Post albums that fit a cyberpunk aesthetic
>Cyberpunk is a subgenre of science fiction in a future setting that tends to focus on society as "high tech low life"[1] featuring advanced technological and scientific achievements, such as information technology and cybernetics, juxtaposed with a degree of breakdown or radical change in the social order.[2]
>Cyberpunk plots often center on conflict among artificial intelligences, hackers, and megacorporations, and tend to be set in a near-future Earth, rather than in the far-future settings or galactic vistas found in novels such as Isaac Asimov's Foundation or Frank Herbert's Dune.[3] The settings are usually post-industrial dystopias but tend to feature extraordinary cultural ferment and the use of technology in ways never anticipated by its original inventors ("the street finds its own uses for things").[4] Much of the genre's atmosphere echoes film noir, and written works in the genre often use techniques from detective fiction.[5]
The Units - Digital Stimulation
Mind.in.a.box are good as fuck
keep em coming
>Suicide - S/t
>cyberpunk
Essential futurepop
>>73026934
>>73027210
synthpunk is objectively the most cyberpunk genre
Try these
Prophetic too
Night Fall (Over the EC)
https://youtu.be/Ff2zlu0umkg
Front 242 - Front by Front
https://youtu.be/H4KcFT4tsII
EBM in general is Cyberpunk as fuck
>>73026934
Sleaford mods - divide and exit
>>73027266
delete this
>>73027283
Way to overlook the entire point of the album. Fucking "cyberpunk"...disgusting...
>>73027445
kys pedantic retard
does Carpenter Brut count? or is it another genre?
>>73027461
brooooooo totally cyberpunk it's just like the future broo
assahh dude
>>73027444
you got no chance to win
>>73027445
Ok anti-fun parade, yes, two retards who can't play instruments and made a living off of screaming at people for five years definitely make ultra competent social critique by going, "FRANKIE! WE ARE ALL FRANKIES!"
Have you seen an interview with Rev or Vega? They aren't exactly intellectuals.
Suicide is famous because they're innovative, not because they were particularly poignant.
Posting a picture of an author doesn't automatically make you right.
This is a fucking anime forum, not a serious art dialogue.
Frontline Assembly - Tactical Neural Implant
Mindphaser
https://youtu.be/RWjBPIbJMzY
unironically this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEHUFRRK9Sk
>>73027459
WHAT'S THAT
Pic relate !!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Y_Xost0dwc
More like this btw? Pretty "electro" dancy
>>73027630
yeaa this
>>73027534
>actually putting that shitty Billy Idol album on the chart
Darn
Also, I'd recommend changing No Love Deep Web to The Powers That B since that one has more of a "cyberpunk" feeling to it.
>>73027281
Definitely. Chrome were the definition of cyberpunk.
https://youtu.be/YNjCugzVPqA
>>73027875
I think NLDW, TMS, or even BP has more cyberpunk to it. More modern internet culture present in the lyrics and style(the whole ARG thing, for example) and doesn't have hardcore guitar for half of the length.
Billy Idol can go if we get some more albums.
>no one posted this yet
Is there any chill cyberpunk music?
The kind of thing I can listen to while squatting on top of a squalid rooftop while the rain pitter-patters off my heavy black leather trenchcoat, staking out some sort of secure database for a later cyberattack?
>>73027914
Anything by 2814
>>73027534
>anti-fun
Stopped reading there.
>>73027987
Oh i love that stuff
but isnt that more vaporwave?
>>73028001
>>73028023
>This album isn't intelligent or worthwhile because the people who made it aren't intellectuals and can hardly play instruments.
Okay!
>>73027909
Seconding this but Fear is the Mind Killer EP is more Cyber
https://youtu.be/6jC9Ol_cFdI
A soundtrack for original cyberpunks
that's a wrap
>>73028139
The album is very much worthwhile, I like, I own it.
Martin Rev & Alan Vega LITERALLY did not know how to play their instruments when they formed Suicide and LITERALLY screamed at their audience, comparing it to literature is not a good comparison.
Punk music is not about some incredible narrative, it's a very personal and animal genre.
Not once have I said that Suicide was bad, I am only pro-fun and pro-cyberpunk while you shitpost about le roach man.
