vaporwave and deriative products

tried out dds.wmv's I'll Try Living Like This and I thought it was great. Vaporwave is oftentimes such an empty promise and there's just so much of it out there, but this album (on first listen) feels like the real deal, freaked me the hell out in a few spots (and it samples Susumu Hirasawa, and therefore automatically gets my thumbs up)

Saint Pepsi - Hit Vibes is another good one. Sounds like what Daft Punk's RAM really should've been. Something you could actually play at a party, how about that?

Thus far my favorite vape thing is "Death 2 Snitches", a collab between Nmesh and Viper the Rapper, who is (you could argue) an originator of vaporwave. I guess it's not really a collab, Nmesh just paypalled the dude 35 bucks for a verse and then tweaked the hell out of it. Wound up not finishing it because Viper turned out to be a seriously strange and dishonest dude that he didn't want to be associated with. But the demo version still totally rules:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQP5gpAhmuU

hit vibes is the best

That death's dynamic shroud.wmv album is amazing...

the Saint Pepsi sound seems to be the road taken for vaporwave artists not going full ambient (see also Android Apartment above), cf this comp from Future Society:

https://futuresocietycollective.bandcamp.com/album/single-series-volume-i

(curiously, Saint Pepsi artist himself seems to have gone into Neon Indian territory afterward...)

the death's dynamic shround.wmv album does become amazing at some point halfway through track 5, and stays amazing thereafter

'rare emoji collection' is incredible

and godDAMN that video :O

http://i.imgur.com/i8tp4Eq.png

it's like they know you

https://abelard.bandcamp.com/album/seinwave

this is so smoooooooooooth

http://i.imgur.com/SJW4GDe.jpg

Lol

sentient marketing tea

http://i.imgur.com/r8iYqsB.jpg

Laserdisc Visions - New Dreams Ltd. is sounding fucking ace this morning, anyone want to recommend something similar?

i didn't realize that MTV had a total Vaporwave inspired makeover last year

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

xp internet club - redefining the workplace

the comments on that video are perhaps the most annoying comments i've read all year. as if whatever the fuck those commentors are producing is somehow more valuable to the cultural landscape than mtv's vapor pastiche

lol co-option

yeah I totally welcome this stuff becoming more mainstream and think it already kinda is. it was definitely amusing checking out the comments for the original "It's Your Move" vid and seeing how nearly all of them mention vaporwave

Nmesh - Dream Sequins is pretty cool. sounds like an early-90's Orb album but instead of going for obscurity with the samples he's trying to bring out forgotten memories from people born in the 80's...kinda freaked out hearing the Land Before Time advert in there. I had a VHS with that on it and heard it dozens of times. any of his other stuff worth a listen?

also fucking lol at the last track on this thing

nu.wave hallucinations is my fave
https://nmesh.bandcamp.com/album/nu-wav-hallucinations

both awesome albums

the split w/ telepath is great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0v_p28uti2A

^ that's superb

really enjoying this at the moment https://satanicpornocultshop.bandcamp.com/album/mystic-island-neji-181

highly recommended (if you're into this kinda stuff) : Nmesh's massive Welcome to Warp Zone! mixtape, featuring 100+ tracks from 90's video games, plus snippets of dialogue, commercials, news reports, and I think even an original composition or two (plus, half a minute of "Horse With No Name" for no reason whatsoever). spans 4:20 (lol) but it's incredibly addictive - think Donkey Kong Country, Link to the Past, Earthbound...though I only recognize about a quarter of it. great stuff.

sold

here's a great track - feel like this is what so much vaporwave goes for but doesn't quite hit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZNQebEZaY8

lol the GI Joe reggae PSA in Warp Zone

DE BOSS RIDAH

this is the first thread since i've been on since the youtube flash API was officially deprecated and i get this message on every video and ~~~~~~~it makes sense~~~~~~~~

why is vaporwave still cool but chillwave is not they are very similar imo but maybe idgi

bc chillwave is a genre and vaporwave is a meme and something something harambe, probably

feeling so deprecated right now

i thought chillwave was like Ariel Pink

vaporwave = sampling old tv commercials and stuff

more curation, vibe creation

corporate

There's like 3 types of vaporwave - Eccojams (Chuck Person, Macintosh Plus), Sega Saturn Menu/Abandoned in the Hypermall/Weather Channel BGM (Laserdisc Visions, James Ferraro's Far Side Virtual), and Future Funk/Seapunk/Whatever the fuck (Saint Pepsi, Blank Banshee, most of what came out past 2012). People argue on Reddit a lot about it. Like IDM or Prog, most of the good vaporwave artists don't like being called vaporwave.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDxE4r5ixD0

Can we say that being prolific might be a characteristic of this genre?

It definitely can be -- telepath and his alias Virtual Dream Plaza has put 100 "albums" since 2013! Since most of this stuff is based on ambient drone and samples, I think it can be very easy to create (especially for kids w/a lot of free time and expendable/parental income). Not all artists are like this obv.

the funny thing about Vektroid being so prolific and working under so many different aliases is that she practically singlehandedly made Vaporwave seem like it was a burgeoning genre with a bench of up and coming artists. when in reality is was just one person, who had only just turned 20 years old.

Throwing Coppice Halifax in here too
http://coppicehalifax.bandcamp.com
I really like his EP pacific opal hex: https://wil-ru.bandcamp.com/album/pacific-opal-hex

Maybe he's just ambient, not vaporwave. Apologies...

yeah Coppice Halifax does some nice reverb-y "lofi" boards of canada xeroxy stuff. not amazing or anything but i like its crap amateurish-ness much better than slicked up BoC lovers like freescha/casino vs japan etc

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nu.wave hallucinations is my fave
https://nmesh.bandcamp.com/album/nu-wav-hallucinations

― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Thursday, July 28, 2016 2:01 PM (one month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

very good

i swear this goes through my head everytime I eat eggs
https://nmesh.bandcamp.com/track/t-th-ggs

recently been enjoying wosX
https://dreamcatalogue.bandcamp.com/album/brasil-world-cup-2034