vaporwave and deriative products

http://beerontherug.bandcamp.com/album/floral-shoppe

have been listening for the last couple of minutes... and maybe i'm too eager but now i'm thinking :finally. a break from my boredom after a few months of going nowhere.

i'll just paste a bunch of links i copied from a thread on 4chan before it expired, makes it easier to check out later

vaporwave goes hard as fuck . love this stuff .
http://ailanthusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/soft-season
http://www.sunsetcorp.org/
http://internetclubdotcom.angelfire.com/
http://vektroid.bandcamp.com/

http://soundcloud.com/yungyachtmusic/recording-4-17-12-5-54-45-pm

http://crystalmagic.bandcamp.com/album/high-fashion-mood-music/

http://www.mumu.io/player/vaporwave

It's appropriating the globalised capitalist commodified aesthetic (specifically of 1980s/90s East Asia, Japan) to mock the vacuity of its art products in order to create a criterion of the kind of society we live in today (the post-internet late capitalist bazaar)

http://beerontherug.bandcamp.com/

Post-internet is a term that is used to describe a new media art scene active in the past few years. The most important portal for such is Tumblr. These circles spawn visual new media art trash and microgenres like hypnagogic pop, seapunk and vaporwave, which is what you're listening to. Vaporwave is an aesthetic built around corporate culture glorification, 80's/90's early internet era and exploring the uncanny.

It's all very post-modern by nature, and is based on exploring alternative mediums and surreal ways of expression. Substance and the end result are valued over values like composition and production.

Post-internet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=guZueuki4-Q

im taking credit for coining the term 'vaporwave' with this tweet, retweeted by nullsleep who is a well-known player in the new media scene

i'll just paste a bunch of links i copied from a thread on 4chan

lol

uh who is to blame for this oneohtrix ferraro such a shame

post-lacan

ba-dump:

http://shiternetexplorer.tumblr.com/
http://288-pc.tumblr.com/
http://slimeslut.tumblr.com/
http://powerpoints.tumblr.com/
>dumps of shit

http://jamespants.tumblr.com/
http://teeeams.tumblr.com/
http://newdreamsltd.tumblr.com/
>musicians

http://grossmary.tumblr.com/tagged/grossmary%20essay
>overanalytive essays on the subject and a dump of shit

http://soundcloud.com/infinity-frequencies
http://soundcloud.com/radmagma
http://soundcloud.com/luxuryelite
http://soundcloud.com/virtu4l
http://soundcloud.com/vektroid

Napolian / Computer Dreams
http://beerontherug.bandcamp.com/album/napolian-computer-dreams

http://airlinestapes.bandcamp.com/album/deep-fantasy

http://www.dummymag.com/features/2012/07/12/adam-harper-vaporwave/

(don't be afraid of 4chan) Sébastien is going to get you fired with (some of) those links (post more)

here i go again, just dumping stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjhHPzK6enE
http://i.imgur.com/mhOOtlz.png

So what makes vaporwave, slowed vocal, pop capitalism muzak, something else?
As there's a lot of pretty much identical music being produced. Then a bunch of stuff that sounds nothing like the rest but is kind of vaporwave-ish.

*incoming dump codename GYROS*

Chuck Person's Eccojams
Farside Virtual
Fuji Grid TV
Replica
Floral Shoppe
1976 DISKO
Fashion Island

http://i.imgur.com/8rwuXEH.jpg

virtual help desk

i thought vape wave was done with...
metro-ko took it's place in like septemberish?
metro > vape all day every day bay bay

I wouldn't be making metro-ko were it not for Chuck Person and New Dreams LTD.
http://i.imgur.com/f9z4ige.png

this and mediafired - Pathway Through Whatever are my favs of the whole vaporwave/eccojams thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mlug8QDIDZg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Qg-LAbsURY

http://i.imgur.com/QhosKCl.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/QSGJbgA.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/pf1cJ3i.jpg

>tfw no blank banshee acid

wack

it's part of it, yes.
http://www.mediafire.com/vaporwave

chuck person eccojams are legit

i'm not sure exactly what is going on here but i like it

http://f0.bcbits.com/z/37/14/3714586732-1.gif

i'm not sure exactly what is going on here but i like it

― ramblin' evil mushroom (clouds), Sunday, 27 January 2013 04:21 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i cd listen to this stuff for days, don't know if this is indicative of a problem with me or what.

Constant revolutionising of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones. All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.

feels like cyber witch house

less gothy witch house

computer forensic recuperations of 90s then state of the art hi fi digital muzak used as financial transaction lubrifiant. available for free.
http://f0.bcbits.com/z/12/88/1288733977-1.jpg
http://dummymag.com/features/2012/07/12/adam-harper-vaporwave/
http://www.tinymixtapes.com/music-review/internet-club-vanishing-vision
http://www.tinymixtapes.com/?search=vaporwave
http://ailanthusrecordings.bandcamp.com/
http://airlinestapes.bandcamp.com/
where METROKO is at? idk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TwcNyk_Sg8

ah there it is . http://metrophone.bandcamp.com/
right now i know nothing about it

sebastien, do u just listen or do u also make music?

this juche album is super pretty

i am not making music right now. haven't recorded anything since, hehe, sounds weird since it was another tech time and etc but i gave up recording stuff after reading a review of Sparklehorse – Good Morning Spider , in a time when reading was listening for broke ppl. ehhe. it had nothing to do with what i was doing, eh, it was more like ariel pink's impression of charlotte gainsbourg weird stuff. i was disturbing myself. before that i had a few dat of intl. quality noise tracks still lying somewhere. plus i have a show of late gov.alpha in there too. lots of space on those DATs. i made some images recently in a pains style, and have downloaded audacity so who knows.

DATs. might as well say i will never listen to that stuff again and it's ok.
listening to http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=guZueuki4-Q linked upthread. missed it first time around, nice vid

meshes of the afternoon meets overeager sales pitch

a lot of the vapor stuff feels so transient and inconsequential which i imagine is by design but leaves me feeling very unfulfilled after long listening session - like i've just been sold a timeshare that doesn't exist

yeah, and if some artists feels more "hook" generous" it must be a particularity from the listener's point of view but overall you are right. it's a monotonous rumination that is timely and i particularly like that it has a certain rebellious philosophy at heart. it is with self-awareness that it creates a space where certain concepts can be made to be used for the next "genre".

i must add : i am interested in listener generated perceptions of hooks and also i am drunk : apology of an unfaithful culture consumerist

http://soundcloud.com/yorkmorgan/zoe
http://i.imgur.com/cL3vG26.jpg
fuck off with this forced bullshit
http://metro-ko.tumblr.com/#41223466804

Christ this is so pretentious.

You guys notice shit like Vaporwave,
Chillwave, Seapunk and other stupid trends that come and go and try to hop on by making up some bullshit new genre.

There are already dozens of bands that make droney type music that fits this "aesthetic", but you faggots don't even care about that. It's like Witch House, album art, pretentious naming and the "lifestyle" of the music comes before the actual music.

You are no better than those kids who start a band and don't actually write any songs.

and yeah, this is gimmicky as fuck, but there's definitely potential in the music if people stop rushing effortless shit out.

The problem is that the music is an afterthought. The people who post in these threads clearly just want to be relevant and if the genre did get big (and then die out very quickly like all these genres) they could say "I was part of that". Music should be made because you feel right making it and natural, not because you have to fit into some requirements that some guy on /mu/ told you it has to be.

