Vaporwave

  On 3/6/2014 at 7:58 PM, sheatheman said:

http://beerontherug.bandcamp.com/album/home listen to "Loading"

 

http://beerontherug.bandcamp.com/album/clearskies listen to "Rec Virtura"

Whoa.. crazy! Never noticed those are the same melody..

Hmm it's like a Prism Corp theme, tying both releases together.. haha that makes it even more awesome to me

I'm pretty sure it's the same sample at different speeds. The whole track is just a sample.

  On 3/6/2014 at 8:22 PM, sheatheman said:

I'm pretty sure it's the same sample at different speeds. The whole track is just a sample.

hmm wow.. i wonder if anyone can find the source material?

although i kind of like that i dont know where it came from and if it came from anywhere.. keeps the mystique. thats the problem with vaporwave lol with the good sample-based stuff, you dont really wanna know what the original source was, in order to keep it magical.

strange dilemma...

  On 3/6/2014 at 9:05 PM, Lane Visitor said:

 

  On 3/6/2014 at 8:22 PM, sheatheman said:

I'm pretty sure it's the same sample at different speeds. The whole track is just a sample.

 

hmm wow.. i wonder if anyone can find the source material?

 

although i kind of like that i dont know where it came from and if it came from anywhere.. keeps the mystique. thats the problem with vaporwave lol with the good sample-based stuff, you dont really wanna know what the original source was, in order to keep it magical.

 

strange dilemma...

 

yeah I either love completely obscure samples or very deliberate use of trademark samples I recognize immediately (which is at the core of classic rave, hip-hop, turntablism, etc)

nothing can describe that ephipany of hearing a sample source and absolutely freaking out in joy

Also, it'd be funny if that track was a midi melody he composed and then "sampled" later

self-sampling? portishead pressed their own dubplates for that effect

  On 3/6/2014 at 9:28 PM, joshuatx said:

 

self-sampling? portishead pressed their own dubplates for that effect

 

A testament to their greatness (:

I have only ever self sampled.

  On 3/6/2014 at 9:55 PM, sheatheman said:

I have only ever self sampled.

A testament to your greatness

  On 3/6/2014 at 11:14 PM, Lane Visitor said:

 

  On 3/6/2014 at 9:55 PM, sheatheman said:

I have only ever self sampled.

 

A testament to your greatness

 

That makes me want to eat Poptarts in the morning. No, Toaster Strudels.

i usually just sample rick astley

Rick Assley would be a good name for a guy who makes tracks out of old porn music & white guy rnb

also acoustep would be a good name for a new genre in which talented electronic musicians with no classical training attempt to create music using only acoustic instruments they've never played before, all in one live take

  On 3/7/2014 at 12:57 AM, Cryptowen said:

also acoustep would be a good name for a new genre in which talented electronic musicians with no classical training attempt to create music using only acoustic instruments they've never played before, all in one live take

lolol ... ive actually thought it would funny to do some kind dubstep genre, where it was the type of styles, buildups, drops, nuances that exist in dubstep, but the instruments being used were not dubstep synths, but rather acoustic guitars, jazz drums, etc, maybe even a few horns... some sounds from a dx7 or whatever.. anything non dubstep like lol it would sound like a trainwreck!

... . . ... . . . ∵⃝

http://macinsoft.bandcamp.com/

  On 3/7/2014 at 1:19 AM, Lane Visitor said:

 

  On 3/7/2014 at 12:57 AM, Cryptowen said:

also acoustep would be a good name for a new genre in which talented electronic musicians with no classical training attempt to create music using only acoustic instruments they've never played before, all in one live take

 

lolol ... ive actually thought it would funny to do some kind dubstep genre, where it was the type of styles, buildups, drops, nuances that exist in dubstep, but the instruments being used were not dubstep synths, but rather acoustic guitars, jazz drums, etc, maybe even a few horns... some sounds from a dx7 or whatever.. anything non dubstep like lol it would sound like a trainwreck!

wait, did you say alcostep?

lush

lol

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vaporwave based around japanese 80s music

https://soundcloud.com/betahifi

  On 3/7/2014 at 10:12 PM, Lane Visitor said:

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amazing; this could make for a good backstory to some fake vaporwave kickstarter or something

  On 3/11/2014 at 6:18 PM, joshuatx said:

 

  On 3/7/2014 at 10:12 PM, Lane Visitor said:

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amazing; this could make for a good backstory to some fake vaporwave kickstarter or something

 

hahahaha yes!

