† Carpenter Brut † TURBO KILLER † Directed by Seth Ickerman † Official Video †

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Recommends Melting_Harps · 2020-07 · on “Anti-algorithmic music: How Bandcamp is helping artists beat the odds”

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 becau

Cites amiga386 · 2024-11 · on “An oral history of "We Built This City," the worst song of all time (2016)”

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]

Cites nolok · 2026-07 · on “French musician Kavinsky found dead”

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