The Mysterious Genre Known As "Signalwave"

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Today, we explore the odd music genre known as "Signalwave" and what makes this bizarre corner of internet music so fascinating for its fans.
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@PadChennington 5 лет назад

If you wan't some more Signalwave, check out my video exploringone of the most bizarre Vaporwave albums of all time!: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-adW4bp3FAoM.html

@farquaadsquaad8163 5 лет назад

where do you get your visuals? I really like them

@PadChennington 5 лет назад

Thanks ! for the most part I grab em over at pixabay, free stock video/photos! @@farquaadsquaad8163

@casperchristiansen2458 5 лет назад

Don't forget the part where Nmesh literally incorporates Anthony Fantano's review of "Floral Shoppe". Respects from a fellow Luoisvillean. Correction: Louisvillean.

@acerimmer2000 5 лет назад

A list in the description would be nice with links.

@MrJJBhizzle 5 лет назад

Pad Chennington The end credits of Kooyaanisqatsi...

@DeadLuckArchives 5 лет назад

Am I listening to descriptionwave?

@EARART 5 лет назад

lol

@DLBcovers 5 лет назад

I posted a lot of screenshots of this video on a music forum if that means anything.

@DLBcovers 5 лет назад

Yes

@Sdwp777 5 лет назад

Lmao

@jerbear97 5 лет назад

videoessaywave

@d.j.manjares9830 5 лет назад

Pad Chennington is literally the walking vaporwave encyclopedia.

@orateusdijin6557 5 лет назад

Or the literal fantoo of vaporwave too.

@SrGillespie 5 лет назад

His is on a level that each atom of V A P O R W A V E he got is 10 universes separated each.

@zanfear 5 лет назад

Who names a baby Pad? Is it short for Paddington? O-o

@SunsetGraffiti 5 лет назад

I am really glad someone is putting in the work for this stuff ~

@status0 5 лет назад

@@zanfear Chad Pennington

@chance9512 5 лет назад

"Just when you think you're getting comfy with the ambience-" *LITERAL AD BREAK*

@PadChennington 5 лет назад

LMAOOOOO hey what better way to ironically time it!

@kawsakiTV 3 года назад

Haha yep 😆

@SlapStyleAnims 2 года назад

I literally got an ad at that moment too

@chumon1992 23 дня назад

Yup! Happened to me too

@tempurasupplyco 5 лет назад

You should do a "Vaporwave for Newcomers" like a history lesson in Vaporwave and important subgenres with artists. I love these videos

@PadChennington 5 лет назад

tried to make the 107 video as a great starting place, but I could definitely do like a top 10 albums to get into vaporwave video for people who aren't in the loop!

@mitchelvalentino1569 5 лет назад

Pad Chennington A top 10 would be great!

@Fridge756 5 лет назад

Pad Chennington I'm not in the loop, this would greatly help a newbie like me

@voidmaker2039 5 лет назад

go to Google image, search vaporwave subgenres 4chan, see the first image

@one_man_community 5 лет назад

This vaporwave. But we aren't having nostalgia for the good past. We are having nostalgia for the bad future, a world we don't even know yet. Its a common fear to be afraid of the unknown. So you recognize all the darkness in these tracks and the way ad culture has corrupted everything. Its a future we could see, don't really think of it much, but its really reasonable and makes total sense in the long run.

@PadChennington 5 лет назад

aren't we oh so weird? :^]

@irondog1518 5 лет назад

Your comment reminds me of what Mark Fisher said about Burial's Untrue (and his music in general): its music that's nostalgic for a future that never existed...

@prxy5925 5 лет назад

"Short in length but exciting in nature" I've heard that before..

@lazysamson60 5 лет назад

😂

@schiz1130 5 лет назад

@samedaysameweek 5 лет назад

Can I get a link to your profile pic?

@inferiordior 4 года назад

I feel like I'm thinking wrong but I feel like your talking about sex lmao

@vprw 4 года назад

Duh

@XHEADTOWALLX 5 лет назад

Computer death/decay/afterlife are my faves in this subgenre

@PadChennington 5 лет назад

preach!

@cheesegirl8624 5 лет назад

yeah i was very surprised to see no infinity frequencies on here

@unhingedskrunkly8512 5 лет назад

Amen to that! Computer Decay is a masterpiece 🙏

@beefant6213 5 лет назад

YES!!! YES.