  On 3/11/2014 at 5:46 PM, funkaholic said:

vaporwave based around japanese 80s music

https://soundcloud.com/betahifi

March 2007

December 2011

May 2012

A favorite of mine:

https://soundcloud.com/lindsheaven/installation-zone?in=lindsheaven/sets/ntsc-memories-2013

Some vaporwave is more sustainable than other vaporwave. I still listen to Floral Shoppe all the time, for example, but other stuff from that period got old quickly.

Adam Harper wrote in his highly commendable book Infinite Music that a musical genre or style “is a musical object composed as a democratic collaboration by a dynamic community spanning time and space.” I feel that vaporwave is a really good example of this. I mean all genres or styles sort of operate that way, but I think it's different in the case of vaporwave and a lot of internet micro-genre things in that there's a much more conscious effort by the community involved to build something cohesive. That's how they can take off so fast. It's less of an organic evolution taking place over time in some particular geographic location like most electronic genres have evolved historically, and more a case of a bunch of people who know each other on tumblr or whevever being like "hey, let's all build something together." I mean they might never have that actual conversation, but someone comes up with a sound and then others follow suite and they collect the music in one place and expand on it and promote it in a relatively organised fashion. I think communities of musicians are starting to take over a lot of the functions of organisation that record labels used to do, basically.

It makes the whole thing sort of artificial in that there's a lot of design behind the shape and direction of the genre as a whole, but this isn't necessarily a bad thing. It's about a community of people developing and presenting their collective musical project in the same way that an individual musician would develop and present their own project.

  On 3/12/2014 at 9:36 PM, VIII said:

vaporwave sucks

  On 3/13/2014 at 3:06 AM, AsylumSeaker said:

A favorite of mine:

 

https://soundcloud.com/lindsheaven/installation-zone?in=lindsheaven/sets/ntsc-memories-2013

 

 

 

Some vaporwave is more sustainable than other vaporwave. I still listen to Floral Shoppe all the time, for example, but other stuff from that period got old quickly.

 

Adam Harper wrote in his highly commendable book Infinite Music that a musical genre or style “is a musical object composed as a democratic collaboration by a dynamic community spanning time and space.” I feel that vaporwave is a really good example of this. I mean all genres or styles sort of operate that way, but I think it's different in the case of vaporwave and a lot of internet micro-genre things in that there's a much more conscious effort by the community involved to build something cohesive. That's how they can take off so fast. It's less of an organic evolution taking place over time in some particular geographic location like most electronic genres have evolved historically, and more a case of a bunch of people who know each other on tumblr or whevever being like "hey, let's all build something together." I mean they might never have that actual conversation, but someone comes up with a sound and then others follow suite and they collect the music in one place and expand on it and promote it in a relatively organised fashion. I think communities of musicians are starting to take over a lot of the functions of organisation that record labels used to do, basically.

 

It makes the whole thing sort of artificial in that there's a lot of design behind the shape and direction of the genre as a whole, but this isn't necessarily a bad thing. It's about a community of people developing and presenting their collective musical project in the same way that an individual musician would develop and present their own project.

Excellent analysis, that's exactly why I went from my initial dismissal/skepticism to really digging the genre and scene. The substance of the community really shines, it's like we've returned to the days of DIY pre-internet, which was less conscious emulation/influence between artists and more of a unity over ethos. Vaporwave has a very deceiving sense of superficiality to it (something that plagued other trends like synthpop, chillwave, "dubstep," witch house, etc) so I assumed it'd be full of aping/copying for the sake of quick success but at it's core is a lot of sincerity and heart. It's a very fun, unpretentious movement.