Vaporwave Explanation
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Can someone explain Vaporwave to me?
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>>61397869
AESTHETICS
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>>61397869
Imagine remixed music slowed down to less than 100BPM.
use google and look it up yourself, you stupid trend hopping nigger
its just Sade but slower
What is there to explain about it.
>>61397869
slowed meme aesthetics
it's a aesthetic and music genre that used to revolve around capitalism and then just stopped having a definition but it's basically slowed down and cropped and spliced songs made to make a new song usually but there are some songs with no samples. Theres a twenty minute documentary on youtube
>>61399411
That documentary is essentially a twenty minute advertisement for Dream Catalogue.
Avoid.
>>61399701
not really
what even is wrong with dream catalogue?
>>61399739
nothing
it's just a meme to hate dream catalogue when in fact they're a fine label
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdpP0mXOlWM
this explains everything.
>>61399739
>what even is wrong with dream catalogue?
http://tinyletter.com/mbmelodies/letters/make-believe-mailer-vol-6
>>61399772
They've released some alright stuff but unfortunately they viral market their stuff here incessantly.
That and the owner, HKE, is a prentious tool that actually believes he is taking vaporwave to a new artistic level and that he is one of the original creators of what we know as vaporwave:
https://www.change.org/p/reddit-reinstate-cocainejesus-to-r-vaporwave
(actual change.org petition started by HKE)
>This petition is also a call to reinstate OESB (username: oesbee), one of the original creators of vaporwave along with HKE and Vektroid
https://www.reddit.com/r/vaporwavepolitics/comments/3yl8q7/clearing_up_further_misconceptions_about_me/
>take an 80's track
>match the tempo
>cut a section
>loop it
>add presets
>call it "art"
>>61397869
Vaporwave, from what I've read, appears to be chopped and screwed "elevator music", which in this case means smooth jazz, etc. Also, like with all new subgenres of music, a lot of vaporwave is about the image factor, and now that we're in the internet age it's moved from being something you wear to being something you post.
And like all subgenres of music and so on, someone's going to do a really good job figuring out how to make this music work, usually people NOT committed to the image or being purists, instead mixing genres to synthesize better music. The rest just argue over semantics and wallow and shit until they get sick of it in however many years and move on to the next "new" subgenre, desperate to be hip culture's interlocutors.
>>61399739
the correct question is what is right with Dream Catalogue?
>>61397869
check out girlwave, its like vaporwave but with more girls
/r/girlwave
>>61399739
lol the same person who made the video has an album on dc under the same name. sure it starts out kind of neat but near the end he's just sucking hke's dick.
vaperwave allows guy like me to masquerade as producer
i dare you to fucking tell me im not a record producer i'm the exact same as nile rodgers i have 3k soundcloud followers and get 18 comments on every video uploaded to artziemusic by youtube comments with anime avatar,s, fuck you
>>61397869
Plunderphonics using samples mostly from late 80's music and TV broadcasts, often touting an aesthetic that's not unlike the cutting-edge picturesque lifestyle in the late 80's/early 90's if it was thrown in a blender.
In other words, it's slowed down 80's pop music and japanese car commercials.
