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Is it really killed? It is still produced but even more important it has evolved through CityPop to FutureFunk and even has touched a bit other genres. I you ha

Is it really killed? It is still produced but even more important it has evolved through CityPop to FutureFunk and even has touched a bit other genres. I you haven't yet, give it a try. There are many online radio stations that play both FutureFunk and Vaporwave. As for the SynthWave (2.0 because the original SynthWave happened in very early 80s and I do not know why it is called that way since it is unrelated and I prfere to call it RetroWave) it is still produced. I suggest you try it, the more recent incarnations even have vocals which resemble a lot the US Pop Rock music of the mid 80s but in some songs you can even hear clearly the influence of ItaloDisco. I really like both and they are very original and important parts of music history. Still carry in them the seeds of the very early 80s evolution in music aka "New Wave" but have completely different aesthetics (VaporWave is mid 90s nostalgia oriented). If you search in discogs you can even find collections that fuse VaporWave/SynthWave/ItaloDisco and Funk to produce very ethereal music. PS there also exists the very difference subgenre of SovietWave

kregasaurusrex 5y ago
Italodisco is super underrated- it has a lot of the upbeat analog electronic dance music that many of the *waves try to recreate; and did it 40ish years ago. Always felt it was more poppy and fun than the Eurobeat songs that came afterwards like those featured in the anime series Initial D.
- fithisux 5y ago
  I'm definitely in love with ItaloDisco. I watched it from its humble start, to this day. The emphasis has always been on quality Italo house [1989-1993] + Eurobeat[British, Italian] + J-Euro + Classic Italodance (1992-1998) + Hyper-Techno are derivatives of huge importance in the history of EDM and worth to listen filirting many times with their origins. Catch: I consider Spacesynth to be ItaloDisco and the 1988-1993 Italo-energy movement to also be ItaloDisco It is not only underrated. It is the King of the Dance Floor since 1978 with disco being the Queen. Also it is the behind all the music revolutions since then in Europe. And definitely is behind modern SynthWave and Vaporwave.
odiroot 5y ago
> As for the SynthWave (2.0 because the original SynthWave happened in very early 80s and I do not know why it is called that way since it is unrelated and I prfere to call it RetroWave) it is still produced. The original was just called synth-pop. The name synth-wave is now retroactively applied to some 80's bands. I myself got into synth-wave only 2-3 years ago and even started making my own songs this year.
- moomin 5y ago
  If my memory serves me correctly the term for what British bands were doing in the early 80s at the time was "electro". Synth-pop became the dominant term as it went mainstream and artists cracked the formula for making hit records. (So John Foxx and pre-Dare Human League would be electro, post-Dare HL and Howard Jones it'd be synth-pop and Dare itself... well that's a matter of perspective.) But "electro" means something else completely these days.
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kregasaurusrex 5y ago

Italodisco is super underrated- it has a lot of the upbeat analog electronic dance music that many of the *waves try to recreate; and did it 40ish years ago. Always felt it was more poppy and fun than the Eurobeat songs that came afterwards like those featured in the anime series Initial D.

fithisux 5y ago
I'm definitely in love with ItaloDisco. I watched it from its humble start, to this day. The emphasis has always been on quality Italo house [1989-1993] + Eurobeat[British, Italian] + J-Euro + Classic Italodance (1992-1998) + Hyper-Techno are derivatives of huge importance in the history of EDM and worth to listen filirting many times with their origins. Catch: I consider Spacesynth to be ItaloDisco and the 1988-1993 Italo-energy movement to also be ItaloDisco It is not only underrated. It is the King of the Dance Floor since 1978 with disco being the Queen. Also it is the behind all the music revolutions since then in Europe. And definitely is behind modern SynthWave and Vaporwave.

odiroot 5y ago

> As for the SynthWave (2.0 because the original SynthWave happened in very early 80s and I do not know why it is called that way since it is unrelated and I prfere to call it RetroWave) it is still produced. The original was just called synth-pop. The name synth-wave is now retroactively applied to some 80's bands. I myself got into synth-wave only 2-3 years ago and even started making my own songs this year.

moomin 5y ago
If my memory serves me correctly the term for what British bands were doing in the early 80s at the time was "electro". Synth-pop became the dominant term as it went mainstream and artists cracked the formula for making hit records. (So John Foxx and pre-Dare Human League would be electro, post-Dare HL and Howard Jones it'd be synth-pop and Dare itself... well that's a matter of perspective.) But "electro" means something else completely these days.

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