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Can we talk about The Midnight Cred Forums? I'm really loving their new album and wondered what other people thought of it. What other stuff like this might be worth checking out?

youtube.com/watch?v=_pUL7u-mYqA

There's the whole album

youtube.com/watch?v=zNO-MyN1bWg
youtube.com/watch?v=9LD3NKlS55g
youtube.com/watch?v=7AbIiBluyWA

And a few of my favourite ones.

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youtube.com/watch?v=ZvGry66WAOA
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m.youtube.com/watch?v=soK3dO6JDHw
youtube.com/watch?v=lo4C9KpyCCo
m.youtube.com/watch?v=18-Ye2L3ej8
youtube.com/watch?v=IhqfDcRj94U
youtube.com/watch?v=g1tL6kmvhJA
youtube.com/watch?v=4ypAS69iFWM
youtube.com/watch?v=bp3nSHPB1z4
youtube.com/watch?v=17sH5GcvCNE
youtube.com/watch?v=Fg_m_ADlCSs
youtube.com/watch?v=37KSfc9HQCg
soundcloud.com/airbornmartin/airborn-ft-dubittation-savior
soundcloud.com/airbornmartin/parachute-youth-cant-get-better-than-this-airborn-remix
soundcloud.com/airbornmartin/fellow-feeling-airborn-remix
soundcloud.com/airbornmartin/tesla-boy-dream-machine-airborn-remix
soundcloud.com/airbornmartin/gravitational-collapse
soundcloud.com/airbornmartin/matt-lange-consider-this-airborn-remix
vampirestepdad.bandcamp.com/
soundcloud.com/eightiesnights/eighties-nights-mr-right
youtube.com/watch?v=M1KNzcSflLE
soundcloud.com/thealphabetzero/friends-dont-lie
soundcloud.com/lordrecollectif/else-fangs
soundcloud.com/peterzimmermann/peter-zimmermann-something-instrumental
youtube.com/watch?v=N4F0iC9ioiQ
youtube.com/watch?v=Pf9F275H7gk
youtube.com/watch?v=7tHwTTxGk0A
youtube.com/watch?v=Y7gcFXAfp3w
soundcloud.com/vincenzo-salvia/zombie-workout
soundcloud.com/kristineofficial/kristine-the-deepest-blue
youtube.com/watch?v=ROdmz0Wg1Xo
soundcloud.com/airbornmartin/kenji-kawai-making-of-cyborg-airborn-remix
soundcloud.com/bibles_band/wingdance
soundcloud.com/she-said1
twitter.com/SFWRedditGifs

youtube.com/watch?v=ZvGry66WAOA

This one deserve so much love.

Not heard of them but that was a good listen. Timecop 1983 do a lot of cool instrumental stuff too.

Like this one.
youtube.com/watch?v=Y1SLUtGz4tI

Fuck exactly like that one yea.
I love this too
m.youtube.com/watch?v=soK3dO6JDHw

Does anyone else nostalgia hard when they listen to this music? It's obviously pretty new, and I don't even remember the 80s but still. What's that about?

This one is having nostalgic of a period I wasn't even born in, to the point where it almost depresses me.
youtube.com/watch?v=lo4C9KpyCCo

That was another good one. When I saw the thumbnail I actually thought you were going to post this
m.youtube.com/watch?v=18-Ye2L3ej8

Listening to that literally made me go back and watch the Back to the Future trilogy this week.

I know exactly what you mean about feeling a bit sad though. Sort of like your best friend when you were kid is moving house and you know you won't ever see him again.

I like the EP a bit more, but it was a great listen.

The Midnight really sticks out to me as someone who takes roots from retrowave but still makes it his own.
They have a voice, and many other retrowave musicians all sorta sound similar.

Essential Aerobicscore:

Perturbator: Lynnea Quigley Horror Workout
youtube.com/watch?v=IhqfDcRj94U

Pumping Body: Come on
youtube.com/watch?v=g1tL6kmvhJA

City Project: Dirty Workout
youtube.com/watch?v=4ypAS69iFWM

Bestrack: Workout 2000
youtube.com/watch?v=bp3nSHPB1z4

Cluster Buster: Erotic Aerobic Leg Lunges
youtube.com/watch?v=17sH5GcvCNE

WARNG: Extreme Transudation
youtube.com/watch?v=Fg_m_ADlCSs

Robots With Rayguns - Sweat It Out
youtube.com/watch?v=37KSfc9HQCg

fucking sweet
dat sax solo

Why is it that synthwave vocals almost NEVER sound like something from the 80s?

It's always nasal, lascivious early 2000s electro pop singing or early 2000s radio RnB vocals.

Because the 80s is an influence.
It's not straight copying what the 80s was.

I got into Synthwave around 2013.

This was the first thing I did:
soundcloud.com/airbornmartin/airborn-ft-dubittation-savior

This is some remix work of my favorite artists:

soundcloud.com/airbornmartin/parachute-youth-cant-get-better-than-this-airborn-remix

soundcloud.com/airbornmartin/fellow-feeling-airborn-remix

soundcloud.com/airbornmartin/tesla-boy-dream-machine-airborn-remix

I love rock themes

soundcloud.com/airbornmartin/gravitational-collapse

soundcloud.com/airbornmartin/matt-lange-consider-this-airborn-remix

Yea I think the eps good too, especially the instrumental mixes. The Years instrumental version makes me bite my lip haha.

