Darksynth recommendation guide
Darksynth is a sub-genre of Synthwave. And within darksynth, there's a sub-sub-genre for cyberpunk synth music. So if synth music feels cyberpunk to you, these recommendations are a good starting point.
Here's a higher-res version of the image (also here). This guide was created by khroshan over on reddit, I just wanted to share it.
Thank you! That's awesome!
Killer! I recommend looking on bandcamp for these first.
This is awesome! Thanks for sharing I'm going to check these out.
It's a really weird feeling recognizing a bunch of artists I listen to on an infographic haha
there's a bunch I don't recognize though which means new music! this rocks
Ooohhh hell yeah, there's a lot of artists in here who I absolutely love, and I can tell that these others I'm not familiar with are going to be awesome, too! May start listening to some of these while I work tonight. Is there a Lemmy community set up already for similar music recommendations?
!synthwave@lemmy.world covers it and is moderately active.
TIL I like Dark and Extreme Synth.
Mick Gordon forever.
I know I'm way late to this thread, but just gonna drop this artist here, "Access to Arasaka" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxzBrzdZOK8 - obvious cyberpunk (as in, the game, tabletop and otherwise) vibes just for the name. Pretty cool stuff. Can't put a name for the genre really, electronic, kinda ambient/idm?, but that's all I got.
I've gotta say thanks again, @Hammerjack@lemmy.zip. I've been working my way through these artists for the past few weeks and I'm still less than half-way through the list.
I generally though cyberpunk was a separate sub-genre of synthwayve, not a sub-sub-genre of darksynth
I mean, they're all just terms you use to label music to help people find more music they like (e.g. on streaming services.)
Historically, "cyberpunk" as a term emerged in the late 80s/ early 90s to refer to a variety of electronic music (source).
And "synthwave" as a term emerged after the 2000s, initially to describe electronic music inspired by 80s soundtracks (source) and "darksynth" was a development of this.
So yeah, the way this graphic classifies the music is a little odd, but in terms of laying out music to recommend, it does a good job.
