Also I've come to realize that Legowelt was already doing it (usually better) for over a decade before it became A Thing, but I still like it.

(a little more carpenter and a little less Outrun, though).


For example, this is from 2000:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UP49wNStTZ0

(also I'm comparing it to synthwave/outrun in general, not this track which is more like pastiche of 80s anime soundtrack music than anything I've heard called Synthwave, but for whatever reason I haven't been paying so much attention to current synth music since I got into building the synths).

Legowelt is fucking amazing. Been listening to that guy for a long time.

One of the few modern artists who just does a lot of classic electro/minimal wave stuff without it seeming like any sort of homage or anything like that. He just does his thing.

NEW!

RETRO!

WAVE!

Fuck what the kids call it. I like this name better. It's stupider, thus better.

My first thought is it sounds like whatever m83 were doing 10 years ago; that might have to do with "we own the sky" being in both songs too. But then m83 kinda started to suck and I like this more anyway.

Are kids actually listening to this? I was under the impression that the target audience for this sort of stuff was thirty-something year old hipsters.

I ask because, as a thirty-something year old hipster myself, I'd be interested in listening to this newfangled synthretrolegowave music, but not if it means hanging out with highschool kids.

Homer, contrary to popular movies like "It Follows" and "The Guest", teenage girls do not listen to this music, it's listener base is compromised almost entirely of socially awkward 30-year old men.

Also I'd just like to take a second to thank everyone on poeTV for introducing me to so much good new music. If it wasn't for you guys I'd still be listening to The Fall and Pavement and The Replacements, but searching for new stuff on Pitchfork or Old Kentucky Blog, which is kinda lame. Yay poesters! :)

(not that I don't like the aforementioned bands anymore, but it's just really refreshing to find

This video beats the soundtrack for the original film by a country mile.

Paths of Hate was one of my all-time favorite short films. Don't really feel like the soundtrack does anything but take away from that fucking awesome original.

Song itself is good though.