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
ha that worked thx
― goole, Thursday, 12 January 2017 17:25 (seven years ago) link
LX Sweat?
https://open.spotify.com/track/2CuvwzJnjNSMfSGKab8raR
― calstars, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 01:19 (seven years ago) link
Telepath?
https://open.spotify.com/track/4kjXuFmrGWqhprkT0f5U2X
― calstars, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 01:35 (seven years ago) link
that spotify list has been my go to recently, just the type of chill vibe I need to achieve total relaxation
― Al Moon Faced Poon (Moodles), Tuesday, 17 January 2017 02:13 (seven years ago) link
copy the link and paste it into the search bubble in the desktop app
― Al Moon Faced Poon (Moodles), Tuesday, 17 January 2017 02:20 (seven years ago) link
18 Carat Affair?
https://open.spotify.com/track/61QkubO5ny4DtTFoOaIRGg
― calstars, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 22:52 (seven years ago) link
new album by waterfront dining dropped on jan 1 and it's p sweethttps://waterfrontdining.bandcamp.com/album/zombie
― nxd, Wednesday, 25 January 2017 09:50 (seven years ago) link
one of my favs from the past couple of years, wosX, is back with anotherhttps://antifur.bandcamp.com/album/deconstruction-of-mind
― nxd, Tuesday, 7 February 2017 09:28 (seven years ago) link
a month and bit old but just came across this little gem toohttps://dreamcatalogue.bandcamp.com/album/veltahl
― nxd, Wednesday, 8 February 2017 10:35 (seven years ago) link
NiceFeel like I could spend the rest of my life going through all the releases by Dream catalogue
― calstars, Wednesday, 8 February 2017 11:53 (seven years ago) link
just heard this the other day, totally proto-vaporwave (from 1988)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0lU7d4h06I
― clouds, Wednesday, 8 February 2017 12:50 (seven years ago) link
this is greatneeds adding to the dk country thread
― nxd, Thursday, 9 February 2017 09:47 (seven years ago) link
Sounds like retailwave
― calstars, Thursday, 9 February 2017 19:38 (seven years ago) link
just keeps getting better with every listen
― calstars, Friday, 10 February 2017 01:19 (seven years ago) link
:D
― clouds, Friday, 10 February 2017 02:22 (seven years ago) link
Going back and forth between 2814 and telepath
― calstars, Sunday, 12 February 2017 16:41 (seven years ago) link
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, 12 February 2017 16:44 (seven years ago) link
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, 12 February 2017 16:48 (seven years ago) link
I agree but I do appreciate the random ultra slowed down "oh (baby)"
― calstars, Sunday, 12 February 2017 17:13 (seven years ago) link
i cannot believe that cover art is from 1988!!!
― Fluffy Saint-Bernard (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 12 February 2017 18:06 (seven years ago) link
omg @ SEA IS A LADY
― a but (brimstead), Sunday, 12 February 2017 19:16 (seven years ago) link
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― 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
― a but (brimstead), Sunday, 12 February 2017 19:24 (seven years ago) link
ugh i love "sea is a lady" so much
― clouds, Sunday, 12 February 2017 22:28 (seven years ago) link
"dancefloor functionalism" is a subset of "magical transformation" imo
― example (crüt), Sunday, 12 February 2017 22:31 (seven years ago) link
Finalized the playlist for this thread and threw in the end of 2017 stuff for kicks.
ILM's Vaporware Thread 2016 Spotify Playlist
― removed from the rain drops and drop tops of experience (ulysses), Monday, 13 February 2017 21:59 (seven years ago) link
Sweet! Thanks!
― calstars, Monday, 13 February 2017 22:27 (seven years ago) link
http://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/af/78/30/af78305263e9aefeea1f5300ec5c5b93.jpg
― removed from the rain drops and drop tops of experience (ulysses), Monday, 13 February 2017 23:15 (seven years ago) link
awesome thanks forks!
― nxd, Tuesday, 14 February 2017 10:36 (seven years ago) link
Thanks for the playlist forks! Dream Catalogue stuff is so great.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 14 February 2017 11:37 (seven years ago) link
another lil gem, love the artwork
https://kwakuamp.bandcamp.com/releases
― nxd, Monday, 20 February 2017 15:24 (seven years ago) link
also new music from the prolific eric taxxonhttps://erictaxxon.bandcamp.com/album/endless
― nxd, Monday, 20 February 2017 16:51 (seven years ago) link
The Eric taxxon is niceBut I'm not sure what "Christian vaporwave" is
― calstars, Monday, 20 February 2017 18:36 (seven years ago) link
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!
― a but (brimstead), Monday, 20 February 2017 20:31 (seven years ago) link
is there any good vaporwave with (original) vocals? cuz i've hated every example i've heard so far
― clouds, Tuesday, 21 February 2017 03:26 (seven years ago) link
ill let you know when im done with mine
― nice cage (m bison), Tuesday, 21 February 2017 03:32 (seven years ago) link
new one from orange milk recordshttps://orangemilkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/in-a-silent-way
― nxd, Wednesday, 1 March 2017 12:30 (seven years ago) link
new release today from windows 96https://windows96.bandcamp.com/album/reflectionsreally like this one
― nxd, Monday, 20 March 2017 11:03 (seven years ago) link
Yeah that's a good oneAlmost could be also included on the synthwave outrun thread
― calstars, Wednesday, 22 March 2017 11:13 (seven years ago) link
yeh totallyguess it's the nomenclature that really throws it into vw territory
― nxd, Wednesday, 22 March 2017 11:15 (seven years ago) link
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.
― frogbs, Friday, 31 March 2017 20:59 (seven years ago) link
Haha. Amazing track!
Feel like artists like V/vm and plunderphonics in general peaked too soon; they would florish under the vaporwave moniker.
― On Some Faraday Beach (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 31 March 2017 22:21 (seven years ago) link
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.
― calstars, Friday, 31 March 2017 22:34 (seven years ago) link
The time I mean
Sorry, some vaporwave just hit me in the face
― calstars, Friday, 31 March 2017 22:43 (seven years ago) link
dang olsen is great
― clouds, Saturday, 1 April 2017 01:21 (seven years ago) link
Yeah for me it's the perfect soundtrack to getting up early and making coffee, YMMV
― calstars, Saturday, 1 April 2017 01:24 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPOgQj1tQ6s
― dollar general (am0n), Monday, 10 April 2017 17:29 (seven years ago) link
Good bye is such a great track -
― calstars, Monday, 10 April 2017 21:50 (seven years ago) link
ILM's 2017 Rolling Vaporwave Thread Spotify Playlist
― Bobson Dugnutt (ulysses), Tuesday, 11 April 2017 16:53 (seven years ago) link
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
― clouds, Sunday, 16 April 2017 15:08 (seven years ago) link
and i see that nxd already mentioned them upthread, lol
― clouds, Sunday, 16 April 2017 15:13 (seven years ago) link
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)
― frogbs, Monday, 17 April 2017 18:02 (seven years ago) link
xp worth posting again, it's still great :)
― nxd, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 14:57 (six years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/Im9n5SW.jpg
― calstars, Sunday, 30 April 2017 13:16 (six years ago) link
beautiful
fairly new record from one half of death's dynamic shroud.wmvhttps://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 movementhttps://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 obvshttps://desired.bandcamp.com/album/the-sweetest-dream
― nxd, Thursday, 4 May 2017 09:47 (six years ago) link
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.
