think less
― a but (brimstead), Thursday, 5 January 2017 00:37 (seven years ago) link
yeah i get that a lot
― increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Thursday, 5 January 2017 02:02 (seven years ago) link
sorry that was hella mean :(
vape more
― a but (brimstead), Thursday, 5 January 2017 02:11 (seven years ago) link
omg that goofee album
― nxd, Thursday, 5 January 2017 10:32 (seven years ago) link
― 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.
― increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Thursday, 5 January 2017 14:46 (seven years ago) link
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.
― frogbs, Thursday, 5 January 2017 15:01 (seven years ago) link
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.
― increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Thursday, 5 January 2017 15:11 (seven years ago) link
guess I shouldn't be surprised. most of the vaporwave artists I follow on Twitter seem to be cool people, at least
― frogbs, Thursday, 5 January 2017 15:30 (seven years ago) link
fashwave is an offshoot of synthwave not vaporwave, also it is just a couple of yokels on twitter, not much of a "thing"
― example (crüt), Thursday, 5 January 2017 15:43 (seven years ago) link
"hardvapor" is such unredeemable shit
― clouds, Thursday, 5 January 2017 23:08 (seven years ago) link
http://www.coryarcangel.com/images/artwork/arcangel-super-mario-clouds.gif
― pareidolia, Saturday, 7 January 2017 23:15 (seven years ago) link
those are me
― clouds, Saturday, 7 January 2017 23:38 (seven years ago) link
Crossposting from the Spotify thread:
https://open.spotify.com/user/spotify/playlist/7GtwfClHgE4euOhQUe6kwC
― calstars, Wednesday, 11 January 2017 04:05 (seven years ago) link
is there a good way to grab a link like that and get it to open in the desktop app?
― goole, Thursday, 12 January 2017 16:03 (seven years ago) link
Open it from a desktop browser?
― calstars, Thursday, 12 January 2017 16:37 (seven years ago) link
Pulse Emitter!!!
― example (crüt), Thursday, 12 January 2017 17:11 (seven years ago) link
ha that worked thx
― goole, Thursday, 12 January 2017 17:25 (seven years ago) link
LX Sweat?
https://open.spotify.com/track/2CuvwzJnjNSMfSGKab8raR
― calstars, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 01:19 (seven years ago) link
Telepath?
https://open.spotify.com/track/4kjXuFmrGWqhprkT0f5U2X
― calstars, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 01:35 (seven years ago) link
that spotify list has been my go to recently, just the type of chill vibe I need to achieve total relaxation
― Al Moon Faced Poon (Moodles), Tuesday, 17 January 2017 02:13 (seven years ago) link
copy the link and paste it into the search bubble in the desktop app
― Al Moon Faced Poon (Moodles), Tuesday, 17 January 2017 02:20 (seven years ago) link
18 Carat Affair?
https://open.spotify.com/track/61QkubO5ny4DtTFoOaIRGg
― calstars, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 22:52 (seven years ago) link
new album by waterfront dining dropped on jan 1 and it's p sweethttps://waterfrontdining.bandcamp.com/album/zombie
― nxd, Wednesday, 25 January 2017 09:50 (seven years ago) link
one of my favs from the past couple of years, wosX, is back with anotherhttps://antifur.bandcamp.com/album/deconstruction-of-mind
― nxd, Tuesday, 7 February 2017 09:28 (seven years ago) link
a month and bit old but just came across this little gem toohttps://dreamcatalogue.bandcamp.com/album/veltahl
― nxd, Wednesday, 8 February 2017 10:35 (seven years ago) link
NiceFeel like I could spend the rest of my life going through all the releases by Dream catalogue
― calstars, Wednesday, 8 February 2017 11:53 (seven years ago) link
just heard this the other day, totally proto-vaporwave (from 1988)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0lU7d4h06I
― clouds, Wednesday, 8 February 2017 12:50 (seven years ago) link
this is greatneeds adding to the dk country thread
― nxd, Thursday, 9 February 2017 09:47 (seven years ago) link
Sounds like retailwave
― calstars, Thursday, 9 February 2017 19:38 (seven years ago) link
just keeps getting better with every listen
― calstars, Friday, 10 February 2017 01:19 (seven years ago) link
:D
― clouds, Friday, 10 February 2017 02:22 (seven years ago) link
Going back and forth between 2814 and telepath
― calstars, Sunday, 12 February 2017 16:41 (seven years ago) link
I have mixed feelings about the vaporwave trend of building tracks out of slowed down samples of 80s hits. The Eyes Without A Face one is pretty good. The Born in the USA one, not so much.
