vaporwave and deriative products

yeah his musical ear is incredible

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uW7ZW5NSd0k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdTZviAf48g

more like this

absolutely adore the first giant claw record (dark web)
struggled to get into deep thoughts in the same way :(

deep thoughts sounds the way i imagined all vaporwave sounding before i listened to any of it

i think most if not all of the sounds are from the same palette as the casio i had growing up

i'll invest some more time in it :)

not sure what thread to put this in, but this album by bassist Sven Atterton is fucking gorgeous

http://omegasupremerecords.com/album/sven-atterton-the-cove

omega supreme is one of the best record labels going right now

ty for this amazing music crutis

great stuff

the dream catalogue compilation from earlier this year is pretty sweet listening too
https://dreamcatalogue.bandcamp.com/album/best-of-dream-catalogue-2814-2815

xp yeah that sven atterton is really cool!

yep, had it in my 2015 albums list

kinda late but i love this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tYpkyy7Ogs

eyeliner album is dope
toy dog is amazing

Have been listening to this most of the morning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuEdKcbNnXM

I don't remember being this nostalgic when I was this young.... but maybe I was and have just forgotten?

is that sampled from something?

seems like it would have to be. apparently, the crowd ambiance is actually field recordings by the producer, but not sure if music is too, or he found it elsewhere. If it was actually music he made and produced, that would actually raise this stuff to something pretty cool, like the bassist stuff posted above, but with ambient filtering

enjoying the EATQS album
https://soundcloud.com/noumenalloom/eatqs-cant-stop-to-explain-it-that-thing

^sounds good!

Been enjoying these, not drone or ambient at all, but almost a disco-edit/filter disco take on vaporwave:

Dan Mason - Miami Virtual 2.0
https://dmtrec.bandcamp.com/album/miami-virtual-20

悲しい ANDROID - APARTMENT¶ - With me, Without you
https://android-apartment.bandcamp.com/album/with-me-without-you

can't stop playing the bit 1:05 into the first track on Floral Shoppe where the sax solo comes in and just immediately gets all distended and out of tune. it really makes me laugh.

A good vaporwave album is ライフMIDI - VIRTUAL REALITY '97 「PLATINUM EDITION」 - can listen to the whole thing here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM7bGb4-N5A

It is a bit too on-the-nose but I do like it when these guys try to naturally freak you out rather than distort every third bar or whatever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8fM-CGQVCY

Be real, it doesn't matter anyway
You know it's just a little too late

this genre was awesome. i especially liked how 80% of the notable releases seem to come from vektroid under various aliases.

either her or the internet club guy

feel like deaths dynamic shroud is the best at this atm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0ALkNKQzmA

thats great

nice. i must point out that *ahem* it's deaths dynamic shroud.wmv :)

would like to gently rebuke treeship's point that vaporwave "was" rather than "still is". the straight up eccojam phase is over, i guess, but a healthy output of excellent ambient/illbient/ "derivative products" exists. (see dream catalogue, for ex)

and there seems to be an array of (mostly useless) EXTREME eccojams where recordings are slowed to the point where it just sounds like muffled garbage trucks

love vektroid's Sacred Tapestry release, it's a bit of a harbinger to this extreme sound https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3bxhofufFg

http://www.zero-books.net/books/babbling-corpse

In the age of global capitalism, vaporwave celebrates and undermines the electronic ghosts haunting the nostalgia industry.
Ours is a time of ghosts in machines, killing meaning and exposing the gaps inherent in the electronic media that pervade our lives. Vaporwave is an infant musical micro-genre that foregrounds the horror of electronic media's ability to appear - as media theorist Jeffrey Sconce terms it - "haunted."
Experimental musicians such as INTERNET CLUB and MACINTOSH PLUS manipulate Muzak and commercial music to undermine the commodification of nostalgia in the age of global capitalism while accentuating the uncanny properties of electronic music production.
Babbling Corpse reveals vaporwave's many intersections with politics, media theory, and our present fascination with uncanny, co(s)mic horror. The book is aimed at those interested in global capitalism's effect on art, musical raids on mainstream "indie" and popular music, and anyone intrigued by the changing relationship between art and commerce.

oh cool fine.

i had a wild idea of trying to pitch a 33 1/3 about chuck person's eccojams.

*find

https://tallis123.bandcamp.com/album/herbaceous-store

the first 15 seconds of the third track are making me laugh uncontrollably

simpsonwave
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwXZJ72PzThfKWr3oajYaHId3GjF2XSh1

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