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Vaporwave’s Mini-Boom of Floppy Disk Releases

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Re: Vaporwave’s Mini-Boom of Floppy Disk Releases

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Post by gatesphere »

32qwef wrote: post #7
michaelbuckbee wrote: post #3

My mind just can't accept that this isn't a parody / publicity stunt.

I thought the same thing when all these punk and indie groups were releasing cassettes. Then I found out that most people didn't play the cassettes. They bought them because they look good on a shelf. The cassettes have a download code printed inside (Bandcamp will spit out a CSV), so when you actually want to listen to the music, most will redeem the code (or just stream it). So it's still pretty silly, but not as s…

I for one have a large modern tape collection (underground metal, noise, ambient, and sound-art mostly), and I play them quite regularly.

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Post by woodrowbarlow »

Paul_S wrote: post #10
JansjoFromIkea wrote: post #8

Making something that can fit on a floppy disc is pretty cool restriction to give yourself imo. Do you just cripple the bitrate to squeeze a 3+ minute song on, do you stick to super short songs or do you find alternate means of maximising the space (I'm thinking potentially a mixture of midi files with some guidelines, and super low encoded vocals) Floppy discs are much more aesthetically pleasing than cassettes (alt…

I was disappointed that the floppies didn't contain mods (tracker music).

Diode Milliampere released an adlib tracker album, YMF262, on 3.5" floppy a few years ago. it fits about 13-14 minutes of music. i managed to score a copy, but they're sold out now.

https://diodemilliampere.bandcamp.com/album/ymf262

Re: Vaporwave’s Mini-Boom of Floppy Disk Releases

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Post by tgb »

toomanybeersies wrote: post #20
acconrad wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And yet it's a sub with 100,000 followers: https://old.reddit.com/r/Vaporwave/ There's a sub-genre that dubs Vaporwave songs with Simpsons clips that has tens of millions of views on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=simpsonwave It is indeed very real. Surreal, even.

If you think that Simpsonwave is weird, just wait until you discover fashwave: https://thump.vice.com/en_uk/article/mgwk7b/fashwave-trumpwa... It's literally the same as vaporwave, but with fascist titles and graphics. Reminds me a lot of neo-Nazis appropriating metal and punk. Vaporwave is a weird genre. It's really popular on the internet, but it never quite hit mainstream, I don't see clubs playing it and most of…

Well now I have Cybernazi in my Youtube history, guess I should read the article before clicking the Youtube link and then blithely clicking "okay" on the notice informing me that the video content has been flagged. Though I'm mostly just annoyed that they have replaced an "a" with a delta instead of an alpha.

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Post by FranOntanaya »

As someone that grew through the 00's — I commend the ability to package the feeling of the era into a style, and some of the things back then (like your first time opening a Basic interpreter) were neat... but, boy, the cliparts and Encarta era is not something I'd be nostalgic of.

We had a glimpse of all the information that was out there, but still couldn't access more than a little bit of it. It was frustrating more than anything else. Personally I had gladly archived it in the back of my mind till it started to surge back as vaporwave.

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Post by busterarm »

werber wrote: post #23

http://werber.xyz/vaporwave/ made this a while back while trying to figure out vaporwave, still don't get it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwgLAZ3AtaI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdVEez20X_s

I find these are pretty good at explaining the mechanics of the genre

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Post by busterarm »

27182818284 wrote: post #18
acconrad wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And yet it's a sub with 100,000 followers: https://old.reddit.com/r/Vaporwave/ There's a sub-genre that dubs Vaporwave songs with Simpsons clips that has tens of millions of views on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=simpsonwave It is indeed very real. Surreal, even.

Simpsonwave is one of those things that reminded me just how great having the Internet is. I'm not in the community by any means, but as soon as I learned about it, I was so happy that it existed and that it had a community putting out work.

Simpsonwave really brought back my love of Memphis Horrorcore.

Come & Get Yo Wig Split! (heavily sampled in one of those Ryan Celcius videos)

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Post by poisonarena »

FranOntanaya wrote: post #25

As someone that grew through the 00's — I commend the ability to package the feeling of the era into a style, and some of the things back then (like your first time opening a Basic interpreter) were neat... but, boy, the cliparts and Encarta era is not something I'd be nostalgic of. We had a glimpse of all the information that was out there, but still couldn't access more than a little bit of it. It was frustrating m…

I grew up in the 90s and clip art nostalgia is strong in my mind! I think I used Groliers Multimedia Encyclopedia
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