Vaporwave

  On 12/10/2013 at 1:02 PM, funkaholic said:

 

awesome. i wonder how it must've felt to watch that in 85.

Edited December 13, 2013 by poblequadrat

;)

  On 12/16/2013 at 8:39 PM, jasondonervan said:

 

Nice stuff!

 

Been really digging Macross lately.. this track's more along the Saint Pepsi/funky disco-house tip, but so good:

 

Edited December 16, 2013 by Lane Visitor

  On 12/13/2013 at 12:39 PM, MadameChaos said:

so 80s, terrible

 

faporwave has more to do with 90's fetishism though (at least in my book).

 

check out vaporwave guru james ferraro:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XBL_brLjgM

  On 12/16/2013 at 8:39 PM, jasondonervan said:

 

Doesn't that just say something about cars that isn't said anymore?

I've been in a pretty vaporwave state of mind, lately - giving away all my physical media, downloading v0 rips of albums like a muthafucka, whittling them down to my most favouritest tracks. Getting all 1999 kazaa up in hurr

 

anyway, got me thinking - has the vaporwave concept been applied to entire pre-existing albums? I don't mean taking each original track & making a vwave track out of it. I mean taking the album as a whole, breaking it down into hundreds of little pieces, casting those pieces into a sea of reverbs & time-stretches to create an entirely new listening experience.

 

Cuz I was listening to Songs From The Big Chair and I could totally picture it

  On 12/17/2013 at 1:31 AM, Cryptowen said:

I've been in a pretty vaporwave state of mind, lately - giving away all my physical media, downloading v0 rips of albums like a muthafucka, whittling them down to my most favouritest tracks. Getting all 1999 kazaa up in hurr

 

anyway, got me thinking - has the vaporwave concept been applied to entire pre-existing albums? I don't mean taking each original track & making a vwave track out of it. I mean taking the album as a whole, breaking it down into hundreds of little pieces, casting those pieces into a sea of reverbs & time-stretches to create an entirely new listening experience.

 

Cuz I was listening to Songs From The Big Chair and I could totally picture it

Ooh i like where youre going with that. Ive actually been going into old snippets of tracks I made on Reason that I haven't done anything with & slowing down the tempo, and adding a lot of reverb and rolling off the highs, and some sound very cool. There's one that's this cheesy thing I did with a muted guitar sample that keeps repeating, a hokey 909ish beat and these ridiculous samples of girls moaning- some free Reason library someone gave me back in 2003 that includes sex sounds... The samples sound like an absurd mix of payper view Spice channel from 1994, anime porn sounds, and 80s cinemax softcore lol... Anyway, after i slowed down the beat and tweaked it, it sounded like a cross between some release off the Fortune 500 label- maybe Global Market, Arabic/Greek dance tv from 96 and a lo-fi Diplo track... Hmmm maybe ill Donovan Hikaru-fy it (: errr uhh, i mean maybe Donovan will bless the track and release it to the world (: Edited December 17, 2013 by Lane Visitor

  On 12/17/2013 at 3:25 AM, Lane Visitor said:

 

  On 12/17/2013 at 1:31 AM, Cryptowen said:

I've been in a pretty vaporwave state of mind, lately - giving away all my physical media, downloading v0 rips of albums like a muthafucka, whittling them down to my most favouritest tracks. Getting all 1999 kazaa up in hurr

 

anyway, got me thinking - has the vaporwave concept been applied to entire pre-existing albums? I don't mean taking each original track & making a vwave track out of it. I mean taking the album as a whole, breaking it down into hundreds of little pieces, casting those pieces into a sea of reverbs & time-stretches to create an entirely new listening experience.

 

Cuz I was listening to Songs From The Big Chair and I could totally picture it

Ooh i like where youre going with that. Ive actually been going into old snippets of tracks I made on Reason that I haven't done anything with & slowing down the tempo, and adding a lot of reverb and rolling off the highs, and some sound very cool. There's one that's this cheesy thing I did with a muted guitar sample that keeps repeating, a hokey 909ish beat and these ridiculous samples of girls moaning- some free Reason library someone gave me back in 2003 that includes sex sounds... The samples sound like an absurd mix of payper view Spice channel from 1994, anime porn sounds, and 80s cinemax softcore lol... Anyway, after i slowed down the beat and tweaked it, it sounded like a cross between some release off the Fortune 500 label- maybe Global Market, Arabic/Greek dance tv from 96 and a lo-fi Diplo track... Hmmm maybe ill Donovan Hikaru-fy it (: errr uhh, i mean maybe Donovan will bless the track and release it to the world (:

 

 

Instead of slowing down the tempo I export and slow down. Also the low pass filter. I never upload that though.

 

The whole album idea is good.

Edited December 17, 2013 by sheatheman

Hey check it out, BeerOnTheRug released something reasonably priced.

