No.93214
No one is going to mention that last month Floral Shoppe basically died?
Diana Ross' (((label))) finally found out after 7 years that this album exists and the anthem of vaporwave is basically a chopped & screwed version of her song.
So they took action and took it down from everywhere, including every instance of the song Lisa Frank 420 / Modern Computing on JewTube and every place where the album was uploaded on Bandcamp.
This probably means that the price of the physical copies will skyrocket since Floral Shoppe was basically wiped out of existence along with the hopes that this album would be ever released again on physical format. https://www.discogs.com/Macintosh-Plus-Floral-Shoppe/master/461722 oy vey
I don't understand the logic behind this though, no one ever bought the limited edition vinyl for a fuckton of money thinking to themselves
>Muhaha now I can speed this record up and reassemble the second track so I can listen to my favourite artist Diana Ross!
No one ever listened to this album because of Diana Ross, rather the other way around, this album is the reason Diana Ross' song became relevant again after 30 years, and I'm sure it boosted up the sales of her music at least a tiny bit.
No.93216
>>93214
Who cares? Vaporwave died when it became coopted by redditfags and other normals. Anything to ruin their gay fun is fine by me.
No.93218
dude's a huge soyboy, its no loss anyways. it was a stain on authentic industrial/electronic music and should be treated as such.
No.93227
>>93218
>>93216
Nigga the album was influential, I don't like it either, but you can't deny it. Why must y'all reject every thread like we're not supposed to discuss music. I'd say it's still a shame for this record.
Also, Vektroid's not even a soyboy but a full blown tranny.
No.93231
>>93227
>a full blown tranny
wat
No.93235
So it has finally come full circle then.
VAPORWAVE HAS BECOME VAPORWARE
Also RIP Sade and Jamie Foxx from Floral Shoppe
No.93242
There'll be torrents but the less popular artists who used it might be impossible to get a hold of now I guess.
>>93216
It's a genre of death to begin with.
>>93231
Someone who has listened to that much Diana Ross never stood a chance.
No.93243
>>93242
Has it spread to other major vaporwave releases, or no?
No.93245
>>93227
> Vektroid's not even a soyboy but a full blown tranny.
I was about to ask, I remember one of these vapormeme artists was trans but couldn't remember which.
No.93246
>>93214
wew, thanks for the heads up
are they gonna illegalize all the shitty memes as well?
No.93248
>>93235
>vaporwave has become vaporware
Does it work in reverse too? Will the new Tool album be vaporwave?
No.93250
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.
<So they took action and took it down from everywhere, including every instance of the song Lisa Frank 420 / Modern Computing on JewTube and every place where the album was uploaded on Bandcamp.
Then what the fuck is this?
No.93252
>>93214
OP is a lying faggot. fuck off.
No.93253
>>93250
The original video had at least a million views.
No.93291
fuck vapourwave and fuck the tranny who made this record
No.93301
https://beerontherug.bandcamp.com/album/floral-shoppe
The only official copy (as absurd as that is for vaporwave) left on the internet, and all of the songs that feature Dianna Ross's voice have been removed. I don't know why they'd do that unless they got sued.
No.93329
>>93262
Aqua is truly a goddess.
No.93354
>>93301
Cease and desist letter
Everyone knows if a big label like that sued them, they'd win every time, law is on their side, it all depends how much of niggerfaggot you are to do it with artists who in fact earn much less than you
No.93673
the only reason i'm not sad that vaporwave is dying is because you can literally put any 80's/90's/00's song through 1.5x paulstretch and "le ebin vaporwave!!!!! :DDDDDDD"
absolutely disgraceful if you ask me
No.93679
>>93673
It's the reason I was put off it for so long. Until I gave it another chance and started hearing the more ambient/original tracks made by people with a modicum of musical talent I thought all vaporwave was unequivocally trash. A lot of it still is.
