HEY, i just saw your video, only when you said you made your own songs I noticed your name is Vosto and that my favorite synth music was yours: A world within. what a masterpiece, congrats. (btw sorry if I made a grammar error, I'm Brazilian)
You my friend, are a internet youtube legend. So many, and I do mean so many tracks and artists I found on your channel. Thank a bunch. Sidebar: i do miss maniacsynth channel sometimes. Keep the wave going
This will never be mainstream. Not one underground electronic music genre became mainstream, except for that so-called EDM, but that doesn't even count in my book because it is THE worst kind of music of all time.
I just did a show with Com Truise headlining and let him know about how this documentary first introduced me to his music. He was really knocked out that this documentary exists, and meant a lot to be held in a regard high enough to reach so far and wide. Such a nice, humble man - it was a blast getting to talk to him, and see him interact with fans like a fun, fair, easygoing guy.
yeah this documentary is good but it's kind of out of date and also misses some bands like the midnight because I never even heard of them at the time. I hope you showed him or told him about the part where I mixed arnold quotes from pumping iron to com truise's music, the "I'm cumming day and night" quote.That being said this was part of me trying to do something positive on the channel because I usually talked about conspiracy theories so I wanted to add what matters to me and that is music and synthwave. Now the scene is kind of falling appart and people moved on to do other stuff but I'm still doing it because for me it wasn't just a trend. If you have time check out my new album station 23 on bandcamp. - vosto.bandcamp.com/album/station-23
Nailed it! Wonderful, in depth look into the rad genre that brings us so much joy. I was class of 1984 and can say you definitely did your homework! The 80s were indeed a friendlier time, fresh fun and full of promise. Might sound corny but blasting Synthwave jams [daily] is jumper cables for my spirit, a bit of the same fun and promise that keeps me going in today's often uncertain world. Bless you Vosto Vlad!
I was a young man in the 80's and I can confirm that it was a magical time and if I'd known how shit it was going to be now, I'd have thought it was even more magical. You are right to be nostalgic about the 80's even if you were not even born then. Young people: Your future has been hijacked by a bunch of old farts in expensive suits.
I was born in 89, so I always say I'm from the '80s even I just lived just 5 months in that decade. My favorite stuff is from de '80s, music, movies, games, visual identity. Thanks for your documentary, it was really nice!
So glad I found this! I have over 1,300 songs in my Synthwave playlist. I was born in the year of Star Wars 1977. I will never let go of the 80s or 90s ❤️
I was born in 1984, a bit too young to experience the 80s myself. But my dad was always playing music at home during that time, so there's certainly a nostalgic memory to that. I saw 80s movies only much later, but they were still awesome.
French artist DANGER was probably the first modern synthwave artist I ever heard back in 2007 (19h11 holy shit). I've always felt there were some quiet roots in the chiptunes community - some Razor1911 tracks are very reminiscent of current synthwave releases - both harkening back to 80s arcade nostalgia.
My WHOLE thing is Synthwave. I LOVE IT. I've never found a more enjoyable genre (other than EuroBeat) to listen to PERIOD. Even though it was pioneered from 80's music I believe it took everything amazing about the 80's and doubled it. This whole video was right up my alley and I loved the whole thing. Really great job dude.
The fact that these movies and songs had to be smuggled makes them even more awesome and nostalgic to you than us in america that had them at our finger tips. I'm jealous.
Cool documentary, I love synthwave. I was born in 1975 so remember the 80s, many of the movies like Robocop etc , me and my freinds were watching those in the early 90s as VHS rentals as were too young to get to see them at the cinema so in many ways the 80s nostalgia also seeps into early 90s :) As well as 80s, I grew up watching 70s sci fi movies so I am also nostalgic for sounds like Boards Of Canada etc. In the UK we used to tune into soviet/eastern European radio stations on the radio as if we were spies, didnt understand what was being said wanted to believe it was top secret probably mundane things like the weather and local news ha ha.
I was born in 1980, the pop culture of the 80s warped my mind into what it is today. The Goonies and the Never-ending Story VHS tapes that I wore to breaking point can attest to this! This music is a bit of an obsession for me too.
You posted this on Discord, so this is your first video i see. It is well done, especially liked the editing and the visuals. But what I wanted to say is that I really dont know how to feel about this popularity thing. I want people to see this and understand what Synthwave is while at the same time not wanting Synthwave to go mainstream.. I hope I will never get bored of synthwave. At least we can say we liked it before every second youtuber had a Synthwave intro/outro...
definitely , it's like with dubstep , in 2007 it was so edgy to listen to it and then 2011 skrillex appeared and butt raped it ...soon all kids on yt had dubstep intros :)) and now it's over saturated ...
