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Thanks man.. Haha indeed! All these microgenres / names are just playfulness at the end of the day.. Its all bout that groove / melody! (:

Haha thats funny and cool you picked that out, thats actually the only track that has that specific vibe from the whole upcoming business travel bonanza album (although i do love the balearic and tropical house sounds), which is why i chose to use it as bed music for the promo- thought it fit the bro'd out ibiza party infomercial vibe quite well... So i guess you could say that one track is a vaporwave take on tropical house lol.. But it actually goes deeper- the album is an eclectic mix of all original smooth jazz, downtempo, classic vapor, a bit of bossa nova, weirdness, jazzy house, and a touch of chill/ ambient vapor all around a business travel theme.. The character (the CEO) in the story travels to an exotic islands with his company for a relaxing getaway and to celebrate a recent merger..so there is a bit of an island vibe here and there for that reason, which i actually conceptualized a year or so ago, before i even discovered the whole tropical house movement. Each track is kind of a hyperreal exaggerated soundtrack/moment in the business travel getaway- they all have kind of a leisure/beachy feel. That track "Nighttime Island Dance" is the moment in the story where the CEO finds himself on a beach at night with fire torches, tikis, etc, and tents and outside bars, and tons of people (but all people from his company only) dancing the night away on the beach in an ibiza-like fashion, so yes- that track is kinda intentionally tropical house bandwagony (: , but that sax and caribbean/cheesy sound is also in a way, classic donovan, so its kinda multi-layered. Thought it would be fun to touch on this sound for that track. Regardless im looking forward to you guys hearing the full release on monday :D

Mesh, it would be a true honor to be featured in your coursework! Have at it, and looking forward to see the final material (:

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yo prd! good tip.. yes i saw this, and been meaning to check it out (: just listened.. great stuff indeed!

Thanks prd! Glad you dig it (:

Aaaaand.... BAM!

So May 25th comes a brand new Donovan LP on Ailanthus, and im really excited to share it with yall... Its an eclectic tasteful mix of all original smooth jazz, jazzy downtempo/house, dreamy ambient and island sounds all set to a business travel theme... Here is one of the more ambient vapor tracks via private soundcloud link.. Ill prob reset the link in a few days or so cuz i wanna keep this low key until the release... No samples used as is the Donovan standard: Hope u guys like! Thx! https://m.soundcloud.com/donovan-hikaru/mountain-dreams-m-50816/s-cm3qJ

Maybe I just need to go hear it in a shopping mall to really appreciate the dozens of layers of sonic irony at play. Lol well ive found that the irony aspect is only relevant for the meme aspects of the genre... For us ppl who really enjoy it, there seems to be an actual appreciation of the cheesiness, the atmosphere, the relaxing and jazzy nature of the source material. If you can look past the pretentiousness and enjoy the sounds as a conceptual/themed journey, thats where the fun starts. For example, ive always been fascinated with hotels, airplanes, travel, neon city lights, and a lotta vaporwave albums incorporate these elements with the whole virtual plaza / resort thing. Its silly and weird, but i like silly and weird. I just think vaporwave resonates with certain people that are able to enjoy big dumb silly pretentious shlock- not for irony sake, but because it's fun and is an escape from the often seriousness of most art today. Another thing i like about it, is the dystopian ultra-digital side... PrismCorp Virtual Enterprises put out two releases that are essentially a collection of keyboard demos, ringtones, etc- all the cheesiest midi beats you could imagine, but all very well orchestrated tracks with sounds ranging from blues to prog rock to ragtime to lounge to fusion- but all in very basic midi and stock sounds. It's assumed that she did't compose this music but rather assemble and package the tracks and fit them to themes like a heavily conceptualized movie soundtrack. The resulting experience is the most bizarre combination of vapid/hollow/cold/digital/non-human with quirky/fun/happy/exciting/innocent/playful/colorful... It's this juxtaposition and context that makes it a somewhat creepy, somewhat hilarious and a very interesting album listening experience. There's a mystery in both wondering where the source material is from (did Vektroid maaaybe compose it or parts of it or is safe to assume it was arranged from various found tracks that were originally made in the dusty studios of some Japanese keyboard demo composers circa 1991, CD-ROM studios, etc) and also in the musical journey itself.

How could anyone not be seduced by chopped & screwed training videos, muzak, smooth jazz & funk from the 80s and 90s, with colorful cyberpunk themes and Japanese letters as titles? :D I think its the most off the wall, revolutionary, and most weird movement in modern music since punk rock / new wave- and its the closest to them in terns attitude & fun

Downtempo is one of those styles that seemed to have never left... Just took on different forms since the 90s... But ive always preferred the classic k&d / nightmares on wax / dining rooms / thievery corp. brand of downtempo than the later manifestations which incorporated glitchiness / 80s dream pop (like m83), synth pop , indie pop, ambient/experimental.. Of course i love all that stuff, but too much is blah.. To me that stuff felt like downtempo or chill music that just got super huge and everyone from coldplay to radiohead to nin was incorporating this whole chill / dreamy aspect.. Kind of like a copout.. Then as soon we know it, practically every single rising indie act was doing this sigur ros or XX-style chill - meets new wave - meets indie pop - meets dreamy thing. Like EVERYONE became bjork all if the sudden. That was about the time i got jaded and bored of new music. Finally, a bit after that, house / nu-disco came back , took over and it brought back the funk :D and now vaporwave / future funk is bridging that dream world with the disco / funk / retro world, and its the perfect bridge imo Cant wait til industrial / cyberpunk makes its comeback (:

Very well said And ^ fucking brilliant, yes the odds and ends of the sounds and sights of music/media/culture through out our growing up... Those forgotten / mundane alleyways and artifacts of culture and the emerging digital landscape... And how all of that felt as it washed up around our innocent selves and how we responded to it, and how it shaped us, and partially made us who are... And how now, years later, we've taken seat in the throne of creating our culture, shaping it with what weve taken in our from our past and current experiences.

