/a e s t h e t i c/

>A E S T H E T I C

fuck off

no seriously, fuck off

And I'll start this thread off with Virna Lindt, who I never see mentioned on /mu/:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fd1fNjgw_rg

>>70046360
the spelling is whatever but I wrote it that way because I think people know what I'd mean by that.

basically, the thread is just something where I can more likely find the kinds of tracks I'm looking for for background music

>>70046341
every piece of art has an aesthetic, it's intrinsic in art. your thread has no specific purpose.

I expect the thread to start off with just me posting stuff I like lately, until maybe some other people with similar tastes catch onto what I'm going for.

I'll just post some stuff and you can probably pick up on what I mean. I'm really just doing this because I want to find more stuff to listen to while I make art.

This track is a good example of what would fit in here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1MQfj4iQpM

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>>70046341

I enjoyed how, for years, I could use a word like aesthetic without fear that it would turn into some code word for being a conforming and yet somehow still pretentious and obnoxious fuck.

>>70046541
Actually, a lot of art attempts to be anti-aesthetic, even if that would seem to be impossible.

Basically what I mean though is more an attention to style and vibe. There is an approach to art or music that gets about having kind of a heightened focus on the the style itself, the atmosphere, aura etc. Just an approach to listening. This would be the way me and a lot of friends listen to music, and there is a lot of music - new and old - that is more aestheticized like that.

A way to put it is that I want stuff that is 'dreamy', or atmospheric, or really hyperstylized, or weird, but not bound by any one genre.

Another way to put it would be 'tracks that are basically dreampop even though they're not dreampop'.

I make this thread because that's what interests me. Contribute if you like.

>>70046610
I think her first couple releases were definitely going for this idea, but I felt like the last one somehow didn't have any vibe to it or something.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J67muL-TA2k

>>70046701
As I said, I don't want a limited take on this idea, the only perimeters are to do with a certain kind of trippiness.

I'm not interested in really narrow aesthetic ideas like 'vaporwave' that reduce something to this really simple formula, when there are so many other ways to do things.

Really I just want to hear some dope tracks, that are more atmospheric yet maybe kind of poppy.

>>70046719
>Actually, a lot of art attempts to be anti-aesthetic, even if that would seem to be impossible.

You're gonna have to substantiate this claim. Art has aesthetic b/c it requires an idea behind it for it to be created. All art has purpose and principle, even if the purpose is to be w/o purpose/principle.

Some recommendations:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aC2sCOiCgf4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Az6Vi56eLTg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsYRfOy0J9w

>>70046831
Are you familiar with art theory and history? Because that issue has been up in the air since the 19th Century.

Oscar Wilde argued that art doesn't have any moral or social purpose, that aesthetics are what matter. There was a whole movement during his time called Aestheticism, and that approach continues to be one of the positions one can take. Contrast this with 19th Century critic John Ruskin who felt art should communicate something.

20th Century modernism - as in pre-war modern art was very formally experimental but the different motivations or approaches taken ranged all over the place. Some were spiritually influenced, some were about material experimentation, some were political. Some attempted to tie formal experimentation to politics, others saw it as distinct.

In the post-war years there was a critic who had basically brought Modernist art together under this idea of Formalism, which, again, was about the form itself, and the materials bringing attention to themselves, rather than any 'purpose or principle'.

This was soon followed by the opposite... by the 'dematerialization of art' as the 60s progressed and art began to evolve past certain formal perimeters and then got more and more textually / conceptually based.

By the 70s, theory and art had gone way more towards textuality, towards ideas, and there was often a very 'anti-aesthetic' approach, that attempted to subvert the image itself, aesthetics itself. To be as unsightly or non-artistic as possible. You see this in some video performance art. Or Paul McCarthy, etc. It was more about the idea, or the politics, or the context.

This post-war, postmodern 'textual' approach had been the dominant approach all through the late 20th Century.

(cont)

>>70047121
(cont)

There was a book for instance called The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Post-Modern Culture that gets into that idea.

So when I say that focusing more on aesthetics is a distinct approach, I really mean it. A recent example is critic culture, who are very bound to the linguistic, 'narrative', socio-political, 'meaningful', 'purposeful' approach to art.

This is why so much music writing lately seems to evaluate music based on how it pitches itself in relation to some political/social narrative. Look at how Beyonce is written about. That's the postmodern approach. About 'context', text, etc.

Then there are people who are more into the style or aesthetics itself. Not interested in the context or purpose... just want to hear some interesting sounds and vibes. I prefer this more.

