looks like Joe didn't want to be associated with it anymore, iirc it was unintentional but the post was worded in a way that it could've been an es6 joke, which I honestly didn't know was a thing at the time
Posting to come back but it would probably be worth the time of some ITT to check out these artists; not exactly synthwave but a mix with mid 70’s kraut komische music (excluding Preturbator):
this isn't exactly synthwave but it showed up on one of my metal review sites for some reason and i liked it
Not sure why this specific subgenre is so much better than anything else, but Sovietwave is really been scratching my itch lately.
listening now. first impression: i was expecting it to be sparse and depressing, but it's basically the opposite
I am likely off with some bits of detail: wasn't officially called synthwave in the 80s, but synthwave-esque sounds, songs and soundtracks started in the then. They were attached to the cheesy sci-fi and action movies of that decade (Blade Runner isn't cheesy, but it is a notable movie with now called synthwave/outrun sounds). Artists/composers utilizing synthesizers to create the sounds in the 80s included: John Carpenter, Giorgio Moroder and a small handful of others. French house producers in the 2000s started to make the sound popular, games like GTA VC then picked it up. One of the Far crys, or cries, as well. Kavinsky, College aka Valerie (real name David Grellier), Mitch Murder and a few others spearheaded recreating the sound as a love letter to the 80s films in the late 2000s. Kavinsky is mostly credited for bringing the "genre" outrun to existence/popularity. Outrun really encompasses darkwave, synthwave, dark synth and a few other genres as well as the outrun lifestyle, album art and fonts used. Outrun: fast, hard and aggressively speeding down the highway, neon lights yada yada. Synthwave: chill with ambience. The movie Drive came out with a good bit of outrun. The sound became mainstream and now we have everyday music incorporating synthwave sounds and synthesizers.
He also loves doing collabs with relatively obscure metal people, which I like. It just doesn't necessarily work out always Rygg, Puciato from Dillinger, some guy from Tribulation, and Kvhost from Beastmilk There may be more
Alex, Alex and Tokyo Rose collab album (Akuma), Gunship, Makeup and Vanity Set, Kalax, Toxic Avenger, FM-84, the Midnight, Megadrive, Pertubator, Kavinsky, Dance with the Dead, Lazerhawk, Miami Nights, Carpenter, Robert Parker All good artists for those interested. Mainstays would be Carpenter, Lazerhawk, Robert Parker, Alex, the Midnight, Kavinsky's first album, and FM-84.