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* {{Retraux}}: The music video for "Brand New" deliberately invokes the look of early 3D video games (more specifically the [[UsefulNotes/PlayStation PS1]]), possibly in reference to Music/RedHotChiliPeppers' famous "Californication" music video. (Though, of course, RHCP's graphics were [[TechnologyMarchesOn pretty high-tech for 2000]], while the 'Tapes are doing it to be retro on purpose.)
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* {{Retraux}}: The music video for "Brand New" deliberately invokes the look of early 3D video games (more specifically the [[UsefulNotes/PlayStation [[Platform/PlayStation PS1]]), possibly in reference to Music/RedHotChiliPeppers' famous "Californication" music video. (Though, of course, RHCP's graphics were [[TechnologyMarchesOn pretty high-tech for 2000]], while the 'Tapes are doing it to be retro on purpose.)
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** Though, of course, Administrivia/TropesAreNotBad, and the "In Too Deep" video has been received very well as an excellent piece of animation.
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** Though, of course, Administrivia/TropesAreNotBad, and the "In Too Deep" video has been received very well as an excellent piece of animation.received.
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* WordSaladHumor: Their bio in their Youtube page (and formerly their Spotify page as well) is a word salad of vaguely CyberPunk-sounding terms and phrases with names of the band's songs and albums interspersed in. It seems to be an ordinary description of the band that's been rewritten in a code or cipher of some kind.
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* WordSaladHumor: Their The band's bio in on their Youtube page (and formerly their Spotify page as well) is a word salad of vaguely CyberPunk-sounding terms and phrases with names of the band's songs and albums interspersed in. It seems to be an ordinary description of the band that's been rewritten in a code or cipher of some kind. (Their Spotify bio used to have the same text, but it was changed to a normal description around the time ''Texture'' was released.)
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* {{Retraux}}: The music video for "Brand New" deliberately invokes the look of early 3D video games (more specifically the [[UsefulNotes/PlayStation PS1]]), possibly in reference to Music/RedHotChiliPeppers' famous "Californication" music video. (Though, of course, the 'Tapes are doing it to be retro on purpose, while RHCP's graphics were [[TechnologyMarchesOn pretty high-tech for 2000]].2000]], while the 'Tapes are doing it to be retro on purpose.)
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* {{Synthwave}}: The music video for "In Too Deep (Lenno Remix)" invokes this.
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* {{Vaporwave}}: The music video for "In Too Deep (Lenno Remix)" invokes this.
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They seem to have a knack for getting [[ColbertBump Colbert Bumps]] - quite a few Battle Tapes fans mention having been introduced to them through hearing "Belgrade" as the opening theme to ''WebAnimation/GenLock'' or hearing "Feel the Same" on [[Radio/GTARadio Radio Mirror Park]] in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV''.
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They seem to have a knack for getting [[ColbertBump Colbert Bumps]] - quite a few Battle Tapes fans mention having been introduced to them through hearing "Belgrade" as the opening theme to ''WebAnimation/GenLock'' or hearing "Feel the Same" on [[Radio/GTARadio Radio Mirror Park]] in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV''.
''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'' or "Belgrade"'s use as the RealSongThemeTune for ''WebAnimation/GenLock''.
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Battle Tapes is an [[ElectronicMusic Electronic Rock]] band from Los Angeles, California. To quote Website/TheOtherWiki: "The band originally consists of Josh Boardman (vocals/guitar/synth), Riley Mackin (keyboards/programming/vocals), Stephen Bannister (bass guitar) and Pete Kraynak (drums/percussion). Battle Tapes is known for its live performances, fully sequenced lighting and visuals and integrating electro and indie influences into its music and image." They were founded in 2010 and released their first song, "Sleepwalker," in 2011, but really started attracting notice when "Feel the Same" got big in 2013.
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Battle Tapes is an [[ElectronicMusic Electronic Rock]] band from Los Angeles, California. To quote Website/TheOtherWiki: "The band originally consists of Josh Boardman (vocals/guitar/synth), Riley Mackin (keyboards/programming/vocals), Stephen Bannister (bass guitar) and Pete Kraynak (drums/percussion). Battle Tapes is known for its live performances, fully sequenced lighting and visuals and integrating electro and indie influences into its music and image." They were founded in 2010 and released their first song, "Sleepwalker," in 2011, but really started attracting notice attention when "Feel the Same" got big took off in 2013.