I really recommend this tape to anyone who hasn't heard it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSKV_owUDhk&t

It came out in 1990 but I think it anticipates approaches that were going to catch on more after the 2000s.

>>70047317
This seriously sounds like it could have been made in 2008, or 2012.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7YKSx-rkWw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0Z3XTUmIC8

>>70047237
Waited for you to type all that out b/c i wanted to see if you were going to bring up an original point outside of quoting art history. I understand your position a bit more, in the future you should probably outline that in your opening post, and not attempt to be so clickbait-y.

Still, in regards to your point about anti-aestheticism, you did not provide a single example of art w/o aesthetic or purpose. In fact, you proved that aesthetic and purpose are so central to the creation of art that the most an artist can do in rejection of them is to shift between the two point of purpose and (artistic) principle, putting more focus on one or the other but never eliminating either.

But again, I should retract my statement that this thread has no purpose. I would just let you know the OP is very misleading and seems like a "post music you like" thread.

>>70047121
>2nd one:
Italo Disco provides a good definition of 'aesthetic' for the purposes this thread: it was a conscious retro revival of disco by a certain label, blending an nascent nostalgia for an era with the emerging synth technology of the 90's. It was a popular wave that centered around a single label label, making it simple to understand.

>3rd one:
Was this 'avant garde' for its era? It seems to be breaking Vaporwave ground.
>>70046360
>>70046541
>>70046701
I think Avant garde is the term. The third song >>70047121 captures an ambiance, a mood, that might have been tangible in any other artform let along song. OP talks about 'textures'. Some Avant Garde is purely technical, exploring new technologies and affects possible through exploring these technologies, sometimes it's after the feels. Perhaps, a little bit of both. 'Aesthetic' is kitschy though appropriate; a pleb-tier way of speaking of music. Hhowever the proper term may be avant garde.

>>70047610
(not OP)
Art 'w/o a purpose' would be making a statement, political or otherwise. This degrades the integrity of the work, and can not be considered true art. An artist may speak out about politics, as s/he should, however a work of 'art' that can be reduced to a statement, within the context of an interplay between critics and performers/artists, cannot be true art.

Neil Young is an artist, and yes he does talk touch on the politics of the era. Beyonce, however, is not, if she is effectively holding up a target for critics to hit.

>>70047610
I wasn't going to launch into a history of art in my opening post. Was just trying to think of how to get across the idea, because as I think I said, me and a lot of friends and whole music scenes I know listen to music in this way and with this sensibility, but it's hard to describe the criteria.

No offense, but given that I don't think you really know your art history, I don't think you would know what an "original point" on the subject might be, because I could easily just say something that any artist or theorist say and you'd not recognize it.

And actually I'm not disagreeing with you though... I agree that everything IS aesthetic. I strongly agree with this. And the fact that art has wrestled with form vs content, and aesthetics vs context, shows that they can't escape aesthetics. I would argue that the text or framing is less important (the purposing), but actually that argument that art really comes down to its purposing has been the accepted definition for the last 50+ years.

I don't deny context, and I know that there is always intent... but to me intent is more than just social or meaningful in a linguistic sense... and I think that after context is forgotten a work can still have its own life and impact and presence, which is why I'm more of an aestheticist than a conceptualist. Although I have room for both and actually kind of hybridize the two.

Sorry, didn't mean to attack you earlier btw, but I actually majored in this stuff and I could honestly write books on it.

Again, the main point of the thread is just a thread for posting any cool track with an ear for style and vibe.

>>70047740
>might have been tangible
That might *not* have
>Art 'w/o a purpose'
Art *with* a purpose

>>70047740
Yeah, I agree that in a way this thread is very much a kind of 'avant garde' thread in another form... it's just that any style is fair game, rather than purely 'art music', although a lot of 'art music' will be posted here, but a lot of 'trashy' stuff too.

>>70047827
'aesthetic' might be appropriate within the context of discussing aspects of songs within a genre, though on the whole, by painting with broad strokes whole genres, you might be better off with the term 'avant garde'.

(Genres do have their own etiology, however. They don't advance at some uniform pace, an an artist has his/her own 'roots' and might advance a certain style that was found in previous genres)

I like this track because it's kind of one of those odd, murky, New Age-ish songs from the 70s made for who knows what purpose, but it has this kind of slight sinister edge to it. Kind of anticipates 80s horror music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-eBTLyS5Ho

>>70047944
I would use avant-garde but I have reasons for not using it.

