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Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...
San Francisco

also, do these shows not play in New York? I mean coastal elitism is real but still

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A human heart
Oct 10, 2012

SgtScruffy posted:

Is it me, or are the two options for seeing any sort of synthwave artist live to either live in Los Angeles, or to live in Europe? :sigh:

I find that pretty hard to believe given how easy to make and generally lazy the music is. Surely the local synth nerds have a project or two wherever you are?

Shoehead
Sep 28, 2005

Wassup, Choom?
Ya need sumthin'?
Perturbator and Gost are both playing in Dublin and I can't go because I helped a friend with their rent instead.


At least my friend is ok though :shobon:

EL BROMANCE
Jun 10, 2006

COWABUNGA DUDES!
🥷🐢😬



It makes me laugh that stylistically a lot of the artists adore Miami, but I've not noticed any shows down this way. I haven't looked that hard mind, because getting to Miami is a loving pain in the rear end.

laserghost
Feb 12, 2014

trust me, I'm a cat.

New Dynatron track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=348TaHeUKBA

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...

A human heart posted:

I find that pretty hard to believe given how easy to make and generally lazy the music is. Surely the local synth nerds have a project or two wherever you are?

EL BROMANCE posted:

It makes me laugh that stylistically a lot of the artists adore Miami, but I've not noticed any shows down this way. I haven't looked that hard mind, because getting to Miami is a loving pain in the rear end.

I think there's a certain irony required unfortunately. The first Synaptx/Protector 101/Dance with the Dead show I went to had an opening act where the doofus looking guy wearing shades yelled "BECOOOME A REEEENNEGADE" over and over while everyone chuckled wondering if it was for real.

Miami is probably too busy sincerely listening to regaeton and bro house (which is probably an actual genre and I'm using it wrong). Plus nobody who lives in San Francisco actually has car chases. I mean have you DRIVEN in San Francisco? Takes an outsider to actually want to idolize Scarface

SgtScruffy
Dec 27, 2003

Babies.


A human heart posted:

I find that pretty hard to believe given how easy to make and generally lazy the music is. Surely the local synth nerds have a project or two wherever you are?

I've tried looking - Washington DC doesn't seem like it's a big town for this kind of thing. Feel free to prove me wrong but google searches for synthwave/retrowave DC turn up that Com Truise came here back in March, and no bands that consider this their hometown

2DCAT
Jun 25, 2015

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Gravy Boat 2k

SgtScruffy posted:

I've tried looking - Washington DC doesn't seem like it's a big town for this kind of thing. Feel free to prove me wrong but google searches for synthwave/retrowave DC turn up that Com Truise came here back in March, and no bands that consider this their hometown

I'm from DC and do live shows here every 2-3 months (although I'm playing in Brooklyn quite a bit more these days). Then again, my stuff is more along the lines of FM-84/Kristine/Electric Youth, rather than Lazerhawk/Perturbator/Carpenter Brut/Dance with the Dead. Also, I suck, so there's that vOv

SgtScruffy
Dec 27, 2003

Babies.


2DCAT posted:

I'm from DC and do live shows here every 2-3 months (although I'm playing in Brooklyn quite a bit more these days). Then again, my stuff is more along the lines of FM-84/Kristine/Electric Youth, rather than Lazerhawk/Perturbator/Carpenter Brut/Dance with the Dead. Also, I suck, so there's that vOv

http://shiiiit.com/

Well I've at least got one show to go to yay goonz :)

Friar John
Aug 3, 2007

Saint Francis be my speed! how oft to-night
Have my old feet stumbled at graves!
Perturbator's released his show dates for a US tour in Jan 2017. I bought my ticket for the SF show the instant I found the button.

He said on Facebook he would be adding dates, so get pumped!

laserghost
Feb 12, 2014

trust me, I'm a cat.

This guy follwed me on Twitter today, his music is decent I guess:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxqh2MIWf8c

https://hexenkraft.bandcamp.com/releases

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...
man, do I stick around just long enough after Christmas through New Years to see 'bator or do I pretend I have things to do in LA

torn between two worlds

Dr. Lariat
Jul 1, 2004

by Lowtax

SgtScruffy posted:

Is it me, or are the two options for seeing any sort of synthwave artist live to either live in Los Angeles, or to live in Europe? :sigh:

Some promoters I know that have brought acts out to Phoenix to play are working on setting up a bit of a collaborative touring circuit, something like Phoenix, LA, Portland and whatever in between as they are based out of these cities, the idea being they can split costs of bringing in a lot of the European acts and stuff stateside that doesn't really have the budget to tour, instead of a single club owner in one of these towns not being able to justify to costs of getting Gunship or whatever to fly out for single show. It could just be pie in the sky talk but I've seen them book shows with many of the acts mentioned in the thread so I hope they are able to put something together. We are also big believers that every town has these scenes in them as we speak but without a central venue or showcase to congregate around it's just a bunch of nerds living in their rooms all the time. I wouldn't expect something like a vaporwave scene to exist in any town what so ever before, but we did a few showcase nights at a club and I'd admit the turn out wasnt fantastic but there were artists (some quite good!) coming out of the woodwork to participate because in scenes that are kinda similar like these, so much of the fan base are also actively producing their own art to add to the scene. Synthwave went very much the same way, I was doing almost weekly DJ sets at the place, a lot of synth was getting played and after a few months of having it consistently, the nights we were not doing synth we would always get one or two complaints/requests "why arent you guys doing any synth tonight?/Hey can someone throw on some com truise next?" Although no synthwave scene had existed two years ago, consistently exposing people to it both created new fans and brought people out from all over our very spread out metro area to see bands they never expected to see play in this town or in some cases, live at all.

