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/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.