@danielbeaston 5 лет назад

Same because its nice

@tia8580 4 года назад

The way this guy talks about music, he could make my terrible Vaporwave tracks I put together in a matter of hours sound like pieces of art.

@PadChennington 4 года назад

LOL thank you dude :) thanks for watching!

@tia8580 4 года назад

@YamiTheCreator Год назад

Post them on here so he can make a video about it to see if it’s true

@weijizhu3729 5 лет назад

Ｖａｐｏｒｗａｖｅ is my life at this point

@yourdadsbbqbrisket8526 5 лет назад

hahhahahaha sad!

@deedeekreep9139 5 лет назад

Welcome to the c l u b

@theremharth 5 лет назад

S A M E

@ecozones2d627 5 лет назад

@@yourdadsbbqbrisket8526 you cant understand a """", vaporwave contains everything and contains every aspect of the chroma of life, also your brown dirty black chroma

@yourdadsbbqbrisket8526 5 лет назад

@@ecozones2d627 interesting

@jamesmcmahan1236 5 лет назад

Dream Sequins is one of the first albums that I got into when I originally dove into vaporwave. Nmesh is a master of teleportation.

@PadChennington 5 лет назад

an absolute killer and awesome artist, one of the chillest dudes I've had a pleasure of working with in the community

@TheSyconerd 7 месяцев назад

If you need any new underground artist, 4departing4 is really good www.youtube.com/@4departing4

@thecuriousone6878 5 лет назад

Signalwave. The subgenre that destroys the concept of celebrating nostalgia. It is our own memories laid bare for what they actually are. The human memory is an imperfect mechanism, and here the entire genre is laser-focused on critiquing the idea of fond memories through consumerism. It can range from making a small, uncomfortable little nag in your head. Something insidious about staying up into the hours of the morning watching infomercials preach their message of a convenience-centered life. All with a money-back guarantee, if only you call within that specific hour. All it costs is your humanity to live in this perfect, spendable world. The other half is a nightmare of slowed-down commercials clashing together, as if wandering around inside of a broken electronic store that hasn't seen daylight in over thirty years. You scrounge through the busted technology, only to find VHS tapes still frantically repeating their message of consumerism, only for its pitch to be so low that it becomes almost inhuman. It puts you on edge to even have ears at this point, but you can't stop. You HAVE to listen at this point, just to ask "why" in this musical embodiment of entropy. And here, this is what Signalwave truly is: entropy. Decay. The natural decomposition of technology. Even as it slowly becomes a gurgle of noises and transmissions, we still market it and put it up for us to listen. We as consumers will even listen to the dying sounds of our technology and buy it. Just to feel something human as our idea of a perfect future fades as we age. Why do we do it though? Perhaps it's the modern equivalence of a dirge. A somber look to the past finally dying off so we can move on with our lives. Perhaps we're eager to get just that next hit of nostalgia, even if it takes us to darker conclusions of what we've accepted as a culture. As for albums, well our old friends at Nightlight Tapes have a wide selection of Signalwave and lo-fi albums that fit that need. However, we'll need to go through some lesser-known labels if we want to get that sound of computer decay. The experimental group of Æscape Sounds has a few albums that distort sampled commercial samples into a collage of something wholly otherworldly. Others like Canadian label Adhesive sounds create that sticky, dreamy atmosphere of repetitive transmissions that send you into the remains of nostalgia left behind in your brain. Yet there are further albums back in time under the sound of 'experimental' that paved the way for this genre for the internet. I'll leave that rabbit hole for you to traverse, beloved listeners. And with that, I thank you for your time. It is time for you to return to your ordinary day-to-day. Just remember, keep an ear out if there is always a signal. It may lead you to what you are looking for...

@BonahBBamison 5 лет назад

Damn baby, you're woke. Sit on my face 🎎🎎🎎

@PadChennington 5 лет назад

wooaaah that was awesome..thanks for the read !

@battousai12 5 лет назад

Geez that was conscient

@st.zahren5683 5 лет назад

woa.............thats deep

@omen2391 5 лет назад

@Jay D. it's something to keep your brain useful, instead of "just enjoy it"

@AudioPervert1 5 лет назад

it's hauntology ... regressive nostalgia at play.. as Derida explained it in 1993.

