vaporwave and deriative products

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

part of your complete balanced breakfast

https://youtu.be/EZ1rXRKqAcw

this moon b record is cool future funk, beautiful synth pads

nice roundup
good links :)

Just loaded 2 gigs of this shit on my phone. Sorted for awhile.

The n mesh hallucinations album is a trip. I might be able to do with fewer tv interludes but overall it's very good.

yeah but hearing the old Whatchamacallit ad all chopped n' screwed up is definitely worth it all

Is there a silver spoons drop on there somewhere?

Also love the dream catalog best of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bCvZ-CsFUg

this is a nice sort-of vaporwavey pop tune

Playlist is updated for November... love that new Blank Banshee!

ILM's Vaporware Thread 2016 Spotify Playlist

xp think that youtube link has broken :(
found it here tho!
https://osr-tapes.bandcamp.com/album/new-emotion-b-w-behind-the-scenes-cassingle-osr21

it's great!

can't wait for a vw album art poll circa 2030

ESPRIT 空想 kicks out the hams

re-reading that bandcamp article now and I'm even more confused, I don't really know what vaporwave is or isn't anymore

like Blank Banshee, who I think is great, seems only tangentially related to something like Floral Shoppe or FSV - not a huge difference between Banshee and say, Major Lazer, except BB uses Donkey Kong Country samples?

been enjoying this over the last couple of days
http://music.businesscasual.biz/album/delicious
sorta like a late 90s pop version of hit vibes by saint pepsi

ESPRIT 空想 kicks out the hams

been listening to George Clanton's other stuff over the last few weeks and he's a legitimately talented dude, he's like the son of Dave Gahan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVggF2TxSu8

super poppy. vocals tho

Afternoon sun jam:
https://espritfantasy.bandcamp.com/track/daydream

super poppy. vocals tho

indeed, I guess I kinda prefer the more vaporwave-adjacent stuff these days

fuckin' lol @ that "girls only" cover though

dude has a cassette with that stuff on it available. I do have a Walkman but am I really going to pull it out to rock out to some digital analog jams? Suppose it's possible.

virtua.zip was just remastered with some bonus tracks which effectively double the length of it, it's a proper album now

https://espritfantasy.bandcamp.com/album/virtua-zip

kind of disappointed I missed out on the blue splatter vinyl, was gonna get myself one but then they sold out, like everything else on the site

I dig the lead harmonies here, they sound like tortoise's night air :

https://vektroid.bandcamp.com/track/odysseus-outdoor-mall

That whole album is pretty great

yessss I love that track

that album really is to me the end-all-be-all of that particular aspect of vaporwave, it's so kitschy and kinda awful in some ways, then there are some moments of real beauty out of nowhere. and though I have no clue where any of it is sampled from, the notion that actual humans played this music seems weird to me, since it feels so dead inside.

Word. I can't help but wonder about the origins as I listen. It's just slightly distracting from my full enjoyment of the tracks. Auditory uncanny valley. Like the copyright on the source shit is so unknown that by all intents it now belongs to Ramona. She's a sonic squatter.

Looks like Esprit is playing Shea in New York on the 15th. Any local vapor heads want to try to meet up and go?

that would be awesome to go to - his live stream on twitch was really good, I've watched it several times

one thing I've come to love about this genre is how it evolves so quickly like those oddball meme groups on facebook, where stuff gets immediately run into the ground in amusing ways, with everyone trying to outdo each other all the time. I can't think of another genre that would produce something like this, for example.

mmm. i wonder to what extent eating oneself is merely an externalization of self-loathing, and am suspicious of the impulse.

think less

yeah i get that a lot

sorry that was hella mean :(

vape more

omg that goofee album

sorry that was hella mean :(

vape more

― a but (brimstead)

thinking less would prolly be healthier :)

thing is i _can_ think of other genres that would produce something like blank goofee, because meow the jewels is a thing. and at least part of vaporwave's precis seems to be to expose the empty rotted heart of consumerism. sorry if i'm breaking kayfabe by talking about the tension between that and "for the lulz", but that tension exists and it's a lot of what drives vaporwave.

well there you go. I'm sure the self-cannibalization is all over the place but I've not really seen any genre do this sort of thing to the extent vaporwave does. That Nmesh album ending with a vaporized remix of Fantano's infamous review of Floral Shoppe, for example. I feel like the genre is constantly fucking with people who take it too seriously, though most of its popular artists are obviously dedicating a big portion of their life to making it. It's like an entire genre where every artist is The Residents.

i kind of hate "ha ha only serious" the way mormons hate bigamy. there's already a fascist offshoot of vaporwave- i think it's called "fashwave"- and I've seen this dialectic play out in so many forms before on the Internet. The fascists always win.

guess I shouldn't be surprised. most of the vaporwave artists I follow on Twitter seem to be cool people, at least

fashwave is an offshoot of synthwave not vaporwave, also it is just a couple of yokels on twitter, not much of a "thing"