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MACINTOSH PLUS - リサフランク420 / 現代のコンピュー |. MACINTOSH PLUS - リサフランク420 / 現代のコンピュー (Drum Cover). MACINTOSH PLUS - リサフランク420 / 現代のコンピュー (Guitar cover). Macintosh Plus - リサフランク420 / 現代のコンピュー(kazoo/guitar cover). MACINTOSH PLUS - リサフランク420 / 現代のコンピュー (8bit C64 cover). MACINTOSH PLUS - リサフランク420 / 現代のコンピュー (Otamatone cover). MACINTOSH PLUS - リサフランク420 / 現代のコンピュー (bottle cover\DeJoy). MACINTOSH PLUS - リサフランク420 / 現代のコンピュー (marimba cover). MACINTOSH PLUS - リサフランク420 / 現代のコンピュー (but it's a sad keyboard cover). MACINTOSH PLUS リサフランク420 / It's All In Your Car. MACINTOSH PLUS - リサフランク420 / 現代のコンピュー (on a worn out reel-to-reel tape). MACINTOSH PLUS - リサフランク420 / 現代のコンピュー | ( KALIMBA COVER ). MACINTOSH PLUS - リサフランク420 / 現代のコンピュー | (out of tune records cover). MACINTOSH PLUS On A Real Macintosh Plus. [wiki]
obligatory:
A E S T H E T I C
also:
It's always 4:20 somewhere.
posted by deadaluspark at 1:56 PM on July 5, 2020 [3 favorites]
A E S T H E T I C
also:
It's always 4:20 somewhere.
posted by deadaluspark at 1:56 PM on July 5, 2020 [3 favorites]
In case you are as puzzled as I was.
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 2:42 PM on July 5, 2020 [6 favorites]
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 2:42 PM on July 5, 2020 [6 favorites]
we should certainly play this at the local shopping mall's funeral
posted by pyramid termite at 3:15 PM on July 5, 2020 [3 favorites]
posted by pyramid termite at 3:15 PM on July 5, 2020 [3 favorites]
For the record, I am listening to this on a Macintosh through a McIntosh.
posted by ardgedee at 3:16 PM on July 5, 2020 [3 favorites]
posted by ardgedee at 3:16 PM on July 5, 2020 [3 favorites]
Vektroid has been streaming some music production on Twitch lately.
posted by ODiV at 3:18 PM on July 5, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by ODiV at 3:18 PM on July 5, 2020 [1 favorite]
For the record, I am listening to this on a Macintosh through a McIntosh.
Wait... you're listening to it through a literal Apple??
I'm too high for this.
posted by deadaluspark at 3:20 PM on July 5, 2020 [2 favorites]
Wait... you're listening to it through a literal Apple??
I'm too high for this.
posted by deadaluspark at 3:20 PM on July 5, 2020 [2 favorites]
> Wait... you're listening to it through a literal Apple??
No.
posted by ardgedee at 3:21 PM on July 5, 2020 [2 favorites]
No.
posted by ardgedee at 3:21 PM on July 5, 2020 [2 favorites]
I appreciate Vaporwave because it makes it clear that all those folks who laughed and laughed at engrish.com learned absolutely nothing about trying to use a language they don’t speak for decorative purposes
posted by DoctorFedora at 3:39 PM on July 5, 2020 [10 favorites]
posted by DoctorFedora at 3:39 PM on July 5, 2020 [10 favorites]
Lisa Frank 4:20 is also either sampled or reconstructed from the original sample in the title screen the mobile game MΔRBLΘID, which does not acknowledge Xavier at all, though whose music is written by New Zealand vaporwave artist Eyeliner, and some chap who goes by Donovan Hikaru.
