Synthwave thread.
Post your favorite synthwave tracks. Mine: GUNSHIP - Tech Noir https://youtu.be/ONKi2S6YBSU
Anything from Gost, Perturbator, Scattle, Dance With the Dead, Carpenter Brut, Dynatron, Mega Drive or Dan Terminus. Those are the ones I listen to most.
>>704236641
you forget lazer hawk, friend
>>704236641
All awersome
>>704236764
Agreed
music
>>704235938
Carpenter Brut - Paradise Warfare is fucking awesome
https://youtu.be/SVf7NBncUy0
Could someone here explain the differences between Synthwave and Vaporwave for me please. Serious question, and I am curious to know. TY
This guy's stuff is pretty good too.
http://store.d.notive.cc/album/sentinel
>>704237030
That made me want to take flight
Just literally lift off the ground...
>>704237517
TBH I'm not sure. I know that I like more stuff tagged with synthwave than vaporwave, but I really couldn't tell you what the main difference is.
>>704237668
Its an awesome track. I think this one is almost as good:
https://youtu.be/Uk3n-CkQao8
>>704237632
This guy is a fur fag though
https://youtu.be/8EGYVS7jUn8
>>704237998
I just ignore that as best I can. Stick with that album and its all good.
I think this is the best track on the album: https://youtu.be/c9wvDetMEC8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLzjm9E1hwg
>>704237748
Fair enough. Synthwave does also remind me of French house...artists such as Kavinsky...I'm not so sure there are defined lines between the three, and are maybe more subtle distinctions.
>>704236641
u got a playlist somewhere i can steal?
>>704237030
this is great thank u
>>704238297
Thanks for mentioning Kavinsky, enjoying it so far.
>>704238191
It's like sucking the cock of God...
>>704238562
yw :)
Anyone interested in some straight up synthwave should checkout Lost Years. All their stuff is great.
https://youtu.be/mD3QbvR5Rgc
This thread just introduced me to this music, I want more!
This is all amazing
bump, my kind of music
>>704239328
Absorb
>>704239328
Awesome anon. I just stumbled onto it a few months ago and it blew my mind. Like this was the music I was looking for all my life.
This EP is worth checking out too along with all the other stuff already mentioned: https://division83.bandcamp.com/album/2083-ep-2
>>704239328
This is pretty much responsible for the trend going mainstream
https://youtu.be/MV_3Dpw-BRY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTCjQfW4Ook
>>704238784
Aaaand I just bought all his stuff. So yeah, thanks again :)
i havent heard a lot but 2 of my favorites are
HOME - Decay
HOME - Resonance
>>704239328
and this of course
https://youtu.be/-DSVDcw6iW8
>>704235938
This one is straight fire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPprAY5238o
I've been getting more into synth wave and I'm loving it. Always rocked to the classic kavinsky. If you haven't heard of him do a search. He did the song for the film drive.
Now to this...
The soundtrack to the film turbo kid has been my jam for a while now. The film is great and the soundtrack is even better! If you're a fan of Mega man you'd wanna check this out.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KdbNc8QzXpo
>>704240299
Mah nigga
is there some new shit that sounds like the beginning of this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pd6Tvs8r_TA
>>704240497
The fuck is the difference between all these "waves"? Is Vaporwave any better?
I have to say I'm becoming a whore for this shit, though
>>704239920
Dude, wow. Big props to you for supporting the music and musicians you love instead of just ripping it off.
Just hearing this from another music fan has made my day. :)
Another for GUNSHIP, really love this stuff.
https://youtu.be/-HYRTJr8EyA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqBJHTgBWeo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39zKhsT5naI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EDS01Ipaow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpDn4-Na5co
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqwfoobZLOo
>>704240477
dubs for great song
Here is an intro song if anyone is new here
Musiq video is also awesome for this one
A+
Totally radical 80s for life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDBbaGCCIhk
One of my favorite synth wave tunes right here. Enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDw9pJ5jB4c
>>704240684
Haha, that's awesome to hear. Honestly before I got into less mainstream music I used to pirate everything, but now I feel like supporting these artists because the music is just awesome. Big plus if its on Bandcamp too, I love that site.
