1991 - No More Dreams

This is so, so, so good. Not sure what album I liked more of his previous two but this newnew is hhhhsrul. IV is really gripping me right now. Gonna blare this in my car tomorrow morning on the top of Ally Pally.

  On 11/6/2016 at 8:17 PM, fumi said:

No More Dreams VI sounds like the kind of thing you would hear soundtracking a tense scene in a made-for-TV cop thriller playing on some late-night cable channel in the early 90s.

This is exactly what vaporwave should be but often isn't. This hauntological sound of a future past grounded in late 80s/early 90s sleaze and cheese media and aesthetics. Stuff that was quickly abandoned, scrapped, forgotten and exists on worn out VHS and cassette tapes. VHS Head is kind of similar in ethos but a completely different approach.

Early vaporwave hit that mark a lot but then it morphed into other retro, ironic, and meme crap, or speed up stuff that sounds like filter house. Many good producers are literally just making mid-90s sounding ambient now. Likewise guys like Donovan Hikaru aren't getting enough attention for their unique efforts. What has always irked me about vaporwave is it's literally abandoned the core of it's appeal as it got more popular and diverse. The scene is so insular that it's a bubble. Which is cool to some degree but a bit of a turn off TBH.

am i wrong in saying nobody else doing this kind of thing even comes close? this is great stuff.

  On 11/10/2016 at 7:20 PM, Kingdom of Heaven said:

am i wrong in saying nobody else doing this kind of thing even comes close? this is great stuff.

No, I feel the same way. I've heard Infinite Frequencies (who remixed 1991 BTW) and some other stuff like SSaliva, Huerco S., etc. in the ballpark but nothing close to his stuff at all. Maybe some tape label drone artists like Former Selves, 1958-2009, 0PN or Rene Hell

Axel's Recommendations.

https://bleep.com/artist-charts/1991-Chart

  On 11/10/2016 at 8:11 PM, fumi said:

Axel's Recommendations.

 

https://bleep.com/artist-charts/1991-Chart

I just remembered his youtube channel has his favorrite videos listed. It's a long list too.

Great release! I'm also on hunt for similar music or at least for music that evokes the same feeling. Semya comes quite close, even though he is a lot more psychedelic: https://semya.bandcamp.com/album/golden-days

Symbol is more subtle but still comes to mind when thinking about this specific soundscapes: https://holodeckrecords.bandcamp.com/album/online-architecture-hd022

Just sharing if anyone's interested. But other than that, really enjoying No More Dreams!

I've never heard 

  On 11/10/2016 at 8:22 PM, joshuatx said:

 

  On 11/10/2016 at 8:11 PM, fumi said:

Axel's Recommendations.

 

https://bleep.com/artist-charts/1991-Chart

 

I just remembered his youtube channel has his favorrite videos listed. It's a long list too.

 

yeah, I picked up YancityGurl after reading the list.

thanks, everyone!!!

  On 11/10/2016 at 8:52 PM, Dpek said:

Great release! I'm also on hunt for similar music or at least for music that evokes the same feeling. Semya comes quite close, even though he is a lot more psychedelic: https://semya.bandcamp.com/album/golden-days

Symbol is more subtle but still comes to mind when thinking about this specific soundscapes: https://holodeckrecords.bandcamp.com/album/online-architecture-hd022

Just sharing if anyone's interested. But other than that, really enjoying No More Dreams!

I need to revisit Symbol and older Holodeck releases in general, I'm lucky to be aware of them since they are Texas based.

Semya is another good recommendation, same dude who used to go as RUN DMT

There is another track playing underneath No More Dreams V. You can hear it at the end.

  On 11/22/2016 at 9:03 PM, fumi said:

There is another track playing underneath No More Dreams V. You can hear it at the end.

There's a couple of tracks like that. It's the same underlying track.

  On 11/22/2016 at 9:22 PM, oscillik said:

 

  On 11/22/2016 at 9:03 PM, fumi said:

There is another track playing underneath No More Dreams V. You can hear it at the end.

There's a couple of tracks like that. It's the same underlying track.

  On 11/10/2016 at 8:22 PM, joshuatx said:

 

  On 11/10/2016 at 8:11 PM, fumi said:

Axel's Recommendations.

 

https://bleep.com/artist-charts/1991-Chart

 

I just remembered his youtube channel has his favorrite videos listed. It's a long list too.

 

Ooh, Link to this?

  On 11/25/2016 at 2:16 AM, Marked x 0ne said:

 

  On 11/10/2016 at 8:22 PM, joshuatx said:

 

  On 11/10/2016 at 8:11 PM, fumi said:

Axel's Recommendations.

 

https://bleep.com/artist-charts/1991-Chart

I just remembered his youtube channel has his favorrite videos listed. It's a long list too.

Ooh, Link to this?

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  On 11/23/2016 at 11:34 PM, GRVGLTCHR said:

 

  On 11/22/2016 at 9:22 PM, oscillik said:

 

  On 11/22/2016 at 9:03 PM, fumi said:

There is another track playing underneath No More Dreams V. You can hear it at the end.

There's a couple of tracks like that. It's the same underlying track.

maybe he was just recording over older material and it leaked through.

 

I think so. It's a deliberate thing. Part of his aesthetic, I guess.

yes this is very good indeed

the watmm radar, it would seem, is in perfect working order

Incredible textures on this release.  The descending synth line at the climax of nmd III, is a seriously face melting moment

High-Tech High-Life is a fantastic record, which I discovered courtesy of this thread. Good work watmm

Phenomenal release, just getting around to it now. The sounds just go on forever...easy to lose yourself in. Definitely his best work, I think, though I love it all.

Yeah, this album... never heard of 1991 before, just randomly browsing yt one day and got intrigued by the cover art. Absolutely beautiful music, really soundtracking my life right now.:)

This is a great Sunday morning album.

  On 2/25/2018 at 4:47 PM, auxien said:

This is a great Sunday morning album.

looks like more have been pressed up if you missed out

bump because i love this album.  in case anyone missed it> its the shit