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nice! lucky grab, sir (: I picked that Luxury Elite TV Party Cassette, and it sounds awesome.. twas thinking about buying Disconscious's Hologram Plaza too.

Co-signed. I even managed to capture a physical copy of these vapors... whaaat? im pretty sure I saw that on discogs the other day going for like $220.. where'd ya find this?

ooh yay, a new release posted on f500's bandcamp: "Audio": a split album between General Translator and Dystopian Chic. http://fortune500.bandcamp.com/album/audio The sound, imo: The soundtrack that Sofia Coppola would compile if she was remaking Big Trouble In Little China in the midst of toking up and playing Ninja Gaiden, with Massive Attack's Danny The Dog playing in the background.

nice finds! beautiful ambiance in the jonomilo one, and the e and e one has gorgeous synth progression there... definitely some innovative imaginative stuff.. i dig the chatter/background sounds around all of these... makes it dreamy.

^ oh totally agreed. great album, and super fun to listen to. laserdisc visions is also incredible.

I think I put this on practically every day of the summer when DL first posted it. yeah, i hear you. it's damn good. the classics lol. how about Macintosh Plus? I know it's obvious, being that she's one of the biggest in the genre, but I for one, love Floral Shoppe. I must have listened to the second track a thousand times. It never gets old. Diana Ross slowed down. Who woulda thought? lol

so I did some research and it turns out every single artist/producer we've talked about on this thread is in fact an alias of Richard. It's merely 1/16th of of his "new material". Wow, Afx is such a pioneer that a series of random underground releases he anonymously put out over the last year have spawned an entire microgenre itself, christianed as "vaporwave" by "dumb journalists", as rdj himself mockingly put it (in a short interview i did with him). Oh, also, half of the material that these sample-based releases derives from are not actually 80s disco/pop tracks, but rather they are also Richard's own "pre-tracks" that he made in order to "sample" them for the new tracks. It goes far back though.. Even James Ferraro is Rich. -- hence the "james", all the R's, and similar letters. And for the record, "seapunk" was of course nothing less than a direct result of the major influence of Analords and The Tuss... actually, every single "seapunk" release was simply an Analord outtake disguised as a wide array of individual artists. So there you have it, rdj is everwhere. (:

but ok, here is some other stuff that i really dig that's not on the whole corporate/smooth jazz tip: http://youtu.be/96TYjnJ8h-s ^ that kate bush sample looped over and over w/ cindy crawford and tyra banks floating upwards drinking pepsi is just pure heaven. Sorry if any of these were already posted.

Of course that is there and is interesting, but those are connections being made by "writers." Most of the stuff I like wasn't made with the intention of making music that can be classified as vaporwave and thus some how topple big corps. If there is going to be a narrative, there should be many, not just antiglobalism. Absolutely, For me, call it vaporwave, experimental, ambient, dreamy electronica, weird retro stuff, ironic elevator muzak lol whatever... example- this: http://disconscious.bandcamp.com/album/hologram-plaza it's the sound, mood, feel, atmosphere, art that primarily captures me- not whatever political/social statement or categorization that it might be saying. I will say, that there is something that pulls me in the direction of the whole cold, vacant, corporate schmaltz wrapped in a warped, eerie, but some how comfy vibe. when you can't tell what era it's from, that's what i like. because it takes away the attachments in my mind when im listening. i think many of these artists have properly executed that aspect of their productions whether it's sample-based or composed, i don't really care.. but they've managed to do something i find interesting, and I think it speaks to many people that are discovering it.

http://www.dummymag.com/features/next-saint-pepsi-and-new-generation cool article about Saint Pepsi and how the Keats Collective is gonna be doing more stuff also been hearing about James Ferarro's new album- supposed to be pretty crazy. ill have to check it out.

