Synthwave but it gets increasingly more nostalgic

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory...enjoy the nostalgic music.

Tracklist:
0:00 Cerulean - Imagine
3:59 ADMO - Coastal Drive
7:04 mitch murder - breaking waves
11:16 Krosia - Azur
15:24 hello meteor - Cascade Nights
19:12 MEGAS - Images
22:27 Timecop1983 - Echoes
27:30 o b i o - Via Stellarum
32:47 Photon - Lost Sense
37:13 NiElsir - Theta
40:14 A.L.I.S.O.N & Hotel Pools - Solitude
43:13 Timecop1983 - Forever and Ever

Quote by Dr. Seuss

A mix of the best synthwave, retrowave, chillwave, and nostalgic music to bring out nostalgic feels.

[illusionxmuta]

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.

[theopinionator]

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.

[Quklasa]

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.

[stevek]

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.

[KitDreamer]

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.

[sweeperchick]

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.

[tonymyson]

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

[moalisiddiqui]

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.

[infnloopmusic]

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.

[ldrco]

I decided to put this comment here so that if anyone likes it I'll be reminded to give it another listen. great set.

[EternalCircuit]

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*

[beemorabi]

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.

[noahvoris]

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

[jaelynlily]

I love comment sections like this, where everyone has chosen to be kind <3

[aeolusmusik]

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.

[silenceoflink]

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.

[single_daddin_it]

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

[tronvssamus]

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.

[MadMovieMakers]

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

[megasmusics]

Thank you so much for the feature Odysseus 💙💙💙