Submitted 1 year ago by Ziggurat@sh.itjust.works to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
If you look on “cyberpunk” play-list on youtube, it’s mostly some synthwave electronic music.
if I think about Cyberpunk, I obviously think about 2020’s rockerboys with a guitar-axe, or skater like snow crash’s YT. Also, as it’s name stands it’s a deeply punk anti-capitalist. I feel like RATM or noFX would be way more suited in that genre than some DJ playing with synth.
So how did we switched from guitar to synth, and from anti-capitalism to neon aesthetic ?
Personally when I think of Cyberpunk I think of Jet Set Radio/Bomb Rush Cyberfunk, or I think of something along the lines of Akira or the music video for Ken Ishii - Extra. That said, the pop-culture aesthetic is mostly based on Bladerunner, which was based on what people thought a dystopian future would look like in the 80’s. What would future-80’s music sound like? Well, that was when synths really started taking off, so future music is obviously all synth-based because why would you need another instrument if your keyboard can do it all?
It was the 80’s man, don’t ask questions. most people were still hung over from the 70’s.
More seriously, synthwave used and relied on synthesizers to produce the music… adding a cyber-esque flair to the music. Mostly any form of electronic fits the bill. but in the 80’s… it was synthwave that was hot and it kinda stuck.
They weren’t hungover from the 70s, they were too coked up in the 80s to get round to hangovers till the 90s
80s is 80s.
Synthwave is actually a fairly new music genre that is inspired/nostalgic from the 80’s horror films and synth tunes of the time. Go pay a visite de the small community we have here on de fediverse !synthwave@waveform.social !
Electronic music, electronic world. I don’t think it’s really deeper than that, TBH. It sounds cool and, when the genre was conceived it was also pretty new and gaining popularity with the tech crowd IRL.
whenigrowup356@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I suspect Vangelis’s work on BladeRunner had a big part to play in this
all-knight-party@kbin.cafe 1 year ago
Of course, and things like John Carpenter's soundtracks. Basically... 80s
GentlemanLoser@ttrpg.network 1 year ago
This is the answer imo