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!
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.
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...
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...
@@yourdadsbbqbrisket8526 you cant understand a """", vaporwave contains everything and contains every aspect of the chroma of life, also your brown dirty black chroma
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.
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 :)
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
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.
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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 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.
@@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
@@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*
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
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.
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!
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.
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!
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.
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
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.
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.
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!
Vaporwave,Utopian virtual,Signal wave Is the music genre where the music allows Us to control it's Rhythum and Choreography and be the director of the infinite immaculate simulations it gives us, helps us create a movie of emotions that not only we can imagine, but also feel..
@@PadChennington and what are the images???? The images that sound produces maybe?, and who is the story teller?? The creator of each album(: , just my thoughts
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.
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.
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!!
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
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
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!
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
If you wan't some more Signalwave, check out my video exploringone of the most bizarre Vaporwave albums of all time!: th-cam.com/video/adW4bp3FAoM/w-d-xo.html
Don't forget the part where Nmesh literally incorporates Anthony Fantano's review of "Floral Shoppe". Respects from a fellow Luoisvillean. Correction: Louisvillean.
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?
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.
Ever hear of a band called The KLF? They were doing this in 1990, only their album is coherent and actually sounds good. This genre has been around for decades but only recently some muppet decided to start calling it vaporwave and signalwave.
I love the KLF; but this is a little more involved ('involuted'? Is that a word? i forget.) than their truly phenomenal project. You're right about it being around for decades, tho; I remember it being called at one point "Plunderphonics"; perhaps in the 1970s. After that there were collage-artists vaguely connected to the SubGenius Church in the 1980s; and then there was Negativland and KLF. The only difference lies in the field of source material. These folks have theirs, as we had ours; no point in hating on them for it, Savior. Let them play among the ruins; it hurts nobody.
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
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.
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
I love watching video about my geek obsession that only people on the I N T E R N E T understand, this videos really give me satisfaction because vaporwave is that "underground" and "new" that no one in my real life even knows it. This videos also give me insight, this is enternainment and education at the same time. This channel explains the feeling and meaning of vaporwave that I feel and you explain it very understandable. Keep on with this kinda videos man!! U rock, I mean u vaporwave haha
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
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
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 :)
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!
@@PadChennington It mostly inspired me to just give no fucks about the rules of production and try out what I could make by just going crazy with automation and everything. No commercials samples in there or anything, but by FAR the weirdest thing I've ever made O.O Here's the link, tho I warn you, it's not mixed and not mastered and it's not finished :D soundcloud.com/liveen/amnesia/s-ymrNj
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.
climbing the corporate ladder is what got me hardcore into the concept of SignalWave. I somehow don't necessarily find myself becoming disoriented. there's something about the chaotic flow of the album that guides me along
NEW DEEP DIVE HERE: th-cam.com/video/jLI-x5KqnSQ/w-d-xo.html
So the deep dive is the more up to date one yeah?
@@OfficialHavocOsiris correct!
Am I listening to descriptionwave?
lol
I posted a lot of screenshots of this video on a music forum if that means anything.
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Pad Chennington is literally the walking vaporwave encyclopedia.
Or the literal fantoo of vaporwave too.
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.
Who names a baby Pad? Is it short for Paddington? O-o
I am really glad someone is putting in the work for this stuff ~
@@zanfear Chad Pennington
"Just when you think you're getting comfy with the ambience-"
*LITERAL AD BREAK*
LMAOOOOO hey what better way to ironically time it!
Haha yep 😆
I literally got an ad at that moment too
Yup! Happened to me too
You should do a "Vaporwave for Newcomers" like a history lesson in Vaporwave and important subgenres with artists. I love these videos
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!
Pad Chennington A top 10 would be great!
Pad Chennington I'm not in the loop, this would greatly help a newbie like me
go to Google image, search vaporwave subgenres 4chan, see the first image
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.
aren't we oh so weird? :^]
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...
"Short in length but exciting in nature" I've heard that before..
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Can I get a link to your profile pic?
I feel like I'm thinking wrong but I feel like your talking about sex lmao
Duh
Computer death/decay/afterlife are my faves in this subgenre
preach!
yeah i was very surprised to see no infinity frequencies on here
YES!!! YES.
Same because its nice
XHEADTOWALLX it's not broken transmission, it's post-internet/hypnagogic drift
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.
LOL thank you dude :) thanks for watching!
Post them on here so he can make a video about it to see if it’s true
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...
Damn baby, you're woke. Sit on my face 🎎🎎🎎
wooaaah that was awesome..thanks for the read !
Geez that was conscient
woa.............thats deep
@Jay D. it's something to keep your brain useful, instead of "just enjoy it"
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@@yourdadsbbqbrisket8526 you cant understand a """", vaporwave contains everything and contains every aspect of the chroma of life, also your brown dirty black chroma
@@ecozones2d627 interesting
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.
totally feel you on that, the late 90s, early 2000s watching adult swim was bizarre from the mind of a kid lol
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
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 :)
ahhh that's awesome youtube is recommending this lol, thanks for watching! hope you enjoy some new albums to listen to Maria :)
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
thank you :) enjoy getting lost in some new music!
