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.
I know I’m way late to this thread, but just gonna drop this artist here, “Access to Arasaka” 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 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.
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?
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