Synth is huge!!! and im glad. People from all walks can love this stuff. Im from a Heavy metal background, born 1985 and love the old games and action movies. Still finding new artists and loving the sound.
The music is untouchable. Nothing can take that away. More exposure is a good thing because someone lonely might never have heard these songs. Fm84, sunglasses kid, the midnight--- they really changed my night, and changed my life. Music is what I need to get me going and I've been looking for something like this for so long. I don't want anyone to miss out on this.
Had I not started my GTA experience with GTA III, I would've possibly thought the same thing. I spent hours playing it 20 years ago. The song however is ORIGINALLY from the soundtrack to Scarface and is by Giorgio Moroder
Mate, this video seems to be at least 1 year old, but it’s fantastic. I always had the feel of being out of the place I should be, having a sip of pleasure whenever I came across smth that I couldn’t describe, and since a few months I found myself in the Synthwave/Cyberpunk universe and I feel like I finally found myself.
yes the title used to have 2018 on it but I removed because ppl are less to click on stuff if it's not from the present or smth... I still think it's relevant as this is an entire retrospective and I don't just talk about daily nonsense like all the other youtubers :D
Well done and well put together! I do feel that there is a part missing from your documentary - a comparison between Synthwave and Vaporwave. There's a strange relationship between these two genres were Vaporwave puts an ironic, "arty", spin to 80's and 90's commercialism, chopping it and slowing it down to create an eerie, lonely sense of rootlessness, like you are walking through a dying shopping mall. In contrast, Synthwave started out as an ironic take on 80's aesthetic (Vice City, Blood Dragon) and over time became more and more sincere. It's like Vaporwave points to the failure of commercial escapism while Synthwave doubles down on it, refines the aesthetic and does a better job than the original - more 80's than the 80's!
What I love about about synthwave is that it's not only a pastiche of all the greatest 80's cheesey tropes, cyberpunk but has even bled over into the 90's and Simpsons-wave was born.
Great Documentary! I was born in 1974 so I got experience the 1980’s in all its glory. One movie people never mention that should get more attention is Risky Business! The soundtrack is very Synth based and features Tangerine Dream but the style in that movie I think influenced Mitch Murder.
I was 10-19 in the 80s... and I can say in al the years I've lived, the 80s were the most upbeat, light-hearted, and cheesy eras I've lived through... in the 70s, the "free love" time was ending and people were living with the end of the Vietnam war, and the 80s seemed to be an era where most of the world was finding hope and peace, and music reflected that - the 70s were a kind of driven transition, with a lot of harder rebellious or sad, melancholy feelings in most music... the happy, carefree tracks were the rarity... but the 80s music gained the new technological sounds from Kraftwerk, Isao Tomita and others started in the late 70s meeting the hopeful, upbeat driving momentum of the 80s and the influx of home computers and games, the coolness of the space shuttle program, MTV and cable giving us a hundred channels to watch to entertain us, and the feeling that the future was so bright, we'd have to wear shades... and not yet to the pissed-off, overwhelmed, depression-filled angst of the 90s alternative and grunge music. It was really a magical time in a lot of ways... a confluence of hope, tech, and style that was unique to the era... and the bands and people who work to recapture that are appreciated by those that were there and miss it, like myself. :)
I was born in '95 in Poland and can definitely resonate with 80's cultural heritage having a major impact on some people in my generation growing up. Watching 80's films, playing old SNES and DOS games and hearing all the old songs way into the 2000s was amazing.
One word.. Wow!! This was a most enjoyable documentary. I was born in 77 so I had a pretty full 80’s experience and you hit the topic spot on. I’ve recently started production of humble attempts at synthwave. This video will certainly help me continue as it showed me so many names of artists and communities. You might want to give Home and Emil Rottmeyer a listen. Thanks for this great contribution to the culture!!
I appreciate the Synthwave/Vaporwave/Cyberpunk aesthetic - it's nice to get some background on the origins. Also to get a mini-history lesson on what was happening in Romania. Thanks for the vid
I need to find the most used sounds and vsts for making my own synthwave. For I made some songs with synth sounds in my channel but I need to find more and more songs to learn to hear them as well. I loved this documentary and I appreciate the songs you shared so everyone can look for the artists. In this millennium I was born, I hope I can help with the spread of synthwave, so that everyone can enjoy such beautiful vibes.
This was really well produced. Thorough, but also concise enough that I didn't get bored. I was particularly struck by the part about you growing up in Romania under Soviet-era conditions. Smuggling in western music and movies must have created a very different experience to those of us that took our freedoms for granted in Western Europe (and in many cases heard the songs and saw the films years before you could) but ultimately we are unified in our love of music.
yeah what I can say is that since the time of this documentary synthwave has had a big surge in lame artists over saturating it and begging for attention...I still follow the OG's tho
I watch it making fist my hands and tears in my eyes !!!!! Thank you for this Doc. I was having some problems to share my knowledge and feelings to my friends about synth... and here is the solution. Again dude, thank you.
