vaporwave and deriative products

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

lol gone now

yahtzee that went fast

New internet club album on Luxury Elite’s resurrected Previe Guide label.

https://internetclubdotcom.angelfire.com/

https://prevueguide.bandcamp.com/album/thousand-one-half-stars

another variant of the dds album is coming sometime today if someone wants one

you'll have to act fast I assume

it would be nice if they pressed another 10 copies of the last windows96 album again so I can not buy it

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

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

Cool! I have two of his albums from 2018

it's wild how much his recs are going for on discogs

It’s a zadig the jasp kind of morning
https://vcrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/from-nowhere

hell yea man this is hitting just right

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 :-)

Vek admonishing virtual Keanu in cyberpunk 2077 for not appearing in the Johnny mnemonic video game is the most Boolean thing ever

https://i.imgur.com/joLJlDV.png
Happening now and this weekend !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7v9hRfvf1Q

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

Assumed this revive would be https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/02/aesthetics-wiki-cottagecore-tumblr-tiktok/617923/

holy shit there are like 200 artists performing at the latin vaporwave festival

also from the atlantic article i learned about this

https://aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki

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

lol

https://aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/Chaotic_Academia

this is kinda infuriating me

maybe this wiki can help me with my bedroom lightning though

lighting

I walked around trump tower one day in late 2019 and found it very vaporwavey—the waterfalls, the brass, the sinister kitsch.

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.

“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?

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.

banger Lindsheaven set from the latin all-stars fest:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huC2mV_0IhE

https://i.imgur.com/MP29xyc.png

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

oh no! Rip

https://plasticresponserecords.bandcamp.com/track/t-e-l-e-p-a-t-h

https://i.imgur.com/6MbJoYK.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coCo3nbOusA

https://vav-31.bandcamp.com/track/soul-mates

https://cyberdream.bandcamp.com/track/lights-abound

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.

You have a recommendation from the catalog?

There are three comps that are good, all variations on "alone this evening":

https://eveningdisclosure.bandcamp.com/album/all-alone-this-evening
https://eveningdisclosure.bandcamp.com/album/all-alone-again-this-evening
https://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".

Like this track from the second one: https://eveningdisclosure.bandcamp.com/track/--125

Be real
It doesn’t matter anyway
You know it’s just too little too late

https://noproblematapes.com/album/imaginary-pathways
Some of lindsheaven’s last work

https://telepathtelepath.bandcamp.com/track/--231

It’s gonna be night night

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHk5Duip_7Q

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

Going to listen to Lisa frank 420 and drink this shit

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

Epic six hour reimagining of 1940s popular music molting into ambient atmospheres

The caretaker - everywhere at the end of time

^ 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.

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

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