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Am I listening to descriptionwave?

Pad Chennington is literally the walking vaporwave encyclopedia.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Ｖａｐｏｒｗａｖｅ is my life at this point

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...

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

*the N in n m e s h is* ＳＩＬΣＮＴ

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

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.

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

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

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

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 :)

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

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.

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.

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.

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!

URAP URAP URAP URAP URAP URAP URAP URAP URAP URAP

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

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!

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.

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!

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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!

you're our very own vapor queen

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

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.

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

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

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

Dude. Your Spanish! You crushed it. Subbed

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 absolutely love every album mentioned!

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’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?

4 years later and signalwave is still going strong

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!!

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

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

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 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

Nmesh is pronounced mesh, my man. Can’t blame you for saying it like it’s read, but it’s like getting stabbed in the ears every time. Also, good job with the video, there’s a noticeable improvement in your delivery.

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.

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.

Vaperwave is like heavy metal with all the subgenres of subgenres

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.

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.

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?

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Just when you think youre getting comfy and home in those calm and ambient moments- **AD PLAYS**

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

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

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

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

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 :)

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

KZfaq recommendations delivers today! Cool video, thank you for creating this.

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

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

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..

Bless the KZfaq algorythm, he finally learned what music, vibes I obsess over

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

I used to love 90s late night tv. Seen more infomercials than probably anybody else.

Man talks about dank synth noise

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.

Telenights really is something special. Love that album.

You really nailed it with the thumbnail

Man I hope Nouveau Life is on this list. Edit: Ah well, its a great example of this genre. If you're looking through comments for more examples of this, give Nouveau Life's New World a listen.

What is he listening on? Like what website does he keep pulling up when showing tracks

The length of the description might as well be an entire vaporwave wikipedia page lmao. Great vid

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

I like the really experimental glitch and ambient duo known as matmos making glitch and ambient music out of everyday samples and more unusual ones

Sounds like Boards of Canada but 20 years late

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.