antithesis of vaporwave's original intent: Fakestalgia - "Nostalgia induces our urge to spend. Or, more specifically, it reduces our capacity to question what we are buying."
Phi Shu I agree, I keep wanting to but vaporwave aesthetic stuff ever since I got into the music. It’s very ironic and I laugh at myself for falling for it.
To me vaporwave is like a musicalized version of the pop art movement.... Fakerwave then is like if pop artists invented tomato canned goods that never existed in order to make their art
@@janmatula1534 yeah I feel like the more stuff you add yourself the more it loses the transformative aspect. it loses the idea of making something very emotional/political/abrasive out of generic soulless source material.
Regardless of what "genre" Adam's song is.....................it's VERY good. It kinda blew my mind the first time I heard it. I need to pull it up again.... The chord changes are gorgeous.
It's really weird, Adam and your tracks made me feel nostalgic for the original version despite the fact that i had only heard it for the first time minutes before. I don't understand why this happened. Justice Cow and Ben, you made an original track that's just like so genuinely good partially because of how cheesy it is? This is really inspirational genuinely. I feel like maybe *I* can make something that's okay, maybe good even. That even if my track isn't very good on its own, I can make it into something great, that I enjoy just by smashing it through some vaporwave design strats. Anyway, i'm going to go listen to Count to Me with My Heart before hopping on the next zoom meeting
Yep... The "throw away song" was my favorite one. Every other song were way above 8/10s. These videos never ceases to amaze me how good they are. The visuals and the editing... Man, this video slips into my mind smooth as butter. Once they end I realize 14 minutes went by instead of just one. 10/10 video once again.
Hello mr Ben. I just wanted to say in case you read the comments that I love the style of your animation. Its quite post modern (kind of reminds me of death grips) and ive always loved it. I am currently studying for art school in Greece and i wanted to say that I really enjoy your content. Keep it up.
This was awesome, really loving your recent content Ben. I've been watching for years now, but these past few months of videos have really stepped up a level. Such amazing animation, interesting concepts,and unpredictable journeys with each one. Thanks so much for doing what you do!
this is becomming one of the few times a week that i hear new music i really enjoy. i wish i could enjoy more like this...you, Adam, Joe and Justice Cow really should make time to do an EP together. you're SO talented it's ridiculous...everything you make is a 10/10 imo x
that animation at the part where you play the final song in the first technique is so good, I don't usually participate in vaporwave related shenanigans, but that part makes me understand the appeal
That coinpurse line just casually slipped in there.. 😂 great stuff Ben, really got the gears turning about how I can create an anonymous fakerwave career that will likely far exceed the success of my passion project 🤔
Funny thing I've noticed. Vaporwave calls itself this vague satire on the 80s, using 80s-esque visuals to accompany 80s musical tropes (which it does)...but strongly emphasizes 90's consumerism and is in fact more rooted in an early 90s visual and synth aesthetic. It's a very strange, distinctly 2010s influenced rewrite of an earlier era...not only filtered, but completely re-conceived and almost purposefully "misremembered." Agree? Disagree?
This video is like a delicious Sunday dinner. The choppy and hypnotic visuals being the mashed potatoes, the educational music adventure being our beef steak and the humble style humor of Ben being our gravy. The thing that ties it all together though is the political commentary on vaporwave and capitalism. That's the glass of wine to wash it all down.
I'm absolutely blown away by level of creativity involved in every short spinnet. Take that "generic pop song" with absolutely dope synth solo made just to be ommited in final cuts. Wowzers.
Must get hip to video madness!! I love your fake series in the musical world you live, but I’m grandly inspired to try my hand at the crazy video stuff you do too.
WOW! Excellent work everyone! Ben's lyric change made all the difference. Joe's felt very warm, classic vapor. Adam is really on some DDS shit with his remix, loved that in particular. Pre-chorus power!
"....but you're afraid of getting caught?" LOL Can't wait to watch this one! Honestly....the Vaporwave song Adam Neely made a few years ago....is a genuinely amazing piece of music. It's truly incredible....
