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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]
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.
Fashwave (from "fascist") [81] [103] is a largely instrumental fusion of synthwave and vaporwave that originated on YouTube circa 2015. [104] [105] Artists include Cybernazi, Xurious, Andrew Anglin, and Elessar. [106] [105] It is also been described as an extremist subset of the non-extremist latter promoted by neo-Nazis.
"The Video Game Champion" is a collaboration with the guitarist Thomas McRocklin, while "Ghost" is a collaboration with Melbourne synthwave duo Power Glove. The single "Monster in Paradise" features saxophonist Tim Cappello and vocals from Milkie Way, lead singer of Wargasm. A full list of collaborators on each album follows.
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]
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 .
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