In other words if any of you want more live synthwav/terrorwave/whatevers in your town you need to befriend a bar/club owner that already likes the stuff or get them into it, hope they're the cool type of owner that will give a new thing a chance and allow it time to catch on, start reaching out to a lot of these dudes/acts/ladies which in itself is easier said than done, in my 2nd hand experience some of the most popular acts have no real desire for live shows or are loving terrible at communications and dont have "people" to talk to and set up with or those people when they do have them are equally amateur hour. Some are really cool and come out no problemo, I'm glad to say that yes Gost realizes how short his shows often are and feels really bad about it but thats the gimmick he went with and it limits the gently caress outta him in that way.

Dr. Lariat fucked around with this message at 11:11 on Oct 26, 2016

Riot Bimbo
Dec 28, 2006


man, what's with this scene's crossover with metal? just an accident of the 80s retro thing? Carpenter Brut and Perturbator and Gost, yeah, that's probably what metal would sound like if synthesized, but when I first heard West Side Lane or anything from Drive I didn't think "drat this would be a loving sick opener for a metal act" so i just think it's weird that's where a lot of support and coverage is coming from

Shoehead
Sep 28, 2005

Wassup, Choom?
Ya need sumthin'?

laserghost posted:

This guy follwed me on Twitter today, his music is decent I guess:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxqh2MIWf8c

https://hexenkraft.bandcamp.com/releases

He follows me on twitter like once every two weeks and I wish he'd knock it off

laserghost
Feb 12, 2014

trust me, I'm a cat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcd4y6yYe1s

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...

basic hitler posted:

man, what's with this scene's crossover with metal? just an accident of the 80s retro thing? Carpenter Brut and Perturbator and Gost, yeah, that's probably what metal would sound like if synthesized, but when I first heard West Side Lane or anything from Drive I didn't think "drat this would be a loving sick opener for a metal act" so i just think it's weird that's where a lot of support and coverage is coming from

I think the idea is to combine synthing with the showmanship of arena rock. I have yet to see any of these guys play with fog machines and pyrotechnics though. Not that I want to die in a station nightclub fire

Bruteman
Apr 15, 2003

Can I ask ya somethin', Padre? When I was kickin' your ass back there... you get a little wood?


Dynatron rules, but "extraterrestrial darksynth" :lol:

laserghost
Feb 12, 2014

trust me, I'm a cat.

I have listened to The Rigel Axiom like three times now and except two first tracks I'm not going to bother anymore, so I'll post one of my favouritest tracks from the man:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z56ZramAaQI

Some random tracks because saturday night

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyyBV4cLhzQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djckIo93fVc
(that chord at 1:36 sounds so incredibly familiar and drives me nuts everytime I hear it)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3fZ9WzDQ5Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVncfLTsk6I

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...
Welp, looks like the Rise of the Synths doc is trying again. This time Indiegogo

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-rise-of-the-synths--2#/

various cheeses
Jan 24, 2013

I wish every song had a carpenter brut remix

MJP
Jun 17, 2007

Are you looking at me Senpai?

Grimey Drawer

EL BROMANCE posted:

It makes me laugh that stylistically a lot of the artists adore Miami, but I've not noticed any shows down this way. I haven't looked that hard mind, because getting to Miami is a loving pain in the rear end.

I got the chance to drive a Mustang convertible while on vacation to Miami and Miami Beach a few years back.

I hope you like going 5mph on Ocean Drive, because that's as fast as you're gonna go on Miami Beach.

EL BROMANCE
Jun 10, 2006

COWABUNGA DUDES!
🥷🐢😬



Yeah there's a ridiculous amount of sports cars here, in an area where you're never going to be able to drive that fast and will probably have some idiot scratch or slam into you before you get to your destination anyway. Always get that extra insurance when renting!

MJP
Jun 17, 2007

Are you looking at me Senpai?

Grimey Drawer
Still worth doing though if you ever got a chance. It sucks getting all the way down Collins or Washington, but doing so at night in a convertible 'stang is worth going up Ocean Drive at least once in your life.

Just steer clear of any vacation rentals at 5445 Collins Ave... not the most up-to-date. Good rates, though, and one heck of a lobby.

