Anyone else miss vaporwave?Maybe I'm just being a corny newgen, but I remember loving the music and a e s t h e t i c when I was a teen.I'm also interested to hear what some of your favorite songs were to come out of this era.
>>130872219name one big artist doing one great song in that genre.>hard mode: no jew allowed
>>130872219Greatest musical movement of the 2010s. Man, what a time it was to be alive.
>>130872250I mean my gateway drug into the genre was Ginseng Strip - Yung Lean
im convinced that リサフランク420 / 現代のコンピュー is the greatest song of the 2010s
>>130872219I miss it being novel
>>130872219After a defeated day of work in the evening sunset I’d cook dinner to this and love the vibe as I watch the stove and step out back for a quick cig.
>>130872219vaporwave is how we got simpsonwave which is how we got sad bart edits so no I'm glad it's fucking dead thats what you get ya bastards no but seriously vaporwave attracted the biggest dumbasses I saw that shit get cringier in real time underground my ass it blew up too damn fast
vaporwave was what i would put on when i was trying to impress someone with my epic taste
My favorite from that time.https://dreamtm.bandcamp.com/album/t-120-cassette
>>130872219Even though it's musically rather unspectacular in itself, when Vaporwave was new I was extremely fascinated by the Midnight Television EP.It just captured that feeling so perfectly: hazy childhood memories of secretly sitting in front of the TV at night, when the world still didn’t quite make sense yet.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USnSLS5w2rA
>>130872219I don't miss it because I still listen to my favs or put on Nightwave Plaza or Jason Saunders YouTube mixes from time to timeMy top 10 albums:10 bl00dwave - hotel vibes9 Disconscious - Hologram Plaza8 Surfing - Deep Fantasy7 Chuck Person's Eccojams6 computer slime - mist5 2814 - Birth of a New Day4 Esprit - virtua.zip3 Skeleton - Holograms2 Miami Vice - Palm Haze1 Midnight Television
>>130872219Discovering it for the first time was incredible, I even started viewing certain areas of my city in a different way since the music match them so well (being they were 80s and 90s business parks). I still enjoy the stuff even now but ironically it doesn't feel the same now that the time has passed and vaporwave isn't new anymore.
>>130874298Based list. Got some more late night TV style reccs?
>>130874423lindsheaven virtual plaza - daily night euphoria is a classicghosting - telenights is pretty good tooto a lesser extent luxury elite's TV party. it's good tpo, I just don't dig lux elite as much
>>130874492Funny thing about Luxury Elite is I used to speak with him years ago when Blind Date came out (which is why I found him in the first place). We were going to try and do a track or a split EP together but it just never happened for whatever reason.
>>130874509i'm actually kinda shocked lux is a guy because vaporwave was so heavily trans back in the heydayI joined some discords thinking i'd have my ear to the ground for hot new tracks and I just found a bunch of servers full of whiny teenagers being transanyway lux is cool and I love some lux tracks/albums but just not as much my bag as, like, midtel or early bl00dwave
>>130874631As far as I know he's a guy, we only spoke over messages rather than voice and nothing came up except for music and imagery (for album art, aesthetics etc). Collabs back then were never in-person, we'd all just record our parts separately and one person would end up doing the final mixing. >anyway lux is cool and I love some lux tracks/albumsI really enjoyed his lo-fi vaporwave stuff but he started doing some more clean sounding stuff that was original and didn't rely on samples, and I wasn't as into that. Really nice guy though, shame I never ended up working with him.
>millenials when slowed and reverb: >:(>millenials when vaporwave: :O
>>130874890They're mostly the same thing, so I don't get what your point was.
>>130874890i've never seen this happen
>>130872219This genre was all about chopping and stretching samples and the artifacts and textures that sprang up after that, palpably demonstrating some of the beat writing strategies to dilla and madlib?
I like Bon Chic (even if some consider it AI slop) and some of the 'barberwave' beats like Macroblank still.
Weedhitler and Vektroid were dating but ended up splitting.
>>130874890>millenials when slowed and reverb: >:(except we invented it, retard zoomer https://youtu.be/Yliy3xD_viE
>>130872219Vaporwave was more influential than retarded PC music
>>130874809No, she really is a (not trans lol) woman.Some jeets and chuds had a meltdown about it later too. >The music is actually bad. If she weren't a woman, it wouldn't be nearly as well-known.Yet during its peak phase it was genuinely (almost) unknown.
>>130872219I still listen to telepath every now and then
>>130872219It was a great thing to get in on the ground floor of. Just like nostalgia, its a fleeting memory of what it was already reminiscing of (slowed down obscure 80s pop).Plus with all the jap characters and boilerplate albums, it'll be hard to talk about these things as time goes on. It was such a low barrier to entry that it kinda mirrors ai slop and just how samesy it got. Basically Vaporwave was speedrun into the ground
>>130875880well shit. I find that equally surprising. I had just figured lux was a trans woman>>130876747much like punk before it, the relatively low technical/skill barrier to entry led to a flood pf samey stuff, but the highlights are truly great
Here's a Vaporwave dochttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kNqw7UdENg
>>130872219It was the closest thing to a unique movement from gen z
>>130872219me too OP, I miss the peak vaporwave era
>>130874890Gen z when insecure about getting old with no identity and no cultural impact
>>130876806>amidst the ruins of late-stage capitalism
>>130879475>amidst the ruins of late-stage capitalism
Even back then I knew it was cringy half-assed ambient music
it conditioned young people into thinking kenny g, steely dan, enya, simcity 3000 ost, elevator music and so on were actually cool
>>130878596>gen z?they were like 10 years old my dude
>>130878596Millennials made vaporwave. Zoomers just got into it later via Youtube and memes
>>130872219ps2 rock band guitar hero algorithm
>>130884468hey man those rock band 2 performance mode vids went hard
>>130878596Shut the fuck up retard. This whole thread is a bunch of retards.
