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.

  • morrowind
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    6 months ago

    I generally though cyberpunk was a separate sub-genre of synthwayve, not a sub-sub-genre of darksynth

    • Rolando@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      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.