When Did Vaporwave Begin?
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
- Today, let’s travel back into the mysterious past of Vaporwave to try and answer the curious question: When did Vaporwave begin? Who created what we can refer to as the first ever “Vaporwave” album? Let’s explore.
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Know of any other jurassic vapor releases? let me know in the comments!
what would a vaporsaurus rex look like
Great video.
@@PadChennington Better question: what would Vapor Jurassic Park look like?
ua-cam.com/video/_WM8QOJwFnA/v-deo.html not sure if this was the first or second first or whatever, but this song came out pretty early in the vaporwave timeline
Edit: (Originally came out in 2009)
As for individual songs, one of the oldest I can think of is "Moonside Swing", in the Earthbound OST. ua-cam.com/video/DdgkWg5uUDI/v-deo.html
And this song I don't know if it can be classified as vaporwave, but it's kind of similar, it's "Trapped" by Boards of Canada. ua-cam.com/video/ixoH1vuAXXc/v-deo.html
there's nobody here
welcome to the void enjoy your stay
there’s nobody here
You will always be welcome here
Goodbye
It's no Bobby Hill 😉
*the void killed me*
“having a whole community to resonance with”
*happy Resonance noises*
O_0
Is home resonance even vaporwave? /music plays
But seriously i think its synthwave
Synthwave is a close cousin, for sure, but not exactly pure vaporwave I think.
I'd consider og plunderphonics to be the origins of vaporwave. While they are stylistically different they are both sampled based. (ex John Oswald, Negativland).
same. i think it evolved but this was when it started becoming noticeable.I'd say its the roots as well
When analogue broadcast ended, the nostalgia for it began. I think that works as a start for vaporwave aesthetics.
Boards of Canada already had some vaporwave vibe
i like your pfp
in my opinion, they crafted the prime "hauntology" vibe and sound for so many future artists. absolute legends !
True, well noted
Listen to Trapped by Boards of Canada, thats pretty much it; although, its still very different as it's a mix of hiphop drums and rnb, which is something vaporwave doesnt do often, lofi hiphop is sort of its own thing
Omg I agree!!
7:44
But what if I told you.....
*ad turns on*
EVERYDAY CAN BE YOUR DAY WITH EXTRAVAGANT YOGURT!
LMAO listen nothin more aesthetic than yogurt
What if you wanted to go to heaven
But God said
OPN / Sunsetcorp uploaded a Vaporwave song titled "Angel" before "Nobody Here" !
yes! technically correct, I believe it did get uploaded a little tiny bit earlier than nobody here, so if anything that one counts!
It was uploaded the same day. So both are the origins of vaporwave.
Mike Hughes Right, and computer vision on the same day as well
Me: How many layers of vaporwave on you on?
Dude: Like, five or six layers, my dude.
Me: You are like baby. Watch this.
Me: N E G A T I V L A N D
ZanraiKid hell yeaah man E L E V E N
IM ON ELEVEN LAYERS
Im on 2 or 4
I clearly don't know enough about vaporwave
that sunsetcorp track is so dead on it's kind of crazy. the whole aesthetic, the name and everything is very much there.
doesn't it feel super e m p t y ?
When you showed the Devon Hendryx album cover, my heart jumped. JPEG has really come far and I'm glad someone else has listened to his old music. The Ghostpop tape is one of my favorite albums ever.
I came to this video literally hoping this would be mentioned. I think it's so insane that he helped pioneer vaporwave by sort of being the bridge between chopped and screwed and stuff we know like floral shoppe, but also that despite his success in hip hop, so few people know that. I also love that LP! uses similar production styles and aesthetics.
Should've included Spent Passions by 18 Carat Affair, that album contains tracks from 2005 all the way to 2009
my thoughts exactly!
We've listened to the 10hr version of Nobody Here at my work, such a classic.
Also how in the hell have you never heard Lady in Red, one of the biggest tracks ever
it was the same thing for me. I don't know. I've known so many songs from the 80s and I've never heard of Lady In Red. I really like it though
Lady In Red is not one of the biggest tracks ever, that's why most aren't familiar with it.
