vaporwave and deriative products

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