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Fatima Al Qadiri is way awesome, and "distroid" (although I don't think anyone but Dummymag calls it that) has a much more constructive overall message than vaporwave in my opinion. Desert Strike EP has one of the coolest themes of any album ever. Like seriously read that blurb about the album.

they got the account back btw. no videos on it but it isn't banned anymore.

I feel like maybe a normal forum isn't perfectly suited for this sort of thing. Mumu works pretty well, but that's chat. I really like the idea though; I think that what we might really need is for the community to make an effort if we want it to work. You can make as many rules as you want and it still won't work if people don't try at all. And if people are into making an effort, rules aren't as necessary.

Can we archive and start over? Maybe include some member titles for good YLC commenters?

yeah they didn't seem very concerned about who they offended

like Tim and Eric minus any sort of stoner adult swim watcher vibe plus a bit of incomprehensibility.

http://www.youtube.com/user/MillionDollarExtreme what the fuck man. im pissed.

It's like watching that channel on the telly that shows text about community events and plays MIDI tunes. edit: also half of it is in the visuals http://youtu.be/ISkLPemK9oU

Just watched the first episode of Sherlock, and at an hour and a half it's basically a movie. Good one too. Is there a reason to keep making movies and TV separate, at least as far as story-oriented things are concerned (game shows are a different thing though)? Can we just combine the two and get rid of ads in the middle?

seapunk lol

stephenG u can finger anus

The next chillwave subgenre to get a name is going to be distorted rave/techno I think. idk what it will be called tho. http://cl.ly/Ll1J

Dude his page links to his fucking facebook. oh lol it used to just link to https://www.facebook.com/deactivaet which has nothing happening on it ever

please, who is youtube.com/user/hundredollars? Do you know this?

I don't think jono has any authority or anything, he just posts lots of stuff, and those youtube channels post good shit. mrnonsense posts a ridiculous amount. Those are the ones I know plus a couple others like Esprit, although half of them are the same person. But yeah there are like a million of them, the stuff is not hard to make. Airsports is my personal favorite. Jono Mi Lo is Daytime Television, right? edit: also, who is hundredollars? he just took half his shit off youtube and I'm pissed, I don't actually know where to find it otherwise. And he rarely updates his facebook page.

I mean if you like one non-eccojams and non-vektroid vaporwave album you like them all, they're all pretty much the same. There's also about a million of them. If you wanna keep up with the scene for some reason, subscribe to this guy on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jonomilo and these youtube channels: http://www.youtube.com/user/MrNONSENSE2010 (this guy posts TONS of new and mostly free releases from all the chillwave subgenres) http://www.youtube.com/user/99possums (same guy as that Facebook account) http://www.youtube.com/user/hundredollars http://www.youtube.com/user/SEWAGETAPES (according to jono this label is total assholes, but good music so whatever) http://www.youtube.com/user/StergiosINred http://www.youtube.com/user/sunsetcorp (this is Daniel Lopatin aka Oneohtrix Point Never) http://www.youtube.com/user/b0dyg0d http://www.youtube.com/user/EEGPROGRAMS (doesn't really upload anymore but has some cool stuff) And while not really part of "the scene", this is a pretty cool and related channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/coolnicemike

Yeah the visuals are pretty essential. I think it's really philosophically negative music though. Kind of nihilistic when you get to the nuts and bolts of it. Deconstructionist. Same with witch house; sucks the meaning and purpose out of symbols and songs and such.

Well Vektroid's releases comprise about half or more of all vaporwave that actually gets any attention, so there's that.

I really think that the way these genres are set up is playing out to match exactly the point of the genres. Pop culture nonsense. It's gonna be short lived and it's all stupid as hell, but if it weren't then it wouldn't be what it is. It's kind of the point. kind of related:

never heard of it, awesome channel

I see what you're saying, and I agree with the idea that people who know what they're doing/are actually good at making other music can make "effortless" music sound better than the people who don't know what they're doing. I also think that Vektroid very much knows what he's doing. I don't agree that the point is just nostalgia. The nostalgia helps, but it's got a similar aesthetic to this distroid stuff which has zero nostalgia. It's empty and corporate. I think a good way to describe it is "vapid", especially some of the more hip-hop/witch house oriented stuff. Eccojams, for example, is emotion through cheesy pop. It's stupid, consumer lyrics with lots of connotation but no real value, repeated a million times until it loses all meaning, leaving only a the cultural essence of what was said with no life. It's dead cultural emotions, and the nostalgia works well because the past is what has built our current culture. Some music, like , is much more direct about it; "fuck/eat expensive/sleep at dawn/get money/"; it's the message of a generation taken to it's nihilistic endpoint.

wait a second it's not vaporwave apparently its distroid. my bad. http://www.dummymag.com/features/2012/07/13/distroid-gatekeeper-fatima-al-qadiri-adam-harper/

I dunno man; have you heard Vekdroid's stuff under his own name, or as Shader (Sacred Tapestry)? Sometimes when an artist gets big off of really simple stuff they have other music that is very well produced but not as in vogue. I've always felt that the more popular people in any given sub-genre are clearly better in many ways than your average joe. This even applies to mainstream genres; the only thing worse than Lil' Wayne is someone trying to sound like Lil' Wayne who has no idea what they are doing. I mean, you can even see it with Eccojams; Daniel Lopatin did something stupid easy, but he did it way better than most people could. If you only heard Eccojams you'd be tempted to think that DL was just a hack, but then you listen to Rifts or Replica and holy shit.