That is true, but I imagine people will calm down and spend more time and effort on their tracks soon. Just here in the beginning people are eager to try, and want to get stuff out as quickly as possible.

*********
nobody even knows what metro-ko is

right now it's just "vaguely city feeling electronic music"
****************** That made me think of a thread i have saw recently-ish, that i thought i had saved, about city driving electronic music feel or something... basically it was about techno. can't find the keywords to find it. ilx enhanced suite.

the way i see it, the genre will die out as fast as vaporwave does unless somebody makes an extremely creative well thought out and interesting album that actually evokes emotion. i'd actually be interested in hearing something like that.

The problem is that the music is an afterthought.

mistaking the problem for a feature

wd do a "T/S vaporwave vs influential albums" thread but imaginary dichotomies

hat made me think of a thread i have saw recently-ish, that i thought i had saved, about city driving electronic music feel or something... basically it was about techno.

this one?
Recommend me some FUTURISTIC, METROPOLITAN TECHNO

less gothy witch house

What is the point of less gothy witch house?

says the goth

less gothy witchhouse = house?

clouds, that's the one. thank you!

ya this is good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCt_VV4_Nf4

vaporwave deriviative product very early in it's alpha phase : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_cringe pickling. proof of concept no.1 named "low hanging fruits" : "It's Gonna Rain"-esque minimalist musical juxtaposition of beatles hits rip-off by "exotic" bands with the original real deal.

proof of concept no.2 : same recipe as no.1 but applied to ccr bad moon rising and les cyniques ah si j'étais milionnaire.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZgV0_746Ng
ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /

ah si j'aurais de l'argent / I hear hurricanes ablowing

http://i.imgur.com/mjruQWN.jpg

how is this going to work unless you are from the cultural cringe culture and know which part of that culture to recontextualise?

>>
Anon

well yeah, where are you my people?

but seriously, i know this thread is somewhat of a shot in the dark but the innenets is known to be a hub of many cultures . who knows, maybe you are a native french speaker and so am i and here we are communicating in english because it is the thing that is expected of us do in this context.

that said, it is possible that you have lights to shine on what is happening in other cultures than your own: i bet most post-colonial studies was written by straight white guys who speaks english badot dot dot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5ky5ClIjL8
you know what i am talking about so let's make an exhaustive list right here

ok now im on another trip i rather like that honest cover
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3EC9vgUONE

"honest" ... made me think of em "yéyé" again, that i still don't know that much about; i think they were received a notch above novelty songs, like a therapeutical gesture, most of the pop not knowing english it must have been a nice way to engage with that "collective energy"/ marketing and release it in a way ; in a jokey way or whatever

visualizing gainsbourg ironically unnerving the crowd to get em to toss some cash money on the stage and picking it all up very much unironically because he was poor, and mumbling to himself "so this is what they like ... i'll give em some more, then."

increasingly enjoying these alternate universe projections of my own teenagerhood by people who were babies at the time.

There's so much of this stuff (the music that the thread was originally about, not the other types of derivativeness immediately above) that it's hard to know what's noteworthy, but I like this comp: http://fortune500.bandcamp.com/album/the-music-of-the-now-age

Haha ok, and I guess Eco Virtual, who made this good "album" or whatever: http://ecovirtual.bandcamp.com/ is not the same thing as the Beer on the Rug artist 情報デスクVIRTUAL ???

oops you already mentioned eco virtual! Too much "virtual"

i listened that one 5 or 6 times last nite
http://ailanthusrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/rlyeh

such a jam

http://i.imgur.com/Nxo9COs.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/Nxo9COs.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/Nxo9COs.jpg
https://soundcloud.com/predefined_transitions/basvapemix
i did a little mix with some of my favorite tracks:
MEDIAFIRED - pepsi van
情報デスクVIRTUAL - iMYSTIQUE エジプト航空「EDU」
rad magma - distractions
Mensa Group International - r lyeh
Sacred Tapestry- cosmorama
LATE NIGHT DELIGHT - cant afford
laserdisc visions - third wave
bewilderbeast - human
fortune 500 - self-discovery
http://i.imgur.com/Nxo9COs.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/Nxo9COs.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/Nxo9COs.jpg

actually i am still sort of on the fence about bewilderbeast - human, but with "only" 2 "big" tracks (the opening one +r'lyeh) i felt it needed an extra splash of color.

i dig the cheap perfume of stuff like luxury elite, infinty frequencies, laserdisc visions

Sébastien, I like the deep ambient trash angle you’re working w/ this mix, which curates a smidgeon of modernist avant functionalism to its post-everything pallet - is this where the purists bail f/ a more sternly ironic grade of po-faced plasticism that negates even stoner jouissance? (ambient almost by definition suffused w/ humanist ethos aka choking solemnity, though noize is technically ambient if still insufficiently profane).

feel like Eno, w/ parallel ambient/pop/no-wave tinkering casts a long shadow, which in itself is antithetical to v’wave’s crack binge of f5 hermaneutics, but some shit ambient deluxe from Alec Empire never hurts:

Sweet: http://youtu.be/QLqYN1oZ8go
Limited 05: http://youtu.be/_uEMpmuJ6nI
It Should Be You Not Me: http://youtu.be/36U--ieVc10

^^^
AE always delivers irony, but his trash traffics heavily in fetishized urban decay authenticity, granted, certainly not enuff Miami Vice keys + prob. at root oppositional to cutthroat chase of perpetually receding cathexis. (proto-v'wave excursion implodes epiphany, carry on).

what

thanks for the comment hellhouse, deep ambient trash is a good description to what i was going for - not a mix that is representative of the genre.

--

hey , there's this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C5YAc6L_KQ

quite the pop thing.

http://24.media.tumblr.com/71cfd40df88f3e4fce2153e45380713b/tumblr_mpey9nASRJ1qjg2gjo1_500.jpg

barf

"deep ambient trash" otm.

i have to admit i was kind of thrilled to find this stuff, such brazen, consummate, overwhelming kitsch. this is what i wanted chillwave to be before it all just turned into indie. i think there's a core of numbness pulling at vaporwave which separates it from more blissful&beautiful [or sinister&dark] ambient or the triumph of far side virtual. there are hints of a subaqueous logic that might tie it all together, but a lot of these guys seem like loop monomaniacs & it's not helping them

my favorite vaporwave is kinda conspiratorial/cryptographic like UVB-76 - like junk arranged w. intention

vaporware's a cool concept I think for its brashness but it's just some shit to listen to for 5 secs really

this is what i wanted chillwave to be before it all just turned into indie

― ogmor, Thursday, July 4, 2013 5:54 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

eric copeland's alien in a garbage dump would prob be a good listen if you haven't already?

vaporware's a cool concept I think for its brashness but it's just some shit to listen to for 5 secs really

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, July 4, 2013 6:04 PM (58 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I mean its also a thing people probably make in five seconds so there's no real loss or anything

yeah, copeland is great

"deep ambient trash" otm.

i have to admit i was kind of thrilled to find this stuff, such brazen, consummate, overwhelming kitsch. this is what i wanted chillwave to be before it all just turned into indie. i think there's a core of numbness pulling at vaporwave which separates it from more blissful&beautiful [or sinister&dark] ambient or the triumph of /far side virtual/. there are hints of a subaqueous logic that might tie it all together, but a lot of these guys seem like loop monomaniacs & it's not helping them

jamming vaporwave while reading tao lin

right now im deep vibing to the vaporwave they're playing.in the pret a manger im sat outside. also dyao otm re tao lin

