Vaporwave thread

It functions as an alternative to mainstream capitalist culture, because it's made by proles.
It's a breath of fresh air that's easy to make, and for as long as it exists it shows people that there is an alternative at least.
You could argue about the whole "non-place" and phenomenological aspects thing, but the important part is that it's literally what debord theorized we needed as an actual subculture, a counter-culture who uses capitalism against itself by modifying it.

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Big business could try, but we can only hope that the attributes that make vaporwave what it is would make it impractical to be successful in that context.

While i like very much of vaporwave, its true, it could be apropriated by the bussiness like everything. Specially cultural industry, that is focused on "rehash"/revivals.

i mean look, OP's pic-related is just a wacky-looking pepsi can. It's practically begging to be used in marketing

This thread reminded me another (very good) one about hauntology/nostalgia

I actually really want to, I even have vague ideas on what I'd like to do, but I find the whole concept so confusing.

Like, take sampling for example. How the fuck does anyone listen to a song, find a specific part and think "this would sound great mapped onto a piano roll and then the specific parts played in this specific order"?

Maybe I should stick to the pleb way of just slowing down songs and adding kicks, idk.

The music itself would be hard to market, and I guess it just has to be done right with the visual aspect.
Warp it to the point of being unrecognizable maybe.

Not really hard to loop things if that's what you mean, cut out any random part one or two bars long, stretch it, and make sure it's seamlessly looping by either tampering with the length or drenching it in effects.
Repeat until you find something that sounds relaxing and gloomy.
The idea is to make it gloomy, keep that in mind.

Nah I get looping, I'm talking more about this:

youtube.com/watch?v=LjCaXW5dTYw

Although I've never made anything before, so maybe I'm just getting way ahead of myself.

Grafton Tanner did a couple of interesting interviews with Doug Lain and the Discourse Collective about the culturally reflective nature of vaporwave. Anybody read his book, the Babbling Corpse?