vaporwave and deriative products

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

been going through plus 100 records' catalogue
https://plus100.bandcamp.com/
loving the golden living room - splash realistique album, want a 10 minute version of this track:
https://plus100.bandcamp.com/track/aokigahara-ft-auto

Much love for virtua.zip

I spent a decent amount of time trying to figure out what he was sampling but it turns out most of the music is original

this song <3
https://orangemilkrecords.bandcamp.com/track/canopy-stories

Meet the vaporwave obsessive who built a shopping mall monument to the virtual genre in Miami

nmesh just dropped a new album of adult swim bump remixes
http://nmesh.bandcamp.com/album/bumps-ep

a couple of pretty good funky albums from the summer - don't know too much about nano神社 (✪㉨✪)
https://nanoshrine.bandcamp.com/album/segas-superdeluxeedition
and this excellent comp from A K A N E I N T O K I O
https://dmtrec.bandcamp.com/album/all-together-vol-1

Watch an amateur mini documentary on the history of vaporwave

http://www.factmag.com/2016/10/12/vaporwave-mini-documentary-fredrik-knusden/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_T1nkER3vA

this is like a vaporwave guided meditation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zZIzADsTKs

this is v nice too (from 2015 but w/e)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZOEwZw9b8A&list=PLpvAgyOreIC3PBcKZaihUEVmZJu38OeC-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0OR5chrCS0

so smooth, love it

yeah it's a grower

Finally got around to making a playlist for this thread; it deserves it

ILM's Vaporware Thread 2016 Spotify Playlist

new blank banshee is p fun! choice track, 'my machine'
https://blankbanshee.bandcamp.com/album/mega

loving that dang olsen too

new release on plus100 is very relaxing
https://plus100.bandcamp.com/album/--6

https://open.spotify.com/track/5xnOk0gOwfhfnEY6cfYo5B

yep, we've all heard mac plus by now

i find myself generally less interested in vaporwave than i am in the stuff vaporwave gets its inspiration from, particularly as a lot of vaporwave doesn't seem to actually do much with its source material. here's a good mix of '80s library music i've been enjoying recently:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3x2iVSlP5M

IMO that's the punchline of the Macintosh Plus album - the source material is almost just as "vaporwave" as the album itself.

Been wondering about the 情報デスクVIRTUAL album; how much editing is done there exactly?

i like this mix

IMO that's the punchline of the Macintosh Plus album - the source material is almost just as "vaporwave" as the album itself.

yeah but on the other hand, i appreciate 'instrumental edits + dash of fx' stuff like the Computer Dreams album. can't really take most of the stuff that keeps the vocals (although a lot of it ends up sounding like lost Tears For Fears tracks which is kind of cool)

i read somewhere (maybe on this thread) that the 情報デスクVIRTUAL album is sourced entirely from some Sega Saturn game.

thanks for posting that 80s library mix, btw, exactly the kind of stuff i've been wanting to dive into.. search: "Silicum" by Claude Larson (not on youtube unfortunately, rest of the album is wack, imo)

I think the Laserdisc Visions - New Dreams Ltd. album may be the one you're thinking of. Not just one game but several.

I recently d/l'd a cassette rip and it's a bit different - there is what sounds like Japanese talk radio running throughout the whole thing. Pretty cool.

that the one with a shopping mall on the front cover? can't remember it's name :/

Another list of stuff: http://amorotica.tumblr.com/post/52889338443/top-15-vaporwave-releases

might fall outta the genre a bit but cool video game style live recording from mukqs (this one is also on spotify)
https://hausumountain.bandcamp.com/album/walkthrough
really like the finale

looks like i forgot to link it earlier this year but immune - breathless is worth checking out
for some reason it appears to be deleted off dream cats bandcamp page but youtube linky still works
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwR4-WtzJ0A

https://daily.bandcamp.com/2016/11/21/vaporwave-genres-list/

I basically just break it down into Boards of Canada/Ryuichi Sakamoto/The Bran Flakes