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PC Brigadier posted:let's ignore all the rad forward-thinking things about 80s synth music and make it terrible on the level of power metal instead. more like - let's strip out all the poppy bullshit of 80's synth and concentrate on the rad forward-thinking things about 80's synth that hint at the depth of imagination that it provoked in the heads of kids who heard it growing up
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There's new retro wave music and there's also new retro wave games. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc0nTekTAkU http://www.darkcomputerentertainment.com/ More music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5-mD6Dy7c0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1NAhlVRaZ4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNVGfV2lXVY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G22X5X49VhM Cyril Sneer posted:its just called "retro wave" dummy. This is true and actually part of the fun of the movement is there's so much of it and it's easy to find and leaf through - which means that when you stumble across a gem, it feels like the song was made just for you. The fact is that there was *already* tons of lovely synth music made using these techniques back in the 80's, so everyone knows what bad 80's synth sounds like. It is interesting to see amateurs experiment though, and more fun than listening to overhyped radio flash in the pans from that era. I'd rather listen to low quality amateurish fan built retro stuff than the shittiest actual music from the 80's. Fortunately, there's a considerable amount of really loving great stuff too. Spacedad fucked around with this message at 17:16 on Dec 29, 2013 |
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Dec 29, 2013 17:13
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Cyril Sneer posted:In new GBS its impossible to tell if someone is serious or not. Let me put it this way: My posts in GBS 2.1 are a Rorschach inkblot test to find out if someone is a chill individual or a paranoid hater. quote:The signal to noise in this genre is way, way too low. It's full of people who figured out how to make noises come out of a synthesizer and realized that they don't actually have to know how to write lyrics or sing so hey I'm a retro wave musician now Yes and that is my point. You pretty much have to manually sort through it yourself - it's like an online version of the experience of leafing through record albums and finding something that in spite of its shortcomings appeals to you personally somehow. You can do that with music in general, but it's particularly fun for me with new retro wave given how well the music style meshes with my interest in video games.
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Dec 29, 2013 17:26
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Sabel posted:Strong Defcon vibes from this video The draw of new retro wave for me is the idea that technology in filmmaking and games (as well as music production) has caught up with the cyberpunk ideas of the past. We basically *can* make those weird 'future games' we would see in 80s movies now. We *can* make amateur movies with surprisingly good digital special effects. We *can* create animated films with the visual techniques of the past but realized in the fidelity and attention to detail of today. This is also why I feel like some aspects of new wave retro are timeless and keep going steadily for a while. As tech gets better, we find we can realize the cool imaginative ideas of the past in surprising ways. Spacedad fucked around with this message at 17:45 on Dec 29, 2013 |
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OMFG FURRY posted:i want my future of everything in chrome Same, but for me it's lasers on black backdrops. Here, have a desktop background I drew for a TF2 event.  Here's the event itself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsuIpG7q_20 Forum user Stick figure mafia actually created some original new retro wave style music for the event video.  Edit: More of my drawings here. http://superspacedad.tumblr.com/ Edit2: I guess this is also a new-retro drawing. (And if i had more time before the event started I would have looked into how to make convincing laser optical effects in photoshop)  Eventually I'll be able to put the time and effort in to make stuff that isn't just fun fan drawings, but that'll be later.
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Thanks! Also, anyone interested in new retro wave art should check out Kilian Eng: http://dwdesign.tumblr.com/   He even did illustrations to go with each track on a Blade Runner tribute album. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFCnJ-R33jw
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Dec 29, 2013 17:53
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Sabel posted:Need more video games that resemble old fantasy art that isn't grimdark D&D poo poo. Mass Effect had a good thing going with the Syd Mead and we need more stuff like that. Too bad the mass effect series gameplay revolved mostly around being cover based shootmans with boring guns. (Aside from a few fun powers and a couple of the superweapons being crazy freaky.) Not to say they couldn't have guns, just that there was an opportunity for more cool use of science and psychic stuff than what they had. This was originally grown out of the work bioware did on the KOTOR games, but there was no 'elegent and better than a blaster' lightsaber type weapon for gunless psi-soldier troops, nor was there an option for the spockish or doctor who ish science-favoring types who would want to end battles using clever physics & matter manipulation tools or something. I like the idea of a future where methods of old warfare - including guns - wind up phased out, and where battles are more like science-manipulated rubicks cubes you have to solve. Spacedad fucked around with this message at 18:16 on Dec 29, 2013 |
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Sabel posted:I want to play what was described in the codex. What was described in the codex? (Never read.)
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The recent anime series Jojo's bizarre adventure is a faithful adaption of a classic seminal boy's action series that started in the mid-80's - every character in the series is named after some kind of pop tune, pop star, or pop lyric, and the series has a decidedly pop music influenced vibe to it all. (In fact, "Jojo" comes from the Beatles song "Get back.") Anyway - the show has been trying to go for a retro 80's anime look and vibe, as the original comic itself was heavily influenced by New Wave fashion. This extends to both the music and the art style. The soundtrack for the series is fantastic and expansive - and a good deal of the music falls into the category of new retro wave. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHUi90ouqmU This is what the show's like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aB-LZfxCZs Here's a few standout tracks, though the entire soundtrack is fantastic: (Note the remix of 'owner of a lonely heart' at the start of this - the band "Yes" in particular is a massive influence on the entire Jojo series.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTaOVtdUlmU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4458fC7mDsc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1jp0Dxa9tQ There's also a new series starting in a few months - it's going to be pulling more influence from late 80's and early 90's hard rock, hiphop, experimental electronic, and metal that was popular around that time rather than 80's-ish new retro wave though. Here's the teaser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPxXvrjpxCk This is one of those 'people who hate anime will love the gently caress out of this' series. Speaking of which, the creator of the series Hirohiko Araki's interest in fashion design lead to a recent collaboration with Gucci - this is from the Gucci storefront in New York City. 
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I'm looking for anything people have heard that sounds like it would make a bitchin' saturday morning action show theme. Stuff that's more upbeat but cool and laser-rific.
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May 1, 2014 05:47
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Alan Smithee posted:Futurecop! Having a look-see. Any good picks? Some of Compilerbau I'm looking at at the moment also seems like it has possibilities. Basically I'm trying to find a theme I might be using for making a fake saturday morning show intro animation with as a future possibility. I'd want to ask the band for permission whatever I use though.
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This isn't new retro wave, but actual retro - probably one of the most 80's 80ish anime I've seen. Looks like some of the people who went to work on Akira contributed to it too, and you can see in some of the animation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xTks9BNbTc There's also lots of easter eggs throughout this to the Rankin Bass American-conceived Japanese-animated shows that some of the animators here likely worked on - the first frame of the film shows the side of a Silverhawks-looking pinball machine, and later there's a Thundercats pinball. The plot is similar to The Matrix - a simulated fake city and some cyberpunk misfits who find out the truth. (Also: Fairly incomprehensible.) PS - turn on captions for subtitles. Spacedad fucked around with this message at 00:36 on May 7, 2014 |
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