If you look on “cyberpunk” play-list on youtube, it’s mostly some synthwave electronic music.

if I think about Cyberpunk, I obviously think about 2020’s rockerboys with a guitar-axe, or skater like snow crash’s YT. Also, as it’s name stands it’s a deeply punk anti-capitalist. I feel like RATM or noFX would be way more suited in that genre than some DJ playing with synth.

So how did we switched from guitar to synth, and from anti-capitalism to neon aesthetic ?

  • Iam@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    Because Sigue-Sigue Sputnik were never cool? I love SSS! Bit meta though.

    Going back and looking at things like the Max Headroom movie for example. That one was scored by Chris Cross and Midge Ure of Ultravox.

    We were all listening to New Wave, synthpop, EBM (Front242). So a lot of electronic music.

    We were even, non-ironically, listening to 8-bit chip tune stuff by people like Rob Hubbard, Jochen Hippel and others. You know, pre-demo scene 8-bit games like Jet Set Willy, and latet 16-bit demos and disks passed round