Yes, excellent thread. I'm reading through with my phone right now.
The live translation is pretty good. I'm going to be sad when google discontinues it and locks it behind a paywall. Sample:
Chuck Person's Eccojams Vol. 1
Chuck Person
The Curatorial Club
2010/08/08
The track "Angel" from this album can be seen in a video uploaded to YouTube by Sunset Corp. on July 19, 2009. It was uploaded exactly 10 years ago, and is said to be the origin of Vaporwave.
The person who uploaded it under the name of Sunset Corp. is Daniel Lopatin, also known as Oneohtrix Point Never (hereafter OPN). After "Angel," he uploaded "Nobody Here" and other songs with videos. The videos are simply loops of 1980s video deck commercials and old-fashioned computer graphics, which were the most advanced at the time, and the music is a sample of Toto's music, which is looped monotonously and speed-changed, to the point where it can be called a display. It is a strange sampling music that can only be described as junk. These songs uploaded on YouTube were released as an album on August 8, 2010, as "Chuck Person's Eccoj ams Vol.1." The jacket is modeled after a CG of a shark that resembles SEGA's MegaDrive, and the letters "ECCO" and "MEGA-" are displayed in large letters. Visuals and music that are the height of junky. You will notice that the foundations of this style were in place before the term vape or wave even existed.
When OPN was making "Angel," he said, "I was experimenting with all sorts of things while working on a new album." True to his words, in "Replica," released a year later, the same technique as Eccojams can be heard -- "collecting junk and displaying it like a monster." Artists who incorporate this technique and incorporate it into their own songs began to appear, and since this work, James Ferraro, Vektroid, and Kotsukateki have also released albums. When I interviewed Kotsukateki in 2017, when asked why he chose to use the motif that defines Vaporwave, he replied, "There was that kind of atmosphere on the internet." This is a clear example of the development of the music industry and music itself in 2009, and the nature of Vaporwave, which can be seen as a critique of that development.
I thought that it was definitely OPN that created the atmosphere.
I am not someone who takes Vaporwave seriously, but simply enjoys listening to it as music. However,
I'm still listening to Vaporwave because I was really curious about why this music took this approach. This is an album that I would recommend to anyone who has just heard the term Vaporwave and wants to know more about it. (△KTR