>>704240555
Where the fuck did you dig this up from?
Interesting though...
here you niggas go
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9qvU_hfb3k
>>704240477
A damn firestorm, awesome track
Here's a screenshot of my Synth Wave playlist if anyone is interested.
Currently listening to this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LD3NKlS55g
>>704241311
I felt that way too, haha. "Why does (insert mainstream artist) need my money? They've got enough!"
But helping these artists by buying their music and merch goes a long way for sure. :)
>>704241809
Just bought this album a few days ago, great stuff on there.
>>704240477
thats a good song but I dont think you know what straight fire means
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StM4eVeAW7g
>>704241390
Not bad, i liked
>>704241796
Listen the full album of HOME - Odyssey
>>704240477
>>704241149
>>704241663
Yea one of my favs should have more views being the gem it is
>>704241159
Don't forget about those early 90's asslord
love the feel of this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_OGLoD78tw&nohtml5=False
The synthwave trend just feels so fake. I guess because I grew up in the 80's is just doesn't sound right. I've tried a few of them but I just end up going back to actually old synth music. I just can't put my finger on it.
>>704241280
Spoiler alert for anybody who hasn't seen Bladerunner
>>704242165
"80s" is like 82-92
93+ is 90s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOoMVWpZj0Q
I'm a pretty big fan of the Dynatron stuff, here's a good track from them https://youtu.be/QMT6q-tEzsk
>>704242357
Care to share some older stuff which floats your boat?
Is it Giorgio Moroder type stuff?
>>704242357
I could see that, but for all of us born in the 90's on hearing this stuff now is amazing.
>>704242539
>hasn't seen Bladerunner
I will kill you
>>704242564
I love photos like these...traffic lights, street lights, stranded phone booths.
>>704242357
nah i understand how you feel, i listen to a lot of old dnb and the new shit doesnt have the magic the old stuff has, new synth is pretty good sometimes tho, try some VHS Glitch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAalmHeAfe4
>>704242659
Just for you (and everyone else because its a great track) https://youtu.be/Yp5USujgzpE
>>704235938
I don't even know what the fuck Synthwave is, but I love your image. Where do I get started?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmjjs6LrDxg
>>704242659
>>704242821
And a bonus track that's equally awesome and totally related
https://youtu.be/iOuSD2fM4cw
>>704242749
Urban art photos are pretty cool
Some content from this week
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVUt1V2Swvs
>>704242947
here free your mind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUv1D9Tj34o
>>704242659
If you haven't read 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?' then you can shut the fuck up, too. Bladerunner is 6/10. 'A Scanner Darkly' is the only P.K.D. story that's gotten a decent film treatment.
>>704242947
Pretty much from the top of this thread, everything posted so far is pretty great.
>>704242619
>>704242653
Honestly it's more of a feeling than anything. Probably nostalgia. There's plenty of genuine 80s synth on youtube. That's one of the nice things about this is people putting all of this old music online finally.
>>704242793
Don't get me wrong some of the new stuff is great. I'm probably just becoming an old man.
>>704243284
>Don't get me wrong some of the new stuff is great. I'm probably just becoming an old man.
nah as I said I understand, the older stuff just has a feeling to it you cant really recreate.
AotY so far?
my picks
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVNurkAz61g
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qApOLaLYZb0
3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJqLH8EA2rM
>>704243196
Thank you, I most definitely will.
>>704243282
Oh, believe me, I'm saving it all to a playlist on youtube to really delve into. Now, I've only been skimming and clicking on links but some of it reminds me of this cool sounding techno song I heard one by a group called something like laserhawk. It was set to the opening of an old cartoon called sliverhawks.
