vaporwave and deriative products

been listening to 18 carat affair's pleasure control quite a bit lately; it's like riding in the mall elevator for fifteen minutes in a good way.

18CA is a genius; wish he was more active

barry white... i need to get some sleep

http://lindsheavenvirtualplaza.bandcamp.com/album/daily-night-euphoria-ep

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h31I2mumtZk

https://tokyoexchange.bandcamp.com/album/infinite

vaporwave is starting to sound a lot like late 90s/early 2000s French house. wonder if it's the younger set's idea of nostalgia, which makes me feel a little old.

there's a lot of vaporwave with trap sounds as well (um vektroid hello), it's just sounds, m8

have started to see the more daft punk-y end of things tagged "future funk" pretty often

https://www.dropbox.com/s/djaatpdhpygnztn/MACINTOSH%20PLUS%20-%20%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B5%E3%83%95%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%82%AF420%20%20%E7%8F%BE%E4%BB%A3%E3%81%AE%E3%82%B3%E3%83%B3%E3%83%94%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BC%20%20%28Arr%20by%20Saint-Laurent%29.pdf?dl=0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPjQif2uct4

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

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuYFAyma064

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWsJUFAZv4Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkLPgAO36Kk

http://i.imgur.com/1YBdoRG.jpg

;-)

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

lost memories is good. my favorite 骨架的 is Illegal Antenna, i think https://soundcpu.bandcamp.com/album/illegal-antenna

nmesh has been on fire these past couple of years
the entirety of dream sequins is worth checking out

yes

that nmesh album is amazing, as is his fact mix from last year. it definitely helps that he's an older fsol/orb obsessive instead of a 19 year old internet personality.

yeah his musical ear is incredible

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uW7ZW5NSd0k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdTZviAf48g

more like this

absolutely adore the first giant claw record (dark web)
struggled to get into deep thoughts in the same way :(

deep thoughts sounds the way i imagined all vaporwave sounding before i listened to any of it

i think most if not all of the sounds are from the same palette as the casio i had growing up

i'll invest some more time in it :)

not sure what thread to put this in, but this album by bassist Sven Atterton is fucking gorgeous

http://omegasupremerecords.com/album/sven-atterton-the-cove

omega supreme is one of the best record labels going right now

ty for this amazing music crutis

great stuff

the dream catalogue compilation from earlier this year is pretty sweet listening too
https://dreamcatalogue.bandcamp.com/album/best-of-dream-catalogue-2814-2815

xp yeah that sven atterton is really cool!

yep, had it in my 2015 albums list

kinda late but i love this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tYpkyy7Ogs

eyeliner album is dope
toy dog is amazing

Have been listening to this most of the morning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuEdKcbNnXM

I don't remember being this nostalgic when I was this young.... but maybe I was and have just forgotten?

is that sampled from something?

seems like it would have to be. apparently, the crowd ambiance is actually field recordings by the producer, but not sure if music is too, or he found it elsewhere. If it was actually music he made and produced, that would actually raise this stuff to something pretty cool, like the bassist stuff posted above, but with ambient filtering

enjoying the EATQS album
https://soundcloud.com/noumenalloom/eatqs-cant-stop-to-explain-it-that-thing

^sounds good!

Been enjoying these, not drone or ambient at all, but almost a disco-edit/filter disco take on vaporwave:

Dan Mason - Miami Virtual 2.0
https://dmtrec.bandcamp.com/album/miami-virtual-20

悲しい ANDROID - APARTMENT¶ - With me, Without you
https://android-apartment.bandcamp.com/album/with-me-without-you

can't stop playing the bit 1:05 into the first track on Floral Shoppe where the sax solo comes in and just immediately gets all distended and out of tune. it really makes me laugh.

A good vaporwave album is ライフMIDI - VIRTUAL REALITY '97 「PLATINUM EDITION」 - can listen to the whole thing here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM7bGb4-N5A

It is a bit too on-the-nose but I do like it when these guys try to naturally freak you out rather than distort every third bar or whatever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8fM-CGQVCY

Be real, it doesn't matter anyway
You know it's just a little too late

this genre was awesome. i especially liked how 80% of the notable releases seem to come from vektroid under various aliases.

either her or the internet club guy

feel like deaths dynamic shroud is the best at this atm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0ALkNKQzmA

thats great

nice. i must point out that *ahem* it's deaths dynamic shroud.wmv :)

would like to gently rebuke treeship's point that vaporwave "was" rather than "still is". the straight up eccojam phase is over, i guess, but a healthy output of excellent ambient/illbient/ "derivative products" exists. (see dream catalogue, for ex)

and there seems to be an array of (mostly useless) EXTREME eccojams where recordings are slowed to the point where it just sounds like muffled garbage trucks

love vektroid's Sacred Tapestry release, it's a bit of a harbinger to this extreme sound https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3bxhofufFg

http://www.zero-books.net/books/babbling-corpse

In the age of global capitalism, vaporwave celebrates and undermines the electronic ghosts haunting the nostalgia industry.
Ours is a time of ghosts in machines, killing meaning and exposing the gaps inherent in the electronic media that pervade our lives. Vaporwave is an infant musical micro-genre that foregrounds the horror of electronic media's ability to appear - as media theorist Jeffrey Sconce terms it - "haunted."
Experimental musicians such as INTERNET CLUB and MACINTOSH PLUS manipulate Muzak and commercial music to undermine the commodification of nostalgia in the age of global capitalism while accentuating the uncanny properties of electronic music production.
Babbling Corpse reveals vaporwave's many intersections with politics, media theory, and our present fascination with uncanny, co(s)mic horror. The book is aimed at those interested in global capitalism's effect on art, musical raids on mainstream "indie" and popular music, and anyone intrigued by the changing relationship between art and commerce.