Vaporwave

[Guest murphythecat8]

 

Good find Gravity - new on one me. Seems to tick most of the VW boxes:

 

music is not bad, the aesthetics of the video just play way too heavily into this homogenous style of retro 90s fetishism. Why when so many people are referencing the 90s they manage to reference things that appear exactly the same as each-other? Is it bad to expect a little bit more creativity out of these people?

 

this is not vaporwave though

[Guest 20XX]

b THT way

[gmanyo]

damn that blank banshee track is hot. way better than any of the stuff ive heard from him before.

Edited October 28, 2013 by gmanyo

[Lane Visitor]

wow, where to begin. i know im late to the game here, but i just stumbled into this vaporwave stuff a week ago and ive been fucking hooked ever since lol. ive always heard about it before, but never bothered to look into it, as i figured it was just another brooklyn-bred hype for journalists, combining hyphy and shoegaze or like neo-folk with surf and acid, or something that id imagine reading about on pfork. but to my surpise, it's in fact mysterious bizarro pitched down and chopped 80s/90s pop/soul/muzak/disco/smooth jazz ran through shitty tape recorders and stuff. This, imo, is EXACTLY what music needs right now. Things in music have seemed so serious lately, that's the culture has sort of lost it's charm and fun in many ways. For a while, I thought I was a little burnt out on both mainstream and indie music worlds with all of it's youtube saturation, but surprisingly, creative minds have started using youtube for revolutionary and highly imaginative purposes, in a diy fashion. found materials, infomercial samples, terrible corporate mood music. all combined into a track, used as instruments, themselves. fucking brilliant. i know it's really not anything so new (as sampling, chopping and screwing and collages have been around forever), but there's something about the way in which this little genre is being done- the whole package, asthetics as well, that really speaks to me. I know this sounds ridiculous, but I've had so many weird conceptual ideas that I've wanted to work on in the vein of Ultra, PrismCorp Virtual Enterprises, LaserDisc Visions, Saint Pepsi, etc etc since I was in high school, and seeing all this stuff coming out now kinda gets me excited. it's the perfect response to our over saturated consumer culture. regurgitation of the absurd elements of past and present pop culture so tastefully done. This shit makes Girl Talk and those hyped acts sound like Hanson.... (in a non-vaporwave hanson way :D)

 

p.s. ive been searching for some actual cassettes of prism corp, ultra, laserdisc, etc, and can't find any for sale. if anyone knows where i can buy them or is looking to sell their copy, id def be interested)

Edited October 28, 2013 by Lane Visitor

[brian trageskin]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5On0OVZrClQ

[Plarkreluke Banloboh]

 

p.s. ive been searching for some actual cassettes of prism corp, ultra, laserdisc, etc, and can't find any for sale. if anyone knows where i can buy them or is looking to sell their copy, id def be interested)

There's a new tape by Luxury Elite called 'TV Party' here:

http://www.orangemilkrecords.com/luxury-elite---tv-party.html

[Guest Sublimiter]

Holy shit that Blank Banshee track is beautiful. Impressive visuals too.

[Guest 20XX]

og vaporwavers

fall winter 2012

forever

[Lane Visitor]

 

 

p.s. ive been searching for some actual cassettes of prism corp, ultra, laserdisc, etc, and can't find any for sale. if anyone knows where i can buy them or is looking to sell their copy, id def be interested)

There's a new tape by Luxury Elite called 'TV Party' here:

http://www.orangemilkrecords.com/luxury-elite---tv-party.html

 

 

Dude, thanks for the head's up! I was digging the stuff I had previously heard by Luxury Elite.. Just purchased that cassette from the label. That stuff sounded lush. Looking forward to some yummy weirdness.

[Frank Poole]

Does anyone mind recapping this whole thread/genre in one to two posts?

[sheatheman]

I don't know where else to post this, but it is amazing. I can't believe how amazing.

 

http://youtu.be/Dj3vUOsBr8k

 

 

Lane:

I lucked out and went to a Beer on the Rug show and got a ClearSkies from Prism Corp. I am not willing to sell, but that would be the way to get something in the future, if you are at all able--from a merch table.

 

PS: If you want to be a really legit vaporwaver, then you will be a connoisseur of the late 80's early 90's stuff that was somehow being earnestly what all of the vaporwave related stuff has been trying to emulate for the past several years. Amazon is a great resource for cassette purchases of that nature. I just purchased this gem:

 

Edited October 29, 2013 by sheatheman

[Lane Visitor]

I don't know where else to post this, but it is amazing. I can't believe how amazing.

 

http://youtu.be/Dj3vUOsBr8k

 

 

Lane:

 

I lucked out and went to a Beer on the Rug show and got a ClearSkies from Prism Corp. I am not willing to sell, but that would be the way to get something in the future, if you are at all able--from a merch table.

 

PS: If you want to be a really legit vaporwaver, then you will be a connoisseur of the late 80's early 90's stuff that was somehow being earnestly what all of the vaporwave related stuff has been trying to emulate for the past several years. Amazon is a great resource for cassette purchases of that nature. I just purchased this gem:

 

 

Dude, fantastic! How does it sound? That cover goes deep...

