Thanks again for making this. Videos like these are not only important for documenting internet music culture, but also for being a potential catalyst for inspiration to anyone who stumbles upon it. Dreampunk was always my favorite "subgenre" of vaporwave in the early days because it took itself seriously unlike many of the subgenres that were popular at the time. Going back to Wolfenstein OS X's vaporwave documentary now, it's clear that HKE was ahead of his time and had an incredibly potent take on what vaporwave could be back then. I can see now that his vision was fully realized with the dreampunk movement. The impact that Dream Catalogue, HKE, and Telepath had on myself and so many others has created a space in which creativity can flourish more than ever before in our corner of the internet. While it has gradually taken on a life of its own by separating from its roots in vaporwave, I am still confident that the passion behind it will continue to expand this art form to new heights. As someone who has believed in dreampunk and promoted it since the very beginning, I am incredibly excited for the future of our community. Especially after watching such a well-made and heartfelt video!
If vaporwave was more about reimagining past we had, dreampunk is about experiencing future we will never have. Or the past we never had. Or as if we're in the far future, experiencing past which our current future will become in ages. And even this ambiguity fascinates me about genre
2814 a religious experience. a touch of the divine. cold splash of water in your face to wake you up from feeling lost in this fake world, which is what gives vaporwave its entrancing, siren call characteristic .
As a person who has been listening to vaporwave for far too long and then discovered dreampunk, this video really helped to crystallize my thoughts and feelings about the dreampunk genre. I came here from a dream catalogue blog and watched your mini-documentary with a mind toward trying to understand the movement and what it actually means. At least for me personally vaporwave and especially dreampunk have become the music of escapism and thinking differently about the way the future was perceived to be at a time in the distant past and what it has actually become. Dreampunk, especially 2814, is the music of that yearning for a somewhat dystopian 1980ish sci-fi future that has a dark edge but is still brilliant in its cityscape ecosystem, its cybernetics, its information encoding, its nod to the rising of Asia economically. The work of 2814 and HKE and Telepath as discrete artists have served as a nostalgic thought provoker, an escape from somewhat harsh reality, and a touchstone of what music can do and what it has already done. It is the music of a total sound immersion, like a room you enter to escape and be pulled into another reality, another universe that was and is and was supposed to come but never totally did. Vaporwave is dead, in a sense, but it also has that tinge of nostalgic regret in it, that anti-corporatism and even something of anti-capitalism at times. Dreampunk is another animal. Listening to Rain Temple with studio noise cancelling headphones is an experience in a totally different sort of music. Its an aural wormhole to another reality to immerse yourself into and just float on the currents of the music and the deeper emotions it evokes. HKE has argued forcibly that vaporwave become an almost a self-defeating meme and has lost its spark. I still find humor and satire in it with its nostalgia. Dreampunk has the spark still for its admirers and we shall see where it goes from here.
This video is so good. tbh dreampunk and ambient were some of the best things I've found after I discovered vaporwave. I think it was the best evolution of the vaporwave sound into something bigger.
Livewire was a lot of fun. The 2814 closing set was fantastic, and I can't say I've ever seen so many people get so hyped up over glacially paced ambient chords. A win for ambient music!
So weird to have listened to all this for so long while having no idea it was called Dreampunk. Great video, love seeing the in depth on all these amazing genres of music.
i know this comment is 2 years old but it's the same for me! i've been listening to it for a year and always labeled it ambient vaporwave, then when i would search for ambient vaporwave i wouldn't always get the results i wanted. now i do!! :D
It's so cool that someone documented this. As much as I recognize its influence, the sound of the initial vaporwave movement never really clicked with me, but I found myself more and more attracted to the music that seemed to be evolving from it but still fell under the "vaporwave" label. Now I know that what I was actually listening to was Dreampunk. Thank you so much for making this - this has also been a gateway into a ton of new artists I need to check out (currently listening to Rashida Prime for the first time as I type this).