I used to despise the electronic music for my whole teenage, but this year, 2022, I've just run into this new retrowave by chance and now I cannot stop consuming it. I like good music, but most of the time I don't wanna listen to anything, but just enjoy the moment, the atmosphere, my thoughts. Synth is here to stay, comrades.
im so in love with synthwave and this is definitely one of the best videos I've ever watched ! thank u so much for such an amazing documentary pleas keep going ❤❤
Holly shit you opened some memories for me, Back in the day I heard a electronic like beat in GTA IV back in 2008 or something always was searching for what type of genre it could be so fast forward to 2014 I heard a song from dance with the dead looked very similar. Around the same time I saw a video with Rc cars fighting or something and Carpenter brut - Roller mobster. took me another year to finaly through vaporwave find synthwave and retrowave, now it was like 4 years since I last listened to ut but now since a year or something Im back listening to it fulltime😂
>The Midnight >Quixotic-Arnold >Kristine >Bubblegum-Teenage Synth Rock/Pop(Retro ones).With that high school summer break vibe.Some are quite minimal but really catchy.Not necessarily cheesy >The influence of Post Punk/Industrial and Electronic Music in general on this genre
I discovered Synthwave thanks to The Back To Back 1983 1984 Video Game Champion and Two Time Streamer Of The Year Six foot 8 with 37" vertical leap International Gaming Superstar Dr DISRESPECT
Vosto, I've been subscribed to your channel since the beginning. I loved your conspiracy related videos, but I really love synth wave. As an 80's kid, I love the retro feel. This genre compiles all of the good of the 80's, and leaving out most of the cheese. I first got into this genre through watching Drive, and discovering Kavinsky. I'm also a fan of Trevor Something, amongst many others. It's funny, because I'm already subscribed to half the channels you plugged. Keep up the amazing content, and making your own badass tracks.
much respect ! your comment confirms that this direction in which I am going with the channel is a valid one , you may see stuff like this or you may see something conspiracy related ... I think it works good together ...also , nothing wrong with a bit of cheese ... not too much though :D
Vosto, I just want to share a personal THANK YOU on just how stellar this documentary was. You nail the hammer on the head, and further cements my love of this no-longer niche music and art style. In 2021, its becoming more popular, as game series such as Battlefield, Need for Speed, Arcade Paradise, Solar Ash, Rocket League, Five Nights at Freddy's, Fortnite, Beat Saber, Wave Break and FarCry all take inspiration from the vibes of the 80s. What a time we live in.
i love your music Vosto, seeing this documentary you made is amazing, it really shows the backbone of the music itself and how it culturally came to be. you nailed it dude, this is awesome; you are awesome. Always happy to hear you on nightride fm and see you in the chat. (Ruiner2077 on the stream) there is a song you did with Donbor, Trail of Freedom and the two of you together made some scary beautiful music, but everything you do musically i feel in my soul in a way that so much other music can not make me feel.
It was very nice to learn a different perspective of the 80s. I was a young boy in México during that time and can attest that the 80s were a great decade to live in. You made that point very well. And you also introduced me to lot of new music to listen to! You got my subscribe, man.
There is a lot going on. From a love of specific art to music styles, nostalgia and things retro. Dance With The Dead, Perturbator, Gost and also more pop style artists like Gunship and Scandroid, they all deliver. Can't believe this is lasting more than a decade now. When I became aware of this I thought it won't outlive electro swing, which was a really badly played house music thing. But this retro synthwave was more than that. 80s pop, 80s horror soundtracks, Italo Disco, all mixed up with metal, hard rock and even death metal to let the darkness collide with bright neon lights. Is there anything that did not exist?
Man, I searched Synthwave Documentary, and did not expect something of this quality. 2 years later, and still holds up. I was also pleasantly surprised that you named a few artists I hadn't heard of like tonebox.
Synthwave; i just discovered the genre almost a year ago and prefer it a billion times over Lady Bathroom ("Gaga" rhymes with spanish for sh!t), Nicky Minaj, reggaeton, and (since living near Mexico) narcoballads, which most people in my town listen to.
David Bustamante I discovered the genre when the movie "Drive" came out. Glad there's more people like us listening to it. Somos raros los mexicanos que nos gusta esto pero bueno saludos paisano!
That was excellent! So informative and comprehensive with many examples that I didn't even know, especially pre-2012 stuff. Thank you so much! God, I hope this revival of '80s stuff keeps going for a while. I really do. I love it.
