… so let me insist and introduce the new Electronic sub-genre synthwave like this:
Electronic
Synthwave · Vaporwave
Synthwave::genre
Cyberpunk::genre
Darksynth::genre
Outrun::genre
Minimal synth::genre
Spacesynth::genre
Vaporwave::genre
I find quite a few things in this proposal problematic:
- Neither Cyberpunk nor Outrun are acknowledged as music genres by the known genre providers.
- Vaporware is quite a unique genre, so I don't think it can go under any genre category other than Electronic. And having a category for a single genre does not make much sense.
- Darksynth these days seems mostly to be considered a genre on its own, not a subgenre of Synthwave.
So they should be side-by-side, not one above the other.
- Spacesynth is more related to Space disco/Synthpop/EDM.
And it is from the 80's, so it seems very weird to place it under the Synthwave genre that is from around 2006/2007.
- The same goes for Minimal synth, which is even older, dating back to the 70's.
It's also closer related to Synthpop and Minimal wave than to Synthwave.
So I will not make these changes.