I think some of Vektroid's releases are completely unaltered muzak tunes, not sampled, not looped, just the original song. I don't have a problem with this though

pretty into vaporwave atm

Tried to explain this to industry types at a she and him show tonight, they thought i was kidding

http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4370
don't know this guy but
"Whether we're pushing our shopping cart through a retail store or sitting at an office desk laboring for a salary, somebody up there wants us to work harder, spend more money, and be a more productive cylinder in the engine of commerce. Might there be a simple way to get people to be more energetic, more creative, more generous; simply by manipulating their environment through something as simple as music? It has certainly been tried, and sold to the world's largest businesses. Commonly called by the name of its most recognizable vendor, muzak has long been the subject of scrutiny, science, and pseudoscience. Today we're going to see what it can do and what it can't."

oh-kay

people who are into vaporware should just like idk listen to madlib

everyone should listen to madlib all the time though so it's not really vape-specific advice

*insert marijuana joke*

all three are good i guess?

madlib's music is more expensive

i make my own vaporwave

i honestly don't see the madlib/vapor wave connection

everyone should listen to madlib all the time though so it's not really vape-specific advice

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, July 10, 2013 2:09 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i really like the eco virtual and macintosh plus albums/mixes

d'eon's "LP" seems to fit in w/ the vwave aesthetic

18 Carat Affair is one of my favorites. I guess the Pure Gold album is like a best-of comp.

So I'm not sure if I even know what vaporwave is, but I feel like the new Mu-ziq album might be vaporwave-y?

it's a bit grand & untrashy but it's not far off

is this vaporwave?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ennGmDUYYoY

yes & magnificent to boot

i'll be here all evening

listening to
http://c2pi.bandcamp.com/album/vapetape

reading vaporwave vs broperwave beefs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90XSqQYw768

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QStm3ZyzgY0

There's a thing tonight with 18 Carat Affair, Infinity Frequencies, Luxury Elite, Saint Pepsi, Vektroid, XXYYXY and similar (who knows how many of those are the same person).

http://www.spf420.com/

that's kinda nice!

The guitar looping right now is apparently actually being played live

I mean not that it matters

Not Vaporwave but Vaporware - really enjoying this ambient loop type stuff on Donato Dozzy Plays Bee Mask which as the name suggests, is basically a remix album of Bee Mask made by Donato Dozzy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLpmp4r3KUw

http://f0.bcbits.com/img/a4089218837_2.jpg

http://crystalmagic.bandcamp.com/album/larp-of-luxury

fun

That made me think of a thread i have saw recently-ish, that i thought i had saved, about city driving electronic music feel or something... basically it was about techno. can't find the keywords to find it. ilx enhanced suite.

the late night city aesthetic?

bruno
08-06-2006, 04:41 AM
thanks. the mystery has evaporated. midnight cruisin' has a nice cover, though, i wouldn't mind having that lying around. this is all garbage anyway. barry white.. i need to get some sleep.

i remember that thread: Recommend me some FUTURISTIC, METROPOLITAN TECHNO

http://i.imgur.com/IfpcZCb.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPDVBRhtpMI

proto-vaporwave?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwAYU4rlwmA

i totally love that track; discovered it over here
http://cachemonet.com/

http://i.imgur.com/GxiL34G.png

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ipr8km9A0oo

lol xp

http://www.theguardian.com/society/shortcuts/2014/mar/12/has-future-headshops-gone-up-in-smoke

lol 龜

been listening to the nmesh album on spotify this last week
some real great moments, personal fav is probs track two, 'keep this'
https://play.spotify.com/user/radindians/playlist/66KXzEp6dLpbRQZygPtSSQ

thanks for the heads up; didn't know this was up.
nu.wav hallucinations ended up one of my fave albums of last year, so pretty excited to listen.

oops i linked to my own playlist rather than the album there, apols

this album is great!

yep i agree. on their FB page they recently thanked Tiny Mix Tapes for being a runner up for best releases so far this year
not a bad list that features some other stuff that'll be relevant for this thread...

Magic Eye - Babylon (found this quite fun but seemed to finish with little impact) https://play.spotify.com/album/6JZGt8RRvlA5pGkqTeWTSz
D/P/I - 08.DD.15 (this I found a bit trickier to get into, but lots of really great little moments) https://play.spotify.com/album/5u6BSPG49gTPJwL9BRUtqx

OH and i didn't even realise there was new saint pepsi! http://saintpepsi.bandcamp.com/album/gin-city

voted his album from last year 'hit vibes' in my eoy ballot for the ilm 2013 album poll, don't think it gained much support ha

cool, will check those out

crut, i see you on spotify jammin' this with me

http://ec.l.thumbs.canstockphoto.com/canstock11844182.jpg

The new Saint Pepsi is pretty great!

Walking Talking 03:48 hehehe, metroareadaftpunknice

also for those that were fans of the excellent vw comp 'music of the now age' (available for free here https://fortune500.bandcamp.com/album/the-music-of-the-now-age )
the follow up was appaz released november last year (another one i missed due to over-reliability on spotify these days)
http://fortune500.bandcamp.com/album/the-music-of-the-now-age-ii

Thanks for that, I'd missed both of those!

Whole lotta this stuff is completely unlistenable but good for a chuckle, but ahnnu's world music album was p good

Lotta people doing shit like this are getting a little less lazy as time passes so that's a good sign

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQnHTKZBTI4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GA5ZwS4oonQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKKInfup8Mw

wow

haven't seen those Alice clips since their inclusion from the Amok Assault Video

good blog viewin' while listening to vaporwave and derivative products: http://ambientexploitation.tumblr.com

http://i.imgur.com/SG3Bq6D.png

lmao

http://i.imgur.com/a3Rkcj8.png

hahaha im so happy this aesthetic exists

http://allcapsandaltkeycodes.bandcamp.com/track/vaporwave-is-all-just-diana-ross-slowed-down-at-different-speeds
funny titles+music on this eulogy for vaporwave (rip?)

much prefer the synthier ppl like bee mask and 18 carat affair to the slowed-down weather channel music and 80s boogie dudes

18 carat affair might be my favorite of all this stuff, but it seems very much in the slowed-down weather channel music vein to me

i'll be listening to this fine fine trash til the day i die

http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/533/720/37b.gif

i love weather channel music, no lie

A couple of recent J-Pop tracks with a familiar aesthetic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQz4GIOB8gg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e089x6ba1Zo

Fuck, why can I never get anything to embed? Aren't we supposed to be able to just paste in the YouTube URL?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQz4GIOB8gg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e089x6ba1Zo

Now pay me $10

thanks, I will!

dan, just leave off the S in the httpS://

ah, thank u

I like the v grand vegetable dawn on the sonic the hedgehog one

i think the intention of the all caps album was to make broperwave rest in peace, an effort of quality control/invitation to try new ideas.
genres never really die.

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must have listen to that one certainly a couple of dozen of times
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxB9ux0Buuk

http://i.imgur.com/7EsFZKY.png

There's a new EccoPlex mix I think released today that I'm enjoying at the moment, featurning personal favs Nmesh and ULTRA ウルトラ - particularly a nice early YLO moment.
https://soundcloud.com/loose-link/eccoplex-transmission-20

https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/t1.0-9/10514520_10152499392124555_7461444793182603179_n.jpg

Disappointed that 'broperwave' doesn't refer to like slowed down mid 80s italo with pop metal guitars

Like, a surreal distortion of masculinity... I guess a lot of outrun/synthwave stuff kinds of goes in that direction.

http://www.dailydot.com/lol/weird-facebook/

Love being clued in to new memes

http://momaps1.org/interactive/james_ferraro/

Lol Daily dot on an Indian woman's forehead

i think about macintosh plus everytime i see http://www.moma.org/collection/object.php?object_id=80419

I hope Dancing Fantasy are getting $$ from this phenomenon btw

http://i.imgur.com/vkGwIGO.jpg

what's with the greek statue motif in vaporwave, is it supposed to be like a microsoft encarta thing?

a relic from an enlightened past

Macintosh Plus - Floral Shoppe was hugely influential

But where did macintosh plus/vektron get it from???

