vaporwave and deriative products

http://beerontherug.bandcamp.com/album/floral-shoppe

have been listening for the last couple of minutes... and maybe i'm too eager but now i'm thinking :finally. a break from my boredom after a few months of going nowhere.

i'll just paste a bunch of links i copied from a thread on 4chan before it expired, makes it easier to check out later

vaporwave goes hard as fuck . love this stuff .
http://ailanthusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/soft-season
http://www.sunsetcorp.org/
http://internetclubdotcom.angelfire.com/
http://vektroid.bandcamp.com/

http://soundcloud.com/yungyachtmusic/recording-4-17-12-5-54-45-pm

http://crystalmagic.bandcamp.com/album/high-fashion-mood-music/

http://www.mumu.io/player/vaporwave

It's appropriating the globalised capitalist commodified aesthetic (specifically of 1980s/90s East Asia, Japan) to mock the vacuity of its art products in order to create a criterion of the kind of society we live in today (the post-internet late capitalist bazaar)

http://beerontherug.bandcamp.com/

Post-internet is a term that is used to describe a new media art scene active in the past few years. The most important portal for such is Tumblr. These circles spawn visual new media art trash and microgenres like hypnagogic pop, seapunk and vaporwave, which is what you're listening to. Vaporwave is an aesthetic built around corporate culture glorification, 80's/90's early internet era and exploring the uncanny.

It's all very post-modern by nature, and is based on exploring alternative mediums and surreal ways of expression. Substance and the end result are valued over values like composition and production.

Post-internet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=guZueuki4-Q

im taking credit for coining the term 'vaporwave' with this tweet, retweeted by nullsleep who is a well-known player in the new media scene

i'll just paste a bunch of links i copied from a thread on 4chan

lol

uh who is to blame for this oneohtrix ferraro such a shame

post-lacan

ba-dump:

http://shiternetexplorer.tumblr.com/
http://288-pc.tumblr.com/
http://slimeslut.tumblr.com/
http://powerpoints.tumblr.com/
>dumps of shit

http://jamespants.tumblr.com/
http://teeeams.tumblr.com/
http://newdreamsltd.tumblr.com/
>musicians

http://grossmary.tumblr.com/tagged/grossmary%20essay
>overanalytive essays on the subject and a dump of shit

http://soundcloud.com/infinity-frequencies
http://soundcloud.com/radmagma
http://soundcloud.com/luxuryelite
http://soundcloud.com/virtu4l
http://soundcloud.com/vektroid

Napolian / Computer Dreams
http://beerontherug.bandcamp.com/album/napolian-computer-dreams

http://airlinestapes.bandcamp.com/album/deep-fantasy

http://www.dummymag.com/features/2012/07/12/adam-harper-vaporwave/

(don't be afraid of 4chan) Sébastien is going to get you fired with (some of) those links (post more)

here i go again, just dumping stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjhHPzK6enE
http://i.imgur.com/mhOOtlz.png

So what makes vaporwave, slowed vocal, pop capitalism muzak, something else?
As there's a lot of pretty much identical music being produced. Then a bunch of stuff that sounds nothing like the rest but is kind of vaporwave-ish.

*incoming dump codename GYROS*

Chuck Person's Eccojams
Farside Virtual
Fuji Grid TV
Replica
Floral Shoppe
1976 DISKO
Fashion Island

http://i.imgur.com/8rwuXEH.jpg

virtual help desk

i thought vape wave was done with...
metro-ko took it's place in like septemberish?
metro > vape all day every day bay bay

I wouldn't be making metro-ko were it not for Chuck Person and New Dreams LTD.
http://i.imgur.com/f9z4ige.png

this and mediafired - Pathway Through Whatever are my favs of the whole vaporwave/eccojams thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mlug8QDIDZg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Qg-LAbsURY

http://i.imgur.com/QhosKCl.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/QSGJbgA.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/pf1cJ3i.jpg

>tfw no blank banshee acid

wack

it's part of it, yes.
http://www.mediafire.com/vaporwave

chuck person eccojams are legit

i'm not sure exactly what is going on here but i like it

http://f0.bcbits.com/z/37/14/3714586732-1.gif

i'm not sure exactly what is going on here but i like it

― ramblin' evil mushroom (clouds), Sunday, 27 January 2013 04:21 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i cd listen to this stuff for days, don't know if this is indicative of a problem with me or what.

Constant revolutionising of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones. All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.

feels like cyber witch house

less gothy witch house

computer forensic recuperations of 90s then state of the art hi fi digital muzak used as financial transaction lubrifiant. available for free.
http://f0.bcbits.com/z/12/88/1288733977-1.jpg
http://dummymag.com/features/2012/07/12/adam-harper-vaporwave/
http://www.tinymixtapes.com/music-review/internet-club-vanishing-vision
http://www.tinymixtapes.com/?search=vaporwave
http://ailanthusrecordings.bandcamp.com/
http://airlinestapes.bandcamp.com/
where METROKO is at? idk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TwcNyk_Sg8

ah there it is . http://metrophone.bandcamp.com/
right now i know nothing about it

sebastien, do u just listen or do u also make music?

this juche album is super pretty

i am not making music right now. haven't recorded anything since, hehe, sounds weird since it was another tech time and etc but i gave up recording stuff after reading a review of Sparklehorse – Good Morning Spider , in a time when reading was listening for broke ppl. ehhe. it had nothing to do with what i was doing, eh, it was more like ariel pink's impression of charlotte gainsbourg weird stuff. i was disturbing myself. before that i had a few dat of intl. quality noise tracks still lying somewhere. plus i have a show of late gov.alpha in there too. lots of space on those DATs. i made some images recently in a pains style, and have downloaded audacity so who knows.

