Anyone willing to find a genre of song?

[ErikGorbiHamilton]

I LOVE the old pentrex videos with that promotional music to it. Problem... I have never found out what that genre is. If your wondering about what the music sounds like ill give you these two videos as an example:

Mullen Pass Preview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hoybg9RX9zM

Blue Mountains Preview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNfCNvmut2E


Any help would be greatly appreciated!

P.S There is no off topic here so i there is really no true "home" For this topic.

[BoostedFridge]

Erik, you crack me up. I suppose it would be classified as some type of synth/techno. That said, I can't think of a single artist whose work sounds quite like these.

[GSkid]

Well the genre from those Pentrex videos is basically mid-80's/early 90's soundtrack music. You can hear it in movies and videos of that era. Especially B-movies with low budgets. Some were contracted out specifically for certain projects, while others were generically released as multi-disc royalty or royalty-free soundtrack collections for personal and/or commercial use in video productions. Especially infomercials, instructional videos or documentaries.

I guess "80's soundtrack music" or "90's soundtrack music" would be the genre.

[ErikGorbiHamilton]

Well the genre from those Pentrex videos is basically mid-80's/early 90's soundtrack music. You can hear it in movies and videos of that era. Especially B-movies with low budgets. Some were contracted out specifically for certain projects, while others were generically released as multi-disc royalty or royalty-free soundtrack collections for personal and/or commercial use in video productions. Especially infomercials, instructional videos or documentaries.

I guess "80's soundtrack music" or "90's soundtrack music" would be the genre.

Hmm, i tried that and i get all these playlists on youtube about Metallica or Led Zeppelin... Hhm

[GSkid]

And you are likely gonna have a very hard time finding it too. Not only was it all from 20-30 years ago, but most of it was the music equivalent of a paper plate..... mass produced, disposable and rarely used twice. There was little reason for them to archive it and keep it around.

I have 3 suggestions....

#1: A lot of videogame soundtracks from that era had that same type of sound you are looking for. Just browse games from then and see if people have uploaded the individual songs of those game's soundtracks to YouTube. If you find one you like, you can sample it through your computer's audio jack...or.....download the video using a YouTube downloader browser plug-in like the donation-ware "Video DownloadHelper" for Firefox and strip the audio from the video file. You won't be able to download the video from YouTube using the plug-in if it's got a copyright protection flag attached to it. You'll know if it does cuz the download attempt will fail instantly. Only a paid program like "4K YouTube to MP3" circumvents it so you can still get the audio. Old retro videogame music is the least likely to be copy protected cuz the original owners/composers rarely care. They usually only care when someone puts it in a project that brings in income.

#2: You might be able to find instrumentals from movie soundtracks of that era on YouTube.... or on music services such as iTunes or Google Play.

#3: Look for old (GM) General Midi music files or MOD (file format) files on the net from the era. They are usually free and typically have that sound you are looking for. Just play them back using a compatible player program and record the audio.