Since Birth of a New Day came out and listened to it, took me to its unique space, time has stopped for me. I can feel it when I go back to this Album. It's historical in my life. I am no longer the same since.
the collab album "birth of a new day" is unexplainable to me. im affected to it. everytime i listen to this record im paralyzed and cant move, cant think... im just there. everything feels empty but not lonely. it feels like im dragged to a alternate universe. still unexplainable.
Nice Dreampunk introduction! Some people use to call such thing as a slushwave but...it all been mixed a couple times and people call sub-ganres whatever they want ) Didnt know you are WUSO! Nice to meet you! ^^
Would love to see a video analyzing the current trajectory of death's dynamic shroud's avant-glitch-pop, as it seems harder and harder to box in with the usual Vaporwave categories. Kind of feel at some point they might be part of a post-Vaporwave crowd a la post-punk.
Very well made video man. This genre too has pulled such a feel on me. Without artists like HKE, Sangam, and CMD094, my life would be totally different.
Love this so much. Is really inspiring to glimpse all this history so tightly and to explore the dreampunk scene in where it was and will be. The emotional and dramatic sound is brilliant and I look forward to the future of this scene. It has at least 794 more years in it.
Thank you for this. I’ve been looking for something like this for months. I kept hearing dreampunk as a genre but never heard or read anything that was able to help me find what it was all about.
Is there a list of tracks used in background, I think i heard the first one by the past (reminds me of Boards of Canada), but i don't remember the name.
Great video wuso~ I love what the dreampunk scene is putting out, and I've always felt a strong kinship with the style as somebody who was dipping into ambient, drone, and sample-based music just as they were discovering the whole vaporwave ecosystem. I have mad respect for what you and the other incredible artists in the scene do- if I were able to produce music anywhere near as fast as the rest of you, I'd like to think I'd be right there with ya. Maybe someday. Looking forward to whatever comes next, man!
I never knew what this genre was until this video and the recent email by Dream Catalog via bandcamp. At first, my thoughts were: What the heck is dreampunk? Now, it is more along the lines of: Heck yeah, dreampunk! Thanks for making videos like these
Gateway Ascension and Ehime/Sadness were original compositions by telepath and HKE as well! And interestingly the first two tracks on Ehime/Sadness by telepath are actually just his old songs where he used to go under the alias Scintillation
I do think it's important to realize that Vaporwave has evolved so much past only samples and pitched vocals and the genre definition is arguably one of the most fluid in music. Some people are very rigid, but the beauty of the genre is it's incredibly broad umbrella and different sounds. I would not hesitate to call 2814's "BoaND" Vaporwave, even if Dreampunk which I would pin as a Vaporwave sub-genre in a LOT of ways. Even if HKE doesn't classify it as so, it's REALLY hard to see and listen to that album without immediately being connected to Vaporwave, it shares SO much with the genre that it just fits. I mean many of his albums were even tagged as Vaporwave along with many other genres so which can you really say is the "main" one? It is not "traditionally" Vaporwave no, but honestly nothing is anymore because the genre has evolved. It seems "Vaporwave" has become this boogeyman word that artist are afraid of being classified as but really who cares. BoaND imo is the crowning achievement of the Dreampunk sub-genre and arguably Vaporwave as a whole, even more so than Floral Shoppe. People even consider Blank Banshee to not be connected to Vaporwave, which is just insanity to me. Point being, I don't think people are "wrong" for classifying much of David's work as Vaporwave because the genre is so fluid and malleable. Dreampunk may not be Vaporwave to him, but Vaporwave means many things to many people and you'd be hard pressed to find 2 people with the same definition.
Ouah you are Wuso ? Incredible ! Bought your digital album Painted With Voices and your CD Don't Forger Me, in my opinion the music you do is really GREAT
@@sebdot_ Thanks for your music, I think you're really goo at making what you do ! And artists like you are an inspiration to keep having fun with garage band ;)
Well edited, informative and your sound was excellent. You're on your way to a bigger sub count. Keep this standard of quality and always try to say or do something which others haven't done before.
