Talking about artists, I came
into synthwave thanks to modern artists like Kavinsky, Lazerhawk, Carpenter Brut, and the classic 80's movies» and TV series» soundtracks, and composers like John Carpenter, Vangelis, and the big master Sylvester Levay.
Not exact matches
As a major nod to the 1980's and the burgeoning use and abuse of the electronic, a.k.a. synthesizers,
synthwave takes the elements and cliches of that style and pushes them
into hyper overdrive.
British
synthwave band GUNSHIP has released a music video for their (rather great, actually) song «Art3mis & Parzival,» and it's a glorious pixel art version of Ready Player One, deconstructing Cline's fiction
into the 8 - bit glory days it adores.