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!
ILM's Vaporware Thread 2016 Spotify Playlist
― 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
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.
― calstars, Wednesday, 28 December 2016 21:12 (seven years ago) link
Looks like Esprit is playing Shea in New York on the 15th. Any local vapor heads want to try to meet up and go?
― calstars, Monday, 2 January 2017 22:14 (seven years ago) link
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.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 4 January 2017 18:00 (seven years ago) link
mmm. i wonder to what extent eating oneself is merely an externalization of self-loathing, and am suspicious of the impulse.
― increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Wednesday, 4 January 2017 18:17 (seven years ago) link
think less
― a but (brimstead), Thursday, 5 January 2017 00:37 (seven years ago) link
yeah i get that a lot
― increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Thursday, 5 January 2017 02:02 (seven years ago) link
sorry that was hella mean :(
vape more
― a but (brimstead), Thursday, 5 January 2017 02:11 (seven years ago) link
omg that goofee album
― nxd, Thursday, 5 January 2017 10:32 (seven years ago) link
― 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.
― increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Thursday, 5 January 2017 14:46 (seven years ago) link
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.
― frogbs, Thursday, 5 January 2017 15:01 (seven years ago) link
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.
― increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Thursday, 5 January 2017 15:11 (seven years ago) link
guess I shouldn't be surprised. most of the vaporwave artists I follow on Twitter seem to be cool people, at least
― frogbs, Thursday, 5 January 2017 15:30 (seven years ago) link
fashwave is an offshoot of synthwave not vaporwave, also it is just a couple of yokels on twitter, not much of a "thing"
― example (crüt), Thursday, 5 January 2017 15:43 (seven years ago) link
"hardvapor" is such unredeemable shit
― clouds, Thursday, 5 January 2017 23:08 (seven years ago) link
http://www.coryarcangel.com/images/artwork/arcangel-super-mario-clouds.gif
― pareidolia, Saturday, 7 January 2017 23:15 (seven years ago) link
those are me
― clouds, Saturday, 7 January 2017 23:38 (seven years ago) link
Crossposting from the Spotify thread:
https://open.spotify.com/user/spotify/playlist/7GtwfClHgE4euOhQUe6kwC
― calstars, Wednesday, 11 January 2017 04:05 (seven years ago) link
is there a good way to grab a link like that and get it to open in the desktop app?
― goole, Thursday, 12 January 2017 16:03 (seven years ago) link
Open it from a desktop browser?
― calstars, Thursday, 12 January 2017 16:37 (seven years ago) link
Pulse Emitter!!!
― example (crüt), Thursday, 12 January 2017 17:11 (seven years ago) link