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* BrokenRecord: "Made," from the ''Sweatshop Boys EP'', makes heavy use of looping audio for its lyrics. ''Texture'''s "Back in the Game" - in many ways a stylistic CallBack to "Made" - does the same.
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* BrokenRecord: "Made," from the ''Sweatshop Boys EP'', makes heavy use of looping audio for repetition in its lyrics. ''Texture'''s "Back in the Game" - in many ways a stylistic CallBack to "Made" - does the same.
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* NonAppearingTitle: At no point does "Belgrade" mention the city of [[UsefulNotes/{{Serbia}} Belgrade]]. The reason for the title is not clear.
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* AllThereInTheManual: Only by looking at the WantedPoster for the "In Too Deep" girls (which are present as Youtube shorts on the band's channel and as TheMerch) would one know that the "In Too Deep" music video takes place in UsefulNotes/{{Tokyo}}.
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* AllThereInTheManual: Only by looking at the WantedPoster for the "In Too Deep" girls (which are is present as Youtube shorts on the band's channel and as TheMerch) would one know that the "In Too Deep" music video takes place in UsefulNotes/{{Tokyo}}.
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* AllThereInTheManual: Only by looking at the WantedPoster for the "In Too Deep" girls (which are present as Youtube shorts on the band's channel and as TheMerch) would one know that the "In Too Deep" music video takes place in UsefulNotes/Tokyo.
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* AllThereInTheManual: Only by looking at the WantedPoster for the "In Too Deep" girls (which are present as Youtube shorts on the band's channel and as TheMerch) would one know that the "In Too Deep" music video takes place in UsefulNotes/Tokyo.UsefulNotes/{{Tokyo}}.
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* AllThereInTheManual: Only by looking at the WantedPosters for the "In Too Deep" girls (which are present as Youtube shorts on the band's channel and as TheMerch) would one know that the "In Too Deep" music video takes place in UsefulNotes/Tokyo.
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* AllThereInTheManual: Only by looking at the WantedPosters WantedPoster for the "In Too Deep" girls (which are present as Youtube shorts on the band's channel and as TheMerch) would one know that the "In Too Deep" music video takes place in UsefulNotes/Tokyo.
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* GratuitousJapanese: Their merch (and some of their cover art) will very often have the band's name written in katakana next to the English (or in lieu of it).
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* GratuitousJapanese: Their merch (and some of their cover art) will very often have the band's name written in katakana next to the English (or in lieu of it).
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* GratuitousJapanese: Their merch (and some of their cover art) will very often have the band's name written in katakana next to the English (or in lieu of it).
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* {{Vaporwave}}: The music video for "In Too Deep (Lenno Remix)" invokes this.
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* {{Vaporwave}}: The music video for "In Too Deep (Lenno Remix)" invokes this.this.
* WordSaladHumor: Their bio in their Youtube page (and formerly their Spotify page as well) is a word salad of vaguely CyberPunk-sounding terms and phrases with names of the band's songs and albums interspersed in. It seems to be an ordinary description of the band that's been rewritten in a code or cipher of some kind.
* WordSaladHumor: Their bio in their Youtube page (and formerly their Spotify page as well) is a word salad of vaguely CyberPunk-sounding terms and phrases with names of the band's songs and albums interspersed in. It seems to be an ordinary description of the band that's been rewritten in a code or cipher of some kind.
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* BrokenRecord: "Made," from the ''Sweatshop Boys EP'', makes heavy use of looping audio for its lyrics. ''Texture'''s "Back in the Game" - in many ways a stylistic CallBack to "Made" - does the same.
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* {{Retraux}}: The music video for "Brand New" deliberately invokes the look of early 3D video games (more specifically the [[UsefulNotes/PlayStation PS1]]), possibly in reference to Music/RedHotChiliPeppers' famous "Californication" music video. (Though, of course, the 'Tapes are doing it to be retro on purpose, while RHCP's graphics were [[TechnologyMarchesOn pretty high-tech for the time]].)
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* {{Retraux}}: The music video for "Brand New" deliberately invokes the look of early 3D video games (more specifically the [[UsefulNotes/PlayStation PS1]]), possibly in reference to Music/RedHotChiliPeppers' famous "Californication" music video. (Though, of course, the 'Tapes are doing it to be retro on purpose, while RHCP's graphics were [[TechnologyMarchesOn pretty high-tech for the time]].2000]].)
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* ThemeNaming: ''Polygon'', ''Form'' and ''Texture'' are all terms relating to space and shapes (or to 3D video game graphics).
