I honestly have only heard very little vaporwave other than Lopatin's
output. So here is what I think about Lopatin's output and if you call it
all vaporwave then maybe this also what I think vaporwave is.
Music is a culture vampire sucking everything in sight and is constantly
recycled, broken down and put back together again in different ways.
Vaporwave to me seems to be that process, but stripped down to a level
where it induces nostalgia because you can notice all those elements that
are familiar without too much analysis. It seems like it's taking the piss
because really, how can you not take the piss out of what we thought was
cool in the decades preceding the one we're in? It is a couple of decades
(maybe a few) of our past, chewed up and spat back out at us. Music,
culture, space and time; it's all transient with random peaks and troughs
and vaporwave explores those peaks and troughs in our western consumerist
culture. It cycles through our culture timeline and every now and then it
briefly holds up a magnifying glass to random parts exposing our past
treasures and in turn our throw away nature.
Mem
On 6 January 2016 at 08:48, Jørgen Sissyfus Skjulstad <sissyfus@gmail.com>
wrote:
quoted 124 lines There's a sort of wiki here:
> There's a sort of wiki here:
>
> https://www.reddit.com/r/Vaporwave/
>
> and some listening suggestions here:
>
> https://i.imgur.com/6001VSi.jpg
>
> Plus a long article by Adam Harper:
>
> http://www.dummymag.com/features/adam-harper-vaporwave
>
> It's really easy to make fun of this genre, but personally I think that
> some of the music is really nice: Blank Banshee, Vektroid, Internet Club
> etc. I also think that of some early IDM have a (proto)vaporwave-aesthetic.
> Especially Boards of Canada comes into mind thinking of that.
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 8:14 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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