Carpenter Brut
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4:15 · 19M views · Feb 29, 2016
The official video for Carpenter Brut's Turbo Killer, directed by Seth Ickerman, with psychedelic 1980s-styled visuals set to rock-leaning synthwave.
Recommended as an example of synthwave with striking retro visuals.
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Exactly. I was just about to post that, I'm going to be buying a few discographies tomm. Specifically, Carpenter Brut's stuff who released a really crazy film based [1] on its music video for Turbo Killer [2]. It's worth checking out if you're into rock-sounding synthwave with 80's themed psychedelic visuals. I'm also buying like 3 more to support artists. ABout 7 years go now, Soundcloud enabled Bitcoin donations, and about a team of 5 guys includin me went on a tipping frenzy and tried to get adoption going that way. It was funny, because reddit allowed for direct Bitcoin donations there via a bot and you could name it whatever you wanted. So we did the same on Soundcloud, it's funny because I log into my old soundcloud account at the History of them is still there. Anyhow, I tipped like 20-30 guys on SC and even got some runway from an early adopter ($100?) to take it further and met a few EDM guys coming into Hollywood/LA area for a few sets and tried to explain it to them as none of them picked up there funds. Apparently, Soundcould didn't do a good job of notifying them that they had money waiting for them so ultimately it failed. I ended up giving the Bits I had left into people who set up full nodes on the network. But I always thought, especially as a DJ myself, that supporting artists with micropayments would be a good solution. Youtube now allows for tipping in their chatbox as I saw a few in house performances/sets be tipped by followers and fans, but it was alway
Newer is not specifically it since I'm getting a bit too "old / nostalgia" now, but here is a small list (songs chosen are not specifically their biggest but ones I like to come back to) French79 - Hometown [LINK] NTO - Invisible [LINK] Worakls - Trauma Worakls Remix [LINK] - Salzburg [LINK] Uppermost - sooo many ... Dance is iconic to me [LINK] - Flashback [LINK] - but his Revolution album gives a good walk around [LINK] Gesaffelstein - Hate or Glory [LINK] - Viol [LINK] M83 - you probably already know them, but Outro [LINK] Danger (my personnal king of "you had to be there", thus a live music in a club as exemple) - 4h30 [LINK] Justice - Stress (warning it and its clip are true to its name, it got awards, it got also banned from primetime) [LINK] - D.A.N.C.E [LINK] Or a ton more really, JM Jarre / Daft Punk / David Guetta really help breed an insane french electro scene each on their own way. EDIT: in a Kavinsky thread I feel like I should include Carpenter Brut - Turbo Killer this video - Le Perv [LINK] Pertubator - Future Club (you know it from Hotline Miami) [LINK]
This 2016 article (posted on the song's 30th anniversary... we're now coming up for its 40th anniversary) is too old to note the LadBaby cover: We Built This City on Sausage Rolls [LINK] "Worst Song of All Time" or not, it's still an immensely popular song. If you want to poke fun at the 80s and their obsession with synths, poke fun at Scritti Politi instead! (e.g. Boom! There She Was [LINK] ) Meanwhile, the feeling of that 80s synth sound has been reimagined by modern composers, giving us synthwave and all its spinoff genres, and music videos made with an AfterEffects "VHS" plugin, like Turbo Killer this video