It just seems out of place, too clip-art-y (yes i know clip art is a big thing with the "post-vaporwave" folks)

anyone down with oceangrunge? *flicks salt water on pita+harissa spice*

greek statues = weird out-of-place attempts at elegance that come off awkward and trashy?

idk makes sense to me

this isn't EXACTLY vaporwave except in some ways it is and i don't know where to put it
https://aberrantkenosis.bandcamp.com/album/the-bike-horn-collection-volume-1

barry white... i need to get some sleep

https://dreamcatalogue.bandcamp.com/album/hk

https://tokyoexchange.bandcamp.com/album/--5

https://f1.bcbits.com/img/a3815259259_2.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7VrBGOA8rw

enjoying this
https://dmttapes.bandcamp.com/album/no

ooo that's nice

best vape i have heard so far

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH-kyt3rYDQ&feature=youtu.be

that weather forecast is dope lol

The jerry paper on patient sounds is some great john maus/r Stevie Moore shit

yeah he's kind of a cool songwriter

i like this jerry paper

wow yeh this jerry paper preview rules
listening to the 2014 record and it's pretty swizz too

dream catalogue is the best

like this is the shit
https://dreamcatalogue.bandcamp.com/album/--18

nice

http://i.imgur.com/Oo7ggTz.jpg

lol

guilty lol

omg

so is that a real album? i want to listen to it.

it's the new vatican shadow

(j/k)

http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0290/8145/products/paome_7ac125f0-154e-0132-f16d-6ae888efae21place_FBszyFkeR6OcIbCoDEkw_jazz_large.png

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgnSe60vFzI&list=PLFE762B2DF7EF9E0D

lol at the Windham Hill connection.. this was all done before tumblr

https://dmttapes.bandcamp.com/album/in-limbo-silent-dream

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9Pga-y7F8k

that's my jam

i guess this is PC MUSIC or whatever but it sounds vaporwave to me and it's pretty great
https://maxoisnuts.bandcamp.com/album/chordslayer

http://chordslayer.com/#snowother

maxo has done some PC music-related stuff but he's really in his own place. Love his vocal science -- at the moment "honeybell" remains my favorite track.

Maxo is great. His remix of 'Gemini' by Sharpless is awesome too, although a bit less vaporwave.

yeah, i bought this one; it's pretty great.

http://i.imgur.com/1H6eWuT.jpg

tyvm

new lockah release is v nice
https://play.spotify.com/album/2NTLWeVooZorKpiaFylxSH

also been really enjoying the false cloak album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdofJ7ktsyc

Already old but I've been loving this track lately:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5MBEAuU6yU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHf44VaTdgQ

lovely

somehow neglected the vektroid releases until a friend rec'd them to me -- they're less cut-and-paste/plunderphonics and more into almost idm territory so ofc i love it

https://31.media.tumblr.com/35327e358b3a68f0f477c05524ecf8d4/tumblr_n87lfu7aG01tg0jpqo1_500.gif

been listening to this a lot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSMaB_Fzks0

dream catalogue seems pretty cool, so much stuff out this year i want to hear. i really like these albums:

https://dreamcatalogue.bandcamp.com/album/the-games-we-play
https://dreamcatalogue.bandcamp.com/album/into-dreams

this is a cool comp (not on dream catalogue)
https://hi-hi-whoopee.bandcamp.com/album/meili-xueshan-i-ii

and i've really been digging this Contact Lens stuff from a few years back.. basically just warmed over screwed r&b/rap instrumentals, but very effervescent and warm.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjReFOaDGUQ

yeah i mean the genre is epigonal by nature but i just love it

yes lots of good albums from them this year - i think Hong Kong Express - HK is my fave of the year

the best is the stuff that captures a real feeling of strangeness... ambiguous emotions .. urban Waldeinsamkeit

been listening to 18 carat affair's pleasure control quite a bit lately; it's like riding in the mall elevator for fifteen minutes in a good way.

18CA is a genius; wish he was more active

barry white... i need to get some sleep

http://lindsheavenvirtualplaza.bandcamp.com/album/daily-night-euphoria-ep

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h31I2mumtZk

https://tokyoexchange.bandcamp.com/album/infinite

vaporwave is starting to sound a lot like late 90s/early 2000s French house. wonder if it's the younger set's idea of nostalgia, which makes me feel a little old.

there's a lot of vaporwave with trap sounds as well (um vektroid hello), it's just sounds, m8

have started to see the more daft punk-y end of things tagged "future funk" pretty often

https://www.dropbox.com/s/djaatpdhpygnztn/MACINTOSH%20PLUS%20-%20%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B5%E3%83%95%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%82%AF420%20%20%E7%8F%BE%E4%BB%A3%E3%81%AE%E3%82%B3%E3%83%B3%E3%83%94%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BC%20%20%28Arr%20by%20Saint-Laurent%29.pdf?dl=0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPjQif2uct4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loOBSpVywYA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LsWBgWJxXg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuYFAyma064

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWsJUFAZv4Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkLPgAO36Kk

http://i.imgur.com/1YBdoRG.jpg

;-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IXJF_ZQCso

lost memories is good. my favorite 骨架的 is Illegal Antenna, i think https://soundcpu.bandcamp.com/album/illegal-antenna

nmesh has been on fire these past couple of years
the entirety of dream sequins is worth checking out

yes

that nmesh album is amazing, as is his fact mix from last year. it definitely helps that he's an older fsol/orb obsessive instead of a 19 year old internet personality.

yeah his musical ear is incredible

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uW7ZW5NSd0k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdTZviAf48g

more like this

absolutely adore the first giant claw record (dark web)
struggled to get into deep thoughts in the same way :(

deep thoughts sounds the way i imagined all vaporwave sounding before i listened to any of it

i think most if not all of the sounds are from the same palette as the casio i had growing up

i'll invest some more time in it :)

not sure what thread to put this in, but this album by bassist Sven Atterton is fucking gorgeous

http://omegasupremerecords.com/album/sven-atterton-the-cove

omega supreme is one of the best record labels going right now

ty for this amazing music crutis

great stuff

the dream catalogue compilation from earlier this year is pretty sweet listening too
https://dreamcatalogue.bandcamp.com/album/best-of-dream-catalogue-2814-2815

xp yeah that sven atterton is really cool!

yep, had it in my 2015 albums list

kinda late but i love this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tYpkyy7Ogs

eyeliner album is dope
toy dog is amazing

Have been listening to this most of the morning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuEdKcbNnXM

I don't remember being this nostalgic when I was this young.... but maybe I was and have just forgotten?

is that sampled from something?

seems like it would have to be. apparently, the crowd ambiance is actually field recordings by the producer, but not sure if music is too, or he found it elsewhere. If it was actually music he made and produced, that would actually raise this stuff to something pretty cool, like the bassist stuff posted above, but with ambient filtering

enjoying the EATQS album
https://soundcloud.com/noumenalloom/eatqs-cant-stop-to-explain-it-that-thing

^sounds good!

