What is Retro?
What artists qualify in this category.?
Why I ask---
I wore neon and a checkered tie to my classes, to see my shrink, and to my adademic career interview...
Everyone said I looked retro.. What is it? I know its a type of music...
Just curious
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by MikeP » Wed Mar 24, 2004 2:57 am
"Retro" is tossed about (perhaps too much and too easily) to refer to pretty much anything, like mare_idol said, "from another generation." Musically, "retro" could be anything that emulates new wave, punk, early 80's hip hop/beat box, 70's glam rock, Phi
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by fritzb » Wed Mar 24, 2004 6:16 am
Here's a good example of Retro-New Wave:
http://www.deliciousrecords.com/agency-x/
(a brand new album that sounds like it could have been released in 1980) [;)]
http://www.deliciousrecords.com/agency-x/
(a brand new album that sounds like it could have been released in 1980) [;)]
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by Frayo » Wed Mar 24, 2004 1:08 pm
WOW!!! I Love it!
Im so glad that people still release this kind of stuff.
This is what I'd sorta like to do...only a little bit darker, melodic...and weird... Like "Keyboard Solo Anyone?" thread.
Somehow a lot of my posts tie together.
Many th
Im so glad that people still release this kind of stuff.
This is what I'd sorta like to do...only a little bit darker, melodic...and weird... Like "Keyboard Solo Anyone?" thread.
Somehow a lot of my posts tie together.
Many th
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by fritzb » Wed Mar 24, 2004 1:22 pm
A good place to start is of course http://www.amazon.com
If you know one group you like, you can usually find more just by putting that name in the search. It will give you a host of similar groups to check out with samples to listen to. Do a search
If you know one group you like, you can usually find more just by putting that name in the search. It will give you a host of similar groups to check out with samples to listen to. Do a search
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by Frayo » Wed Mar 24, 2004 1:26 pm
As it turns out Agency - X produced a compilation. 5 CDs of new wave/synth pop entitled "State of Synth Pop 2003" and its got all kinds of cool stuff...its like a sampler of Nu-Wave.
Thanks a bunch. Looks like Im going to have acknowledge that emo, ind
Thanks a bunch. Looks like Im going to have acknowledge that emo, ind
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by Frayo » Wed Mar 24, 2004 1:29 pm
Mare Idol-
Yeah..even though my sociology teacher insisted that I was 'in style' and not as deviant from modern trends as I thought.
Today was weird. I wore a Mars Volta t shirt.. Jeans with burn marks on them (my OWM fasion statement), and a pair o
Yeah..even though my sociology teacher insisted that I was 'in style' and not as deviant from modern trends as I thought.
Today was weird. I wore a Mars Volta t shirt.. Jeans with burn marks on them (my OWM fasion statement), and a pair o
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by fritzb » Wed Mar 24, 2004 9:01 pm
I have that 5-disk set "State of Synth Pop 2003". It was released by A Different Drum in conjunction with a bunch of other indie synthpop labels to feature many of the artists making synthpop these days. It runs the whole gamut as far a styles (from ret
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