your daily favorite dystopian rump-of-the-century ironic/post-ironic neon/pastel aesthetic/music thread... today.
...by request
>future funk post
https://matsunoki.bandcamp.com/releases
I wanna get some opinions from people who listen to vaporwave unironically
https://erictaxxon.bandcamp.com/album/trickle-down
I tried to be as unique as possible within the genre.
>>64188155
from the first song it sounds like you're still kind of trying to find yourself. what kind of vaporwave do you mostly listen to?
but it's not too bad—gonna dl and listen to the rest
>>64187556
>>64188327
My favorite subgenre is mallsoft, but it only sorta shows in the album.
I'm probably not gonna make anymore vaporwave, I don't want to be labled with a genre. I'm working with ableton for my next few albums.
>>64188444
has anything ever matched up to hologram plaza?
>>64188444
fair enough. i hope it works out for you.
I really like strawberry, he still independent and made one of my favorite vaporwave releases this year
>>64188511
looks interesting
here's the link for everyone https://strawberrys.bandcamp.com/releases
What are some good 2016 vaporwave releases? I quite liked this album, except for the last track which went on too long.
https://bedlamtapes.bandcamp.com/album/no-lives-matter
>>64188374
I like digital information desk better, Home™ is one of her best albums though.
>>64188374
>>64190064
is this vektroid?
just heard far side virtual for the first time; it's pretty good but i like the more danceable piano tracks like earth minutes and adventures in green foot printing
where to go from here family? only other one ive heard is eccojams but thought it was okay (i love opn though)
>>64190141
Yes, these are Vektroid albums.
what do you guys think of the Asterite Edition of Eccojams?
the version i heard first is, according to this guy, too fast. all these tracks sound too slow to me.
https://mega.nz/#F!fcUFWAQR!yuWJYvNFTSIJ-UYHbeJZIA
every time i listen to it i like it more
>>64188155
if the mastering were better i'd be able to give you musical criticism
>>64189709
lol i think that's the only 2016 release i've heard honestly.. it was pretty good though
>>64190189
if you have not yet heard floral shoppe, you must. it's essential.
>>64190355
The Asterite edition is the best version out there for sure, the entire album has been painstakingly recreated from the best possible sources and speed/pitch-corrected. No clipping and sounds very clean. It's the only version to have.
Here is a page that lists a bunch of music websites and magazines that have covered vaporwave:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Vaporwave/wiki/press
This list includes:
>Tiny Mix Tapes
>Fact
>Fader
>Thump
>Dummy
>Marcel's Music Journal
>Vice
>The 405
Rolling Stone also mentioned that 2814 album. I feel like the right VW albums have gotten mentioned in these sites, don't you?
>>64191312
>that 2814 album
>I feel like the right VW albums have gotten mentioned in these sites, don't you?
stop shilling
>>64190414
I just bought that cassette haha
>>64191312
Pretty much the only vaporwave albums that get mentioned on those sites are ones from Dream Catalogue who has pretty terrible artists, and the entire team there is pretentious. So no, I don't think they've mentioned the correct albums, not even close.
>>64191358
i mean shit that isn't just generic or slowed down nonsense.
>>64191423
this
but that could also mean DC is doing something right? they're way more popular than any other vaporwave label right now
>>64191373
>>64190414
I don't entirely understand why they're $10 over $8, but I just bought a tape too. I'm surprised they're not going faster, I've been hearing a lot of talk about it
骨架的/Skeleton is so far above just about anything else that was released at the time. Hell, the original zip release of the self titled predates Floral Shoppe by a full year.
骨架的 used to be loved around here, but I haven't seen him posted around here in a while, which is a damn shame.
Also he removed all but 3 of his albums from bandcamp so uh... just gonna link to an archive of everything that ever went up on his bandcamp: https://mega.nz/#F!4lNWQaYY!UY8_is5QscoIOzp9sq98TA and hope you guys enjoy it because everything I've listened to it so far has been good.
