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It is within your power to experience a crowded, loud, slow, consumer-hell-type situation as not only meaningful but sacred, on fire with the same force that lit the stars - compassion, love, the sub-surface unity of all things. Not that that mystical stuff's necessarily true: the only thing that's capital-T True is that you get to decide how you're going to try to see it. You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn't. You get to decide what to worship.
http://fortune500.bandcamp.com/
I've sifted through alot of this and I can say from hours of self inflicted torture that its mostly shit with some hidden gems here and there
I mostly like future funk and the trance-like tracks of some artists but its only like 1 or 2 songs that capture that feel in each album
>>64359962
How can even the idea of rebellion against corporate culture stay meaningful when Chrysler Inc. advertises trucks by invoking “The Dodge Rebellion”? How is one to be bona fide iconoclast when Burger King sells onion rings with “Sometimes You Gotta Break the Rules”? How can an Image-Fiction writer hope to make people more critical of televisual culture by parodying television as a self-serving commercial enterprise when Pepsi and Subaru and FedEx parodies of self-serving commercials are already doing big business? It’s almost a history lesson: I’m starting to see just why turn-of-the-century Americans’ biggest fear was of anarchist and anarchy. For if anarchy actually wins, if rulelessness become the rule, then protest and change become not just impossible but incoherent. It’d be like casting a ballot for Stalin: you are voting for an end to all voting.
What do you guys think of this vaporwave jacket I copped
>>64360273
Weight Watchers holds as a descriptive axiom the transparently true fact that for each of us the universe is deeply and sharply and completely divided into for example in my case, me, on one side, and everything else, on the other. This for each of us exhaustively defines the whole universe... And then they hold by a prescriptive axiom the undoubtedly equally true and inarguable fact that we each ought to desire our own universe to be as full as possible, that the Great Horror consists in an empty, rattling personal universe, one where one finds oneself with Self, on one hand, and vastly empty lonely spaces before Others begin to enter the picture at all, on the other. A non-full universe... The emptier one’s universe is, the worse it is... Weight Watchers perceives the problem as one involving the need to have as much Other around as possible, so that the relation is one of minimum Self to maximum Other... We each need a full universe. Weight Watchers and their allies would have us systematically decrease the Self-component of the universe, so that the great Other-set will be physically attracted to the now more physically attractive Self, and rush in to fill the void caused by that diminution of Self. Certainly not incorrect, but just as certainly only half of the range of valid solutions to the full-universe problem... Is my drift getting palpable? Just as in genetic engineering... There is always more than one solution... An autonomously full universe... Rather than diminishing Self to entice Other to fill our universe, we may also of course obviously choose to fill the universe with Self... Yes. I plan to grow to infinite size... There will of course eventually cease to be room for anyone else in the universe at all.
mt dew is pretty counterculture, remember that fucking stupid goat ad they did
What's some good vaporwave that isn't related to the whole corporate/Japanese/cyberpunk/general meme aesthetic?
>>64360680
Are you sure you still want vaporwave?
>>64360680
Chuck Person's Eccojams, Far Side Virtual, Holograms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFR_PetwSNc
>>64360017
You're quoting DFW from that essay he wrote about tv. Hella relevant
So far チェスマスター - NIGHT DRIVE was the only vaporwave release I enjoyed from start to end. Loved the darker atmosphere. What should I listen to next that sounds similar?
I'm looking for a specific remix of 420. I want to say it sounds 8 bit, but the ones that come up on youtube aren't it. I think I may have seen it in a flash. Anyone know anything similar to what I'm looking for?
>>64360666
didn't even realise i got devil trips
every thread
>>64360680
There was an album called productivity worship that was nice, i think it was by cat corp.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Yu7GfmLi5Q
This was my dip into experimenting with that stuff.
>>64359829
Vaporwave successors allowed?
http://keatscollective.bandcamp.com/
https://smellycat.bandcamp.com/album/threehouse
Was pleasantly surprised when I found out people make such music in my country.