First, because avant-garde denotes music actually made in that experimental kind of 'art music' mode, whereas while a lot of such music might be posted in here, a lot of stuff here also might have been made just as dance music, or for commercial purposes - for literal commercials, or porn, whatever.

Also, avant suggests a kind of outlook that doesn't take into account the updates in thought, art, theory... avant originally was more about modernism, whereas post-modernism rejected originality or being 'ahead' of everyone else, or originality. I'm not a postmodernist. And I do believe there is a kind of avant-ish mode that Capital A art (or that whole mode of approaching art and culture) which is 'ahead' of things... it's just now you can be ahead on taste but listen to some new stuff, some old stuff, some experimental, some pop.

I use 'aesthetic' because, although it has become a meme, it originates (in that sense of its use) from this kind of recent approach to music and art that seems very focused more in vibe and style, sonics and imagery in themselves. And while perhaps I was being clickbait-y in my OP for the sake of communications purposes, I used /aesthetic/ because I think people can get what I mean by it... listening to music with a kind of 'avant' ear... except not just listening to self-consciously avant music only, but also anything else.

It's basically a crate-digging thread, or more accurately, a thread for digging through youtube channels and finding anything that sounds fresh and interesting, whatever its source.

I'll probably continue to make this general sometimes, under the title /aesthetic/. I expect some people to respond, as with anything, with calls of pretentiousness or whatever, but that's a given on a board like this.

I'm not sure what the source of this is... if it's something the youtube channel creator edited together... but I really like it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EhuGpIcjlY

>>70047827
I Worded that badly. I wasn't disparaging you and saying you didn't make an original point, just letting you know I was waiting for you to finish posting before I responded. I believe the art history portion was a bit patronizing, and I'm not sure what grounds you have for telling me I don't know my art history, but it doesn't worry me too much anyway.

I've also been too harsh, kind of came out of the gate swinging b/c of how many horrible threads there are on a daily basis.

Here's something for the thread, not sure if it's what you're looking for: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkVvXvt1PFk

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>>70048173
Art consciously being 'art' or 'avant garde' or anything isn't art. It's not a pre-frontal cortex kinda thing.

>avant originally was more about modernism
Perhaps we in the 21st century have to use the term 'avant garde' in context-relevant ways.

>>70047951
I dig anon's post, and it seems to confirm that what we are discussing is 'avant garde' aspects of music. It's always best to appreciate music and say what isn't art than say what is.

>>70048248
Hey, thanks man. I was expecting a bit of the usual reaction so I didn't take it personally. And didn't mean to condescend to you either.

I really like that track. Damn.

>>70046409
Another cute half-Asian girl with mental problems.

>t. /pol/

>>70048297
>Art consciously being 'art' or 'avant garde' or anything isn't art. It's not a pre-frontal cortex kinda thing.
Hey, I kinda agree. Kinda, sorta.

>>70048346
Yeah I should eat my own words. It's wiser to say what isn't art than what is.

I think there is a lot of intelligence and awareness in advancing certain qualities techniques, and sounds through works that a music may be aware of being avant-garde.

>>70048321
Yeah, Silica Gel are really interesting, found them a week or so ago through a cover of a Resident's song they did. They (I believe it's 2 people) do an incredible job at evoking different environments w/ every track. Kind of reminds me of Vampire Rodents and Negativland (who I think they worked w/ for awhile).

>>70048339
I had heard some of Virna Lindt's music in dj sets before, but had never known who she was until recently.

Probably my favorite artist at the moment:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OcYQRDPks8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moDHKBO0xS4

Listen to that stuff!^

James Asher - telecom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuQPhWcE75M

Frank Ricotti - the artifact
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HF8W1YaQBM

(Junko Yagami)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrszgmYUldQ

Surf Nazis Must Die soundtrack (1987) [Jon McCallum]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLYxlS8enk4&t

THIS

Software - Digital Dance (1988) full album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnSr6Svxb1M

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>>70046783
Damn.
That reminds me, who else is into the High Highs?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNetQupRJjo&list=PLBYW1x5n-NqadPc_KS1Kg2magY9m31JV5
I love Aus-pop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU8HrO7XuiE
is this /aesthetic/?

>>70048784
How about
>/AVG/
Avant Garde General?

>>70048742
Haven't heard them before, thx

>>70048784
it's aesthetic's copy-cat little sister who doesn't quite get it

>>70048814
I explained here: >>70048173 why I didn't go with the name avant garde

Most simply, because 3/4ths of the stuff in here wasn't avant garde music intentionally.

