If you look on “cyberpunk” play-list on youtube, it’s mostly some synthwave electronic music.
if I think about Cyberpunk, I obviously think about 2020’s rockerboys with a guitar-axe, or skater like snow crash’s YT. Also, as it’s name stands it’s a deeply punk anti-capitalist. I feel like RATM or noFX would be way more suited in that genre than some DJ playing with synth.
So how did we switched from guitar to synth, and from anti-capitalism to neon aesthetic ?
It was the 80’s man, don’t ask questions. most people were still hung over from the 70’s.
More seriously, synthwave used and relied on synthesizers to produce the music… adding a cyber-esque flair to the music. Mostly any form of electronic fits the bill. but in the 80’s… it was synthwave that was hot and it kinda stuck.
They weren’t hungover from the 70s, they were too coked up in the 80s to get round to hangovers till the 90s
That’s where all the depression came from in the grunge scene, coming down from 30 years of partying.