History Retraux / Music

* Music/GingerRoot is heavily based on TheEighties and TheNineties Japanese CityPop, complete with lo-fi effects, eighties synthesizers, and the fanciful, cheery theme of most CityPop songs. The music videos and subsequent ExpandedUniverse features related aesthetics, like blurry Hong Kong VHS flicks, fake talk shows based on ''Series/TheTonightShowWithJohnnyCarson'', a time when [[JapanTakesOverTheWorld 80s Japan was influencing 80s America in a possible bid for world dominination]], old-school anime ranging from a song and reoccurring location being named [[Franchise/SailorMoon the Juban District]] and dialogue from ''Sailor Moon'' itself, to an in-universe anime called ''Meet You in the Galaxy'' taking after classic sci-fi anime like ''Anime/GalaxyExpress999'' and ''Franchise/{{Macross}}''.

* "Music/PlanetOfTheBass" in general is this, an AffectionateParody of [[{{Europop}} Eurodance]] by comedian Kyle Gordon whose [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-OgkNgxm3k music video]] replicates the [=Y2K=]-era retrofuturism that many such artists used, but special mention goes to the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEym-eKkgOE "Original 1997 VHS Version"]] of the video, presented in 4:3 aspect ratio and 480p resolution with added [[PostProcessingVideoEffects film grain]] to make it look like an old [[UsefulNotes/{{VCR}} VHS]] tape recording of an Creator/{{MTV}} broadcast from the late '90s. There are also [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCofunXDJmY unofficial]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQQQWKmYJNk versions]] that add in some more retraux touches, including tracking effects, an MTV bug in the corner of the screen, and MTV Europe [[AdBumpers channel bumpers]] at the beginning and end.

* While not generally thought of as such, music analysts consider PunkRock the UrExample of retraux in popular music. The genre was designed as a throwback to '50s and [[UsefulNotes/TheBritishInvasion British Invasion]]-era rock, and the basic templates for the two's styles are so similar that music analysts frequently label these earlier acts "the original punks."

* There's this musical movement called the "8-bit remix" in which music (eiher a popular song, a selection from a soundtrack, or even video game music from the 16-bit era onwards) is recreated (or remixed) using "chiptunes", which is computerized/electronic music similar in style to what you would hear on an NES, a Master System, or some other 8-bit system. One can find many different examples on sites such as Website/YouTube. Likewise, 16-bit remixes are also an existing movement, attempting to convey how popular songs would sound if they were composed using the sound chips of the SNES, the Genesis, or on rare occasions, the UsefulNotes/TurboGrafx16. In the [=SNES's=] case, soundfonts from preexisting games tend to be used for these remixes in order to differentiate them from standard MIDI arrangements of the source songs (as the SNES's sound chip uses prerecorded samples as instruments rather than acting as a synthesizer).

* A common trend with CD label art is to mimic the style of a vintage LP label design, often based on whatever was used by the artist's record label before the rise of the UsefulNotes/CompactDisc format; this is most commonly used with more recent reissues of older albums from the vinyl era, with the 2009 remasters of Music/TheBeatles' back-catalog being the most notable example (though the practice was already well-established before then). In some cases, the label design is instead based on common design tropes seen on old disc labels, an especially common take on the practice among releases on record labels formed after the start of the CD era.

* Music/{{Sanguisugabogg}}'s (very NSFW) video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjTa3tmsHNQ "Dead as Shit"]] is done in the style of mid-2000s web animation as seen on Website/{{Newgrounds}} and other pre-[=YouTube=] providers of user-generated video content.

* Music/LindseyStirling's ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99ZYIECx1Vw dubstep remix]] sometimes used video effects like pixellation and overlapping frames, along with eight-bit sprites, nodding back to the technical limitations of the UsefulNotes/GameBoy and UsefulNotes/GameBoyColor.

* Music/{{Beck}} released his 2012 "album" ''Music/SongReader'' as ''printed sheet music''. So if you have a guitar or piano and you can read sheet music, go crazy. Or you can listen to other people perform the songs on Website/YouTube. An actual album version featuring a MassiveMultiplayerCrossover of musicians was released a few years later.

* The Music/FooFighters' 2011 album ''Wasting Light'' was recorded entirely on analog tape in Dave Grohl's garage and used Music/{{Nirvana}}'s ''Music/{{Nevermind}}'' producer Butch Vig as producer (albeit compressed to death with modern mastering)