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* {{Retraux}}: The music video for "Brand New" deliberately invokes the look of early 3D video games, possibly in reference to Music/RedHotChiliPeppers' famous "Californication" music video. (Though, of course, the 'Tapes are doing it to be retro on purpose, while RHCP's graphics were [[TechnologyMarchesOn pretty high-tech for the time]].)
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* {{Retraux}}: The music video for "Brand New" deliberately invokes the look of early 3D video games, games (more specifically the [[UsefulNotes/PlayStation PS1]]), possibly in reference to Music/RedHotChiliPeppers' famous "Californication" music video. (Though, of course, the 'Tapes are doing it to be retro on purpose, while RHCP's graphics were [[TechnologyMarchesOn pretty high-tech for the time]].)
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They seem to have a knack for getting [[ColbertBump Colbert Bumps]] - quite a few Battle Tapes fans mention having been introduced to them through hearing "Belgrade" as the opening theme to ''WebAnimation/GenLock'' or hearing "Feel the Same" on Radio Mirror Park in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV''.
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They seem to have a knack for getting [[ColbertBump Colbert Bumps]] - quite a few Battle Tapes fans mention having been introduced to them through hearing "Belgrade" as the opening theme to ''WebAnimation/GenLock'' or hearing "Feel the Same" on [[Radio/GTARadio Radio Mirror Park Park]] in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV''.
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* {{Retraux}}: The music video for "Brand New" deliberately invokes the look of early 3D video games.games, possibly in reference to Music/RedHotChiliPeppers' famous "Californication" music video. (Though, of course, the 'Tapes are doing it to be retro on purpose, while RHCP's graphics were [[TechnologyMarchesOn pretty high-tech for the time]].)
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* SpeedRun: The "Brand New" music video is about speedrunning. It depicts runners exploiting various GoodBadBugs to set record times in pastiches of ''VideoGame/TenEightySnowboarding'', ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' and ''VideoGame/{{Wipeout}}''.
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* MinimalisticCoverArt: Their usual preference. ''Polygon'', though, tends more towards the DesignStudentsOrgasm side of things.
* RuleSixtyThree: The {{Animesque}} characters performing "In Too Deep" in its official music video (and doing battle with vaguely defined forces of cyberpunk evil in the process) are indicated to be avatars of the band members. The real-life band are all male, while the characters in the video are female.
* RuleSixtyThree: The {{Animesque}} characters performing "In Too Deep" in its official music video (and doing battle with vaguely defined forces of cyberpunk evil in the process) are indicated to be avatars of the band members. The real-life band are all male, while the characters in the video are female.
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* MinimalisticCoverArt: Their usual preference. preference, particularly in recent years. The exception is ''Polygon'', though, which tends more towards the DesignStudentsOrgasm side of things.
things with a collection of colorful abstract shapes overlapping each other.
* {{Retraux}}: The music video for "Brand New" deliberately invokes the look of early 3D video games.
* RuleSixtyThree: The {{Animesque}} characters performing "In Too Deep" in its official music video (and doing battle with vaguely defined forces of cyberpunk evil in the process) are indicated to be avatars of the band members. The real-life band members are all male, while the characters in the video are all female.
* {{Retraux}}: The music video for "Brand New" deliberately invokes the look of early 3D video games.
* RuleSixtyThree: The {{Animesque}} characters performing "In Too Deep" in its official music video (and doing battle with vaguely defined forces of cyberpunk evil in the process) are indicated to be avatars of the band members. The real-life band members are all male, while the characters in the video are all female.
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** Though, of course, Administrivia/TropesAreNotBad, and the "In Too Deep" video has been received very well as an excellent piece of animation.
** Though, of course, Administrivia/TropesAreNotBad, and the "In Too Deep" video has been received very well as an excellent piece of animation.
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** ''Texture'' has "Passive Attack," which may or may not be a ShoutOut to Music/MassiveAttack, a band the 'Tapes have cited as an inspiration of theirs.
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* MinimalisticCoverArt: Their usual preference. ''Polygon'', though, tends more towards the DesignStudentsOrgasm side of things.
* {{Vaporwave}}: The music video for "In Too Deep (Lenno Remix)" invokes this.
* MinimalisticCoverArt: Their usual preference. ''Polygon'', though, tends more towards the DesignStudentsOrgasm side of things.
* {{Vaporwave}}: The music video for "In Too Deep (Lenno Remix)" invokes this.