― frogbs, Thursday, 4 May 2017 13:23 (six years ago) link
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
― a landlocked exclave (mh), Thursday, 4 May 2017 14:49 (six years ago) link
― nxd, Monday, March 20, 2017 7:03 AM (one month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this is v good
― marcos, Thursday, 4 May 2017 14:53 (six years ago) link
!!new haircuts for men album released today too!https://haircutsformen.bandcamp.com/album/--8
― nxd, Thursday, 4 May 2017 14:55 (six years ago) link
The haircuts one is good. Feels very fancy hotel lobby-ish
― calstars, Thursday, 4 May 2017 20:40 (six years ago) link
small observation but vwave sounds great through proper speakers
― calstars, Monday, 15 May 2017 22:25 (six years ago) link
orange milk is killing it lately
― clouds, Friday, 19 May 2017 03:33 (six years ago) link
track list for this PowerPC Me album Kmart 1989-1992 is a weird thing
Bluelight Specials Going On Now! 2:08Rubbermaid 2:50Can You Hear That Sweater Calling Your Name? 3:54Have You Ever Noticed It? 3:01Attention Shoppers! 2:08Listen To What The Item Is Telling You 3:16The Kmart Dream 2:48http://i.imgur.com/VLi4QFN.png 1:34Don't Dare Pass Up This Sale 1:58Fly Over To That Sale! 1:16http://youtu.be/Dl7pLNk8K7E 1:07Dance To Aisle 5 And Enjoy The Sales! 0:48Something Isn't Right My Vision Isn't Clear, Where's The Sale? 0:43It's All Calling My Name 1:55I've Never Been More Happy In My Entire Life, I Can't Feel My Legs Anymore 1:55I Can't See Straight, But The Savings Are So Clear 4:04http://pastebin.com/KyzsMK4q 1:52I Wish She Was Here To Experience The Sales 2:16I Need To Get Up, I Can't Fall Asleep Here. The Savings Are Too Good. 1:52I'm Not Afraid 2:48Bye 2:40
― brimstead, Friday, 19 May 2017 23:59 (six years ago) link
retailwave
― c (calstars), Saturday, 20 May 2017 03:20 (six years ago) link
https://www.facebook.com/events/121305315082673June 10 at Cape House NYCOrange Milk Records showcase featuring:食品まつり a.k.a FoodmanKate NVGiant ClawGS SultanSeth GrahamHonndaMachine GirlMaharadja SweetsDarren Keen
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Wednesday, 24 May 2017 20:35 (six years ago) link
loving this right now, don't know if it's quite the right thread but:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34UutDrXV2Q
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Monday, 5 June 2017 17:17 (six years ago) link
it is hiroshi yoshimura-wave
― clouds, Monday, 5 June 2017 17:22 (six years ago) link
Hosono's Coincidental Music is definitely a great example of proto-vapor. One of the cool things about following this scene is watching people discover this stuff organically who definitely wouldn't otherwise. I'm very amused that Pacific is starting to reach a new audience - not his best work, but still.
here's another version of that first track - better, in my opinionhttps://youtu.be/OWHL-lc3xpM?t=21m41s
― frogbs, Monday, 5 June 2017 18:03 (six years ago) link
huh, i think i agree!
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Monday, 5 June 2017 19:15 (six years ago) link
Mr Mellow by Dang Olsenhttps://beerontherug.bandcamp.com/track/mr-mellow
― calstars, Monday, 12 June 2017 16:46 (six years ago) link
I read that Washed Out's next record will also be called Mr Mellow and well, could it be an homage?
― calstars, Monday, 12 June 2017 16:47 (six years ago) link
On the hyper/breakbeat tip is SAYOHIMEBOU (a la Machine Girl, Vaperror, Foodman)http://music.businesscasual.biz/album/ok
honestly this stuff isn't really vaporwave, but uses its imagery, retro-futuristic fetish and *some* of the sound sources to make sugar rush IDM. and there's a Kool & the Gang cover!
― Dominique, Wednesday, 14 June 2017 20:47 (six years ago) link
new Nmesh album announced, this time on Orange Milk
― frogbs, Thursday, 15 June 2017 16:24 (six years ago) link
now with fewer anthony fantano samples
― clouds, Friday, 16 June 2017 14:25 (six years ago) link
hah I know most people hated it but the last track on Dream Sequins really cracked me up
― frogbs, Friday, 16 June 2017 14:31 (six years ago) link
Alex Koenig seems like he'd be a good guy to crack open a cold one with. probably the only vaporwave musician I could say that about.
it just went on for too long is all xp
― clouds, Friday, 16 June 2017 14:46 (six years ago) link
love nmesh and am okay with him being indulgent and fucked up
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Sunday, 18 June 2017 16:25 (six years ago) link
this guy's photos put me in a vaporware mood: https://www.flickr.com/photos/megane_wakui/33699769516/in/photostream/
― calstars, Tuesday, 27 June 2017 01:07 (six years ago) link
revisited DREAMS 3D by INTERNET CLUB today, totally classic.
https://ailanthusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/dreams-3d
― brimstead, Saturday, 15 July 2017 00:37 (six years ago) link
Nice
― calstars, Saturday, 15 July 2017 00:57 (six years ago) link
half-year playlist updated
ILM's Rolling Vaporwave Thread 2017 Spotify Playlist
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Sunday, 16 July 2017 16:53 (six years ago) link
Have folks heard this?https://dantemarsajeto.bandcamp.com/album/celebrating-digital-artifacts
weirdo plunder-pop, kind of post-Econo Jams hypnagogic...or something or other. If Future Funk is on the low stakes end for vaporwave, this is probably on the more ambitious end.----
also, re: Hosono, check out that SAYOHIMEBOU I posted above as well, as it's kind of a 21st Century update to Cochin Moon
― Dominique, Monday, 24 July 2017 17:21 (six years ago) link
New Nmesh album is out and it's pretty fuckin wild. It's not even really vaporwave, more like a plunderphonic EDM album (one track is Squarepusher-like drum n bass), but if you dig his other stuff you'll probably like this too. Not even done listening yet and I think it's his best one.
― frogbs, Monday, 7 August 2017 02:23 (six years ago) link
sweeti'm guessing it's the one up on orange milk? fell behind with them - popped open their bandcamp and there's about 10 records i'd missedgonna be a good morning
― nxd, Monday, 7 August 2017 08:19 (six years ago) link
btw thanks for the Sayohimebou rec, listening now and it's quite good. not sure I hear the similarity to Cochin Moon, it just sounds like a pure sugar rush to me
this may be of interest to some of you, apparently there's a legit Floral Shoppe vinyl you can get now:https://oesbee.bandcamp.com/album/floral-shoppe
always kind of resented how this album overshadowed the rest of Vek's discography but whatever, I still bought one
― frogbs, Monday, 7 August 2017 13:43 (six years ago) link
digging this sayohimebou
― nxd, Monday, 7 August 2017 14:29 (six years ago) link
vaporwave on vinyl...does not compute
― brimstead, Monday, 7 August 2017 18:41 (six years ago) link
btw those into the Hosono Monad stuff should probably check out Internet Club's Vanishing Vision - the track "Zones" in particular sounds so much like '85 Harry
― frogbs, Friday, 11 August 2017 14:09 (six years ago) link
new deaths dynamic shroud.wmv! https://www.tinymixtapes.com/news/deaths-dynamic-shroud-returns-heavy-black-heart-orange-milk-premieres-single
― nxd, Friday, 11 August 2017 17:20 (six years ago) link
oh wow that is good
― frogbs, Friday, 11 August 2017 18:01 (six years ago) link
full album's out now. sounding incredible so far...maybe even better than I'll Try Living Like This
― frogbs, Tuesday, 15 August 2017 13:48 (six years ago) link
good spot, listening now and it's sounding brilliant
― nxd, Tuesday, 15 August 2017 14:01 (six years ago) link
^ been listening to it on and off for a fortnight now and really love this albumtotally enamored with track#2https://orangemilkrecords.bandcamp.com/track/tell-me-your-secret
― nxd, Thursday, 31 August 2017 08:11 (six years ago) link
2814 has a new (old) one out : http://dreamcatalogue.bandcamp.com/album/2814
― calstars, Sunday, 10 September 2017 23:07 (six years ago) link
Sorry, this is their first one. New to me and I got overly excited since I love Birth of a new day so much.