Dream Sequins is one of the first albums that I got into when I originally dove into vaporwave. Nmesh is a master of teleportation.
an absolute killer and awesome artist, one of the chillest dudes I've had a pleasure of working with in the community
If you need any new underground artist, 4departing4 is really good www.youtube.com/@4departing4
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Like for the profile pic. Love Berserk
Actually all the letters except for the "n" are silent.
nmesh is our word... you can say nme tho
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.
that's awesome Matt! is it out yet?
You probably should read brave new world then. It's kinda like that sans the holograms and more about recreational drugs.
if you ever publish or share it online pls let me know!
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God I love that album.
it's hauntology ... regressive nostalgia at play.. as Derida explained it in 1993.
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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.
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
@@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.
Pad Chennington You making a video about them would be better than free Arizona green tea!
@@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
@@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*
almost 15 minutes of fancy words to describe ambient as something else. Cool
Thought exactly the same. What would Brian Eno say about this?... :/
@@joshualeet >thinking about things is gay! so cringe!
Sub-genres are Communist. Better dead than red.
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
preach my friend, I feel u
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.
I've been listening Signalwave and didn't knew it was a thing. Great vid Pad! ♡
thanks for watching!
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!
Thanks Jose :) this was even a listening experience to me, I got recommended so many different pieces. definitely a trip
Damn that script must’ve taken a loooong time to make 😯
But had a blast regardless! I zone out when I write some of these longer scripts, so time doesn't even matter lol
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.
thanks dude!
Love your stuff, man. It’s cool to have a channel dedicated to something I love so much
thanks dude :) and thanks for watching! glad to have ya
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!
Thanks David! I have a blast making these types of videos, definitely will have similar ones coming out soon
@@PadChennington :)
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.
Yep!! came out last week I would've totally included it in this video or mentioned it lol
Thank youuuu
I gotchu moussy baby!
Link me pls!
SATINAV VANITAS567 ask and you shall receive asutenki.bandcamp.com/album/--21
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
Agreed. Infinity Frequencies needs mentioning. That triology is phenomenal.
yep I agree as well, could eventually do a top 10 albums for the subgenre video !
you're our very own vapor queen
Yes!! You covered Telenights finally. Great video, Pad.
:) I think I did telenights in my 107 video too but more than happy to dive in a bit further here!
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.
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!
ayyy!!!!!!!
4 years later
and signalwave is still going strong
Loved your description of this genre. Saludos! PS your spanish deserves a nine ;)
Thank you Eduardo! or should I say g r a c i a s
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.
vaporwaveception
We're hitting levels of irony that shouldn't even be possible!
When did Vapour wave stop being the bitter voice of someone immersed in consumerism?
@@TheRazePlayz Around the time vaporwave started getting subgenres like futurefunk is my guess. The spiral continued there.
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!
yep! I would've definitely included that in this video, if only it came out a couple weeks earlier!
ughh just listened thru it in one sitting & it’s so good omgggg
Speaking of Ramona. “Rainbowtrinity” is the best release she has ever put out.
she's got so much stuff, its wild
Vaporwave,Utopian virtual,Signal wave
Is the music genre where the music allows
Us to control it's Rhythum and Choreography and be the director of the infinite immaculate simulations it gives us, helps us create a movie of emotions that not only we can imagine, but also feel..
story telling is definitely half the genre !
@@PadChennington and what are the images????
The images that sound produces maybe?, and who is the story teller?? The creator of each album(: , just my thoughts
CANAL+ 'Vendredi' is the go-to Signalwave album for me.
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.
I absolutely love every album mentioned!
You’re a very good music critic, really articulate and descriptive. Nice work!
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.
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!!
great commentary dude, thanks for watching and welcome to the fam!
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
Fantastic work as always, Pad! You do a great job of describing how vaporwave makes you feel and obviously do a lot of research!
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
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!
Absolutely loved this video. Really takes you through the journey. Love it!
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.
laserdisc visions new dreams ltd is best signal wave album hands down.
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.
very well said Derek as usual! thanks for watching and commenting :)
Music for patient ones
Dude. Your Spanish! You crushed it. Subbed
YOU KNOW WHATS BUENO BABY!!!
welcome to the fam :)
Asutenki is AMAZING, thank you! It's exactly what I needed for my corporate Monday morning
I gotchuuuu! asutenki just dropped a massive 360 track release, have ya heard it?
This video led me down a rabbit hole of Bandcamp searches that ended with me downloading all 33 songs from the Weatherscan
Welcome to the fam my friend
I got an ad exactly at 4:32. It was glorious.
Great Vid Pad
thanks my dude!
You sound exactly like Chet from Fallout New Vegas
I like it
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?
