Starker on 25/11/2020 at 13:16
Just stumbled on an Errant Signal video about the game Broken Reality where he also delved briefly into vaporwave:
[video=youtube;EtaHmaEAbi4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtaHmaEAbi4[/video]
demagogue on 26/11/2020 at 10:26
Oh I hope they don't fit or literally the last 4+ videos I posted in the "What are you listening to now?" thread should have been posted here instead! :o
SubJeff on 26/11/2020 at 15:58
Quote Posted by icemann
Drum and base and Daft Punk / the Weekend do. Do you even have a brain, or are you an idiot every other day?
Nah, they really don't.
june gloom on 27/11/2020 at 10:46
Quote Posted by icemann
Drum and base and Daft Punk / the Weekend do. Do you even have a brain, or are you an idiot every other day?
I don't think this thread is for you. Either post something relevant (DnB is not vaporwave, Daft Punk/Weeknd are not vaporwave) or go back to posting centrist hot takes in the Trump thread.
PigLick on 27/11/2020 at 11:39
you do realise how asinine you sound? please just stop, your post above just reads like one long "lol ur mom".
SubJeff on 27/11/2020 at 15:04
icemann, I'm trying to remain neutral and just informative here, and you are just wrong, ok?
june gloom on 27/11/2020 at 20:40
Please take your tantrum elsewhere.
SubJeff on 27/11/2020 at 21:25
Quote Posted by icemann
I'll go look up more on vaporwave. Prior to this thread I'd never heard of it.
So why were you arguing about what music fits the genre? :confused::confused:
PigLick on 28/11/2020 at 08:51
edited because dema is a way better person than me, well spoken sir.
demagogue on 28/11/2020 at 09:35
Vaporwave is about losing yourself to a mood. It doesn't rage, so we probably ought to follow suit.
Somebody start a metal thread and we can tell each other fuck outta here that's metal.
Anyway, today is my friend Ida's birthday. I always send her music every birthday, and (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGWf8tQO__4) this is what I picked out this year. We were on our masters program together here in Tokyo. She's got pink hair, Danish, and is a synth junkie like me, a bit more Tokyo cyberpunk and chillwave than vanilla vaporwave, but you know they're in a neighborhood.
Anyway, this genre to me, close to its core, is the nights we used to rent a studio space in Kichijoji. Uh, Kichijoji is really nearby our school, a bit outside Tokyo. It's known to be "artistic"; a lot of manga and anime artists and studios are around there, most famously Ghibli has its museum there. It's got a lot of neon and boutique shops and little restaurants. You see its park in practically every other anime set in Tokyo. It's a scene. My job at the time was in Akihabara, too, which
really loses itself to that aesthetic. So I was getting big doses of it every day.
I don't know if that Kichijoji studio is so famous, but some famous artists, off beat sorts like Bjork, recorded some cool offbeat albums there. We'd bring our respective keyboards and laptops and basically go to electronic nirvana playing together. And you have to understand, being in that environment, we're going to be playing very '80s Tokyo inspired synth music, really chill, repetitive, music you zone out to, music that fits bright pastel neon colors reflecting off rain puddles in the Tokyo back streets at night. Sometimes we recorded it, but a lot of it was just for the moment itself.
Anyway, for me this music is, or was for that period & still in a way, a way of life. It's a time when I was exploring a different district of Tokyo literally every weekend, losing myself walking endlessly down infinite narrow, maze-like neon lit back streets, where I always had my earphones in and had this music playing just all the time. I would get so lost to it, I felt like I didn't have a body, like I was floating consciousness itself, merging with the lights and the mood and the beats. It was utterly narcotic.