6:19 I love hearing crazy complex chops, transposing and rearranging individual chords and what happens within them etc., but THIS is at the heart of why I love sampling. Sometimes taking context away alone can already recontextualize something to mean something entirely different to me, when you then add/change elements to enhance that new vibe, you've done all it takes to create something new that is enjoyable as something separate from the original, doesn't matter how much effort you put in nor how much credit you feel you can take. This won't always hit the spot for everyone, and some may feel their favorite music has been bastardized unoriginally, but as long as you've created something new to enjoy for some (Even if it's just you), again, I think that's all that matters.
how in the world are you able to produce such high quality videos this often!! I think undeniably at this point you have my favourite visual aesthetic on youtube
The music video for the original, un-vapoured track reminds me strongly of Standing In The Way Of Control (about several dimensions trippier of course); the visuals throughout the entirety of this video are amazing!
I absolutely love the fact that Ben Levin is paying attention to a genre like vaporwave in 2020. He's doing so in a joking yet respectful way and it honestly makes my heart warm. Much love, my curly-headed dude!
This is awesome. Makes me wish record labels would hire vaporware producers to legitimately create remixes of old forgotten songs, like they do with standard remixes of lead singles.
It's kind of interesting to see three different approaches to vaporwave. It's *super* interesting that Adam Neely stumbled into taking inspiration from a track on Chuck Person's Eccojams, one of the three albums that *invented* vaporwave as a genre. I think the truly interesting vaporwave songs are the ones *not* based on 80s soul or pop songs. The best track on Eccojams is the one that constantly repeats a bit from a forgotten bit of pop from 2001: "to be real, it doesn't matter anyway". That track is *magical* to me, because it takes a throwaway lyric from a completely forgotten song and makes it this stunning bit of existential art.
Yeah, a good example of home-baked nostalgia. All original, so it's not really vaporware, but it's not synthwave either. I've often been fascinated by the strange vibe he achieves is his music. It always feels like it's floating, neutral. Never quite committing to a string chord progression but remaining very memorable despite that.
You're incredible Ben, every video is just like an instant nostalgia trip like being in the 80s or 90s again and always happy and a bit melancholy. I don't know how you come up with this stuff, but I love it and I'm glad I am found you when looking into midi pickups for guitars.
ive made (and listened) to plenty of this stuff. A big part of the music to me is the production of the original song. 80s songs have a different approach to recording than modern ones and if you can match that itll really sound like vaporwave. I cant really describe it but older songs have a unique texture to them.
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You can hear the 80's song and F A K E R W A V E songs here! - joegullace.bandcamp.com/album/f-a-k-e-r-w-a-v-e
Ben, please keep on doing what you’re doing. You’re channel is one of the best things that has ever happened to my feed. We love you G✊
S-... Spotify pls? 😳
Honestly, screw Spotify. Damn thieves.
antithesis of vaporwave's original intent: Fakestalgia - "Nostalgia induces our urge to spend. Or, more specifically, it reduces our capacity to question what we are buying."
Phi Shu I agree, I keep wanting to but vaporwave aesthetic stuff ever since I got into the music. It’s very ironic and I laugh at myself for falling for it.
To me vaporwave is like a musicalized version of the pop art movement....
Fakerwave then is like if pop artists invented tomato canned goods that never existed in order to make their art
I love that!
Perfect summary of the video!
I mean, I make my own soul songs to turn into Kanye Beats.
So basically cartoonists?
Pop art music was actually a thing in the 60s. It evolved into punk rock.
So are we all just ignoring 'I wanna come over, and show you my coin purse'? Just letting that one slide?
ahhh, innuendo ... good or bad, it always gets a laugh out of me
Lmaooook
Yeah, what's another coin? Slide it on in.
I mean, it only makes cents
@@fripptricky5099 Played Embr?
The visuals in this are incredible. Work worthy preserving for all time, to add to the best of our cultural heritage.
I think that they were all done in Blender (at least the 3d ones).
get this in the Smithsonian eLibrary
As your "fake" style is sped up I though fakerwave would be vapourwave sped up - which would make it....80s music:-)
now we need a vaporwave spin-off genre that's 80's music but sped up 🤔
@@downtownmotel8914 a lot of future funk does that. Maybe some nu-disco too
new project - taking fully finished vaporware songs and making then sound as normal as possible again
Ben Levin really just became a yotube legend in like 6 videos
He's been a UA-cam legend for time, he has now ascended tho
Which six?