Dreampunk was always a special genre for me, the way it can make you feel and the soundscapes it creates are amazing. It all started when I first listened to 2814 : 新しい日の誕生 and I started discovering more and more awesome artists in the scene, getting more and more enamored by that dreamy sound. It's nice to see a whole video dedicated to Dreampunk and its history. Thank you, Wuso.
This was a really cool video! I love w u s o, so it was cool to hear near the end that you're the guy behind it. You've got a really good speaking voice by the way.
Thank you for this video! Never knew about this subgenre. I've been listening to some of these records, but never knew they were dreampunk. Love your content!
I look at the Dreampunk Facebook page, from time to time, which details the genre from a literary sense in books and the definition there, as far as I remember, is that it's a genre that focuses on the surreal, one example being Alice in Wonderland. If the Dreampunk music genre is a book, it would have Trans-real Cyberpunk in some of its tone, considering the synths in it a bit. What book genre does dreampunk music seem like to you?
Can the music be converted into indie cinema? I've been listening to a few artists after watching this video, and that has inspired me to write 1 or 2 stories I'd like to film and create. What do you think? Will they work?
Kuroi Ame have actually made a soundtrack for a short film, along with myself. We've also had a bunch of stories, games, and music videos made with it. They definitely fit.
Great work. I have listened to some releases on Dream catalog so found it real interesting to know more about the whole thing. Well put together piece!
as someone who only got into vaporwave a year ago, it's amazing to have high quality videos discussing the history of my favourite genre and it's associated sub genre's/cousin genre's.
This video is fantastic. I barely delved into dreampunk. Birth of a new day is always fantastic and you have persuade me to definitely start taking a look at the genre even more.
I am treating your videos like a podcast... Used UA-cam to mp3 to make them into mp3 files. Then I divided them into a bunch of 5 minute long tracks in audacity. Now I've imported them to my windows XP computer and I'm burning them to minidisc so I can listen on the go 😁
So in your opinion, is Dreampunk still a "subgenre" of Vaporwave, or would you prefer it a wholly separate thing that came out of Vaporwave? Sorry if I didn't entirely get that from the video. Also I love the videos, came here from Pad Chennington and now I'm hooked
My mark is most of the stuff post 2015. After 2814 people came into the genre with no affiliation with vaporwave at all and produced with the sole purpose of producing the dreampunk aesthetic using little to no samples. Because of this I feel that (especially now) Dreampunk has developed into its own scene as many of its themes and motifs have completely diverged from traditional Vaporwave. Glad you like the stuff and thanks for watching!
Great video. Dreampunk is the greatest thing to ever evolve from vaporwave so far. As far as "genres" go it's up there with shoegaze. It's a beautiful mutation which can keep growing into the unknown.
Dreampunk is great and I am happy to see this genre solidify itself in the vaporwave canon. If I'm quite honest, I do detest some of the people behind the genre for various reasons, they're not the greatest people in the community by a long shot, but they are creative and especially inventive, so I do encourage the genre and the sound at the very least. Great video, Seb! Keep it up.
I just discovered 2814 today, and can’t wait to get into dreampunk i’ve been a fan of future funk since 2020. I didn’t even know it was the same genre! Macross, Mere Notilde, Chance De La Soul and Doktor Plektor are some of my fave vaporwave artists
Thank you for this amazing video! I never really heard of Dreampunk but I definitely know of HKE and Telepath! Now I'm definitely a Dreampunk fan and subscriber to you! 👍
8:50 - did the same thing - it's an amazing album and a great new influential genre - I've been trying to delve into the genre but it's much harder than it looks.
