jane Posted June 23, 2014 Posted June 23, 2014 Hey ya'll. Obviously a lot of you dig synth vibes as much as I do, so I thought you'd be keen on this chat with Perturbator, who is probably the greatest human being ever devised by man and woman. http://noisey.vice.com/en_au/blog/riding-the-cyber-doom-synthwave-with-perturbator Quote
jane Posted June 23, 2014 Author Posted June 23, 2014 His albums are so frigging good. The new one is transcendent Quote
lazygecko Posted June 23, 2014 Posted June 23, 2014 Synthwave is awesome. It's just like he says, it's some kind of counterculture in response to the modern climate of dance music. In the 1980's electronic music was made primarily by classically trained musicians hence the refined songwriting and melodic focus. Today electronic music has been completely democratized so anyone with a computer can start making it, and so we have a new generation of musicians who exist in this insular atmosphere where they care more about things like drops, kicks, plucks etc. rather than interesting melodies and harmonies. He is also right about the genre becoming extremly saturated lately so it's becoming harder to find stuff worth listening to. I think it was an underground movement up until the point where the movie Drive really propelled it into the mainstream. And this has been pushed further by games like Blood Dragon and of course Hotline Miami which was directly inspired by Drive and which Pertubator made music for. Quote
avaris Posted June 23, 2014 Posted June 23, 2014 His albums are so frigging good. Seconded. Love his stuff. There is a video of his song Nocturne City set to different clips from Akira. Amazing vid. Quote
Esperado Posted June 24, 2014 Posted June 24, 2014 interesting share! i had never heard of this before, but its pretty neat. Quote
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