This is a killer album https://youtu.be/mBRnh0tkQtU
>>704242564
While I agree, this shit seems to encompass the late 70's up to about '97
>>704243677
Is this what you're taking about anon? https://youtu.be/39zKhsT5naI
>>704242659
I have seen it, but a lot of younger people who are getting into this kind of shit might not have, dildoface
Never see these guys posted, pretty good shit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KG8iI-ftUr0
>>704243869
HOLY SHIT YES! THANK YOU! I thought I bookmarked it, but never could find it again! I love this song!
Mother fucking Trevor Something
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp5LavG3Oys
>>704244035
Did post some of their stuff earlier and I completly agree. I love it for how clean it is, its just pure synthwave. Very high quality stuff.
>>704243869
i love this song so much i edited it to make it about 5 and a half min long with the main/middle part looped. sooo good
>>704244078
No problem, check out some of their other stuff too, its also awesome:
https://youtu.be/QpDn4-Na5co
>>704244208
Sorry I missed it, great album your song of choice is from
If anyone loves saxophone (and who doesn't) this is an awesome song https://youtu.be/qbTMmRXFurM
>>704244598
>if anyone loves saxophone
i got you fam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mByDjZ6PQZM
a few hand picked songs from le matos and kavinsky. sadly i currently dont have my whole folder here.
Listen to this song any Maybe the rest but LISTEN TO THIS
Le Matos - Sarah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSlG4gEnTlc
Le Matos - Rise of Turbo Kid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysZqZWGKo8A
Le Matos ~ La Mer Des Possibilités
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5KFiju36Rc
Kavinsky - Odd Look
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qT0iQRjHbW4
Kavinsky, Odd Look ft. The Weeknd Lyrics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N70DRo8_WwA
Kavinsky - Roadgame
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8ZAx_OvKpM
Kavinsky - Testarossa Autodrive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bwC1zJE49U
some playlists
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLW17mvEZY9fKHg-jxW1f-bl6LBg_8Vd0M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyZQUEMZlCU&list=PLHQ0xKUMxXGv8Hed5TgzzCgT2YPIivJXs
dude does cool videos
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0wTxcvWAlCP7CtZxAb8Azg
hope u enjoy
>>704244784
Link failed me but all is good I got it anyway. It was worth the effort.
https://youtu.be/AmZltMMpSCA?t=12m27s
>>704244895
>Le Matos
great taste anon
you all should check out this amazing remix aswell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz8fCnMBnuc
>>704241809
This song gives me a boney
>>704245023
song i posted was Roof of Love, great album regardless glad youre checking it out.
>>704244323
Can I gush a bit? I love the whole idea of this genera. I've always been a huge fan of 80s and 90s movies, music, cartoons, and anime so this music and the aesthetic it represents brings me back to when I was growing up. No, I didn't grow up during the 80s, I was born in 88, but being from a...less than well to do family I didn't get a lot of new stuff. So, a bunch of stuff I experienced was from that time-frame, and beforehand, being passed down from my parents. At one point I had had a pinball machine! That was really rad! I'm still kind of into that fashion, so this is just too cool!
>>704242357
i was born in 84 and i love synthwave, it's taken something obscure and made it tubular.
Trubo killer nuff said.
>>704245221
yeah its great shit, welcome aboard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5L23NrE5Jls
>>704242357
The exact opposite for me. Loved 90s music , hated the 80s. Love the retrowave scene.
>>704244598
Fuuuuuuuuuug
any good online radio stations out there?
>>704237030
I found this a couple weeks ago and can't get enough of it, good post
https://youtu.be/9hoGMZ1JSfQ
>>704246589
lol. I did that a lot my first time here, back in 2005, and that was before 4chan could make links, so you're good
>>704245783
If you didnt check out >>704241809 its got some awesome sax too.
Here's a decent Spotify playlist
https://play.spotify.com/user/cky_stew/playlist/4v5WGOGQzk5WErgvGoRcaI
>>704246785
I posted that one, I hadn't heard this one.
The wave of synths
https://soundcloud.com/saifs09/sets/synth-wave This playlist good
>>704246144
I like hitting SoundCloud for a lot of this stuff, most artists have their stuff on there. Guess that's the benefit of it not being so mainstream.
https://soundcloud.com/stations/artist/gunshipmusic
https://youtu.be/EA_EijC-7Lw
Analog synthwave ha!