>>64361895
I think this is what you're looking for
https://soundcloud.com/edu-teodoro/420-macintosh-plus-sega-genesis-remix
>>64360680
Vaporwave is a symptom of the beaten down white male psyche that wishes to leave the world in which he lives and return to his childhood, or better yet, the womb
Post-irony does not obscure the fragile emotions of the person, it only makes them more clear. A utopia in your mind is not healthy
>>64364631
> A utopia in your mind is not healthy
This world ain't "healthy"
>>64364853
That's why we have to return to modernist philosophy and seek to build an actual utopia again
Guys, I need more vaportrap in my life. I have listened to Vaperror, Blank Banshee, Cobalt Road, and PZA. Anyone got anymore recs for me?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEaRON-XP3g
>>64364871
Modernist philosophy was the biggest faggot meme philosophy of all time
>>64365156
You can check out the Keats Collective, but it's more future funk and glo fi than vapor trap. Do you have a bandcamp for vaporwave, by chance?
>>64365365
>vaporwave
vaportrap*
Fuck me, I just woke up.
>>64365365
>>64365372
Nah, I don't make vaportrap.
>>64365650
Shame. I've been trying to get into it, but generally all I find are vaporwave and future funk.
>>64365685
Likewise. You've heard Vaperror's Mana Pool? It's easily the best of the genre.
>>64365751
I'm actually listening to it right now. Have you listened to Shiro_51?
>>64365800
>>64365751
Also I just found this. Might peak your interest.
http://dmtrec.bandcamp.com/album/blue-tokyo-ep
Bae 2
I'd just like to say the people I know who listen to this are scene kids so that is the audience this music is attracting.
>>64366380
Your friends are making the natural progression from scene kid to hipster.
>>64366187
meh
>>64364118
My country made Eyeliner
>>64366848
And yes, this is a contest
>>64359829
>vaporwave
>counterculture
Actually fueled by normies and sustained by normies.
It's funny thinking about how vaporwave was once considered experimental plunderphonics since it has just morphed into shitty French house.
>>64367128
Vaporwave has remained pretty stagnant, but you're correct that some of its successors evolved into that.
Gimme vaporwaveish slowed down whacky smooth jazz guise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT4lDU-QLUY
https://soundcloud.com/officialyazzo/makevakt
not really vaporwave but i think it'll fit in here
>>64368491
>glitch trap
>fitting in
>>64368453
whoa
>>64368453
Never a bad time to cop a look at some fine ass
>>64365800
Just checked out the two albums I found on Bandcamp. Gonna be honest, really wasn't feeling it.
>>64365921
Listening now. A little more dreamy and loose than I would like but it's growing on me.
>>64368453
Why the fuck is literally every other comment about "haha people aren't on their phones look at me critiquing modern society, haha phones suck lol, look at the people looking straight ahead, dude no phones xD haha a world before smart phones amirite a better place NO PHONES haha"
I don't understand why that makes everyone feel like they have to write another shitty comment.
>>64368453
>+John Capidecallu nah, its not 1080p, they didn't have it back then. This is likely a laserdisc source, which is like 425.
that's wrong it's obviously 1080i, can someone with a YouTube account correct this man?
I want, no I need, something to sound exactly like this one. I have listened to other albums/artists as recommended by different people and/or different charts, but nothing could compare to the subjective impact this album had
>>64369125
Check out his other album for more of the same. Mana Pool by Vaperror is also breddy gud.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFO4IDN94Q0
>>64369125
Blank Banshee 1 is far better
>>64370445
I like this but it's not just as good as BB
>>64369125
>>64370456
>>64370583
What about MACROSS 82-99? It's post-vaporwave, future funk and space bebop instead of vaportrap, but it's fucking good.
for inspiration
>>64370820
No, it's actually not. Can the future funk/french house revival faggots leave? This thread is for the discussion of real vaporwave.
>>64370863
>BB
>real vaporwave
There hasn't been real vaporwave for years.
>>64370820
Actually I'd say it's pretty fucking bad as far as futurefunk goes. It's not groovy, it sounds murky, and there's no cool visuals to go with it.
And I don't mean "bad" in an early 90s way where it meant "good".
>>64370863
Don't conflate French House and Futurefunk, faggot. The former is way less aesthetic.
also
>real vaporwave
I'm in the process of making a trve raw bulldozing orthodox bestial vaporwave album, you don't have shit on me.
>>64370876
BB is a lot closer to real vaporwave than "just add filters" future funk, but I agree
>>64370933
way less autistic*
>I'm in the process of making a trve raw bulldozing orthodox bestial vaporwave album, you don't have shit on me.
