Thank the gods that dubstep was only popular for about a year before people realized how absolute SHIT it was.

Anyway, in case you don't know what Synthwave is, it is basically a modern callback to the idealized 1980s and early to mid 1990s movie soundtrack culture and nostalgia. Basically "Retro-Future"... Terminator, Robocop, Cyborg, Knightrider, Tron... The neon lights, shiny crazy cars, arcades, fingerless gloves, and even early computers of the time.

I love this music for the fact that is isn't tightly restricted genre-wise other than to "sound like the 80s retro-future". Too much electronic music lately has been limited to strict mathematical BPMs and intro-outro and blah blah blah... It's nice to see something that allows for individual and varied artist styles and beats while staying in the same genre and not sounding like the exact same song beat across artists... I always hate it when I find some "new" electronic music, then try to find more and realize every song is the same beat... So this Synthwave stuff is pretty freaking awesome to me! Especially the "dark" Synthwave stuff.

I thought I'd share this just in case any people reading these journals are fans of electro-music or 80s and 90s nostalgia.







I'm really hoping for an American culture resurgence of some sort, things have been so stale since the late 1990s... It'd be nice to see Synthwave or Electroswing be the soundtrack to a new identifiable American decade.