*insert shameless self-promotion here* But also maybe something about the iconic yt vaporwave mixes like Welcome to the Lobby, REPTILIAN TV, Remember summer days, Regularly Scheduled Programming, etc.
It’s so cool to see how a part of the Vaporwave scene was able to work with some of the biggest names in the music industry. You can see bits of Eccojams on the Weekends new album And I’m all for it
As I explained in the video, a movement doesn’t begin until likeminded artists begin to connect with each other and build a scene. Speaking as someone who was involved in the first wave of the movement, I can confidently say 18 carat affair is the first “true vaporwave artist”. We all listened to eccojams and were influenced by it, but we also listened to and were influenced by the chillwave movement, boards of Canada, negativland, other OPN projects, stones throw records releases, etc etc. OPN and all of his work is to vaporwave what The Stooges are to punk and hardcore. The stooges weren’t involved in the hardcore punk movement, but for sure all the artists who were listened to it, borrowed ideas from it, and formed a network together. Denys was actually from our small scene of artists trying to figure out a new movement, OPN was not. Without the bed of artists creating a place for people who were intrigued by eccojams to go and be a part of, there is no vaporwave scene, and eccojams would remain just a fun curiosity in Lopatins catalogue
Exactly what you said, the album is amazing but also quite heavy to digest. I love the Aphrodites Child sample, was really surprised to hear that since that kind of music is almost never sampled. And hello Fang! :D
I dunno if someone else pointed this out, and I do feel that it should be given how you bring up the idea of the album having a sense of dread, but the bottom left portion of the album cover is a cropped newspaper page announcing OJ Simpson being found not guilty (this can best be seen on the asterite version cover). I feel like it really works with the idea of warning against relying too much on nostalgia, since it shows an example of the reality of the time thought of so positively kinda peeking in through the cracks of the already broken album art like an intrusive memory in the corner that one can only ignore for so long.
A few months ago, my dad and I went to our cottage. I was listening to some classic vapor, so he asked about it. I told him the most basic and stereotypical description of what vaporwave means; That it's an ironic take on consumerism and capitalism. He asked me "are you a communist?" and I almost lost it. Later than night, when we arrived we were watching the TV and there was a Fleetwood Mac documentary and he went "That's what I call real music. Not your chopping and piecing." I should've showed him Angel lmao.
lmao feel sorry for you but it happens. a couple of years ago I showed vaporwave to my dad and he thought it was actually very cool. he still see greek statues and 80s stuff and send to me like "this looks like that pink album we listened" (floral shoppe) and that's wholesome
@@aquinoguh lol luckily my mom quite enjoys vaporwave and sometimes we listen to it in the car. Tho she doesn't really like future funk or vapor funk. She much prefers stuff that isn't trying to keep her attention, so she likes late nite lofi and mallsoft stuff
omfg I literally screamed "Yooooo!" and ran to my partner when you revealed that Daniel Lopatin did the soundtrack for Uncut Gems. It was the movie my partner and I watched the very first time we ever hung out, and it was also my first time watching it. The nonstop pulsating anxiety of that film is what I enjoyed most, and it's really the music that's the driving force of it all...learning that the history of vaporwave and that movie are linked is absolutely wild.
I noticed right away when i watched it, i also think i must have screamed "yoooooo!" too I remember the exact scene, its when he gets into his apartment right at the beginning, it says "soundtrack: Daniel Lopatin" i was like "WTF"
I still love that classic Eccojam sound with the chopped lyrics and plunderphonic samples and it's so hard to find good songs with that anymore. Now I search eccojams, it's just seems like slowed and reverbed instrumental....I want the VOCALS!
Honestly Pad. You have been my favorite RU-vidr since i found you in 2018. Thanks for introducing me to one of my favorite music genres! Cheers from Greece!
There’s an album called Copia by the band Deaf Lions that was created in 1987, which is the earliest known release to ever incorporate elements of Vaporwave. Also Dreamcast Summer Songs has Vaporwave elements and it was created in 2007-09
wat...🤔 I think it would be the other way around with Eccojams incorporating elements of Copia since it came first. That would make Copia a proto-vaporwave album...is that a thing?