― Al Moon Faced Poon (Moodles), Sunday, 12 February 2017 16:44 (seven years ago) link
that's doing it wrong -- the point is to find the song-within-the-song, like the secret instrumental electro tracks that some 80s productions become when you remove the vocals
― clouds, Sunday, 12 February 2017 16:48 (seven years ago) link
I agree but I do appreciate the random ultra slowed down "oh (baby)"
― calstars, Sunday, 12 February 2017 17:13 (seven years ago) link
i cannot believe that cover art is from 1988!!!
― Fluffy Saint-Bernard (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 12 February 2017 18:06 (seven years ago) link
omg @ SEA IS A LADY
― a but (brimstead), Sunday, 12 February 2017 19:16 (seven years ago) link
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yeah that's great too, but the stuff isn't supposed to be profound necessarily.. reminds me of the argument about how certain disco edits are "pointless" because they don't "add anything" to the original. good edits are usually about dancefloor functionalism not necessarily magical transformation (although it's great and interesting when that happens too).. similarly, the slowed-down 80s hits style is more about a kind of cheap "emotional functionalism" with context/respect getting ripped out/fucked with.. like it's besides the point that one could do these slow-down things on their own PC, the end product is just a product, the vaporwave creator/curator just happened to 'make' it but he's just the puppet in the 80s gods hands...
that probably doesn't make any sense, oh well
― a but (brimstead), Sunday, 12 February 2017 19:24 (seven years ago) link
ugh i love "sea is a lady" so much
― clouds, Sunday, 12 February 2017 22:28 (seven years ago) link
"dancefloor functionalism" is a subset of "magical transformation" imo
― example (crüt), Sunday, 12 February 2017 22:31 (seven years ago) link
Finalized the playlist for this thread and threw in the end of 2017 stuff for kicks.
ILM's Vaporware Thread 2016 Spotify Playlist
― removed from the rain drops and drop tops of experience (ulysses), Monday, 13 February 2017 21:59 (seven years ago) link
Sweet! Thanks!
― calstars, Monday, 13 February 2017 22:27 (seven years ago) link
http://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/af/78/30/af78305263e9aefeea1f5300ec5c5b93.jpg
― removed from the rain drops and drop tops of experience (ulysses), Monday, 13 February 2017 23:15 (seven years ago) link
awesome thanks forks!
― nxd, Tuesday, 14 February 2017 10:36 (seven years ago) link
Thanks for the playlist forks! Dream Catalogue stuff is so great.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 14 February 2017 11:37 (seven years ago) link
another lil gem, love the artwork
https://kwakuamp.bandcamp.com/releases
― nxd, Monday, 20 February 2017 15:24 (seven years ago) link
also new music from the prolific eric taxxonhttps://erictaxxon.bandcamp.com/album/endless
― nxd, Monday, 20 February 2017 16:51 (seven years ago) link
The Eric taxxon is niceBut I'm not sure what "Christian vaporwave" is
― calstars, Monday, 20 February 2017 18:36 (seven years ago) link
Alright, so we got this anonymous demo sent in & it's got like a christian rock theme to it. Now look, Joey & I aren't bible thumpers! We enjoy the riffs but we enjoy the sin too. Heaven does seem very glam-orous so hell yea! Rock on!
― a but (brimstead), Monday, 20 February 2017 20:31 (seven years ago) link
is there any good vaporwave with (original) vocals? cuz i've hated every example i've heard so far
― clouds, Tuesday, 21 February 2017 03:26 (seven years ago) link