>>704244598
The 80's is strong with this one.
i also love these selfmade video clips to the songs. Made from old Cartoons or movies. Especially the ones where they are racing with nice cars. They add greatly to the feeling of these songs.
LazerHawk - King of The Streets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyZQUEMZlCU
can you tell what movie these scenes were taken from?
Miami Nights 1984 - Ocean Drive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLzjm9E1hwg
Miami Nights 1984 - Clutch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64g2RzGmvUk
LIFELIKE - Heatwave
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8D2is5P6Tw
Sung - Thunder Love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULZOgcHXwXw
Vector Hold - Isolation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP7PsvWgWIs
Akahandsdown - Twin Turbo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWkMXbMjEPk
lol and i still havent found the videos i was looking for:
- one made from mad max interceptor cars chase
- one made from an old movie where an alien posseses humans and then steals ferraris (great plot lol)
another Playlist
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMUcTdMRFDx3vmS4KHH25XNkDbNKEepwl
i currently like this song but its not synthwave
Andrew Applepie - Secrets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgQJNuUwNqE
VHS Glitch- Streets On Fire
Another good track https://youtu.be/NZf15xVrOW8
![133-3308_IMG[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/7Zjx1re.jpg "133-3308_IMG[1].jpg")
Great Thread is win!
Something I just found that's pretty awesome
https://soundcloud.com/scattle/lvl2-magic-sword-remix
Dan terminus - The Wrath of Code album is good.
Chasm is one of the better ones on it.
https://youtu.be/ixTAnbbkgn0
Does anyone know something that would fit well into a short clip of cinematics? Maybe 30 seconds to 2 mins of good parts? Carpenter Brut - Paradise Warfare is really nice but he's so hard to get ahold of so I can legally use it on YouTube
![mad_max_cars1[1].jpg_fit=700%2C731.jpg](https://i.imgur.com/AJfph98.jpg "mad_max_cars1[1].jpg_fit=700%2C731.jpg")
>>704247312
the alien steals ferraris movie was called "the Hidden"
It is in some ways similar to the "bodysnatchers" movies alll centered around posssesion by an alien/demonic force.
i now found two clips using it. Warning after watching these clips the original chase scene in the movie feels really weak.
Kavinsky - Wayfarer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxaKkFUMu8k
this was the one i was looking for
LAZERHAWK - "PEDAL TO THE METAL"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTizaBqvrTk
It's not strictly synthwave, but at the start of Van Halen's 1984 album, the short intro has some tasty synth work. Whenever I think of 1984, I think of this intro:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flinvvrXty4
"1984" 00:00-01:08
>>704248827
Wow, bad ass tune.
>>704235938
Oath, fucking great album.
Before Payday went to shit, they released a Hotline Miami inspired DLC. Simon Viklund absolutely killed it with the first track:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKEko1NyJiY
![mad_max_cars2[1].jpg_resize=646%2C682.jpg](https://i.imgur.com/FjXPag2.jpg "mad_max_cars2[1].jpg_resize=646%2C682.jpg")
>>704247312
Now i found the Mad Max Interceptor Car one
Last 3 Images fucking Related
This Clip is what i wanted
KAVINSKY - Roadgame (clip non-officiel)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_0Z_j8j9nQ
another one using the movie
Mad Max - Raining Steel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoBBbQOFyb0
>>704243712
Second, incredible album. Love to play it over the speakers at work.
Bourgeoisie, Judge Bitch & Power Gloves haven't been mentioned.
>>704235938
>Good headphones required
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Jv1ZN8c4_Gs
Don't know if this one's been mentioned today but the Blood Dragon soundtrack is pretty good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnDutViIj-8
I love gunship fam, same with Carpenter Brut and Perturbator
https://youtu.be/zhsWKKELL2E
https://soundcloud.com/theanachronist/i-dont-look-for-cars
found this one recently, really like it
bump
Must preserve Greatness for Future Generations
Check out Synergy (Larry Fast). Such an innovator - he was doing this stuff when personal computing meant an Apple II.