Well it seems like it’s been evolving and I am excited for its future of off shooting sub genres
4:27 just when you think you're starting to get comfy in these ambient moments... *youtube stops the video to play an ad
Dude you are the best, all your videos show your deep love for vaporwave, keep it like that!
thanks jesús :) I have a blast making em and ill never stop, thanks for watching!
Waterfront dining + vintage commercials 😁
TH-cam recommendations delivers today! Cool video, thank you for creating this.
thanks so much for watching! :)
you need to make part 2 theres been so many new artists popping up
This is really interesting. Can you do a playlist on spotify to summarize the albums? That would be really helpfull to start.
“Just when you think you’re starting to get comfy” … Ad!
Dream Sequins is probably my top favorite album. I can't stop listening to it, its addictive
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.
Man, I love this channel, I would love to be part of a Vaporwave / Synthwave community
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.
Just when you think youre getting comfy and home in those calm and ambient moments- **AD PLAYS**
C O N S U M E R I S M
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.
I am de definitely going to have to dip into what sounds like another great avant garde subgenre. Thank you!
sounds Gucci Katherine! thanks for watching, let me know whatcha think after listening!
If you wan't some more Signalwave, check out my video exploringone of the most bizarre Vaporwave albums of all time!: th-cam.com/video/adW4bp3FAoM/w-d-xo.html
where do you get your visuals? I really like them
Thanks ! for the most part I grab em over at pixabay, free stock video/photos! @@farquaadsquaad8163
Don't forget the part where Nmesh literally incorporates Anthony Fantano's review of "Floral Shoppe". Respects from a fellow Luoisvillean.
Correction: Louisvillean.
A list in the description would be nice with links.
Pad Chennington The end credits of Kooyaanisqatsi...
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?
on/off definitely has that radio surfing energy!
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.
it sucks ya right back in
Mallsoft? I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS FOR YEARS!
Bless the TH-cam algorythm, he finally learned what music, vibes I obsess over
@@PadChennington wow, thanks :) I have subbed as well of course 😆
Your description of the genre reminds me of Oneohtrix point never's album Replica.
the original gangstaaaaa
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.
What is he listening on? Like what website does he keep pulling up when showing tracks
bandcamp!
You really nailed it with the thumbnail
Ever hear of a band called The KLF? They were doing this in 1990, only their album is coherent and actually sounds good. This genre has been around for decades but only recently some muppet decided to start calling it vaporwave and signalwave.
I love the KLF; but this is a little more involved ('involuted'? Is that a word? i forget.) than their truly phenomenal project. You're right about it being around for decades, tho; I remember it being called at one point "Plunderphonics"; perhaps in the 1970s. After that there were collage-artists vaguely connected to the SubGenius Church in the 1980s; and then there was Negativland and KLF. The only difference lies in the field of source material. These folks have theirs, as we had ours; no point in hating on them for it, Savior. Let them play among the ruins; it hurts nobody.
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
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!
Pad Chennington Well I look forward to that one day then ;)
Thanks for the reply!
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.
ahhh I missed out on that dream sequins vinyl! and thanks for the recommendation!
@@PadChennington no problem man, i do believe it's still in stock at AMDISCS
Vaperwave is like heavy metal with all the subgenres of subgenres
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
I love watching video about my geek obsession that only people on the I N T E R N E T understand, this videos really give me satisfaction because vaporwave is that "underground" and "new" that no one in my real life even knows it. This videos also give me insight, this is enternainment and education at the same time. This channel explains the feeling and meaning of vaporwave that I feel and you explain it very understandable. Keep on with this kinda videos man!! U rock, I mean u vaporwave haha
This video is one of the best that I ever saw. True art... you're an artist my friend, vaporwave is pepsi heaven
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
ayyyy that's what sup dude, would love to hear some of your stuff! got a link?
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
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 :)
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!
@@PadChennington completely understood, and I did go out and look at the artists too, good job
I got inspired and now I've made the weirdest track ever and I can't understand what it is and omg the mixing is gonna be so hard
I need to hear that ahahahah is it done?!
@@PadChennington It mostly inspired me to just give no fucks about the rules of production and try out what I could make by just going crazy with automation and everything. No commercials samples in there or anything, but by FAR the weirdest thing I've ever made O.O Here's the link, tho I warn you, it's not mixed and not mastered and it's not finished :D soundcloud.com/liveen/amnesia/s-ymrNj
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.
LMAOOO ill be dropping the health tips on my thursday night streams!
@@PadChennington haha, nice.👌
And here I thought it was just the sounds of pastels and chilling out
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.
Yes, sport3000 is awesome!
climbing the corporate ladder is what got me hardcore into the concept of SignalWave. I somehow don't necessarily find myself becoming disoriented. there's something about the chaotic flow of the album that guides me along
“Just when you think you’re starting to get comfy and homey around these ambient moments-*ad pops up*”