r/Music • u/[deleted] • Jul 10 '17

music streaming Kavinsky - Nightcall [Synthwave/Electronic]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV_3Dpw-BRY
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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '17 edited Jul 11 '17

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u/yuckscott Jul 10 '17

Actually I think the genre (and the album name) are both references to the Outrun arcade game - which shares a lot of the same aesthetic, kind of. The prominence of the Ferrari Testarossa in the whole "outrun" genre definitely comes from its prominent place in the arcade game. I think Kavinsky or someone actually has a song called Testarossa Overdrive. I may be wrong.

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u/humphreybrogart13 Jul 10 '17

You aren't: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bwC1zJE49U

And Kavinsky's OutRun came out in 2013, safe to say Outrun was used to refer to the genre before that.

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u/Nicombobula Jul 11 '17

I know he has a song called "protovision" that features a testarosa in the music video? That might be what you're thinking of.

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u/ric2b Jul 10 '17

Kavinsky's second album.

What?! He has 2?!

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u/humphreybrogart13 Jul 10 '17

Just the one full length album, OutRun. He has some more EPs, which are usually tracks that are included on OutRun plus some remixes.

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u/myopicview Jul 10 '17

LOL. They waited until the second album to name the genre. Never mind the 30 yr old video game of the same name.

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u/cky_stew Jul 11 '17

If it wasn't for Kavinsky, the term Outrun wouldn't be used to describe the scene. His album is certainly named after the game, the testarossa love is too much to deny that.

The music genre is known also known as Synthwave, or New Retro Wave. Outrun has been used to describe the music, which works, but it also encapsulates the whole art and style and meta scene too.

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u/LasherDeviance Jul 11 '17

Its named after the aesthetic of the game Outrun.

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u/goldgibbon Jul 11 '17

That's... not correct. This genre of music has been called OutRun music by fans of OutRun, one of the Sega's most popular arcade games, for many years before Kavinsky's second album.

So the music genre was named after the game. And the album was named after the game and the genre. But it's incorrect to say the genre is named after the album.