Ok Speaking as someone from the early vaporwave scene who knows Everyyyyy early famous vaporwave artist quite well I can Tell you “Dreamcast summer” is never mentioned because it had zero influence, none of us ever heard of it, most of us still haven’t heard it, and in like 12 years of vaporwave no one’s ever even talked about it until like this year lol🤣. we all like JPEG mafia, but, despite what you’d like to believe and how cool it would be to imagine him as influential to vaporwave, he wasn’t involved in the scene and none of us know what you’re talking about when you mention this album. interestingly enough Dom McLennon of Brockhampton was definitely around. Look into his past if you’re interested in an alternative hip hop artist who actually was involved in the early vaporwave/internet music scene
This is a top notch quality video. If a video like this doesn’t earn subscribers, I don’t know what does. Keep up the good work and much success in the future!
another early vaporwave artist who i dont see mentioned often (in this context) is JPEGMAFIA who released a very vaporwave-y album in 2009, dreamcast summer songs. it wasn't really influential since nobody listened to it but its still interesting
@@Venomnik0 peggy arguably has made it used every genre that I've ever heard in his songs. I'm pretty sure there are some absurd bass choices in some of his songs
I need to listen to this immediately. This is so beautiful and also so ugly, it's fucking perfect. Edit: I would be legit surprised if this dude didn't have some sort of traumatic childhood. Not even being distasteful here. This album is walking me through so many faded memories it's unreal. It's like nostalgia laced with crack and existential dread.
Track A3 sends shivers down my spine. I was a kid when Castles in the Sky was current. I remember hearing it for the first time one summer, on the radio in my Dad's car, just before dusk. This feeling of optimism and excitement came over me, a kind of nostalgia for the future. I felt loved and safe in that moment. So many goals and dreams were formed in those years, in that hazy time towards the end of the dot-com bubble, and before 9/11. The album artwork does the same for me, with a disturbing undercurrent. Pad nails why this album is so disquieting. Spending so much time wanting to go back to the past, and deriving so many pleasures from what is an edited version of a memory is unhealthy, because we're feeling homesick for a home which probably never even existed in the first place. And that's frightening, because it messes with the essence of who you are. Or who you think you are. Who are we without our memories? I have spent too long in a half life, trying, with forensic precision, to engineer moments which will transport me back to innocence and wonder. But is that so bad? Nostalgia is soft and familiar, the present can be harsh and uncertain. In 2022, vaporwave is a literal life saver.
With Daniel and Vektroid i finally found a place where i could experiment with sounds, textures and i got a new fresh appreciation for the sampling process!! I was having a BIG creative block but then in 2018 i heard Floral Shoppe and Eccojams, and those albums changed my life forever, later on (2019 specifically) when we where on the quarantine period i felt the necessity to make music again and i started a vapor-ish channel called dream cassette, much later on a good friend of mine asked if i could make a vapor album but mixed with our cuban culture and that was the start of a new exciting time for me... Now i have lots of awesome people who loves my music around the world and im feeling great... Big thanks to everyone who contributed to this nostalgic community, and thank you Pad for always bringin' awesome content to this platform
I can remember when his youtube channel was brand new, and this (and later Games) were constantly being played. An old friend of mine lived in Brooklyn and I was out there almost every weekend to make, uh deliveries. Anyway he through his roomate and larger circle of friends got to know so many new artists, and I remember Lopatin was one of them. I unfortunately never made it to a show, but they all met him and got to watch him grow from being something we thought of back then as a sort of local scene thing few knew of and even less might understand, and my friend in particular was just fanatical about his music. He was convinced artists like Lopatin, James Ferraro and others were ushering the world into a totally new sonic dimension. It takes me back to think about that youtube channel, and its wild to see how much has changed. I've always been fond of this kind of music, but never was infected by such enthusiasm as others I've known.