>>70048784
>First result of "Vaporwave" on YouTube
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE DELET THIS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzGpWfFB7aw

Elegance - Vacances j'oublie tout
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CstPu4ZSmvE

This is a sound I've just gotten into recently. This French 80s kind of post-disco where these French white people kind of rap the lyrics.

Some Italo goes into this territory too, but the French variety is way funkier and sleazier.

But it all sounds really fresh and modern in that French kind of way. I can see why French House sounds the way it does.

Like this one sounds a little silly in a way but the chorus is really amazing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X_3e1eavDs

>>70049015
Of course we like Ferraro in here, but he's only one of many people who do things with this approach. He definitely has his own touch though.

Geoff Bastow - Upmarket
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEJDKpjVCXU

Holger Czukay, Jah Wobble & Jaki Liebezeit - Full circle (rps no.7)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWAplMCK03Q

Le Club - Un fait divers et rien de plus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQcAGi3HFy8

>>70047740
>I think Avant garde is the term

avant garde is somewhat less obnoxious because it doesn't actually presume a genre, simply an exploratory bent to the music. same as experimental.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2O5Z6W9Aj14

>>70049325
avant garde and experimental presume an intent in the music usually though. I would argue that the thread is avant / experimental on the listener end of things - in how we are receiving the music - but too much of the music isn't avant itself (although you might say a lot of it is accidentally, or incidentally experimental, or experimentalism by stuff outside the avant world)

>>70049369
Great one.

More stuff like this. Exactly.

Man Parrish - Water Sport
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4H5G4SAZLU

non meme vaporwave nostalgic aesthetics, city nights and 90's tech>suicide rap arizona bottles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNqnZd967PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2WfYYBuBgs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdpsZb2JMr0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSNLA4thH_0

>>70049424
Does the moniker of "avant-garde" require an intent towards experimentation?

>>70049543
I like just about any aesthetic at its best. I just prefer to keep it evolving and exploring, rather than being all "it's specifically about [this] perimeter of style, which we call [ ___ ]. The perimeters here are more just vibe, weirdness, interestingness, some certain magic quality.

>>70049598
It's a tangled idea at this point because it has long since played with the idea of ditching 'intentionality', originality, etc. But that said, something of the avant mode of intent is still in there. Maybe not an intent towards original creation, but an intent of purposing non-art materials as art or whatever. And even all that idea is really old news at this point.

So I prefer to recognize that there is an art-world mode of doing things but I prefer not to go with 'avant', although I know what it is referring to. It's just that at this point it's referring more to the mode of the listener than of the art, because much of the art enjoyed wasn't made as avant art.

>>70049598
better wording for this on my part would probably be "the intent to experiment"

>>70049727
The way I see it is that there is a distinct 'art mode/art world' that 'avant' might refer to.

Then there's just all culture. Stuff in the art mode/world, and stuff outside it in various other cultural modes, can all be really great.

The art mode I think has a kind of reflectiveness and eye/ear for where things can be... how do I say this... resonant and impactful in a way that operates more vibrantly and on many levels. But what can be experienced at this point in the art mode can come from any source, inside or outside the art world. Some things are more conductive to that experience than others though. But they can be things that were experimentally constructed, or things that weren't, but then were discovered and repurposed or experienced in that way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ej4j4IjYeg

don't care for deans other projects. but this shit gives me feels like no others
i emailed him for the sample he used but he didn't answer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8OP2sf9tKo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lGkX6cTTXM

>>70049872
>expecting the genius to share his secrets

>>70049872
I thought I'd heard that he'd taken all his videos down? I'm glad he didn't./

Yeah that's a really cool track.

>>70049940
he did but he posted on fb a mega account with all of his videos saved

>>70049592
The Software album is so good.

>>70049952
And other people reposted them up on youtube then?

>>70049984
yeah

https://elserenorecords.bandcamp.com/track/side-a-2

>>70050012
Sweeeet. Seems irresponsible to me to just erase all this cool relevant work.

Carol - Breakdown

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FB7cztiRTdw

>>70050098
yeah same don't know why he did it tbqh

anyway this thread is nice hopefully it'll stay.

>>70050121
Yeah, he was probably just having a depressed day. Hope he's feeling better.

Thanks. I mean to post this thread up here and there. I don't want to just live at my computer, so I can't do it every day, all day. But maybe it can be a semi-regular thing where we can share stuff like this after we've been digging around for a while.

I'll bookmark dope tracks I find to then repost in these threads whenever I make them.