Thank you so much for this video. Your hard work and recommended artists and your own music are hugely appreciated and enjoyed. I discovered synthwave through Hotline Miami soundtrack and later sorta through vaporwave. But didn't know where to start to try to understand how all these juicy tasty genres and subgenres started. I'd tell friends about this music in really vague limited ways. So now I'm equiped and educated more so on this music that makes life that much more meaningful for me. Thank you!
Unfortunately the creators of Cyberpunk 2077 didn't want to use synthwave tracks in the game because they've thought synthwave genre is too melodic and beautiful for such a dark settings.
Foarte tare documentarul ! Sunt chiar mandru sa aflu ca exista oameni in propria mea tara care promoveaza stilul meu preferat de muzica cu atata pasiune ! Nu-i de mirare ca miscarea synthwave devine din ce in ce mai populara. Felicitari !!!
sorry for the part at 8:15 , but the sound got banned by the youtube bot so it's muted :( don't forget to visit nightride.fm radio !
HEY, i just saw your video, only when you said you made your own songs I noticed your name is Vosto and that my favorite synth music was yours: A world within. what a masterpiece, congrats. (btw sorry if I made a grammar error, I'm Brazilian)
@@HoundNL thanks a lot ! I only now saw your comment !
Nice documentary! I subbed and liked it a lot!
i was born in 81, 80-90 used to be lame and cool at the same time, but now its pure aesthetic artform gold
It makes it more funny
The 80's Guy approuves this Documentary.
As does Turbo Knight :)
As does Damokles :-)
plz undo
So say we all. Btw I have no real value. I just enjoyed the documentary. :D Cheers
@@TurboKnight yo what!? Wicked
I was born in 1977 = neros77 btw ;-) I love this scene! Thanks for mentioning me :-) Very great documentary sir I salute you!
oh , you know what they say about songs that don't end up on your channel " they're not 80's enough " , thanks for keeping true retro alive !
You my friend, are a internet youtube legend. So many, and I do mean so many tracks and artists I found on your channel. Thank a bunch.
Sidebar: i do miss maniacsynth channel sometimes.
Keep the wave going
I was here when Synthwave began.
In a few decades, once everyone hates on Synthwave because it's "mainstream", I can tell them how it became to be.
Facts.
If synthwave surpasses vaporwave, I'll be pissed
@@CoryMck I thought it already did, synthwave/outrun is like more mainstream and Vaporwave is underground
Mainstream? ._.
This will never be mainstream. Not one underground electronic music genre became mainstream, except for that so-called EDM, but that doesn't even count in my book because it is THE worst kind of music of all time.
I just did a show with Com Truise headlining and let him know about how this documentary first introduced me to his music. He was really knocked out that this documentary exists, and meant a lot to be held in a regard high enough to reach so far and wide. Such a nice, humble man - it was a blast getting to talk to him, and see him interact with fans like a fun, fair, easygoing guy.
yeah this documentary is good but it's kind of out of date and also misses some bands like the midnight because I never even heard of them at the time. I hope you showed him or told him about the part where I mixed arnold quotes from pumping iron to com truise's music, the "I'm cumming day and night" quote.That being said this was part of me trying to do something positive on the channel because I usually talked about conspiracy theories so I wanted to add what matters to me and that is music and synthwave. Now the scene is kind of falling appart and people moved on to do other stuff but I'm still doing it because for me it wasn't just a trend. If you have time check out my new album station 23 on bandcamp. - vosto.bandcamp.com/album/station-23
Nailed it! Wonderful, in depth look into the rad genre that brings us so much joy. I was class of 1984 and can say you definitely did your homework! The 80s were indeed a friendlier time, fresh fun and full of promise. Might sound corny but blasting Synthwave jams [daily] is jumper cables for my spirit, a bit of the same fun and promise that keeps me going in today's often uncertain world. Bless you Vosto Vlad!
bless you too man, thanks
Holly shit, my work in a Synthwave related documentary?! That's fucking new to me!
Good work mate
ty you are an inspiration!
Great video dude! I love Synthwave and I love the community of people that feel just as nostalgic as I do
I was a young man in the 80's and I can confirm that it was a magical time and if I'd known how shit it was going to be now, I'd have thought it was even more magical. You are right to be nostalgic about the 80's even if you were not even born then. Young people: Your future has been hijacked by a bunch of old farts in expensive suits.
Nicely summed up! Was there... Can confirm
It seems like an optimistic decade, those bastards did steal something from us didn't they
God bless you sir!
"Let us stay non-compliant to the system and listen to badass synthwave music while in the process."
I was born in 89, so I always say I'm from the '80s even I just lived just 5 months in that decade. My favorite stuff is from de '80s, music, movies, games, visual identity.
Thanks for your documentary, it was really nice!
i was 15 in 1981,,,man they were good days,,,i miss them.
you are the real deal !
