r/synthwaveproducers

Please follow these guidelines:

1. Share a link to your new release here
2. Mention something relevant about the production, such as what software and VST's you used.

Is it just me, or does anyone else think this is a prime example of a forgettable song?

I posted about my 1500 followers playlists being open to submissions again, expecting to get a lot of feedback as I used to get in, say, 2019, but even as late as 2023. But the reaction has been lukewarm at best. Also, popular playlists would get hundreds of upvotes back then in Synthwave subs like r/outrun, while today you are lucky if you get ten. Or any at all for song posts, usually without any comments. The r/futuresynth subreddit is essentially dead.

I know for a fact that Reddit made some pretty significant algorithm changes, giving preference since then to deliver to the userbase posts with lots of comments instead of posts who get upvoted fast (the hot posts of yonder). Then it killed the r/All page that was the dream of every musical producer who wanted to go viral. But it does not explain why all synthwave subs are like graveyards now. There is something else going on: where did all the cool people go if they left synthwave behind?

As a side note, I noticed that large music subs like r/music or r/listentothis won’t take playlist anymore and this is a bummer since playlists are great tool for genre-based musical discovery. Reddit used to be the place where genres were born, now it seems it’s the place where music comes to die.

As the title says, just looking for a good mixing/mastering engineer for my synthwave project.

I need help, guidance if you will.

I’m a small artist that’s looking for a like minded community to share my work with and receive constructive criticism from.

I believe that my music falls into the category of hyperpop, glitchpop, ethereal, ambient, glitchcore styles of music.

Heavily inspired by the frost children, ninajirachi, snow strippers, underscore, and many more.

I would greatly appreciate someone plugging me into the right category and or pointing me in the right direction on this great computer network.

#networklove

Submissions open until this Wednesday. Only one song per artist. No vocals, as implied by the title. Sampled voice and vocoders count as vocals, don’t submit these. Post the song in the comments: no chats, please! Looking forward to have all the synthwave in my playlist.

Oh, the playlist itself: go to Spotify and add this to the URL just after the.com: /playlist/6BoTD9WeyBN5rD5uyhbROO (doing this way to avoid Reddit’s filters, which are particularly aggressive with external links these days).

Please follow these guidelines:

1. Share a link to your new release here
2. Mention something relevant about the production, such as what software and VST's you used.