For me, I’m not sure.

I love synthwave like GUNSHIP and PYLOT and Essenger as much as the next cyberpunk, but besides a few particular GUNSHIP and Essenger songs, they don’t feel quite right.

Neither does straight up punk rock or metal, which is the other stuff I listen to.

The cyberpunk music I want needs to be a blend of the two I think — the atmospheric sounds and use of synths and technological effects from synthwave, and the overt rage and message and aggressive, imperfect rock sound of punk rock and metal.

Edit: I’m liking industrial so far!

  • Ramses RevengedayM
    7•2 years ago

    I hope this is not shameless, because I am a musician myself. But I try to implement the cyberpunk vibe in my music. For me cyberpunk as music is always a mixture of dirty sounds, darkness, and the thought of losing everything. That’s what I’ve tried to do with a few EPs and tracks.

    Here is a small selection that cyberpunks found to be good:

    In general, techno, neurofunk, dirty punk-rock is cyberpunk for me.

    • Wintersong
      3•2 years ago

      I just finished listening to Sandevistan, it definitely has the feel of Cyberpunk to me. I mean admittedly based on my other comment I’m not entirely sure what that feel is, but I liked it a lot and it definitely fits for me.

      • Ramses RevengedayM
        4•2 years ago

        Whooo, it’s the feeling of having too much cyberware installed and being on the verge of cyberpsychosis!

    • @[email protected]
      2•2 years ago

      Hey - I’ve been wanting to learn about music production myself. Got as far as installing LMMS and looking for VST plugins. Would love some beginner tips if you have any to share!

      • Ramses RevengedayM
        3•2 years ago

        Now you have asked a good question that is not so easy to answer, unfortunately I do not have the ultimate beginner tip.

        But what I can recommend to you is to play around with loops a bit - with that you can get a good basic idea of a song.

        In the beginning I would advise you to do without plugins and learn the DAW. I use Ableton and have almost no plugins installed, because I create almost all instruments directly in Ableton - also saves money ;)

        But I invite you to our Discord instance where many creative people are (see DATATERM Sidebar), we all try to help each other and give beginners gladly tips!

    • UxorialCow
      2•2 years ago

      Ill check those out when I get off work! I like the name Sandevistan lol, did you submit a track for that 2077 dlc song contest?

      • Ramses RevengedayM
        4•2 years ago

        I read the terms and conditions of the contest and decided not to participate, unfortunately I would lose all my rights to my music - I didn’t want to do that.

        • UxorialCow
          4•2 years ago

          Yeah, that part of it definitely eeked me out too. I submitted as practice on the production side of things but if i didnt want to practice anyway I definitely wouldnt want to handover rights like that

    • Edgerunner AlexisOPM
      2•2 years ago

      I’ll definitely check out your music, I was 100% expecting you to reply with it when I made this post :D

    • Arcanus
      1•2 years ago

      Oh this is BANGIN!