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I'm really pissed at this one. I saw it last week and then made a trip to Enchanted Rock last Saturday, which is one of the places in the video. Right as I was about to reach the summit, the song popped into my mind. I still managed to have a pretty deep experience, but I was seriously hindered by that song in my head, that someone would go to Enchanted Rock and then make that song. Of course it's a great video, but it's so terrible to mix something like that with something I take seriously. AH.

Ibb and Obb. Really great team puzzle game with some of the best music in games right now. Probably the best period. (By Kettel). The soundtrack's album artwork gives a nice sense of the art in the game:

come hang out in the vaporwave thread.

Gorgeous.

Some truly insider infoz. They start off by wasting ZERO time. Look at that opener: Whether Hale-Bopp has a "companion" or not is irrelevant from our perspective. It's the question we've all been dying to know. I remember that, though I have never seen it. I'm not Nebraska but I would be interested in knowing, always sounds shit when I try :( The only way to slowdown a sample without time stretching is to lower the pitch. There are 3 ways to manipulate a sample's speed/pitch. You can affect the pitch without changing the speed, the speed without changing the pitch--and both of those require a software time stretch algorithm (ableton's is nice). Alternately, you can affect both the speed and pitch, which is the analogue method. Both time stretching and analogue have their place, but for the purpose of eccojams, the analogue method is best, because it preserves the entirety of the original sample? Depending on what software you use, you should be able to do all 3. Audacity can.

Nebraska! You are being so inconsiderate by posting these really complete and compelling vaporwave albums. It is a difficult genre and our brains can only take so much. Some people don't have room for another album. AHHH!!!

Stephen Mathieu The Falling Rocket I'm always wishing I could find good ambient that doesn't feel like a waste of time. I started out making ambient and it's probably my favorite genre when it really clicks, and this release is working for me very well. Writing is flowing. Dekorder is the place to be. I think Tauhid likes this one.

Yeah, they were nervous and discouraged beforehand I think. Barely anyone was working with them on the vibe. I think the crowd really has to participate for it to work. Forgot to add this earlier: I asked them if they were based anywhere in particular and they said that it was a netlabel, but a couple of them are from KC/wichita falls. I'm not really a music geek, but I'm not a scenester either. I'm just someone trying to make stuff. The music I know is probably 10% of what most music geeks know. I think there is a third category. I try to be genuine, and even if I'm listening to this , part of me is actually liking it. Fun and comedy is important, and I like to be funny, but I'm really a serious person interested in real things.

Personally, I rarely "go out" to that type of thing. I know how to act but I don't want to. College kids say "meta" once they read Slaughterhouse Five and their professor tells them that it is "metafiction." Then they use because they think it makes them smart. It's a great prefix though.

DIS has lots of...stuff on there.

http://youtu.be/ZfE4bFsSHzU

Get Okami, The Prince of Persia games, Final Fantasy X, Soul Calibur 2 or 3, Champions of Norrath and Champions of Norrath: Return to Arms, Killzone, Black, Suikoden 3 and Suikoden 5. To name a few. Resident Evil 4. Such a great game. Also MGS2/3. I tried playing Onimusha again, but it wasn't as fun for me.

I'm pretty sure that blows ISAM Live out of the water...

Shoot, that is a good idea for a show. That's something that needs to be done. Just none of that lame sampling where you repeat a section just for the sake of it. If you are going to repeat it, it needs to sound good.