Been enjoying these, not drone or ambient at all, but almost a disco-edit/filter disco take on vaporwave:

Dan Mason - Miami Virtual 2.0
https://dmtrec.bandcamp.com/album/miami-virtual-20

悲しい ANDROID - APARTMENT¶ - With me, Without you
https://android-apartment.bandcamp.com/album/with-me-without-you

can't stop playing the bit 1:05 into the first track on Floral Shoppe where the sax solo comes in and just immediately gets all distended and out of tune. it really makes me laugh.

A good vaporwave album is ライフMIDI - VIRTUAL REALITY '97 「PLATINUM EDITION」 - can listen to the whole thing here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM7bGb4-N5A

It is a bit too on-the-nose but I do like it when these guys try to naturally freak you out rather than distort every third bar or whatever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8fM-CGQVCY

Be real, it doesn't matter anyway
You know it's just a little too late

this genre was awesome. i especially liked how 80% of the notable releases seem to come from vektroid under various aliases.

either her or the internet club guy

feel like deaths dynamic shroud is the best at this atm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0ALkNKQzmA

thats great

nice. i must point out that *ahem* it's deaths dynamic shroud.wmv :)

would like to gently rebuke treeship's point that vaporwave "was" rather than "still is". the straight up eccojam phase is over, i guess, but a healthy output of excellent ambient/illbient/ "derivative products" exists. (see dream catalogue, for ex)

and there seems to be an array of (mostly useless) EXTREME eccojams where recordings are slowed to the point where it just sounds like muffled garbage trucks

love vektroid's Sacred Tapestry release, it's a bit of a harbinger to this extreme sound https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3bxhofufFg

http://www.zero-books.net/books/babbling-corpse

In the age of global capitalism, vaporwave celebrates and undermines the electronic ghosts haunting the nostalgia industry.
Ours is a time of ghosts in machines, killing meaning and exposing the gaps inherent in the electronic media that pervade our lives. Vaporwave is an infant musical micro-genre that foregrounds the horror of electronic media's ability to appear - as media theorist Jeffrey Sconce terms it - "haunted."
Experimental musicians such as INTERNET CLUB and MACINTOSH PLUS manipulate Muzak and commercial music to undermine the commodification of nostalgia in the age of global capitalism while accentuating the uncanny properties of electronic music production.
Babbling Corpse reveals vaporwave's many intersections with politics, media theory, and our present fascination with uncanny, co(s)mic horror. The book is aimed at those interested in global capitalism's effect on art, musical raids on mainstream "indie" and popular music, and anyone intrigued by the changing relationship between art and commerce.

oh cool fine.

i had a wild idea of trying to pitch a 33 1/3 about chuck person's eccojams.

*find

https://tallis123.bandcamp.com/album/herbaceous-store

the first 15 seconds of the third track are making me laugh uncontrollably

simpsonwave
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwXZJ72PzThfKWr3oajYaHId3GjF2XSh1

tried out dds.wmv's I'll Try Living Like This and I thought it was great. Vaporwave is oftentimes such an empty promise and there's just so much of it out there, but this album (on first listen) feels like the real deal, freaked me the hell out in a few spots (and it samples Susumu Hirasawa, and therefore automatically gets my thumbs up)

Saint Pepsi - Hit Vibes is another good one. Sounds like what Daft Punk's RAM really should've been. Something you could actually play at a party, how about that?

Thus far my favorite vape thing is "Death 2 Snitches", a collab between Nmesh and Viper the Rapper, who is (you could argue) an originator of vaporwave. I guess it's not really a collab, Nmesh just paypalled the dude 35 bucks for a verse and then tweaked the hell out of it. Wound up not finishing it because Viper turned out to be a seriously strange and dishonest dude that he didn't want to be associated with. But the demo version still totally rules:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQP5gpAhmuU

hit vibes is the best

That death's dynamic shroud.wmv album is amazing...

the Saint Pepsi sound seems to be the road taken for vaporwave artists not going full ambient (see also Android Apartment above), cf this comp from Future Society:

https://futuresocietycollective.bandcamp.com/album/single-series-volume-i

(curiously, Saint Pepsi artist himself seems to have gone into Neon Indian territory afterward...)

the death's dynamic shround.wmv album does become amazing at some point halfway through track 5, and stays amazing thereafter

'rare emoji collection' is incredible

and godDAMN that video :O

http://i.imgur.com/i8tp4Eq.png

it's like they know you

https://abelard.bandcamp.com/album/seinwave

this is so smoooooooooooth

http://i.imgur.com/SJW4GDe.jpg

Lol

sentient marketing tea

http://i.imgur.com/r8iYqsB.jpg

Laserdisc Visions - New Dreams Ltd. is sounding fucking ace this morning, anyone want to recommend something similar?

i didn't realize that MTV had a total Vaporwave inspired makeover last year

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAaInjzznVQ

xp internet club - redefining the workplace

the comments on that video are perhaps the most annoying comments i've read all year. as if whatever the fuck those commentors are producing is somehow more valuable to the cultural landscape than mtv's vapor pastiche

lol co-option

yeah I totally welcome this stuff becoming more mainstream and think it already kinda is. it was definitely amusing checking out the comments for the original "It's Your Move" vid and seeing how nearly all of them mention vaporwave

Nmesh - Dream Sequins is pretty cool. sounds like an early-90's Orb album but instead of going for obscurity with the samples he's trying to bring out forgotten memories from people born in the 80's...kinda freaked out hearing the Land Before Time advert in there. I had a VHS with that on it and heard it dozens of times. any of his other stuff worth a listen?

also fucking lol at the last track on this thing

nu.wave hallucinations is my fave
https://nmesh.bandcamp.com/album/nu-wav-hallucinations

both awesome albums

the split w/ telepath is great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0v_p28uti2A

^ that's superb

really enjoying this at the moment https://satanicpornocultshop.bandcamp.com/album/mystic-island-neji-181

highly recommended (if you're into this kinda stuff) : Nmesh's massive Welcome to Warp Zone! mixtape, featuring 100+ tracks from 90's video games, plus snippets of dialogue, commercials, news reports, and I think even an original composition or two (plus, half a minute of "Horse With No Name" for no reason whatsoever). spans 4:20 (lol) but it's incredibly addictive - think Donkey Kong Country, Link to the Past, Earthbound...though I only recognize about a quarter of it. great stuff.

sold

here's a great track - feel like this is what so much vaporwave goes for but doesn't quite hit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZNQebEZaY8

lol the GI Joe reggae PSA in Warp Zone

DE BOSS RIDAH

this is the first thread since i've been on since the youtube flash API was officially deprecated and i get this message on every video and ~~~~~~~it makes sense~~~~~~~~

why is vaporwave still cool but chillwave is not they are very similar imo but maybe idgi

bc chillwave is a genre and vaporwave is a meme and something something harambe, probably

feeling so deprecated right now

i thought chillwave was like Ariel Pink

vaporwave = sampling old tv commercials and stuff

more curation, vibe creation

corporate

There's like 3 types of vaporwave - Eccojams (Chuck Person, Macintosh Plus), Sega Saturn Menu/Abandoned in the Hypermall/Weather Channel BGM (Laserdisc Visions, James Ferraro's Far Side Virtual), and Future Funk/Seapunk/Whatever the fuck (Saint Pepsi, Blank Banshee, most of what came out past 2012). People argue on Reddit a lot about it. Like IDM or Prog, most of the good vaporwave artists don't like being called vaporwave.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDxE4r5ixD0

Can we say that being prolific might be a characteristic of this genre?