Ah Dream Catalogue =] First off, I agreed with wosX’s inebriated proposition that the major umbrella term should be vapour as opposed to vaporwave. My own rationale for it was it reminds me of when rock and roll became just rock. In fact, I still note parallels between the two as they both had a very specific sound and origin and yet both grew beyond its initial origin to become a bigger and broader thing. The core fundamental of vapour, and yes can be seen in dreampunk, is art built first and foremost on mood and made with a DIY/DGAF attitude. Mood is at the heart of it and everything else builds from there. And that “everything else” can be anything you want. Three minute “pop song” with verses and choruses? Fine. Two minute lean but heavy bangers? Fine. Twenty minute plus glacial ambience? Fine too. For both the artist and the listener, it is the most free and most open you can ever be. And yes, I have Dream Catalogue to thank for a lot of this. Both Rain Temple and Birth of a New Day was what literally sold me on the scene. I share a lot of sensibilities with Dream Catalogue (Blade Runner is one of my favourite films amongst others). And in charting HKE, I’ve come to call him the Miles Davis of vapour for his relentless creative drive and eagerness to venture into new horizons. As an artist myself (キラヨシ 😉), I respect and value anyone who dares to make something exciting, interesting, compelling, dynamic, vibrant ... and most of all, sincere and honest. In the end, tags are just signposts. And only the fool looks at the finger pointing up at the stars. Keep creating. Keep dreaming. Keep living.
This is a great video, wuso. Thanks a million for putting it together. Is there any way people can buy copies of the Livewire sets and thus support the artists who contributed?
Hey Seb I think you make stuff for Esports now. I appreciate that I found your channel, Ive been wanting to learn more about electronic music, and I also recently learned that what I listen to is a vapor genre. So this feels incredibly fateful. I notice this is like a year old. Get back on it Seb. bitch thanks for creating things and helping me learn.
Thanks again for making this. Videos like these are not only important for documenting internet music culture, but also for being a potential catalyst for inspiration to anyone who stumbles upon it. Dreampunk was always my favorite "subgenre" of vaporwave in the early days because it took itself seriously unlike many of the subgenres that were popular at the time. Going back to Wolfenstein OS X's vaporwave documentary now, it's clear that HKE was ahead of his time and had an incredibly potent take on what vaporwave could be back then. I can see now that his vision was fully realized with the dreampunk movement.
The impact that Dream Catalogue, HKE, and Telepath had on myself and so many others has created a space in which creativity can flourish more than ever before in our corner of the internet. While it has gradually taken on a life of its own by separating from its roots in vaporwave, I am still confident that the passion behind it will continue to expand this art form to new heights. As someone who has believed in dreampunk and promoted it since the very beginning, I am incredibly excited for the future of our community. Especially after watching such a well-made and heartfelt video!
Love your channel
Weĺl said, and you Vapor Memory is someone I know I go to to search for new sounds, and dreams. Thank you
You are *w u s o* ??? Holy shit, I love your stuff and I didn‘t even know!
If vaporwave was more about reimagining past we had, dreampunk is about experiencing future we will never have. Or the past we never had. Or as if we're in the far future, experiencing past which our current future will become in ages. And even this ambiguity fascinates me about genre
2814 a religious experience. a touch of the divine. cold splash of water in your face to wake you up from feeling lost in this fake world, which is what gives vaporwave its entrancing, siren call characteristic .
Great work Wuso. Appreciate the kind words
Another great video and wonderful editing.. Keep up the great work brother. Happy to see livewire get discussed in this as well.