My mans 6ix9ine is free fuck outta here
Bryan Lopez man 6ix9ine don’t care bout you gtfo
I was born in 2004 and I still get nostalgic vibes from this music
yeah how is that even possible, the magic of the aesthetic
This was a really good documentary! You really covered just about everything and the production values were top notch. Well done!
The Midnight is a pretty good synthwave artist ive recently discovered and i really enjoy his music
it's not just one person :D
It's a band. My favorite song from them is shadows.
Amazing band! Amazing live too!
Timecop1983, Jessie Frye - Kiss Me in the Rain (Full Album) 2020, NINA - Sleepwalking (Full Album), Lazerhawk, FM84, FMattack
Absolutely love this duo. My favorite synthwave artist by a mile. Sunset, Los Angeles, and Jason are my personal fave songs.
So glad I found this! I have over 1,300 songs in my Synthwave playlist. I was born in the year of Star Wars 1977. I will never let go of the 80s or 90s ❤️
I was born in 1984, a bit too young to experience the 80s myself. But my dad was always playing music at home during that time, so there's certainly a nostalgic memory to that.
I saw 80s movies only much later, but they were still awesome.
Thank you for making this. I’ve been trying to find a decent video doing a deep dive analysis on the resurgence of retro wave in recent years.
well this documentary is now 5 years old but I'm glad it still holds up, I didn't mention the midnight for example which is a big synthwave band :D
French artist DANGER was probably the first modern synthwave artist I ever heard back in 2007 (19h11 holy shit). I've always felt there were some quiet roots in the chiptunes community - some Razor1911 tracks are very reminiscent of current synthwave releases - both harkening back to 80s arcade nostalgia.
hehe piracy very good culture yes
My WHOLE thing is Synthwave. I LOVE IT. I've never found a more enjoyable genre (other than EuroBeat) to listen to PERIOD. Even though it was pioneered from 80's music I believe it took everything amazing about the 80's and doubled it. This whole video was right up my alley and I loved the whole thing. Really great job dude.
Who’s here in 2022 where synth wave is so much bigger and acknowledge more!
The fact that these movies and songs had to be smuggled makes them even more awesome and nostalgic to you than us in america that had them at our finger tips. I'm jealous.
Romania Gang
I 'd recommend listening to Waveshaper, his music is consistently good.
I was born In 1990 but I was ahead of my time! I love synthwave!! Takes you back to that nostalgic 80s vibe! Nothing better than that era.
Cool documentary, I love synthwave. I was born in 1975 so remember the 80s, many of the movies like Robocop etc , me and my freinds were watching those in the early 90s as VHS rentals as were too young to get to see them at the cinema so in many ways the 80s nostalgia also seeps into early 90s :) As well as 80s, I grew up watching 70s sci fi movies so I am also nostalgic for sounds like Boards Of Canada etc. In the UK we used to tune into soviet/eastern European radio stations on the radio as if we were spies, didnt understand what was being said wanted to believe it was top secret probably mundane things like the weather and local news ha ha.
heh if you like you can check on of my recent video which is a soviet block eastern european 80's music compilation
Best synthwave documentary on the internet. Marvelous job Vlad! 😄👍🏻
This docu is a really good effort at explaining the whole scene. Long live synthwave!
Your warning about an ever possible dystopia is sooooo to the point. I have been to the 2020's. I have seen it.
yeah ikr :)))
I was born in 1980, the pop culture of the 80s warped my mind into what it is today. The Goonies and the Never-ending Story VHS tapes that I wore to breaking point can attest to this! This music is a bit of an obsession for me too.
You posted this on Discord, so this is your first video i see. It is well done, especially liked the editing and the visuals. But what I wanted to say is that I really dont know how to feel about this popularity thing. I want people to see this and understand what Synthwave is while at the same time not wanting Synthwave to go mainstream.. I hope I will never get bored of synthwave. At least we can say we liked it before every second youtuber had a Synthwave intro/outro...
definitely , it's like with dubstep , in 2007 it was so edgy to listen to it and then 2011 skrillex appeared and butt raped it ...soon all kids on yt had dubstep intros :)) and now it's over saturated ...
This is a genre that should be lowkey
Music is what I need to get me going and I've been looking for something like this for so long. I don't want anyone to miss out on this.
Lazerhawk has a special place in Synthwave for me, mostly because he's from my home town.
Synth is huge!!! and im glad. People from all walks can love this stuff. Im from a Heavy metal background, born 1985 and love the old games and action movies. Still finding new artists and loving the sound.
Love this, I did not expect this documentary to be made by a fellow Romanian tho, really surprised me in a good way. Foarte tare, felicitari!
Mersi
Fantastic throwback to the 80's in which I was already 20+ and still loved the music!
