Washed Hands - I’m Feeling So Great
https://soundcloud.com/washedhands/im-feeling-so-great
ilkae is 1/2 of Washed Hands (for the IDM tie-in)
love that one
Also:
https://gamera.bandcamp.com/album/eternal-life
Definitely one I hit often and probably my favorite album in this corner of
the musical spectrum because of the hip-hop influence. Lot of gems for me
but Too Late, Water God, Slow down Beat and Eternal Wisdom are standouts.
On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 5:11 PM, Alec Wild <alecwild6@gmail.com> wrote:
quoted 75 lines Yeah, Vaporwave is kind of weird in the sense that it was born out of an
> Yeah, Vaporwave is kind of weird in the sense that it was born out of an
> aesthetic and then evolved so much beyond it while keeping the aesthetic
> evolving. I've seen some really interesting discussion on what Vaporwave
> becoming so ambient-focused in releases like 2814 means and where we draw
> the lin on what is and isn't vaporwave.
>
> The Vaporwave documentary is great but was unfortunately released before
> "I'll try living like this", which I and many others consider the best
> vaporwave release of 2015. If you haven't listened to it, give the track
> "Somebody Home" a listen. I truly believe that the overstimulation and
> grooves of that song are going to become a theme of vaporwave at some point
> soon.
>
> I think the vaporwave rabbit hole goes a lot deeper than a lot of people
> think, but it's a very weird genre to break into.
>
> On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 5:06 PM, Ben Diamondstein <ben@diamondste.in>
> wrote:
>
>> I don't mind academic. From what I can tell, Vaporwave seems to have a
>> lot of commentary attached to it, so I'm not surprised there's a lot of
>> academic-level discussion around it.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 4:58 PM, Christopher Mauldin <
>> kit.mauldin@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Adam Harper who writes occasionally for the Wire and Dummy Mag is kind
>>> of the vaporwave ur-guru. Obsessive and academic. His blog, in case you
>>> have a few millennia of free time to burn:
>>> http://rougesfoam.blogspot.com/
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ------------------------------
>>> *From:* Ben Diamondstein <ben@diamondste.in>
>>> *To:* Idm List <idm@hyperreal.org>
>>> *Sent:* Tuesday, January 5, 2016 4:50 PM
>>> *Subject:* What is Vaporwave?
>>>
>>> In respect to the "Best of 2015" thread, I figured it may be worth
>>> bringing the Vaporwave topic to another email.
>>>
>>> I'm fairly new to this list, so I've been hesitant to ask about
>>> Vaporwave, but it seems like something people have thoughts on.
>>>
>>> Here's a video I found in my own research that seems to do a pretty good
>>> job describing the history of (which is actually very interesting).
>>>
>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdpP0mXOlWM
>>>
>>> But again, it's kind of academic. Anyone here into Vaporwave and can
>>> explain a bit of why/what? It seems that people are generally very
>>> opinionated on it in the more well-respected music circles. Plus, it seems
>>> to have a very devout following, considering the obscurity of it. Seemingly
>>> like IDM in its infancy.
>>>
>>> This is the song that people often reference most closely with the
>>> genre.
>>>
>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU8HrO7XuiE
>>>
>>> Thoughts? Opinions? Bueller?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>
> --
> From the desk of Alec Wild
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