Back to the music - apparently Revan Fette lives one town over from me, which is pretty neato. A buddy of mine does electroswing and synthpop DJ shows and visuals for local raves and electroswing scenes (because apparently there's such a thing, but then again, this is the NY Metro) and he made noise about getting a show together for an alternative dance club in Newark. Which would kinda own.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDBbaGCCIhk - Miami Nights 1984 - Accelerated

This is what pulled me into synthwave/new retro wave. I got linked via a vaporwave version of a eurobeat song and you know how someone mentioned early on in the thread that this genre is like browsing through records? 100% this. I've been crawling through Bandcamp in my downtime at work and listening to a bunch of stuff. It really does fall anywhere in between the 80s-movie-soundtrack spectrum, and it's crazy how good some of this stuff really is. At least, to me.

MJP fucked around with this message at 20:32 on Nov 16, 2016

Instant Crush
May 14, 2013
so excited for perturbator in january!!


i personally dont really get why metalheads are into synthwave. pretty much the only metal i like is as close to shoegaze as possible, while i am crazy about all sorts of synth

Bald Stalin
Jul 11, 2004

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I love melodic death and cheesy power metal. I also love Carpenter Brut. Can't really explain it.

Gorewar
Dec 24, 2004

Bang your head

Instant Crush posted:

so excited for perturbator in january!!


i personally dont really get why metalheads are into synthwave. pretty much the only metal i like is as close to shoegaze as possible, while i am crazy about all sorts of synth

Well for one thing the melodies in synthwave and a lot of metal are pretty similar, and for another synthwave does seem to fill a niche that goth/industrial/darkwave left open in its decline in popularity and artistic achievement since its 1990s heyday.

EL BROMANCE
Jun 10, 2006

COWABUNGA DUDES!
🥷🐢😬



Some synthwave has sick guitar work too.

Basticle
Sep 12, 2011


strictly speaking not in keeping with this thread but I've been enamored with Dead Astronauts since I heard their vocals on Perterbator's Minuit years back.

Their new LP just dropped and I"ve been listening to it on repeat for a week

https://soundcloud.com/deadastronauts/sets/arms-of-night

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5vuwzaYSxk

laserghost
Feb 12, 2014

trust me, I'm a cat.

Beatiful Machines' album is really good, it sounds like Gunship with guitars or like Roxette jaming with Duran Duran:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_eVKEssbWE

PWYW: https://futurecityrecords.bandcamp.com/album/bridges

A human heart
Oct 10, 2012

Instant Crush posted:

i personally dont really get why metalheads are into synthwave. pretty much the only metal i like is as close to shoegaze as possible, while i am crazy about all sorts of synth

It's because a lot of metalheads like very tacky things and they also don't know much about electronic music

Riot Bimbo
Dec 28, 2006


A human heart posted:

It's because a lot of metalheads like very tacky things and they also don't know much about electronic music

Most electronic music is tacky as poo poo dude. This genre is fun at least.

mbt
Aug 13, 2012

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrxJCOVsV1E

hey this song loving owns and it's a lot better than that awful "running in the 80's" remix someone tried making. it says vaporwave but it's more retrowave than anything else. enjoy the cool vid of the mid night club :thumbsup:

texting my ex posted:

Just found this, I loving love it. Remix of Robocop game soundtrack I think

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbt3RXR1wJk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHo7npmGcHU
:anime:

MJP
Jun 17, 2007

Are you looking at me Senpai?

Grimey Drawer
Hey, I like the Running in the 80s version.

The vaporwave one is cool too.

Bruteman
Apr 15, 2003

Can I ask ya somethin', Padre? When I was kickin' your ass back there... you get a little wood?

The directors of the Turbo Killer video have a Kickstarter project to make a 30-minute "sequel" film (with music by CB of course):

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2050134024/blood-machines-turbo-killer-2?ref=thanks_tweet

charismaslover
Dec 3, 2006

Too stylish for this world...
New Perturbator single "Tactical Precision Disarray"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvUkROjv1U4

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...
reminder if you're in LA then Perturbator and Gost play on Jan 7

https://www.facebook.com/events/1187243184678520/

and San Francisco on the 8th
https://www.facebook.com/events/1700244276960872/

And baltimoreBodymore in May

SgtScruffy
Dec 27, 2003

Babies.


Alan Smithee posted:

reminder if you're in LA then Perturbator and Gost play on Jan 7

https://www.facebook.com/events/1187243184678520/

and San Francisco on the 8th
https://www.facebook.com/events/1700244276960872/

And baltimoreBodymore in May

Where are you seeing the Baltimore date? I'm only seeing an EU tour and the January dates

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...
my mistake, baltimore is gost only I think

https://www.facebook.com/Perturbator/app/123966167614127/?ref=page_internal

https://www.facebook.com/gost1980s/events/?ref=page_internal

quote:

Jan 06 Highline Seattle, WA
Jan 07 Union NightClub Los Angeles, CA
Jan 08 Dna Lounge San Francisco, CA
Jan 11 Reggies Rock Club Chicago, IL
Jan 12 Le Poisson Rouge New York, NY

Alan Smithee fucked around with this message at 12:09 on Dec 20, 2016

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Bald Stalin
Jul 11, 2004

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Carpenter Brut north american tour announced.

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