― calstars, Sunday, 10 September 2017 23:12 (six years ago) link
HKE mini interview from Rolling Stone a few years back:http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/10-new-artists-you-need-to-know-november-2015-20151125/2814-20151124And happy to see the credited author is ilx's own Whiney.
― calstars, Sunday, 10 September 2017 23:15 (six years ago) link
missed this gem at the end of junefrom the reassuringly consistent wosXhttps://wolfensteinosx.bandcamp.com/album/infinite-summer
― nxd, Tuesday, 12 September 2017 10:45 (six years ago) link
https://series200.bandcamp.com/album/dragon-soul
Last two tracks 🤙🏻
― calstars, Thursday, 14 September 2017 01:30 (six years ago) link
11 gigs of vapor's greatest hits?https://mega.nz/#F!iwABUApY!MaExct8QR-gKyg_2zdt1YA
― calstars, Saturday, 16 September 2017 02:21 (six years ago) link
absolute dynamiteand seemingly the only place to get a few of these :)
― nxd, Saturday, 16 September 2017 18:26 (six years ago) link
The volume of stuff to comb through is fantastic and dauntingSome nice chording on the sacred tapestry track 移住
― calstars, Tuesday, 19 September 2017 02:55 (six years ago) link
Thanks for the download link. I now have more vaporware than I'll ever be able to digest. It's all pretty good though. I enjoyed the Nmesh track that samples "Take My Breath Away".
― Moodles, Tuesday, 19 September 2017 03:02 (six years ago) link
I prefer the original and ambient stuff over than the detuned 70s and "virtual" subgenres
― calstars, Tuesday, 19 September 2017 03:11 (six years ago) link
I generally agree, but that one works in a weird way
― Moodles, Tuesday, 19 September 2017 03:14 (six years ago) link
enjoying this record, https://www.tinymixtapes.com/music-review/newcomer-earth-motivation
― nxd, Tuesday, 3 October 2017 09:13 (six years ago) link
https://m.soundcloud.com/runnersclub95/rewindOn the pop tip
― calstars, Sunday, 8 October 2017 02:15 (six years ago) link
hey this is greatlistening to the album now
― nxd, Thursday, 12 October 2017 12:10 (six years ago) link
https://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=401554 new compilation records from dream catalogueall on https://dreamcatalogue.bandcamp.com/
― nxd, Friday, 13 October 2017 13:47 (six years ago) link
Yeah, they're called Chaos....I've been working my way through them slowly. Seems to be more a bit more electronica on them on the whole than vwave
― calstars, Friday, 13 October 2017 15:30 (six years ago) link
I guess GG Masin talk goes on an ambient thread but this track sounds pretty vapey to me.. except for the trumpet, which really takes me out of it.
https://open.spotify.com/track/56d708pQEb3rtXa3dXOjb9?si=nNkYhZxf
― calstars, Saturday, 21 October 2017 15:01 (six years ago) link
https://radiichina.com/vaporwave-lands-in-china-as-cultural-flows-reach-dizzying-speeds/https://radiichina.com/yin-chinese-vaporwave-sampler/ none of it really vaporwave but interesting i think
― XxxxxxxXxxxxxxxxXxxxx (dylannn), Saturday, 21 October 2017 15:13 (six years ago) link
^ these all rule - don't care about the definitions of genres at all :)
also 4 new releases next friday on orange milk!
Next friday: @velfyy @doksproject Padna and @diamondsoulusa pic.twitter.com/mrZWYEaHHq— Orange Milk Records (@orangemilkrecs) October 25, 2017
― nxd, Thursday, 26 October 2017 15:37 (six years ago) link
this in particular i dighttps://soundcloud.com/orangemilk/diamond-soul-catcha-whiff
― nxd, Thursday, 26 October 2017 15:39 (six years ago) link
couple of cute little eps released in the summer on +100less than 10 mins long each, but both nice slices of chillnesshttps://plus100.bandcamp.com/album/sports-epfinest sports themed vw release since 'us golf 95'?https://plus100.bandcamp.com/album/illumina-epthis one reminds me of 'paradise disc' the penultimate track off blank banshee 1
― nxd, Monday, 30 October 2017 11:18 (six years ago) link
Those are nice, if somewhat undistinguished, but hey this is vw, so it’s to be expected !
― calstars, Monday, 30 October 2017 11:48 (six years ago) link
ha yeahi like these way more when they're 10 mins long and not a 40 minute album
― nxd, Monday, 30 October 2017 11:51 (six years ago) link
this rules, very of the genrehttps://soundcpu.bandcamp.com/album/sunset-melody
while this is great too - glitch pop meets video game music (holly herndon vs dk country as u were)https://noumenalloom.bandcamp.com/album/toiret-status-nyoi-plunger
both have excellent record covers too, for differing reasons
― nxd, Friday, 10 November 2017 10:34 (six years ago) link
https://ssurfing.bandcamp.com/track/moonlight
Nice one from ‘12
― calstars, Friday, 17 November 2017 14:14 (six years ago) link
gorgeous
― nxd, Friday, 17 November 2017 14:28 (six years ago) link
"lifeline" and "hit the spot" off that albums are classic jams
― brimstead, Friday, 17 November 2017 15:21 (six years ago) link
Enjoying darkpyramid latelyhttps://dreamcatalogue.bandcamp.com/album/a-heart-full-of-love#
― calstars, Sunday, 10 December 2017 12:52 (six years ago) link
For those compiling your year-end lists, this playlist includes all the available tracks on this thread, organized roughly chronologically in order of mention:
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Sunday, 10 December 2017 22:01 (six years ago) link
thanks both :D
― nxd, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 10:50 (six years ago) link
I had no idea it had proliferated quite to this extent
https://bandcamp.com/tag/plunderphonics?page=9&sort_field=pop
― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 19 December 2017 00:06 (six years ago) link
I love the seemingly endless amount of stuff in this genre, somehow this correlates with the nature of the music itself, endless variation and appropriation
― calstars, Tuesday, 19 December 2017 01:11 (six years ago) link
phewee that's a lot of albums to listen to, 2k18 is gonna be busy!
― nxd, Tuesday, 19 December 2017 09:30 (six years ago) link
I went through a handful last night and this one surfaced. It’s pretty telepath-y and ambient.https://globalpattern.bandcamp.com/album/--5
― calstars, Tuesday, 19 December 2017 12:18 (six years ago) link
Global Pattern uses the term - phaserwave - to describe themself (ves? And are there any vaporwave groups?)
― calstars, Wednesday, 20 December 2017 22:32 (six years ago) link
the beatles
― Men's Scarehouse - "You're gonna like the way you're shook." (m bison), Wednesday, 20 December 2017 22:49 (six years ago) link
Surfing is an actual group, I think
― brimstead, Thursday, 21 December 2017 00:54 (six years ago) link
happy new vapeshttp://78.media.tumblr.com/f3ae3abeedf6d40ae90cb6ab781f391e/tumblr_ow6rvwZNiR1ucpcboo1_500.gif
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 18:53 (six years ago) link
via http://rekall.me/http://78.media.tumblr.com/038f970b43419c9ea3a39b66c061feda/tumblr_nqzw6otX8M1tqxfv8o1_500.gif
is there music to go w those images
― Mordy, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 18:55 (six years ago) link
ooh missed this from end of decembert e l e p a t h & Agiahttps://telepathtelepath.bandcamp.com/album/the-light-of-our-love
it is beeeautiful :)
― nxd, Wednesday, 17 January 2018 10:03 (six years ago) link
I glossed over that one after first listen but went back recently and yeah, it’s nice! I prefer telepath’s slushwave/phaserwave stuff but this is a welcomed release for sure.
