I probably would have thought "Oh, this is a neat retro thing" and added it to my Favorites or something. We only regard this as exceptional because we're looking at it from the future, through the lens of vaporwave.
that was a great year for music. and this definitely fit conveniently into the trends of the time. i mean, ferraro and ariel pink had already been around ha. but only ferraro's last american hero compares to the quality of that first eccojams release. man, what a time to be in college ha
The first vaporwave song ever made. Daniel Lopatin is a fucking legend. I'm getting goosebumps hearing this and looking at the video. Sorry for rambling but it's just amazing how this one man invented this whole genre with just one video on youtube 2009
Because it’s the sort of thing where he made this track with no objective in mind. Then he probably fell in love with the sound of it and said “I need to keep making this” and he kept working in this same trajectory, thus the birth of vapor wave
Because Eccojams volume one created and ended vaporwave in one album. Yet there’s still so much good stuff. Every technique used today has been used on eccojams.
i never noticed this before, but i love how the video begins with a tape being ejected. as though the song we hear is an echo or ghost left behind in the machine.
Soppsau Actually, let me correct myself, there might actually be. James Ferraros stuff way back can be defined as vaporwave because its made with the same concept as Daniel Lopatin and Fatima Al Qadiri. Not like the Mac Plus era, which is just "uhh eighties nostalgia"
Soppsau well if you want to get technical, the side of vaporwave that consists of artists like James Ferraro and Eyeliner takes inspiration from elevator music and easy-listening muzak which has been around since the early nineties and is almost unchanged in its 'reappropriation' by the vaporwave movement. I don't really think that's an arguable point though, as it wasn't really being done on an artistic level at that point like it was much farther down the line.
Soppsau i honestly think dan lopatin was on to some amazingly powerful stuff with eccojams and memory vague. i think vaporwave has evolved into something else that is a lot different and less moving to me. dan lopatin is a god damn genius, though. there's no denying that.
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they keep playing fleetwood mac only over you at my local thrift store and every time this line comes on I just look up from the racks and take in the moment.
This is from eccojams vol.1 (Memory Vague if you want the dvd) by Daniel Lopatin aka Oneohtrix Point Never. Sunsetcorp is his youtube account (or one of them, I think).
@@bindingchainhahahaha i don't know if I'd go that far! but definitely a mark of Chuck Person's production skill. the intro section is just two different speeds of the same sample being switched between rhythmically. it's eighth note patterns if you listen to how it switches.
i find it amazing how i actually found this while going through other videos instead of getting recommended. It sounds amazing, feels like visiting a museum. Hope whoever made this is living well. Have a great day and see you in the next 14 years!
This is from Memory Vague - as someone else has already mentioned. It's a slowed down manipulated sample from 'Only Over You' from the Fleetwood Mac 1982 album 'Mirage'.
Man...it’s crazy to see the evolution of Vaporwave. Still one of the best vibes after all this time. Can’t believe this is almost 10 years old. Makes me feel old
I just listened to eccojams yesterday for the first time. Been a vapor wave fan for a while, but had never heard this track before that. Had it playing thru my head all day today. And then this pops up in my recommended. And then I see it was posted in June of 2009. And everyone is commenting how it’s the first vaporwave track. Wow. Didn’t know that. Truly amazed. I’m literally crying right now, this video is so beautiful. Not just how the music so magically evokes sensations I’ve never quite had before, like I’m in a dream, remembering a past that didn’t exist. I know “nostalgic for a past that didn’t exist” is a cliche phrase at this point regarding vaporwave, but in this case I really, genuinely feel something like that It’s beautiful how this video elegizes the old media of the VHS, the computer, “cyber space”, and the almost infinite promise that these things once held for us; thru the few words of the music “I’ll miss you when you’re gone”. Precisely what we experience is that we miss these old technologies, the sense that the future was a bright place; our collective innocence. It’s really one of the most remarkable mediums I’ve ever seen: using the past (old footage, old song) to comment on the past itself. And, in a larger sense, it reminds me that everything in this life is going to pass, and there are many things and people that I’m going to miss when they’re gone. I hope this doesn’t seem pretentious, I really feel what I’m saying here and I believe it. This work of art really is the birth of an entire genre. It’s all here folks. Everything else is commentary or expansion packs. Thank you
This, Natures Uplifting Revenge [sic] by Prefuse 73, and Gianasi by VHS Head are my favorite songs ever. The Untitled track from Animal Collective's first album is up there, too, although I haven't listened to it enough (I've probably listened to this song several hundred times already).
