Other subgenres include dreamwave, darksynth, and scifiwave.
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According to PC Gamer, the essence of outrun visuals is "taking elements of a period of '80s excess millennials find irresistibly evocative, and modernizing them so they're just barely recognizable." There is also a visual component on synthwave album covers and music videos. According to musician Perturbator (James Kent), outrun is also its own subgenre, mainly instrumental, and often contains 1980s clichéd elements in the sound such as electronic drums, gated reverb, and analog synthesizer bass lines and leads - all to resemble tracks from that time period. The term comes from the 1986 arcade racing game Out Run, which is known for its soundtrack that could be selected in-game and its 1980s aesthetic. "Outrun" is a synonym of synthwave that was later used to refer more generally to retro 1980s aesthetics such as VHS tracking artifacts, magenta neon, and gridlines. Common tempos are between 80 and 118 BPM, while more upbeat tracks may be between 128 and 140 BPM. It is primarily an instrumental genre, although there are occasional exceptions to the rule. Other reference points include electronic dance music genres including house, synth, and nu-disco. Synthwave is a microgenre of electronic music that draws predominantly from 1980s films, video games, and cartoons, as well as composers such as John Carpenter, Jean-Michel Jarre, Vangelis, and Tangerine Dream.
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Synthwave reached wider popularity after being featured in the soundtracks of the 2011 film Drive (which included some of the genre's best-known songs), 2017 film Thor: Ragnarok and the Netflix series Stranger Things.Ĭharacteristics and related terms Other reference points included composers John Carpenter, Jean-Michel Jarre, Vangelis (especially his score for the 1982 film Blade Runner), and Tangerine Dream.
The genre developed in the mid-to late 2000s through French house producers, as well as younger artists who were inspired by the 2002 video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. Synthwave musicians often espouse nostalgia for 1980s culture and attempt to capture the era's atmosphere and celebrate it.
Other influences are drawn from the decade's art and video games. Synthwave (also called outrun, retrowave, or futuresynth ) is an electronic music microgenre that is based predominantly on the music associated with action, science-fiction, and horror film soundtracks of the 1980s. For topics related to the term used in 1980s magazines, see Cold wave (music), Minimal wave, and Dark wave. This article is about the house-influenced genre from the 2000s.