Your "argument" was to shitpost a picture of kafka and insult me.
>>73028009
Eh, sort of. If vaporwave is a spectrum between ironic and artistic, 2814 is more artistic. I think their album art makes them more cyberpunk than anything
>>73028304
niiiiiiiiiiiiiice
>>73028233
I'm an 18 year old American; I was kinda turned on to 90s British electronic music because of the movie Hackers. Underworld, Orbital, Leftfield, and The Prodigy have gone on to be some of my favorite bands ever.
Is there anything you could recommend to me?
what if we get to the future and people just start making new jack swing again
Its weird how so many people's idea of cyberpunk is just generic industrial dance music when the soundtracks of the genre defining cyberpunk films couldn't be further from that.
>>73029130
it's weird how you are gay and your post sucks dick
>>73029450
How much were you bullied for being a cybergoth?
>>73029671
I've never been bullied in my entire fucking life because I'm a huge powerful alpha male. Next question?
>>73029676
Huge powerful alpha males don't tend to get pissy when someone mildly disparages industrial music, or even know what it is.
>>73029723
I'm not pissy. Don't you fucking dare talk to me. I bet you don't have any dick whatsoever
>>73029747
How'd you know I'm trans? 0_0
>>73029894
Same way I knew my dad was
>>73029915
Did he keep borrowing your underwear?
>>73026934
>>73028243
i can dig it
5.5/10
>>73028893
Sorry for the late response! I'm in the same boat, 20 and USA. Hope Fluke and The Chemical Brothers are high on your list as well - if not, absolutely do not hesitate to check them out.
Also highly recommend Leftfield, Renegade Soundsystem, Meat Beat Manifesto, The Orb, Lionrock, The Shamen, 808 State, The Future Sound of London, early Way Out West and Daft Punk, Global Communication/Jedi Knights, Saint Etienne (for a more pop sound), Lords of Acid, A Guy Called Gerald, Massive Attack (start with Mezzanine), and Sasha (anything he did before and including Involver is in general great)
>>73029130
yeah the key-word is punk. it's a counter to the industrial oppressive land-scape, not a compliment. there are, of course, futuristic elements in cyberpunk still, but there needs to be a significantly human element. the soundtrack to deus ex human revolution is a future-orchestra with loads of opera singing. the soundtrack to blade runner is melancholic ambiance. bland industrial music is just the cyber with none of the fringe.
this is essential.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJl8t55yFbw
>>73031014
YES. In the middle of a replay of this. Just killed Maggie Chow.
The Area 51 music is godlike. Disappointed the GOTY soundtrack doesn't have the Hells Kitchen bar music in it though.
are there any cyberpunk plunderphonics albums?
>cyberpunk thread on mu
fuck yes
i've been reading gibson's sprawl trilogy while listening to pic related. the two fit together perfectly. about to finish count zero. shit is hitting the fan
kaoss edge are the ultimate cyberpunk band
http://www.kaossedgeofficial.com/
>>73031080
This probably isn't new to anyone, but the end of Transmission 1 into What Does Your Soul Look Like off Endtroducing is very very cyberpunk
>>73027630
That Duvet remix though
>>73031080
Some tracks from Neat Beats could count
https://neatbeats.bandcamp.com/track/robot-30931-feels-existential-despair
https://neatbeats.bandcamp.com/track/why-would-we-need-brakes
Would you guys consider this Cyberpunk?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94g6OtPQXh0
this the pleb version here obviously
here ya go:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdCRcrgX080
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEdJJOaI3hY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wG-OMjz9g8w
>>73031450
still haven't listened to this. it's cyberpunk??
>>73031490
I think the music fits. I can picture driving in neo-tokyo with jesus alone playing on the radio
>>73029130
>the soundtracks of the genre defining cyberpunk films couldn't be further from that.
stupid as fuck post. vangelis and all that shit isn't punk and the good "cuberpunk" films don't attempt to use music that fits into the cyberpunk aesthetic, they're trying to compliment the film
>>73031515
>jesus alone
listening for the first time. i love this. will be listening to the rest of the album. how is nick cave so damn consistent?
>>73027734
Alt cover for No Love Deep Web that was popular on /mu/ a few years ago. I don't know why the poster didn't just embrace the dick.