It definitely can be -- telepath and his alias Virtual Dream Plaza has put 100 "albums" since 2013! Since most of this stuff is based on ambient drone and samples, I think it can be very easy to create (especially for kids w/a lot of free time and expendable/parental income). Not all artists are like this obv.

the funny thing about Vektroid being so prolific and working under so many different aliases is that she practically singlehandedly made Vaporwave seem like it was a burgeoning genre with a bench of up and coming artists. when in reality is was just one person, who had only just turned 20 years old.

Throwing Coppice Halifax in here too
http://coppicehalifax.bandcamp.com
I really like his EP pacific opal hex: https://wil-ru.bandcamp.com/album/pacific-opal-hex

Maybe he's just ambient, not vaporwave. Apologies...

yeah Coppice Halifax does some nice reverb-y "lofi" boards of canada xeroxy stuff. not amazing or anything but i like its crap amateurish-ness much better than slicked up BoC lovers like freescha/casino vs japan etc

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nu.wave hallucinations is my fave
https://nmesh.bandcamp.com/album/nu-wav-hallucinations

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very good

i swear this goes through my head everytime I eat eggs
https://nmesh.bandcamp.com/track/t-th-ggs

recently been enjoying wosX
https://dreamcatalogue.bandcamp.com/album/brasil-world-cup-2034

been going through plus 100 records' catalogue
https://plus100.bandcamp.com/
loving the golden living room - splash realistique album, want a 10 minute version of this track:
https://plus100.bandcamp.com/track/aokigahara-ft-auto

Much love for virtua.zip

I spent a decent amount of time trying to figure out what he was sampling but it turns out most of the music is original

this song <3
https://orangemilkrecords.bandcamp.com/track/canopy-stories

Meet the vaporwave obsessive who built a shopping mall monument to the virtual genre in Miami

nmesh just dropped a new album of adult swim bump remixes
http://nmesh.bandcamp.com/album/bumps-ep

a couple of pretty good funky albums from the summer - don't know too much about nano神社 (✪㉨✪)
https://nanoshrine.bandcamp.com/album/segas-superdeluxeedition
and this excellent comp from A K A N E I N T O K I O
https://dmtrec.bandcamp.com/album/all-together-vol-1

Watch an amateur mini documentary on the history of vaporwave

http://www.factmag.com/2016/10/12/vaporwave-mini-documentary-fredrik-knusden/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_T1nkER3vA

this is like a vaporwave guided meditation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zZIzADsTKs

this is v nice too (from 2015 but w/e)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZOEwZw9b8A&list=PLpvAgyOreIC3PBcKZaihUEVmZJu38OeC-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0OR5chrCS0

so smooth, love it

yeah it's a grower

Finally got around to making a playlist for this thread; it deserves it

ILM's Vaporware Thread 2016 Spotify Playlist

new blank banshee is p fun! choice track, 'my machine'
https://blankbanshee.bandcamp.com/album/mega

loving that dang olsen too

new release on plus100 is very relaxing
https://plus100.bandcamp.com/album/--6

https://open.spotify.com/track/5xnOk0gOwfhfnEY6cfYo5B

yep, we've all heard mac plus by now

i find myself generally less interested in vaporwave than i am in the stuff vaporwave gets its inspiration from, particularly as a lot of vaporwave doesn't seem to actually do much with its source material. here's a good mix of '80s library music i've been enjoying recently:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3x2iVSlP5M

IMO that's the punchline of the Macintosh Plus album - the source material is almost just as "vaporwave" as the album itself.

Been wondering about the 情報デスクVIRTUAL album; how much editing is done there exactly?

i like this mix

IMO that's the punchline of the Macintosh Plus album - the source material is almost just as "vaporwave" as the album itself.

yeah but on the other hand, i appreciate 'instrumental edits + dash of fx' stuff like the Computer Dreams album. can't really take most of the stuff that keeps the vocals (although a lot of it ends up sounding like lost Tears For Fears tracks which is kind of cool)

i read somewhere (maybe on this thread) that the 情報デスクVIRTUAL album is sourced entirely from some Sega Saturn game.

thanks for posting that 80s library mix, btw, exactly the kind of stuff i've been wanting to dive into.. search: "Silicum" by Claude Larson (not on youtube unfortunately, rest of the album is wack, imo)

I think the Laserdisc Visions - New Dreams Ltd. album may be the one you're thinking of. Not just one game but several.

I recently d/l'd a cassette rip and it's a bit different - there is what sounds like Japanese talk radio running throughout the whole thing. Pretty cool.

that the one with a shopping mall on the front cover? can't remember it's name :/

Another list of stuff: http://amorotica.tumblr.com/post/52889338443/top-15-vaporwave-releases

might fall outta the genre a bit but cool video game style live recording from mukqs (this one is also on spotify)
https://hausumountain.bandcamp.com/album/walkthrough
really like the finale

looks like i forgot to link it earlier this year but immune - breathless is worth checking out
for some reason it appears to be deleted off dream cats bandcamp page but youtube linky still works
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwR4-WtzJ0A

https://daily.bandcamp.com/2016/11/21/vaporwave-genres-list/

I basically just break it down into Boards of Canada/Ryuichi Sakamoto/The Bran Flakes

part of your complete balanced breakfast

https://youtu.be/EZ1rXRKqAcw

this moon b record is cool future funk, beautiful synth pads

nice roundup
good links :)

Just loaded 2 gigs of this shit on my phone. Sorted for awhile.

The n mesh hallucinations album is a trip. I might be able to do with fewer tv interludes but overall it's very good.

yeah but hearing the old Whatchamacallit ad all chopped n' screwed up is definitely worth it all

Is there a silver spoons drop on there somewhere?

Also love the dream catalog best of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bCvZ-CsFUg

this is a nice sort-of vaporwavey pop tune

Playlist is updated for November... love that new Blank Banshee!

ILM's Vaporware Thread 2016 Spotify Playlist

xp think that youtube link has broken :(
found it here tho!
https://osr-tapes.bandcamp.com/album/new-emotion-b-w-behind-the-scenes-cassingle-osr21

it's great!

can't wait for a vw album art poll circa 2030

ESPRIT 空想 kicks out the hams

re-reading that bandcamp article now and I'm even more confused, I don't really know what vaporwave is or isn't anymore

like Blank Banshee, who I think is great, seems only tangentially related to something like Floral Shoppe or FSV - not a huge difference between Banshee and say, Major Lazer, except BB uses Donkey Kong Country samples?

been enjoying this over the last couple of days
http://music.businesscasual.biz/album/delicious
sorta like a late 90s pop version of hit vibes by saint pepsi

ESPRIT 空想 kicks out the hams

been listening to George Clanton's other stuff over the last few weeks and he's a legitimately talented dude, he's like the son of Dave Gahan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVggF2TxSu8

super poppy. vocals tho

Afternoon sun jam:
https://espritfantasy.bandcamp.com/track/daydream

super poppy. vocals tho

indeed, I guess I kinda prefer the more vaporwave-adjacent stuff these days

fuckin' lol @ that "girls only" cover though

dude has a cassette with that stuff on it available. I do have a Walkman but am I really going to pull it out to rock out to some digital analog jams? Suppose it's possible.

virtua.zip was just remastered with some bonus tracks which effectively double the length of it, it's a proper album now

https://espritfantasy.bandcamp.com/album/virtua-zip

kind of disappointed I missed out on the blue splatter vinyl, was gonna get myself one but then they sold out, like everything else on the site

I dig the lead harmonies here, they sound like tortoise's night air :

https://vektroid.bandcamp.com/track/odysseus-outdoor-mall

That whole album is pretty great

yessss I love that track

that album really is to me the end-all-be-all of that particular aspect of vaporwave, it's so kitschy and kinda awful in some ways, then there are some moments of real beauty out of nowhere. and though I have no clue where any of it is sampled from, the notion that actual humans played this music seems weird to me, since it feels so dead inside.

