Synthwave | Documentary
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- In this video I am trying to document the main points in synthwave's history , what it's about and where I think it will go !
btw if u want u can listen my synthwave album : • Vosto - Metro Holograf...
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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 knew I would find gold if I searched "synthwave explained"
I Searched "why synthwave"
Agree I got a good overview of the genre 👍
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 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!
Holly shit, my work in a Synthwave related documentary?! That's fucking new to me!
Good work mate
ty you are an inspiration!
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
"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
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.
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
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.
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 ❤️
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.
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.
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
Great video dude! I love Synthwave and I love the community of people that feel just as nostalgic as I do
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
This was a really good documentary! You really covered just about everything and the production values were top notch. Well done!
I 'd recommend listening to Waveshaper, his music is consistently good.
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
Best synthwave documentary on the internet. Marvelous job Vlad! 😄👍🏻
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.
This docu is a really good effort at explaining the whole scene. Long live synthwave!
Was born in 83
I got a nintendo when i was 5 and we were poor but
i think about many things were better in those days and even the 90s were great, but things got real bad after
for as now i think i got to grow up in the best days and die in the worst, "sad but true",
totally agree (also born in 1983)
Born in 84 and agree with you.
'81 here, it would be weird to grow up in the age of social media but also great i suppose to have so much available to you, some time you get paralysed from too much choice tho. was easy when we only had 4 tv channels.
Yeah, pretty much. -84 here.
Legend says that Vosto Vlad stills hearts comments to this day. Awesome video btw!
Who’s here in 2022 where synth wave is so much bigger and acknowledge more!
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 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.
Blood Dragon is still my favorite Far Cry game. Thanks for including it!
Please dont stop making videos, its fucking amazing what your doing
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
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?
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.
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
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
love this documentary, and just much support long live the 80's and 80's FOREVER
Absolutely great one!!! So fresh & fueled with so much 80's vibez!! Congrats!!
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.
>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
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
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 :)))
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 :)
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.
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.
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.
I am born in 2004 but i love 80s things
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!
21:47 i love how you follow up with a brut track lel
Tron and Tron legacy art style and soundtracks.
Was what got me into synthwave.
Fantastic throwback to the 80's in which I was already 20+ and still loved the music!
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
This is a great video. Thankyou for taking the time to create and upload it. 😁
no problemo
I remember Kung fury... Gonna have to watch it again...thanks for the upload
watch out for kung fury II ;)
i am a huge fan of Retrowave. The songs, the art, and everything about it
15:10 OMG WHAT!?!? Talk about savage!!! ...and yet totally 80s at the same time XD
Loved this Vosto, thank you!
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 ❤❤
Top Gun got me into listening to synthwave and yes the 80's was a somewhat better time in our day!
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.
This was really well made, good job!
Thanks for this Vosto, all very informative!
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
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!!
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!
The best documentary ever, and on my favorite genre!! You are a piercing lad!
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
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
You guys should absolutely check out Street Cleaner. He's one of my absolute favorites. I discovered him and Synthwave from Universal Studio's Halloween Horror Nights in 2019 that had an 80s theme with dark, horror inspired synthwave playing throughout the park as you walked through. I was hooked immediately. My favorite artists are Street Cleaner, Donbor, Occams Laser and Daniel Deluxe
yep we promote him very much on nightride fm now!
Occams Laser is a new discovery but we promote the others and with Donbor I even have a collab :D
@@GamesExposed glad to hear it! Nightlife is quite possibly my favorite synthwave song of all time. Occams is great, definitely check him out. :)
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 ;)
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.
Omg so good video, thank you. And nice radio btw :p
Vosto!! Awesome documentary. Love your sense of humor! Well Done! Bravo!! ❤️🇷🇴
Un alt fan al synthwaveului?
This might be my favorite video you have made Vlad! Great work sir
Nice documentary!
My favorite Synthwave artists right now are: Dance with the Dead, and ORAX.
ty , ye your on that dark side :D
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!
Great docu! Well done. I can much relate to the feeling of the 80s and learned a lot more in this docu and bands that I will check out. Love your music man, keep up the good work!
Brilliant documentary...really well researched and put together. You've put a LOT of work into it for sure. 💯
what a great watch! Thank you for putting this together, so nicely. Very comprehensible! 🤖
One of the best videos I've ever watched, for real! Many congratulations, my friend! And thank you!
Greetings from Brazil!
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!
One of the biggest influences on GTA Vice City was of course the colors in Miami during the 80's and the style and colors of clothing which was a heavy influence on this genre. If you search for "miami vice music" you'll hear that most of the music from the episodes sound and are precursors to synthwave. You didn't mention it once in the documentary that I noticed; check out a playlist of the U.S. Television show "Miami Vice" songs and LOTS of synthwave from the mid-80's. Okay, I have to go return some video tapes. Great job on the documentary. The colors come from Miami! (and we wore neon colors "jams" in the 80's too. Such a bad time for fashion but the best time for music imo.
Absolutely loved this! Thank you putting this together.
yw! thanks for watching!
WONDERFUL DOCUMENTARY !!!! 💀
:DDD
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.
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.
Synthwave will always be about freedom. I make music in this genre because it reminds us always to love freedom.
I borned in 1984, but I admit that 80's was the best years; movies, toys, music, culture and so on... I love synthwave too much. I 'd like to go back in time to live in 80's.
Good job man. That was interesting. I grew up in that period so that was really cool to watch. Synth on Vlad!
That David hasselhoff clip is extremely bomb
A lot of these got me into synthwave in the last years. Another for consideration is Brother Tiger with his 80s inspired tracks.
Great video and thanks for including me! ❤️
you make big tunes !
I just want to say this video was amazing! Really enjoyed it
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 :)))
Passionate, informative and enjoyable from start to finish, as an 80s baby I say salute to you sir!
Really great documentary! I really enjoyed watching it!
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.