No.93681
>>93673
>>93679
I personally never cared for Floral Shoppe because of its meme status. But to me vaporware was basically cyberpunk as a music genre. A flawed neon world where everyone is expected to revel in post-cold war enthusiasm but the dark soulless consumerist undertones are too transparent to ignore. Even back in the 80s and 90s there was a sense of uneasiness beneath the prospect of the coming millennium. Wither that was fears of a computer glitch setting nukes off in 2000 or just a general fear of the direction of where the world was headed. That was before post-modern cynicism set in and people stopped giving a fuck altogether
No.93682
>>93681
Also sage because I'm samefagging
What I think killed vaporwave is a multitude of reasons
1.) Cyberpunk is not a genre anybody actually ever wanted to listen too save for some rare gems. Most of it is supposed to parody 80s/90s One Hit Wonder background music you hear in supermarkets. That's kind of the entire point.
2.) Jews hijacked the "aesthetic" while completely missing the point
3.) This one might be more controversial, but I think current Trump-era enthusiasm also helped kill off cyberpunk, current market bull runs, record low unemployment, and Trump himself driving the politicization of youth (which I think is a good thing because it shows kids that instead of being angsty anarchists you can just play politics itself and still be a selfish prick who gets what they want). Cyberpunk was the peak of post-modern cynicism. I know this point is controversial because foresight can be a bitch sometimes, but I think current-era enthusiasm still mirrors 80s Reagan-era post cold war enthusiasm. There's still dark undertones underneath it all.
No.93684
>>93679
vaporwave is literally just the same principle as nightcore taken in a different direction at this point
i have no problem with changing the tempo of a song and enjoying it separately from the original but calling it a whole new genre or corrupting an already existing genre with it is dumb as shit
No.93685
>>93682
Like tears in the rain.
Cyberpunk was never really meant to be a musical movement, the themes of what it means to be human when technology advances beyond anything we've ever seen can't fully be conveyed in musical form, or to say, hasn't been conveyed yet in a convincing manor. Shit, it's only ever been done right a few times in anything full stop. Just look at all the shit that claims to be cyberpunk and it's just "dude transhumanism lmao" which feeds into the kike hijacking and missing the point.
I'm at least somewhat glad it's dead because the future is bright, even if there's some road blocks on the way as the kikes try every last thing to stop us.
No.93689
>>93681
>>93682
Not to mention that most vaporwave releases were just low effort productions hopping on the meme bandwagon. Floral Shop sucks and it deserved to be trashed. Diana Ross (((label))) has every right to nuke the album.
t. listening to Birth of a New Day at this moment
No.93692
>>93673
Vaporwave shows how easily you can make a terrible popshit song into some interesting ambient/background music.
No.93693
I think an issue is you people either take it 100% super serious, or completely disregard it as shitty memes.
No.93694
>>93693
Millennial, pseudo-ironic appreciation is an obnoxious, dead horse. Either it's a real genre or it's not. I don't like rap, but I see it is as a genre.
No.93699
>>93694
It's not limited to millenials, dadaism existed for 100+ years
No.93700
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0D9IyyeEEU
Just in case you needed to form your * own * opinion.
No.93705
>>93699
Dadaism is a bad joke and postmodernism must die.
No.93712
No.93718
>>93682
>Trump era
>Optimism
You fucking wot
No.93719
>>93718
>You fucking wot
>Obviously not from America
>Making comments about an America-centric phenomenon
>"Hahah let me just ad my 2 cents of conjecture in here!"
No.93720
>>93718
He's spent too much time surrounded by boomers on imkampfy's /pol/, who are old enough to remember Reagan in person and think he was the second coming of christ. Between AI wank, a rising Chyna, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg building fiefdoms, and the twin rising trends of technology and instability, the world's never been more cyberpunk. The old facades are just still in place.
No.93721
No.93722
>>93720
I don;t give a shit about /pol/. My perspective comes from the current state of the economy in general. "Trump-era" being shorthand for the current era of American politics dominated by Trumps current economic and foreign policy
> Between AI wank, a rising Chyna, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg building fiefdoms, and the twin rising trends of technology and instability, the world's never been more cyberpunk. The old facades are just still in place.
