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.

  • @[email protected]
    2•2 days ago

    I know I’m way late to this thread, but just gonna drop this artist here, “Access to Arasaka” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxzBrzdZOK8 - obvious cyberpunk (as in, the game, tabletop and otherwise) vibes just for the name. Pretty cool stuff. Can’t put a name for the genre really, electronic, kinda ambient/idm?, but that’s all I got.

  • Chozo
    4•13 days ago

    Ooohhh hell yeah, there’s a lot of artists in here who I absolutely love, and I can tell that these others I’m not familiar with are going to be awesome, too! May start listening to some of these while I work tonight. Is there a Lemmy community set up already for similar music recommendations?

  • spicy pancakeEnglish
    4•13 days ago

    It’s a really weird feeling recognizing a bunch of artists I listen to on an infographic haha

    there’s a bunch I don’t recognize though which means new music! this rocks

  • @[email protected]
    2•12 days ago

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

    • @[email protected]
      1•12 days 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.