Synthwave but it gets increasingly more nostalgic 

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Born in 1980, I had an 80s childhood and a 90s teenage experience. What a time to be alive. I miss it terribly. Went off to college in 1999 and the world changed drastically within a few years. I miss the innocence and ignorance of the pre-internet era.

As a 20 year old who obviously never experienced the 80's, I love this genre because a: It's brilliantly structured and b: Because it is the feeling of hope and positivity distilled into music.

Went from kid to mid-teen in the 1980's: I miss the neon, the arcades, the music... everything... looking forward to pizza and rootbeer on Fridays at the roller rink. It is difficult not to long for the past when I hear a mix like this. I'm just glad to have lived then so I have these memories.

This mix has the “ everything is gonna be alright” type of vibe

grew up in the 80s in the uk. we didn't have all the neon and everything that synthwave is associated. Just seemingly unending tory rule, economic downturns, grey miserable weather, and endless drudgery of school and work and poverty. It's kinda amazing that Synthwave exists, it's like music from a childhood so many of us never got to experience, that was stolen from us, but brought back through time. I think that's why the sensation of nostalgia brought by these modern tracks feels so strange. We feel like we're back where we OUGHT to have been, when we know full well we never existed in the world these tracks ostensibly emulate. We should make a world where this music IS the childhood for many, with its bright neon lights and strange, beautiful, peaceful places, where they can flourish and make the world better with every step. We should be striving for a world for everyone that is filled with joy, where everyone can have peace.

Music like this doesn't make me nostalgic for a specific decade...more like feelings and moments in my youth. And, strangely, temperature. Heat and warmth, humidity and moisture. I realize now why a lot of synthwave imagery has to do with cars and driving. These songs transport me back to summer nights with my friends, driving at night with the windows down, humidity on my face and in my lungs, feeling the streetlights flashing by behind my closed eyes. Not a care in the world, no smartphones keeping us constantly connected to the wider world, no notifications to remind us of the existence of anyone but ourselves. Anything and everything felt possible. We could have driven with no direction till we ran out of gas, our only goal to escape the tedium of our small town, to experience something and someplace new, and it would have been an adventure, the greatest night of our lives. Being an adult brings its own freedoms, but always weighed down by commitments to jobs, homes, other people. I still experience these moments, but less frequently. More recently, visiting friends in Orlando, in the backseat of the car, heading home from a night out on the town. Three of us crammed into the backseat, I'm warm and hazy from the alcohol, sitting next to my friend-who's-more-than-a-friend, leaning my head on his shoulder and his head on mine. My friend is driving and The Midnight is playing on the speakers. I want to bottle these moments so I can revisit them forever, but I can't, so synthwave mixes will have to do. I wrote this while listening to "Echo" by Timecop1983.

We all want to go back to when everything seemed like it would last forever.

I feel like the positivity of the 80s was from the budding seeds of technologies starting to enrich our lives in the right proportions without distracting us from it or enabling instant gratification of everything for everyone all the time. It was a naive time of hope and premature understanding of how technology would truly impact the world, and that's why we viewed the 'future' as such a wonderful beautiful thing full of possibilities. And I think that's why retrofuturism is such a thing now. People are nostalgic about what they thought the future would be like and the hope we had because now we've seen where we ended up and we want to rewind it back. Because the actual future didn't measure up to the versions we dreamed up back then.

This is such an amazing collection of songs. I grew up in the 80s and there was just this amazing feeling of being thrown back into my youth listening to these songs. I remember the music, the movies, the time before cellphones and internet being so ubiquitous. But I mostly remember being a kid swimming, playing on the beach, riding bikes with friends, exploring the sands and the woods. I remember being happy and carefree watching wrestling with my Dad on TV. Pizza Hut restaurants with the red glasses and indoor smoking! Wow. Thanks for the nostalgic trip through my childhood.

Seeing the arcade, neon shifting lights, and 🌴 palm trees 🌴- times do change, but Odysseus's good vibes are forever. *EDIT. THERE'S A BALL-PIT SLIDE. IT'S GETTING MORE NOSTALGIC*

I love it when you go to search for a synthwave and chillwave mix to listen to and then you find a new mix has just been released by Odysseus.

I close my eyes as this starts playing and I’m transported to highway 1, driving alongside the pacific coast. It’s a golden sunset and the seagulls are lazily gliding overhead while the wind streaks through my hair. The warm glow of the sun comforts me and the sounds of the waves crashing sooth me.