Don't leave!!! lol no, i hear you though.. i've personally been posting a lot of the Fortune 500 stuff which seems to be pretty specific to a certain asthetic.. there are actually plenty of different flavors of vaporwave and related styles, from what ive been gathering. some verging closer to chillwave/ambient, or trancey, some closer to disco, some closer to smooth jazz/muzak, and some on the industrial/weird/experimental tip... others- more hip hop like blank banshee. what i love about all of these different flavors is that theyre still all weird, dreamy, imaginitive and timeless. For example, Point Never makes stuff that you cannot tell what era it derives from. i personally have a fixation with dreamy loungey futuristic music you'd hear in hotels, airports and malls, hence my obsession with stuff like Prismcorp, Ultra, Luxury Elite and many other stuff on the f500 label. but there's so much more of this stuff out there that doesn't have that Fortune500 feel. just gotta explore.

http://fortune500.bandcamp.com/track/midnight-business: vaporfusion? Oh yeah.. that's dope sounding (: It's like the 80's Japanese jazz fusion band Casiopea on heroin remixed by a weird ass DJ, both collaborating on a piece of music on a friday morning at 4:30am in some seedy b-film/indie/porn theater theater in Philly, on a rainy day while the roof is leaking raindrops. Someone just ordered "falafel-hot dogs" from the vendor down the street, and walked into the theater only to be met by strung out Casiopea and the weird ass DJ who are both passed out in the sound booth while tape loops are repeating.

Loving these releases: http://fortune500.bandcamp.com/album/market-world http://fortune500.bandcamp.com/album/focus-life

I just bought $100 worth tonight at a mcdonalds in cash from some dude i met off localbitcoins.com lol.. checked his seller rating, and it was legit and he seemed a pretty straight up guy. payments are confirmed and in my digital wallet. i know, 100 is only pocket change and the market is high right now, but who knows, maybe in a year, the fed will regulate it, and it will boom in the world economy and ill have 6 more zeros added to the amount in my wallet ha fingers crossed (:

... am i paranoid not to trust submitting my bank account or debit information to a site called coinbase.com, or localbitcoins.com?? It just feels very shady considering the type of market it is. how do i know im not gonna get fucked from the actual company?

sweet, im trying to buy 100 worth right now, but localbitcoins.com is down.. i looked into coinbase, but i dont feel safe giving my debit card or bank account info. is there any trustworthy sites where i can do a moneypack, giftcard, or anything like that? is paypal secure to use?

Nice! Wow, that sounds pretty in depth.. So what form of payment did you use to purchase your btc from LocalBitCoins.com? Im mostly concerned with preventing bank account theft etc...

So where did all you guys purhcase? I've been browsing vaeious bitcoin forums to try and gauge which place is the safest, and it's just like chaos with all of the chatter.. no idea where to start. Localbitcoins?... Coinbase?.. Bitstamp?... Is a digital wallet safe, and do I have to give a lot of personal info? Also, what form of payment is the safest? Surely, I shouldnt trust any of those sites with my credit card/bank account numbers, right?

^^ Josh, lol that's crazy you stumbled into that description (: I'll have to give that Ju4n stuff a listen- seems/looks righteous! ^^ Sheathe, oh gawd yes, both tracks with Plaza in their names on that album are glorious.. Esp that wall of swirling, filtering mid-heaven abyss that goes on for a minute at the end of one of em! I was listening to that album today at work when it hit me just how much detail & finesse Ultra puts into his/her editing/morphing/arranging.

lolol for sure!

Arrrgghh i can't stop listening to and !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So. Fucking. Good. So cold and warm at the same time. So blue and green. So tasty and yet so stale. So fake, but so real. So mundane, but so surreal.

nice thanks for the heads up salva... any forum you recommend/place youd trust in particular?

Yeah, im goin in too! I got $50 on it.. where should i drop it, mates?

I keep stopping myself from buying in - "nah, surely this is it, this is the fad's plateau", & then it spikes up again. I'll be kicking myself if bitcoin is the dominant Earth currency in 20 years & a bunch of redditors are trillionaires because of it Now that I'm working I'm tempted to just throw a 50 at it & see what happens. The hard part would be not cashing in as soon as that 50 turns into a 60. thinking about doing the same thing...

oh dude, hypnagogic hullucinations are amazing.. it's hit or miss though.. they can be awesome or terrifying. I used to get them quite often. Now, if I sleep on my back, I'm almost guaranteed to have them, so i have to sleep on my stomach if I want a good night's rest.