@@HypnoticHollywoodit's massive in europe at least that shit was all over the radio when i was a kid and at that time the song was already 15 years old
@@snwblwXXdamn bro that's crazy, it's almost like Pad is a northern American or something
I know bro it's just that some people will think it's a huge classic depending on where you live. I'm aware It isn't as big in the states.@@vxcvxmcrposfdsdfulpdfg
Nah we didnt need a video for this its obviously Minecraft soundtrack
bl3ss up
Naw it was Daft Punk *clearly*
Nah, the Minecraft soundtrack is downtempo
@@hunternegron336 that shit is Ambient/dark ambient at best. Though yeah; I'd rather call it downtempo than anything related to vaporwave lol
Daniel Lopatin is generally one of the most important artists of the 2000s and 2010s
I’d love to hear your thoughts on DJ Screw’s “Chopped and Screwed” style, coming out of Texas in the 90’s. He became famous for pitch shifting and slowing down hip-hop tracks and releasing them on mixtapes. I’ve heard his name come up in Vaporwave conversations before and in other videos so yeah... RIP DJ Screw.
Love your channel. Keep up the amazing work.
If you read about early witchhouse artist some say they were influenced by dj screw and they laid the foundation to vaporwave.
James Ferraro's old 2005-2010 stuff like Clear that is usually categorized as Hypnagogic pop is what I think really started to produce some of the staple sounds of the gente
will look more into it, thanks! gonna do a follow up video to this one day, as mentioned at the end of the video :)
Yeah especially clear and rerex
"EEGPROGRAMS - you were gone" is a pretty good semi-forgotten vapor relic from 2010.
Never heard of it! Mind posting a link? I’ll check it out when I get the chance
@@PadChennington ua-cam.com/video/pqg5YrtD87U/v-deo.html
that video changed everything for me.
@@Tybis I can't believe I missed this and that Sunsetcorp mix for so long. Bless you brother :D
Hmm
To me, there wasn't exactly a 'first album' for vaporwave as the techniques and art styles are a coalition of various sub cultures that came together thanks to the world wide web.
What we know as the style of vaporwave's heavy usage of pastel colors, old CGI renderings, VCR recordings, all come from the movement known as seapunk. This is the precursor genre for vaporwave as its start reflects the growth of nostalgia for the 80s around 2009. A seminal need to ground a changing world after a transformative election the previous year, we were thinking back on how far we'd come since that time. There was a need to look over that. Broadband had taken on the basis of community internet, and wireless had settled into the default access.
As for the chopping and skewing of samples, that goes WAY, WAY back. Back to the 40s and the origins of disk jockeys. Those that held records for radio play, and accidentally pulled on the records. Simple mistakes of putting the wrong speed on a record left an impression on the younger-minded and curoius, to where plunderphonics became a thing during the 70's. An almost Andy Worhol view of art in that even a simple sample of a song itself can be inspiration for new art. That pop culture itself IS art. So, people began to write songs with songs. The canvas becomes paint. Paint becomes the brush. Brush becomes canvas. And so the cycle repeats. This was the hey-day of disco and club style music, and so the disc jockey was needed. A golden touch of picking the right song for the right mood. Few knew how to transform a song completely by skewering it, but still could not fathom the idea of an entire genre of music dedicated to this. That nostalgia was forming, but hadn't settled yet. That wouldn't be until the transformation of a secret project of the 50s known as Darpanet into later what would become the information revolution.
Now we live in a culture that isn't just the US as nostalgic culture, but an entire world at the height of prosperity. Consumerism seemed so obvious and available to the world with economies booming, and the ability to make money seeming at any time. That and the exciting future of rapid transition of technology, and the 90's brought about two radical changes in human culture. In 1989, the Berlin Wall had been opened in Germany, and 1991 saw the last of the Soviet Union dissolving. The decades-spanning Cold War had ended. It was time to party. A new millenia was upon us, and now we had a new technology in the form of a global information source was beginning to take shape. Computer culture had begun, and the video game era reached a zenith with the rapid transition from cartridge in the early 90's to the CD format in 1999. We were ready for that bright future that opened us with welcome arms.