You've really outdone yourself here Ben. The hard work definitely paid off!
Its like urban camping with a rowdy sentient alpaca; keeps spitting hits.
This is like Andrew Huang's "producers spin the same sample" but
s t r a n g e r
But B E T T E R
@@julioagueros more
A E S T H E T I C
and infinitely better
I'm you, but s t r a n g e r
Definitely would like more
The whole thing was great but adam’s version is a real banger
more like synthwave though.
adam's version didnt feel very vaporwave tho
@@janmatula1534 yeah I feel like the more stuff you add yourself the more it loses the transformative aspect. it loses the idea of making something very emotional/political/abrasive out of generic soulless source material.
@@janmatula1534 yeah its not its closer to synthwave. adam's confused the two
Regardless of what "genre" Adam's song is.....................it's VERY good. It kinda blew my mind the first time I heard it.
I need to pull it up again.... The chord changes are gorgeous.
Oh yup just make an 80's pop song yeah I can do that
The aesthetic of this video is off the charts
A E S T H E T I C
Ok, I kind of love the fake 80's song. It is perfectly possible that I have terrible taste in music.
shhhh
you’re here, you’re good.
Yo I would actually love more of these fake 80's songs.
not terrible at all if you like it
I think the chords in the b section was incredible lol
You just like a good coin purse, no shame.
I saw Adam pull out his bass and I immediately went for my headphones
It's really weird, Adam and your tracks made me feel nostalgic for the original version despite the fact that i had only heard it for the first time minutes before. I don't understand why this happened. Justice Cow and Ben, you made an original track that's just like so genuinely good partially because of how cheesy it is? This is really inspirational genuinely. I feel like maybe *I* can make something that's okay, maybe good even. That even if my track isn't very good on its own, I can make it into something great, that I enjoy just by smashing it through some vaporwave design strats.
Anyway, i'm going to go listen to Count to Me with My Heart before hopping on the next zoom meeting
Feel free to download Count to Me with My Heart and make a vaporwave version of that
Ben, your channel slowly became my favorite thing on the internet in 2020, thank you for making these!
Tuesday is best Day on UA-cam cause it's Benday. Again just wow :O.
Ngl the 80s pop song you teased in the intro was basically like an Andrew Huang track lol, this was rad
Joe's track is amazing. RIP Screw.
Yep... The "throw away song" was my favorite one. Every other song were way above 8/10s. These videos never ceases to amaze me how good they are. The visuals and the editing... Man, this video slips into my mind smooth as butter. Once they end I realize 14 minutes went by instead of just one.
10/10 video once again.
Hello mr Ben. I just wanted to say in case you read the comments that I love the style of your animation. Its quite post modern (kind of reminds me of death grips) and ive always loved it. I am currently studying for art school in Greece and i wanted to say that I really enjoy your content. Keep it up.
Thank you very much! I hope you have a great time at art school !!!
Do you know what he's animating/programming in? I've read some people say Blender and some people say Unity, what do you think?
@@NeurologicalWarfare Im sorry i dont really know things like that.
I need Neely's version on Spotify
Can't deny there is a really pleasing aesthetic to vaporwave, almost sort of meditative in a way
The editing in this already got me excited
I love the way that fake 80s pop song just randomly starts counting from seven???
Haha
Haha
Really upping your visual game, Ben. The shot at 9:59 is awesome.
Adam neely went full edm production lofi haha
Sick concept
That hook has lodged itself so deeply into my brain
Listening to the Joe Gullace version while walking through half locked down Osaka is quite a vibe
It's crazy how all the fakerwave songs feel nostalgic, but on the last one it's s p i c y nostalgia
This was actually incredible, each remix felt distinctive and interpretive of different styles of vaporwares.
Also, OD worthy visuals.
Someone's animating skills have been taking quite the leap lately!
Adam's ending really is the ultimate test of "repetition legitimizes"
"repetition legitimizes"
The geometric visuals during Adam’s part are pretty in line with what I see when I have close eyed hallucinations
This was such a GREAT video!!! Thanks so much for all the hard work and effort that this obviously took Ben! You did an amazing job!
