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Cyberpunk

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"High tech, low life."

"The street finds its own uses for things."

We all know the quotes and the books. But cyberpunk is more than a neon-soaked, cybernetic aesthetic, or a gritty dystopian science fiction genre. It is a subculture composed of two fundamental ideas: PUNK, and CYBER.

The PUNK: antiauthoritarian, anticapitalist, radical freedom of expression, rejection of tradition, a DIY ethic.

The CYBER: all that, but high-fuckin'-tech, ya feel? From DIYing body mods to using bleeding edge software to subvert corporate interests. It's punk for the 22nd century.

This is a community dedicated to discussing anything cyberpunk, be it books, movies, or other art that falls into the genre, or real life tech, projects, stories, ideas or anything else that adheres to these ideals. It's a place for 'punks from all over the federated Net to hang out and swap stories and meaningful content (not just pictures of city nightscapes).

Welcome in, choom.

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For me, I'm not sure.

I love synthwave like GUNSHIP and PYLOT and Essenger as much as the next cyberpunk, but besides a few particular GUNSHIP and Essenger songs, they don't feel quite right.

Neither does straight up punk rock or metal, which is the other stuff I listen to.

The cyberpunk music I want needs to be a blend of the two I think — the atmospheric sounds and use of synths and technological effects from synthwave, and the overt rage and message and aggressive, imperfect rock sound of punk rock and metal.

Edit: I'm liking industrial so far!

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[–] UxorialCow@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Ill check those out when I get off work! I like the name Sandevistan lol, did you submit a track for that 2077 dlc song contest?

[–] revengeday@dataterm.digital 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I read the terms and conditions of the contest and decided not to participate, unfortunately I would lose all my rights to my music - I didn't want to do that.

[–] UxorialCow@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yeah, that part of it definitely eeked me out too. I submitted as practice on the production side of things but if i didnt want to practice anyway I definitely wouldnt want to handover rights like that

[–] revengeday@dataterm.digital 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In the end, CDPR are also just corpos :/

[–] UxorialCow@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thats for sure. Also, checked your music out and I dig it! You got a new subscriber:)

[–] revengeday@dataterm.digital 2 points 1 year ago

Awww, thank you so much!

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