And then it never came. 2001 shook the world out of that hazy dream, showing that there was something darker to the world. That there were individuals who despised this concept to their beliefs, and that these individuals were chaotic. They used media to frighten and grip the world in its terror, and it's been that way ever since. The world culture created vaporwave as a look back on that lost dream of a bright future, recreating memories and hopes into digitial skewings. Yet it wasn't...hopeful. Some of it started out as faded and warped songs. Adult viewings of nostalgia given to the point of what could have been. Vaporwave is that hope that refuses to die. It may come out warped or distorted, and it may come out shinier than what it was, but it's that same singular hope of global prosperity. It's the fundamental belief that what we placed our dreams into, our childhood, had SOMETHING to merit. That it wasn't some sort of empty promise unfulfilled. Yet here we are, nearly ten years to the date that the first of this genre took root. we have vast amounts of home-made labels, pushing back against the idea of all-consuming digital online outlets for music as well as pushing the idea that people can't get into music like this. That you need a big company pushing and advertising you. Vaporwave is taking that hyperconsumerism and twisting it into something quaint. To reflect on time gone by unlike any time period. This truly is the genre of the internet culture.
What will vaporwave become next? Sounds like a good speculation video, Pad. Might be something to do.
such a well written comment my dude, start a blog! or even check out private suite ! yes, a video id definitely look into...vapor before vapor. a practicing of the same tendencies before even sunsetcorp.
I think the coolest thing about art is that there's almost never anyone who truly creates a genre or an idea. It's moreso a bunch of people taking a bunch of little things separately through a span of years or even decades, and the resulting genre or concept kinda forms naturally. It makes it feel like one big collaborative effort to me.
A pretty convenient video, explaining the history of vaporwave music, just a day after 420 :)
a nice relaxing vid for ya :)
I just listened to “Nobody Here” and I think that I’m in love
w e l c o m e
One of the most important releases known to have inspired vaporwave was 2007s Person Pitch by Panda Bear. I'd be delighted to see you delve into what made vaporwave!
YESYESYESYEEEEEEEESSSSS I LOVE THAT ALBUM
have never listened to too much panda bear! will check it :) thanks for the recommendation!
Person Pitch is without a doubt the first Chillwave album ever. An all-time classic =)
@@jblattnernyc Indeed. And damn is it good and unique.
Thanks so much for featuring me man! I wrote that shopping mall comment on the nobody here video. Great video!
Vaporwave essentially began once more people realize you can take an existing work and remix it to see it in another context.
You mean plunderphonics?
preach bb
Screw music did the same in the early 90s late 80s.
You mean Dram and Bass?
You mean Hip Hop in NY in the early 70's? Or Edgar Varèse with Musique concrète in the 40's/50's?
William Basinski´s "The Disintegration Loops" should also be considered as proto Vapor. It really carries those qualities to me... oh you even included it in the video ! Nice one, pad
DONT WORRY BABY I GOTCHU!!! excited to make a video diving even farther back :)
Talk about proto vaporwave please!!
will do!
oof
Kadaji S oof
I like your idea for your next video. Boards of Canada definitely had a huge influence on this sound. I’ve always thought they were geniuses who were way ahead of their time. When kids were freaking out over dubstep, I was chillin with BOC, waiting for everyone to grow up.
very excited to do something on BoC :) any recommended albums by them? gonna try and listen to their entire discography by the time I make it!
@Pad Chennington Music has the right to Children was really their breakthough effort. It sounds like music from another dimension, especially compared to everything else at the time. Geogaddi is perhaps even more experimental. Sometimes the "drum" sounds seem to be chopped up samples of other sounds sequenced into a beat. They also use a nice polyrhythm on the track Dawn Chorus that makes you feel like you're floating away. I'm also a big fan of Tomorrow's Harvest, especially on vinyl, although it gives me the impression that it might have been their final record :(
When John Peel accidentally played funk on 33 instead of 45 on Radio 1
W H A T H A V E W E C R E A T E D ! ? ! ?