― calstars, Wednesday, 17 January 2018 22:34 (six years ago) link
absolutely digging the second track
― nxd, Thursday, 18 January 2018 13:17 (six years ago) link
hey it's new wosX!i loved 'brasil world cup 2034' (namely 'golazo') & 'end of world rave' and this one seems to me to be a nice combo of the two...https://dreamcatalogue.bandcamp.com/album/london-2041
― nxd, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 13:33 (six years ago) link
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a3812942879_10.jpg
I've really been enjoying See You When I Do by Shoji正治. Just very good dreamy stuff (for me).
xp this is an actual xp lol. Will check out the new wosX!
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 13:44 (six years ago) link
Thanks for the Shoji rec, it’s great
― calstars, Saturday, 27 January 2018 00:59 (six years ago) link
https://t.co/Z2UsnBzzEq
New 2814Sold out
― calstars, Thursday, 1 February 2018 22:30 (six years ago) link
available to listen anywhere?
― nxd, Thursday, 1 February 2018 22:50 (six years ago) link
Not that I’ve found. Some samples on that page. Added to my soulseek wish list...hope it pops up soon
― calstars, Thursday, 1 February 2018 23:18 (six years ago) link
http://telepathtelepath.bandcamp.com/album/unisonAnother new telepath and Agia collaboration LP today. man this dude doesn’t slow down. I like this one better than the first.
― calstars, Saturday, 3 February 2018 02:05 (six years ago) link
its p good! posted it in the rolling thread i started but if peeps prefer can stick the straight up vw stuff hererolling time travel, bleep bloops, vaporwave, orange milk kinda stuff 2k18
― nxd, Saturday, 3 February 2018 12:55 (six years ago) link
I heard the new 2814 and they are, as I'd hoped, especially 'new sun,' transcendent. I'm so happy that hke is back on the scene and that he and t are collaborating again.
― calstars, Sunday, 4 February 2018 00:15 (six years ago) link
decided to give virtua.zip another spin, man I forgot how many tracks on this thing I absolutely love
― frogbs, Monday, 19 February 2018 16:50 (six years ago) link
amazing record thank u for reminding me of itthe amount of original stuff not relying on samples etc makes it so much more sweeter
― nxd, Wednesday, 21 February 2018 09:36 (six years ago) link
^^^ That was one of the first ones I got into in the genre, though in retrospect it seems more chillwave than vwave.
― calstars, Wednesday, 21 February 2018 14:17 (six years ago) link
I remember searching around in vain to find out what "mindless" was sampled from - didn't know who George Clanton was obviously
there's something to be said about how rediscovering stuff you used to love 15-20 years ago through YouTube or downloading VGMs from games you had fond memories of never really quite captures the magic you used to feel. but this album (despite being mostly sample-free) actually seems to nail it. for example a track like "peter" - I remember a whole bunch of stuff sounding like that
― frogbs, Wednesday, 21 February 2018 18:01 (six years ago) link
fun watching chungking express and noticing v wave album art
https://i.imgur.com/S1MCZlB.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/mjSdQvg.jpg
― calstars, Monday, 26 February 2018 04:00 (six years ago) link
oh wow thanks! i was wondering over the weekend where the cover of breathless came from!
― nxd, Monday, 26 February 2018 09:40 (six years ago) link
I saw on discogs that darkpyramid, of “heart full of love” fame, is an alias of hke’s
― calstars, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 22:02 (six years ago) link
https://m.soundcloud.com/darkpyramidofficial/a-love-song
― calstars, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 22:23 (six years ago) link
i hadnt heard darkpyramid before but this is right up my street
― nxd, Wednesday, 28 February 2018 11:24 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy07D1chHxo
― calstars, Saturday, 3 March 2018 02:29 (six years ago) link
https://m.soundcloud.com/chungkingmansionshk/visions-of-chung-wan-feat-shinatama
― zlstrz (calstars), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 23:31 (six years ago) link
missed this, a good start to my monday morning :)
― nxd, Monday, 19 March 2018 10:02 (six years ago) link
https://dreamcatalogue.bandcamp.com/track/fluoxetine-variant
― big C (calstars), Thursday, 22 March 2018 01:11 (six years ago) link
https://m.soundcloud.com/vincent-remember/bathroom-vibes-vincent-ft-king-pluto
― big C (calstars), Saturday, 24 March 2018 04:03 (six years ago) link
So what’s the “nevermind” of vwave: floral shoppe or birth of a new day or ?
― calstars, Saturday, 24 March 2018 23:50 (six years ago) link
floral shoppe or ecco jams?
― nxd, Monday, 26 March 2018 08:32 (six years ago) link
yea its definitely floral shoppe
― frogbs, Monday, 26 March 2018 12:34 (six years ago) link
This album is hilarious :https://dreamcatalogue.bandcamp.com/album/telenightsNow you’re playing with power...Panasonic quality...taking on the European performance sedans at their own game (sax solo)
― calstars, Monday, 2 April 2018 01:45 (six years ago) link
https://dream-catalogue.bandcamp.com/album/cherished
― calstars, Wednesday, 4 April 2018 02:34 (six years ago) link
had lows and highs with these last two links this morning :)
― nxd, Wednesday, 4 April 2018 10:17 (six years ago) link
finally getting around to listening to Esprit / George Clanton's '200% electronica' album and it's very lush, poppy and enjoyable
― calstars, Saturday, 7 April 2018 01:39 (six years ago) link
https://tattvatapes.bandcamp.com/track/netscape-lake
― calstars, Saturday, 21 April 2018 02:36 (five years ago) link
Renja is pretty consistently good, though he:she still has a ton of stuff on Bandcamp that I haven’t yet heard
― calstars, Sunday, 29 April 2018 19:15 (five years ago) link
https://open.spotify.com/track/4oRjlgDBPhZXyJhT6vD5LM?si=k6rAgvbkTzOCze5eRYdEJA
― calstars, Thursday, 10 May 2018 02:53 (five years ago) link
2814 isn’t vaporwave. More like ambient phaser slush
― calstars, Thursday, 10 May 2018 02:54 (five years ago) link
Came across this documentary history by Wolfenstein osx:https://youtu.be/PdpP0mXOlWM
― calstars, Monday, 14 May 2018 18:07 (five years ago) link
sweet thanks! love his stuffthursday lunchtime viewing sorted :D
― nxd, Thursday, 17 May 2018 09:58 (five years ago) link
https://www.nts.live/shows/dream-catalogue/episodes/dream-catalogue-20th-april-2016
dream catalogue (hke) has a weekly radio show on NTS. the shows are also put up on Mixcloud>>>
https://www.mixcloud.com/NTSRadio/dream-catalogue-22nd-february-2018/
― calstars, Friday, 15 June 2018 17:21 (five years ago) link
I wish there was a “our band could be your life” for vwave
― calstars, Sunday, 17 June 2018 01:20 (five years ago) link
Namedropping some mindspring memories
http://mindspringmemories.bandcamp.com/album/closer-to-euphoria
― calstars, Thursday, 21 June 2018 01:12 (five years ago) link
still bumping this beautifully vapid realm in 2018. there's a nice website called Nightwave Plaza that streams vapor 24/7 w/ gorgeous visuals. https://plaza.one/also available as an app!
