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From:
Clint Anderson
To:
Ransom Schafer
Cc:
Rjyan Kadwallader , IDM
Date:
Sat, 25 Aug 2018 12:13:57 -0500
Subject:
Re: TBD vs. vaporwave
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i always assumed vaporwave was like vaporware, it was some genre that everyone talked about, how great it was going to be, etc, but nobody actually ever made any Clint Anderson Systems Engineer "Freedom -- paint me a picture!" -- Burton Cummings On Sat, Aug 25, 2018 at 11:59 AM Ransom Schafer <ransom.schafer@gmail.com> wrote:
quoted 90 lines Wait.. Is this vaporwave??> Wait.. Is this vaporwave?? > > https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vNm5JhowWcI&t=588s > > and I'm out. > > On Fri, Aug 24, 2018, 2:14 PM Rjyan Kidwell <cexwell@gmail.com> wrote: > >> is this vaporwave >> https://soundcloud.com/cex/silk-plips >> >> On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 3:10 PM, Jeff Davis <jeff@jeffreyjdavis.com> >> wrote: >> >>> The style reference canon for this phase of VW is : >>> >>> Chuck Person's Eccojams (Danial Lopatin aka OneOhTrixPoint Never) >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unN7QvSWSTo >>> >>> and >>> >>> Macintosh Plus Floral Shoppe (I never would have financed the vinyl >>> release of this if I would have known it was going to cause so much >>> drama) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCq0P509UL4 >>> >>> many many many other releases which are much less inspired >>> >>> >>> thanks, >>> >>> Jeffrey J Davis >>> >>> jeff@jeffreyjdavis.com >>> >>> www.jeffreyjdavis.com >>> >>> 218.833.2847 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 12:36 PM, <phase@booyaka.com> wrote: >>> > Thanks, Jeff! Also thx for posting some other VW suggestions a week >>> or so >>> > ago. I saved the email and hope to have time to get back to it soon. >>> > >>> > And Laurent, no need to be sorry! I certainly agree that if all >>> Neko-Shi >>> > Corp. did was slow down an existing b-side, that's not very creative. >>> One >>> > of these days I might try to track down the original b-side and >>> compare. >>> > But tbh, IDGAF because the end result sounds so good! If somebody else >>> > enjoyed the VW version even HALF as much as me, my post will have been >>> worth >>> > it. >>> > >>> > cheers, >>> > phase >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > On Fri, 24 Aug 2018, Jeff Davis wrote: >>> > >>> >> Not really a breakthrough VW track, but artist = Neko-shi Corporation >>> >> (Cat Corporation) >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > On Fri, 24 Aug 2018, Laurent Knauth wrote: >>> > >>> >> Well, sorry for being ? that guy ? but ? although i didn't study the >>> >> arrangement carefully ?,this ? vaguewa$ ?version doesn't sound much >>> of a >>> >> breakthrough to me. >>> >> >>> >> I mean most, if not all of the italo-dance 45's b-sides were actually >>> >> instrumental versions, this Valerie Dore single being no exception. >>> If you >>> >> aim to vaporwave yourself, Den Harrow's ? Future Brain ?, is another >>> >> italo-favorite ? although not as classy maybe ! >>> >> >>> >> As a kid, i often used to prefer the b-sides over the a-ones and, much >>> >> later, often wondered whether the Franck de Wulf's ? B-Sides ? alias >>> was >>> >> named after that ! >>> >> >>