Personal reccs: Self-Titled, Holograms (for more typical vaporwave sound), Safe, and Poor Homme.
>>64191470
What album is this I've been meaning to download it
>>64191442
>slowed down nonsense
you don't listen to much vaporwave, do you? a lot of the aforementioned sites have reported on a lot of music like that.
also, that 2814 album is horrible, it's boring within the first track and keeps recycling the same stale idea throughout the whole album. it shouldn't even be called vaporwave, it's just ambient music, and very uninteresting ambient music at that. the only reason people like it is BECAUSE it's labeled vaporwave. if it were just labeled ambient music people wouldn't bat an eye at it, because they would be able to take off their aesthetic goggles and see it for what it really is: a terrible album made by a egotistical hack who posts his music all over 4chan and reddit and has made himself into a living meme.
>>64191552
Poor Homme starts off kinda iffy but it's got this atmosphere I can't shake, even beyond his usual releases.
It's got that rare feeling to it where you can't help but feel like there's a story or something else going on underneath it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK_Ue4VBCEk
>>64191594
max headroom's hanami
aoty desu
dude I'm so fkn ironic lmao
i slowed down a haruomi hosono song i'm a REAL musician look at me!!
Damn, a decent vaporwave thread? I'm happy, normally all the shitposters have flooded in by now.
I just downloaded worlds.com and am listening to Dreams 3D again while browsing it. I should've done this sooner.
>>64191602
Dude, chill out. I love that album for its low-hum comfy factor. Plus the viral idiot HKE is only one half of that duo and actually it's mostly Telepath's ambient stuff playing a musical role in each track.
>>64188155
You fucking suck. It's like you literally just picked up the DAW
And what kind of fucking assault was Best Persuits supposed to be? Off yourself
>>64191642
Telepath is not very good either, incredibly overrated. He ran out of ideas after his first few albums.
>>64191358
>someone likes an album
>LOL FUCK OFF HKE DONT SHILL LMAO VIRAL MARKET
>>64190414
Link? I've seen a few people post this before
>>64191699
anon i think i love you
where we can find a refuge from all this overrated madness
>>64191699
This.
>>64191699
I admittedly didn't like that new split with Nmesh but albums like Interstellar Love/Blue Dream/Virtual Phantasy are very good, the latter especially gives me Thomas Newman vibes at times.
The problem is probably that he makes fucking tons of albums like whoah dude what the shit
>>64191642
>worlds.com
Neat. I used to hang on there a few years back.
>>64191699
It's because reddit's vaporwave community is shit and circle jerks over him.
They don't care about good artists like Darksleep or Maxhead Room. They tend to circle jerk over the same artists.
For example they love Haircuts For Men who is okay at beast but has a quantity over quality approach.
They also care more about aestetics over music and tend to shun music that doesn't fall into the palewave Japanese BS.
>>64191839
Oh god, Haircuts For Men. I remember grabbing a random album to listen to and it being bland as all hell.
>>64191699
>>64191857
what vaporwave albums do you like
Anyone have a dl for skeleton?
>>64191768
>The problem is probably that he makes fucking tons of albums like whoah dude what the shit
The biggest problem is he has like one idea - take a track and slow it down and put that annoying delay/phaser effect on it. Job done. And /r/vaporwave suck his cock like he's the second coming, it's embarassing:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Vaporwave/comments/4b3huo/telepath_is_a_god_damn_national_treasure/
>>64191648
That's what all vaporwave sounds like don't kid yourself.
>>64191712
To be fair, 2814 is one of the most overrated albums I've ever seen on /mu/ and that's saying something. It's a forgettable generic ambient record that masks itself in le aesthetics. If you're going to champion vaporwave as a serious genre don't use that album to do it. Use Dream Sequins or something actually innovative.