vaporwave is 11 years old now, i wish i had discovered it earlier to experience its actual birth... oh well, it's never too late to enjoy vw thank u, daniel lopatin
This dude went from (arguably) inventing the genre we now know as vaporwave, to then producing for The Weeknd just over a decade later. Just wanted to point that out.
This is pretty cool. The flanging sounds make me get all tranced out with my hands in the air, and then in my hair. Wait.... did I wake up in heaven??? No. Just pooped my pants a lil'. Ain't I a stinker.
From the moment I came out of the womb, I was exposed to old technology like the VHS and DVD players. Miraculously, I not only figured out how to use a remote control, but also how to rewind to specific parts of VHS media when I was just 7 months. My first word was even the name of my favorite VHS show -- Barney. Today, I still own a DVD player, and when I boot it up, it always feels like starting up a DeLorean to go back in time.
As a person born in the late 00s, it really makes me sad, that i cannot experience that time of the internet where it was so simple, vaporwave was starting to get peak, but i still smile because the fact im experiencing it, that is what i'm happy about.
I was singing this while I was out today and had to look it up again. I didn't realize this was Oneohtrix Point Never. I saw Good Time and Uncut Gems at the theater and the music is one of the reasons I loved both movies. I had no idea the composer of those movies basically started this genre.
This channel feels like stumbling into something from decades ago that you were never meant to see. The vibe it gives off is so unsettling and unlike anything else on youtube
Yeah, it's like watching Claire Cottrill's RU-vid channel from 10 years ago or watching Pewdiepie perform a cover of 'Wonderwall' by Oasis for his now-wife.
I've been crying lately because after all the things I've been through, life can still be so beautiful and good to me. I can't express how beautiful it is to look at a post-rain sunset after feeling suicidal and just... Smiling.
Crazy to think we're almost at the 10-year anniversary of Vaporwave! I nominate this song's upload date as the official anniversary date. This loop still gives me shivers, particularly paired with the visuals. Ghosts haunt this video.
i can definitely hear that. funny that the song is called "life's a gas" and it's by wolfgang voigt, [aka Gas] under a different moniker. he has so many monikers, though
@@johnny4965 i felt touched deeply by this video and song at the time. it was very moving and i think awakened a lot of people to make artwork themselves exploring the same feelings. it was interesting to watch how things echoed out over time, copies of copies that morphed to bear little resemblance to the original past the surface
i mean, in a way that's what OPN was playing with, copies of copies of media that through time lost its original referent, and gained new meaning and emotional weight out of context, and so it's no surprise that's exactly what happened with the subcultural works that came after it
The first cultural movement of the 21st century. Seemingly spawned on the internet of the internet; satirizing our naive nostalgic views of a corporatized childhood and yet still; beautiful. I find it all extremely fitting, authentic and effortless.
I think what's amazing about this song is that I realised he's changed the narrative from Only Over You in this song through chopping the lyrics and pitch shifting the vocals. Angel please don't go/I miss you when you gone/They say I'm a silly girl can now be read as "I miss you when you're gone" they say, "Angel please don't go". The voice in this song is Angel and he loves them and leaves them... so yes she is a silly girl.
it’s crazy this is one of the first videos that popped up on youtube for me when i was 10 cause i listened to a lot of daft punk and 80s music at the time. i think this video barely had a couple thousand views if that. and then no body here got recommended to me today even tho i saw it years ago. i remember it clearly cause it wasn’t the first time i saw this style of visuals or heard this music but they were combined in a way i could enjoy both and i was like holy shit this is me. i’ve been apart of vaporwave nearly since the beginning and it’s so cool to see how it’s grown and even i still get people into. after a few years of not really listening to vaporwave ive gotten back into and it’s my soundtrack