Word. I can't help but wonder about the origins as I listen. It's just slightly distracting from my full enjoyment of the tracks. Auditory uncanny valley. Like the copyright on the source shit is so unknown that by all intents it now belongs to Ramona. She's a sonic squatter.

Looks like Esprit is playing Shea in New York on the 15th. Any local vapor heads want to try to meet up and go?

that would be awesome to go to - his live stream on twitch was really good, I've watched it several times

one thing I've come to love about this genre is how it evolves so quickly like those oddball meme groups on facebook, where stuff gets immediately run into the ground in amusing ways, with everyone trying to outdo each other all the time. I can't think of another genre that would produce something like this, for example.

mmm. i wonder to what extent eating oneself is merely an externalization of self-loathing, and am suspicious of the impulse.

think less

yeah i get that a lot

sorry that was hella mean :(

vape more

omg that goofee album

sorry that was hella mean :(

vape more

― a but (brimstead)

thinking less would prolly be healthier :)

thing is i _can_ think of other genres that would produce something like blank goofee, because meow the jewels is a thing. and at least part of vaporwave's precis seems to be to expose the empty rotted heart of consumerism. sorry if i'm breaking kayfabe by talking about the tension between that and "for the lulz", but that tension exists and it's a lot of what drives vaporwave.

well there you go. I'm sure the self-cannibalization is all over the place but I've not really seen any genre do this sort of thing to the extent vaporwave does. That Nmesh album ending with a vaporized remix of Fantano's infamous review of Floral Shoppe, for example. I feel like the genre is constantly fucking with people who take it too seriously, though most of its popular artists are obviously dedicating a big portion of their life to making it. It's like an entire genre where every artist is The Residents.

i kind of hate "ha ha only serious" the way mormons hate bigamy. there's already a fascist offshoot of vaporwave- i think it's called "fashwave"- and I've seen this dialectic play out in so many forms before on the Internet. The fascists always win.

guess I shouldn't be surprised. most of the vaporwave artists I follow on Twitter seem to be cool people, at least

fashwave is an offshoot of synthwave not vaporwave, also it is just a couple of yokels on twitter, not much of a "thing"

"hardvapor" is such unredeemable shit

http://www.coryarcangel.com/images/artwork/arcangel-super-mario-clouds.gif

those are me

Crossposting from the Spotify thread:

https://open.spotify.com/user/spotify/playlist/7GtwfClHgE4euOhQUe6kwC

is there a good way to grab a link like that and get it to open in the desktop app?

Open it from a desktop browser?

Pulse Emitter!!!

ha that worked thx

LX Sweat?

https://open.spotify.com/track/2CuvwzJnjNSMfSGKab8raR

Telepath?

https://open.spotify.com/track/4kjXuFmrGWqhprkT0f5U2X

that spotify list has been my go to recently, just the type of chill vibe I need to achieve total relaxation

is there a good way to grab a link like that and get it to open in the desktop app?

copy the link and paste it into the search bubble in the desktop app

18 Carat Affair?

https://open.spotify.com/track/61QkubO5ny4DtTFoOaIRGg

new album by waterfront dining dropped on jan 1 and it's p sweet
https://waterfrontdining.bandcamp.com/album/zombie

one of my favs from the past couple of years, wosX, is back with another
https://antifur.bandcamp.com/album/deconstruction-of-mind

a month and bit old but just came across this little gem too
https://dreamcatalogue.bandcamp.com/album/veltahl

Nice
Feel like I could spend the rest of my life going through all the releases by Dream catalogue

just heard this the other day, totally proto-vaporwave (from 1988)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0lU7d4h06I

this is great
needs adding to the dk country thread

Sounds like retailwave

just keeps getting better with every listen

:D

Going back and forth between 2814 and telepath

I have mixed feelings about the vaporwave trend of building tracks out of slowed down samples of 80s hits. The Eyes Without A Face one is pretty good. The Born in the USA one, not so much.

that's doing it wrong -- the point is to find the song-within-the-song, like the secret instrumental electro tracks that some 80s productions become when you remove the vocals

I agree but I do appreciate the random ultra slowed down "oh (baby)"

i cannot believe that cover art is from 1988!!!

omg @ SEA IS A LADY

I have mixed feelings about the vaporwave trend of building tracks out of slowed down samples of 80s hits. The Eyes Without A Face one is pretty good. The Born in the USA one, not so much.

― Al Moon Faced Poon (Moodles), Sunday, February 12, 2017 8:44 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that's doing it wrong -- the point is to find the song-within-the-song, like the secret instrumental electro tracks that some 80s productions become when you remove the vocals

― clouds, Sunday, February 12, 2017 8:48 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah that's great too, but the stuff isn't supposed to be profound necessarily.. reminds me of the argument about how certain disco edits are "pointless" because they don't "add anything" to the original. good edits are usually about dancefloor functionalism not necessarily magical transformation (although it's great and interesting when that happens too).. similarly, the slowed-down 80s hits style is more about a kind of cheap "emotional functionalism" with context/respect getting ripped out/fucked with.. like it's besides the point that one could do these slow-down things on their own PC, the end product is just a product, the vaporwave creator/curator just happened to 'make' it but he's just the puppet in the 80s gods hands...

that probably doesn't make any sense, oh well

ugh i love "sea is a lady" so much

"dancefloor functionalism" is a subset of "magical transformation" imo

Finalized the playlist for this thread and threw in the end of 2017 stuff for kicks.

ILM's Vaporware Thread 2016 Spotify Playlist

Sweet! Thanks!

http://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/af/78/30/af78305263e9aefeea1f5300ec5c5b93.jpg

awesome thanks forks!

Thanks for the playlist forks! Dream Catalogue stuff is so great.

another lil gem, love the artwork

https://kwakuamp.bandcamp.com/releases

also new music from the prolific eric taxxon
https://erictaxxon.bandcamp.com/album/endless

The Eric taxxon is nice
But I'm not sure what "Christian vaporwave" is

Alright, so we got this anonymous demo sent in & it's got like a christian rock theme to it. Now look, Joey & I aren't bible thumpers! We enjoy the riffs but we enjoy the sin too. Heaven does seem very glam-orous so hell yea! Rock on!

is there any good vaporwave with (original) vocals? cuz i've hated every example i've heard so far

ill let you know when im done with mine

new one from orange milk records
https://orangemilkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/in-a-silent-way

new release today from windows 96
https://windows96.bandcamp.com/album/reflections
really like this one

Yeah that's a good one
Almost could be also included on the synthwave outrun thread

yeh totally
guess it's the nomenclature that really throws it into vw territory

man I've been so obsessed with the last track on I'll Try Living Like This, legitimately think it's one of the greatest and most haunting things I've ever heard, then it turns out it's just a mash-up of two songs from Sonic-R. lol.

Haha. Amazing track!

Feel like artists like V/vm and plunderphonics in general peaked too soon; they would florish under the vaporwave moniker.

I searched down Mello Mist, an album by dang Olsen that's not on Spotify. Nice as expected and brief. 8 tracks in like 28 minutes which could as well be a single telepath track.

