The Mysterious Genre Known As "Signalwave": kzfaq.info/get/bejne/i52opqaXnJvLnps.html

This is my favorite subgenre of vaporwave. It's exactly how I picture a futuristic, yet emotionless, robotic mall plaza. It's all controlled by automatic intelligence. And it's strangely, strangely comforting.

Major respect for the detail you go into when you're going as far as to highlight bitrate.

We live in a simciety.

The way u talk about vaporwave reminds me of Patrick Bateman talking about huey Lewis and the news

take a shot every time you hear consumerism on this channel

I absolutely love how deep subcultures/music genres can get, thanks for all of these videos.

"Home" has taken over my life.

Oh man, if you like “High Fashion Mood Music,” you HAVE to check out “LARP of Luxury.” Gotta be my favorite Eyeliner album.

Dang your vids are always so solid. You have a way of talking about vaporwave that is concise and makes sense to people who haven't even heard it. I always recommend your videos to people who haven't heard vaporwave to try and get them interested 👍

I'm glad I was wrong when I thought Vaporwave was dead, having a limited knowledge of songs and having known only one person in my entire life who knew about the genre felt a bit... "desolating"?

Eyeliner is one of my favorite producers of all time. I didn’t even know there was more music like this.

I definitely need to explore deeper into these genres

Pad you should discuss the origin of plunderphonics (pre-vaporwave)

Death Grips is my favorite music genre.

I love the descriptions that you give. They seem so real and detailed and gives me a good idea of what I would want to listen to if I was new to the vaporwave genre.

I may be the only vaporwave fan that is actually in old enough to remember living in a distinctly vaporwave reality as a young adult in the 90s. I wore Structure, Gap and Nautica, and smelled of The Gap’s signature “grass scent”. I worked at The Body Shop. Had the first iMac. Later, worked in the corporate world of art consulting just after 9/11. High rises and empty corporate facilities at night were my working day.

Thank you for making videos explaining vaporwave and related genres. I had been listening to bits and pieces, not knowing what it was. Now I do and i have new music to explore. I'm psyched.

Pad Chennington, I don’t know how or why you ended up in my recommended, but I’m not complaining! Your material is written *so well.* Its almost like I’m listening to a documentary!

Mr. Chennington, I watched 8 minutes worth of ads in an effort to support you.

Eco-virtual is One artist I love to listen to and it take some back to those utopian landscapes of promised 90's future.

I still adore this genre and haven’t stopped listening to it. As much as its a critique in a sense of the consumeristic world, it’s also an extremely comforting genre for me. I always imagine myself living in some second life type world, being in a massive virtual mall with marble and palm trees, clear water.

Pad Chennington: The Vaporwave Scholar

So many genres, so little time!

Us 90s kids have grown up with and learned to cope with 8, 32 & 64 bit bottle rockets that have forced us to constantly hit a ceiling of promising, yet failing technology to compensate the subrogation of "the real thing". This uncanny valley of realism has a special nostalgia like no other era, in that our digital disappointment has become nostalgic.

I just recently discovered your channel and I’m really enjoying every video that I watch. Each one is just as interesting if not more interesting than the last-thank you! Keep up the incredible work!

You should do a video on the 2014 ambient/holy trap sound. People like cight, misogi, fifty grand etc

I know I comment on your vids a lot, but once again, you knocked it out of the park. Particularly liked the use of the Tame Impala edit.

tbh your descriptions of the albums make me wanna use your narrations for making vaporwave XD

I always keep coming back to your videos, I love your analyses and how you can describe the experience of listening to the different genres masterfully.

The other Vektroid album that was around that time on the BOTR label is also pretty utopian. I forgot the name, but its a super long, 75 minute album. Edit: 札幌コンテンポラリー by 情報デスクVIRTUAL

I *really* recommend the album Water Slide by glaciære, it's somber yet still manages to be very catchy.

I’ve always loved this flavor of vaporwave. Home was so hype when it came out, and I still remember when I was listening to Googleplex on the Dream Catalogue BC. sick vid

Love that “the world spins” background music ❤️ great vid as always

The videos are calming to watch!

I forgot all about the Home album, seeing the artwork made me nostalgic from when it came out. I don't even know that much vaporwave but somehow I stumbled upon that album when it came out

"a pre-determined terraine of virtual perfection" - man these scripts are insanely good

Very interesting. I once again find myself infatuated with a new microgenre I hadn't heard of before watching your video. Thanks for sharing.

I was pleasantly surprised when I saw this in my notifications. I was expecting this to be release next week like Pad said on his twitter. Pad just pulled a sneaky on us.

Thanks for another great video! Gotta say though in my first impression of Home, I find it far from lifeless. That key work is smooth!

beautiful video as always, pad!

Your album is got some bliss man.

Listening to this, I saw an image of the local Blockbuster Video in my mind's eye. Strong Vapors!

Every time i listen 18 Carat Affair's Spent Passions i imagine this series of sad films found at the back of some old video rental shop. please make a video on this interesting album

My god. I love this channel.

Honestly didn’t expect this today, hope you feel better paddy

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awww yiss pyravid gets a mention up next: all the other microgenres up to hardvapour

I love you working through all of these genres. It’s nice to really hear them flesh out and to see some notable examples within. (Also why is everyone asking you about the peanut funk album? I listened and liked it but people associate it with you. Did I miss something?)