@andrewnguyen3662 5 лет назад

Why are you here

@tinkrls3r 5 лет назад

this is how watching adult swim when i was really young felt like, the weird bumps and commercial brakes i didn't realy understand really created the same feeling of getting lost in abstract, and it helped free me from many stressful things in my childhood. I feel the exact same with vaporwave and synthwave genres.

@PadChennington 5 лет назад

totally feel you on that, the late 90s, early 2000s watching adult swim was bizarre from the mind of a kid lol

@TABBYMUSIC 5 лет назад

Damn that script must’ve taken a loooong time to make 😯

@PadChennington 5 лет назад

But had a blast regardless! I zone out when I write some of these longer scripts, so time doesn't even matter lol

@overlookers 5 лет назад

*the N in n m e s h is* ＳＩＬΣＮＴ

@PadChennington 5 лет назад

y e p. m y m ! s t a k 3

@LivingTheorem 5 лет назад

Like for the profile pic. Love Berserk

@michaelhaydenbell 5 лет назад

Actually all the letters except for the "n" are silent.

@mulberryjacob 5 лет назад

nmesh is our word... you can say nme tho

@LCVII 5 лет назад

I always thought signalwave and broken transmission were two separated, yet related subgenres, being signalwave the bright and lighter side of consumerist aspects and broken transmission being more experimental, "edgy", sometimes darker and... "broken". I also tend to group them in a branch related to late night lo-fi.

@aguaschan 5 лет назад

Never heard of signalwave but I am glad your video was recommended by YT! Highly informative and very clear voice/pronunciation even for someone whose native language isn't English. Thank you :)

@PadChennington 5 лет назад

ahhh that's awesome youtube is recommending this lol, thanks for watching! hope you enjoy some new albums to listen to Maria :)

@DrunkonMedia 5 лет назад

Asuteki just dropped a massive 360 track broken transmission album. You should give that a listen. It would have probably been too big for this video but its still worth a listen.

@PadChennington 5 лет назад

Yep!! came out last week I would've totally included it in this video or mentioned it lol

@deleteduser666 5 лет назад

Thank youuuu

@PadChennington 5 лет назад

I gotchu moussy baby!

@VANITAS555 5 лет назад

Link me pls!

@DrunkonMedia 5 лет назад

SATINAV VANITAS567 ask and you shall receive asutenki.bandcamp.com/album/--21

@rams6702 5 лет назад

woahh i've never heard of broken transmission refered to as signalwave; imma start calling it that also im a bit suprised you didn't mention infinity frequencies. His computer trilogy got me into vaporwave and i think this subcategory fits him well enough

@XHEADTOWALLX 5 лет назад

Agreed. Infinity Frequencies needs mentioning. That triology is phenomenal.

@PadChennington 5 лет назад

yep I agree as well, could eventually do a top 10 albums for the subgenre video !

@matthew_thefallen 5 лет назад

Very awesome! This genres like mallsoft and signalwave inspired me to write a vaporwave sort of novel about this distopian/utopian city where sadness is forbidden and people are mentally prisoners in it because they have been for ages taught that there was nothing beyond the hills. But nobody knows that the hills are holograms of this sort of dome in the middle of the desert. Planet earth was almost destroyed by nuclear weapons, and people live in this city since 1987, and things got stuck in that age but technology got forward. So there is this sci-fi city that has mid 80's aesthetic, actually early 90's.

@PadChennington 5 лет назад

that's awesome Matt! is it out yet?

@Kydino 5 лет назад

You probably should read brave new world then. It's kinda like that sans the holograms and more about recreational drugs.

@nevaw.4931 3 года назад

if you ever publish or share it online pls let me know!

@RadTrashed 5 лет назад

God I love this channel. It's always so amusing to find new genres of music that's avant garde and unique. Even as someone who's a big vaporwave enthusiast, I have never heard of Signalwave. Awesome video my dude

@PadChennington 5 лет назад

thank you :) enjoy getting lost in some new music!

