Meet the vaporwave obsessive who built a shopping mall monument to the virtual genre in Miami
― PappaWheelie V, Wednesday, 28 September 2016 16:13 (eight years ago) link
nmesh just dropped a new album of adult swim bump remixeshttp://nmesh.bandcamp.com/album/bumps-ep
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Wednesday, 28 September 2016 18:40 (eight years ago) link
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-superdeluxeeditionand this excellent comp from A K A N E I N T O K I Ohttps://dmtrec.bandcamp.com/album/all-together-vol-1
― nxd, Wednesday, 5 October 2016 10:16 (eight years ago) link
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
― PappaWheelie V, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 21:41 (seven years ago) link
this is like a vaporwave guided meditation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zZIzADsTKs
― clouds, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 23:00 (seven years ago) link
this is v nice too (from 2015 but w/e)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZOEwZw9b8A&list=PLpvAgyOreIC3PBcKZaihUEVmZJu38OeC-
― clouds, Saturday, 15 October 2016 21:44 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0OR5chrCS0
― clouds, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 19:40 (seven years ago) link
so smooth, love it
― calstars, Friday, 21 October 2016 00:38 (seven years ago) link
yeah it's a grower
― the notes the loon doesn't play (ulysses), Friday, 21 October 2016 03:27 (seven years ago) link
Finally got around to making a playlist for this thread; it deserves it
ILM's Vaporware Thread 2016 Spotify Playlist
― the notes the loon doesn't play (ulysses), Tuesday, 25 October 2016 13:05 (seven years ago) link
new blank banshee is p fun! choice track, 'my machine'https://blankbanshee.bandcamp.com/album/mega
― nxd, Tuesday, 25 October 2016 13:09 (seven years ago) link
loving that dang olsen too
new release on plus100 is very relaxinghttps://plus100.bandcamp.com/album/--6
― nxd, Friday, 4 November 2016 11:44 (seven years ago) link
https://open.spotify.com/track/5xnOk0gOwfhfnEY6cfYo5B
― calstars, Sunday, 6 November 2016 21:21 (seven years ago) link
yep, we've all heard mac plus by now
― clouds, Monday, 7 November 2016 13:33 (seven years ago) link
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
― xiphoid beetlebum (rushomancy), Monday, 7 November 2016 19:00 (seven years ago) link
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?
― frogbs, Monday, 7 November 2016 19:06 (seven years ago) link
i like this mix
― clouds, Tuesday, 8 November 2016 16:59 (seven years ago) link
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.
― brimstead, Tuesday, 8 November 2016 18:48 (seven years ago) link
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)
― brimstead, Tuesday, 8 November 2016 18:51 (seven years ago) link
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.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 8 November 2016 18:54 (seven years ago) link
that the one with a shopping mall on the front cover? can't remember it's name :/
― nxd, Tuesday, 8 November 2016 19:35 (seven years ago) link
Another list of stuff: http://amorotica.tumblr.com/post/52889338443/top-15-vaporwave-releases
― calstars, Wednesday, 9 November 2016 00:14 (seven years ago) link
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/walkthroughreally like the finale
― nxd, Monday, 14 November 2016 10:05 (seven years ago) link
looks like i forgot to link it earlier this year but immune - breathless is worth checking outfor some reason it appears to be deleted off dream cats bandcamp page but youtube linky still workswww.youtube.com/watch?v=pwR4-WtzJ0A
― nxd, Monday, 14 November 2016 11:25 (seven years ago) link
https://daily.bandcamp.com/2016/11/21/vaporwave-genres-list/
― the notes the loon doesn't play (ulysses), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 18:39 (seven years ago) link
I basically just break it down into Boards of Canada/Ryuichi Sakamoto/The Bran Flakes
― frogbs, Tuesday, 22 November 2016 19:52 (seven years ago) link
part of your complete balanced breakfast
― the notes the loon doesn't play (ulysses), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 20:12 (seven years ago) link
https://youtu.be/EZ1rXRKqAcw
this moon b record is cool future funk, beautiful synth pads
― a but (brimstead), Wednesday, 23 November 2016 01:39 (seven years ago) link
nice roundupgood links :)
― nxd, Wednesday, 23 November 2016 09:40 (seven years ago) link
Just loaded 2 gigs of this shit on my phone. Sorted for awhile.
― calstars, Wednesday, 23 November 2016 17:45 (seven years ago) link
The n mesh hallucinations album is a trip. I might be able to do with fewer tv interludes but overall it's very good.
― calstars, Wednesday, 23 November 2016 20:29 (seven years ago) link
yeah but hearing the old Whatchamacallit ad all chopped n' screwed up is definitely worth it all
― frogbs, Wednesday, 23 November 2016 20:32 (seven years ago) link
Is there a silver spoons drop on there somewhere?
― calstars, Wednesday, 23 November 2016 20:41 (seven years ago) link
Also love the dream catalog best of
― calstars, Thursday, 24 November 2016 01:56 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bCvZ-CsFUg
this is a nice sort-of vaporwavey pop tune
― larry appleton, Thursday, 24 November 2016 03:11 (seven years ago) link
Playlist is updated for November... love that new Blank Banshee!
― the notes the loon doesn't play (ulysses), Thursday, 24 November 2016 17:56 (seven years ago) link
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!
― nxd, Friday, 25 November 2016 10:16 (seven years ago) link
can't wait for a vw album art poll circa 2030
― nxd, Friday, 25 November 2016 10:18 (seven years ago) link
ESPRIT 空想 kicks out the hams
― calstars, Saturday, 26 November 2016 03:21 (seven years ago) link
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?
― frogbs, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 17:01 (seven years ago) link
been enjoying this over the last couple of dayshttp://music.businesscasual.biz/album/delicioussorta like a late 90s pop version of hit vibes by saint pepsi
― nxd, Wednesday, 7 December 2016 15:55 (seven years ago) link
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
― frogbs, Friday, 9 December 2016 17:20 (seven years ago) link
super poppy. vocals tho
― calstars, Friday, 9 December 2016 19:06 (seven years ago) link
Afternoon sun jam:https://espritfantasy.bandcamp.com/track/daydream
― calstars, Friday, 9 December 2016 19:23 (seven years ago) link
indeed, I guess I kinda prefer the more vaporwave-adjacent stuff these days
fuckin' lol @ that "girls only" cover though
― frogbs, Friday, 9 December 2016 19:31 (seven years ago) link
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.
― calstars, Friday, 9 December 2016 21:10 (seven years ago) link
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
― frogbs, Thursday, 22 December 2016 14:54 (seven years ago) link
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
― calstars, Wednesday, 28 December 2016 20:46 (seven years ago) link
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.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 28 December 2016 20:54 (seven years ago) link