I've been really into this genre for about the last 5 years or so, and The Midnight is probably the artist im most consistently in to. It's just really good stuff. As you say, stands out a little.

Where the fuck did the ultra sheriff bandcamp page go?

also a very strong rec:

vampirestepdad.bandcamp.com/

That's not a reason for allowing subpar vocals to sneak their way onto your music.

And no, the 80s are not just "an influence", the point of synthwave is literally to immerse the listener into an idealized version of the 80s, so while it doesn't have to be the exact same thing, it shouldn't remind you of other decades.

that do it for you?
soundcloud.com/eightiesnights/eighties-nights-mr-right

I wish I could comment on that but for some reason SC doesn't work on any of my browsers.

Makes me wanna go do some jumping jacks.

you're mad good with the guitar stuff
and that tesla boy remix is so groovy, kind of a deep house from the 80s

You like what you hear?

yeah that's more like it. That's the stuff. Proper vocals.

Bonus points for Elle MacPherson in the thumbnail.

Gost dropped his newest album, Non Paradisi, pretty solid so far youtube.com/watch?v=M1KNzcSflLE

You mean nothing?

You might enjoy this.
I was blown away by this.

soundcloud.com/thealphabetzero/friends-dont-lie

Wouldlistenagain/10

might be better if you removed the TRAP-INFLUENCED HI-HATS. I mean you could find that sort of thing on some synthfunk tracks form the 80s but it was too rare to be reminiscent of it.

soundcloud.com/lordrecollectif/else-fangs

>tfw going to see Ghost on Monday and Carpenter Brut is the opening act

Color me hyped

Those still sound like 2000s vocals. But it's prettier than on The Midnight.

so jealous m8. Gost and Perturbator play near me soon but I'm away, gutted.

>tfw I would like to get myself updated on tour dates but I'm too paranoid to use facebook

I thought Pert decided to stop synthwave because he bought into the "it all sounds the same so it's bad" meme.

this guys new upload

soundcloud.com/peterzimmermann/peter-zimmermann-something-instrumental

That's from Blood Music's facebook page

here's some new wave you should all listen to in order to get a better grasp of the 80s sound:

youtube.com/watch?v=N4F0iC9ioiQ
youtube.com/watch?v=Pf9F275H7gk
youtube.com/watch?v=7tHwTTxGk0A
youtube.com/watch?v=Y7gcFXAfp3w

Notice the more passionate vocals and groovier synth basslines.

I meant Ghost the rock band, not Gost. But Carpenter Brut is opening for them which surprised me but in a good way.

shit I hope they still got places for Paris.

>Carpenter Brut opening for scooby-doo chase music

Not that guy but loved that one.

ah right, that's still an awesome gig, still jealous hah

yeah, sounds ok.

The overdriven synths remind me of some basslines you could find on old-school EBM songs.

Speaking of EBM, why is Perturbator the only guy who openly takes inspiration from it?

>kill, marry, fuck

>fuck
>fuck
>fuck

I seriously recommend Vincenzo Salvia

soundcloud.com/vincenzo-salvia/zombie-workout

>it shouldn't remind you of other decades.
I disagree.
I find Retrowave to be a culmination of recent electronic work, in the aesthetic of the 80s time period.

Though, it's a broad genre, so I wouldn't mind if certain artists kept to more of an overall true 80's theme, while others experiment.

>Speaking of EBM, why is Perturbator the only guy who openly takes inspiration from it?
because no one wants to copy his style now.

I'd argue that Dance with the Dead and MoXX play around with the ideas though.

Required anime watching for anyone who likes hard synthwave:

ai city
midnight eye Gokuu
cyber city Oedo 808
genocyber
Angel Cop
AD police
dominion tank police
new dominion
megazone 23
samurai Gold
twilight of the dark master
burn up!
Wicked City
Demon City Shinjuku

Not that there's necessarily any synth tunes in them, they just fit the aesthetic
black magic M-66
appleseed (1988)
metal skin panic Madox-01

You know, there's enough untapped inspiration in 80s music to experiment a LOT more than by simply adding trendy contemporary sounds (like 2000s electropop vocals and trap hi-hats) into your music.

If a synthwave artist decided to take inspiration from Nitzer Ebb and Psychic TV, now THAT would be experimental.

damn right.

Here, Blondi Bee and Candy Evans.

Now get me synthwave that sounds like they look.

Shit I meant to add that line at the bottom, it concerns the whole list.

It's so sad seeing what happened to this genre

Now it's all just perturbator/carpenter rip offs

soundcloud.com/kristineofficial/kristine-the-deepest-blue

fucking SPOT ON

Uh, no, there's more and more chillwave-inspired projects. Hard synthwave is still a minority you dumb finnish bear.

fucking excellent

You new to the genre?

'4th' shouldn't have been on this.

Is Andy Sidaris the greatest movie director of all time?

This is accurate. Good link

then link me to those projects niggerman.

relevant

youtube.com/watch?v=ROdmz0Wg1Xo

damn, that one on the right
>when your body so tight you got a cameltoe up to your belly button

not giving views to your shitty e-celeb

it's for the podcast you walnut

no

soundcloud.com/airbornmartin/kenji-kawai-making-of-cyborg-airborn-remix

Thought I'd share my favourite lone gem. It was my discovery of modern synth stuff.

soundcloud.com/bibles_band/wingdance

A shame it's all this band has up.

very cool

>those steel drums
tasteful

of course!

Soundcloud of the artist for those also looking: soundcloud.com/she-said1