― meaulnes, Friday, 9 November 2018 00:21 (five years ago) link
Cool stuff HKE just got his own “this is” playlist on Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/user/spotify/playlist/37i9dQZF1DZ06evO4jpV6r?si=e49CeFXHTN-uT9kPa78TfQ
― calstars, Friday, 9 November 2018 00:31 (five years ago) link
Getting into skeleton’s stuff a bit lately, there are some gems to be mined. https://soundcpu.bandcamp.com/track/foreverhttps://soundcpu.bandcamp.com/track/cool-water
― calstars, Friday, 9 November 2018 01:47 (five years ago) link
https://dreamcatalogue.bandcamp.com/track/--608
― calstars, Monday, 12 November 2018 04:26 (five years ago) link
2814: the year vaporwave broke
― calstars, Saturday, 17 November 2018 21:32 (five years ago) link
So vektroid has a twitch channel https://www.twitch.tv/waterfallvoyeur/videos/all
― calstars, Sunday, 18 November 2018 18:29 (five years ago) link
That's a cool idea
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Sunday, 18 November 2018 19:01 (five years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/user/PrevueChannelMusic/videos
― bruhman & martin's laugh-in (crüt), Thursday, 6 December 2018 06:10 (five years ago) link
HKE / dream catalogue has a podcast where they talk about themselves, casually reveal their aliases and play each other’s music. https://youtu.be/XxFmgfwbltM
― calstars, Thursday, 13 December 2018 05:06 (five years ago) link
https://youtu.be/-SQ92AhBbYA?t=31m55s
this track is so on the money, it kinda creeps me out. I love it
― frogbs, Friday, 14 December 2018 15:19 (five years ago) link
This Vice City theme rework is enjoyable...https://youtu.be/Hvj_oDSFyo0
― calstars, Friday, 14 December 2018 16:48 (five years ago) link
The vaporwave aesthetic is inclusive of an updated version of orientalism, no? Shame
― calstars, Saturday, 22 December 2018 22:40 (five years ago) link
https://slate.com/technology/2019/03/hypnospace-wrong-box-video-games-geocities-myspace-nostalgia-90s.html
― calstars, Saturday, 6 April 2019 01:08 (five years ago) link
new blank banshee is pretty good!https://daily.bandcamp.com/2019/07/17/blank-banshee-metamorphosis-review/
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 17:59 (four years ago) link
yessssss
they had me in the bandcamps review with the comparison to &&&&&
― nxd, Thursday, 18 July 2019 13:08 (four years ago) link
Was never a BB dude and the new one just left me cold
― calstars, Friday, 19 July 2019 00:26 (four years ago) link
Try dis ?http://music.businesscasual.biz/album/memories
― calstars, Friday, 19 July 2019 00:27 (four years ago) link
10 years
http://www.youtube.com/user/sunsetcorp
― calstars, Saturday, 20 July 2019 21:47 (four years ago) link
http://images2.imagebam.com/d4/13/bc/44fe841280338664.jpeg
― calstars, Saturday, 20 July 2019 22:19 (four years ago) link
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0126630974_16.jpg
The new 猫 シ Corp (w/ telepath) is quite a big departure from his previous work, way more downtempo and ambient. It's great.
https://catsystemcorp.bandcamp.com/album/building-a-better-world
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 29 July 2019 17:09 (four years ago) link
Listened over the weekend and don’t think I’ll be revisiting...Telepath has (sadly imho) moved past his slushwave salad days If you like this one don’t sleep on his two records with Agia
― calstars, Monday, 29 July 2019 18:51 (four years ago) link
link them plz?
― Mordy, Monday, 29 July 2019 18:54 (four years ago) link
The three Telepath + Agia albums are right here: https://telepathtelepath.bandcamp.com/
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 29 July 2019 19:10 (four years ago) link
thx
― Mordy, Monday, 29 July 2019 19:42 (four years ago) link
Droppin a little Hantasi for your summertime pleasure https://sudswapaudiobrewing.bandcamp.com/album/way-heaven
― calstars, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 21:56 (four years ago) link
ooo i love that
― Mordy, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 23:30 (four years ago) link
new Blank Banshee is pretty nice. feels like he's finally got a few more tricks up his sleeve & 18 minutes is a good length for this sort of thing
― frogbs, Friday, 9 August 2019 18:29 (four years ago) link
100% Electronicon still sold out but the afterparty with Skylar Spence, Negative Gemini and deaths dynamic shroud is openhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/100-electronicon-after-party-w-skeleton-lipstick-dj-skylar-spence-dj-negative-gemini-dj-more-tickets-65199177495
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 11 August 2019 17:05 (four years ago) link
This one off the new 2814 b-sides comp would sound right at home on 新しい日の誕生https://dreamcatalogue.bandcamp.com/track/--723
― calstars, Monday, 12 August 2019 23:34 (four years ago) link
way late pass but the Windows彡96 album from last year (one hundred mornings) is fabulous https://windows96.bandcamp.com/album/one-hundred-mornings
― brimstead, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 00:28 (four years ago) link
Checking it out now. Looks like there's a newer one too.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 01:07 (four years ago) link
New one, Enchanted Instrumentals and Whispers, is actually pretty great. Lots of wacked out pitch bent and detuned synths.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 01:44 (four years ago) link
calstars posted one hundred mornings in the other thread, it's so good
― nxd, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 08:16 (four years ago) link
new Saint Pepsi today (?) (!!!)
― frogbs, Wednesday, 28 August 2019 15:00 (four years ago) link
psyched for Saturday, it’s gonna be a long day
― calstars, Friday, 30 August 2019 03:27 (four years ago) link
https://nmesh.bandcamp.com/album/live-100-electronicon
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 14:34 (four years ago) link
yay <3
― nxd, Friday, 13 September 2019 09:44 (four years ago) link
https://youtu.be/pqg5YrtD87U
― calstars, Sunday, 15 September 2019 00:14 (four years ago) link
^ EEGPROGRAMSessential early classix
― calstars, Sunday, 15 September 2019 00:15 (four years ago) link
https://dreamcatalogue.bandcamp.com/track/--608So glad to hear this
― calstars, Sunday, 15 September 2019 23:28 (four years ago) link
http://noproblematapes.bandcamp.com/album/--2
Epic and a half
― calstars, Saturday, 28 September 2019 04:45 (four years ago) link
Bars love to play 80s stuff, I feel like they’re perennially on the cusp of discovering luxury elite or Initiation Tape, frustrating
― calstars, Saturday, 28 September 2019 22:44 (four years ago) link
A lot of the groundwork for the sonic grandeur of 2814 can be found on telepath’s contributions to fragmented memories but this nirvana port release shows what hke probably brought to the project https://nirvanaport.bandcamp.com/album/exit
― calstars, Sunday, 29 September 2019 01:16 (four years ago) link
“ TakZero • 3h • We should make slavic sub-genre of vaporwave, if it not exist and I listen to this music later”
― calstars, Sunday, 29 September 2019 23:28 (four years ago) link
https://sunsetrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/clear-views
Some b o d y l i n e makes for a relaxing morning
― June Pointer’s Valentine’s Day Secret Admirer Note Author (calstars), Saturday, 2 November 2019 13:57 (four years ago) link
Let’s talk about orientalism babee
― June Pointer’s Valentine’s Day Secret Admirer Note Author (calstars), Sunday, 24 November 2019 02:56 (four years ago) link
https://diskunion.net/dubooks/ct/detail/DUBK237Vwave making a splash in Japan
― calstars, Thursday, 19 December 2019 12:25 (four years ago) link
don't a lot of Japanese musicians use English words for aesthetic reasons? this must be pretty weird for them
― frogbs, Thursday, 19 December 2019 14:43 (four years ago) link
https://telepathtelepath.bandcamp.com/track/--231
― calstars, Friday, 3 January 2020 21:04 (four years ago) link
Born in Tokyo in 19XX. Shocked by Vaporwave, publish ZINE “Steamwave Essentials Guide” in 2017.
I too was shocked by vapo wave but I did not publish anything in response to my feelings
― Sassy Boutonnière (ledriver), Saturday, 4 January 2020 05:45 (four years ago) link
have no clue what the music sounds like but man this vinyl looks sick
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/0017598306_10.jpg
― frogbs, Monday, 6 January 2020 20:05 (four years ago) link
Ha yeah, it looks even better in real life: https://www.instagram.com/p/B6_JgMfHlOC/
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 6 January 2020 20:41 (four years ago) link
Cat Corp seems like a really nice guy but I can definitely take or leave the majority of his stuff including this. Interesting conceptually but not really something I’d put on
― calstars, Monday, 6 January 2020 22:16 (four years ago) link
yeah idk how much I'd actually listen to it, just would be cool to have hanging on my wall honestly
― frogbs, Monday, 6 January 2020 22:25 (four years ago) link
https://noproblematapes.bandcamp.com/track/--58
― calstars, Saturday, 18 January 2020 13:43 (four years ago) link
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/marbloid/id1207773612Vwave: the game ?