Truth! Or any of us playing with our parent’s record players
Got a link to that?
As a Vaporwaver I find this very very educational and I hope that vaporwave becomes a huge thing around the world
I love those sort of "Explanation Videos" keep up the good work!
I will my friend, thanks so much for watching!
I got nobody here on my recommended today. It’s so cool to see and hear something so old, yet so familiar. The driving across the dark, with highlights of neon.
People has been talking this video called "SEGA CD" it's like daniel lopatin's "nobody here", some people has been searching it, but it faded away in youtube, just like what thanos did to peter.
Any information or thread about this? I’m really interested
WosX a few years ago mentioned Joe Meek's 1962 "I hear a new world" would fit in a Dream Catalogue release. It's not aesthetically accurate as Vaporwave, but it is close and it was ahead of It's time. Considering Meek made that music as something he "heard in his dreams", I consider it as the very first Vaporwave music ever.
Happy easter, vaporfriends. Would love to hear the prehistoric vaporwave, chad.
HAPPY EASTER!
That really is a good question, pad. Thanks for uploading.
I gotchu!!!
vaporwave beginning: is nobody here?
vaporwave after: everybody is here.
I'm currently working on a brand new vaporwave project and thought this was great! I would toss in Brian Eno originals, like Music for Airports, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts and also My Bloody Valentine and Vangelis are all pretty rad.
sounds awesome! feel free to comment a link to your band camp or anything like that!
Don’t forget the “Whitewoods - Beachwalk” music video which was uploaded on 22 October 2010. This video set the style for the whole genre
I’d add The Art of Noise - ‘Into Battle with the Art of Noise’ and ‘Who’s Afraid of the Art of Noise’. Heavy use of looping and sampling. Very much an early idea of those who would become Vaporwave. Perhaps not the same nostalgia trip, but definitely a touch of futurism promised by the early 80s
Songs like Dj shadows Midnight in a perfect world really bring that dark city aesthetic, only darker and more hip hop based. Great 90s Plunderphonics
Yes Plunderphonics!
Yet another great vid! Yeah I'd love to see a proto vaporwave episode! Maybe taking a look at John Oswald's plunderphonics or some of the stuff that was going on in Japan during the 80's that would have a great effect on vaporwave's aesthetic as well as the music.
ayyy thanks and thanks for watching!
I’m kind of surprised the vaporwave community didn’t pay more homage to DJ Screw. There’s a ton of similarities (stylistic/musical, compositionally, philosophically)
I've been saying this since the first time I heard Lisa Frank...White kids doing screwed and chopped with mostly white people music...brilliant idea but still...RIP Screw...
I love finding older music that has a vaporwave sound, so yes please do a video on that I would love to find more of those!
you got it! thanks for watching :)
The inspiration that sparked the VA:10 project right here. Thanks Pad for the video. I won't have thought and went through with the project without this video to inspire me.
You know you’ve watched a good video when you already know the info talked about but you still enjoyed every minute of it.
I would like to see you talk about its influence s like chopped and screwed and the 80s aesthetic.
The history of Vaporwave. It’s dope. People deserve to know it.
A little before "vaporwave" was an endless amount of low fi, nostalgic sounding soundscapes made by James Ferraro and sometimes his partner Spencer Clark, under pseudonyms like 'Acid Eagle'.. 'Vodka Soap', if you look up any of that, you'll go down a rabbit hole of mystical noise music, which eventually caught up to vaporwave with releases like 'Night Dolls With Hairspray', again, not the complete vaporwave package, but it contains a lot of the same tendencies at times... fascinating nonetheless.