The music is untouchable. Nothing can take that away. More exposure is a good thing because someone lonely might never have heard these songs. Fm84, sunglasses kid, the midnight--- they really changed my night, and changed my life. Music is what I need to get me going and I've been looking for something like this for so long. I don't want anyone to miss out on this.
sorry for not mentioning The Midnight, I didn't know about them back then
Make a video :
Why 1980s movies is like the golden age of Hollywood
I remember Kung fury... Gonna have to watch it again...thanks for the upload
watch out for kung fury II ;)
Push It To The Limit was actually in GTAIII along with 3 other songs from the Scarface soundtrack
so my friend was right but it was the wrong GTA
Had I not started my GTA experience with GTA III, I would've possibly thought the same thing. I spent hours playing it 20 years ago. The song however is ORIGINALLY from the soundtrack to Scarface and is by Giorgio Moroder
Nice documentary!
My favorite Synthwave artists right now are: Dance with the Dead, and ORAX.
ty , ye your on that dark side :D
21:47 i love how you follow up with a brut track lel
Mate, this video seems to be at least 1 year old, but it’s fantastic. I always had the feel of being out of the place I should be, having a sip of pleasure whenever I came across smth that I couldn’t describe, and since a few months I found myself in the Synthwave/Cyberpunk universe and I feel like I finally found myself.
yes the title used to have 2018 on it but I removed because ppl are less to click on stuff if it's not from the present or smth... I still think it's relevant as this is an entire retrospective and I don't just talk about daily nonsense like all the other youtubers :D
Thank you man for this great content. I was/am an 80´s kid, and i can't believe this all is still alive and relevant today, and with a cool community!
Blood Dragon is still my favorite Far Cry game. Thanks for including it!
Well done and well put together! I do feel that there is a part missing from your documentary - a comparison between Synthwave and Vaporwave. There's a strange relationship between these two genres were Vaporwave puts an ironic, "arty", spin to 80's and 90's commercialism, chopping it and slowing it down to create an eerie, lonely sense of rootlessness, like you are walking through a dying shopping mall.
In contrast, Synthwave started out as an ironic take on 80's aesthetic (Vice City, Blood Dragon) and over time became more and more sincere. It's like Vaporwave points to the failure of commercial escapism while Synthwave doubles down on it, refines the aesthetic and does a better job than the original - more 80's than the 80's!
i am a huge fan of Retrowave. The songs, the art, and everything about it
What I love about about synthwave is that it's not only a pastiche of all the greatest 80's cheesey tropes, cyberpunk but has even bled over into the 90's and Simpsons-wave was born.
Great Documentary! I was born in 1974 so I got experience the 1980’s in all its glory. One movie people never mention that should get more attention is Risky Business! The soundtrack is very Synth based and features Tangerine Dream but the style in that movie I think influenced Mitch Murder.
I was 10-19 in the 80s... and I can say in al the years I've lived, the 80s were the most upbeat, light-hearted, and cheesy eras I've lived through... in the 70s, the "free love" time was ending and people were living with the end of the Vietnam war, and the 80s seemed to be an era where most of the world was finding hope and peace, and music reflected that - the 70s were a kind of driven transition, with a lot of harder rebellious or sad, melancholy feelings in most music... the happy, carefree tracks were the rarity... but the 80s music gained the new technological sounds from Kraftwerk, Isao Tomita and others started in the late 70s meeting the hopeful, upbeat driving momentum of the 80s and the influx of home computers and games, the coolness of the space shuttle program, MTV and cable giving us a hundred channels to watch to entertain us, and the feeling that the future was so bright, we'd have to wear shades... and not yet to the pissed-off, overwhelmed, depression-filled angst of the 90s alternative and grunge music.
It was really a magical time in a lot of ways... a confluence of hope, tech, and style that was unique to the era... and the bands and people who work to recapture that are appreciated by those that were there and miss it, like myself. :)
I was born in '95 in Poland and can definitely resonate with 80's cultural heritage having a major impact on some people in my generation growing up. Watching 80's films, playing old SNES and DOS games and hearing all the old songs way into the 2000s was amazing.
Absolutely great one!!! So fresh & fueled with so much 80's vibez!! Congrats!!
This is a great video. Thankyou for taking the time to create and upload it. 😁
no problemo
15:10 OMG WHAT!?!? Talk about savage!!! ...and yet totally 80s at the same time XD
One word.. Wow!! This was a most enjoyable documentary. I was born in 77 so I had a pretty full 80’s experience and you hit the topic spot on. I’ve recently started production of humble attempts at synthwave. This video will certainly help me continue as it showed me so many names of artists and communities. You might want to give Home and Emil Rottmeyer a listen.
