van Damme flicks earlier, notably No retreat no surrender. It was cheesy but greatly enjoyed.
>>60913976
>he doesn't see the appeal of retrowave
>mfw
>>60914159
thanks for your based miami vice link, gave me this phil collins pic to use as a reaction
Pls stop associating Kung Fury with this. Literally pleb tier lolrandum ironic trash.
How could Mitch Murder agree to this smhtbqhfam
>>60915637
>>60915637
it's not ironic, it's campy. Like retrowave itself. Kung Fury is also over-the-top and a bit cheesy though.
So are Kavinsky, Perturbator, and Lazerhawk the biggest Synth names?