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Well said. That recontextualization feels exciting to me for so many different reasons... First, there's a minimalist / utilitarian nature to vaporwave in that it reaches into a giant bowl of schmaltz and excess, and extracts only the most interesting, notable or beautiful parts of that handful, and crafts it into pure simplicity. Yet its results still maintain just enough color and intensity for the fullest emotional impact. Then, there's the punk rock / hacker nature of stealing vague/forgotten/discount bin-calibre musical recordings, and turning them into something more interesting and modern all under anonymous pseudonyms for no other purpose than imagination, discovery and adventure. 3rd.. I dont know im falling asleep as i type this.. Lol

Cool to see this thread getting some traffic again :D @Mesh, really digging your Posh Flats track... I feel like I'm on a grimey underground safari, trekking through the hot swamps of somewhere in North Africa, while some kind of local news show is blaring their bed theme music through speakers everywhere i go (: Also, yes Donovan is me... Thanks for the words.. It's been amazing so far with ppl in the vapor communities digging my releases. I recently discovered a Donovan track was played on a KCRW (big npr station) radio show, not even a vapor set, just alongside buncha big indie artists.. The DJ, Marion Hodge i think it was, said she found the track while browsing Bandcamp and was digging it (: That was probably the most surreal music moment Ive experienced in the last few years.. Major honor. Oh and as for the corporate crossover, its funny you say that, I was able to slip my first DH video "Moving Forward In The Company" into a blog post I wrote for my work as an example of bad content marketing... It post-post-post ironically ended getting re-posted on SAP's (the 2nd largest software company in the world's- 2nd to Microsoft) Innovation blog ... I couldnt believe my eyes... A few months later it was taken down I guess cuz i couldnt find the archive... But regardless, if that's not beyond vaporwave to the max, i dont know what is lol... That may have actually been the official birth and death of the genre on a scale not seen since Far Side Virtual. Lol.. Accidentally promoting & mocking true corporate culture at the same time. It's so meta, that it's not even meta at all. Ps heres the video they placed if you havent seen it..

^ whoa thats crazy! I didnt know Mac Plus had been around that long... Or that Tom Hanks knew about underground music! Haha so kewl

Just told him... His response: " *blushes* Thanks so much Salva, really appreciate that! :D Your guys critique/words mean everything"

Surprisingly in a number of ways it seems to have gotten a little bigger lol

Haha nice! Oh man, better than ever.. Crazy busy on my end! I- ahem- Donavan has 4 projects in the works... One of them, a full length follow up to the Corporate Parasailing theme called "Business Travel Bonanza" set for a release very soon via Ailanthus.. ...A 4 way split & a suuper secret fun EP in the works with a tape label called Adhesive Sounds out of Canada... .. Another future upcoming split with CatSystemCorp (ssshh).. .. DH also recently featured some gooey sax over a track on the new AUTO album, Q, which is now released and a fantastic LP, highly recommended.. As always, he's excited to soon share it all with ya'll! How are the vapors in your realm sir?

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I don't know what it is about Vordhosbn, but it makes me feel incredibly focused/driven and relaxed/meditative at the same time. That seems like an oxymoron, I know, but I can't describe it any other way. I feel oddly grounded and centered every time I hear it. It's as if it manages to tap into something within me that just feels... right. And the way Jynweythek opens the album and goes right into the track is incredibly perfect. Listening to Drukqs (still never fucking remember how to spell it right lol) for the millionth time right now, and I still discover its mysterious magic around the corners of every measure, every bar, every sonic nuance. Thank you RDJ, Universe/God, Warp, Fans, Watmm.. everything connected to this life changing release, and all the other similar inspiring and beautiful musical releases from countless artists before and after, from the beginning and til the end of time. <3

I just heard a Druqks track on NPR the other day... one of the prepared piano/ chime peices, cant remember which one.. but they used it as bed music for one of their programs. it seems like Aphex Twin is perfect NPR music lol

team lunch outting at work. you and your co-workers did a good job so boss said lunch is on him. youre filled up on pasta. youre driving back to the office plaza to finish the afternoon work. you leave the office at 2pm. you don't know why. you walk out toward the parking lot to find your beat up 2004 vehicle. you get inside. you start the engine. you drive. you keep driving in a single direction for an hour. you park. you get out of the car. you walk toward the water....

Thanks prd (: ^ yes! SEPHORA脳バイブス is awesome... I purchased their Divas cassette which seems to be strangely missing from their bandcamp, either way great stuff!