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Vaporwave was created then destroyed by the internet (2016)
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Re: Vaporwave was created then destroyed by the internet (2016)
#82Re: Vaporwave was created then destroyed by the internet (2016)
#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
Oh my god. So wrong, such confidence. > ... you can hear that the title is a play on the word "echo." It's an obvious nod to the production on the album ...
I mean, it's not entirely wrong. It's just missing the additional context of what else it's on a play on words of. OPN/Daniel Lopatin did refer to his early pre-Eccojams creations as "echo jams": >"I do these "echo jam" videos where I just loop stuff like a phrase from a pop song and repurpose it and put echo on it. It's like really Neanderthal sampling. Not flashy." In 2009 and 2010, he posted the echo jams on his Y…
You're right, but not mentioning the game feels wrong.
(yooooo that song is a whole ass trip)
Re: Vaporwave was created then destroyed by the internet (2016)
#84Vaporwave is well alive in 2022 and is actually gaining and transfusing its aesthetic essence in today’s Pop and EDM
This type of comment Is usually done for synthwave.
Re: Vaporwave was created then destroyed by the internet (2016)
#85Is there any QuickTime demo CD-ROM made with HyperCard-themed Vaporwave? That would be my personal idea of heaven.
Re: Vaporwave was created then destroyed by the internet (2016)
#86I think overzealous copyright quietly killed Vaporwave. It focused on being anti-capitalist & satirical, where Vaporwave as a genre spawned out of this retrofuturistic desire to return to the 80's and 90's era of rosy nostalgia to chill electronic music like the K-Mart store tapes[0] fused with graphics from the era's games like Ecco the Dolphin[1]. The genre stood out because it was a new artform that encouraged sty…
Floral shoppe is definitely fair use. Getting taken down from youtube is not a court of law.
Re: Vaporwave was created then destroyed by the internet (2016)
#87Lots of call outs and links here, but very few text-based playlists in this discussion. Please, someone, give it to us straight, in ascii. Top 20 artists would suffice.
One of my favorite channels: https://www.youtube.com/user/ThePrimeThanatos/videos Play a couple of videos and your feed will be filled with all of the neo-80's *wave goodness you could hope for. EDIT: I failed to read your comment.
Thanks. I wish there was a way to extract data from these files that gave us playlists in plain text. I know that some of these uploads have the full playlist in the description.
Re: Vaporwave was created then destroyed by the internet (2016)
#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
One of my favorite channels: https://www.youtube.com/user/ThePrimeThanatos/videos Play a couple of videos and your feed will be filled with all of the neo-80's *wave goodness you could hope for. EDIT: I failed to read your comment.
Thanks. I wish there was a way to extract data from these files that gave us playlists in plain text. I know that some of these uploads have the full playlist in the description.
Yeah most of them these days have a full playlist in the comments. You could maybe use the YouTube API to search comments for multiple timestamps, which should be the playlist.
https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/comments/list#...
Re: Vaporwave was created then destroyed by the internet (2016)
#89Vaporwave is well alive in 2022 and is actually gaining and transfusing its aesthetic essence in today’s Pop and EDM
Hello, time traveller! Have we beaten COVID in 2022?
we have not beaten lots of things, in particular bad sense of humor, troll approach to strangers in forums, and least but not last using COVID as replacement for a good smiley face. here's one -> :D