Type | Music and art movement |
Emergence | |
Influences | 1980s and 1990s aesthetics • retrofuturism • analog synthesizer interfaces • technological nostalgia |
Characteristics | Pitch-shifted, looped samples • synthesized sounds • glitch music techniques • ethereal, atmospheric, often surreal soundscape |
Aesthetic themes | Consumerism • materialism • nostalgia • human condition • digital and physical world relationship |
Associated music genres | Slow zone • Mallsoft • Vaportrap • Hypnagogic pop • Synthwave |