for the record i enjoy the yacht rock stylings of daryl hall and john oates
Clint Anderson
Systems Engineer
"Freedom -- paint me a picture!" -- Burton Cummings
On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 9:47 AM, <ben@diamondste.in> wrote:
quoted 113 lines Ten points to Clint.
> Ten points to Clint.
>
> thanks,
> ben majoy (mobile)
>
>
> On Jan 6, 2016, at 7:42 AM, Clint Anderson <clinta@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> someone who drinks too much robotussin and passes out listening to hall &
> oates in the other room
>
>
> Clint Anderson
> Systems Engineer
> "Freedom -- paint me a picture!" -- Burton Cummings
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 1:14 AM, Rjyan Kidwell <cexwell@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> What is a Hipster?
>> On Jan 5, 2016 8:30 PM, "c. jones" <coda27@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Vaporwave is hipster kids from the late 90's/ early 00's reminiscing
>>> over a time they didn't exist in by ironically & lazily sampling 80's hits
>>> and slowing them down so as to they're doing something new and original,
>>> when in reality they're just contributing more and more detritus to
>>> basically what's an inside joke.
>>>
>>> ------------------------------
>>> Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 17:11:59 -0800
>>> Subject: Re: What is Vaporwave?
>>> From: alecwild6@gmail.com
>>> To: ben@diamondste.in
>>> CC: kit.mauldin@yahoo.com; idm@hyperreal.org
>>>
>>> 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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