Style recipe for Suno v5

Coldwave

Coldwave synth from the 1980s: cold synth, drum machine, chorus guitar, melancholic and menacing in feel. A name-free Suno recipe that reproduces the signature sound without tripping the artist-name filter.

History

Cold wave got its name before it had a scene. On 26 November 1977 the UK weekly Sounds ran a “New Musick” issue with Kraftwerk's Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider on the cover under the caption “The cold wave”. A week later Vivien Goldman used the phrase again in a piece on Siouxsie and the Banshees, who described their music as cold, machine-like and passionate at the same time. Between the late 1970s and early 1980s French and Belgian bands took the tag and ran: gloomy post-punk with less guitar, cheap portable synths such as the Korg MS-20, militant rhythm sections, a detached tone in the lyrics and a fierce do-it-yourself streak. In France it was la vague froide, a term first pinned on Marquis de Sade, whose 1979 album Dantzig Twist is treated as a classic, and KaS Product pushed the sound somewhere icier. Belgian artists traded music through an underground cassette network. In 1983 Pas de Deux's “Rendez-vous” brought the style to a wide audience, and Desireless arrived in that softer wake. The 2000s revival grew out of Wierd Records' Wednesday night parties in New York, with Cold Cave, Lebanon Hanover and TR/ST carrying it forward.

The recipe

Coldwave synth, 1980s, melancholic, mena…

Built from 38 tags across 634 characters, this 1980s style runs at 110–140 BPM with a male vocal delivery.

Artists in this style

• Clan of Xymox
• Motorama
• Молчат дома
• Утро

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