Elisa Waut - Russia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEazqDobhBc

THIS song!!^

Cherushii feat. Maria Minerva - Thin Line

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrXs9YHqE58

>>70050280
Also, RIP Cherushii (Oakland fire)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VM8M_6Hp87I

more Virna Lindt:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITGW-zfhl7M

Sounds kind of silly at first but listen for when her awesome voice comes in and the weird effects. Incredible.

She has a certain balance of sophisticated / arty combined with tacky / kitsch that is just delicious.

These songs suck. Do you guys have autism?

>>70050431
It's a certain kind of taste.


Λένα Πλάτωνος (Lena Platonos) - Shadow Of Blood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIoYrkzTQoE

Cocteau Twins - Pur

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ws96F9GIok

>>70046409
wait what's going on here is this a joke?

David & Steve Gordon - Lightspring (1987)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOHgjMEUQWI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4d9054xUrzA

Don Slepian - Sea of Bliss (1983)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FX17aCOp7BM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FSTyRvOVos

Joel Graham - Night
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlOX3JyAcl8

Arica - Heaven (1971)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EifAUviTmw

Jon Hassell - Toucan Ocean (1977)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhVmiyJUNuQ

Ariel Pink - Frontman/For Kate I Wait (Instrumental)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADT-HeMjmrM

Taeko Ōnuki - Carnaval

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxBOBHWMNLM

Valerie Dore - Get Closer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BF_5FSAvRdE

Valerie Dore - The Night
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbEXWOBwi0E

Huerco S. - Those Of You Who Have Never (And Also Those Who Have)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Cc-0beyRXE&t

OP here. That's probably it for today. I'm happy-ish with the thread. Might make another one sometime.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U46jyfhWVLU

>>70051591
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWj7FyGfrVU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DDSgvHUsi0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uC1Q16LEb3E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhiIWNOEhoE

viiiiiiibeeess

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_o2Z5UgA64

Another bump

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Uw2eEVO00w

>>70053083
Yeah, stuff like that is very relevant to the thread:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFtghg3DS_o

>>70053217
Check this clip out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JBScLyNC6E

Or this entire movie (The Tower, 1993):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZvOa9hWxME&t

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this aesthetic right here mang:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpQokcyUJ7c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gN_T7WIEzSs

Mortal Kombat's whole dark, merciless, fantasy-techno-martial-arts-videogame aesthetic always tripped me out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMosd-mR9Z4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuFMkvoRNqM

Thread needs some Ash Ra

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9zmiN-wZmI

have some relevant youtubecore

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7aYjRl_6Zw&t

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kw3mlykbAfk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6r4nFbFXZIs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgGK4qBTwpw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUOWg-psY5E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_O0DHvtjXo

Here you go
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxMBtlrJbbI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72hgAwUZ_ZM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXpAEYnvl70

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bn0mQf9y3GQ

>>70054880
Love it.

Anything more like that you know of?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBWn_Icve3M

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This thread needs some Grouper

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6U2mO2Yspsc

>>70054963
hahaha, oh gosh

>>70054941
there's a I'm Fuckin You Tonight (part 2) but I can't find it anywhere

This band was good, kinda hope they come back in some form:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfwfUF72BY4

is this aesthetic enough for you op

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NrKW0s1yAM

>>70055013
Cool. Any other acts that sound at all like that?

>>70055042
Huh. Mostly. Anything that makes my brain feel weird is good.

Too bad the beats that come in are more typical house beats but I like the vocal fuckery.

>>70055097
(sameposter)

Actually the more I listen to this the more I like it.

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Prurient time!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6kBfOUOkec
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dgFykz0bNo

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Holger Czukay - Hiss 'N' Listen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGhE5Is7VMI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9L4q-0Pi4E

check this out, pretty good obscure vaporwave release

>>70055323
I'm afraid that's too rare for this thread

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obligatory canonical /aesthetic/ material:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pins1y0XAa0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaJ46lLIVmE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81Ro7vt_U8g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlBnDpZD9Vk

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>>70055414
More tracks from The Beyond. Fabio Frizzi is worth looking into if you haven't yet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmA6JyKWHSo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4vrgbvmpQs&t

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWd6_jIT3EM

siiiiiccccc

>>70055414
>>70055536
>>70055587
Horror soundtracks are really where the dopest shit is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rdiL6MbBKw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsSLd44dM8I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwsBHtIPRfo

i don't get synthwave. for something that's supposed to replicate 80s mood, it does an awful job imo. the majority of synthesized 80s music i heard is exaggerated and cheesy, even some of darker minimal wave tracks are often wonky as hell. synthwave, on other hand, is sleek and polished. it's "cool". i don't feel any of that trademark 80s cheese in synthwave. am i looking at wrong things?