As a person who has been listening to vaporwave for far too long and then discovered dreampunk, this video really helped to crystallize my thoughts and feelings about the dreampunk genre. I came here from a dream catalogue blog and watched your mini-documentary with a mind toward trying to understand the movement and what it actually means. At least for me personally vaporwave and especially dreampunk have become the music of escapism and thinking differently about the way the future was perceived to be at a time in the distant past and what it has actually become. Dreampunk, especially 2814, is the music of that yearning for a somewhat dystopian 1980ish sci-fi future that has a dark edge but is still brilliant in its cityscape ecosystem, its cybernetics, its information encoding, its nod to the rising of Asia economically. The work of 2814 and HKE and Telepath as discrete artists have served as a nostalgic thought provoker, an escape from somewhat harsh reality, and a touchstone of what music can do and what it has already done. It is the music of a total sound immersion, like a room you enter to escape and be pulled into another reality, another universe that was and is and was supposed to come but never totally did. Vaporwave is dead, in a sense, but it also has that tinge of nostalgic regret in it, that anti-corporatism and even something of anti-capitalism at times. Dreampunk is another animal. Listening to Rain Temple with studio noise cancelling headphones is an experience in a totally different sort of music. Its an aural wormhole to another reality to immerse yourself into and just float on the currents of the music and the deeper emotions it evokes. HKE has argued forcibly that vaporwave become an almost a self-defeating meme and has lost its spark. I still find humor and satire in it with its nostalgia. Dreampunk has the spark still for its admirers and we shall see where it goes from here.
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@@sebdot_ Yo could you tell us the song at 5:41 ?
Fans love labels, artists don’t care just make stuff
Dreampunk is the music played after the future funk party
This video is so good. tbh dreampunk and ambient were some of the best things I've found after I discovered vaporwave. I think it was the best evolution of the vaporwave sound into something bigger.
DAMN you're WUSO?! DOG, I LOVE YOUR STUFF, THANK YOU FOR MAKING IT!!!
Livewire was a lot of fun. The 2814 closing set was fantastic, and I can't say I've ever seen so many people get so hyped up over glacially paced ambient chords. A win for ambient music!
Closing set was definitely fantastic. Was nice to see everyone come together over this weird internet genre
So weird to have listened to all this for so long while having no idea it was called Dreampunk.
Great video, love seeing the in depth on all these amazing genres of music.
i know this comment is 2 years old but it's the same for me! i've been listening to it for a year and always labeled it ambient vaporwave, then when i would search for ambient vaporwave i wouldn't always get the results i wanted. now i do!! :D
It's so cool that someone documented this. As much as I recognize its influence, the sound of the initial vaporwave movement never really clicked with me, but I found myself more and more attracted to the music that seemed to be evolving from it but still fell under the "vaporwave" label. Now I know that what I was actually listening to was Dreampunk. Thank you so much for making this - this has also been a gateway into a ton of new artists I need to check out (currently listening to Rashida Prime for the first time as I type this).
Your editing is insane! It's like I'm watching a Netflix documentary!
Since Birth of a New Day came out and listened to it, took me to its unique space, time has stopped for me. I can feel it when I go back to this Album. It's historical in my life. I am no longer the same since.
Agreed!
Wuso you are a devilishly handsome man. Love the vids and the music!
@ 4:50 I just realized half of my favorite artists are the same person
the collab album "birth of a new day" is unexplainable to me. im affected to it. everytime i listen to this record im paralyzed and cant move, cant think... im just there. everything feels empty but not lonely. it feels like im dragged to a alternate universe. still unexplainable.
For me, dreampunk is longing for a time I've never known and never will know..
Mono no aware
How is ambient any different
a lot of people say that about vaporwave in general
After all these years, I never knew that it was Dreampunk that I love.
Nice Dreampunk introduction!
Some people use to call such thing as a slushwave but...it all been mixed a couple times and people call sub-ganres whatever they want )
Didnt know you are WUSO! Nice to meet you! ^^
Please put up a tracklist! There's some amazing music used in this that I'd like to track down.
Would love to see a video analyzing the current trajectory of death's dynamic shroud's avant-glitch-pop, as it seems harder and harder to box in with the usual Vaporwave categories. Kind of feel at some point they might be part of a post-Vaporwave crowd a la post-punk.
Just purely amazing video, the dreampunk resurgence is on, so glad to be a part of it
Very well made video man. This genre too has pulled such a feel on me. Without artists like HKE, Sangam, and CMD094, my life would be totally different.
you're gonna blow up. great quality. keep going
Love this so much. Is really inspiring to glimpse all this history so tightly and to explore the dreampunk scene in where it was and will be. The emotional and dramatic sound is brilliant and I look forward to the future of this scene. It has at least 794 more years in it.