― calstars, Friday, 24 January 2020 17:49 (four years ago) link
https://plaza.one/...and a radio station
― calstars, Saturday, 25 January 2020 15:54 (four years ago) link
I got my copy of new vaporwave music archives today, it is a very cool thing
― ncxkd, Saturday, 1 February 2020 20:29 (four years ago) link
This looks interesting
Coming soon...!#NobodyHere #StoryOfVaporwave pic.twitter.com/hUGuCXL9mF— The Story of Vaporwave (@NobodyHere_Film) February 25, 2020
― calstars, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 00:48 (four years ago) link
Today, Lopatin acknowledged the 'release' of 'Collected Echoes,' the precursor to Eccojams!
https://www.discogs.com/Chuck-Person-Collected-Echoes-2004-2008/release/14863387
I was going to put the echoes supermixes up to celebrate 10 years since eccojams v1, but someone did it already 😭 ENJOY https://t.co/ddsdQ5Ap66— opn (@0PN) March 24, 2020
― calstars, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 00:18 (four years ago) link
Nice!
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 10:05 (four years ago) link
lush!
― nxd, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 14:29 (four years ago) link
Last night on a twitch stream there were a number of classic era luminaries online: st Pepsi, Vek, Luxury Elite, James and Tech from deaths dynamic shroud, and equip...nice to see the scene together like that, even if it was URL and not IRL
― ncxkd, Monday, 30 March 2020 12:48 (four years ago) link
Do you know the name of the Twitch channel?
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 30 March 2020 13:11 (four years ago) link
yeah i'd like to see that
― frogbs, Monday, 30 March 2020 13:24 (four years ago) link
https://www.twitch.tv/bellestardust/videos/all
Should temper your expectations by saying that it was just a text chat room ... Still cool though
― ncxkd, Monday, 30 March 2020 13:27 (four years ago) link
Virtual virtual https://www.100percentelectronica.com/blogs/news/100-electronica-presents-beyond-the-virtual-utopia-experience-vr-360-live-stream-concert
― calstars, Thursday, 2 April 2020 23:45 (four years ago) link
식료품groceries is doing a livestream of his 2019 live set on insta atm
― calstars, Saturday, 4 April 2020 02:14 (four years ago) link
SPF 420 is streaming a stacked lineup right now, inc. Saint Pepsi, Death's Dynamic Shroud, Kero Kero Bonito. http://syncup.world/
― J. Sam, Monday, 20 April 2020 23:11 (three years ago) link
Dream Catalogue online festival on May 2.
Livewire Festival, a livestreamed event from @dream_catalogue and @vapormemory. We are raising money for the NHS, supporting the amazing and essential work they are doing during these crazy times. I hope you can join us 😁 pic.twitter.com/6FjwE6soDU— Remember (@remember4802) April 21, 2020
― ncxkd, Tuesday, 21 April 2020 22:00 (three years ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/yung-chomsky/goodbye-silicon-valley
― treeship., Friday, 3 July 2020 16:31 (three years ago) link
https://noproblematapes.bandcamp.com/track/luxury-sedan
some golden era (2015) cat system Corp for your pleasure, from the Audi album. The sample is from delegation’s 1983 jam “it’s your turn”
https://youtu.be/RZritl5yij0
― ncxkd, Sunday, 20 September 2020 21:21 (three years ago) link
https://youtu.be/nv9K_nqF94o
18 carat affair - 7 pm
― ncxkd, Tuesday, 13 October 2020 22:30 (three years ago) link
https://nmesh.bandcamp.com/album/vaporspace-madness-nmesh-102920
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 6 November 2020 15:13 (three years ago) link
Mesh has mad OG cred. Favorite thing of his is his half of ロストエデンへのパス
― ncxkd, Friday, 6 November 2020 20:24 (three years ago) link
This looks goodhttps://i.imgur.com/Gl2Wh2D.jpgBeen pretty into late night lo fi recently
― calstars, Sunday, 15 November 2020 19:51 (three years ago) link
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 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coCo3nbOusA
― calstars, Monday, 3 May 2021 02:36 (two years ago) link
https://vav-31.bandcamp.com/track/soul-mates
― calstars, Saturday, 31 July 2021 21:54 (two years ago) link
https://cyberdream.bandcamp.com/track/lights-abound
― ncxkd, Sunday, 8 August 2021 20:44 (two 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 (two years ago) link
You have a recommendation from the catalog?
― ncxkd, Tuesday, 10 August 2021 08:08 (two 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 (two years ago) link
Like this track from the second one: https://eveningdisclosure.bandcamp.com/track/--125
― ncxkd, Wednesday, 11 August 2021 00:44 (two years ago) link
Be realIt doesn’t matter anywayYou know it’s just too little too late
― ncxkd, Sunday, 15 August 2021 00:00 (two years ago) link
https://noproblematapes.com/album/imaginary-pathwaysSome of lindsheaven’s last work
― calstars, Tuesday, 31 August 2021 22:08 (two years ago) link
― calstars, Sunday, 5 September 2021 00:30 (two years ago) link
It’s gonna be night night https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHk5Duip_7Q
― calstars, Saturday, 11 September 2021 02:09 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/UFoOScM.jpgGoing to listen to Lisa frank 420 and drink this shit
― calstars, Sunday, 12 September 2021 23:48 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJWksPWDKOcEpic six hour reimagining of 1940s popular music molting into ambient atmospheres The caretaker - everywhere at the end of time
― calstars, Sunday, 19 September 2021 12:26 (two years ago) link
^ not exactly vaporwave (not exactly good either...)
am i the only one that thinks most vaporwave out there only exists for musicbros to speculate over? that would explain why most vaporwave albums are sold at ridiculous prices on discogs and other second hand marketplaces, and why most die hard vaporwave fans in [current year] aren’t really into other music genres. so much for the capitalism critique or whatever.
like a buddy of mine has a vaporwave vinyl he bought for 30 bucks or something and right now it’s selling for +200 USD on discogs lol.
― marblesurf, Monday, 20 September 2021 11:58 (two years ago) link
that's why I like the 100% Electronica label, they do a real good job keeping stuff available. tbf it's hard to blame anyone in particular for this happening (outside of the scalpers of course), not only is there a huge delay in manufacturing vinyl right now it's pretty much impossible to know how many copies anything is gonna sell these days
― frogbs, Monday, 20 September 2021 13:23 (two years ago) link
i also like 100% electronica, but vaporwave albums being sold at insane prices isn’t really a new thing and has been going on at least since beer on the rug. i don’t know why vaporwave in particular is so affected by scalpers.