This makes me cry. Not because I grew up in this era, it's because i didn't. This era, you could go hang out with friends casually, you could go to these amazingly fun places and not worry about it too much. Now everything is so overwhelming, and there is nowhere to relax or have fun with friends anymore. It's sad, and it makes me so angry there isn't a place I have to enjoy time with my friends without spending a crap ton of money for it.

Synthwave music has such a unique way of unlocking old childhood memories. Sitting here tonight listening to this, I'm thinking about how my mom used to take me with her to K-Mart in the mid 90's to go get her Kodak camera pictures developed. There was a guy named Tom who worked in the camera department who would always put out his hand to me for a high five, and right after he would pretend to stumble backwards as if I actually had the strength to make him fall backwards as a little kid, and it always made me laugh so hard. And then we would listen to Dr. Seuss stories on cassette tapes in the car while on the way to garage sales after getting lunch with the warm summer air rushing in the the rolled down windows of the ole mini van. I didn't realize how magical those days were in the moment. I am so grateful that I got to experience those times, but it hurts so much to remember them..

I hate how so many retail businesses have gotten rid of their neon signs and decor. These days everything has the aesthetic of a hospital waiting room.

Dude if someone made a mod for Security Breach that just played this music throughout that would be awesome

I love comment sections like this, where everyone has chosen to be kind

There's something magical with synthwave. Listening to this makes me feel nostalgic, yet...I was born in the 90's. I have never lived the 80's, so I have nothing to be nostalgic about. Yet, I still feel it. The raw nostalgia from that music, that euphoric feeling associated with precious memories, this sense of wonder. It's incredible.

That yellow spill sign by the Pepsi machine is perfection...it is so strange how ordinary things can feel like heaven sometimes

This is surely going to be one of the first things I play in my car when I get my driver's license

This is so nostalgic for me and really takes me back to my childhood. Like so many others here, I grew up in the 80s. I'll never forget working in my dad's factory as a message boy, the bright electric lights on the Christmas tree in the town square, the day the Statue of Liberty was built, and reading about that scoundrel Jack the Ripper. It really was an amazing time to be alive. Except of the lack of child labor laws, of course.

43:12 My older brother and I were kids in by the mid 90s, but our childhood was of course much influenced by the 80s cartoons and toys. I still remember my older brother playing Mario Bros on his Famicom while I excitedly watched. I also loved the vibes and neon lights of the malls. Then watching movies at night like Goonies and Star Wars. This fantastic mix just brings back all those great memories and it just aches a whole lot more with my older brother passing away last year.

Released on my 50th Birthday. Of course its Nostalgia. Love it.

I’m a 90s kid and there something that feels so nostalgic and safe with this vibe.

To everyone reading this comment. Good luck in everything you do. May you fly high in life and success is always with you. Good luck to you💜

Enjoying this and feeling sad about it simultaneously. The two sides of the nostalgia coin.

Thank you so much for the feature Odysseus 💙💙💙

Fuck, that sample at 12:21 hit me with such a nostalgic feeling, I remember hearing it in a song way back in 2014, when me and my friends were in high school, learning about vaporwave and future funk, beautiful memories, time does move pretty fast

I am digging the new visual aesthetic. From minimalist graphics to more liminal nostalgia. Really adds to the vibe

As I didn't live in the 80's (I'm 19) I feel little nostalgia, but what I have always associated with the genre is unrelenting optimism bringing general hope for a bright future, but the suspended chords often used add an air of melancholy on certain tracks that brings both this hope and a sadness from the knowledge that it never really was that optimistic and never could be. Forlorn optimism. Imagination.

I only remember snippets of the latter half of the 1990s, but the whole neon arcade, laser-tag arena, mall vibe takes me back to what I remember of that time, even though the images in this video are not real and depict a place that never was real. Nostalgia is a powerful thing that's fascinating and hard to understand.

'90s baby here, but 80s synthwave has always been my fave kind of music, no matter what since spotify came out I always gravitated to this type of music. The power it has to make you feel nostalgic about a time period you've never been is so incredibly astounding and amazing to me. I've always wished I could've grown up in the 80s, it seemed like such a magical, carefree, simpler time. :')

I needed this today, my cat is not feeling well and this helped me calm my anxiety.

Thanks for the Support Odysseus 👍🥰

Thank you! A few of the images took me back to family vacations in Florida in the 80s. Specifically the mall at night.

As an 80s child, I really appreciate this channel. Im already following because it captures the escence of that era. Even though I was 5 years old when the 80s ended I still have a lot of memories primarly in music.