I'll be waiting to hear it
So can we all agree that 99% of Hardvapour is shit that tries super hard to distance itself from its roots in meaningless ways without achieving anything interesting in the process and that while the concept of hard vaporwave is thrilling, just adding filters to hard techno or DnB isn't the way to achieve it?
>>64371152
>BB is a lot closer to real vaporwave than "just add filters" future funk, but I agree
I don't think it particularly matters at this point either way. There are better vaporwave and vaportrap producers than BB. Pretty overrated imo.
>>64371366
It's literally just gabber with a new name to bring in normies.
>>64360273
Vint Tacchini jackets are sweet.
>>64371412
What vaportrap would you suggest?
I recc FRCLN if anyone hasnt heard this yet
>>64371581
PZA, Subaeris, Vaperror
>>64371436
true, true
Imma grab some sound effects and samples from 80s horror/action OVAs and do it right.
>>64371581
Listening now. Not enough vapor so far for my tastes, but could just be the first track on the album.
V A P O R
G L A M O R
Dropping by the say it's nice to see a good /vapo/ general with actual tecs and discussion for once.
Also, 2015 had that ambient 2184 album and that Death's Dynamic Shroud album. Whats are 2016's dankest vapors?
You got anything that sounds like SCUDERIA?
Please no macross.
>>64360017
As people grow to idolize countercultures (Fads to be consumed and discarded) the outward appearances of those countercultures will be used as lures, advertiser mirages to ensnare those whose culture is unformed, not their own. Many extant countercultures remain untouched by this, not because they are secret or somehow untarnished, but because they are defined by non-participation. A simple failure to join in the fun is the deadliest sin in our culture-- in no small part because it means we might not hear the piper's call of marketing.
>>64371862
This year Vaporwave will die. Mark my words.
>>64371873
Pretty much every other business casual mix.
>>64371982
>This year Vaporwave will die. Mark my words.
>something that is already dead will die
Prophetic words, memester.
>>64371982
you've been saying that for like three years. Vapor stronk.
>>64371997
Sorry I meant something that sounds AND looks like it. I mean what am I gonna do if there isn't a cute 80s girl on the thumbnail?
>>64372028
Wolfenstein you are a false, do not entry.
my favorite releases this year are prob that Kmart album, Y2K - Always will, and No lives matter
>>64372037
She Said Disco, Timid Soul, Spazzkid or Yung Bae. They're a little funkier than what you want, but I cbf skimming all of bandcamp for you.
>>64372102
aight mane
Traci Lords for your trouble
>>64372090
Y2K is pretty cool.
>>64367458
Makes me want to bust out an old tape, record this to it and print off the label.
>>64370456
>>64370456
Holy Fuck I got into vapourwave as a meme but you recommended Blank Banshee 1 and it's fucking GOOD. Goddammit /mu/
>>64372329
it's just cloud rap without vocals. Never got the appeal.
>>64372357
i like hippity-hop, so that's probably why
>>64372357
>without the vocals
Right there. That's the ticket.
>>64360017
>>64360637
>>64364631
>>64371940
>"you know capitalism? it's actually not all it's cracked up to be."
how can you destroy something you are meant to live with? the social dogmas, this oppressive economical system, do we live in the true dystopical era? is every moral and ethic destinated to end soon? are we just the foolish sheeps in this farm guided by the ravenous pigs?
>>64372357
It's a good introduction. I used to dislike vaporwave until I found some artists with trap beats (the aforementioned blank banshee in fact) that opened the door for me to discover the wider range of styles within the genre.
>>64371366
What is the 1% of hardvapour that is good because I don't know dick about it outside of HKE's insane rambling and from my position it just looks like faggy post-post-post-post-ironic self aware oceangrunge meme shit.
>>64373363
>getting into the vapor through rippity raps
>not through your appreciation for early 90s softcore JAVs
the fuck dude?
>>64373421
Vaperror did a cool track for his memeproject
>>64373311
true physical brainwashing isn't available for the masses yet, but it's already being marketed as "a cure for traumatic memories", so we're steadily going there.
>>64373529
It was the accessible beats that got me into it. It was the nostalgia that made me stay. Ecojams and the like was not a good introduction.
>>64362417
fuck this guy
>>64373849
By this point everyone knows that early vaporwave is mostly shit
i don't like vaporwave but its fun to make
>>64373948
Early vaporwave is the best though.