@TUPPERWAVE 5 лет назад

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@myram2641 5 лет назад

-ah! -ah! -ah! -ah! -ah! -ah! -ah! -ah! -ah! -ah! -ah! uuuuuuuraap......uuuuuuuraap......uuuuuuuraap......uuuuuuuraap......

@yourdadsbbqbrisket8526 5 лет назад

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@braydensmith7362 5 лет назад

Beem boom beem buhDA Beem boom beem buhDah

@sadtirical 5 лет назад

YEEEEAS

@SlyHikari03 4 года назад

God I love that album.

@william_ytp 5 лет назад

actually 天気予報 (the guy who made the sky cover album shown second in this video) released a SIX HOUR signalwave album a few days ago! (titled ひまわり画像, you'll find it on their bandcamp.) it's a total ride, i'm loving it so far :D exactly the kind of monolithic release this subgenre was made for!

@PadChennington 5 лет назад

yep! I would've definitely included that in this video, if only it came out a couple weeks earlier!

@hhyperbaIIad 2 года назад

ughh just listened thru it in one sitting & it’s so good omgggg

@SouthCalifas619 5 лет назад

I feel like V a p o r w a v e itself has always kinda been a type of criticism of how much consumerism and corporations controlled and dominated our nostalgia

@PadChennington 5 лет назад

preach my friend, I feel u

@comradecthulhu6052 5 лет назад

Y e s Y e s Y e s! Sidenote: Signalwave kinda reminds me of Boards of Canada’s discography, the ambient type noise in the background, and the inviting synth that draws you in, keep up the amazing work my dude.

@PadChennington 5 лет назад

The boards of Canada is a group I seriously need to dive into. I've barely listened to them and would love to do a vid on them

@namebrandmason 5 лет назад

@@PadChennington Dude, I don't usually go for electronic music, but Boards of Canada are one of my favorite bands period. Put a copy of "Music Has a Right to Children" in your car and go for a late night drive in the country. It's a religious experience.

@comradecthulhu6052 5 лет назад

Pad Chennington You making a video about them would be better than free Arizona green tea!

@dariopadovan1976 5 лет назад

@@PadChennington signal wave is hard on "a few old tunes" by boards of canada. Which is not even an album but a compilation of what they did in the early years. But you can find elements of vaporwave more generally basically everywhere throughout their discography

@paulgenevzki2477 5 лет назад

@@dariopadovan1976 i count "boards of canada" [and other IDM] as proto-vaporwave since they produced many nostalgic ambient-music p.s. *oh, please don't hate me RDJ*

@SunsetGrid 5 лет назад

Whoa! 4 SG albums in there including b l u e s c r e e n and b l u e__ΔCID! We're honored!

@PadChennington 5 лет назад

ayyy!!!!!!!

@jebstone4935 5 лет назад

almost 15 minutes of fancy words to describe ambient as something else. Cool

@blossom_rx 5 лет назад

Thought exactly the same. What would Brian Eno say about this?... :/

@TheDrunkMunk 5 лет назад

@@joshualeet >thinking about things is gay! so cringe!

@a_random_voice_in_the_void 5 лет назад

Sub-genres are Communist. Better dead than red.

@allenslaughter4483 4 года назад

This video led me down a rabbit hole of Bandcamp searches that ended with me downloading all 33 songs from the Weatherscan

@PadChennington 4 года назад

Welcome to the fam my friend

@channelsurfing 5 лет назад

Yes!! You covered Telenights finally. Great video, Pad.

@PadChennington 5 лет назад

:) I think I did telenights in my 107 video too but more than happy to dive in a bit further here!

@Robert-dt3is 5 лет назад

Speaking of Ramona. “Rainbowtrinity” is the best release she has ever put out.

@PadChennington 5 лет назад

she's got so much stuff, its wild

@nhignhog9556 5 лет назад

You sound exactly like Chet from Fallout New Vegas I like it

@murdread 5 лет назад

It's great that you covered this amazing subgenre of vaporwave, since its experimental and unconventional nature drives most casual listeners away. Fantasic video as always Pad!

@PadChennington 5 лет назад

Thanks Jose :) this was even a listening experience to me, I got recommended so many different pieces. definitely a trip

@thesixfootsixexperience8781 5 лет назад

Love your stuff, man. It’s cool to have a channel dedicated to something I love so much

@PadChennington 5 лет назад

thanks dude :) and thanks for watching! glad to have ya

@quianabell9699 5 лет назад

Absolutely loved this video. Really takes you through the journey. Love it!