40 this year. God I miss that brief period I was alive in the 80s. ❤️

Love this. We are having a heatwave here in the U.K. and this is perfect for having on in the car and cruising with the roof down on a hot night to go get a cold drink and an ice cream from the drive thru.

I often feel nostalgic about something I haven't experienced and one of the reasons is songs from that genre, it's like it's part of me

As a disney child, who's now an adult facing hardships, I truly appreciate this ❤ it keeps the child in me warm and happy. Have a good night's sleep everyone.

You know, these shots, music, logotype in the corner, all this video feels like a long scene while installing a really cool game that you’ve waited to play for a long time. And it’s not just a game, but rather some another state of consciousness that is downloading right in your head and you’re dreaming and awake at the same time while listening to this stunning music with a great desire to be in all these places right after the end of loading…

This one hit. It hit like an emotional punch. The sounds with the choice in art takes me places.

as much as i love my hard and crazy music like phonk and heavy metal, i always love coming back to synthwave for a nice change of pace

These types of songs remind me just how much humanity has changed in the 20th century… and makes me nervous for the rest of the 21st century

what makes the early 80s stand out is just the explosion of musical creativity driven by electronic music styles, and one was having fun without internet or pcs or cell phones...that brings friends together more because all we had were walkmans and atari lol ....like we would get together just to listen to the latest music ...but now when do kids get together to listen to music? everything now is just in your earpods

There will never be another era like it.

So many of these comments are so terrific and deep. What a place where so many brilliant minds are called to just simply come and chill.

Pink and blue arcades, blank and empty indoor poolrooms, Old-Pepsi logo.... 90's iMac! I CAN'T TAKE IT!!! 😍🤤😭 Love you Odysseus! Totally rad, as usual!

Man if you made these lists available in Spotify... Youd be king

I'm shifting homes right now, almost finished with my masters that started in 2020 just as covid was hitting hard. Our entire batch had a very different, almost surreal experience as we hardly know each other. This music just makes me more nostalgic for the past, the lost possibilities, and the things we actually have and gained. Thanks for the mix Odysseus :')

I'm really enjoying this. The idea of hotels being nostalgic is kind of crazy until you realize you've probably gone on family vacations and stayed in many of them. Swimming in the hotel pool seems to be a big part of those memories. The long hallways too.

Being in my mid 30's I'm so glad I grew up when I did to see it come back in a different way is amazing reminds me of the old days. I wouldn't change it for anything.

Anyone else find some of these images unsettling? It’s got this uncanny valley effect for me where it doesn’t feel quite right.

Sometimes i hate the algorithm for reading me like an open book, but other times i see gems like these and thank the algorithm for showing me a gem like this

im gen z, and this music is my childhood, im 16, turning 17 this year, and im so glad to have this kind of music nowadays, synthwave and lofi have gotten me through so damn much

It’s the smell of a mall and it’s indoor fountain, a movie theatre hallway, an arcade, car seat leather 😊

Nostalgia is the new opiate of the masses

The nostalgia hits hard with this music. The older I get, the more I miss the 80s. It was such an energetic, hopeful period. I'm grateful to have lived in those times. Many happy memories.

Amazing mix as always, love it so much!!! the Freddy Fazbear statue caught me off guard lmao

This the best mix you’ve done in a while man. Both the music and image selections are perfect👌🏻 love it, well done

Omg. I love this video, music, background pictures and miss the 80’s/90’s so much. I was born in the mid 80’s. Damn, I wish I could go back to the 80’s. I miss the 80’s/90’s💯🤎🥺😭 Damn, The guy got me with the feels at 12:20!!🕰

For me its not just the sounds but also the lovely art depicting the colors, textures, sights and sounds of what it was like to be alive in the 80s and early 90s. The neon, the interior designs of the theaters and shopping malls along with the smooth tones of the music really do take me back to those days which was worlds different than what we live today.

It is my firm belief that the vaporwave/ synthwave/ chillwave community is one of the best on RU-vid! Everyone is so kind and wants to vibe. We are all feeling sentimental and nostalgic for a time that doesn’t exist anymore.

Born in ‘85. definitely reminds me of my childhood!

