--- title: "80s Retrowave & Synthwave Wildlife & Soundtracks (8 Species) | AnimalTracks.wiki" description: "Explore all 8 animals paired with 80s Retrowave & Synthwave musical subculture, sister artists, and biological superpowers." image: "https://animaltracks.wiki/icon-512.png" --- # 80s Retrowave & Synthwave Wildlife & Musical Subculture > Glistening analog synth arpeggios, gated reverb snare drums, and neon-lit midnight highway drives. **Similar Artists**: Kavinsky, Carpenter Brut, Timecop1983, Home, The Midnight, Gunship, Perturbator - **Species Count**: 8 Curated Creatures - **Explore Web**: [Interactive vibe player & gallery](https://animaltracks.wiki/vibes/80s-retrowave-synthwave/) ## Species Aligned With 80s Retrowave & Synthwave - [Common Goldfish](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/goldfish/) (*Carassius auratus*) - **Musical Match**: Home, "Resonance" - **Biological Rationale**: Home's "Resonance" rolls in slow synth swells that ripple outward, and a goldfish lives by ripples: its lateral line senses the currents and vibrations its schoolmates make while swimming. - **Superpower**: Makes ethanol to survive without oxygen, and sees four colors including ultraviolet - [Common Vampire Bat](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/vampire-bat/) (*Desmodus rotundus*) - **Musical Match**: Chromatics, "Tick Of The Clock" - **Biological Rationale**: Night-drive synths made for moving through the dark, for a bat that finds warm-blooded prey by detecting infrared radiation through pit organs on its face. - **Superpower**: Anticoagulant saliva, infrared-sensing pits on its face, and a bounding run on land powered by its wings - [Domestic Yak](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/yak/) (*Bos grunniens*) - **Musical Match**: Berlin, "Take My Breath Away" - **Biological Rationale**: Yaks are raised 3,000 to 5,000 m up, and a yak's heart weighs 1.18% of its body weight against a cow's 0.39%. Take My Breath Away rides long, slow synth breaths, the sound of air running short. - **Superpower**: A heart that weighs 1.18% of body weight, against 0.39% in cattle - [Electric Catfish](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/electric-catfish/) (*Malapterurus electricus*) - **Musical Match**: Gary Numan, "Cars" - **Biological Rationale**: An electric catfish hunts by stunning its prey with a paralyzing discharge, and electric catfish can put out up to 350 volts from a fish half a meter long. Cars answers in pulsing synthesized voltage and a robotic, mechanical rhythm. - **Superpower**: An electric organ around most of the body; electric catfish can discharge up to 350 volts - [European Hornet](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/european-hornet/) (*Vespa crabro*) - **Musical Match**: Chromatics, "Night Drive" - **Biological Rationale**: After-dark synths, for a hornet that Penn State calls the only nocturnal wasp in Pennsylvania, sometimes drawn to porch lights at night. - **Superpower**: Makes its own body heat, arriving home with a thorax averaging 30 to 40 °C - [Greater Flamingo](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/greater-flamingo/) (*Phoenicopterus roseus*) - **Musical Match**: Timecop1983, "On the Run" - **Biological Rationale**: Lush analog poly-synths and sun-drenched neon gated reverbs for a bird that wears makeup: it spreads preen oil carrying the same carotenoid pigments as its feathers over its plumage, most often while displaying in groups. - **Superpower**: A filter-feeding bill that works with the head upside down, in water with a pH of up to 11 - [Sacred Scarab](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/sacred-scarab/) (*Scarabaeus sacer*) - **Musical Match**: Kavinsky, "Nightcall" - **Biological Rationale**: On a Turkish dune, 98% of the balls were made at night. Kavinsky's "Nightcall" is night-driving synthwave, a slow, steady roll through the dark. - **Superpower**: Rolled dung balls of 16 to 86 cc in a Turkish study, and holds flight heat in its thorax - [Sloth Bear](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/sloth-bear/) (*Melursus ursinus*) - **Musical Match**: Carpenter Brut, "Turbo Killer" - **Biological Rationale**: Overdriven retro synthesizers and a loud, sucking low end, for a bear whose slurping can be heard up to 100 meters away. - **Superpower**: Vacuum-cleaner feeding: a gap where its top two front teeth should be lets it suck up termites, it can close its nostrils while it feeds, and the slurping can be heard up to 100 meters away. ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://animaltracks.wiki/vibes/80s-retrowave-synthwave/#collection", "name": "80s Retrowave & Synthwave Creatures", "description": "Explore all 8 animals paired with 80s Retrowave & Synthwave musical subculture, sister artists, and biological superpowers.", "url": "https://animaltracks.wiki/vibes/80s-retrowave-synthwave/", "mainEntity": { "@type": "ItemList", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Common Goldfish", "url": "https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/goldfish/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Common Vampire Bat", "url": "https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/vampire-bat/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Domestic Yak", "url": "https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/yak/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "Electric Catfish", "url": "https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/electric-catfish/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 5, "name": "European Hornet", "url": "https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/european-hornet/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 6, "name": "Greater Flamingo", "url": "https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/greater-flamingo/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 7, "name": "Sacred Scarab", "url": "https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/sacred-scarab/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 8, "name": "Sloth Bear", "url": "https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/sloth-bear/" } ] } } ] } ```