![]() ![]() Check out r/outrun for insightful discussion on the genre and the evolution music pictures of cars and sunsets.įor more info on the whole thing, you can check out. There was some other synthwave going on at the time, but that album was so good and full of such sweet strawberry jams lacquered in nostalgia it inspired many more to follow suit. The Outrun genre was kickstarted by the album OutRun, by Kavinsky, who was influenced by 80s music and named it after the 80s arcade game OutRun by SEGA. I also got into synthwave from Drive (and Hotline Miami), and found some of my favourite artists from the soundtrack, like Electric Youth and Kavinsky. So, what do you guys think? Is the current 80s influence in music as much down to the usual nostalgia fad we seem to go through every few years or do you think Vice City embedded a love of 808s and long reverb tails in a million young producers? Have any of you made music influenced by what you heard on the soundtrack? It was released internationally on October 29, 2002. I know that movie scores of the time (such as Blade Runner and Escape From New York) were also contributing factors, but the genesis of this 80's revivalism may lie in Vice City. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Official Soundtrack Box Set is a seven-disc compilation CD box set containing music from the video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, each disc representing one of the games seven music radio stations. Here’s a peek at the missing songs in the GTA trilogy. The synthwave genre also feels like it has some roots in the Vice City soundtrack. The Grand Theft Auto 3 soundtrack is complete as it was in the original release. It feels to me like a lot of producers/musicians played this game as teenagers and then grew up to make music influenced by the 80's sound, be it in writing or production techniques. Hearing stuff like "Don't Stop Till You Get Enough" and "Owner Of A Lonely Heart" changed that perception for me. ![]() Around that time, popular music seemed to have some of a late 60/70s influence going on (I'm thinking of The Strokes, The White Stripes, Interpol here), whereas at the time, I thought of 80's music as "cheesy". I know for me personally that it exposed me to a lot of music that I hadn't heard before, and even genres of music that I never gave a chance before then. Hey! I'm currently writing a script exploring the influence of VC's soundtrack on popular music. ![]()
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