>>64191839
>Maxhead Room.
bump, skyline is god-tier.
https://maxheadroom420.bandcamp.com/track/skyline
>>64188155
This is pretty bad
>>64191931
i cant believe somebody is this mad about not liking something
>>64191961
>mad
lol wat
I'm not even the guy who posted the first thing. Just posting my opinion cuzz. It's a 4/10.
>>64191931
>masks itself in le aesthetics
That's not a real criticism as artist's intent generally plays a factor in the music. They clearly wanted it to sound like some urban city.
>>64191961
Come on dude, he's not even mad.
>>64191734
>>64191895
Things that live up to the hype:
no lives matter
I'll Try Living Like This
ENERGY111
try those out
>>64192007
Maybe so, but the music content itself doesn't really strike me as particularly interesting. It sounds pleasant and would probably be good for a certain mood but the music itself is quite boring and doesn't do anything for me and just kinda sounds like any other ambient record.
>>64192019
>no lives matter
p good, but had some subpar tracks
>i'll try living like this
aoty 2015
>energy111
haven't heard
have you heard/do you like this?: https://veno-3000.bandcamp.com/album/6-0-0-0
i feel like you might
>>64192042
This. It's okay for zoning out to but for some reason it's held up as some kind of high watermark for vaporwave when the reality is it's just a completely unspectacular ambient album.
>>64191839
>Haircuts For Men
He's seriously baby's first vaporwave. Some of the most cut and past vapor I've ever heard, if that's the kind of Vapor reddit likes that, that shows me how shit their community is.
I remember listening to one of his songs and it's was just a slowed down Taylor Swift track.
He puts more effort into his cover art than the does the actual music.
>>64191961
Are you stupid? Or just shilling?
https://dreamcatalogue.bandcamp.com/
WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED
>>64191648
why cant you give that dude constructive criticism instead of telling him to kill himself?
http://dmttapes.bandcamp.com/album/turbosystems-16-directors-cut-dmt-091
>>64192042
Really? I think it's solidly crafted. It reminds me of Liumin if it were more downtempo and had things like bass swells, field recordings of Asian metropolises, and drier beats to match the late-night-in-Hong-Kong feel. Of course, I'm not asking you to agree.
>>64192144
What did happen? I haven't been on their Bandcamp in a while
why are they so trash, /vwg/?
>>64192074
Scroll down
>>64192270
you lost me
>>64187717
yoshikawa was pretty good, and the whole thing seems ok.
but my taste in music is ass so take that as you will :))))
>>64192122
>Some of the most cut and past vapor I've ever heard
>I remember listening to one of his songs and it's was just a slowed down Taylor Swift track
Haircuts for Men:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1RANws7Rkc
Aphex Twin:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drNULRaGojQ
>>64192270
Meant for >>64192234
>>64192312
that first song isn't even vaporwave, what the fuck
>>64192312
this can't be true oh my god
how the fuck does he even get attention in /r/Vaporwave?
>>64192401
>/r/Vaporwave
There's your answer desu
>>64192401
He has aesthetic.
/r/vaporwave cares more about aesthetics than musicianship
Just leaving this here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqUFkWJMEBw
>>64188511
>>64188694
nice viraling for everyone else in this thread this release is not very good
>>64193094
quality post
>>64189709
That album was fucking weird to be honest. I don't know why I like it.
Contrary to you, I actually love the last track. What did you think of the Youtube poop death track?
>>64193094
whoa someone actually promoting new vaporwave obviously they're viraling.
>>64191727
Not sure why nobody posted it for you:
https://midnightmoontapes.bandcamp.com/album/in-search-of-god
>>64192144
I'm sad Dream catalogues is slowly dying.
https://soundcloud.com/datphoenixbrown
>>64193282
I'm not
anyone else a fan of this?
https://internetclub.bandcamp.com/album/nhk-reminds-you-to-boost-your-signal
>>64193868
love that album!
