ZFX + Developia

Psycho hat geschrieben:Kurz durchgeskippt und dachte was ist das fürn Rauschen.
Dann ganz geguckt, für gut befunden und nachts noch Ghost in the Shell geguckt (den von '95). Wollte den Film eh schon immer gucken.
Dann war es aber auf einmal 4 Uhr morgens. :/

MasterQ32 hat geschrieben:Falls ihr mal Zeit habt und ein wenig zu rockig/gemütlicher Musik nachdenken wollt:
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This album can only be described as a fever dream you once had when you fell asleep listening to the weather channel in the ~ 9 0 s ~
aka incredible.

He’s suggesting that NEWS AT 11—and perhaps his other records—are involved in an attempt to deny the reality of certain historical traumas. Indeed, this suggestion is lent further weight when he adds, “One thing I found out when browsing samples was that when a news station couldn’t deliver the live image right away, they cut to McDonalds commercials.” This might sound like an innocuous detail on its own, but together with his own cutting off of samples, it nonetheless provides a way of understanding the basic themes of his work. In its light, his music becomes an attempt at ‘suspended animation,’ at freezing history just before a cataclysmic moment and embellishing the frozen result with layers upon layers of consumer-oriented nostalgia.

He thinks this attempt is common to much of vaporwave, since “there’s a specific generation that creates vaporwave. A generation born in the 80’s and early 90’s who witnessed the world’s globalization and grew up with slow dial-up internet. Vaporwave has been, in my opinion, a nostalgic journey to the past.” As with his journey to the past, he believes other producers have made their own journeys so as to escape the harshness of the post-9/11 world, where political freedoms were suppressed in the name of such laws as the Patriot Act, and where potential careers were lost to the Great Recession of 2008. In order to escape such an unfriendly reality, he suggests, many producers have turned to the material culture and sounds of their childhoods.

In his own words, “Vaporwave relies heavily on 80’s consumerism, fashion, stylish malls with palm trees and late night drives on neon lit streets,” since these tropes help artists such as himself — and perhaps society as a whole — to deny that history has branched off in the way it actually has, and to act as if things have continued as their nostalgia reconstructs it.