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

https://i.imgur.com/yY4C7HB.png

https://elemental95.bandcamp.com/track/--104

Support Ukraine with this survey of the labels in the no problema orbit
https://noproblemadigital.bandcamp.com/album/--10

liminalgarden.bandcamp.com
dreamshoretapes.bandcamp.com
seasidetapes.bandcamp.com
noproblematapes.com
citymanprod.com
underwater-computing.bandcamp.com
thetidalcharm.bandcamp.com
uauhwow.bandcamp.com

https://i.imgur.com/LAlmi6y.jpg

VAPORWAVES NOT DEAD

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

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

Yeah this guy uses Bryce a lot, has had many cover commissions.

https://instagram.com/zer0rei_?utm_medium=copy_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

new telepath

https://telepathtelepath.bandcamp.com/album/wading-in-the-afterlife-original-soundtrack

New alias as well, 天火见

TS: saint Pepsi vs 猫 シ Corp.

https://purelifetapes.bandcamp.com/album/chroma

vaporwave-adjacent but not vapor and I don’t know where else to put this. Beautiful album

loving this

Glad you liked it!

I’ve been jamming this one non-stop, has kind of a similar vibe

https://citymanprod.com/album/ost-themes

Chroma reminds me a little bit of Konx-om-Pax, but I like this more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xg4SFkQDDoc

Visual album for Choma by talented visual artist (and equally adept producer) Hydra

Definitely not vaporwave. I will try to find a new home

really enjoyed christtts latest album

god I am so back and forth on that guy. I will say "hell iii" got me

*puts on Marvin Gaye album* this is the most underrated Marvin Gaye album

— Skylar Spence (@skylar__spence) May 1, 2022

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

New home?
Yeah kuroi ame are very good. I like cmd094 solo even more.

Definitely not vaporwave. I will try to find a new home

imago started some new thread but this is probably too pleasant for it.

all those vill41n albums have gorgeous artwork

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

the title of this thread includes “derivative products” so I think it’s ok

I took that to mean sampled

I support brimstead's vapor chaos initiative

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

https://i.imgur.com/v1ediLA.jpg

So no one going to E3?

what are you talking about?

presumably Electronicon, I'd go but I don't wanna travel to NYC

Excellent guide to the various guides

https://sunbleach.net/2017/12/02/feature-guide-to-vaporwave-guides/

missing that vaporwave guide from the guy in the Beach Boys (not kidding)

Maybe you mean Mickey dolenz/ the monkees?

uh oh

https://noproblematapes.bandcamp.com/track/--339

Telepath announced !

https://i.imgur.com/yJ4GW5S.jpg

Anyone going to Econ 3?

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

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

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.

Not judging anyone who enjoys it of course. Always happy to have some Vapor discourse on ilx

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

enjoying this

https://fortune500.bandcamp.com/album/the-music-of-the-now-age-iv

Listening to it right now! Lol

wow neat, first fortune500 release since 2014? Wonder if these are all “old” tracks

They’re not

Nxd are you on insta / twitter?