While that may be true, it's also entirely besides the point I was trying to make. We didn't call Reaganomics era like it was until it was in retrospective. The point is we're past the level of post-modern cynicism that drove shit like cyberpunk a couple of years ago. Why do I even bother? I knew I was making a controversial statement but I think I failed from having a false pretense people here would be actual adults with regards to have an actual discussion and no "muh /pol/!"
No.93730
>>93722
Wow, another enlightened centrist. Looks like we're past post-modern cynicism and now in the era of post-modern nihilism.
>spews memes and greentext
>expects serious political discussion isolated from internet decorum
No.93731
>>93719
You americans are so cute when you think what happens in your country stays in your country
>>93722
>Trumps foreign policy
What foreign policy, the one that he keeps flip flopping on, bringing us on the verge of war with Russia two times already, in face of which any supporter who isn't a braindead /pol/tard or an israel-first boomer disavowed him?
>Muh employment
What about the coming push for automation which is rumored to cause a major unemployment crisis in the next few years?
>Politicization of youth
IE growing political polarization
Let's also add to that growing ethnic tensions (and Trump's inability to do anything about it so far), giant tech companies growing more and more powerful and always being involved into shady shit, normalfags being increasingly addicted to smartphones and social media, NSA surveillance entering a golden age, mass media being owned by few broadcasting corporations with similar interests and agenda and other things i surely must have forgotten
Listen, i'm not trying to change your opinion on Trump himself, i'm just saying if you feel "enthusiasm" about the direction the world is taking because your president is lowering your taxes you're either retarded or you don't check out the news often enough
No.93732
Yo BO lock the thread I didn't make this to start a fucking political flamewar
No.93733
>>93732
This isn't your personal reddit corner of 8chan, fagbot
No.93734
>>93732
1 - get my attention with the report function next time
2 - no
No.93735
>>93734
It's off-topic though, this usually gets bans on cuckchan
No.93736
>>93735
Why would you want to emulate cuckchan? So far there's only been one faggot actually invested in a non-existent argument.
No.93740
>>93735
>this usually gets bans on cuckchan
And?
No.93746
>>93735
Who gives a shit what happens on cuckchan?
We came here to escape that shit.
No.93766
I bought this digitally from Ramona's official Bandcamp in WAV format along with the HQ cover art it came with a year or so back before it was taken down if anyone here wants it
No.93768
>>93766
Also, I know this isn't a sharethread but since this is about a specific artist's work no longer being available, I do have 19 of her other albums and three other collab things she did with a couple side projects, all in WAV as well along with some SoundCloud exclusives. However, I'm missing Geese, Hello1&2, Capitose Windowpane, 札幌コンテンポラリー, ClearSkies: Complete Edition, Home: Complete Edition and Initiation Tape: Isle of Avalon Edition since these were nuked off her BC along with Floral Shoppe before I could get to them all, and the likelihood of her answering my email from over two months ago asking if she'd ever consider putting them up somewhere again is slim to none, so if anyone has those missing albums (preferably as WAV's with the album art but at this point, I'll take whatever I can get), then that would be awesome.
No.93783
I would say the original incarnation of vaporwave is dead if that makes any sense. Vaporwave has gone from just chopping, screwing and slowing down shitty pop songs to straight up New Age ambient style albums, trap music, etc. With albums like Birth of a New Day by 2814, Classroom Sexxtape by Death's Dynamic Shroud, and Overgrowth by Oscob and Digital Sex, etc. I think it's very interesting how the genre has evolved and changed since the release of Eccojams, FS, and the other classics. Not to mention that labels like Dream Catalogue, Bludhoney and Orange Milk still pump out albums on the regular of varying genres.
No.93788
>>93746
>we came here for off-topic threads and anarchic shitposting without any proper music discussion
No.93789
>tfw didn't invest in physicals
No.93809
>>93735
>this usually gets bans on cuckchan
Because their mods are cancerous SJWs.
No.94362
>>93735
>this is usually banned in some other place
>so you should ban it here too
>no, I dont want to use that other place haha
fucking rapefugee migrants