"yeah im just gonna start adding...random blips and blops" is exactly my thought process whenever i go to write an essay at 1 am
This was awesome, really loving your recent content Ben. I've been watching for years now, but these past few months of videos have really stepped up a level. Such amazing animation, interesting concepts,and unpredictable journeys with each one. Thanks so much for doing what you do!
PLEASE KEEP THE FAKE MUSIC STUFF UP I LOVE IT SO MUCH
this is becomming one of the few times a week that i hear new music i really enjoy. i wish i could enjoy more like this...you, Adam, Joe and Justice Cow really should make time to do an EP together. you're SO talented it's ridiculous...everything you make is a 10/10 imo x
yeaaah, awesome video, Joe Gullaces one is my favorite
This is a vaporwave equivalent of hip hop producers making their own samples so they don't get their financial guts ripped out their assholes by UMG
I just love the rhythm on 'counting with my heart' so much, it's kinda crazy how much that moves the song forward when you hear it
This is seriously one of the best things I've seen on UA-cam. How much effort and time went in to this? I'm in awe.
Man, I will never stop revisiting this video. It's truly created a safe space for my mind to go to whenever I am feeling down.
Unreal. I love professor Gullace
A new great video, thank you for a nice morning!
that animation at the part where you play the final song in the first technique is so good, I don't usually participate in vaporwave related shenanigans, but that part makes me understand the appeal
That coinpurse line just casually slipped in there.. 😂 great stuff Ben, really got the gears turning about how I can create an anonymous fakerwave career that will likely far exceed the success of my passion project 🤔
Thanks!
so much aesthetic at every moment justice cow is my hero
AMAZUBG
Funny thing I've noticed. Vaporwave calls itself this vague satire on the 80s, using 80s-esque visuals to accompany 80s musical tropes (which it does)...but strongly emphasizes 90's consumerism and is in fact more rooted in an early 90s visual and synth aesthetic. It's a very strange, distinctly 2010s influenced rewrite of an earlier era...not only filtered, but completely re-conceived and almost purposefully "misremembered." Agree? Disagree?
Seems right to me to be honest. I grew up in the 90's and it's the 90's-ness of it all that resonates.
I'm so glad all the songs are available to downoad, cause I enjoy all of them very much.
Really great to see you try out vaporwave. Your animations really work well within the vaporwave aesthetic!
This video is like a delicious Sunday dinner. The choppy and hypnotic visuals being the mashed potatoes, the educational music adventure being our beef steak and the humble style humor of Ben being our gravy. The thing that ties it all together though is the political commentary on vaporwave and capitalism. That's the glass of wine to wash it all down.
so we doing a cassette run of this or......
That's just wonderful! Thanks again, Ben
I can't stop hearing "Saturday night at eleven"
I'm absolutely blown away by level of creativity involved in every short spinnet. Take that "generic pop song" with absolutely dope synth solo made just to be ommited in final cuts. Wowzers.
Must get hip to video madness!! I love your fake series in the musical world you live, but I’m grandly inspired to try my hand at the crazy video stuff you do too.
WOW! Excellent work everyone! Ben's lyric change made all the difference. Joe's felt very warm, classic vapor. Adam is really on some DDS shit with his remix, loved that in particular. Pre-chorus power!
This blew me away. Absolutely unexpected and what a pleasant surprise. The visuals were stunning.
"....but you're afraid of getting caught?"
LOL
Can't wait to watch this one!
Honestly....the Vaporwave song Adam Neely made a few years ago....is a genuinely amazing piece of music. It's truly incredible....
6:19 I love hearing crazy complex chops, transposing and rearranging individual chords and what happens within them etc., but THIS is at the heart of why I love sampling. Sometimes taking context away alone can already recontextualize something to mean something entirely different to me, when you then add/change elements to enhance that new vibe, you've done all it takes to create something new that is enjoyable as something separate from the original, doesn't matter how much effort you put in nor how much credit you feel you can take. This won't always hit the spot for everyone, and some may feel their favorite music has been bastardized unoriginally, but as long as you've created something new to enjoy for some (Even if it's just you), again, I think that's all that matters.