I just found this channel. It sounds like you did your PHd thesis on this genre, and now teach a course on the subject.
art of noise always seems to be ahead of its time, especially with "moments in love"
comment me a link, sounds cool :)
@@PadChennington ua-cam.com/video/cen22TBHo9M/v-deo.html it's less vaporwave, but still pretty experimental for its time :)
@@PadChennington I know this is 3 years old but Art of Noise- Moments in love was sampled by eco virtual on atmospheres 4
Pad, I'm really impressed with how the quality of your videos has increased. It's been like 2/3 years since I found your channel via reddit. Keep up the great work.
Dude just discovered you - STOKED. Late comer to the Vaporwave scene ~ and your commentary and curation are impeccable. Picked up the MAC+ LP and been in love ever since. #stuckinashoppingmallforeternity - Big fan already
I love the way you dig it like Summoning salt and unwrap more through out the video. very impactful. both awesome video essay youtube channels.
Happy to see you included Boards of Canada in you're outro, they were a huge precursor to sample-influenced vaporwave
expect a BoC video very soon :)
Ferraro under multiple names had a TON of lofi material pre-FSV even back in 2004 that oozes qualities that eventually became vaporwave
Definitely agree! This man was a visionary. Rerex was pretty much vaporwave
I think it's OPN's Memory Vague. Released June 1 2009 and contains some tracks that would later end up on Eccojams Vol 1 -- "Angel" and "Nobody Here", as you featured here. Memory Vague is so good and I implore everyone to listen to it. The opening track is killer.
Skeleton is also damn good and one of the most underrated vaporwave releases I've ever heard.
preach! someone was actually telling me angel came out a little bit before nobody here ?
They were probably uploaded simultaneously - if you check the sunsetcorp YT page and sort by oldest first, angel does indeed come before nobody here. But they were both uploaded July 19 of '09 so I bet it was just a batch upload.
I would actually think that the soundtrack to The Minds Eye A Computer Animated Odyssey from 1990 to be the first start of Vaporwave. It gave the push and ａｅｓｔｈｅｔｉｃ to the Vaporwave genre.
I feel like a lot of the Drag/Witchhouse + Seapunk scene that was slowly coming up in the late 2000’s early 2010s slowly transitioned into Vaporwave. Artists like Holy Other, Saint Pepsi, Esprit, Baby Sloth, Kid A & Walkie Talkie were the first Artists I heard at the time that I consider early vaporwave. It’s super weird growing up while this stuff was starting to emerge and how it’s become a lot more popular now!
Nobody here is the perfect example to describe the feeling of nostalgia about something I never lived.
Software - island sunrise (came out 1988) its exactly what we call vaporwave and aesthetic
Nice video, it takes time to do this type of research
Thanks dude! Thanks for watching :)
The earliest modern examples of hauntology in electronic music I can think of-that quality of nostalgia for something that never really existed, a sort of warped reflection of the past through the lens of personal aesthetic-have to be Throbbing Gristle's little homages to the weird end of '50s lounge and library music, particularly "Exotica" from their 1979 album 20 Jazz Funk Greats and "AB/7A" off of D.O.A.: The Third and Final Annual Report from 1978.
Dude I love the way you explain how the songs make you feel bro. Always spot on but that expired cereal analogy had me laughing.
LOL so happy someone appreciated it! hey we all get a little hungry sometime and we don't care about the date on the box..
9:34 Whoa! How does one comment perfectly describe an emotion that was indescribable up to that point?
I could actually picture that abandoned mall while listening to this track.
I'd love to see you talk about The Caretaker, his stuff isnt necessarily proto vapor I'd say but his projects deal a lot with memories, nostalgia, and the same kind of old sampling techniques as vaporwave
will do! recommend any starting places?
Probably An Empty Bliss Beyond This World, it’s one of his most popular albums
@@PadChennington definitely an empty bliss beyond this world from 2011, his everywhere at the end of time project is very long and more recent but still amazing, and his first album, selected memories from the haunted ballroom dates back to 1999
@@PadChennington and for more context, his albums primarily sample old American ballroom danc and jazz music, adding and removing loops to give effects of memory loss, at their most extreme reaching levels of devastating drones and sound collages. I wouldnt be surprised if his earlier work influenced vaporwave in some way
Start with the first two or three albums, then listen to Empty Bliss. Oh yeah, watch The Shining first.
