Any fans of Neo 80's/Synthwave/Outrun Electro?

ShetlandViking

If you've seen the 2011 film Drive or played Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon you'll the kind of music I'm talking about (80's inspired music with modern fidelity). Some of my favourite tracks include:

Out of Body by Dance With The Dead
Lost In System 7 by Droid Bishop
Summer Love by Trevor Something
Call on You (feat. The Boy and Sister Alma) by Timecop1983

Ole Rodrigo

Drive soundtrack is excellent. You should check out some of Trevor Horns productions...Art of Noise, Propaganda, The Buggles, Frankie Goes to Hollywood.

A Secret Wish, by Propaganda is brilliant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTGYGmLsX8o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ux3u31SAeEM

francois

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlTFklZs8lo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PySsErAILE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5QErPDNcj4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRC9K7iLUAw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jpk2rFXZYi0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mw2mn-ew034

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15ScQivK5DY

ShetlandViking

These are all great but I should have said that I'm not talking about music that was actually made in the 80's, but rather music being made today that's inspired by the 80's. Some of the most well known artists would be Com Truise, Lazerhawk, Power Glove, and obviously Kavinsky and Electric Youth.

Check out these 3 Youtube channels, they have a bunch of different artists on there: Maniac Synth, LuigiDonatello, NewRetroWave

Saruwatari

I love that kinda stuff ever since I heard the Hotline Miami soundtrack, but I find a lot of it to be very samey in the long run.

I keep coming back to this Anoraak track though;

ShetlandViking

Saruwatari wrote: »

I love that kinda stuff ever since I heard the Hotline Miami soundtrack, but I find a lot of it to be very samey in the long run.

Yeah whenever I'm looking through any of those Youtube channels I mentioned I have to go through like 20 tracks before I find something I like or that stands out, because a lot of it is quite samey. But once I do it's usually worth the search! I tend to go for the more modern-sounding ones.

ShetlandViking

Dance With The Dead can do no wrong IMO

Ravenholm

Some of my favs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdncFnL3_30

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foxVW0Ed0Dw

I make some synthwave tracks as well, if you want to have a listen.

https://soundcloud.com/ravenh0lm/sets/synthwave

There is a great synthwave community here https://www.facebook.com/groups/120473901408954/

Also has a synthwave streaming radio show every Sunday at 3pm thats defo worth a listen.

shane9689

DH90

Ever since I started listening to Kavinsky, I just started doing mass-youtubing of tunes of this genre. I found a load of them to be utter ****e & to sound so uninteresting, cheesy & the production literally trying to match that of the 80's sonically so that it can't hold a candle to modern production (now I'm not saying anything about the sounds these guys come up with, but the overall mix sound just makes you zone out).

But I've also found hundreds of songs that are top class & deserve a place in today's popularity. But then again, it's a debate as to whether you want it kept safe in the underground, OR for it to be given popularity so that modern pop comes along & destroys it?

So lets see, my favourites would be Kavinksy, Le Matos, Lifelike, Lazerhawk (I'm friends with the Producer Garrett Hays on Facebook, really cool guy, big into his pinball), Flashworx, Droid Bishop, Kalax, Pyramid, Megadrive. There's tonnes more out there, but I tend to sample tunes from a lot of others.

Lifelike - Motion

www. youtube. com/watch?v=NIISAjxOtS0

Le Matos - Sarah

www. youtube. com/watch?v=dCX5vR5DU-k&list=PLvuaZYOMAV0efpXpZSZrN6qxOjg65n_Na&index=63

Le Matos - 88MPH (Not very synth wave, but anyone into Daft Punk/Justice outta check this funky number out)

www. youtube. com/watch?v=ZIpzzbXeetE&list=PLvuaZYOMAV0efpXpZSZrN6qxOjg65n_Na&index=52

Danger - 9h20 (not regularly a Synthwave dude, but this has 80's written all over it, top class)

www. youtube. com/watch?
v=c4SZdob0YU8&index=196&list=PLvuaZYOMAV0efpXpZSZrN6qxOjg65n_Na

Lazerhawk - So Far Away

www. youtube. com/watch?v=cFyIIOOPlz0

Lazerhawk - Arrival (Everyone needs to check this one out - Epic is an understatement)

www. youtube. com/watch?v=0AWoyS2Ulow

Kristine - Modern Love (Barretso Remix)

www. youtube. com/watch?v=0_hPZ02gH4w

Pyramid - Wolf (debatable how loyal it stays within the genre, but definitely hints in there)

www. youtube. com/watch?v=TB_SENNdBxo

(Sorry for the link separation, won't let me post otherwise).

Ravenholm

good choices DH90.

to embed the youtube videos when posting click the youtube button then paste the id of the video into the tags

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFyIIOOPlz0

so for the Lazerhawk video below its the string of charaters after the = sign
so cFyIIOOPlz0

www. youtube. com/watch?v=cFyIIOOPlz0

DH90

Ravenholm wrote: »

good choices DH90.

to embed the youtube videos when posting click the youtube button then paste the id of the video into the tags

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFyIIOOPlz0

so for the Lazerhawk video below its the string of charaters after the = sign
so cFyIIOOPlz0

www. youtube. com/watch?v=cFyIIOOPlz0

I tried that when posting, but it's saying that because I'm new I can't post pic's, URL's etc.... I guess I should post more regularly then!!

Dotsie~tmp

Also love this new synth stuff whatever u want to call it.(newsynth, synthwave, synthpop, outrun, nudisco, italodisco, dreampop, dreamwave, electro. retro, newretro retrowave). Will begin posting some favs links and the like.

Playlist: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmDm6XjNZsfhV7m8hgocI9aO8-in9UeHD
My Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/davidjamesbolger

http://driveradio.be/

YT channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/neros77
YT channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/NewRetroWave
YT channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/LuigiDonatello/videos

http://www.valeriecollective.com/
http://rossocorsarecords.bandcamp.com/music
http://vivaitalians.blogspot.ie/
http://bandcamp.com/ - lots of music on here under above tags.

Dotsie~tmp

Some of my favs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gWXe6Am73E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMjAWloygQ8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJ9Rik1dWFE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWlJcJT8xOc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G22X5X49VhM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBWXCSXyotk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5b7cj4zWiyo

Dotsie~tmp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPBfHXM3lRA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDKH6ax2C8w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYTwRVFHZjo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgO-9P1fSjU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYQLqsshQLA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYMKiorSzRA

Dotsie~tmp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InH-iidhabY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmwh1hY6oKo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRZNyCwaPoY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5s4GqpqqHo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow9iogTWtz4

All this guys stuff: https://soundcloud.com/f4k8

Dotsie~tmp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe76yA13I8s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJIhmFVDJyM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k59poQUJgPw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg09mxhljMo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcSB-hfHbYc

Dotsie~tmp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTwaYXZBYcI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3OediCUTnU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKicTFd_2Jo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1ml1HQQLU0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4MYjcVx7Zw

Dotsie~tmp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDRcYyTV424

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrI764mV3OY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB4u5pe3yKs

original Italo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dv2blX8VfnI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kG7mPf2jP9c

Dotsie~tmp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4OcLN4QPAM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_HsBXbrycs

Jordan F remix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okZnI-s-vZo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcpJn69XpJM

djerk

a trip down memory lane..

http://vimeo.com/29999445

Johnatorium

Here's a little Lazerhawk/Daft Punk mashup that I threw together.
You can also listen to it at https://soundcloud.com/tech49music/daft-punk-vs-lazerhawk-work-it-to-the-metal

ShetlandViking

I seriously cannot stop listening to When It Breaks, how does it not have at least half a million views?