I really really really can not get Count to Me with My Heart out of my head
how in the world are you able to produce such high quality videos this often!! I think undeniably at this point you have my favourite visual aesthetic on youtube
UA-cam recommended has been killing it lately this is epic
Visuals are p e r f e c t
13:23 a photo of Ben's computer after having to render this video. RIP in pieces
You could think of this as the first real broadcast aliens may be like "yeah aight lets see what they doin".
This is astonishing! The amount of work that went in to this 15 min video blows me away.
The music video for the original, un-vapoured track reminds me strongly of Standing In The Way Of Control (about several dimensions trippier of course); the visuals throughout the entirety of this video are amazing!
the visuals are incredible
Every video you put out is so inspiring.
this video is literally incredible
The world needs more EVI solos.
This is the greatest thing ever. Vapor wave is my inspiration.
I absolutely love the fact that Ben Levin is paying attention to a genre like vaporwave in 2020. He's doing so in a joking yet respectful way and it honestly makes my heart warm. Much love, my curly-headed dude!
I legit like vaporwave a lot just so you know!
your version is my favorite Ben. it's amazing how much impact that little change has, very clever and the truest to the spirit of vaporwave
This is wonderful! I am a huge Vaporwave enthusiast and I love what you've done here.
This channel is so ridiculous yet educational I find it incredibly inspiring. :D Thank you Ben.
Ben, this is amazing! Great concept, and stellar work by everyone involved. Even the fake LP looks so good!
So happy to see Haken is working on Affinity II!
Timestamps:
Count to Me with My Heart - 2:39
Ben Levin's song: 6:36
Joe Gullace's song: 8:16
Adam Neely's song: 11:43
I personally think bacon is my favourite vegetable on the tomato sandwich.
I can't imagine how much work went into making this video. And the music really makes me feel nostalgic, so it works!
Damn man! This was soooooo good! Every video is better than the last. This might just be the best thing ever! The visuals were on point! Loved it!!!
Need to grab my shoulder pads and hairspray now.
This is awesome. Makes me wish record labels would hire vaporware producers to legitimately create remixes of old forgotten songs, like they do with standard remixes of lead singles.
It's kind of interesting to see three different approaches to vaporwave. It's *super* interesting that Adam Neely stumbled into taking inspiration from a track on Chuck Person's Eccojams, one of the three albums that *invented* vaporwave as a genre.
I think the truly interesting vaporwave songs are the ones *not* based on 80s soul or pop songs. The best track on Eccojams is the one that constantly repeats a bit from a forgotten bit of pop from 2001: "to be real, it doesn't matter anyway". That track is *magical* to me, because it takes a throwaway lyric from a completely forgotten song and makes it this stunning bit of existential art.
I was trippin' about that instrument he was playing to the point where I didn't even think about the fact that he was on the crapper.
9:42 this. this is it.
Amazing. Both tracks are fun. Reminds me of Rubblebucket and Neon Indian
I love it all so much
I watch these videos and repeatedly find myself 4 mins in after what seems like an hour.
Everyone here would love Com Truise. Trust me.
Yeah, a good example of home-baked nostalgia. All original, so it's not really vaporware, but it's not synthwave either.
I've often been fascinated by the strange vibe he achieves is his music. It always feels like it's floating, neutral. Never quite committing to a string chord progression but remaining very memorable despite that.
Your videos just keep getting better & better my man💚💚💚💚I love you
Simply amazing
i'm back a day later to watch it all again...Ben dude, this is such good stuff...thank you for sharing with us x
I'm in stitches here
You're incredible Ben, every video is just like an instant nostalgia trip like being in the 80s or 90s again and always happy and a bit melancholy. I don't know how you come up with this stuff, but I love it and I'm glad I am found you when looking into midi pickups for guitars.
It’s a winding wild road from the midi pickup era to this one!
God I love this video wow great work!!
ive made (and listened) to plenty of this stuff. A big part of the music to me is the production of the original song. 80s songs have a different approach to recording than modern ones and if you can match that itll really sound like vaporwave. I cant really describe it but older songs have a unique texture to them.