alt Hacker NewsHe's rightly credited as having participated in the popularization of the musical and visual "Synthwave" aesthetic:
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throwforfeds • today at 2:23 PM
I'm only just now realizing that Beach House [1] might also have picked up on that synth aesthetic because the lead singer's father is French and she was in Paris for school in the early 2000s before coming back to the states to go to Vassar (she went to school with some of my friends). It probably was percolating around Paris at that time.
But also 80s synths were just really cheap around then. I picked up a Juno 60 with a flight case for around $400, including shipping, in about 2002.
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There’s a while sub genre of synthwave named after his album OutRun. Which, by the way, is best experienced while driving on the highway at night.
https://www.reddit.com/r/outrun/