vaporwave and deriative products

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?

am on insta but dont really use it much tbh
will dm anyway x

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2cWur60ozU

David Crosby, seminal vaporwave vocalist

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

Please let me unfollow 100 pct whatever

nico niquo is back!

https://orangemilkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/esperanto

just one track at the moment, album drops april 14

couple of new nmesh tracks too

https://nmesh.bandcamp.com/album/on-the-telephone-preferred-stock

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

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/

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.

nice work!

always enjoy these finds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqHCjkEJ4CU

well that's a jam

whoa, randomly a new Computer Dreams release on Fortune 500

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

I love it when legends return

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

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

Who did it better?

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

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

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

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