DATs. might as well say i will never listen to that stuff again and it's ok.
listening to http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=guZueuki4-Q linked upthread. missed it first time around, nice vid

meshes of the afternoon meets overeager sales pitch

a lot of the vapor stuff feels so transient and inconsequential which i imagine is by design but leaves me feeling very unfulfilled after long listening session - like i've just been sold a timeshare that doesn't exist

yeah, and if some artists feels more "hook" generous" it must be a particularity from the listener's point of view but overall you are right. it's a monotonous rumination that is timely and i particularly like that it has a certain rebellious philosophy at heart. it is with self-awareness that it creates a space where certain concepts can be made to be used for the next "genre".

i must add : i am interested in listener generated perceptions of hooks and also i am drunk : apology of an unfaithful culture consumerist

http://soundcloud.com/yorkmorgan/zoe
http://i.imgur.com/cL3vG26.jpg
fuck off with this forced bullshit
http://metro-ko.tumblr.com/#41223466804

Christ this is so pretentious.

You guys notice shit like Vaporwave,
Chillwave, Seapunk and other stupid trends that come and go and try to hop on by making up some bullshit new genre.

There are already dozens of bands that make droney type music that fits this "aesthetic", but you faggots don't even care about that. It's like Witch House, album art, pretentious naming and the "lifestyle" of the music comes before the actual music.

You are no better than those kids who start a band and don't actually write any songs.

and yeah, this is gimmicky as fuck, but there's definitely potential in the music if people stop rushing effortless shit out.

The problem is that the music is an afterthought. The people who post in these threads clearly just want to be relevant and if the genre did get big (and then die out very quickly like all these genres) they could say "I was part of that". Music should be made because you feel right making it and natural, not because you have to fit into some requirements that some guy on /mu/ told you it has to be.

That is true, but I imagine people will calm down and spend more time and effort on their tracks soon. Just here in the beginning people are eager to try, and want to get stuff out as quickly as possible.

*********
nobody even knows what metro-ko is

right now it's just "vaguely city feeling electronic music"
****************** That made me think of a thread i have saw recently-ish, that i thought i had saved, about city driving electronic music feel or something... basically it was about techno. can't find the keywords to find it. ilx enhanced suite.

the way i see it, the genre will die out as fast as vaporwave does unless somebody makes an extremely creative well thought out and interesting album that actually evokes emotion. i'd actually be interested in hearing something like that.

The problem is that the music is an afterthought.

mistaking the problem for a feature

wd do a "T/S vaporwave vs influential albums" thread but imaginary dichotomies

hat made me think of a thread i have saw recently-ish, that i thought i had saved, about city driving electronic music feel or something... basically it was about techno.

this one?
Recommend me some FUTURISTIC, METROPOLITAN TECHNO

less gothy witch house

What is the point of less gothy witch house?

says the goth

less gothy witchhouse = house?

clouds, that's the one. thank you!

ya this is good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCt_VV4_Nf4

vaporwave deriviative product very early in it's alpha phase : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_cringe pickling. proof of concept no.1 named "low hanging fruits" : "It's Gonna Rain"-esque minimalist musical juxtaposition of beatles hits rip-off by "exotic" bands with the original real deal.

proof of concept no.2 : same recipe as no.1 but applied to ccr bad moon rising and les cyniques ah si j'étais milionnaire.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZgV0_746Ng
ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /ah! si / i see /

ah si j'aurais de l'argent / I hear hurricanes ablowing

http://i.imgur.com/mjruQWN.jpg

how is this going to work unless you are from the cultural cringe culture and know which part of that culture to recontextualise?

>>
Anon

well yeah, where are you my people?

but seriously, i know this thread is somewhat of a shot in the dark but the innenets is known to be a hub of many cultures . who knows, maybe you are a native french speaker and so am i and here we are communicating in english because it is the thing that is expected of us do in this context.

that said, it is possible that you have lights to shine on what is happening in other cultures than your own: i bet most post-colonial studies was written by straight white guys who speaks english badot dot dot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5ky5ClIjL8
you know what i am talking about so let's make an exhaustive list right here

ok now im on another trip i rather like that honest cover
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3EC9vgUONE

"honest" ... made me think of em "yéyé" again, that i still don't know that much about; i think they were received a notch above novelty songs, like a therapeutical gesture, most of the pop not knowing english it must have been a nice way to engage with that "collective energy"/ marketing and release it in a way ; in a jokey way or whatever

visualizing gainsbourg ironically unnerving the crowd to get em to toss some cash money on the stage and picking it all up very much unironically because he was poor, and mumbling to himself "so this is what they like ... i'll give em some more, then."

increasingly enjoying these alternate universe projections of my own teenagerhood by people who were babies at the time.