Shameless self promotion >>>>>>
https://treereasoning.bandcamp.com/releases
Hazy late night short eccojamish classic style.
>>64373981
Make me some beautiful music anon.
>>64359829
what was the deal with broporwave?
>>64371982
True Vaporwave will never die.
https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/%EF%BC%92%EF%BC%98%EF%BC%91%EF%BC%94/%E6%96%B0%E3%81%97%E3%81%84%E6%97%A5%E3%81%AE%E8%AA%95%E7%94%9F/
No longer considered vaporwave on rym rekt.
How does one make vapor "HARD" and "ANGRY" without ruining the mood?
Anyone got any Vektroid and Classic suggestions?
>>64374522
I suggest you not to listen to them.
>>64374522
Shader
Shader
Shader
>>64374547
Is that an album or?
>>64374544
I suggest you hang your self.
>>64365156
http://lost-angles.com/album/--4
>>64359829
the meme is dead
>>64374895
only music and aesthetics remain
this is for the best
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yQJM2qbU7k
Is this the peak of future-funk aesthetic?
>>64360273
I think you are a faggot
>>64374974
>french house
>>64374974
Madoka is best girl forever.
>>64374974
it lacks cassette distortion and happy japanese vocals.
But Madoka saves it.
>>64360273
Not as cool as this vaporwavey Duke shirt I found at the thrift store for a buck.
>>64375591
>>64368610
he looks like whatshisface from pulp fiction
>>64374509
You could do light synthwave like that which is found in Hotline Miami. Not really what you're looking for, but it's the hardest vapor you're going to get without ruining it.
>>64372090
If you're talking about that PowerPCme Kmart album, I agree.
>>64359829
hey here's my vaporwave tracks made in AWWWW DAT CITY https://soundcloud.com/elchapo2016/sets/the-black-lives-matter-ep
Hey friendos Im just now getting into vaporwave shit what are some of the best albums out there as of now?
anyone collect vaporwave tapes?
>>64376474
Start here:
https://beerontherug.bandcamp.com/album/floral-shoppe
Then here:
http://noproblematapes.bandcamp.com/album/palm-mall
Then here:
http://blankbanshee.bandcamp.com/album/blank-banshee-0
Future funk optional:
http://music.businesscasual.biz/album/righteous-groove
>>64376536
>http://music.businesscasual.biz/album/righteous-groove
That groove is most bodacious.
>>64376536
>>64376576
>adding those ugly beats that are way too fat for the 90s
no
it ruins the aesthetic
>>64376654
It definitely doesn't have that crisp sunrise dew feel or the purple sunset feel of vaporwave, but future funk, and the post-vaporwave genre in general, accelerates the feel of vapor into the 2000's or sends it back into the bebop of the 60's, funk of the 70's or euro bebop of the 80's. There's nothing wrong with the aesthetic of it considering it purposely transcends the Kantian sublimity of the dead genre of vaporwave.
>>64376742
Dude what the fuck.
it's just that when you put those fat beats into a futurefunk songs it ends up sounding like early 2000s French House and I don't want that shit.
>>64376799
>it ends up sounding like early 2000s French House
>they sample the same music so they're they same!
Regardless, your taste is subjective and I labeled the album as optional.
>>64376829
I said it ends up "SOUNDING LIKE", not "being".
also
>your taste is subjective
Kant said that, but he also said that taste is supposed to be universal.
>>64376875
No, Kant said that BEAUTY is universal. He outright claimed that taste is subjective. Regardless, I never claimed it was beautiful. I claimed it had sublimity.
>>64376895
Yes, right after saying that beauty isn't a property of the object but a sentiment that coincides with taste judgements, and taste judgements are supposed to be universal.
WHICH IS WHY TELLING SOMEONE THAT HIS TASTE IS SUBJECTIVE IS A NON-ARGUMENT
And your ironic remark about sublimity was irrelevant since I never said anything about that.
>>64376964
>right after saying that beauty isn't a property of the object but a sentiment that coincides with taste judgements, and taste judgements are supposed to be universal
Taste judgments are universal if the object is indeed beautiful, but they are subjective. You should reread your Kant.
>ironic remark
>ironic
You caught me. I'm only doing this out of irony which is why I'm drinking PBR through my oversized yet groomed mustache.
>>64377042
>if the object is indeed beautiful
Taste judgements aren't about objects they're about their shapes.
