What is a Hipster?
On Jan 5, 2016 8:30 PM, "c. jones" <coda27@hotmail.com> wrote:
quoted 87 lines Vaporwave is hipster kids from the late 90's/ early 00's reminiscing over
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> 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.
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> 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
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 5:06 PM, Ben Diamondstein <ben@diamondste.in>
> wrote:
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> 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.
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> On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 4:58 PM, Christopher Mauldin <kit.mauldin@yahoo.com
> > wrote:
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> 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/
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> *From:* Ben Diamondstein <ben@diamondste.in>
> *To:* Idm List <idm@hyperreal.org>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, January 5, 2016 4:50 PM
> *Subject:* What is Vaporwave?
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> In respect to the "Best of 2015" thread, I figured it may be worth
> bringing the Vaporwave topic to another email.
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> 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.
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> 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).
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdpP0mXOlWM
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> 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.
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> This is the song that people often reference most closely with the genre.
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU8HrO7XuiE
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> Thoughts? Opinions? Bueller?
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> From the desk of Alec Wild
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