Vaporwave

My boy from business casual made a microsample ambient album. It's good.

https://blcr.bandcamp.com/album/reflection

  On 1/26/2017 at 11:46 AM, Salvatorin said:

My boy from business casual made a microsample ambient album. It's good.

https://blcr.bandcamp.com/album/reflection

nice minimal pixel art

This thread was made 5 fucking years ago

Look how fast time passes, kill me now

That's the message of vaporwave

Way too drunk sorry.  Fucking nostalgias.  Nothing lasts

  On 2/4/2017 at 9:01 AM, Zeffolia said:

This thread was made 5 fucking years ago

 

Look how fast time passes, kill me now

 

That's the message of vaporwave

 

Way too drunk sorry.  Fucking nostalgias.  Nothing lasts

  On 12/30/2016 at 8:10 AM, Mesh Gear Fox said:

 

lots of great names on here

 

https://elemental95.bandcamp.com/album/95-elements

Ooh aye, I got one on there too. All the glitched loops in my track were from a faulty copy of Monsters: Dark Continent I downloaded, hah. Good comp.

Congrats on the 7", Lane! Didn't know Adhesive were stretching out into vinyl.

Been out of the game a bit myself, but have three releases coming up soon: a split tape with MindSpring Memories, my side is a 20 minute slushy sax lullaby; & a 90 minute album on Swamp Circle. And my tape for No Problema is finally in production and should be out soon. Only started the fucker in 2014.

He's a long way from vaporwave now, but HKE's new one is pretty solid. OESB is doing a vinyl run of Ferraro's Human Story 3 on the same imprint too.

  On 2/5/2017 at 2:24 AM, purlieu said:

 

  On 12/30/2016 at 8:10 AM, Mesh Gear Fox said:

 

lots of great names on here

 

https://elemental95.bandcamp.com/album/95-elements

 

 

Ooh aye, I got one on there too. All the glitched loops in my track were from a faulty copy of Monsters: Dark Continent I downloaded, hah. Good comp.

 

Congrats on the 7", Lane! Didn't know Adhesive were stretching out into vinyl.

 

Been out of the game a bit myself, but have three releases coming up soon: a split tape with MindSpring Memories, my side is a 20 minute slushy sax lullaby; & a 90 minute album on Swamp Circle. And my tape for No Problema is finally in production and should be out soon. Only started the fucker in 2014.

 

He's a long way from vaporwave now, but HKE's new one is pretty solid. OESB is doing a vinyl run of Ferraro's Human Story 3 on the same imprint too.

 

Thanks Purlieu! I'm still waiting for it to ship myself, very stoked. Oh wow congrats on getting a tape out on No Problema, legit for sure. Cool about the rest of your upcoming stuff too. I love the Swamp Circle label, they always put out classic vapor/muzak and have interesting themes to their releases. 

anyone heard Remember's Welcome To Axico Industries? Cant remember if ive posted this before, but i seriously cant get enough of this album:

https://plus100.bandcamp.com/album/welcome-to-axico-industries

The evil corporation / cyberpunk theme is strong on this one.. makes me wanna grab some burger king french toast sticks for breakfast.

  On 12/6/2016 at 1:56 AM, sheathe said:

for me, computer dreams self titled and deleted self release is probably the truest VW album. but internet club's stuff is classic too. this isn't a definitive statement, just what i think as someone who was an enthusiastic pursuer of this music from 2010. to me, true vaporwave was made by people who were making it as an escape from what was before, a defiance of the current trends etc. (cliche statements about nascent art movments), not as emulation. i had the idea in my head before i heard other people making it, but other people made it before i tried. i never thought any of the big beat st pepsi esq stuff was quite pure. for me, vaporwave had to have broken production values. that's where the beauty was.

 

ever since i learned the term vaporwave, it all started to feel so fleeting. that's the sad/ maddening thing. i've moved on in a way but the spirit is still with me. it was a really hard thing to do...

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFWYaqad_Jw

 

 

a dead mall (differentiating mallsoft is really dumb to me) is a good starting point, or maybe the photography of brian ulrich as a moodboard.