>>64193211
he's been posting in all the bandcamp threads and share threads for the past like three weeks
>>64188155
The first track had some decent ideas, but I don't really like the way it sounds. You gotta take some time to find better samples to use that don't sound annoying. The second track was boring as shit and didn't really do anything. Didn't listen to the rest.
>>64193282
I hope it rots and then dogs piss on it after
>>64191699
Plus he has way too many albums, most are boring and overly long and don't change enough throughout to warrant the massive length.
>>64193206
>What did you think of the Youtube poop death track?
I liked it, pretty entertaining. I like the last track it just goes on too long and doesn't even change at all throughout.
>>64194702
I've never seen that album posted in a share thread and I go there every other day, if they post in the bandcamp thread so what, that's where they belong and as long as their not posting it all over the site I don't see a problem with it.
Stop being so paranoid of everything anon.
Not quite vaporwave, but certainly inspired by the genre. More akin to ambient and musique concrete, and don't see many people posting about it. I think it's quite good!
live-god-records.bandcamp.com/album/beyond-beauty
Not really vaporwave but slowed down sample collages, if anyone wanted to share their opinion I'd really appreciate it
https://djcausticchasm.bandcamp.com/album/lonely-in-reno
>>64191552
this album is crazy, it reminded me alot of opn's stuff. Does this guy have a twitter or an interview or something. Is this considered proto vaporwave, because if this came out today it would be hella praised.
>>64191901
there is probably some in the vaporwave library
>>64192312
this cant be real
>>64196025
I'm 4 tracks in and really enjoying it! Certainly has a strange atmosphere that I sometimes get with the more ambient vaporwave, even though it isn't quite vaporwave.
>>64196461
He's sadly one of the largest names in the Vaporwave community
>>64196718
Really? Ive never actually heard of him. I guess cus i dont go on /r/vaporwave
>>64196755
They circle jerk over everything he makes and it's pretty lame honestly.
>>64190141
yeah
remember this album lmao
>>64192264
i actually dont mind some of the music, but it's really just future funk, not vaporwave.
>>64192312
that's pretty low, even for a genre based on appropriating others' works
>>64192312
What a hack
fuck /r/vaporwave, nobody there gives a shit about the music, haircuts for men is bland as hell and overrated as fuck
>>64192312
I've done the same thing but at least I use a tag that flat out says I didn't do much.
And look at this shit https://haircutsformen.bandcamp.com/album/lp
Five fucking dollars for stolen music.
HAIRCUTS FOR MEN IS A FUCKING HACK FRAUD
>>64200358
My biggest problem with him is that at least why I do it the music has lyrics so it's less hacky. Because I'm willing to be there are a ton of kids who think that song is original synthesis, becuase I feel like when people like Mac plus slow things down it's way way less hacky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fx6g_ofZk8k
>>64193241
This is cool. I swear he was a meme just yesterday though. I'm feeling old now
good morning vwg
>>64201635
good morning
>>64201750
you should check this out, anon https://welcomebeautysounds.bandcamp.com/album/cccaffeine-xx-1995
i remember it was a big hit during last summer's vwg's
https://welcomebeautysounds.bandcamp.com/track/int-f-ai-t-h-intl-debris-remix
>>64192264
>>64198902
agreed. Artzie typically has good taste, and they're a great starting point instead of sifting through the literally infinite amateur and indistinguishable bandcamp albums
Anyone got rare Fanboy Chum chum tracks?
>>64202768
HURRY BOY SHE'S WAITING
>>64196305
Seriously, check out the rest of his stuff.
Skeleton is practically the King Crimson of vaporwave. His other stuff after it varies from his own twisted and looped version of vaporwave with its own atmosphere to masterpieces like Safe and Poor Homme, to some of The weirdest shit you'll ever see labeled vaporwave: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BO4dwZvCiPA
>>64191901
Already posted it: >>64191552
>>64191699
Maybe, but I still think he's decent listening most of the time. Both HKE and Telepath are overrated as fuck, and so is 2814, but I find I enjoy most of it.