The time I mean

Sorry, some vaporwave just hit me in the face

dang olsen is great

Yeah for me it's the perfect soundtrack to getting up early and making coffee, YMMV

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPOgQj1tQ6s

Good bye is such a great track -

ILM's 2017 Rolling Vaporwave Thread Spotify Playlist

this nico nicquo guy on orange milk is good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNTaz10d8Xs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEKzJXvnnfI

guess this is not quite vaporwave but if i post on the other rolling electronic/techno threads it'll just get buried

and i see that nxd already mentioned them upthread, lol

I think some of Vektroid's releases are completely unaltered muzak tunes, not sampled, not looped, just the original song. I don't have a problem with this though

I know this is an old post but I've been thinking about this a bit. I've been listening to the 情報デスクVIRTUAL album quite a bit lately and I decided to listen to the originals (you can find most of them on whosampled.com). They aren't completely unaltered - everything seems to be pitched down 15% or so, there are a few loops, and most of the tracks are excerpts - but for the most part she's just sampling easy listening and New Age records. It isn't even muzak or infomercial stuff, it's like...John Tesh and David Sanborn. The whole thing is like a brilliant prank, attempting to get kids who hang out on /mu/ or reddit digging the same shit they'd make fun of their moms for listening to.

(and yes, I dig the album too)

xp worth posting again, it's still great :)

http://i.imgur.com/Im9n5SW.jpg

beautiful

fairly new record from one half of death's dynamic shroud.wmv
https://dreamcatalogue.bandcamp.com/album/flight
"The follow up to 2012’s ‘Honeybee’ on Orange Milk, ‘Flight’ is a return to Webster’s progressive rock past with new ideals he has learned from his explorations in dds.wmv, taking the guitar-based experimentalism of the former and integrating the twisted audio manipulation of the latter to create something unique for the artist. Conceptually, it arrives from a similar place as ‘Honeybee’ too, in that HCMJ uses the music as an outlet for his own internal anxieties."

also new on dream catalogue, & very different to the above, ends with an almost wolfgang voigt esque movement
https://dreamcatalogue.bandcamp.com/album/integrating-clouds

away from dream - probs belongs on the future funk thread but i guess it goes down here too, hit vibes vibes obvs
https://desired.bandcamp.com/album/the-sweetest-dream

wait, how did you get a .jpg to do that

such a beautiful cover. I wish I liked the music more.

that HCMJ album is pretty awesome so far. definitely gonna be tossing 4 lbs that way once I get home. I really oughta listen to that Best of Dream Catalogue comp I got.

imgur doesn't actually serve what it has in the url, that's either a gif or a video depending what platform you view it on

new release today from windows 96
https://windows96.bandcamp.com/album/reflections
really like this one

― nxd, Monday, March 20, 2017 7:03 AM (one month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is v good

!!
new haircuts for men album released today too!
https://haircutsformen.bandcamp.com/album/--8

The haircuts one is good. Feels very fancy hotel lobby-ish

small observation but vwave sounds great through proper speakers

orange milk is killing it lately

track list for this PowerPC Me album Kmart 1989-1992 is a weird thing

Bluelight Specials Going On Now! 2:08
Rubbermaid 2:50
Can You Hear That Sweater Calling Your Name? 3:54
Have You Ever Noticed It? 3:01
Attention Shoppers! 2:08
Listen To What The Item Is Telling You 3:16
The Kmart Dream 2:48
http://i.imgur.com/VLi4QFN.png 1:34
Don't Dare Pass Up This Sale 1:58
Fly Over To That Sale! 1:16
http://youtu.be/Dl7pLNk8K7E 1:07
Dance To Aisle 5 And Enjoy The Sales! 0:48
Something Isn't Right My Vision Isn't Clear, Where's The Sale? 0:43
It's All Calling My Name 1:55
I've Never Been More Happy In My Entire Life, I Can't Feel My Legs Anymore 1:55
I Can't See Straight, But The Savings Are So Clear 4:04
http://pastebin.com/KyzsMK4q 1:52
I Wish She Was Here To Experience The Sales 2:16
I Need To Get Up, I Can't Fall Asleep Here. The Savings Are Too Good. 1:52
I'm Not Afraid 2:48
Bye 2:40

retailwave

https://www.facebook.com/events/121305315082673
June 10 at Cape House NYC
Orange Milk Records showcase featuring:
食品まつり a.k.a Foodman
Kate NV
Giant Claw
GS Sultan
Seth Graham
Honnda
Machine Girl
Maharadja Sweets
Darren Keen

loving this right now, don't know if it's quite the right thread but:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34UutDrXV2Q

it is hiroshi yoshimura-wave

Hosono's Coincidental Music is definitely a great example of proto-vapor. One of the cool things about following this scene is watching people discover this stuff organically who definitely wouldn't otherwise. I'm very amused that Pacific is starting to reach a new audience - not his best work, but still.

here's another version of that first track - better, in my opinion
https://youtu.be/OWHL-lc3xpM?t=21m41s

huh, i think i agree!

Mr Mellow by Dang Olsen
https://beerontherug.bandcamp.com/track/mr-mellow

I read that Washed Out's next record will also be called Mr Mellow and well, could it be an homage?

On the hyper/breakbeat tip is SAYOHIMEBOU (a la Machine Girl, Vaperror, Foodman)
http://music.businesscasual.biz/album/ok

honestly this stuff isn't really vaporwave, but uses its imagery, retro-futuristic fetish and *some* of the sound sources to make sugar rush IDM. and there's a Kool & the Gang cover!

new Nmesh album announced, this time on Orange Milk

now with fewer anthony fantano samples

hah I know most people hated it but the last track on Dream Sequins really cracked me up

Alex Koenig seems like he'd be a good guy to crack open a cold one with. probably the only vaporwave musician I could say that about.

it just went on for too long is all xp

love nmesh and am okay with him being indulgent and fucked up

this guy's photos put me in a vaporware mood: https://www.flickr.com/photos/megane_wakui/33699769516/in/photostream/

revisited DREAMS 3D by INTERNET CLUB today, totally classic.

https://ailanthusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/dreams-3d

Nice

half-year playlist updated

ILM's Rolling Vaporwave Thread 2017 Spotify Playlist

Have folks heard this?
https://dantemarsajeto.bandcamp.com/album/celebrating-digital-artifacts

weirdo plunder-pop, kind of post-Econo Jams hypnagogic...or something or other. If Future Funk is on the low stakes end for vaporwave, this is probably on the more ambitious end.
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also, re: Hosono, check out that SAYOHIMEBOU I posted above as well, as it's kind of a 21st Century update to Cochin Moon

New Nmesh album is out and it's pretty fuckin wild. It's not even really vaporwave, more like a plunderphonic EDM album (one track is Squarepusher-like drum n bass), but if you dig his other stuff you'll probably like this too. Not even done listening yet and I think it's his best one.

sweet
i'm guessing it's the one up on orange milk? fell behind with them - popped open their bandcamp and there's about 10 records i'd missed
gonna be a good morning

btw thanks for the Sayohimebou rec, listening now and it's quite good. not sure I hear the similarity to Cochin Moon, it just sounds like a pure sugar rush to me

this may be of interest to some of you, apparently there's a legit Floral Shoppe vinyl you can get now:
https://oesbee.bandcamp.com/album/floral-shoppe

always kind of resented how this album overshadowed the rest of Vek's discography but whatever, I still bought one

digging this sayohimebou