sweet lineup
― nxd, Thursday, 19 November 2020 12:09 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/Sy2th6l.pngFire toolz crushed it last night on the Corp vapor memory stream
― ncxkd, Sunday, 22 November 2020 19:46 (three years ago) link
Vwave daily news headlines 12/4:- telepath speaks out about bandcamp artists- hke sells 500 vinyl copies of a repress of 2047- luxury elite plays killer half hour set on twitch- new releases from qmxd x kuroi ame, global pattern
― calstars, Saturday, 5 December 2020 03:06 (three years ago) link
“speaks out”?
― brimstead, Saturday, 5 December 2020 18:40 (three years ago) link
I feel like telepath and dream catalog basically just monetized vaporwave or whatever anyway, seemed like it was mostly free digital files before??
― brimstead, Saturday, 5 December 2020 18:42 (three years ago) link
lol disregard that post of mine,literal shitposting
― brimstead, Saturday, 5 December 2020 18:43 (three years ago) link
big ups to Late Night Lights for figuring out how to stream codeine directly to the bloodstream
― lukas, Saturday, 5 December 2020 20:02 (three years ago) link
I caught Auto’s opening set and it sounded great
― calstars, Saturday, 5 December 2020 20:28 (three years ago) link
https://www.twitch.tv/utopiadistrictLate night lights ^Get in here! Lindsheaven, telepath, and Lux still to come
― calstars, Sunday, 6 December 2020 22:38 (three years ago) link
expensive but still only 20% of the current resell value
https://www.100percentelectronica.com/collections/just-added/products/deaths-dynamic-shroud-ill-try-living-like-this-2xlp-deluxe-180-gram-kaleidoscope-splatter-edition
― frogbs, Friday, 18 December 2020 02:46 (three years ago) link
lol gone now
― frogbs, Friday, 18 December 2020 03:41 (three years ago) link
yahtzee that went fast
― nxd, Friday, 18 December 2020 10:56 (three years ago) link
New internet club album on Luxury Elite’s resurrected Previe Guide label. https://internetclubdotcom.angelfire.com/
― calstars, Friday, 18 December 2020 13:12 (three years ago) link
https://prevueguide.bandcamp.com/album/thousand-one-half-stars
― calstars, Friday, 18 December 2020 13:44 (three years ago) link
another variant of the dds album is coming sometime today if someone wants one
you'll have to act fast I assume
― frogbs, Friday, 18 December 2020 15:03 (three years ago) link
it would be nice if they pressed another 10 copies of the last windows96 album again so I can not buy it
― brimstead, Friday, 18 December 2020 16:41 (three years ago) link
https://www.100percentelectronica.com/collections/deaths-dynamic-shroud/products/deaths-dynamic-shroud-ill-try-living-like-this-2xlp-deluxe-180-gram-gold-edition
if anyone wants it, you should probably act in the next 15 minutes
― frogbs, Friday, 18 December 2020 20:07 (three years ago) link
haircuts 4 men is an old friend of mine. we threw a monthly dance night and published zines together back in the day. he used to tell me he thought it was funny that people listen to his music. but now he has built up a devoted following and become very collectible and i'm so happy for him.
his latest pressing (which is of some older work) sold out in just a couple of hours and i'm too late to cop :(
https://mypetflamingo.bandcamp.com/album/lp
― davey, Saturday, 19 December 2020 02:31 (three years ago) link
Cool! I have two of his albums from 2018
― calstars, Saturday, 19 December 2020 03:45 (three years ago) link
it's wild how much his recs are going for on discogs
― davey, Saturday, 19 December 2020 04:09 (three years ago) link
It’s a zadig the jasp kind of morninghttps://vcrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/from-nowhere
― ncxkd, Saturday, 19 December 2020 15:14 (three years ago) link
hell yea man this is hitting just right
― davey, Saturday, 19 December 2020 17:45 (three years ago) link
HFM tells me the label is gonna send a couple three of the records they pressed out to the islands, so i may get a copy after all :-)
― davey, Saturday, 19 December 2020 17:49 (three years ago) link
Vek admonishing virtual Keanu in cyberpunk 2077 for not appearing in the Johnny mnemonic video game is the most Boolean thing ever
― ncxkd, Sunday, 20 December 2020 06:54 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/joLJlDV.pngHappening now and this weekend !https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7v9hRfvf1Q
― calstars, Saturday, 30 January 2021 06:10 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/RFUmVel.png
― calstars, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 01:21 (three years ago) link
Assumed this revive would be https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/02/aesthetics-wiki-cottagecore-tumblr-tiktok/617923/
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 01:30 (three years ago) link
holy shit there are like 200 artists performing at the latin vaporwave festival
― treeship., Tuesday, 9 February 2021 02:07 (three years ago) link
also from the atlantic article i learned about this
https://aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki
― treeship., Tuesday, 9 February 2021 02:21 (three years ago) link
there's something charming about a scene with probably a 2:1 musician:listener ratio
they should have festivals where you can only listen if you're willing to play a slot, even if it's just thirty seconds
― lukas, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 02:44 (three years ago) link
lol
― brimstead, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 02:48 (three years ago) link
https://aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/Chaotic_Academia
this is kinda infuriating me
― brimstead, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 02:53 (three years ago) link
maybe this wiki can help me with my bedroom lightning though
― brimstead, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 02:54 (three years ago) link
lighting
I walked around trump tower one day in late 2019 and found it very vaporwavey—the waterfalls, the brass, the sinister kitsch.