Pop 1280 - Paradise
>>73031798
forgot pic
>>73031711
i was kidding
because it's nsfw on /mu/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OD1Jg8ZxAKY
hi
>>73031538
Despite the name, cyberpunk owes a lot more to noir films and literature than it does to actual punk, which is why Vangelis's score makes perfect sense while industrial music does not.
Given that cyberpunk is a genre of fiction, surely its sonic aesthetic should be defined by soundtracks to its films, both diegetic and otherwise.
>>73032091
lol i'm well aware
>surely its sonic aesthetic should be defined by soundtracks to its films
gonna have to disagree. cyberpunk grew to something much bigger than just a decendent of noir and blade runner man- it grew to question humanity and our relationship to technology in ways that we couldn't understand back then. the music doesn't have THAT much to do with the films
>>73032132
the music to most good cyberpunk content quite literally has everything to do with the product.
VA-11 HALL-A
Blade Runner
Both Deus Ex games
Policenauts
Ghost In The Shell
you can't acknowledge that cyberpunk is heavily inspired by noir but simultaneously not realize that most noir films rely on their soundtracks heavily to instill theme and emotion.
>It's an anon decides to make a chart a better form of which already exists and people post completely random albums and they all end up on the chart and it's never posted again episode
>no amnesia scanner in cyberpunk thread
for shame
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02k126v3Zu4
Digital Hardcore is one of the most cyberpunk genres there is.
>>73032263
what?
maybe i just didn't explain what i'm getting at succinctly: cyberpunk extends far beyond just film. yes films *like all of them* rely on their soundtrack, but that particular music isn't reflective of the genre as a whole. ex: batman and superheros are not strictly reflected in a hans zimmer score
Cyberpunk is an idea that was pretty good when Neuromancer first explored it but hasn't done well with iteration, music included. When artists actually try to do it it usually ends up horrendous shit like Billy Idol's album. It works better when it's accidental, like how >>73031515 pointed out that it just coincidentally seems to fit the concept.
>>73032358
>Neuromancer
my man. have you read the others? as i said above, i'm about to finish count zero and i like it better than neromancer
>>73032376
>>73032358
>Neuromancer
how is the writing though? I like philip dick's ideas but found scanner darkly a chore to read, though the movie was dope as fuck
>>73032376
To tell you the truth, I didn't even get all the way through Neuromancer (twice I got distracted by weird life events), but once I finish reading Titus Alone I might go back to it next. Then I'll do the other two.
>>73032415
Haven't read PKD, but Gibson reads OK. His metaphors are a little obscure and can break the flow a bit, but he generally has wit and a gift for weaving neologisms in a way that doesn't just feel like some plasticky creation on top of his central ideas.
>>73032415
>how is the writing though?
think convoluted purple prose with lots of tech lingo. you'll either love it or you'll hate it. i happen to love it. but even if you hate it, you should at least read a few chapters before you write it off because you get used to it after a while.
>>73032311
Holy shit this is amazing
>not a single mention of Lorn
Holy shit.
>>73032415
it's when cyberpunk when totally trenchcoat, if you can't finish pkd then just don't bother with it cus it never gets better than his stuff.
>no g.o.d.
come on
>>73033000
>when cyberpunk when totally trenchcoat
what did he mean by this?
>>73032454
Needs:
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
Pop Will Eat Itself - The Looks or the Lifestyle?
>>73027281
I would have been legitimately upset if Chrome wasn't posted.
>>73033121
I think he meant was. Sounds like the same guy I was going back and forth with lol
>>73031081
Sounds like a great time my dude
https://uhfmafia.bandcamp.com/album/four-days-asleep
>tfw the computer generated dub that the zionites listen to actually became a thing (dubstep)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_czrpe-0mG0
>>73034583
This. Stuff like Kode9 or The Bug always made me think of this book.
>>73027744
what is this, can't find.
>>73027744
Wow, found it, I'm really dumb. Anyway, very good stuff, thanks.
>>73032454
>the money store
but why
>>73026934
Not even kidding here, soundtrack from Deus Ex Human Revolution. Well, most of it. Obviously heavily inspired by Vangelis' Blade Runner work.
https://youtu.be/NVqDxdYYLAk?list=PL4E1AE167C56AA012