Once when i was younger, i got bored of "normal" music and started to search for new style of music. Something new, something great, something that can make me just vibing with it. And then i found this great work named ECCOJAMS. Thats the album which made me fall into love with this style of music. Vaporwave is part of my personality thanks to that beautiful man. And also, damn homie. You can proof with every video that if you make a video, that sure will be great af. Thanks for making this video that made me remember why i love vaporwave so much. Still wishing you lot of positive and support. (Srry for the grammar mistakes. Still not good at english, haha)
I flipping love this album. Every single track manages to create a brand new indescribable feeling, I usually put it on while I sleep because of how much it calms me. Ever since I first heard it I’ve been trying to recapture the magic but I was never fully able to, and I think that adds to how special this little album I’ve found is. I could go on for hours about the extremely diverse samples, the sense of broken nostalgia, the influence it has had, but it’s just impossible to describe my full feelings for it.
Just think about the people that randomly discovered those sunset corp videos back when they were new, not knowing what it would eventually become. That seems wild to me.
Well, I can't say it was random because I had a friend who had already met Lopatin while living in Brooklyn back then, but it was certainly a jarring experience when he showed it to me! We used to do drugs and watch those videos on a cheap old laptop in his bedroom, in an apartment with no air conditioning where it would get so hot we'd take turns showering repeatedly. Anyway yea, that friend of mine was one of those lucky people who always was on top of the newest experimental art and lived in Brooklyn with musician roomates who were connected to various scenes then just starting. James Ferraro and Lopatin were all I can remember him being fanatical about. I remember thinking it was actually kind of dumb lol, until I saw the Demerol video; we were heroin addicts (I'm 9 years clean now) and I remember laughing hysterically at that one. Shame I didn't realize at the time how important these musicians would go on to be, I would have made more of an effort to involve myself with the shows and art gallery parties etc. Sadly drugs were my main focus.
even though eccojams is technically his only vaporwave release, I feel like his music still carries the same spirit. heavy emphasis on old synths, nostalgic samples & new age aesthetics fit perfectly into the genre.
I just listened to eccojams for the first time a few weeks ago as part of a project where I’m listening to and reviewing a new album every day. I don’t really see myself going back to it much for all the reasons you talked about here, but it was such a cool listen! Nothing else has made me feel quite like it. There’s this ephemeral quality to it that’s hard to put into words. I don’t remember many specific musical moments from the album, but I remember exactly how I felt while listening to it
This is one of the greatest albums of all time. I will forever be thankful towards Daniel Lopatin for creating one of my favorite genres of music. It's not Volume 2 but on the Oneohtrix Point Never album Garden of Delete track 3 is entitled ECCOJAMC1 which briefly features the sound of the legendary Eccojams Vol 1. At only 32 seconds it leaves more to be desired but glad he made a return to that sound on a following record.
Absolutely my most listened to album of all time. Unfortunately not on Spotify but having to come on to RU-vid for the full album has its charm. I can remember the sequence of songs front to back
A lot of what is said here is most likely a repeat but I’ll give bullet points: * I credit Daniel Lopatin for bringing me into the whole 2010s undergeound electronic music world but not through Chuck Person or even Replicas, but rather R + 7 with its retro timbres blended with forward-thinking structures. * I can’t help but feel not only a creative affinity to Lopatin but also a personal one as he is only a couple of months older than me and I now live near where he grew up (Wayland is about one town close to where I am). * I made my tribute to Daniel Lopatin in the first track of Reincarnated Resurrection. It’s subtle but once you hear it, you’ll know it =] * In a nice bit of timing, the ECCO:10 tapes were sent to me on the same day this video uploaded. * LAY-th =]