― treeship., Tuesday, 9 February 2021 03:00 (three years ago) link
apropos of nothing I'd like to share this thought: my 6 year old son is really into Mario Party for the Switch, so the other day I figured I'd YouTube some of those minigame compilations from the first few Mario Party games. I was stunned by how horrible they looked...I remembered them looking way better. In fact I remember when the N64 came out having the thought that video games had entered the final frontier, the graphics were about as good as they'd ever be (I was 10 so yeah I was pretty dumb). Anyway as I get older and watch the nostalgia cycle refresh itself every 10 years or so it's kind of interesting to see this whole era kinda get skipped. 80's aesthetics still look cool, because computer graphics were so simple back then, all straight lines and neon colors...like, when I saw Kraftwerk all their 'vintage' graphics still looked modern and neat. But the era I grew up with was messy and so aesthetically unpleasing...all jagged lines and misshapen bodies and backgrounds with way too much shit going on at once. Even the best and most advanced video games like Mario 64 were full of glitches, arms would just disappear and objects would just float into space. Nobody would ever try to "replicate" the look and feel of 90's computer animation. The whole computerworld outlined in The Matrix would never come back. It's too ugly. That's why I like vaporwave, because it actually does try to bring this stuff back to life: the idea of a "virtual" world that's so jagged and underdeveloped that nobody would ever want to spend time there as anything more than a gimmick. I watched one of those George Clanton streams and it occurred to me, he's got to be one of the only people on the planet making stuff like this today. It's uh...pretty neat.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 22:34 (three years ago) link
“it actually does try to bring this stuff back to life: the idea of a "virtual" world that's so jagged and underdeveloped that nobody would ever want to spend time there as anything more than a gimmick. “Are you talking sonically or regarding the visual aesthetic?
― calstars, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 23:30 (three years ago) link
mostly visually, particularly certain Vektroid covers and Esprit's virtua.zip, which very much has that broken Sega Saturn 2.5D look to it. that said I think the music imitates that as well - a lot of Clanton's stuff sounds like it's playing out of a 15" Hitachi TV and a bunch of artists purposely try to sample stuff commercials & movies that everyone else forgot about. I remember one of them talking about a compilation of early 90's commercials that someone had that wasn't on YouTube and how it was like a treasure trove for this kind of thing.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 23:56 (three years ago) link
banger Lindsheaven set from the latin all-stars fest:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huC2mV_0IhE
― ncxkd, Thursday, 4 March 2021 19:03 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/MP29xyc.png
― calstars, Wednesday, 31 March 2021 01:07 (three years ago) link
Apparently Lindsheaven / Mt Shrine (Cesar) has passed due to COVID.
RIP Lindsheaven Virtual Plaza. Can't believe it.— Gorgeous Lights (@gorgeous_lights) April 15, 2021
― calstars, Friday, 16 April 2021 12:20 (three years ago) link
oh no! Rip
― brimstead, Friday, 16 April 2021 19:07 (three years ago) link
https://plasticresponserecords.bandcamp.com/track/t-e-l-e-p-a-t-hhttps://i.imgur.com/6MbJoYK.jpg
― calstars, Saturday, 1 May 2021 02:52 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coCo3nbOusA
― calstars, Monday, 3 May 2021 02:36 (three years ago) link
https://vav-31.bandcamp.com/track/soul-mates
― calstars, Saturday, 31 July 2021 21:54 (three years ago) link
https://cyberdream.bandcamp.com/track/lights-abound
― ncxkd, Sunday, 8 August 2021 20:44 (three years ago) link
Evening disclosure has been leaching out the best possible vaporwave for a couple years now:
https://eveningdisclosure.bandcamp.com/
This is really top-shelf stuff, and I'm sure someone more familiar with the myriad of vaporwave subgenres could properly tag it but I can't.
― Sassy Boutonnière (ledriver), Tuesday, 10 August 2021 05:07 (three years ago) link
You have a recommendation from the catalog?
― ncxkd, Tuesday, 10 August 2021 08:08 (three years ago) link
There are three comps that are good, all variations on "alone this evening":
https://eveningdisclosure.bandcamp.com/album/all-alone-this-eveninghttps://eveningdisclosure.bandcamp.com/album/all-alone-again-this-eveninghttps://eveningdisclosure.bandcamp.com/album/still-all-alone-this-evening
Someone speculated that some or all of the names on the label are the same artist, but I don't know. The comps don't distinguish the artists in any case, just "various anonymous artist".
― Sassy Boutonnière (ledriver), Tuesday, 10 August 2021 17:06 (three years ago) link
Like this track from the second one: https://eveningdisclosure.bandcamp.com/track/--125
― ncxkd, Wednesday, 11 August 2021 00:44 (three years ago) link