 

 dark with a hint of hope, minimal, compressed. cold flickering fluorescent lights with echos of past promise/hope...

Internet Club is one I always come back to.  There was one cassette (or maybe CD-R I never had a physical copy of it) from early on, '10 or '11 I think, that was a single 40 minute or so track, sounded like it was recorded live in a basement or something and really highlighted the drone roots of this stuff, but I lost it in a hard drive crash in 2014 and can't for the life of me remember the title or artist now so I haven't been able to track it back down - that was one of my favorites.  I've always been more of a dabbler in vaporave though, by the time I really started paying attention in 2013 (because people kept recommending artists to me after they heard the 90s cable TV soundtrack inspired stuff I was doing back then) it seemed like the feeding frenzy was already in full swing and I wasn't really comfortable self applying the label (I mean I never really am, but more so than usual).

  On 2/8/2017 at 7:08 PM, RSP said:

  On 12/6/2016 at 1:56 AM, sheathe said:

 

Internet Club is one I always come back to.  There was one cassette (or maybe CD-R I never had a physical copy of it) from early on, '10 or '11 I think, that was a single 40 minute or so track, sounded like it was recorded live in a basement or something and really highlighted the drone roots of this stuff, but I lost it in a hard drive crash in 2014 and can't for the life of me remember the title or artist now so I haven't been able to track it back down - that was one of my favorites

was it under one of his other aliases?

https://www.discogs.com/artist/2836382-Datavis

It's interesting to wonder how many other producers like you made vaporwave stuff before the genre / scene was firmly rooted in 2012/2013. I still feel weird about the size, scope, and broad "definition" of it now.

  On 2/8/2017 at 6:11 PM, Lane Visitor said:

anyone heard Remember's Welcome To Axico Industries? Cant remember if ive posted this before, but i seriously cant get enough of this album:

 

https://plus100.bandcamp.com/album/welcome-to-axico-industries

 

The evil corporation / cyberpunk theme is strong on this one.. makes me wanna grab some burger king french toast sticks for breakfast.

 

Good album. Might be my least favourite Remember - maybe just a tad too long and heavily conceptual in places for me - but still some excellent stuff, especially in the second half. The dubsteppy closer is incredible. The world-building storytelling approach to his music is brilliant, though. His next record Dream Catalogue should pick up where the male protagonist's story left off at the end of Route Back Home. The track I've heard sounds like it's going to be another great one.

Oh, turns out I got a release out today! Split with MindSpring Memories. I think I was listening to a lot of telepath when I made that track, haha.

  On 2/9/2017 at 10:30 PM, purlieu said:

Oh, turns out I got a release out today! Split with MindSpring Memories. I think I was listening to a lot of telepath when I made that track, haha.

Ooh I'm loving this so far... Great use of phasing/modulation on that pad... And i really like what im assuming spring reverb its drenched in. Very good vibes and matches the cover art which is one of the best ive seen recently (:

We need more of this

Cheers! :) I like big, wide phasers with a bit of crunch.

That's one of Angel's covers, her artwork for MSM and Swamp Circle and the like is always top notch.

  On 2/9/2017 at 10:30 PM, purlieu said:

Oh, turns out I got a release out today! Split with MindSpring Memories. I think I was listening to a lot of telepath when I made that track, haha.

Beautiful ! Sad Horizons sounds like a lot of "classic" vaporwave that I like, and your track has a wonderful vibe going on - it does sound like the end of the world in fact !! Congrats

  On 2/9/2017 at 2:42 PM, joshuatx said:

 

  On 2/8/2017 at 7:08 PM, RSP said:

  On 12/6/2016 at 1:56 AM, sheathe said:

Internet Club is one I always come back to.  There was one cassette (or maybe CD-R I never had a physical copy of it) from early on, '10 or '11 I think, that was a single 40 minute or so track, sounded like it was recorded live in a basement or something and really highlighted the drone roots of this stuff, but I lost it in a hard drive crash in 2014 and can't for the life of me remember the title or artist now so I haven't been able to track it back down - that was one of my favorites

 

was it under one of his other aliases?

