Vaporwave

Folkhälsan · 30.07.2013 14:53

ydinaukio wrote:

^ihan hyvä juttu, mut tätä en ymmärrä:
You see, there is such a thing as a good vaporwave track, a better vaporwave track. It involves what must be a challenging sample hunt through not old and readily available pop music but through unassuming muzak to find something unfamiliar and yet precisely familiar, something modern but not quite modern, something that is both obviously cheesy and yet clearly affecting. This isn't easy, and the effort and imagination that goes into it is appreciated. Instead however, "vaporwave" is becoming a formula. The point of listening to new music like vaporwave is to be surprised, changed and educated by imaginative artists, and if you're already familiar with James Ferraro, Daniel Lopatin, and the cartloads of screwed lo-fi retro kitsch on the Not Not Fun and Olde English Spelling Bee labels that came out three years ago, and the first vaporwave a year ago, then hearing all this formulaic chillnagogic pop offers you nothing. If you're not, it offers you something that's often inferior.
kun mun mielestä hyvä vaporwave-kappale on sellainen, joka kuulostaa hyvältä kuulijan korviin. miksi musantekemisen pitäisi olla jotenkin vaikeaa tai vaatia älyttömästi työtä? jos hyvältä kuulostavan saundin aikaansaamiseksi riittää jonkun vanhan biisin hidastaminen ja kaiuttaminen, niin sit se riittää.

Hyvä pointti kyl. Ehkä tossa lainassa haikaillaan sellaista myyttista uhrautuvaa taiteilijahahmoa, joka on vihitty antamaan meille vaporwave-kommentaareja jälkiteollisesta ostoskeskuskapitalismista. Sellaisesta fantisointi sopii tosiaan huonosti vaporwave-eetokseen, joka nakkaa paskat kaiken maailman jaotteluille ja kategorisoinneille ja sille, miten pitäisi hommia tehdä.

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ydis · 08.10.2013 23:59

So, in 2010, Daniel Lopatin released Chuck Person's Eccojams Vol. 1, a compilation of chopped-and-screwed 80's pop that had previously been released as videos on Lopatin's "sunsetcorp" Youtube channel. This was essentially the beginning of vaporwave, providing both the musical techniques and the general conceptual basis for it, as well as the foundation for pretty much all of Lopatin's releases from Replica onwards.
Come 2011, another proto-vaporwave album gets released in the form of James Ferraro's Far Side Virtual, which provides the forthcoming vaporwave releases with yet another vital element - the recycling of 90s corporate muzak, something that ended up doing double duty as both a critique of late capitalism and an examination of the disposability of pop music itself.
Then, 2012 hits. Albums start getting released by artists like Laserdisc Visions, Macintosh Plus, New Dreams Ltd., Prismcorp Virtual Enterprises, Sacred Tapestry, and 情報デスクVIRTUAL - all of which, interestingly, are released by digital-and-cassette-only online label Beer on the Rug, and all of which, it later turns out, are aliases of 21-year-old Ramona Xavier, AKA Vektroid. Other major players include Will Burnett, AKA Internet Club / Ecco Unlimited, Saint Pepsi, and Mediafired, along with the numerous imitators that sprang up in their wake. Vaporwave becomes an absolutely fucking huge sensation. It gets write-ups in Dummy, Vice, and becomes bigger in the blogosphere than fucking seapunk -
Then, as it is in the process of becoming something far, far larger than any of its progenitors ever anticipated, the major players simply shut down their vaporwave-related projects and move on to other things. Prism Projector is released and Tinymixtapes, an exponent of the microgenre from the beginning and probably the primary source of much of the conceptual side of it, writes an obituary for vaporwave. Vektroid releases Shader as Sacred Tapestry along with a press release effectively declaring the end of her vaporwave-related projects and retroactively removes the images of faces from her albums Floral Shoppe and 札幌コンテンポラリー - I'll let you interpret the symbolism there.
So, in the wake of all this, the question is probably: what did it all mean? The mainstream consensus (by the aforementioned 'zines) was that it functioned as a criticism of capitalism / corporatism; others suggested that it was simply shitty, apathetic 2deep4u blogwash; I personally interpret it as an examination of nostalgia itself, and how the passage of time can make even the worst cultural detritus emotionally evocative. Lopatin, speaking about Replica, simply stated that "I like the way the semiotics are fucked with." And, regardless of whether it's dead, its influence continues to reverberate throughout the musical continuum - reaching, notably, into the dance music sector, with artists like Jam City and Nguzunguzu from the Night Slugs / Fade to Mind camp appropriating some of the sound and aesthetics of the movement; Arca (who was, incidentally, picked up by Kanye West for production on Yeezus), Contact Lens, and Mykki Blanco, most notably, introducing those aesthetics to the hip-hop sphere.

psykokarkki · 09.10.2013 09:44

voisko otsikon vaihtaa muotoon "Vaporwave - bigger in the blogosphere than fucking seapunk" icon_question alien

ydis · 09.10.2013 13:57

ei

Folkhälsan · 09.10.2013 14:33

Kiitos 2010-2013. tongue

Täst se lähti:

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ILR · 09.10.2013 15:05

Ensin James Blaken artistiura ja nyt tämä

hiirimattona · 09.10.2013 15:41

psykokarkki wrote:

voisko otsikon vaihtaa muotoon "Vaporwave - bigger in the blogosphere than fucking seapunk"

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Folkhälsan · 09.10.2013 15:55

psykokarkki wrote:

voisko otsikon vaihtaa muotoon "Vaporwave - bigger in the blogosphere than fucking seapunk"

No justhan tossa oli, että koko homma kuali, joten ei enää kannata.

psykokarkki · 09.10.2013 16:20

no en tosissani kysynyt icon_smile

Folkhälsan · 09.10.2013 17:19

psykokarkki wrote:

no en tosissani kysynyt

Ihme kujeilua! mad

ydis · 15.10.2013 01:06

parin sekunnin sämplestä massiivinen, uusi musiikkiteos.
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Krimin sota · 19.11.2013 10:01

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ydis · 06.12.2013 14:55

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risto_m · 28.01.2014 02:36

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