>>70055097
>>70055111
Thats Jaw Jam for ya :)

>>70056034
Depends if you mean that in a general way (like, including all new experimental synth music), or specifically are talking about that 'synthwave' stuff on youtube that calls itself synthwave is trying to do like that Nightrider kind of vibe...

I agree that that latter shit is lame. I'm actually really against the kind of approach that takes some cool-ish idea like that and reduces it to this really watered-down cliche. I think 'vaporwave' (again, in the generic sense, not some loose sense of just vibey stuff) is really lame too. Taking the passing interest of a number of much more experimental artists and getting fixated on some skewed idea of what it even was until it becomes super stale and loses sight of what it is even about.

I like atmosphere and style/vibe-aware approaches to music and art, but there will always be less original or interesting people who come along and turn little parts of it into lame cliches. Which is kind of like, say, if some scientists just focused on the skin an animal has shed, while the animal is still off somewhere else, very much alive, but the scientists are completely unaware of the animal and only focus on the dead, corroding skin, thinking that is all there is, getting a less and less accurate take (if you're not following, I'm saying that stuff like synthwave or vaporwave is like the rot of dead skin that something more vital and interesting shed some time ago, which is still alive).

This is cool as fuck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvN8Mpl-zOI

This too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6RI-cc9UfQ

>>70056151
:)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xe-22iieZ28

Puce Mary - The Spiral

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5s-KLGVcTI&t

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Michael Rother - Feuerland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzHTV_6mcxY

Michael Rother - Sterntaler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5Jsuged1_E

If you haven't heard Michael Rother's (of Neu!) solo stuff, you need to.

>>70046409
hahahaha I just now see what I'd posted there.

youtube had recommended that ASMR girl and I was briefly viewing it in another tab and apparently copypasted that link instead of the song I meant to.

This is what I had meant to post:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOKCJy1JCL0

Although I love the idea of posting ASMR videos in this /aesthetic/ general, it really fits.

>>70057520
*saw (it's late)

>>70046360
This

>>70057529
read the thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqyRXXXgjws

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listen this album !!

https://svccy.bandcamp.com/releases

https://soundcloud.com/svccymusic

>>70057777
>wasting those quads on a video that's not even up anymore

it's a good album though. haven't heard it in a while.

>>70057799
is that your album, anon?

>>70057777
here's a link to that album that works

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBxMRzpPm50&list=PL3zHDlqF9u4hXudzReDEcJMoMYW9hhOLC

(a playlist link)

>>70057805
>>70057856
the original link works for me

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i can never make up my mind as to whether dub tech is aesthetic or not

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV2tk0g2QrE

>>70057777
>Ferraro - NYC, Hell 3:AM
actually interesting and inspired. also, much better than his album that influenced all the 'vaporwave' copycats

>>70057799
probably watched some "how to make vaporwave" tutorial on youtube

>>70057887
weird, says it's not available here.

>>70057911
in my opinion, pretty much any dance genre is potentially - and usually - aesthetic.

there's usually a combination of a kind of trippiness with some degree of tackiness/kitschness... plus a lot of inbuilt necessary aesthetic limitations related to its dance functionality and medium, that makes for an interesting aesthetic experience and either something that sounds extremely hip or so unhip it becomes perversely hip

>>70057912
>weird, says it's not available here
in response to >>70057902

>>70057969
although, I'd add... that dub tech definitely isn't one of the more kitschy dance genres but if anything is too 'deep' and respectable to the point of often being uninteresting. but it has an ambient murkiness that can be cool in itself.

I mean the /aesthetic/ idea / way of listening can apply to nearly anything, but given what that way of listening seeks out, certain things will stand out more. like, obviously a giallo soundtrack, art disco, or kosmisch is going to have more a e s t h e t i c appeal than, I dunno, Social Distortion or something else drab and more linguistic/narrative like Patti Smith.

>>70057912
>dissing FSV
it's literally a perfect album, m8

>>70058144
It's pretty cool but not something I'd really want to listen to.

And I feel like NYC Hell is doing much more interesting things. A lot of people had been riffing on the whole 'magic trippy logos' thing for a while.

>>70049032
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CstPu4ZSmvE
is this a modern example?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3IXEbl5jhc

can we get a /sleaze/ general instead? I swear that's what this was initially supposed to be like in the original thread