This person claims to get it but they clearly don't. My feelings built until they misattributed the meaning of "ecco" in an album title.
Vaporwave was created then destroyed by the internet (2016)
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Re: Vaporwave was created then destroyed by the internet (2016)
#32Who else accidentally read this title as "vaporware" instead of vaporwave. Kinda unnerving how that happens when scanning headlines.
I read 4 chapters before reading vaporwaVe correctly.
Re: Vaporwave was created then destroyed by the internet (2016)
#33Vaporwave is well alive in 2022 and is actually gaining and transfusing its aesthetic essence in today’s Pop and EDM
Re: Vaporwave was created then destroyed by the internet (2016)
#34This person claims to get it but they clearly don't. My feelings built until they misattributed the meaning of "ecco" in an album title.
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 ...
Re: Vaporwave was created then destroyed by the internet (2016)
#35Vaporwave 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?
Re: Vaporwave was created then destroyed by the internet (2016)
#36Who else accidentally read this title as "vaporware" instead of vaporwave. Kinda unnerving how that happens when scanning headlines.
You are not the only one. I opened the HN home page two or three times before I clicked on this comment thread, and each time I thought "huh? we had vaporware way before the internet."
> "Vaporware" was coined by a Microsoft engineer in 1982 to describe the company's Xenix operating system and first appeared in print in a newsletter by entrepreneur Esther Dyson in 1983.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaporware
It also reminded me that a few days ago I read about some new ThinkPads that use vapor chambers instead of heat pipes. That sounds like it will be much more healthy for these high performance computers.
Re: Vaporwave was created then destroyed by the internet (2016)
#37Is it really killed? It is still produced but even more important it has evolved through CityPop to FutureFunk and even has touched a bit other genres. I you haven't yet, give it a try. There are many online radio stations that play both FutureFunk and Vaporwave. As for the SynthWave (2.0 because the original SynthWave happened in very early 80s and I do not know why it is called that way since it is unrelated and I…
Italodisco is super underrated- it has a lot of the upbeat analog electronic dance music that many of the *waves try to recreate; and did it 40ish years ago. Always felt it was more poppy and fun than the Eurobeat songs that came afterwards like those featured in the anime series Initial D.
I'm definitely in love with ItaloDisco. I watched it from its humble start, to this day. The emphasis has always been on quality
Italo house [1989-1993] + Eurobeat[British, Italian] + J-Euro + Classic Italodance (1992-1998) + Hyper-Techno
are derivatives of huge importance in the history of EDM and worth to listen filirting many times with their origins.
Catch: I consider Spacesynth to be ItaloDisco and the 1988-1993 Italo-energy movement to also be ItaloDisco
It is not only underrated. It is the King of the Dance Floor since 1978 with disco being the Queen.
Also it is the behind all the music revolutions since then in Europe.
And definitely is behind modern SynthWave and Vaporwave.
Re: Vaporwave was created then destroyed by the internet (2016)
#38This person claims to get it but they clearly don't. My feelings built until they misattributed the meaning of "ecco" in an album title.
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 YouTube channel sunsetcorp: https://www.youtube.com/c/sunsetcorp/videos. (All excellent and still worth watching/listening to today. Some landed on Eccojams, but some didn't. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuCloea96Mg is my favorite; be sure to listen start to finish.)
Later in 2010, he compiled these tracks and others into Eccojams, which references both "echo jams" and the 1992 Sega game Ecco the Dolphin, which is what the cover art is derived from.
Re: Vaporwave was created then destroyed by the internet (2016)
#39I never thought I'd see Vaporwave mentioned on HN. Anybody fans of Bandcamp here? I really feel like it's helped keep a lot of these microgenres going even more than Spotify.
Re: Vaporwave was created then destroyed by the internet (2016)
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Synthwave‘s cheery, Vaporwave‘s sad/depressed. I never liked the latter for that reason.
That's not true at all. There are plenty of cheery vaporwave songs mentioned in the article itself: saint pepsi [1], macross 82-99 [2] etc. all early vaporwave entries based on city-pop which is as cheery as you can get! In fact that's probably the most popular remaining evolutions of the genre, both of the mentioned artists are still huge! (multi-million listens on spotify) 1 - https://saintpepsi.bandcamp.com/album/…
Very good artists, additionally I can suggest
Jesse Cassetes.
https://soundcloud.com/jessecassettes
And Stinkbug.