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!!''We pretend in the darkness, [[JustForFun/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife we pretend the tropes won't steal our youth...]]''
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* CyberpunkIsTechno: The "In Too Deep" music video sure is, anyway.
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* FakeOutFadeOut: Battle Tapes seem to be quite fond of doing this - even their very first song, "Sleepwalker," features one. "Weight of the World" actually ''abruptly stops in mid-chorus'' halfway through before fading back in.
* {{Instrumentals}}: Both their albums have included instrumental tracks:
** ''Polygon'' has "Dreamboat" and "Mulholland" (the latter actually being the segue between "Made" and "Feel the Same" from the ''Sweatshop Boys EP'', extended into a full song).
** ''Texture'' has "Passive Attack," which may or may not be a ShoutOut to Music/MassiveAttack, a band the 'Tapes have cited as an inspiration of theirs.
* CyberpunkIsTechno: The "In Too Deep" music video sure is, anyway.
* DesignStudentsOrgasm:
* FakeOutFadeOut: Battle Tapes seem to be quite fond of doing this - even their very first song, "Sleepwalker," features one. "Weight of the World" actually ''abruptly stops in mid-chorus'' halfway through before fading back in.
* {{Instrumentals}}: Both their albums have included instrumental tracks:
** ''Polygon'' has "Dreamboat" and "Mulholland" (the latter actually being the segue between "Made" and "Feel the Same" from the ''Sweatshop Boys EP'', extended into a full song).
** ''Texture'' has "Passive Attack," which may or may not be a ShoutOut to Music/MassiveAttack, a band the 'Tapes have cited as an inspiration of theirs.
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* ''Texture'' (album, 2023)
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* ''Texture'' (album, 2023)2023)
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!!''We pretend in the darkness, [[JustForFun/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife we pretend the tropes won't steal our youth...]]''
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They seem to have a knack for getting [[ColbertBump Colbert Bumps]] - quite a few Battle Tapes fans mention having been introduced to them through hearing "Belgrade" as the opening theme to WebAnimation/GenLock or hearing "Feel the Same" on Radio Mirror Park in VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV.
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They seem to have a knack for getting [[ColbertBump Colbert Bumps]] - quite a few Battle Tapes fans mention having been introduced to them through hearing "Belgrade" as the opening theme to WebAnimation/GenLock ''WebAnimation/GenLock'' or hearing "Feel the Same" on Radio Mirror Park in VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV.
''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV''.
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They seem to have a knack for getting ColbertBumps - quite a few Battle Tapes fans mention having been introduced to them through hearing "Belgrade" as the opening theme to WebAnimation/GenLock or hearing "Feel the Same" on Radio Mirror Park in VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV.
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Battle Tapes is an [[ElectronicMusic Electronic Rock]] band from Los Angeles, California. To quote Website/TheOtherWiki: "The band originally consists of Josh Boardman (vocals/guitar/synth), Riley Mackin (keyboards/programming/vocals), Stephen Bannister (bass guitar) and Pete Kraynak (drums/percussion). Battle Tapes is known for its live performances, fully sequenced lighting and visuals and integrating electro and indie influences into its music and image." They were founded in 2010 and released their first song, "Sleepwalker," in 2011, but really started attracting notice when "Feel the Same" got big in 2013.
They seem to have a knack for getting ColbertBumps - quite a few Battle Tapes fans mention having been introduced to them through hearing "Belgrade" as the opening theme to WebAnimation/GenLock or hearing "Feel the Same" on Radio Mirror Park in VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV.
Their discography to date is as follows:
* ''Sleepwalker EP'' (EP, 2011)
* ''Sweatshop Boys EP'' (EP, 2012)
* ''Polygon'' (album, 2015)
* ''Solid Gold EP (feat. Party Nails)'' (EP, 2016)
* ''Form'' (EP, 2017)
* ''Texture'' (album, 2023)
They seem to have a knack for getting ColbertBumps - quite a few Battle Tapes fans mention having been introduced to them through hearing "Belgrade" as the opening theme to WebAnimation/GenLock or hearing "Feel the Same" on Radio Mirror Park in VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV.
Their discography to date is as follows:
* ''Sleepwalker EP'' (EP, 2011)
* ''Sweatshop Boys EP'' (EP, 2012)
* ''Polygon'' (album, 2015)
* ''Solid Gold EP (feat. Party Nails)'' (EP, 2016)
* ''Form'' (EP, 2017)
* ''Texture'' (album, 2023)
