What is future-retro? 

Retrofuturism is a cultural movement seen (and heard) in visual arts, film, television, and music featuring depictions of the future produced in an earlier era. It's the remembering of the anticipation of what will come. Characterized by a blend of old-fashioned retro styles with futuristic - or modern - technology, retrofuturism explores the themes of tension between past and future and between the alienating and empowering effects of technology.

In music, retrofuturism refers to a modern electro style influenced by Detroit-based artists in the early '80s, such as Drexciya, Aux 88, and Cybotron. This style blends old analog gear like the Roland Tr-808 and sampling methods from the '80s with a modern approach to electronic music.

Retrofuturism also applies to punk subgenres like steampunk, atompunk, and dieselpunk because they are set in alternate histories where futuristic technologies were developed as they were imagined at the time the stories are set. However, there is debate on whether cyberpunk can be considered future-retro or not. Many argue that cyberpunk aesthetics are purely about our future, not a future once imagined.

This pack straddles both worlds by exploring the sounds of the nostalgic future and what could be in store for the future yet imagined.

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