Thanks for this great contribution to the culture!!
love this documentary, and just much support long live the 80's and 80's FOREVER
The best documentary ever, and on my favorite genre!! You are a piercing lad!
I appreciate the Synthwave/Vaporwave/Cyberpunk aesthetic - it's nice to get some background on the origins.
Also to get a mini-history lesson on what was happening in Romania.
Thanks for the vid
I need to find the most used sounds and vsts for making my own synthwave. For I made some songs with synth sounds in my channel but I need to find more and more songs to learn to hear them as well.
I loved this documentary and I appreciate the songs you shared so everyone can look for the artists.
In this millennium I was born, I hope I can help with the spread of synthwave, so that everyone can enjoy such beautiful vibes.
29:47 you just explained the exact way I got into synthwave
Legend says that Vosto Vlad stills hearts comments to this day. Awesome video btw!
Vosto!! Awesome documentary. Love your sense of humor! Well Done! Bravo!! ❤️🇷🇴
Un alt fan al synthwaveului?
This was really well produced. Thorough, but also concise enough that I didn't get bored. I was particularly struck by the part about you growing up in Romania under Soviet-era conditions. Smuggling in western music and movies must have created a very different experience to those of us that took our freedoms for granted in Western Europe (and in many cases heard the songs and saw the films years before you could) but ultimately we are unified in our love of music.
yeah what I can say is that since the time of this documentary synthwave has had a big surge in lame artists over saturating it and begging for attention...I still follow the OG's tho
Please dont stop making videos, its fucking amazing what your doing
Tron and Tron legacy art style and soundtracks.
Was what got me into synthwave.
I watch it making fist my hands and tears in my eyes !!!!! Thank you for this Doc. I was having some problems to share my knowledge and feelings to my friends about synth... and here is the solution. Again dude, thank you.
I used to despise the electronic music for my whole teenage, but this year, 2022, I've just run into this new retrowave by chance and now I cannot stop consuming it. I like good music, but most of the time I don't wanna listen to anything, but just enjoy the moment, the atmosphere, my thoughts. Synth is here to stay, comrades.
im so in love with synthwave and this is definitely one of the best videos I've ever watched ! thank u so much for such an amazing documentary pleas keep going ❤❤
I am born in 2004 but i love 80s things
A lot of the "dead mall" youtube channels use Synthwave. I found out about it this way and never looked back. it really is some amazing music.
Passionate, informative and enjoyable from start to finish, as an 80s baby I say salute to you sir!
When I listen to classic 80s pop song, I don’t feel like dancing, only synthwave gives me the nostalgia
Huge shoutout to Dance With The Dead for getting me into this genre
In my case it's perturbator.
Holly shit you opened some memories for me,
Back in the day I heard a electronic like beat in GTA IV back in 2008 or something always was searching for what type of genre it could be so fast forward to 2014 I heard a song from dance with the dead looked very similar. Around the same time I saw a video with Rc cars fighting or something and Carpenter brut - Roller mobster. took me another year to finaly through vaporwave find synthwave and retrowave, now it was like 4 years since I last listened to ut but now since a year or something Im back listening to it fulltime😂
Found the gta one Boys noise - down. Not realy synthwave but it set the basis for me
>The Midnight
>Quixotic-Arnold
>Kristine
>Bubblegum-Teenage Synth Rock/Pop(Retro ones).With that high school summer break vibe.Some are quite minimal but really catchy.Not necessarily cheesy
>The influence of Post Punk/Industrial and Electronic Music in general on this genre
3rd time watching this, it's great work and deserves more veiws but you should have put a track list in the show more tab.
too much effort :)))
I discovered Synthwave thanks to The Back To Back 1983 1984 Video Game Champion and Two Time Streamer Of The Year Six foot 8 with 37" vertical leap International Gaming Superstar Dr DISRESPECT
This was very insightful! I've recently started producing synthwave and will have some tracks coming soon. I really love this genre 😁
Vosto, I've been subscribed to your channel since the beginning. I loved your conspiracy related videos, but I really love synth wave. As an 80's kid, I love the retro feel. This genre compiles all of the good of the 80's, and leaving out most of the cheese. I first got into this genre through watching Drive, and discovering Kavinsky. I'm also a fan of Trevor Something, amongst many others. It's funny, because I'm already subscribed to half the channels you plugged. Keep up the amazing content, and making your own badass tracks.
much respect ! your comment confirms that this direction in which I am going with the channel is a valid one , you may see stuff like this or you may see something conspiracy related ... I think it works good together ...also , nothing wrong with a bit of cheese ... not too much though :D
Synthwave will always be about freedom. I make music in this genre because it reminds us always to love freedom.