@urethrafranklin9550 5 лет назад

you're our very own vapor queen

@theerror_7417 5 лет назад

Hey great video man, I didn’t really get this whole signalwave thing until now. Of course like almost every commenter here, I have heard a particular broken transmission album, which for me personally, was the most bizarre musical experience I have had to date. Somehow I found nmesh as well, and those samples of ads and Japanese films are very interesting to listen to.

@PadChennington 5 лет назад

thanks dude!

@PunkExMachina 5 лет назад

I’ve been getting into reading about about online media and aesthetics and all of that and I read on Wikipedia that Vaporwave has lived its life from inception to death entirely online and I found that fascinating. It’s Vaporwave considered dead?

@knmlco1 5 лет назад

Well it seems like it’s been evolving and I am excited for its future of off shooting sub genres

@alternateskies5467 4 года назад

Would be cool to see a follow up to this, with maybe some more underground signalwave artists/albums.. Thanks for featuring some of my album art in the vid btw.

@SomeNot 3 года назад

“Just when you think you’re starting to get comfy” … Ad!

@f1urps 5 лет назад

An ad popped up at exactly 4:33, and it couldn’t have been a more perfect illustration of what you were saying in that moment

@ItsMe-yp4rs 5 лет назад

This is an amazing video, one I will enjoy for ages. The only thing more I can ask for, and the thing that will bring your channel to true greatness, is the Robloxwave shirt.

@gilbertgotfried 5 лет назад

Vaporwave itself was and always has been a criticism of consumerism and the fast way products become obsolete. Hilarious and oddly fitting that actual vaporwave has become a subgenre of what's currently considered vaporwave.

@PadChennington 5 лет назад

vaporwaveception

@gilbertgotfried 5 лет назад

We're hitting levels of irony that shouldn't even be possible!

@TheRazePlayz 5 лет назад

When did Vapour wave stop being the bitter voice of someone immersed in consumerism?

@gilbertgotfried 5 лет назад

@@TheRazePlayz Around the time vaporwave started getting subgenres like futurefunk is my guess. The spiral continued there.

@dillanrankin 5 лет назад

Fantastic work as always, Pad! You do a great job of describing how vaporwave makes you feel and obviously do a lot of research!

@PadChennington 5 лет назад

Thanks Dillan :) I have to also thank members of my discord on this one, they recommended me a bunch of stuff, a couple albums I used in this video was because of em

@somekindofusername 5 лет назад

You’re a very good music critic, really articulate and descriptive. Nice work!

@PadChennington 5 лет назад

@eduardobatasuna8398 5 лет назад

Loved your description of this genre. Saludos! PS your spanish deserves a nine ;)

@PadChennington 5 лет назад

Thank you Eduardo! or should I say g r a c i a s

@jesusperez3926 5 лет назад

Dude you are the best, all your videos show your deep love for vaporwave, keep it like that!

@PadChennington 5 лет назад

thanks jesús :) I have a blast making em and ill never stop, thanks for watching!

@pointblank2890 5 лет назад

I can listen to a music album with you describing Vaporwave tracks while dreamy bizarre music plays in the background. That's how much I love how your videos showing new music.

@PadChennington 5 лет назад

@tenshi_amachi 5 лет назад

Now this is the kind of ambient-esque kind of vaporwave sound I have been searching through the depths of the Internet. Big thanks to you, signalwave did put me to better sleep!

@tracytan9624 5 лет назад

I really enjoy how you express the abstract feelings that the genre gives you. It's hard to convey it to other people in real like without them giving you the o_O look

@malwaeve1670 3 года назад

I absolutely love every album mentioned!

@raksh9 5 лет назад

RU-vid recommendations delivers today! Cool video, thank you for creating this.

@PadChennington 5 лет назад

thanks so much for watching! :)

@aisthesis_ 5 лет назад

Asutenki is AMAZING, thank you! It's exactly what I needed for my corporate Monday morning

@PadChennington 5 лет назад

I gotchuuuu! asutenki just dropped a massive 360 track release, have ya heard it?