 

Found this CD in my grandpa's workstation/cassette/cd/rack-- He was so vaporwave when he was alive it's not even funny.. He's got demos of wedding bands from the mid-late 90s, dollar bin gems and all kinds of oddities- he wasnt even trying, he just liked good music/electronic equipment bargains and happened to end up choosing some very cheesy random stuff lol:

 

^ ive been jamming to this album since i was in high school as i found it at my grandparents, and was like wtf is this??? you could only imagine what it sounds like based on the artwork haha.. straight 80s/elevator/hotel/waiting room throwaway tracks verging on LA fusion porn grooves... some is actually pretty cool though. started singing weird cheesy shit over it with my friends, and created an entire moniker. came up with a bunch of albums and cheesy over the top love song titles, with album art made on MS Paint using lots of clip art and stuff. I think this is part of why this whole Vaporwave thing hits me so hard lol

 

ill have to dig up some of the fake album art work i made and post it on here sometime (:

 

p.s. that must have been a rad show.. so cool you got your hands on a prismcorp tape! lucky lucky...

Edited October 29, 2013 by Lane Visitor

[sheatheman]

Your grandpa sounds cool. What album? A little green mountain with a lonely cloud?

[Lane Visitor]

Your grandpa sounds cool. What album? A little green mountain with a lonely cloud?

 

Haha thanks- most definitely.. The artwork I created? More like bad clip art (mostly businessmen and tennis players), and heart drawings everywhere. with titles like "I Loved You, I Love You, And I'll Always Love You" lol

Edited October 29, 2013 by Lane Visitor

[sheatheman]

 

Your grandpa sounds cool. What album? A little green mountain with a lonely cloud?

 

Haha thanks- most definitely.. The artwork I created? More like bad clip art (mostly businessmen and tennis players), and heart drawings everywhere. with titles like "I Loved You, I Love You, And I'll Always Love You" lol

 

 

Hahaha. I meant the album you have been jamming to

[Lane Visitor]

Oohh, haha- it's Generation Band- Call of the Wild (:

 

 

there's some real stellar stuff ive been checking out on the label this album is on- "tba records and tapes", may wanna check em out if you have the chance.

 

.. here's one from the label:

 

 

Here's Generation Band:

 

http://youtu.be/XfWJxE6bRic

Edited October 29, 2013 by Lane Visitor

[Guest Ron Manager]

i'm in the same boat as Lane. i'll be honest and say that it was the new OPN album which turned me on to this kind of stuff. there is some seriously high quality stuff out there. i'd love to get a few tapes too - the ctatsu label joshuatx recommended sounds pretty good, and the strong exchange rate makes shipping to the UK reasonably priced...

[Plarkreluke Banloboh]

I really like what Dwayne Swayde is doing, although the tracks I most like are labelled "b∞gietrap" so I guess that's a thing now, heh..

 

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i'm in the same boat as Lane. i'll be honest and say that it was the new OPN album which turned me on to this kind of stuff. there is some seriously high quality stuff out there. i'd love to get a few tapes too - the ctatsu label joshuatx recommended sounds pretty good, and the strong exchange rate makes shipping to the UK reasonably priced...

Many of these low-run limited edition tapes seem to be sold out as soon as they're available.. but that would be in keeping with the idea of 'vaporware';)

[Plarkreluke Banloboh]

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[Guest jasondonervan]

 

Many of these low-run limited edition tapes seem to be sold out as soon as they're available.. but that would be in keeping with the idea of 'vaporware';)

 

 

Most of them are tucked away on bandcamp, always worth a search by artist if the ability to buy a cassette has been vaporised.

[joshuatxuk]

i'm in the same boat as Lane. i'll be honest and say that it was the new OPN album which turned me on to this kind of stuff. there is some seriously high quality stuff out there. i'd love to get a few tapes too - the ctatsu label joshuatx recommended sounds pretty good, and the strong exchange rate makes shipping to the UK reasonably priced...

 

Ctatsu is great, they mostly do drone and ambient - they're not quite a vaporwave label. They did release stuff by C V L T S and Angel 1 (both still available) who are both on Beer On The Rug which is about as close to a vaporewave label I'm aware of. You can email him to ask if he ships to any UK distos.

 

They ship 4 tapes for $30 overseas ($15 domestic) which isn't bad especially compared to other label prices. All of their samples are up on bandcamp. I can attest that they are well-packaged and recorded, one of the best tape labels I've checked out.

[poblequadrat]

What do you think of Yasuaki Shimizu's album "Music for Commercials"? It's not vapourwave, but actual music for 80's Japanese commercials, actually more electronic than soft jazz, but still relevant to vapourwave I think.

 

Edited October 30, 2013 by poblequadrat

[Lane Visitor]

What do you think of Yasuaki Shimizu's album "Music for Commercials"? It's not vapourwave, but actual music for 80's Japanese commercials, actually more electronic than soft jazz, but still relevant to vapourwave I think.

 

 

ooh that's nice... so much amazing material in this vein has come out of Japan, and continues to come out. It blows my mind.

[data]

if i made my own 80's music and pitched it down a bunch, would it be vaporwave?

 

[sheatheman]

Depends.

Edited October 30, 2013 by sheatheman