Here is a play by play of the night: Doors opened at 9, but I got there at around 10:30. There were a lot of people standing outside, drinking and smoking. I did not partake. The show had not started yet. YYU was kneeling down DJing tapes, and then Darv(?) would play some smooth, vocal-heavy Dido-esque stuff that was very self aware in that context. I liked it. I grooved a bit to it and Darv nodded at me. I think he could tell I understood him. Lots of people kept asking, "Have they started yet? I thought there was going to be live music." After I wandered around for a long time, and joked briefly with Exael about whether or not they had a rug I could pour some beer on, the lights went dim and YYU took the "stage." His live show was probably the best. There was guitar, a 404, vocals, and a bell. He also had a veil in front of his face, and eventually he covered himself with a bed sheet and rocked back and forth while manipulating faint, murmuring samples. That was probably the most vaporwave moment of the night. He played some actual beats, though, and it was pretty good. Most of the people seemed to be very confused though. Then Exael got up and started playing his midi which was hooked up to a dated Dell laptop. He also used a 404. Besides some japanese voice manipulation and erratic percussion, he played ambient for most of the set, and he had a pretty black shirt with this bear/waterfall/forest pattern on it. People started sitting down for his set, and the photographer kept pretending to be sleeping, after which he would look at his friend and laugh, as if the music was a lullaby. After his set, a couple of 16-19 year old guys came up mesmerized, asking about if he was processing his "synth keyboard" through his computer. Exael gave an brief, admirable explanation of MIDI, and then I argued with Exael about renoise for a minute. Then those kids started asking me if I was a musician too. Finally, CVLTS got BEHIND the projector screen and played some chillgaze type stuff. It was pretty nice, some of it very similar to Belong - Common Era, but it was intentionally marred by the guy playing guitar. They would get a really good loop going and then he would just kill it every time with an out of tune thrash. Again, I'm pretty sure it was intentional. They were standing in a group afterwards, no one really talking to them, and I went up and thanked them for coming. They all gave me a hug. I left with a copy of Prism Corp - Clear Skies on tape. I have some vertically oriented videos. The ones toward the end are stupidly short because my phone ran out of space.

That's the best damn intro to a story I've read in a long time! Was it a good, bad, or ugly experience? I've had a good vibe about Beer On The Rug so far, in fact I was pleasantly surprised to see Angel 1 (Boy Snacks) have a tape announced on one of my fav tape labels, ctatsu. Did he gig anywhere else in TX? Well, I was expecting a much more vapor-heavy thing going on: internet waiting rooms, instructional videos, but you know, how much can you actually perpetuate that consistently in a live setting when no one is aware of it? It ended up being a mishmash of chillwave, witchhouse, ambient, shoegaze, and some beat stuff, with a little bit of what I would consider vaporwave. It was YYU, Exael, and C V L T S (cults?, which is made up of two guys, one of them, forgot his name, something like Darv, is the head of the label from what I understand). It was curious for sure. I think I was the most aware person there, as far as what the music is actually about and all of reference points. There is no vaporwave scene in San Antonio, and probably not Austin either judging by YYU's description of their show there. He said he liked San Antonio better. The show was held in the burgeoning arts district (South Town), kind of an East Austin vibe with less vegan food and more Mexicans, at the place called "The Collective," which had a pretty alright selection of vhs and a pretty obvious bin of cassettes (phil collins et al.). A lot of the people there were total scenesters. I even saw one girl that was recovering from being goth and was sporting aquamarine seapunk hair, but she probably just listened to Morrissey and Bright Eyes, because she had no connection to the music at all. It was mostly young college people and even some pre-college kids, and some of them were just there to take pictures in the same way that pictures have been taken at shows for the entire time I have been going to them. Maybe fifty people total?

Hey, that's Michael Tate from DC Talk. I used to listen to that album so much in the 90s. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVlod4SdLD8

I am post-partisan.

I was sitting at home watching Tommy Boy on my projector, then a friend texted me and told me Beer on the Rug was in my town (San Antonio). So I stopped what I was doing and left. If anyone is interested, I can give a breakdown of the night and how it changed my general perception of "the scene." But right now all I will do is post one picture.

Wow. How did you ever find something like that?

I thought caper wave was when all the deli's were putting capers in the chicken salad?

That's not even a first world problem, that's like, a 0.5 world problem.

Too bad there wasn't a heard of pigs near by for that demon to go into.

Lasership Stereo is the same person as Computer Dreams. You can totally hear it in the production, and see it in the album work. Probably one of my favs. Computer Dreams used to follow me on soundcloud but then the account got taken down, or maybe deleted by the owner.