Vektroid/Macintosh Plus is also conspicuously absent from what purports to be the soundtrack of a documentary on vaporwave titled Nobody Here, right down to the titular Chris De Burgh mashup being not the Vektroid Telnet Erotica version but a different track based on the same sample, credited to someone named Tupperwave. Which makes me wonder whether there was some sort of rift between her and a subset of the vaporwave scene, to the point of the scene declaring damnatio memoriæ on her and manufacturing a new synthetic history that erases her.
posted by acb at 4:15 PM on July 5, 2020 [1 favorite]
Vektroid/Macintosh Plus is also conspicuously absent from what purports to be the soundtrack of a documentary on vaporwave titled Nobody Here, right down to the titular Chris De Burgh mashup being not the Vektroid Telnet Erotica version but a different track based on the same sample, credited to someone named Tupperwave. Which makes me wonder whether there was some sort of rift between her and a subset of the vaporwave scene, to the point of the scene declaring damnatio memoriæ on her and manufacturing a new synthetic history that erases her.
posted by acb at 4:15 PM on July 5, 2020 [1 favorite]
The first link make me think immediately of Spliff Radio, who put together a few amazing compilations of vaporwave with bits and pieces of 80s Canadian and US television, shopping mall footage, and Japanese ads for electronics and cosmetics (direct link to said MACINTOSH PLUS track). Their work really puts me in that groove.
posted by They sucked his brains out! at 4:19 PM on July 5, 2020
posted by They sucked his brains out! at 4:19 PM on July 5, 2020
I appreciate Vaporwave because it makes it clear that all those folks who laughed and laughed at engrish.com learned absolutely nothing about trying to use a language they don’t speak for decorative purposes
Or perhaps the incongruity of obsolete computer interfaces/commercial pop music/&c. is a sort of metatextual equivalent of the glitch aesthetic applied to the audio and video, expressing a sort of alienation/dissociation/media overload/the human condition under late capitalism/all of the above? If the Japanese text was written by someone literate in Japanese, and the computer UI references were logically consistent, that would miss the point, being merely a technical exercise without a message.
posted by acb at 4:21 PM on July 5, 2020 [4 favorites]
Or perhaps the incongruity of obsolete computer interfaces/commercial pop music/&c. is a sort of metatextual equivalent of the glitch aesthetic applied to the audio and video, expressing a sort of alienation/dissociation/media overload/the human condition under late capitalism/all of the above? If the Japanese text was written by someone literate in Japanese, and the computer UI references were logically consistent, that would miss the point, being merely a technical exercise without a message.
posted by acb at 4:21 PM on July 5, 2020 [4 favorites]
Oh wow, this is a song I listened to quite a lot, but had completely forgotten and it just brought memories flooding back from … 10 years ago? I had just made a friend online (through Google Buzz, of all vapory things) and we started having tea or coffee over Skype.
We’d lived in a lot of the same places, even same buildings, but never at the same time. This must’ve been in 2011 because I had just spent a month in the same apartment complex she lived in for a few years in Boulder, Colorado.
Life was taking us towards the same basic part of the world, so we expected we’d meet up in real life sometime in the next few years, but then she had a brain hemorrhage and died. There had been some warning signs but because she was saving up for an impending cross-oceanic move she didn’t visit a doctor.
As is the case often with people who die suddenly, when you think back their death become the first and last point of call, but this song opened up a bunch of memories of conversations we had over Skype, often in her morning in Seattle and my evening in Reykjavík, through all the years of our friendship. These are images and sentences I haven’t thought about since she died.
Thank you, that was a lovely, unexpected gift.
posted by Kattullus at 4:26 PM on July 5, 2020 [19 favorites]
We’d lived in a lot of the same places, even same buildings, but never at the same time. This must’ve been in 2011 because I had just spent a month in the same apartment complex she lived in for a few years in Boulder, Colorado.
Life was taking us towards the same basic part of the world, so we expected we’d meet up in real life sometime in the next few years, but then she had a brain hemorrhage and died. There had been some warning signs but because she was saving up for an impending cross-oceanic move she didn’t visit a doctor.
As is the case often with people who die suddenly, when you think back their death become the first and last point of call, but this song opened up a bunch of memories of conversations we had over Skype, often in her morning in Seattle and my evening in Reykjavík, through all the years of our friendship. These are images and sentences I haven’t thought about since she died.