@MrSewerbird 5 лет назад

I got an ad exactly at 4:32. It was glorious.

@davidbergeron2941 5 лет назад

Super excited about this stuff! Very conceptual. Transmission music and radio noise music has been around since the 50s. Excited to see it continue to develop and re-contextualized into new material!

@PadChennington 5 лет назад

Thanks David! I have a blast making these types of videos, definitely will have similar ones coming out soon

@davidbergeron2941 5 лет назад

@@PadChennington :)

@recordbum 4 года назад

This is really interesting. Can you do a playlist on spotify to summarize the albums? That would be really helpfull to start.

@sandr6769 5 лет назад

i knew the subgenre - didn't know the name, though.

@palteo2907 5 лет назад

laserdisc visions new dreams ltd is best signal wave album hands down.

@StermaPerma 5 лет назад

I don’t know if that first mid-roll ad placement was intentional Pad, but if it was... Christ did I produce a loud chuckle. ‘Just as you are getting comfortable listening to the atmospheric music...’ *loud ad starts playing* Loved it.

@ZEROKuroGFX 5 лет назад

Idk if it's something that someone already said, but didn't was Daft Punk who invented signalwave? In their 2005 album Human After All, the track called "On/Off" have all the attributes of a signalwave track doesn't?

@PadChennington 5 лет назад

on/off definitely has that radio surfing energy!

@DaNooch669 5 лет назад

Your description of the genre reminds me of Oneohtrix point never's album Replica.

@PadChennington 5 лет назад

the original gangstaaaaa

@SpiritedSpy 5 лет назад

Mallsoft? I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS FOR YEARS!

@lydiamacintyre3729 4 года назад

I made an ep back in 2015 called 'Late Night Paranoia' under the name Luxury.txt, composed of samples from british 90s tv and teletext/ceefax music, which i've just rereleased on bandcamp under a new name, i've been into vaporwave for years but didn't know that my ep belongs to the signalwave subgenre until just now

@Neongen 5 лет назад

I've been listening Signalwave and didn't knew it was a thing. Great vid Pad! ♡

@PadChennington 5 лет назад

thanks for watching!

@JaimeAndresJaramillo 3 года назад

Man, I love this channel, I would love to be part of a Vaporwave / Synthwave community

@crtskies 10 месяцев назад

you need to make part 2 theres been so many new artists popping up

@SkyRiverTV 5 лет назад

Dude great vid. Thanks

@error4159 2 года назад

Vaperwave is like heavy metal with all the subgenres of subgenres

@jeanalisson 5 лет назад

4:27 just when you think you're starting to get comfy in these ambient moments... *youtube stops the video to play an ad

@imageignition23 5 лет назад

Dude. Your Spanish! You crushed it. Subbed

@PadChennington 5 лет назад

YOU KNOW WHATS BUENO BABY!!!

@PadChennington 5 лет назад

welcome to the fam :)

@User-lg1vl 5 лет назад

Thanks for the video. Keep it up

@PadChennington 5 лет назад

I gotchuuuu thanks for watching!

@dsnodgrass4843 5 лет назад

This is basically updated "Plunderphonics". Radio DJs and the like have been intercutting and stitching together broadcast ads and news and Civil Defense warnings and other content since the 1960s. It's been a useful fount of artistic commentary up until say, the late-2000s, when the relevance of most of those sources wore out (25 years make a difference, trust me). It's heartening to see a new generation synthesize its own ambient influences and cues and sources this way, even if it 'isn't for me'. I subbed anyway. Nice work!!

@PadChennington 5 лет назад

great commentary dude, thanks for watching and welcome to the fam!

@TheRatSquid 5 лет назад

I think you're the best reviewer of vaporwave because you really get into those raw feelings the genre and subgenres give off. More professional and objective reviewers keep looking at it from a musical standpoint and miss the deeper emotional vibe of it. You manage to get into the more emotional side of it and I respect that.

@7cheland 5 лет назад

You really nailed it with the thumbnail

@orgonsolo6291 5 лет назад

Never heard these terms before, very fascinating. Turns out a large part of my work could blend into this kind of genre in many ways.. Very cool. Thanks for the heads up, this will give me some clear ideas about the direction I want to make on my next release

@PadChennington 5 лет назад

ayyyy that's what sup dude, would love to hear some of your stuff! got a link?