Amazing Video, I randomly bumped into Dreampunk and I was so amazed by the sound and aesthetic. Thank you for the insights in this amazing movement
Thank you for this. I’ve been looking for something like this for months. I kept hearing dreampunk as a genre but never heard or read anything that was able to help me find what it was all about.
God damn wuso your production is flawless I don't know how you do it so fast
Is there a list of tracks used in background, I think i heard the first one by the past (reminds me of Boards of Canada), but i don't remember the name.
I hope you get bigger, your videos are really well made and very informative. Keep up the good work 😁👍
Great video wuso~ I love what the dreampunk scene is putting out, and I've always felt a strong kinship with the style as somebody who was dipping into ambient, drone, and sample-based music just as they were discovering the whole vaporwave ecosystem. I have mad respect for what you and the other incredible artists in the scene do- if I were able to produce music anywhere near as fast as the rest of you, I'd like to think I'd be right there with ya. Maybe someday.
Looking forward to whatever comes next, man!
I never knew what this genre was until this video and the recent email by Dream Catalog via bandcamp. At first, my thoughts were: What the heck is dreampunk? Now, it is more along the lines of: Heck yeah, dreampunk! Thanks for making videos like these
Gateway Ascension and Ehime/Sadness were original compositions by telepath and HKE as well! And interestingly the first two tracks on Ehime/Sadness by telepath are actually just his old songs where he used to go under the alias Scintillation
Actually didn't know that! Thanks for the info.
It feels like Dream Catalogue and HKE are crazy now!
I do think it's important to realize that Vaporwave has evolved so much past only samples and pitched vocals and the genre definition is arguably one of the most fluid in music. Some people are very rigid, but the beauty of the genre is it's incredibly broad umbrella and different sounds. I would not hesitate to call 2814's "BoaND" Vaporwave, even if Dreampunk which I would pin as a Vaporwave sub-genre in a LOT of ways. Even if HKE doesn't classify it as so, it's REALLY hard to see and listen to that album without immediately being connected to Vaporwave, it shares SO much with the genre that it just fits. I mean many of his albums were even tagged as Vaporwave along with many other genres so which can you really say is the "main" one?
It is not "traditionally" Vaporwave no, but honestly nothing is anymore because the genre has evolved. It seems "Vaporwave" has become this boogeyman word that artist are afraid of being classified as but really who cares. BoaND imo is the crowning achievement of the Dreampunk sub-genre and arguably Vaporwave as a whole, even more so than Floral Shoppe. People even consider Blank Banshee to not be connected to Vaporwave, which is just insanity to me. Point being, I don't think people are "wrong" for classifying much of David's work as Vaporwave because the genre is so fluid and malleable. Dreampunk may not be Vaporwave to him, but Vaporwave means many things to many people and you'd be hard pressed to find 2 people with the same definition.
Thanks for making this fantastic video! Looking forward to the next one, whenever that may be. :)
Ouah you are Wuso ? Incredible ! Bought your digital album Painted With Voices and your CD Don't Forger Me, in my opinion the music you do is really GREAT
Yes I am!
That's amazing to hear ♥️
@@sebdot_ Thanks for your music, I think you're really goo at making what you do ! And artists like you are an inspiration to keep having fun with garage band ;)
Your eyes are pretty Dreampunk
The guy behind wuso is humble too? Oh my!!!
Well edited, informative and your sound was excellent. You're on your way to a bigger sub count. Keep this standard of quality and always try to say or do something which others haven't done before.
2814 is a real classic
Dreampunk for me is like nostalgia for a future that the 80s thought would exist but never will be.
Dreampunk was always a special genre for me, the way it can make you feel and the soundscapes it creates are amazing. It all started when I first listened to 2814 : 新しい日の誕生 and I started discovering more and more awesome artists in the scene, getting more and more enamored by that dreamy sound.
It's nice to see a whole video dedicated to Dreampunk and its history.
