Haha, yeah. I own a copy of Flaunt It. Its packed away somewhere. I always
get a kick out thumbing through the CD booklet when I come across it.
Class!!
On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 1:09 PM, Laurent Knauth <laurent.knauth@gmail.com>
wrote:
quoted 165 lines Although i had never heard about this literally nebulous genre before this
> Although i had never heard about this literally nebulous genre before this
> thread popped in and after reading your comments, it turns out like i've
> been listening to vaporwave in my late 80s without even knowing it (maybe
> you have also) :
> *https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk30a0qsVIk
> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk30a0qsVIk>*
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 5:41 PM, luca tommy tommasini <scaleni@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> an big answer after years and year
>> of explorationz among clicks, glitchs, noise, fields...
>>
>> but i really dislike vapor-wave and acceletionasionism..
>>
>> 2016-01-06 17:06 GMT+01:00 Bruno Gola <brunogola@gmail.com>:
>>
>>> speaking about ramona (Macintosh Plus), i love her other project
>>> vektroid:
>>>
>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNP_QiOAHhQ
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 4:48 PM, Clint Anderson <clinta@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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:
>>>>
>>>>> 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
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Bruno Gola <brunogola@gmail.com>
>>> http://bgo.la/
>>>
>>
>>
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