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Hotline Miami and the Rise of Techno in Ultra-Violent Video Games
- AlbertoGP 4y agoWhen reading the title for a moment I thought it was this old video from 2016: “Hotline Miami and the rise of Synthwave” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mjsic8hiQ5k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mjsic8hiQ5k Might be a good companion watch for the linked article which gives more context I did not know about: > The most beloved tracks in the game come from M.O.O.N., the Portugal-via-Massachusetts project of Stephen Gilarde. He was just 16 when Söderström and Wedin stumbled on his debut self-titled EP and offered to pay $400 for each track. As a high schooler with one EP to his name and no promotion, it was mind-blowing. “It’s a weird feeling to have my first thing be this cult classic,” Gilarde says over Zoom. “It changed my entire life.” A year prior, he was hospitalized with clinical depression and had dropped out of high school, twice. “At that point, I was just really angry at myself, angry at the world, at my small town—normal teenager stuff cranked up to a thousand and no real outlet for it.” So, he started making techno. This is that EP they talk about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29VLZTa4_MU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29VLZTa4_MU
- pentagrama 4y ago2010: Me dancing to Richie Hawtin's soundtrack Making Contakt on a rave being deeply connected to that moment https://youtu.be/X8nMXdMuXIA https://youtu.be/X8nMXdMuXIA 2011: Me watching the intro scene from the movie Drive and being blown away by the song https://youtu.be/9LUTOj7rX94 https://youtu.be/9LUTOj7rX94 2012: Me playing Hotline Miami and being blown away by the score https://youtu.be/oKD-MVfC9Ag https://youtu.be/oKD-MVfC9Ag What a string of experiences connected to techno.