@orgonsolo6291 5 лет назад

Sure Pad, Let me just preface by saying, don`t expect to find any carboncopy Signalwave - I live far from any scene and usually spend too much tie by myself trying to figure out what I can make that would sound like, unique - I just loved seeing there are others out there with a direction, and I am going to utilize that in my upcoming release(s), which still is maybe a little over a month away Ok, if it let me post links here then? This is like a "triptych" soundcloud.com/orgon-solo/arkon-imploder Also on my mixcloud you could check out my AnKoar Psychill firepit mix or the five year old predecessor called Arkon Satelites

@theKabbage 3 года назад

Dream Sequins is probably my top favorite album. I can't stop listening to it, its addictive

@lain823 5 лет назад

Hey Pad, amazing video as always!! I was just wondering if you’d ever consider doing a review of the Computer Trilogy by Infinity Frequencies? Those are some of my favorite vaporwave albums of all time, and I’d love to hear your take on them. Anyway, thanks for the great vid! :D

@PadChennington 5 лет назад

maybe one day! im so damn backlogged on videos lol but I always take every request to heart so ill keep the idea on paper!

@lain823 5 лет назад

Pad Chennington Well I look forward to that one day then ;) Thanks for the reply!

@eco. 5 лет назад

Hey man I love the video, just a small suggestion, maybe add small samples or examples of songs while you talk about them, you do a really good job of describing them but it would be great if you could include small snippets of them too :)

@PadChennington 5 лет назад

I feel ya! I usually just keep the videos completely barren of the music im discussing so viewers would hopefully make their way to the artist's pages and check em out! also just in case of copyright and the state of youtube these days, I doubt any of the artists I discuss would strike me but who knows how youtube works these days anymore with all these crazy stories of channels just getting wiped out. better safe than sorry in my opinion, id be crushed if I ever lose this channel lol took me over a year to just get monetized!

@eco. 5 лет назад

@@PadChennington completely understood, and I did go out and look at the artists too, good job

@ZAYAZOfficial 5 лет назад

Great Vid Pad

@PadChennington 5 лет назад

thanks my dude!

@katieneece5843 5 лет назад

I am de definitely going to have to dip into what sounds like another great avant garde subgenre. Thank you!

@PadChennington 5 лет назад

sounds Gucci Katherine! thanks for watching, let me know whatcha think after listening!

@SuperFrankieOSX 3 года назад

I definitely recommend Sport 3000's "Signals", "TEXT", and "VHS Stardust" and many more of their albums. I also recommend infinity frequencies' "computer death" album collection. Some other mentionable artists are identity crisis, astro television system, R.E.A.L , snow 雪 and Western Digital. Now not all of these artist are specifically signalwave based, but do have aspects of it. I honestly have so many albums on my phone it's not even funny, a bit over 250.

@EinSofVirtuoso 5 лет назад

Very interesting! I've been channel surfing on mute with music overlay for myself for a while. I usually use ambient music like Steve Roach or Tim Hecker for the overlay. I've written some poems of my experiences too.

@PadChennington 5 лет назад

haven't heard of either of em, sounds interesting though 0.o share a poem!

@DerekPower 5 лет назад

I saw on Reddit someone make their own edit of Dream Sequins where it’s “just the highlights”. It cuts out about fifty minutes of material and makes the whole thing sound completely uneven. This is all about the flow and I cannot imagine cutting one second from it. The best example of how the edit is to its detriment is starting immediately with “Keep This”. Without those two minutes of atmospheric build-up, it makes the sudden drum appearance not just sudden but very jarring. It should be a pay-off, not an instant (ehem) hit.

@PadChennington 5 лет назад

very well said Derek as usual! thanks for watching and commenting :)

@Daniil_Ryvak 5 лет назад

Music for patient ones

@Inseut 4 года назад

Thanks, this video made me realize I'm a signalwave artist. I didn't know this name, but it fits so well to some albums I've released. Crazy.

@dickstryker 5 лет назад

Check out the group Negativeland. It was experimental industrial noise back in the day but they pretty much pioneered the commercial mashup thing.

