I actually knew nothing of this genre and its subreddit offspring until
this thread (though I knew St Pepsi.)
I love that a scene can create and self-replicate under the radar using
today's technology.
I'm listening to 2814 now and it's quite nice ambient background music
https://youtu.be/F9L4q-0Pi4E
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On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 4:34 AM, Brian Power <minusplusequals@gmail.com>
wrote:
quoted 201 lines 100 Hours of Vaporwave
> 100 Hours of Vaporwave
>
> http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJuUPaDFJKsvetvZRLxopu_fVI7DiJHxG
>
> I think I managed to get midway through the second hour, but may well dip
> in again, some time soon.
>
> Much of it (Vaporwave) is exactly what folk say it is. But sometimes you
> hit gold. Some producers even manage to sustain the hit for longer than a
> single track.
>
> It's like wading through 80's vintage pop landfill trying to snuff out a
> sonic truffle.
>
> I guess it mostly beats listening to FM radio...
>
> Sent from my iPhone
> On 7 Jan 2016, at 05:56, Laurent Knauth <laurent.knauth@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Yeah, the sleeve design was terrific and regarding the audio, i've always
> had the feeling that this album prefigured the *Rhythm King/Coldcut*-like
> samples-(over)loaded «house music» that came out soon after and which i
> instantly got into.
>
> It really sounds like some transitional album to me.
>
> On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 4:03 AM, Ransom Schafer <ransom.schafer@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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:
>>
>>> 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/
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>