Awesome video Pad, I always love to come and watch your spectacular videos. I felt a lot while watching this video, I don't know why but I just had this flashback moment of my experience with vaporwave while watching this documentary of sorts. I've never been the biggest fan of Chuck Person's Eccojams (Angel and other super choppy tracks are too jittery for me, I enjoy mallsoft/utopian virtual/faux utopian more), but I've still listened to this album and love songs like Nobody's Here and had to watch the man Pad to see another great video. I always hear the whole aesthetic of vaporwave being tied to nostalgia, but I was born after 2000 and yet, I get that sense of nostalgia myself. The feeling of anemoia, nostalgia for a time I never experienced, has been something I have felt many times while listening to vaporwave, chillwave, outrun music, french house and even when I play on my Dad's old consoles like his NES, SNES, 64, or PS1 (I still wish we had his Atari 2600, but that got thrown away by my Granddad when my Dad was 18). I always loved looking back in time and seeing the media culture of the time, especially video games and music. I grew up in the time of early club/techno-pop music and with the Wii (which I've always had a soft spot for, especially considering I probably have over 300 hours in Mario Kart Wii, I give a massive recommendation to watch Summoning Salt's video on MKWii Ultra Shortcuts). Even then, my parents grew me up with rock music of the '70s, '80s, & '90s, which I feel has been my starting point to get into Gen X/Millenial nostalgia, with classic rap, my love of older games, older cheesy movies and now the actual feeling of nostalgia, or to me, anemoia. I got into the vaporwave sometime in 2018, where while watching an MKWii video (reliving my old nostalgia of TWD98's clan war videos), I was recommended the album of Windows 96's - One Hundred Mornings. I clicked on it, not actually realizing it was a music album and listened for 20 minutes, but then I got bored... No disrespect to Windows 96, I've listened to more of their work and I do like it. Then I saw another album recommended section, ２８１４'s - 新しい日の誕生/Birth of a New Day. The album art just hooked me in, so I listened to it while doing some homework and I couldn't even focus I was so drawn into the music. I just sat there enthralled with 恢复/Recovery and just took it in, the beat drop just hit something in me, listening to the ambient melancholy, entranced by it. I had that feeling that everybody in the world has experienced, of feeling transported to another dimension, inside of your own imagination, taking in everything around you, to inspire this daydream. I've heard from many others who enjoy vaporwave as much as I do, that on their first proper listen, they've had this experience too. I looked into the comments of the video, seeing tales of others' connections to the album, and the word of vaporwave. I searched up the term and watched videos explaining the genre by Fredrik Knudsen, PINKAS and many others, who all talked about the classic by the great Vektroid, MACINTOSH PLUS - フローラルの専門店, specifically the second track: リサフランク420 / 現代のコンピュー. This album was amazing to me on the first listen and like many others, was a main contributor to my love of vaporwave. I've also always loved my fellow Canadian Blank Banshee's work, even if I'm not a big dubstep guy, I can never refuse any of his awesome work. I even got recommended my first Pad Chennington video while listening to Blank Banshee 0 and that seemed to give a gigantic boost to my love of all kinds of alternative music, like Everywhere At The End Of Time and even got me to join into communities of alternative music that I someday wish to make my own music of. I listened to many albums, with my current favourite artist being 猫 シ Corp and my favourite album is his 2016 release: NEWS AT 11. I never experienced 9/11 and have found a fascination in the tie between vaporwave and the tragedy of that day in 2001, I probably also commented on Pad's other video about the connection, but can't remember if I did. I never grew up in the times of vaporwave's nostalgia, but I feel it in me, probably to a lesser extent of someone who experienced that time when they grew up, but I still hope I continue my passion for this genre and I wish to someday make vaporwave of my own (I know its super overdone, but I think I could put my own spin on it). I feel like these albums have sparked an interest in music in me, to create it (also considering I went through I huge guitar phase a couple of years ago and I really should get back into it). Keep up the superb work Pad, you've brought a lot of people into this incredible community, keep inspiring many other Gen Z's like me to explore this great genre of internet culture and its fascinating history. Sorry this comment is so fucking long, this is what I felt while watching this video and couldn't help but to share it, I am super fucking long-winded though, my bad.
This album probably is my favorite album of this genre, vaporwave is really a genre I haven't delved deep into because there's way too many branching paths and it seemed very overwhelming with all the branching paths. Except Signalwave, I really like that genere, and everything on it. Always loved the concept of it. If you really think about it, every Caretaker fan project is an Eccojam. Take care.