@another90daystochangethis34 5 лет назад

Ooooh thank you for doing a video on signalwave, it's one of my favorite subgenres of vaporwave. I would also recommend Sport3000 as a great artist to listen to as well.

@PadChennington 5 лет назад

Yes, sport3000 is awesome!

@MsAveryM 5 лет назад

I love Signalwave! Fantastic video, Pad 👍

@PadChennington 5 лет назад

thanks Scott! happy listening homie

@dariopadovan1976 5 лет назад

Sounds like Boards of Canada but 20 years late

@PadChennington 5 лет назад

a group I really have to dive into, they seem so interesting but I never really listened to them! (Besides beware the friendly stranger because of salad fingers lol)..any recommended albums to start with?!

@ljschannel3226 5 лет назад

Hahaha frs

@dariopadovan1976 5 лет назад

@@PadChennington start with "a few old tunes" which is a compilation of their first experiments and you can find some true pearls in there. It was never officially released but you can find it easilly to download. Then "boc maxima", another compilation that they realesed only in cassette (so vaporwave isn't it😂) before their first official albums and EP. And then listen to the rest of them, they're all amazing

@gordongaming3246 5 лет назад

@@PadChennington Listen to Geogaddi, the segue (shorter) tracks on it are leaning pretty close to the signalwave genre

@PadChennington 5 лет назад

word okay, thanks dude!

@robin-1127 5 лет назад

“Just when you think you’re starting to get comfy and homey around these ambient moments-*ad pops up*”

@elmantishrimp1689 5 лет назад

Corp has really relaxed me through tough times. Whether it be hard day from school or work, whenever I turn on Corp, it's like all my problems aren't existent.

@DaftBrian1 4 года назад

And here I thought it was just the sounds of pastels and chilling out

@bugyourparents 5 лет назад

people think our channel is vaporrwave, but Rad Chennington will be the judge of that

@AaronGaleProductions 5 лет назад

Definitley getting into it more thanks pad

@PadChennington 5 лет назад

I gotchu homie!

@llyourdudesnickerll9823 5 лет назад

Alright buddy, stop slacking. Where is our health tips with pad ep.1? In all seriousness, good video! I need to check out some of those albums.

@PadChennington 5 лет назад

LMAOOO ill be dropping the health tips on my thursday night streams!

@llyourdudesnickerll9823 5 лет назад

@@PadChennington haha, nice.👌

@ARC_10 5 лет назад

wow, this video made me understand broken transmission even more the usual. now that I think about it, new deluxe life was actually my introduction to broken transmission. Then on to other awesome albums like the blast to the past telenights and the outstanding album dream sequins. Well done As for my recommendation I would personally recommend checking out this artist called 维新噩梦工厂 (revolutionary nightmare factory) a Chinese broken transmission artists. P.S. I got dream sequins on vinyl and it's amazing.

@PadChennington 5 лет назад

ahhh I missed out on that dream sequins vinyl! and thanks for the recommendation!

@ARC_10 5 лет назад

@@PadChennington no problem man, i do believe it's still in stock at AMDISCS

@orateusdijin6557 5 лет назад

So this is vaporwaves darker future. Hmm this could help out my muzak skills for real.

@rich_rich90 11 месяцев назад

CANAL+ 'Vendredi' is the go-to Signalwave album for me.

@stiliqn007 5 лет назад

...how did i get here? And what is this? Where's my retrowave at??

@PadChennington 5 лет назад

w e l c o m e

@stiliqn007 5 лет назад

heard Nmesh Dream Sequins last night, was alright the first 20min. Then it turned into some weird futurewave/thrillerwave genre. Serial killers are born to this lol @@PadChennington

@JasonMcCarrell 5 лет назад

If you ever had a VHS or casette do weird things, this kinds of sounds were common. Even the broken ones. I don't remember how, but i remember as a kid messing with the sounds a lot. I think i was usually messing with the casette speed, but forcefully slowing it down. I dunno... anyways, neat stuff. Thanks for all the recommendations!

@PadChennington 5 лет назад

thanks for watching Jason!

@SunsetGraffiti 5 лет назад

The first time I heard Dream Sequins it obliterated me. I didn't know what to do with myself, but turning it off and walking away was NOT an option.

@PadChennington 5 лет назад

it sucks ya right back in