If music can be moist.. this is defnietly it.

thank you for making these videos. fantastic rabbit hole of music to fall in to.

the second you compared that Pyravid album to Pokemon Snap, I was all over it. Thanks for the video

What do you think of chillwave and synthwave? Will you ever make videos on them?

Pad's non-stop bull dozer of genre authentication satisfies my simplistic taste for McNuggets dipped in exotic spicy sauces.

Great video on the importance and role of Utopian Virtual within the greater vaporwave movement. When I was newly getting into vaporwave music and learning to appreciate the various aspects of its aesthetic appeal, I remember always having this thought that the anonymous nature of its creators was an important part of enjoying the music and kind of 'suspending disbelief'. When I started to learn more about the genre and its creators, and I learned about some of the real people, the faces and names, behind the online monikers, I noticed that my appreciation for the music only improved. Seeing the real people behind the music chnages it, though. Those real people make you see the creation of the music and think of the thought processes that led to and undermine the tracks. They make you remember the components of the music being manipulated and combined have been touched by people who appreciate the past and are fascinated by the future, just like you. When you don't see the artist, only a pseudonym, it is easier to think of the music as otherworldly or untouched by man. While this can be great, it can be just as enriching or more to see the artist behind the music.

james ferraro is such a great artist "skid row" is my personal favourite

dude whenever I get a notif that you've uploaded I get so hyped

Yaaaa. It's Utopian Virtual Time!

hey man, just discovered your channel and this is some great coverage of vaporwave and the like, keep it up! This channel is one of my go-to's for discovering new albums to delve into What song/track is playing when you introduce "High Fashion Mood Music" at around 8:55 in the video tho?

you're so good at making videos like this. keep it up!

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Dude, just found your channel and it's like you are reading my associations from a teleprompter

is there a website for endless subgenres of vaporwave?

Ever made a Faux Utopian video? Internet Club has to BY FAR be my favorite artist from the genre.

What’s your tripcode on /mu/

a new comment from someone who discovered this video! those memos from my very childhood i used to explore largest/local printing house. i heard something like similar (been checking the utopian virtual Genre) and now i am here...

Pad, I started making a vaporwave song, and it sounded something like Freed From The World, an album I would not have known about without your channel. I'm thinking of continuing this pattern and making something similar to that album. Do you think that's a good idea? I love you channel by the way, and thanks for getting me into mallsoft and signal wave - some amazing content!

Nouveau Life™ by New World™ is probably my favorite vaporwave album of all time and I feel like falls in this wonderful category

I thought that home was a mallsoft album i eas addicted to utopian virtual for a long time,damn

dope video bro......(bring back the vaporwave artist interviews 💜)

Music is life.

Hey:) Casual reminder that if people are that they when you feel like its there to them... Ask the one! Theres nothing wrong with which one that we dont know.... We are only there. Hope this helps:)

So what makes this a sub genre and not just vaporwave???

Now you can just dl it and set it as a ringtone

acid bath makes pretty perfect music

All these albums gonna get the "Pad Bump". Good for them! :)

There's a UK artist who goes by Murlo. He has a very unique and distinct sound. He's also an animator and illustrator. I encountered him through the instrumental grime scene that had a revival round 2013 on this VA called BXDLDN of which there were two volumes, allong with many others that were coming up back then. Really good stuff. I personally think that his work is groundbreaking although very much overlooked.

can you make a video solely about james ferraro? he's been super influential in internet music

dunno if it is new retro wave , synth pop or chill trap But Alex - Paradise ( feat. Ruta - Absolute Valentine Remix) is an EPIC song and brings peace e pleasure

Virtual Information Desk’s “Sapporo contemporary” is worth the listen for sure

Jesus, so glad I found you out

Another great genre explained video what is the track playing in the background starting @ 8:55 when you go into High Fashion Mood Music - Eyeliner?

i wish i could give my soul to the machine

another great nerdcore analysis! Check out LORDSUN’s -LOVE FROM PEACH - vapor trap but w/ a nice boom bap simplicity to it - plus very upbeat -i always bump it when its sunny a genre defying tune i def think you’ll dig :)

i loved this video. im a huge fan of utopian virtual.

1 view, 2 likes, 5 comments Good job, KZfaq.

Actually, Ska is the perfect genre. (Btw, that remix of Oh Sheit it’s X is pretty awesome)

Make a huge Genre Review Series! We beg of you Pad.

Not sure if it's the right genre but One Hundred Mornings by Windows96 it's one of the best thigns I've listen to lately and I've only found out about them last year

Yo! I don’t know if you still read comments, but I think a… interesting genre you could take a look at is Extratone. Basically noise music that you can still find the pure base of the music in it.

Reminds me of office space.

This shit's my aesthetics, gotta listen to some albums

This is the perfect shit

Dude, what is the song playing when your talking about Eyeliner? I know it's some vaporwave remix of Tame Impala's "Yes I'm Changing" but I can't find it.

1:04 that's a slow version of Asayake by Casiopea.

Pad did you cop the mr. peanut vinyl, I sure did!

YESSSSS thank you so much

Canyon.mid? I've been trying to get my hands on an MT-32 so I can make an "all midi" album.

Amazing vid my dude! Any chance of doing synthwave? The kid cousin of Vaporwave

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