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Post by jk on Mar 14, 2024 16:06:24 GMT -5
The powers-that-be on YouTube have decided to pepper my favourite Vaporwave mix with ads! End of an era, in a way. I've picked out one of the best tracks from the mix, which features fantastic VHS footage of Tokyo nightlife in 1991. It's "Need U Tonight" by Saint Pepsi aka Ryan DeRobertis. Wonderful stuff: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_DeRobertis
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Post by jk on Apr 6, 2024 3:26:35 GMT -5
This atmospheric and extremely moving modern "classical" work by Gavin Bryars was originally released on Eno's Obscure label. It's this first (1975) version of The Sinking of the Titanic you want: "...from aft came the tunes of the band..... The ship was gradually turning on her nose - just like a duck that goes down for a dive. I had only one thing on my mind - to get away from the suction. The band was still playing. I guess all of the band went down. They were playing 'Autumn' then. I swam with all my might. I suppose I was 150 feet away when the Titanic, on her nose, with her afterquarter sticking straight up in the air, began to settle slowly.... The way the band kept playing was a noble thing. I heard it first while we were still working wireless, when there was a ragtime tune for us, and the last I saw of the band, when I was floating out in the sea with my lifebelt on, it was still on deck playing 'Autumn'. How they ever did it I cannot imagine." Harold Bride, the junior wireless operator, in an interview for the New York Times of April 19th 1912 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sinking_of_the_TitanicBumping this for petsite, although he probably knows it back to front.
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Post by jk on Apr 8, 2024 2:52:39 GMT -5
While searching for a track I know I'd posted at EH (and finding it) I happened on some ancient sentences from a long-gone poster about Vaporwave, a fascinating genre I discovered some three years ago: "I think vaporwave and other mellow kind of music like that might gain in popularity. Speaking personally, I don't often sit down and solely listen to an album anymore like I did in college. If I'm listening to music it's usually as background noise while I clean the apartment, do the dishes, make dinner, write an article, etc. I imagine for many people today that's the way it is too. Vaporwave, something chill and that isn't too distracting is often pretty good for things like that. It's also relatively simple to create." I think they'd appreciate Sovietwave too. This mix is unbeatable in my book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovietwave
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