Thank you, Wuso.
Amazing video wuso. Thanks 🙏🙏😊👍
This was a really cool video! I love w u s o, so it was cool to hear near the end that you're the guy behind it. You've got a really good speaking voice by the way.
this video is great, very good editing and very informative.
hope you keep doing videos ❤️
Thank you for this video! Never knew about this subgenre. I've been listening to some of these records, but never knew they were dreampunk. Love your content!
I look at the Dreampunk Facebook page, from time to time, which details the genre from a literary sense in books and the definition there, as far as I remember, is that it's a genre that focuses on the surreal, one example being Alice in Wonderland. If the Dreampunk music genre is a book, it would have Trans-real Cyberpunk in some of its tone, considering the synths in it a bit. What book genre does dreampunk music seem like to you?
Thanks Wuso, for this clear and captivating introduction to the music that always is taking me "home".
I always find the different genres way late. I only found vaporwave a year ago. But I like it.
Dude, impeccable as always! Awesome to see your subscriber count go through the roof! 🔥🔥🔥 Big congrats, and amazing work on this video!!!
Thanks so much man
Can the music be converted into indie cinema? I've been listening to a few artists after watching this video, and that has inspired me to write 1 or 2 stories I'd like to film and create. What do you think? Will they work?
Kuroi Ame have actually made a soundtrack for a short film, along with myself. We've also had a bunch of stories, games, and music videos made with it. They definitely fit.
incredible genre.
Great work. I have listened to some releases on Dream catalog so found it real interesting to know more about the whole thing. Well put together piece!
as someone who only got into vaporwave a year ago, it's amazing to have high quality videos discussing the history of my favourite genre and it's associated sub genre's/cousin genre's.
Exactly what I was looking for. Thank you for this detailed exploration. Subbed.
This was absolutely beautiful
This video is fantastic. I barely delved into dreampunk. Birth of a new day is always fantastic and you have persuade me to definitely start taking a look at the genre even more.
Really enjoyed this. Thanx for making it!
I am treating your videos like a podcast... Used UA-cam to mp3 to make them into mp3 files. Then I divided them into a bunch of 5 minute long tracks in audacity.
Now I've imported them to my windows XP computer and I'm burning them to minidisc so I can listen on the go 😁
So in your opinion, is Dreampunk still a "subgenre" of Vaporwave, or would you prefer it a wholly separate thing that came out of Vaporwave? Sorry if I didn't entirely get that from the video. Also I love the videos, came here from Pad Chennington and now I'm hooked
My mark is most of the stuff post 2015. After 2814 people came into the genre with no affiliation with vaporwave at all and produced with the sole purpose of producing the dreampunk aesthetic using little to no samples. Because of this I feel that (especially now) Dreampunk has developed into its own scene as many of its themes and motifs have completely diverged from traditional Vaporwave.
Glad you like the stuff and thanks for watching!
Great vid. I love dreampunk genre !
Fantastic video! Thank you!
Great video. Dreampunk is the greatest thing to ever evolve from vaporwave so far. As far as "genres" go it's up there with shoegaze. It's a beautiful mutation which can keep growing into the unknown.
Subbed, Bell, and all that stuff. Keep them coming like this.
Would you mind putting up a track list of the songs used in the background of your narration? Thank you.
I literally just now found out about dreampunk and searched the word, which led me here!
Welcome
Hello everybody, and especially to the WUSO.
I didn't catch the name of one label and can't find it...
7:07 Barrow records? Is it right?
Great video! Recently found your stuff, it's a great mix of informative, entertaining, and relaxing
Thank you for all that you do. 🙂
Dreampunk is great and I am happy to see this genre solidify itself in the vaporwave canon. If I'm quite honest, I do detest some of the people behind the genre for various reasons, they're not the greatest people in the community by a long shot, but they are creative and especially inventive, so I do encourage the genre and the sound at the very least. Great video, Seb! Keep it up.
oh man, thank you! you're saying a lot of things i wanted to express. heartfelt props from hamilton, ont.