"Digital synthesizer computer programming by Greg Sims. Equipment used on this production manufactured by: Moog Music Inc., Oberheim Electronics, Sequential Circuits, Paia Electronics, 360 Systems, Musitronics, MXR, DBX, MCI, Eventide Clockworks, Sony, Teac-Tascam, EMT, The Synergy System, Apple Computer Corp., Bell Labs Digital Synthesizer, Deltalab Research. "
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7R72a4pP77k
All about the FM-84...
https://youtu.be/TvZskcqdYcE
This thread has a lot of the good stuff covered, there's still more out there...like this track.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zb5XG4EaJv4
OK, this one goes sort of the totally opposite way. I was thinking about ground-breaking synthesists, and the 1980's era that Synthwave references, and of course Jan Hammer came to mind. But back then the challenge wasn't to make "synth music," since that was still sort of a novelty. The driving idea was to get synthesizers to be accepted as fully-fledged ensemble instruments. So when Jan got done with his gig with Jeff Beck he went back to fronting his own band, this time with the idea of doing heavy guitar rock but with the synth instead of guitar. That lineup released only one album, "Black Sheep," but on it is this incredible piece of synth work - a cover of Jimi Hendrix' "Manic Depression."
There is no guitar on this recording.
(Included in the thread as to give an idea of what other people of that era were doing with synths.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n58nn2nDXrE
>>704257269
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Nice work from Michael Boddicker.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MqJ3iGBdOo
More from when doing this was really, *really* fucking hard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZJi1nGFZiA
>>704236764
Don't know them, will have to check it out now.
>>704238419
Unfortunately no. But it's all really easy to find on Bandcamp and YouTube. Just search the synthwave or retrowave tags on Bandcamp. There's tons of good stuff, honestly too much for me to have time to check out
This certainly deserves to be in here.
Amusing (or perhaps sad) anecdote about this one: when FM wanted to release this on CD (it having been originally released on vinyl) they discovered the master had been lost in the depths of Passport Records, so the CD release is actually a transfer from clean vinyl.
I dunno if the idea of releasing a CD that's actually a recording of vinyl is too meta-hipster.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6piLbzT3fpQ
>>704260225
Great album, I love Slaughter In Robot Village.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1JYDmo19to I just want Carpenter to be in the 80's again and make more of this shit.
Roger Powell, who after playing keys on stage for years tore up his hands went on to do software at Apple.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Re01bRHxyWs
>>704260861
Go back? Hell, Carpenter was just out playing this live (still is).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7tGX8LV-DM
http://www.theofficialjohncarpenter.com/tour/
bumperino
FORÊT DE VIN - Another Dimension feat. SAY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtABAGoy9vs
FORÊT DE VIN - Lifeline
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsuK8Th8Ymk
Freeweights - Everybody Wants My Name
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAfE2vJ9iVg
don't die on me!
My favorites for today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnpqLWBrNw0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BispkChfpfY (Simpsonwave but sounds like retrowave)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnagzZ3po6Q
Thanks for the Caturday contributions, everyone. It's great to be reminded how much I like this music.
SurgeryHead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qie2Xn-qH6s
>>704235938
I like the retro feel of this music but its just too damn 80s. I'm just trying to find that gem that makes it all click. Its just so offensively retro and I want to be a part of it.
I like the video for this. Is all original video from 1980s CGI demo reels.
https://youtu.be/5BgYS-_hUjI
>>704242165
That was the worst part of the 90's. I was born right at the end. Trust me it go much better until about 2000 then everything went turbotard
>>704242793
This is me. I got hooked on new DNB but the older I go the more Jungle it sounds. More athentic to its roots. Most DNB now is like Dubstep or Nuero but I feel there are some artists that really have their own voice in the mix and I try to look for those ones.
>>704265818
Shiiiiit, nigga - that's the old Abel - Information International - Digital Productions stuff.
Fuuuuuuuuck.