Which is why the have a pretense to universality.
Best vaporwave release of 2016?
>>64377169
Is that Kim Wilde?
>>64360273
Vapor af, w2c? Also post fit pls
>>64374065
>Track 10
Anyone got any more good sped up vaporwave tracks like this?
>>64377169
>猫 シ Corp
Ugh fuck off back to r/vaporwave.
>>64376516
I'd buy them more often but the artists usually overcharge for them.
Where's the autistic vaporwave memer guy that used to post a shit load in these threads, I miss him.
>>64378348
Either OD'd on memes or was absorbed into the vapor and achieved a state of consciousness that we can only dream of.
my fav https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3r2zleGxv7w
It took me this long to realize vektroid and macintosh plus are the same person
apparently the girl who made macintosh plus lives like 5 minutes from my house
what should i do?
>>64378790
Stick your penis in her vagina.
>>64378787
She's a great musician.
>>64379269
>she
>>64378348
Are you talking about the one who viraled his shit album?
>>64379397
No the guy who kept posting images of vaporwave fans and artists and calling them autistic.
>>64379788
Anyone have a folder of those images? Some of them were pretty funny.
>>64379320
Yes, she's a girl, what's your point?
Can someone help me to identify the sample used in this song?? I can't fucking figure it out and I have been googling the lyrics for like 20 minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8x5-2WQrAA
I REALLY wish HKE wouldn't be so uptight about talking about the samples they use.
What's your favorite Vektroid related album? My favorite album of hers is New dreams ltd- initiation tape, it's really good.
the vapored world has returns once again it is ones willingness to see...
ultrawav.bandcamp.com
>>64380800
Sssss$$$$$$$$$$.. Returned
>>64380095
No but I do remember the one where everyone posted pictures of some of the big name vaporwave producers that was funny.
These people look and act exactly how you'd expect
>>64380704
The point he was making is that she is transgender.
>>64381211
therefore not a "she"
Can't get into most Vaporwave but I enjoyed this.
https://paranoidpavement.bandcamp.com/releases
>>64381234
It's 2016, get with the times.
>>64381234
Depends on your politics I guess. In the US once they have certain surgeries they can get their gender changed in all legal documents, birth certificate, passport, drivers license, insurance, etc.
Thats why this whole bathroom thing is a dumb topic, people who go through the legal hoops and get the proper surgeries are actually legally allowed to go in the bathroom as a transgender person. It's people who don't want to do things properly and legally that are saying "let anyone that wants to go in a womens bathroom".
5/10 you got me to reply for the benefit of others who don't know the legal circumstances, but you are going to have to try harder next time.
BAE 2 IS HOT AS FUCK.
I only listen to Future Funk, and it feels great to have a Yung Bae digging at his roots while having new inspiration.
The collabs really over shadow anything else on the EP , Which that isn't a complaint.
>>64381644
https://yungbaebae.bandcamp.com/album/bae-2
Forgot to throw in that link. I haven't been so pumped from a new 'vaporwave' album since DatFootDive's Coldblood. It feels great.
https://espritfantasy.bandcamp.com/album/-
^^^ this is really good
http://beerontherug.bandcamp.com/album/cycle
not really vaporwave but I wanted to see what you guys think of it.
Gonna shill Skeleton and his discography for the umpteenth time because he should've deleted this man albums of relatively good vaporwave and proto-vaporwave: https://mega.nz/#F!4lNWQaYY!UY8_is5QscoIOzp9sq98TA
Reccs: Self-titled, Holograms, Safe, Poor Homme.
>>64381920
thanks man
>>64376474
2814's Birth of a new day
Esprit's Summer Night
骨架的 - 骨架的
骨架的 - Holograms
S U R F I N G - Deep Fantasy (Fuck your genre bitching, it has the same aesthetic)
Both of the albums by Prismcorp Virtual Enterprises
That's for the atmospheric stuff personally.
>>64374509
Creeping in distorted vocals in the backgrounds of tracks. Bits of static.
>>64381963
You're welcome. I hate that he deleted most of his discography. 骨架的 seems to know atmosphere better than 90% of vaporwave artists and I like that.
Bonus for absolutely out there shit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BO4dwZvCiPA
>>64374225
now it is muthafuka
>>64374792
This. The Dream Can't Last Forever trilogy is better, but Windows 98 is GOAT