side note: can you imagine a world where seapunk won over vaporwave in the internet-genre-wars? that’s a timeline i’d like living in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0AWgOnk67A
― marblesurf, Monday, 20 September 2021 20:30 (two years ago) link
https://forestedrelics.bandcamp.com/track/mimi-e-no-ai
― calstars, Sunday, 24 October 2021 15:16 (two years ago) link
death's dynamic shroud has been flooding the market lately with fanclub-only stuff but I had a listen to the latest one called Faith in Persona and it's amazing. I think its just a Keith Rankin solo album too. I like it about as much as I'll Try Living Like This & Heavy Black Heart
― frogbs, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 14:37 (two years ago) link
Their marketing game is strong, esp after teaming up with Clanton
― calstars, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 15:01 (two years ago) link
my child saw George Clanton and death's dynamic shroud do Halloween show down here, it sounds like it was a good one
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 15:17 (two years ago) link
would love to see them but they seem to really love just touring the South
― frogbs, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 15:57 (two years ago) link
https://noproblematapes.bandcamp.com/track/--341Ooooooohhhh
― calstars, Saturday, 4 December 2021 22:03 (two years ago) link
― calstars, Saturday, 4 December 2021 23:22 (two years ago) link
Grab some Tele vinyl while it’s avail https://geometriclullaby.bandcamp.com/album/--25
― calstars, Monday, 6 December 2021 21:56 (two years ago) link
floral shoppe turns 10 today, released 09 december 2011:
https://vektroid.bandcamp.com/album/floral-shoppe
add this to the "insanely influential but not very good" thread
― marblesurf, Thursday, 9 December 2021 18:05 (two years ago) link
indeed - seems pretty clear that the whole thing was done on the fly, with 3 tracks in a row sampling off the same album. idk how it really holds up as an album but I do admit it touches a weird nerve that nobody's really been able to replicate
― frogbs, Thursday, 9 December 2021 18:37 (two years ago) link
https://vektroid.bandcamp.com/album/dream-castleShe released this one at almost the same time…
― calstars, Thursday, 9 December 2021 20:07 (two years ago) link
yea once I got into her other stuff (back in 2012) it seemed pretty clear that Floral Shoppe wasn't even one of her five best albums. and she was only like 21 at the time
― frogbs, Thursday, 9 December 2021 20:58 (two years ago) link
She’s an inspiration no doubt
― calstars, Thursday, 9 December 2021 23:26 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/3lhT2OX.png
― calstars, Saturday, 11 December 2021 23:03 (two years ago) link
seconding the "Faith in Persona" recommendation, wow!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EasnE6KGze0
― cheeseburger, Wednesday, 22 December 2021 17:20 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/fGVYltO.jpg
― calstars, Sunday, 30 January 2022 01:56 (two years ago) link
Today’s featured artist: Phoenix #2772https://phoenix2772.bandcamp.com/https://twitter.com/phx2772One of the OG fragmented friends (https://noproblematapes.bandcamp.com/album/--2), Phoenix is a classic vaporwave artist with an ear for 80s and 90s r&b. Recommended
― ncxkd, Sunday, 6 February 2022 22:13 (two years ago) link
“Keep you Warm”https://phoenix2772.bandcamp.com/album/classic-cuts-vol-7
“Here I am”https://noproblematapes.bandcamp.com/track/--341
“LOVE 私を忘れないでください” w/ telepathhttps://noproblematapes.bandcamp.com/track/--350
― ncxkd, Sunday, 6 February 2022 22:22 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/yY4C7HB.png
― calstars, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 16:23 (two years ago) link
https://elemental95.bandcamp.com/track/--104
― calstars, Friday, 18 February 2022 01:46 (two years ago) link
Support Ukraine with this survey of the labels in the no problema orbithttps://noproblemadigital.bandcamp.com/album/--10liminalgarden.bandcamp.comdreamshoretapes.bandcamp.comseasidetapes.bandcamp.comnoproblematapes.comcitymanprod.comunderwater-computing.bandcamp.comthetidalcharm.bandcamp.comuauhwow.bandcamp.comhttps://i.imgur.com/LAlmi6y.jpg
― calstars, Sunday, 6 March 2022 21:04 (two years ago) link
VAPORWAVES NOT DEAD
― unknown or illegal user (doo rag), Monday, 28 March 2022 00:50 (two years ago) link
was vaporwave inspired by mark fisher's notions of hauntology and capitalist realism or did it just grow out of the earlier music fisher was writing about? it seems very much an uncanny revisiting of an earlier moment of capitalism -- a false utopia or missed opportunity
― treeship., Monday, 28 March 2022 01:40 (two years ago) link
anybody need a vaporwave album cover? just get KPT Bryce going on a 68k Mac in your browser: https://blog.persistent.info/2022/03/blog-post.html
― brisk money (lukas), Friday, 1 April 2022 18:57 (two years ago) link
Yeah this guy uses Bryce a lot, has had many cover commissions. https://instagram.com/zer0rei_?utm_medium=copy_link
― calstars, Friday, 1 April 2022 19:09 (two years ago) link
OG Nmesh just dropped this today by coincidence I guess
💾 i put together a little mixtape for your all's aural pleasure, of some of my favorite vaporwave tracks throughout the years - it's a bit of a grab bag, covering a lot of stylistic ground and history - happy friday. ✌🏼𝗙𝗥𝗘𝗘 𝗗𝗢𝗪𝗡𝗟𝗢𝗔𝗗: https://t.co/ujQgRJ7sEB pic.twitter.com/WIGEef2NeE— NMΞSH 🍳 (@nmeshofficial) April 1, 2022
― ncxkd, Saturday, 2 April 2022 00:31 (two years ago) link
new telepath
https://telepathtelepath.bandcamp.com/album/wading-in-the-afterlife-original-soundtrack
― nxd, Monday, 4 April 2022 18:47 (two years ago) link
New alias as well, 天火见
― calstars, Monday, 4 April 2022 19:30 (two years ago) link
TS: saint Pepsi vs 猫 シ Corp.
― calstars, Saturday, 9 April 2022 16:09 (two years ago) link
https://purelifetapes.bandcamp.com/album/chromavaporwave-adjacent but not vapor and I don’t know where else to put this. Beautiful album
― calstars, Saturday, 16 April 2022 03:08 (two years ago) link
loving this
― nxd, Tuesday, 19 April 2022 08:25 (one year ago) link
Glad you liked it!I’ve been jamming this one non-stop, has kind of a similar vibe https://citymanprod.com/album/ost-themes
― calstars, Wednesday, 20 April 2022 01:35 (one year ago) link
Chroma reminds me a little bit of Konx-om-Pax, but I like this more.
― brisk money (lukas), Wednesday, 20 April 2022 04:44 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xg4SFkQDDoc
Visual album for Choma by talented visual artist (and equally adept producer) Hydra
― calstars, Thursday, 21 April 2022 01:46 (one year ago) link
Definitely not vaporwave. I will try to find a new home
really enjoyed christtts latest album
― nxd, Friday, 22 April 2022 19:45 (one year ago) link
god I am so back and forth on that guy. I will say "hell iii" got me
― frogbs, Saturday, 23 April 2022 04:35 (one year ago) link
*puts on Marvin Gaye album* this is the most underrated Marvin Gaye album— Skylar Spence (@skylar__spence) May 1, 2022
― calstars, Sunday, 1 May 2022 22:57 (one year ago) link
calstars did you find a new home for Chroma? I'm starting to check out other stuff on that label. Well okay, I checked out the one release immediately prior to Chroma and immediately got sucked in ...
https://purelifetapes.bandcamp.com/album/data-garden
― brisk money (lukas), Saturday, 7 May 2022 00:31 (one year ago) link
New home?Yeah kuroi ame are very good. I like cmd094 solo even more.
― calstars, Saturday, 7 May 2022 01:42 (one year ago) link
Definitely not vaporwave. I will try to find a new homeimago started some new thread but this is probably too pleasant for it.
― brisk money (lukas), Saturday, 7 May 2022 03:30 (one year ago) link
all those vill41n albums have gorgeous artwork
― brimstead, Saturday, 7 May 2022 15:06 (one year ago) link
Ohh right. Maybe I should start a “vapor adjacent” thread for these kinds of projects that have roots in that scene but are not vaporwave
― calstars, Saturday, 7 May 2022 15:52 (one year ago) link
the title of this thread includes “derivative products” so I think it’s ok
― brimstead, Saturday, 7 May 2022 17:40 (one year ago) link
I took that to mean sampled
― calstars, Saturday, 7 May 2022 17:52 (one year ago) link
I support brimstead's vapor chaos initiative
― brisk money (lukas), Saturday, 7 May 2022 18:30 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJGvLLEZQAA
― calstars, Sunday, 8 May 2022 02:18 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/v1ediLA.jpg
― calstars, Saturday, 14 May 2022 10:08 (one year ago) link
So no one going to E3?