Demerol is my personal favorite track here, it's pure insanity but absolutely genius sampling. Probably the hardest one to hear the root track on, it has it's own personality which is stunning. Tracks like this demonstrate why i love sampling, whether in hip hop, EDM or vaporwave, whatever. You know, as the ART FORM, not as being lazy/unoriginal and taking the easy way by having a sample that everyone instantly recognizes (as many pop songs on the charts do)
As a huge Vaporwave fan, I have only listened to Echojams ONCE! Believe it or not. And I had no idea at the time how big of a deal it was. (I listened to it around the first time I got into the whole genre. 2018.) Needless to say, after that, and some other albums I listened to got me HOOKED PERMANENTLY! And now Vaporwave is what I can safely call my SOUL MUSIC.
theres also a 4 vinyl set that opn released under the chuck persons title, its called a.d.d. complete. it seems to be a collection of eccojams vol 1 and tracks from what we can assume is the tapes that he gave to friends at the time before eccojams were released. it's really interesting.
Man I need that fucking vinyl, Love vaporwave, got to know the genre on 2016, at its meme era. For me there's nothing like this genre, like I listen to lots of genres, there's a lot of special songs that change my mood, or real emote me, but vaporwave it's something different, this genre has something so special I can't feel with nothing else,, and it's funny, because it's not only me, all vaporwave fans feel something similar towards the genre.
Lopatin DID make something of a sequel, called Chuck Person's ADD Complete which fosuses on the concept of "locked grooves" which kinda is what eccojams is
To me, Eccojams Vol. 1 IS the gateway to vaporwave. Since there is no Vol. 2, if someone wants to find similar projects and searches for it, a person will begin to stumble across the plethora of artists and sub genres available to them.
@@PadChennington Right! The track and visuals is pure art. I have...that album has one of the best opening tracks ever. From the get go he lets you know what you're in for lol.
This has to be a personal top 10 album & #1 vaporwave album for me. Nothing in vaporwave can top its replay value for me. It's so pure and simple. It's not "the most" anything, but it's perfect.
Absolutely agree. I know some good vaporwave releases, but none of them can top Lopatin's eccojams. Except Internet Club (creator of Liberated from The World), Blank Banshee, telepath and Vaperror, noone else really could come up with something unoriginal on the vaporwave scene.
From 18 carat to Peggy to OPN to Vektroid. All I get from this Vaporwave talk is we have many precursors that shaped the genre up but Eccojams and Floral Shoppe are the go to albums as the “Sound” for the future. Or the starting point I’d say. Cool
I always thought the creator of eccojams was someone named Chuck Person but to know it's actually OPN and that he worked on some weeknd songs and even the Uncut Gems soundtrack?? Damn, that's one helluva resume
I absolutely adore the Ecco the Dolphin games, and I wish more people knew about the Sega Gamegear version's OST. It's beautiful, and just _begging_ for sampling.
I faintly remember this album 😅😆… This n Floral Shoppe when I heard both on TT.FM back in the day is how I got into the Vaporwave genre in general… just love the feeling of digging thru my grandmother’s old cassettes, VHS tapes, n old uncleaned vinyl is how I learned on sampling n such then I started to grow n listen to more n more underground genres and then some… The video narration is definitely a cut above the rest and I 💯 think you nailed here… also from OPN I have a singular free iTunes download from almost a decade ago on Replica called “Sleep Dealer” that track still makes me feel haunted to this very day… This video is a true testament in amazing quality on how this video will be presented to whomst so ever listens to Vaporwave for the first time… Always a great day for a good upload and I’ve been binging on your videos whenever I get the chance Take Care Pad 💜💐🙌
The original and imo still the best. Sounded so fresh and unique when I first heard it and it still draws me in today. There's just something about the combination of the artwork and the music that appeals to me in a way few other vaporwave releases have.
"The idea of lost nostalgia, and the irony in those who try and re-capture those same, exact feelings in their present day living... It just doesn’t exist, and it never can." that hit harder than it needed to. Also loved that FangTheWerewolf bit.
