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There is also a visual component on synthwave album covers and music videos. According to PC Gamer, the essence of outrun visuals is "taking elements of a period of '80s excess millennials find irresistibly evocative, and modernizing them so they're just barely recognizable." [19] Other subgenres include dreamwave, darksynth, and scifiwave. [7]
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Sovietwave experienced a growth in popularity, along with related forms of vaporwave and synthwave. [14] This upsurge was driven in large part by the success of the Belarusian post-punk band Molchat Doma , whose song "Судно (Борис Рыжий)" from the album Etazhi became a popular meme on TikTok .
Synthwave is a genre of electronic music influenced by 1980s film soundtracks and video games. Subcategories This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
In 2013, YouTube began allowing its users to host live streams, which resulted in a host of 24-hour "radio stations" dedicated to microgenres such as vaporwave and lo-fi hip hop. [68] The Swedish rapper Yung Lean and his Sad Boys collective inspired a wave of anonymous DJs to create vaporwave mixes, uploaded to YouTube and SoundCloud, that ...
Tom Andersson (born 26 September 1984), known professionally as Waveshaper, is a Swedish electronic musician [1] specialising in synthwave.Inspired by artists like Jean-Michel Jarre, Kraftwerk and Daft Punk, as well as 80s movie soundtracks, his music is retrofuturistic and is composed with a variety of hardware synthesizers, including the ARP 2600, Roland Jupiter-4, and Korg MS-20. [2]
The film explores the origins and growth of the electronic music genre known as synthwave, charting its rise in popularity from the underground online music scene [1] to its recent mainstream exposure, following use in retro-themed soundtracks, notably the 2011 film Drive [2] and more recently, the television series Stranger Things. [3]
The genre employs aesthetics and themes typically associated with black metal [4] juxtaposed to the typical heavy tremolo-picking, blast-beats, and harsh, shrieked vocals of black metal by way of compositions of instrumental or ambient music commonly used as introductions, interludes, or "outros" in black metal, [5] death metal, and heavy metal [6] albums throughout the 1980s and 1990s.
Robert Parker is a Swedish electronic musician from Stockholm, known for his synthwave works. [1] [2]Making tracker music during the 1990s, he started making retro music in 2009 after buying a Korg Polysix analog synthesizer, and uses a variety of hardware synthesizers in his music like the Roland Juno 106 and the Moog Minimoog.