I bring to the table that, Daft Punk's Discovery is the earliest example of vaporwave, with tracks such as High Life that use much of the techniques we now associate with vaporwave same with more than a few songs both Discovery and Homework.
do a video on seapunk
ocean grunge🌊🌊🌊🐬
please please
;)
Is just witch house basically
I'm about that seapunk
I've been a fan of strange, experimental electronic music and consider myself to have had a keen pulse on the music of 2000-present. When I first discovered the music of Daniel Lopatin after finding an obscure DVD of his collection of songs and music videos (created in windows movie maker sourced from found footage), it was something I had never heard before. I later discovered vaporwave in 2015 but will always remember this song and the album/DVD "Memory Vague" as being the first song that embodied its soon to follow genre.
Hey man. New to your channel. Just wanted to say I really dig your perspective on music, and the textural way you describe it. Makes me feel like we hear the same way. Nice job, and I'm looking forward to catching up on your vids. Liked, subscribed, and hit the bell 3 times. Lol. Peace.
Interest in origin seems to be a key feature of this genre for some reason. A lot of the top comments on “nobody here” revolve around what people were thinking ten years ago and the first comment ever made on the video. It’s different from blues, rock or hip hop though. There’s this bizarre, almost soviet flavored longing/nostalgia rather than an academic interest. It’s something intrinsic to the music, itself...it’s like it touches a part of people obsessed with finding the origin of an emotion.
Finally subbed!! Love your videos man!! Happy Easter
WELCOME TO THE FAM!!!! and yes happy easter to you as well my friend!
Another banger from daddy pad.
Really happy you touched on sunsetcorp, that video was amongst the first few things I had heard in vaporwave. That, along with Jason sanders’ legendary mixes
4:40 hits the head on the nail
talented narration. nice similies and metaphors.
thank you!
2009-2010 was a strange time to be online
most definitely..
I loved the video i hope you make another one like you mentioned at the end of this video💙👍
Do that. Pre-Vaporwave-Vaporwave. Aesthetic before Aesthetic. Do that. Sounds like a good video
Hey great video ! I've been thinking a lot about which were the first songs I ever heard that had the "Vaporwave" Sound ever since I came across "LisaFrank 420" 6 or so years ago. The sound immediately appealed to me and also immediately seemed familiar. The Vaporwave sound reminds me a lot of late 1990's European Ambient music, experimental techno , as well as Lo-Fi Trip-Hop. Personally I would argue that the first "Vaporwavish" track ever would be "Gobi. The Desert EP" ([ml/i], 1999). This amazing work was completed by German Techno Artist "Monolake", who was room-mates with Gerhard Behles, one of the other original designers of the all-genre-changing software Ableton Live. Want to hear the u-l-t-i-m-a-t-e slow-down? Just play "Gobi" , and take a seat , couch if available. "Gobi" is actually an older Techno track by Henke himself, called "Polaroid" , which is a medium-paced Berlin Techno track. After he puts ridiculous slow-down, echo , reverb and insane sound-stretching on it , its absolutely unrecognizable, and maybe one of the best Ambient tracks of the last 35 years. So potentially, the Vaporwave sound is 20 years old, also imagine having a copy of Ableton Live kicking around the house in 1999 ! Interestingly enough , the Vaporwave aesthetic time-line seems to end in the early 2000's , so from a visual timing perspective thats an interesting coincidence to say the least. The cover of "Floral Shoppe" has a picture of Manhattan on it, complete with the World Trade Center Twin Towers. Ableton Live was released to the public on the 30th of October 2001, just about 6 weeks after 9/11 , and I'm sure you as well as many of your other subscribers have seen the UA-cam documentary "Vaporwave & 9/11: A Nostalgic Connection" (which I just realized YOU made, lol) which I think has a lot of truth to it. So I reckon the biggest influences of the sound of the Genre were Robert Henke (Monolake) and Robert Earl Davis Jr. (DJ Screw).
