vaporwave and deriative products

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