It is not only music that has benefited from the re-tooling of 1980s pop culture however, with films like The Guest and video games such as the Hotline Miami series giving the decade of excess its own woozy, anxious hangover.
It would be unfair to call cyberpunk the only cinematic influence on synthwave/outrun/retrowave (horror and action cinema exert a massive influence too), but it’s great to hear it in the mix and show up in the aesthetic adopted by many of these artists. Not only does the influence of Vangelis’ seminal Blade Runner score loom large over a lot of artists’ output, but it’s great to see artists like Perturbator and Irving Force show a genuine enthusiasm for the genre.
The massive surge in music drawing on 1980s genre cinema in the past few years has been something of a boon to cyberpunk fans.
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