Cyberpunk is a science-fiction sub-genre dealing with the integration of society and technology in dystopian settings. Often referred to as “low-life and high tech,” Cyberpunk stories deal with outsiders (punks) who fight against the oppressors in society (usually mega corporations that control everything) via technological means (cyber). If the punks aren’t actively fighting against a megacorp, they’re still dealing with living in a world completely dependent on high technology.
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Darksynth is a sub-genre of Synthwave. And within darksynth, there's a sub-sub-genre for cyberpunk synth music. So if synth music feels cyberpunk to you, these recommendations are a good starting point.
Here's a higher-res version of the image (also here). This guide was created by khroshan over on reddit, I just wanted to share it.
Thank you! That's awesome!
This is awesome! Thanks for sharing I'm going to check these out.
It's a really weird feeling recognizing a bunch of artists I listen to on an infographic haha
there's a bunch I don't recognize though which means new music! this rocks
Ooohhh hell yeah, there's a lot of artists in here who I absolutely love, and I can tell that these others I'm not familiar with are going to be awesome, too! May start listening to some of these while I work tonight. Is there a Lemmy community set up already for similar music recommendations?
TIL I like Dark and Extreme Synth.
Mick Gordon forever.
I know I'm way late to this thread, but just gonna drop this artist here, "Access to Arasaka" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxzBrzdZOK8 - obvious cyberpunk (as in, the game, tabletop and otherwise) vibes just for the name. Pretty cool stuff. Can't put a name for the genre really, electronic, kinda ambient/idm?, but that's all I got.
I've gotta say thanks again, @[email protected]. I've been working my way through these artists for the past few weeks and I'm still less than half-way through the list.
I generally though cyberpunk was a separate sub-genre of synthwayve, not a sub-sub-genre of darksynth
I mean, they're all just terms you use to label music to help people find more music they like (e.g. on streaming services.)
Historically, "cyberpunk" as a term emerged in the late 80s/ early 90s to refer to a variety of electronic music (source).
And "synthwave" as a term emerged after the 2000s, initially to describe electronic music inspired by 80s soundtracks (source) and "darksynth" was a development of this.
So yeah, the way this graphic classifies the music is a little odd, but in terms of laying out music to recommend, it does a good job.
