Cyberpunk

Cyberpunk is a science fiction genre noted for its focus on “high tech and low life”. Some musicians and acts have been classified as cyberpunk due to their aesthetic style and musical content. Often dealing with dystopian visions of the future or biomechanical themes, some fit more squarely in the category than others. Most people would view a lot of industrial music as cyberpunk, as well as various EBM acts. Edit this Artist photo: Switchkicker

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A-methamorphose wrote:
12 days ago

oh, really? you should read/watch/etc more stuff from the genre. there is no such thing as post-cyberpunk. it's still not even a subgenre, since there is nothing representing it in any field. just an idea. but its idea has nothing to do with the matrix anyway. ATTENTION! stop refering to industrial/electronic music as cyberpunk. at least if you dont think the idea of cyberpunk is playing on synthesizers.

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Days_of_Prayer wrote:
last month

Agreed. Front Line Assembly and Clock DVA have a very classic cyberpunk atmosphere.

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RI0N666 wrote:
last month

Cyberpunk is an specific atmosphere. Everybody who's read Gibson's books knows what I mean. BTW Matrix isn't exactly cyberpunk, but post cyberpunk ;)

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Nekobebis wrote:
last month

Cyberpunk to me is a theme rather than a genre; Matrix being a cyberpunk movie and Half Life being a cyberpunk game. Punk in science fiction, and to me cyberpunk tagged music should be electronic with some attitude and/or cyberpunk themed lyrics.

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last month

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Fastro wrote:
September 2009

listen to http://www.last.fm/music/%D0%9F%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%85%D0%B5%D1%8F/_/%D0%A1%D0%B8%D0%B4+Spears that sounds like cyberpunk.. there's breakbeat or something... its just cannot be electropunk or industrial punk.. ok maybe digital hardcore or cybercore but like i said - who cares :P

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Fastro wrote:
September 2009

i think genres are important for example when searching new music or if you like some kind of music much more than others and want to concentrate on that. so there's maybe electro-punk and industrial punk... but who cares! genres aren't for exact classification. it's more like question of focus. industrial, electronic and cyber sound different. i think cyber is the most attracting word for me.. but i don't say all cyberpunk is good. actually i don't even no much cyberpunk. i just WANT to know some. I mean... many of cyberpunk artists here seem not to bee cyberpunk for me. they're too lame. listen to some cybergrind :P there's cyberpunk for you people.

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T0m_Me wrote:
August 2009

cyberpunk...aka electro-punk? or..industrial punk. this is confusing. or it could be sort of like ebm with industrial and punk influences

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KaiserCaesar wrote:
July 2009

Cyberpunk concentrates itself in the future... Lyrics containing Cyberpunk related actions...

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FYLTHPIG wrote:
July 2009

i think people are OCD about classifying music, everything gets recycled in art and music anyways. http://www.last.fm/music/Fylth+Pig/Everything 2 free downloads have fun. Life's to short to waste time on trivial words. You just sound like a arrogant know it all, and no one likes those kind of people (for long).

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foolonahill235 wrote:
July 2009

i cyberpunkd yr mom last night

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azeroz wrote:
June 2009

"cyberpunk" has that umbrella aspect of "industrial" it seems. general influence, but doesn't say much by itself anymore, except for the original groups/tracks/books/whatever. different things to different people, in the end. Listen to UV - Codebreaker or Dementia (Medicated), for instance - that's what i'd consider stronger modern cyberpunk influence, but equally Gridlock has that undeniably epic cinematic feel, or Daniel Myer of Haujobb's unmistakeable streams of consciousnesses... anyway, yea, the Gibsonian atmosphere description SYN-FIN mentions is more or less what I'd go by, though I don't tag.

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fairyart wrote:
June 2009

tags are so wrong...

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humaniac wrote:
May 2009

cyberpunk not electro-punk...

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Scarab_Bonku wrote:
May 2009

I join to cyberpunk shoutbox too :p

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SYN-FIN wrote:
April 2009

Slaything, mind.in.a.box turned out to be an exasperatingly platitudinous pop-ebm act. It has nothing to do with cyberpunk, cyber, punk or anything related to these genres. If you like that kind of «music», I have to recommend «Razed in Black», the only ebm artist I can listen to.

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SYN-FIN wrote:
April 2009

I use the «cyberpunk» tag for _music_ that has that distinct Gibsonish atmosphere, they really can be of any genre

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devilgen wrote:
April 2009

"Neuromancer" ....

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Alpha_Mechanik wrote:
March 2009

@ Twin_Sakzata , Cyberpunk is Literature Genre as well

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DRXV wrote:
February 2009

Isn't it about subject matter?

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