LOL yes! the 9/11 nostalgic connection video...wow that was super long ago. that was actually my first ever video! and thank you so much for all the suggestions, damn I got some listening to do!
I've looked into this topic a lot. I always find some really interesting results. Older vaporwave albums just give me more of that floaty nostalgic feeling if I'm making any sense. It's always a treat for me to do a deep dive through bandcamp to find the oldest stuff out in the vaporwave library that not many people would know about. Great video! I have to check that skeleton album out now.
Boards of Canada did it first... the whole way back in 1996! Check their track "Nine Rubber Wisdom". Basically a vaporwave version of "Hey Mickey".
will do! gonna try and go through the entire discography, they seem so fascinating..got any favorites by them you'd recommend?
@@PadChennington You're going to have to spend hours/days/weeks/months/years/etc. to really get into them, but go through their discography chronologically, each album has its own charm, but for starters I'd really recommend going by public transport during morning hours on a weekday while listening to "Sixtyniner".
glad someone pointed this out.
Thanks for opening my ears and eyes to this subgenre of electronic music. Thanks for the video sir!
Anyone else's vaporwave experience begin with those wav flv mixes in like 2013-14? Telepathic dreams, reptilian tv...those blew me away back in the day
Pad you're the man, saving my week everytime you do those videos thx brother
Love your channel and your discussion of vaporwave. I saw that you mentioned Boards of Canada towards the end of your video. They were actually the first thing to come to mind the first time I listen to vaporwave. Anyway I would love to see a video where you dug even further into the origins of vaporwave.
thanks Joseluis ! will be making a video on boards of Canada one day in the future, hope to see ya there for it!
When ever he said "what if I told you" I got the Taco Bell add saying "You could spend your dollar one a burrito from a burger place."
LOL I got a natural gas ad
In case anyone was wandering, if you look closely to the cover of skeleton's album you realize it's an overlap of two different (analogue?) photos, one of the great pyramids and another one of a clouded sky at sunset (taken from the ground, looking up), the orange part is the sunset sky, going up it is stopped by the clouds and when it re-emerges from behind them it has more of a pink tone, you know how the sky at sunset is less and less orange the further you look from the sun, it's usually gradual but in this case we can't see the grdient because it's blocked by the clouds, so we only see the upper pink part and the orange in the middle, going down the orange is nullified by a darker part of the overlayed pyramids photo (maybe the horizon? it could very well be a third overlayed photo actually) and becomes completely black in the lower part where it's probably blocked by clouds again, since they're less intense than the orange sunlight the very dark part of the other photo prevails. It would be really interesting to look at the original photos individually, before realizing they're two overlayed photos I always tought it portrayed the pyramids with a wall of fire between them and the viewer, with a lot of smoke in the air (the clouds) and that the dark lower part was some jungly vegetation in front of the viewer, like if the pyramids were on the verge of some kind of jungle where the photographer is standing, never struck me as being a night shot
Screw music (DJ Screw) is definitely an antecedent element that contributed to VW, and that was the early 90s.
Yeah vaporwave is just chopped and screwed music but r&b instead of hip hop.
@@skullsouljah2836 dj screw didnt just do hip hop. He worked with many r&b tracks, smooth jazz, soul ect. Hes known mostly for the grey screw tapes. Its some on UA-cam, in its entirety. Throwback indeed.
@@Solodolo84 proto-vaporwave
@@skullsouljah2836 so are we trying to figure out where the vapor came from or the precursor to the wave? Its gotta be a definitive project or song. We gotta find out...
@@Solodolo84 vaporwave is a subgenre of chopped and screwed music and is influenced by other plunderphonics and screwed microgenres like witch house, chillwave, and seapunk.
So cool. I only recently...like the last year...found vaporwave and related genres. And i have never been so into a sound.
