In this one Rob introduces me to the genre of synthwave. Much of our discussion revolves around the Rise of the Synths documentary, highest possible recommendation btw.

https://youtu.be/usnW-CsFVwI

00:00 Intro

1:17 start, getting into buying  synths

11:46 reading books vs listening to audio books

26:11 Severance on apple tv, identifying with your job, and asking kids “what they want to be?”

50:30 My background and philosophy on teaching

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1:12:05 synthwave, what it is, early exposures to it, a tangerine dream story, and cultural watershed moments for the genre

1:33:48 Perception of 80s music/culture in the 90s and a look at synthwave subgenres

2:00:32  More on the abstract nature of what makes synthwave so special: heart on it’s sleeve and somehow not pretentious. 

2:19:20 John Carpenter is cool af, the 80s were the first decade of prevalent home media, and riffing on some music theory stuff

2:36:47 movie music, The cutoff between synthy 80s and grungey 90s, nostalgia as a musical motif, first blood, and vhs disproportionately represented 80s movies. 

2:57:08 crazy ass Jean Michael Jarre concert, and riffing on the playlist

3:15:10 summary, “maybe the lyrics to nightcall are about synthwave itself”

*I was wrong, Spielberg did Hook BEFORE jurassic park and schindler's   list

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3YWvhdzqZ3G7Zud7fhyDwx?si=PNEdbJ9yRDazSMmp8eKG5g&utm_source=copy-link