Thank you, that was a lovely, unexpected gift.
posted by Kattullus at 4:26 PM on July 5, 2020 [19 favorites]
To follow up on my previous comment, Spliff really introduced me gently to some great music. Of all the vaporwave artists, I think my favorites so far are t e l e p a t h and SAINT PEPSI.
posted by They sucked his brains out! at 4:27 PM on July 5, 2020
posted by They sucked his brains out! at 4:27 PM on July 5, 2020
It's literally just It's Your Move by Diana Ross slowed down and rearranged, but it's unreasonably effective at evoking 80's ennui.
posted by dephlogisticated at 7:06 PM on July 5, 2020 [7 favorites]
posted by dephlogisticated at 7:06 PM on July 5, 2020 [7 favorites]
I don't understand this at all, so I'm going to ask the one question I can even articulate: What's the connection to "shower thoughts" jokes?
posted by Reverend John at 7:07 PM on July 5, 2020
posted by Reverend John at 7:07 PM on July 5, 2020
It's literally just It's Your Move by Diana Ross
Thank you! My brain kept trying to tell me was a barely-remembered Hall & Oates track, but I couldn't quite give in to the idea.
posted by Greg_Ace at 8:47 PM on July 5, 2020 [1 favorite]
Thank you! My brain kept trying to tell me was a barely-remembered Hall & Oates track, but I couldn't quite give in to the idea.
posted by Greg_Ace at 8:47 PM on July 5, 2020 [1 favorite]
What's the connection to "shower thoughts" jokes?
The title is one of the YouTube comments, most of which are just jokey "we're so high" type of comments.
This song is also a thing that was used heavily with Vines.
posted by Fizz at 6:09 AM on July 6, 2020 [1 favorite]
The title is one of the YouTube comments, most of which are just jokey "we're so high" type of comments.
This song is also a thing that was used heavily with Vines.
posted by Fizz at 6:09 AM on July 6, 2020 [1 favorite]
Now I'm wondering whether one of the reasons Lisa Frank 4:20 caught on to the extent that it did could be that the sampled riff has a similar prosody to the chorus of that earlier big internet meme, Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up. It's not the same, but it may be close enough to subconsciously evoke it. (If 4:20 plays in my head for a while, at some point it will morph into a slowed-down “We've known each other for so long, you know the rules and so do I”.)
posted by acb at 8:58 AM on July 6, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by acb at 8:58 AM on July 6, 2020 [1 favorite]
acb:
My best guess at explaining her conspicuous absence is that I believe she felt burned by Todd at OESB for completely fucking up the vinyl release of floral shoppe and then continuing to press bootlegs of it after she revoked licence due to his inability to send copies out and/or refund money. Since then I believe she's much more gunshy about releasing tracks to others and the two vinyl releases of other albums I believe were self released.
As far as I know in the scene everyone still loves her but I don't blame her for not necessarily wanting to associate with some of the trite johnny-come-latelies (looking at tupperwave here for sure) that are on the Nobody Home soundtrack.
Yes is pretty heavily conjecture but I've been following the scene for six years or so now so I'm pretty confident in my assertion. She's now more legend status rather than active participant.
posted by wyndham at 11:56 AM on July 6, 2020 [4 favorites]
My best guess at explaining her conspicuous absence is that I believe she felt burned by Todd at OESB for completely fucking up the vinyl release of floral shoppe and then continuing to press bootlegs of it after she revoked licence due to his inability to send copies out and/or refund money. Since then I believe she's much more gunshy about releasing tracks to others and the two vinyl releases of other albums I believe were self released.
As far as I know in the scene everyone still loves her but I don't blame her for not necessarily wanting to associate with some of the trite johnny-come-latelies (looking at tupperwave here for sure) that are on the Nobody Home soundtrack.
Yes is pretty heavily conjecture but I've been following the scene for six years or so now so I'm pretty confident in my assertion. She's now more legend status rather than active participant.
posted by wyndham at 11:56 AM on July 6, 2020 [4 favorites]
Oh my god, the comments for the first video are amazing. Off to google "shower thoughts"...!
posted by Mchelly at 1:23 PM on July 6, 2020
posted by Mchelly at 1:23 PM on July 6, 2020
She's now more legend status rather than active participant.
Still, if the vaporwave documentary doesn't mention her, it would be like a documentary on krautrock omitting Conny Plank or something.
posted by acb at 4:09 PM on July 6, 2020 [1 favorite]
Still, if the vaporwave documentary doesn't mention her, it would be like a documentary on krautrock omitting Conny Plank or something.
posted by acb at 4:09 PM on July 6, 2020 [1 favorite]
If she's not in the vaporwave doc that would be absolutely ludicrous and r/vaporwave better collapse in on itself. My reasoning was just for her absence on the soundtrack.
posted by wyndham at 9:40 PM on July 6, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by wyndham at 9:40 PM on July 6, 2020 [1 favorite]
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