There's so much of this stuff (the music that the thread was originally about, not the other types of derivativeness immediately above) that it's hard to know what's noteworthy, but I like this comp: http://fortune500.bandcamp.com/album/the-music-of-the-now-age

well that's a jam

whoa, randomly a new Computer Dreams release on Fortune 500

https://fortune500.bandcamp.com/album/time-slips

I love it when legends return

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9URZgAqeqo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgfKjUX1EHQ

Who did it better?

found the latest blank banshee record a bit meh - maybe a bit too idm for me
otoh new dan mason album is sounding great

Dan Mason is about as “vaporwave” as Charli XCX at this point. He uses katakana next to his name tho so…

oooh yeah new Dan Mason is cool, maybe the artwork is leading me but it definitely scratches a very specific itch

think 'vaporwave' as we know it is dead but it has splintered off into a half-dozen subgenres all of which I think are way more interesting than like, Chuck Person and Floral Shoppe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMzqaNS5sn0

The OG returns

A.S.L. 2050 : SNOW IN WONDERLAND

Taken from Album Yann Tomita “Music For Living Sound” CD-ROM (excerpt /unreleased clip) 1998

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0dgbkFFfDo

Sounds like a new avalanches single, just needs some dumb beat behind it

hahaha ouch!

https://exotapes.bandcamp.com/album/div-s-paradise

Thank you bandcamp daily for alerting me to a second mediafired album I didn’t know existed

https://sunsetgrid.bandcamp.com/track/now-draw-her-and-me-dancing-under-the-stars

https://computer-gaze.bandcamp.com/album/dream-recovery

this is still the best signalwave album

I don't f with signalwave much but telepath's pink album would be my answer: https://dreamcatalogue.bandcamp.com/album/--11

https://i.imgur.com/g8PJL03.jpeg

Legendary trinity infinity album on vinyl today

few months old but been enjoying this

https://tupperwave.bandcamp.com/album/grocery-store-sunset

Barber beats is all I want to listen to these days. So airy and refreshing and empty. Probably just depressed. I like how it’s more upscale and “tasteful” than lofi beats but also more gauche (saxophones).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5jnBmVCzBs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEnNd3eTfVE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ru4mKDgqpaU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4f650GBj0TI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryi6lhCByyY

Okay, tupperwave is a great term for a genre... (have not yet heard any)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7zET9r29iQ

really loving this Opal Vessel stuff that goes into dark (sometimes slowed down) ambient jungle vibes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6e_n6_45VfQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CADGyzQzIvA

Stop polluting this thread with boring af barber beats

lol <3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHFo98G1gnU

https://realitytelevision98.bandcamp.com/track/who-do-u-love

good album this

Physicals of telepath’s Amaterasu and Andromeda went on sale yesterday

https://geometriclullaby.bandcamp.com/album/--51

https://i.imgur.com/1TSzYo3.png

“We went and had us a moment”

https://i.imgur.com/6MXOX8c.png

the best to ever do it, still at it <3

https://computer-gaze.bandcamp.com/album/the-first-machine

I’m well overdue for an IF deep dive

<3

well this is ahh a little unsettling

https://emzil.bandcamp.com/track/--57

90s
experimental
ambient
dreampunk
hip hop instrumentals
romance
slushwave
vaporsoul
vaporwave
r&b
soul
drone
late night lo-fi
vaporfunk
london

latest dds 'mixtape' (Apple Girl Mania) is insane and incredible

Not really a mixtape tho is it

tbh I'm not really sure why certain releases are dubbed albums and others mixtapes

I heard mixtapes are sometimes revised and credited as releases
Tho tbh I could give af
I only like one dds song, “good bye” off of ITLLT

lots of dream catalogue vinyls up for preorder

https://dreamcatalogue.store/

https://theexpandingearth.bandcamp.com/album/--12

awesome moody lofi midtempo italo instrumentals

sorry, that’s cryotocracy by sports 3000

cryptocracy. good night.

Someone had a little too much late night lofi last night

got an advance of the new Nmesh album. anyway I'm like 2/3 through it and its awesome. a masterpiece in sampling. he does way way more to the tracks now, everything's like "Mall Full of Drugs". but not in an exhausting way, more in a funny way I guess. theres a track about subliminal advertising that's got a few parts that made me laugh, just some of the shit he puts in there. you can forgive the long wait too, it's clear he worked on it a lot. its not really vaporwave but idk where else to put this :)

What’s the name of the album and how’d you get an advance ?

I've written about him in the past and a while ago he asked me if I wanted to hear it so I could write a bio for him. that was over a year ago so I am assuming a bunch of it was redone. anyway he got someone else to do it but sent me a copy anyway. since nothing's public I won't say what the title is but think the 50th state :)

https://i.postimg.cc/fy3ZpBcn/IMG-2441.jpg

new nmesh - july 18

https://nmesh.bandcamp.com/album/the-molokai-compendium

https://psicadence.bandcamp.com
can't recommend this artist enough