This video takes the mesmerizing genre of Synthwave and elevates it to new heights by adding an immersive dose of nostalgia. As the video progresses, the nostalgic elements intensify, immersing viewers in a wave of memories and emotions. The stunning visuals perfectly complement the Synthwave soundtrack, transporting us back to an era defined by neon lights, retro arcade games, and VHS tapes. The skillful editing and seamless transitions create a captivating journey through time, unveiling layers of nostalgia with each passing moment. The carefully selected clips and imagery evoke a sense of longing for the past, triggering memories of classic movies, iconic pop culture references, and the innocence of our youth. It's a true testament to the power of music and visuals in capturing and amplifying our emotions. Whether you grew up during the Synthwave era or not, this video will undoubtedly leave you feeling a bittersweet nostalgia, making it a must-watch for anyone seeking an immersive and evocative experience. So sit back, relax, and let the waves of synths and nostalgia wash over you.

The title didn't lie, it's extremely nostalgic ^^ Thanks for an awesome mix!

Taking a walk in the rain while this is playing in the background is probably one of the best feelings ever.

My favorite on this one is Krosia - Azur 11:20 . Once that one comes on it goes hard for the whole time. Very energetic.

I gotta say, I'm absolutely in love with this concept for mixes. Music that evolves like that, feels almost cinematic, and it might open the door for introducing even other genres!

Thanks for including me in your mix 🙏

feels great to know most of the artist in the video

12:20 OWWWW so painfully nostalgic. Classic movie and the dude is like 50 now. Why do we have to age?

The images and music I would say are definitely a combination of the 80s and the 90s. I was born in 92 but so much of this is still very familiar to me.

Something about like a neon arcade or liminal space type vibe, It makes me forever young as I felt as a little kid at the arcade, Just filled with amazement and awe

Nothing is greater than listening to synth wave music while laying in a dark air conditioned room with cyan and magenta colored lights.

Odysseus thank you for posting more than usual while still remaining high quality as always.

LOVE IT

LOVE the visuals!!😍 And these songs are perfect, each one flowing into the next. Great job!

"But it gets increasingly more nostalgic" and I already feel like crying for a time I never got to live on Coastal Drive

Great song/artist selection. I really enjoyed the variety and the different visuals really added to the whole experience. Thank you so much for the effort you put into this video!

As someone who was born in the late 90's that grew up with old school music (especially the 80's), this is some of the best music in the world! I love synthwave!

Hi, this is me, a random and unknown person you don’t know. You prob don’t care about this comment, but I want to write me a little letter to my version of the future. I’m missing 1 year of school till graduation, so I want to remember this comment and come back when I graduate and when I’m finally done with school. I just don’t want this comment to get lost, you’re free to ignore it, but I used this music while it was still the pandemic and I did my homework, so I want to remember my past (me), because this can be considered as my teenage music haha. Thank you, have a great day/night.

As 44 y.o., excellent playlist selection and the scenes are perfect to match the nostalgic memories of a kid from the 80s and a teen in the 90s. Thanks!

Brilliant mix, helps a lot while studying...and beyond! Cheers Deserves my like, I am subscribed already!

Nostalgia hits me seeing the ball pit and the arcade next to it. Reminds me of the mall opening a huge arcade in it and having received my stimulus check. So much fun.

The images and music is on point...as always 🔥🔥💯💯

Ah its good to see a new mix. I just love it. The pictures, the sound everything is there to make this perfect and an awesome nostalgic experience. Thanks for making this wonderful mix :)

This is a really beautiful mix. Well done!

Im 23 now and listening to synth music always makes me think bout being born in the wrong century haha, I love it hope it comes back to the trends soon. Pure hope and positivity in those tuney

grew up in the mid 90s I am so farr off into the future but I really love the amazing feeling of going back to the past with songs like these. I remember them days when I was just a lil one.. between 5-9 ... When I used to get my ass whooped ! My parents would be mad at each other for some random shit and I was the perfect excuse for them. I am in my 27s now .. haha O'man ! that shit makes me rethink a lot of things. things I would never do to my kids. different mentality, different mindset.

I love this mix man, its soooo good. Keep up the good work and chill vibes man. This gets played daily for me!

Excellent! Exactly the flow I needed! Thanks!

what a good playlist. quiet for breakfast in the morning / to travel on the bus. and for melancholy nights. greetings from Argentina 🇦🇷

I have listened to a lot of vaporwave/synthwave mixes, but this is hands down the best I have found so far. It never gets obnoxious or overbearing, and manages to hits the right spot over and over again. Great work.

Listening to this on a Friday night while reading my Ramona Quimby books.. man, I feel like a kid again.

15:25 I LOVE THIS as a tropical enjoyer this is beautiful

It became nostalgic as soon as Mitch murder came on ❤️

It's artwork like this that helps me stay grounded through the hard times. Much thanks 🙏🏽

I love the kind of artwork, it makes me feel so nostalgic about a life i never lived