 

https://www.discogs.com/artist/2836382-Datavis

 

It's interesting to wonder how many other producers like you made vaporwave stuff before the genre / scene was firmly rooted in 2012/2013. I still feel weird about the size, scope, and broad "definition" of it now.

 

Could have been, none of that artwork looks quite right but it's been a while.

I wouldn't call anything I've done "vaporwave" exactly, but a lot of it draws from the same kind of palate (late 80s/early 90s library and soundtrack music especially) and I guess shared roots in drone, although I'm more from the psych/space/krautrock end of the drone spectrum and really only started to get back into electronics heavily n 2013 after a pretty long break.  But yeah, when I hear the term "vaporwave" I still think of the stuff that was happening before and when I first really heard about it (which is around when it started to really blow up in early 2013).  Not that genre labels and definitions matter too much really.

Incidentally, I originally found out about WATMM through a link to this thread posted someplace else in '12 or '13, I don't even remember where.

  On 2/10/2017 at 3:02 PM, StocKo said:

 

  On 2/9/2017 at 10:30 PM, purlieu said:

Oh, turns out I got a release out today! Split with MindSpring Memories. I think I was listening to a lot of telepath when I made that track, haha.

 

Beautiful ! Sad Horizons sounds like a lot of "classic" vaporwave that I like, and your track has a wonderful vibe going on - it does sound like the end of the world in fact !! Congrats

 

Thank you! Bring on the vapeocalypse

Azure Sands and OK Oil Company just put out some straight up redneck vaporwave. You need this in your life. 10/10. 

https://okoilcompany.bandcamp.com/album/american-truck-songs-8

Awesome.

  On 2/17/2017 at 7:27 PM, Lane Visitor said:

Azure Sands and OK Oil Company just put out some straight up redneck vaporwave. You need this in your life. 10/10. 

 

https://okoilcompany.bandcamp.com/album/american-truck-songs-8

  On 2/17/2017 at 7:27 PM, Lane Visitor said:

some straight up redneck vaporwave

2017

HKE - Dragon Soul

This album is blowing my mind!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Still vapourwaves?

Whatever it is, I am in love.....

  On 2/17/2017 at 8:26 PM, oscillik said:

that's sick

  On 2/24/2017 at 10:42 PM, Rubin Farr said:

 

  On 2/17/2017 at 8:26 PM, oscillik said:

that's sick

 

I only realised whilst re-watching it recently that all the Black Lodge scenes were pretty much the progenitor of the vaporwave aesthetic.

  On 2/17/2017 at 7:27 PM, Lane Visitor said:

Azure Sands and OK Oil Company just put out some straight up redneck vaporwave. You need this in your life. 10/10. 

 

https://okoilcompany.bandcamp.com/album/american-truck-songs-8

so they literally just slowed down existing songs? is that it or am i missing something? 

  On 2/25/2017 at 6:56 AM, keanu reeves said:

 

  On 2/17/2017 at 7:27 PM, Lane Visitor said:

Azure Sands and OK Oil Company just put out some straight up redneck vaporwave. You need this in your life. 10/10.

 

https://okoilcompany.bandcamp.com/album/american-truck-songs-8

so they literally just slowed down existing songs? is that it or am i missing something?

So you're not missing anything per se, logically, but most heavy sample-based vaporwave is actually much less about musical production/craft/ability, and mostly about presenting selections of altered audio and recycled/found internet-sourced art and packaging it through concepts and atmospheres it would never have otherwise been connected to. Pretentious... Lazy... Adolescent? Maybe, but it's a rich movement nonetheless. If you can try and think of it (at least the heavy sample-based examples) as less of -a music genre with "artists"/"albums", and more of an internet art/sound experiment ... And instead of artists the creators are more "strange djs", or "curators" "editors" etc, putting out "mixes" of slightly warped stuff theyve found and collected to put into one bizzaro mixtape, then youre more likely to appreciate and enjoy vaporwave in all its ego-less dada-ist glory.