 

http://beerontherug.bandcamp.com/album/fantasy-recordings

  On 12/17/2013 at 6:20 AM, sheatheman said:

 

  On 12/17/2013 at 3:25 AM, Lane Visitor said:

 

  On 12/17/2013 at 1:31 AM, Cryptowen said:

I've been in a pretty vaporwave state of mind, lately - giving away all my physical media, downloading v0 rips of albums like a muthafucka, whittling them down to my most favouritest tracks. Getting all 1999 kazaa up in hurr

 

anyway, got me thinking - has the vaporwave concept been applied to entire pre-existing albums? I don't mean taking each original track & making a vwave track out of it. I mean taking the album as a whole, breaking it down into hundreds of little pieces, casting those pieces into a sea of reverbs & time-stretches to create an entirely new listening experience.

 

Cuz I was listening to Songs From The Big Chair and I could totally picture it

Ooh i like where youre going with that. Ive actually been going into old snippets of tracks I made on Reason that I haven't done anything with & slowing down the tempo, and adding a lot of reverb and rolling off the highs, and some sound very cool. There's one that's this cheesy thing I did with a muted guitar sample that keeps repeating, a hokey 909ish beat and these ridiculous samples of girls moaning- some free Reason library someone gave me back in 2003 that includes sex sounds... The samples sound like an absurd mix of payper view Spice channel from 1994, anime porn sounds, and 80s cinemax softcore lol... Anyway, after i slowed down the beat and tweaked it, it sounded like a cross between some release off the Fortune 500 label- maybe Global Market, Arabic/Greek dance tv from 96 and a lo-fi Diplo track... Hmmm maybe ill Donovan Hikaru-fy it (: errr uhh, i mean maybe Donovan will bless the track and release it to the world (:

 

 

Instead of slowing down the tempo I export and slow down. Also the low pass filter. I never upload that though.

 

The whole album idea is good.

 

 

Ahh good call on slowing it down after the export.. (:

  On 12/17/2013 at 1:23 AM, sheatheman said:

 

  On 12/16/2013 at 8:39 PM, jasondonervan said:

 

Doesn't that just say something about cars that isn't said anymore?

 

 

That you should be washing your car with Pantene shampoo?

 

I think you're referring to the extreme auto-fetishism on display during that time? Today's car commercials are sanitised to the point that they all look the same, the only thing distinguishing them is the manfacturer's badge at the end. Back then, advertisers went all out on making the consumer lust after vehicles - aspirational beasts that allowed you to feel like you were sending a middle finger to all the other drivers on the road while driving one.

 

On a slight tangent, I recall petroleum/oil companies doing similar stuff - Esso, Castrol... heavily overproduced commercials which managed to glamorize the very dullest of commodoties - stuff that makes your car run. I'll have to see if I can pull up some examples - if my childhood memory serves me well enough, I think there's some faint vapor touches in those old ads.

as stated prior, never going to pay for this music, fuck no.

  On 12/17/2013 at 9:19 PM, prdctvsm said:

 

oh my god, this is FANTASTIC! nice find (:

  On 12/17/2013 at 10:29 AM, jasondonervan said:

 

  On 12/17/2013 at 1:23 AM, sheatheman said:

 

  On 12/16/2013 at 8:39 PM, jasondonervan said:

 

Doesn't that just say something about cars that isn't said anymore?

 

 

That you should be washing your car with Pantene shampoo?

 

I think you're referring to the extreme auto-fetishism on display during that time? Today's car commercials are sanitised to the point that they all look the same, the only thing distinguishing them is the manfacturer's badge at the end. Back then, advertisers went all out on making the consumer lust after vehicles - aspirational beasts that allowed you to feel like you were sending a middle finger to all the other drivers on the road while driving one.

 

On a slight tangent, I recall petroleum/oil companies doing similar stuff - Esso, Castrol... heavily overproduced commercials which managed to glamorize the very dullest of commodoties - stuff that makes your car run. I'll have to see if I can pull up some examples - if my childhood memory serves me well enough, I think there's some faint vapor touches in those old ads.

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy8FTEmmjpQ

 

The end kind of...

^ Dopey!

Those 3D fly through things are perfect.

  On 12/18/2013 at 6:38 AM, gmanyo said:

Those 3D fly through things are perfect.

 

I feel like I'm lucid dreaming, watching them.. speaking of which, someone should make a vaporwave/chillwave/ambient mix suitable for lucid dreaming...

 

actually we, in this thread, should compile some kind "best of" of what we like from the genre:

 

"Selected Vapors 11-13" lol

Whose thirsty for some fresh Donovan trackage? ;D

 

... uploading a new one to YouTube right now....

Edited December 19, 2013 by Lane Visitor

Donovan Hikaru's new, all-original... "Employee Trust Fall"

 

 

Enjoy!

 

<3

  On 12/19/2013 at 7:16 AM, Lane Visitor said:

Donovan Hikaru's new, all-original... "Employee Trust Fall"

 

 

Enjoy!

 

<3

 

Donovan is killing it! Those smooth executive lounge sax vibes... razor sharp corporate slide presentation visuals... top vapors in the scene right now! *Spritzer glasses clink*

Drugs sound so much better with music involved.