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There’s a while sub genre of synthwave named after his album OutRun. Which, by the way, is best experienced while driving on the highway at night. https://www.
by taejavu 3mo ago
There’s a while sub genre of synthwave named after his album OutRun. Which, by the way, is best experienced while driving on the highway at night.
https://www.reddit.com/r/outrun/ https://www.reddit.com/r/outrun/
- uncivilized 3mo agoSynthwave genre named after the video game Out Run.
- bigfishrunning 3mo agoIs it possible that both the album and the genre are named after the video game? or it could be some kind of chain (genre->album->video game) Now i just want to play outrun. I wonder if there's an arcade nearby...
- toyg 3mo agoThe videogame is from the '80s; it became iconic partially because it allowed players to choose the music to listen to "in the car", all of them synths (obviously), and one of the songs you could choose was called "Splash Wave". Folks like Kavinsky later (re)popularized synths and made explicit throwbacks to the game, like the album name. I don't know where the term "Synthwave" came from, but it does look like one of those throwbacks.
- where-group-by 3mo agoSynthwave name is more likely to be related various "wave" genres, like Darkwave or Coldwave.
- iaaan 3mo agoMaybe most recognizable: New Wave
- rikthevik 3mo agoCertainly we should celebrate Morodor here too... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpW3C_k0WMY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpW3C_k0WMY