Great video and thanks for introducing me to the scene!
Telepath is #1 in this genre, and the album 2814 is THE defining album of this genre for myself.
Great video, going through the wave rabbit hole once again and scouring youtube for videos just like this. Thanks☺
I found 2814 when I was derping around Vaporwave on Bandcamp. I've lost count how many times I've relaxed before bed listening to "Birth of a New Day"
Great job! Interesting video and sums up pretty much
Thanks man! Glad you liked it!
Great video! When I lived in Toronto I used to love going for walks and listening to 2814 too.
it's like you're saying things that was always in my head, but I never realised them
I lOVE Dreampunk so FUCKING MUCH!
Very cool! But why in the influences there isn't any mention of Trip Hop?
I just discovered 2814 today, and can’t wait to get into dreampunk
i’ve been a fan of future funk since 2020. I didn’t even know it was the same genre!
Macross, Mere Notilde, Chance De La Soul and Doktor Plektor are some of my fave vaporwave artists
How late are you lol
superbly put. much love to the scene.
nice video!
Could anyone tell me the name of the artist/song playing in the background when "birth of a new genre" appears on the screen?
That's mine! (w u s o - Haunting Memories)
@@sebdot_ Will be checking this out! Thank you :)
@@sebdot_ what's the song playing when T E L E P A T H appears? 5:46
a music genre is simply explained to all, thanks for your video.
Thank you for this amazing video! I never really heard of Dreampunk but I definitely know of HKE and Telepath! Now I'm definitely a Dreampunk fan and subscriber to you! 👍
Thanks so much man! Glad you're into this great genre
Damn lets go Seb! What's your next topic on?
great taste
amazingly well done!! thanks so much for this. dreampunk 4life
Dope fucking vid! Can't wait for the Virtual Oasis festival!
8:50 - did the same thing - it's an amazing album and a great new influential genre - I've been trying to delve into the genre but it's much harder than it looks.
Ah Dream Catalogue =]
First off, I agreed with wosX’s inebriated proposition that the major umbrella term should be vapour as opposed to vaporwave. My own rationale for it was it reminds me of when rock and roll became just rock. In fact, I still note parallels between the two as they both had a very specific sound and origin and yet both grew beyond its initial origin to become a bigger and broader thing. The core fundamental of vapour, and yes can be seen in dreampunk, is art built first and foremost on mood and made with a DIY/DGAF attitude. Mood is at the heart of it and everything else builds from there. And that “everything else” can be anything you want. Three minute “pop song” with verses and choruses? Fine. Two minute lean but heavy bangers? Fine. Twenty minute plus glacial ambience? Fine too. For both the artist and the listener, it is the most free and most open you can ever be.
And yes, I have Dream Catalogue to thank for a lot of this. Both Rain Temple and Birth of a New Day was what literally sold me on the scene. I share a lot of sensibilities with Dream Catalogue (Blade Runner is one of my favourite films amongst others). And in charting HKE, I’ve come to call him the Miles Davis of vapour for his relentless creative drive and eagerness to venture into new horizons.
As an artist myself (キラヨシ 😉), I respect and value anyone who dares to make something exciting, interesting, compelling, dynamic, vibrant ... and most of all, sincere and honest. In the end, tags are just signposts. And only the fool looks at the finger pointing up at the stars. Keep creating. Keep dreaming. Keep living.
This is a great video, wuso. Thanks a million for putting it together. Is there any way people can buy copies of the Livewire sets and thus support the artists who contributed?
I would just say to watch the sets, find an artist you like and support their music!
Glad you enjoyed the video!
Hey Seb I think you make stuff for Esports now. I appreciate that I found your channel, Ive been wanting to learn more about electronic music, and I also recently learned that what I listen to is a vapor genre. So this feels incredibly fateful. I notice this is like a year old. Get back on it Seb.
bitch
thanks for creating things and helping me learn.
Exactly what I needed lmao
This is cool