Vosto, I just want to share a personal THANK YOU on just how stellar this documentary was. You nail the hammer on the head, and further cements my love of this no-longer niche music and art style. In 2021, its becoming more popular, as game series such as Battlefield, Need for Speed, Arcade Paradise, Solar Ash, Rocket League, Five Nights at Freddy's, Fortnite, Beat Saber, Wave Break and FarCry all take inspiration from the vibes of the 80s. What a time we live in.
i love your music Vosto, seeing this documentary you made is amazing, it really shows the backbone of the music itself and how it culturally came to be. you nailed it dude, this is awesome; you are awesome. Always happy to hear you on nightride fm and see you in the chat. (Ruiner2077 on the stream) there is a song you did with Donbor, Trail of Freedom and the two of you together made some scary beautiful music, but everything you do musically i feel in my soul in a way that so much other music can not make me feel.
wow didn't expect this comment today but it's very motivating! thanks Ruiner2077!
It was very nice to learn a different perspective of the 80s. I was a young boy in México during that time and can attest that the 80s were a great decade to live in. You made that point very well. And you also introduced me to lot of new music to listen to! You got my subscribe, man.
There is a lot going on. From a love of specific art to music styles, nostalgia and things retro. Dance With The Dead, Perturbator, Gost and also more pop style artists like Gunship and Scandroid, they all deliver. Can't believe this is lasting more than a decade now. When I became aware of this I thought it won't outlive electro swing, which was a really badly played house music thing. But this retro synthwave was more than that. 80s pop, 80s horror soundtracks, Italo Disco, all mixed up with metal, hard rock and even death metal to let the darkness collide with bright neon lights.
Is there anything that did not exist?
Man, I searched Synthwave Documentary, and did not expect something of this quality. 2 years later, and still holds up. I was also pleasantly surprised that you named a few artists I hadn't heard of like tonebox.
I did miss some of the important acts though like The Midnight for example! they're some of the most listened synthwave artists :)
Top Gun got me into listening to synthwave and yes the 80's was a somewhat better time in our day!
SO good to finally find someone real talking about what matters to us. SYNTH. Thank u so much bro! Keep diggin' our digital 80's influences!
You have done well, brother. We are pleased.
WONDERFUL DOCUMENTARY !!!! 💀
:DDD
Synthwave; i just discovered the genre almost a year ago and prefer it a billion times over Lady Bathroom ("Gaga" rhymes with spanish for sh!t), Nicky Minaj, reggaeton, and (since living near Mexico) narcoballads, which most people in my town listen to.
David Bustamante I discovered the genre when the movie "Drive" came out. Glad there's more people like us listening to it. Somos raros los mexicanos que nos gusta esto pero bueno saludos paisano!
@@waltereyez5 Nací y vivo en EEUU, no México.
Today I got to know many things in your video, Thanks you Vosto Vlad.
Thanks for this Vosto, all very informative!
This was really well made, good job!
That was excellent! So informative and comprehensive with many examples that I didn't even know, especially pre-2012 stuff. Thank you so much! God, I hope this revival of '80s stuff keeps going for a while. I really do. I love it.
So glad to see such a great video about synthwave, now i have so many new artists to discover, thanks for this and keep going ;)
This is the best synthwave/retrowave documentary on the internet.
of course ;)
Thank you so much for this video. Your hard work and recommended artists and your own music are hugely appreciated and enjoyed. I discovered synthwave through Hotline Miami soundtrack and later sorta through vaporwave. But didn't know where to start to try to understand how all these juicy tasty genres and subgenres started. I'd tell friends about this music in really vague limited ways. So now I'm equiped and educated more so on this music that makes life that much more meaningful for me. Thank you!
Give my music a listen if you see this comment. I'd love to have yall as subscribers and fans.
Thanks vosto vlad, I really enjoyed this documentary
Loved this Vosto, thank you!
What a great documentary! Thank´s for all the new input and stuff to dig and discover. Greetings from east germany - may the grid be with u!
Now with cyberpunk out even more people will find this music
yeah but cyberpunk 2077 doesn't actually have any synthwave music in the radio sadly
Unfortunately the creators of Cyberpunk 2077 didn't want to use synthwave tracks in the game because they've thought synthwave genre is too melodic and beautiful for such a dark settings.
Bravo Vasto
This was fun to watch had moments of laughter, really love this genre you introduced me to few great artist including yourself lol
Foarte tare documentarul ! Sunt chiar mandru sa aflu ca exista oameni in propria mea tara care promoveaza stilul meu preferat de muzica cu atata pasiune ! Nu-i de mirare ca miscarea synthwave devine din ce in ce mai populara. Felicitari !!!
in acest moment synthwave face cam 10 ani de existenta , nu stiu daca are puterea sa mai creasca in popularitate dar continuitate cu siguranta va avea