it would be nice if they pressed another 10 copies of the last windows96 album again so I can not buy it
― brimstead, Friday, 18 December 2020 16:41 (three years ago) link
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
― frogbs, Friday, 18 December 2020 20:07 (three years ago) link
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
― davey, Saturday, 19 December 2020 02:31 (three years ago) link
Cool! I have two of his albums from 2018
― calstars, Saturday, 19 December 2020 03:45 (three years ago) link
it's wild how much his recs are going for on discogs
― davey, Saturday, 19 December 2020 04:09 (three years ago) link
It’s a zadig the jasp kind of morninghttps://vcrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/from-nowhere
― ncxkd, Saturday, 19 December 2020 15:14 (three years ago) link
hell yea man this is hitting just right
― davey, Saturday, 19 December 2020 17:45 (three years ago) link
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 :-)
― davey, Saturday, 19 December 2020 17:49 (three years ago) link
Vek admonishing virtual Keanu in cyberpunk 2077 for not appearing in the Johnny mnemonic video game is the most Boolean thing ever
― ncxkd, Sunday, 20 December 2020 06:54 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/joLJlDV.pngHappening now and this weekend !https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7v9hRfvf1Q
― calstars, Saturday, 30 January 2021 06:10 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/RFUmVel.png
― calstars, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 01:21 (three years ago) link
Assumed this revive would be https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/02/aesthetics-wiki-cottagecore-tumblr-tiktok/617923/
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 01:30 (three years ago) link
holy shit there are like 200 artists performing at the latin vaporwave festival
― treeship., Tuesday, 9 February 2021 02:07 (three years ago) link
also from the atlantic article i learned about this
https://aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki
― treeship., Tuesday, 9 February 2021 02:21 (three years ago) link
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
― lukas, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 02:44 (three years ago) link
lol
― brimstead, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 02:48 (three years ago) link
https://aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/Chaotic_Academia
this is kinda infuriating me
― brimstead, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 02:53 (three years ago) link
maybe this wiki can help me with my bedroom lightning though
― brimstead, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 02:54 (three years ago) link
lighting
I walked around trump tower one day in late 2019 and found it very vaporwavey—the waterfalls, the brass, the sinister kitsch.
― treeship., Tuesday, 9 February 2021 03:00 (three years ago) link
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.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 22:34 (three years ago) link
“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?
― calstars, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 23:30 (three years ago) link
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.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 23:56 (three years ago) link
banger Lindsheaven set from the latin all-stars fest:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huC2mV_0IhE
― ncxkd, Thursday, 4 March 2021 19:03 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/MP29xyc.png
― calstars, Wednesday, 31 March 2021 01:07 (three years ago) link
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
― calstars, Friday, 16 April 2021 12:20 (three years ago) link
oh no! Rip
― brimstead, Friday, 16 April 2021 19:07 (three years ago) link
https://plasticresponserecords.bandcamp.com/track/t-e-l-e-p-a-t-hhttps://i.imgur.com/6MbJoYK.jpg
― calstars, Saturday, 1 May 2021 02:52 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coCo3nbOusA
― calstars, Monday, 3 May 2021 02:36 (three years ago) link
https://vav-31.bandcamp.com/track/soul-mates
― calstars, Saturday, 31 July 2021 21:54 (two years ago) link
https://cyberdream.bandcamp.com/track/lights-abound
― ncxkd, Sunday, 8 August 2021 20:44 (two years ago) link
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.
― Sassy Boutonnière (ledriver), Tuesday, 10 August 2021 05:07 (two years ago) link
You have a recommendation from the catalog?
― ncxkd, Tuesday, 10 August 2021 08:08 (two years ago) link
There are three comps that are good, all variations on "alone this evening":
https://eveningdisclosure.bandcamp.com/album/all-alone-this-eveninghttps://eveningdisclosure.bandcamp.com/album/all-alone-again-this-eveninghttps://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".
― Sassy Boutonnière (ledriver), Tuesday, 10 August 2021 17:06 (two years ago) link
Like this track from the second one: https://eveningdisclosure.bandcamp.com/track/--125
― ncxkd, Wednesday, 11 August 2021 00:44 (two years ago) link
Be realIt doesn’t matter anywayYou know it’s just too little too late
― ncxkd, Sunday, 15 August 2021 00:00 (two years ago) link
https://noproblematapes.com/album/imaginary-pathwaysSome of lindsheaven’s last work
― calstars, Tuesday, 31 August 2021 22:08 (two years ago) link
https://telepathtelepath.bandcamp.com/track/--231
― calstars, Sunday, 5 September 2021 00:30 (two years ago) link
It’s gonna be night night https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHk5Duip_7Q
― calstars, Saturday, 11 September 2021 02:09 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/UFoOScM.jpgGoing to listen to Lisa frank 420 and drink this shit
― calstars, Sunday, 12 September 2021 23:48 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJWksPWDKOcEpic six hour reimagining of 1940s popular music molting into ambient atmospheres The caretaker - everywhere at the end of time
― calstars, Sunday, 19 September 2021 12:26 (two years ago) link
^ 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.
― marblesurf, Monday, 20 September 2021 11:58 (two years ago) link
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
― frogbs, Monday, 20 September 2021 13:23 (two years ago) link
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
― marblesurf, Monday, 20 September 2021 20:30 (two years ago) link
https://forestedrelics.bandcamp.com/track/mimi-e-no-ai
― calstars, Sunday, 24 October 2021 15:16 (two years ago) link
death's dynamic shroud has been flooding the market lately with fanclub-only stuff but I had a listen to the latest one called Faith in Persona and it's amazing. I think its just a Keith Rankin solo album too. I like it about as much as I'll Try Living Like This & Heavy Black Heart
― frogbs, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 14:37 (two years ago) link
Their marketing game is strong, esp after teaming up with Clanton
― calstars, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 15:01 (two years ago) link
my child saw George Clanton and death's dynamic shroud do Halloween show down here, it sounds like it was a good one
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 15:17 (two years ago) link
would love to see them but they seem to really love just touring the South
― frogbs, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 15:57 (two years ago) link
https://noproblematapes.bandcamp.com/track/--341Ooooooohhhh
― calstars, Saturday, 4 December 2021 22:03 (two years ago) link