― calstars, Thursday, 19 May 2022 00:14 (one year ago) link
what are you talking about?
― brisk money (lukas), Thursday, 19 May 2022 01:21 (one year ago) link
presumably Electronicon, I'd go but I don't wanna travel to NYC
― frogbs, Thursday, 19 May 2022 02:15 (one year ago) link
Excellent guide to the various guideshttps://sunbleach.net/2017/12/02/feature-guide-to-vaporwave-guides/
― calstars, Saturday, 21 May 2022 19:00 (one year ago) link
missing that vaporwave guide from the guy in the Beach Boys (not kidding)
― brisk money (lukas), Sunday, 22 May 2022 02:52 (one year ago) link
Maybe you mean Mickey dolenz/ the monkees?
― calstars, Sunday, 22 May 2022 17:44 (one year ago) link
uh oh
― brisk money (lukas), Sunday, 22 May 2022 18:38 (one year ago) link
https://noproblematapes.bandcamp.com/track/--339
― calstars, Monday, 23 May 2022 00:56 (one year ago) link
Telepath announced ! https://i.imgur.com/yJ4GW5S.jpg
― calstars, Monday, 23 May 2022 23:16 (one year ago) link
Anyone going to Econ 3?
― calstars, Friday, 5 August 2022 17:47 (one year ago) link
been getting into "News at 11" by 猫 シ Corp lately. it's a 9/11 themed album, albeit in the most vaporwavey way possible - most of the samples are from the news broadcasts that aired right before the first plane hit. the McDonalds commercial you hear in it was apparently the one that was cut in to. but you never hear 9/11 referenced, so it's either an alternate universe where 9/11 never happened, or one where it did but you just don't know it yet. it's a pretty cool achievement, there's nothing particularly creepy about any of this but in context it's very unsettling. I mean America as we knew it had just ended
― frogbs, Sunday, 25 September 2022 18:31 (one year ago) link
Corp markets the heck out of that album now and then (picture discs!) and it’s always rubbed me the wrong way that he makes money off such a sad day. In other Vapor news this weekend the nmesh / dream catalogue fight over royalty payments got really hot really fast
― calstars, Sunday, 25 September 2022 19:24 (one year ago) link
Like, I don’t need to relive 9/11 through an elaborate prism of Vapor. Corp is Dutch I think so there’s something to be said for the “outsider” perspective and presentation. But yeah personally not something I would ever put on as entertainment.
― calstars, Sunday, 25 September 2022 19:28 (one year ago) link
Not judging anyone who enjoys it of course. Always happy to have some Vapor discourse on ilx
― calstars, Sunday, 25 September 2022 19:43 (one year ago) link
if it's exploitative it's at least exploitative in a pretty interesting way, given it never really references the thing it's exploiting. I'm not sure if I particularly "enjoy" it but given the events of the last 5-6 years and knowing how it all kinda spurned from what happened there it does really hit a certain spot
dunno anything about the Nmesh/Dream Catalogue thing but Nmesh always seemed like a stand up dude and the guy who runs DC is kind of a dick
― frogbs, Sunday, 25 September 2022 19:52 (one year ago) link
enjoying this
https://fortune500.bandcamp.com/album/the-music-of-the-now-age-iv
― nxd, Saturday, 1 October 2022 14:07 (one year ago) link
Listening to it right now! Lol
― calstars, Saturday, 1 October 2022 14:59 (one year ago) link
wow neat, first fortune500 release since 2014? Wonder if these are all “old” tracks
― brimstead, Saturday, 1 October 2022 15:02 (one year ago) link
They’re not
― calstars, Saturday, 1 October 2022 15:33 (one year ago) link
Nxd are you on insta / twitter?
― calstars, Saturday, 1 October 2022 15:41 (one year ago) link
am on insta but dont really use it much tbhwill dm anyway x
― nxd, Sunday, 2 October 2022 12:05 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2cWur60ozU
David Crosby, seminal vaporwave vocalist
― calstars, Friday, 14 October 2022 16:13 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/pfsNTTs.jpgPlease let me unfollow 100 pct whatever
― calstars, Saturday, 26 November 2022 02:49 (one year ago) link
nico niquo is back!
https://orangemilkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/esperanto
just one track at the moment, album drops april 14
― nxd, Monday, 30 January 2023 09:45 (one year ago) link
couple of new nmesh tracks too
https://nmesh.bandcamp.com/album/on-the-telephone-preferred-stock
― nxd, Monday, 30 January 2023 09:53 (one year ago) link
speaking of Nmesh here's 34 minute video featuring a bunch of the samples from Dream Sequins. wonder if whoever made this was in contact with him cuz otherwise idk how you'd manage to find all this stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWPsr8hP8_s
― frogbs, Tuesday, 14 February 2023 16:16 (one year ago) link
A lot of fans spend time tracking down samples. Check out the deciphering lists on RYM.
https://rateyourmusic.com/list/LilLiam/deciphering-%E7%8C%AB-%E3%82%B7-corp/
https://rateyourmusic.com/list/LilLiam/deciphering-t-e-l-e-p-a-t-h/
― calstars, Tuesday, 14 February 2023 16:22 (one year ago) link
the stuff that appears on an album or a movie I understand, it's the ones that sample 40 year old commercials & interviews that probably only aired once that really impress me. one would think some of that stuff was just lost to time forever.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 14 February 2023 16:48 (one year ago) link
nice work!
― POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 07:09 (one year ago) link
always enjoy these finds
― nxd, Wednesday, 15 February 2023 14:40 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqHCjkEJ4CU
― calstars, Tuesday, 7 March 2023 03:31 (one year ago) link
well that's a jam
― corrs unplugged, Tuesday, 7 March 2023 08:07 (one year ago) link
whoa, randomly a new Computer Dreams release on Fortune 500https://fortune500.bandcamp.com/album/time-slips
― brimstead, Monday, 5 June 2023 17:28 (ten months ago) link
I love it when legends return
― calstars, Monday, 5 June 2023 19:36 (ten months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9URZgAqeqohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgfKjUX1EHQWho did it better?
― calstars, Wednesday, 5 July 2023 20:51 (nine months ago) link
found the latest blank banshee record a bit meh - maybe a bit too idm for meotoh new dan mason album is sounding great
― nxd, Friday, 20 October 2023 09:29 (five months ago) link
Dan Mason is about as “vaporwave” as Charli XCX at this point. He uses katakana next to his name tho so…
― calstars, Friday, 20 October 2023 12:03 (five months ago) link
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
― frogbs, Friday, 20 October 2023 14:17 (five months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMzqaNS5sn0The OG returns
― calstars, Tuesday, 24 October 2023 18:33 (five months ago) link
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
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Saturday, 4 November 2023 18:43 (five months ago) link
Sounds like a new avalanches single, just needs some dumb beat behind it
― calstars, Saturday, 4 November 2023 18:55 (five months ago) link
hahaha ouch!
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Saturday, 4 November 2023 19:29 (five months ago) link
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
― calstars, Sunday, 18 February 2024 13:44 (one month ago) link
https://sunsetgrid.bandcamp.com/track/now-draw-her-and-me-dancing-under-the-stars
― calstars, Saturday, 9 March 2024 06:01 (one month ago) link
https://computer-gaze.bandcamp.com/album/dream-recoverythis is still the best signalwave album
― brimstead, Thursday, 11 April 2024 16:01 (six days ago) link
I don't f with signalwave much but telepath's pink album would be my answer: https://dreamcatalogue.bandcamp.com/album/--11
― calstars, Thursday, 11 April 2024 19:03 (six days ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/g8PJL03.jpeg
― calstars, Saturday, 13 April 2024 04:11 (four days ago) link