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

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Post by fein »

tgb wrote: post #24
toomanybeersies wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

You can't see the imagery when just listening to the music.

There's no message in the music, just the YT video. If you like the music, so what? No need to be ashamed.

A lot of the fashwave stuff sounds great, and no one is going to know why it's considered "bad" by listening.

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

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Post by haywirez »

acomjean wrote: post #87
KozmoNau7 wrote: post #76

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DBX was really cool, there were also DBX-encoded LPs available for a while. Unfortunately it also made the recordings sound absolutely horrible if your player didn't support DBX (as you noticed), so it was a massive failure. The days of physical media for music are generally over, but I just feel cassette tapes could have been so much better than they ended up being.

DBX records.. interesting. Its hard because once a format is entrenched, unless its backward compatible with the previous media... The market did try to make a better cassette in the late 1980s/early 1990s.. The "Digital Compact Cassette". they competed with Sony's "DAT" (Digital Audio Tape). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Compact_Cassette https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Audio_Tape You are right though,…

The main thing I miss is the tactile feedback of seeking through tracks and DJ sets with a walkman. If I held the buttons down only halfway pressed, the output would remain patched in to the headphones and I could hear the pitched up scrubbing sound. Also - when the batteries were dying, it would still play for about an hour, but progressively slower until it finally stopped.

I'm bringing this back to the web for sure.

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

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Post by mrob »

Intermernet wrote: post #104
21 wrote: post #31

> Cassette players, they’re not really manufactured anymore, and the prices are going up on used ones Tascam just released a new deck cassette player, with USB: https://ask.audio/articles/tascam-announces-202mkvii-dual-ca...

Unfortunately, as far as I know, no-one can license Dolby NR anymore. If you want to record or playback tape with noise reduction you're pretty much limited to "vintage" equipment.

You might not be able to license the name, but the patents have long since expired. Just call it "noise reduction B", "noise reduction C", etc.

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

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Post by celdon25 »

bane wrote: post #106
chippy wrote: post #73

Vaporwave is a huge genre which covers a wide range of styles. Here are two favourites which show different styles. From down tempo electro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GW6sLrK40k to new reworking of 80s pop songs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jynPLTeBaFc The main thing that ties in the different styles is the slight feeling of nostalgia and the internet subculture central to it. The playfulness with the subc…

One of the things that, to me, makes it such a vibrant genre is the huge emergent tree of sub-genres that seemingly sprout out of it on a weekly basis. This means that if you're able to accept the basic premise of the genre, there's probably some sub-genre that you can get into. It reminds me of what we now call the EDM scene, but back in the 90s when it was "Techno" or just "electronic music". There was an attempt t…

Being a fan of the genre(s) myself, it's nice to see that Ishkur's Guide is still available. I remember finding it on Newgrounds in 2000 or 2001 and being blown away by the level of detail.

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Post by selimthegrim »

fein wrote: post #111
tgb wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

You can't see the imagery when just listening to the music. There's no message in the music, just the YT video. If you like the music, so what? No need to be ashamed. A lot of the fashwave stuff sounds great, and no one is going to know why it's considered "bad" by listening.

The Trumpwave/fashwave stuff is often other songs with only the music video changed c.f. the original Trumpwave video https://youtu.be/_k1zJV0DSvc

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

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Post by fein »

selimthegrim wrote: post #116
fein wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can't see the imagery when just listening to the music. There's no message in the music, just the YT video. If you like the music, so what? No need to be ashamed. A lot of the fashwave stuff sounds great, and no one is going to know why it's considered "bad" by listening.

The Trumpwave/fashwave stuff is often other songs with only the music video changed c.f. the original Trumpwave video https://youtu.be/_k1zJV0DSvc

CybernΔzi is an original artist.

Another original artist is Xurious, who does sometimes include spoken word in the tracks (I recall at least one with Woes in it).

I also wouldn't conflate Trumpwave with fashwave. Trumpwave imagery is of course popular with the TD crowd, fashwave not so much when they realize the associations.

None the less, if you like the music, no need to self flagellate.

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Post by danbolt »

EE84M3i wrote: post #93
Apocryphon wrote: post #65

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It's an aesthetic, or as they call it, an a e s t h e t i c. There's nostalgia in that style, when internet was 90s and simpler. When malls were flourishing and it looked like we were heading towards a comfortable consumerist end of history rather than a hyper-optimized automated dystopia. The Windows 95 phone could be considered vaporwave: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17405219

Small correction - ＡＥＳＴＨＥＴＩＣ (e.g. Fullwidth unicode latin caps) would be more canonical. I believe it's intended to evoke use of fullwidth romaji in Japanese as a bit of a play on Japanese use of english words to sound cool.

When I read text with the fullwidth latin unicode like that, it certainly feels more dreamlike. I think Vaporwave appeals to me a lot as tapes and the aesthetics of foreign-made (eg: Japan, Taiwan, etc.) electronics feel vivid in the fuzzier memories of my childhood.

If the film Inception was made today, the photograph in the vault could have been an old VHS tape.

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Post by [deleted] »

EE84M3i wrote: post #93
Apocryphon wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's an aesthetic, or as they call it, an a e s t h e t i c. There's nostalgia in that style, when internet was 90s and simpler. When malls were flourishing and it looked like we were heading towards a comfortable consumerist end of history rather than a hyper-optimized automated dystopia. The Windows 95 phone could be considered vaporwave: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17405219

Small correction - ＡＥＳＴＨＥＴＩＣ (e.g. Fullwidth unicode latin caps) would be more canonical. I believe it's intended to evoke use of fullwidth romaji in Japanese as a bit of a play on Japanese use of english words to sound cool.

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

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Post by selimthegrim »

fein wrote: post #117
selimthegrim wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Trumpwave/fashwave stuff is often other songs with only the music video changed c.f. the original Trumpwave video https://youtu.be/_k1zJV0DSvc

CybernΔzi is an original artist. Another original artist is Xurious, who does sometimes include spoken word in the tracks (I recall at least one with Woes in it). I also wouldn't conflate Trumpwave with fashwave. Trumpwave imagery is of course popular with the TD crowd, fashwave not so much when they realize the associations. None the less, if you like the music, no need to self flagellate.

The video in question though has its backing track by iamMANOLIS
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