First vaporwave video for me is Lou Reed's Legendary Hearts video. So ahead of its time.
Jam and Spoon's album Tripomatic Fairytales 2002. This was released on April 20th 1993. Points of interest: Jam and Spoon-LSD Nikon. Seriously give this album a listen to, you will be blown away. Make sure to have a good amount of time set aside, a comfy chair or bed, nice headphones and be ready for a ride!
Nice video. Love the old feels of the old vaporwave, it's like nostalgia plus vaporwave nostalgia. It is nice looking back at the music that got me into the genre.
ayyy thanks Luis I appreciate it! what are some of your favorite old vapor projects?
@@PadChennington All of infinity frequencies work. Shattered holograms by hayato yamaneko. Stay awake by HyperGanesh. Netscape by chip jewelry and I'll try living like this (a tie between my favorite vaporwave album of all time). Many others I like haven't been mentioned but you get the idea.
I'd like to mention Software's album "Digital Dance" from all the way back in 1987. It's all original work, not containing any samples, but it sounds so much like remixed vaporwave tracks that somebody could've made today. When I first heard it I thought I was being lied to when I read the release date. While it was intended as an experimental album decades before vaporwave was even a term, it definitely has a similar feel to what we know as vaporwave today.
digital dance is a classssicccc... have that on vinyl! love it.
And in a nice full circle moment, 100% Electronica has reissued the complete Software discography.
I love this guy talking abt my fav aesthetic
You mentioned Skeletons as a pioneer with the darker side of Vaporwave, one with stronger narratives than most other sides. Think we could maybe get a Dark Vaporwave episode, perhaps during the Halloween season?
I was legit thinking of where it began while listening to a future funk mix and love your Channel bro💓
@@PadChenningtonua-cam.com/video/qXC4AyjRikg/v-deo.html enjoy brother and thanks for help me understand a Genre i hold close to my heart and Any good Vaporwave artist you recommend we listen to?
Also worth noting that a whole host of early producers like Vektroid, SPF420, Luxury Elite, and Internet Club were all heavily influenced by Eccojams and referenced it often (especially Vek and IC)
Eccojams and sunsetcorp were also some of the first vaporwave I listened to and they hold a special place in my heart. Skeleton needs waaay more attention lmao it’s a sick project
Hi Pad, I would massively recommend checking out the artist Burial. I really consider his debut in 2008 to be one of the defining projects of lo-fi music/vapourwave/broken transmission in general. He was completely anonymous until last year i think. He created all his music on a podcasting software rather than a DAW and collected an reimagined samples from everywhere not just pop songs pitch shifted and warped but movie soundtracks, youtube videos and field recordings. I personally see all vapourwave/lofi stemming from the production that Burial established there are a few documentaries about him too check them out!
I think the vaporwave aesthetic, started from the art film Drive (2011). I highly suggest it if you haven't seen it.
haven't seen it yet! heard good things though.
Synthwave drew more from Drive than vaporwave. But still =]
I wanna hear you go all ther way back to the albums/ genres that influenced vaporwave, TODAY
Loved the video! Im new to this kind of music- random playlists and Floral Shoppe mostly. What are the necessary classics and best new things I need to know?
What exactly is the "killer stuff" we have today that is better than Eccojams? I'm interested in getting some recs because for me, Eccojams is the best thing to come out of the vaporwave genre.
so far in 2019 we've had some great releases, IMO some of the best we've seen in regards to groove and production... Hypnagogia by Danny Mason, fm skyline advanced memory suite, and the new 3D blast album that dropped last week...all amazing stuff that deserves a listen. let me know what you think of it!
@@PadChennington I've heard the FM Skyline tape but not the rest, I enjoyed it but I was expecting more "sample-based" recommendations, like in eccojams where there's a heavy use of samples to create new amazing/intriguing songs, I haven't been able to hear something like it ever, except maybe in Floral Shoppe but in this album, I think only the concept is interesting honestly, the album doesn't really sound that good to me. Anyways, thanks for the recs, I'll check them out if I have some time !