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7:19pm
Bri The Beatnik:
I love the whole slowed down 80s R&b/funk references. It made me go through a phase of looking up certain funk soul songs slowed and reverbed on YouTube, they just have that special vibe about them
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7:20pm
DJ Peter:
Or the clothes of space, that might be more laser tag zero-ish
7:20pm
A2B:
Good Evening, Gary & Bodegistas!
I've dl'ed quite a bit of vaporwave over the years, mostly from Soundcloud (I have an account there which I haven't used for quite a while now) and on YouTube. Also heard some really good synthwave produced during the 2010's on.
Whoever this Rollergirl is has obviously learned their chops and earned their props from Daft Punk and Madeon.
It’s like Danger Zone meets the Seinfeld theme song
7:30pm
A2B:
This new thing the kids are doing now called "slurmcore" seems to be a progressive trend evolving from vaporwave (although I personally can't get behind it, despite the fact that our beloved station manager plays that stuff on his show on occasion.)
I think that Shiloh, who was your guest nearly a year ago, playing underground private release Japanese folk psych, might have some insight on Vaporwave. Have not seen him on a WFMU playlist for quite a while. Looking at what he has favourited, last item was in March '26 during Jessica's program.
Be glad of it. It's pretty lame. They just take a song, slow it down a few keys, then double the BPM's. Not what you'd call an inspiring idea.
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7:54pm
Bri The Beatnik:
So what internet genre were you involved with from 2000-2010 Gary?
7:58pm
chresti:
Neighbor s Noise!🏆
7:58pm
A2B:
Gary, just out of curiosity, will there be anything on this playlist that was produced with the aid of AMIGA software (that you're aware of)?
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8:08pm
Bri The Beatnik:
I got into a lot of these originals through Vaporwave, or sometimes I’d hear a song and be like: this would make a great Vaporwave sample/remix
8:09pm
Kat in the chat:
I also didn’t know that Jesse K used to play this stuff, I came in sometime during the run of Neighbors Noise. Never heard the older show.
8:11pm
A2B:
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Song:
"Groove City (w/Soul Bells & PROUX)" by "Macross 8...
I happen to have an mp3 archive pack of Macross
Plus soundtracks, some of which feature virtual singer Sharon Apple. (I should've mentioned this to Chris Crash when I last chatted to him on another DJ's chatboard.)
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8:28pm
Maulydaft:
yeah that weird-ass McD's Mac the Knife moon head wacko!
8:29pm
Kat in the chat:
Oh yeah that was “Mac Tonight.” McDonald’s trying to glamorize Big Macs for dinner, I guess.
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8:29pm
Bri The Beatnik:
I had a compilation of Vaporwave edited commercials a couple nights ago, my parents briefly caught it cos they were at the dinner table after I finished dinner
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8:29pm
Maulydaft:
Embarrassingly, I only found out about Vaporwave a few years ago, but it really DOES invoke my middle childhood in the mid to late 80s! :)
I'll have to listen to the mix from the beginning once its final! :)
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8:46pm
Bri The Beatnik:
I did have a light nightmarish fever dream the other night where the Teletubbies were singing Imagination’s “Body Talk” in slow motion
8:49pm
A2B:
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Bri The Beatnik @8:46
Sounds like you probably fell asleep while tuned in to WFMU.
8:49pm
Kat in the chat:
LOL Bri you were well prepared for this
It was actually quite funny compared to the actual horrible nightmares I had that night, sandwiched inbetweeen. I think back to myself “why did I think THAT was a nightmare?” lol!
Hello Neighbour! My family lives in Windsor and I spent nearly all of 2025 there! (Just found out some people call Windsor the "unshaven armpit of Canada" Yes indeed! LOL
There's an artist I stumbled on on YouTube who makes musical compositions with the Microsoft media library. Not sure if this is the same one, but it's likely that there are others out there who do this kind of thing.
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9:25pm
Bri The Beatnik:
I miss the sound of old Smooth Jazz, Vaporwave revives it
9:29pm
A2B:
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A2B @9:24
In fact, I did find out that there are actually others who do this kind of thing.
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Song:
"We remember because you don't" by "Nyetscape"
Is this the same artist known by listeners of our beloved station manager as Eggynyet?
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9:45pm
Gary:
Kids! Historians! Situationists! Stick around after this mushy mushy for Sam Segal's always already stout out and about If You Lose Your Horse! Tonight's episode: "As If It Had All Been for Horses" wfmu.org...
Listener comments!
: I'm here for this theme! How do, Gary and all!
tim abdellah: Hiya Gary & James. Let's vape!
listener james from westwood: A retrospective about a musical genre creating a new present from an idealized past? Hell yes!
Gary: Evening, James and Tim!
Bri The Beatnik: Looking forward to the Vaporwave special!
Gary: Howdy, Bri!
Bri The Beatnik: Hey there Gary!
Sky Falcon: I am soooo stoked for the aesthetic!!!
Bri The Beatnik: I didn’t hear about Vaporwave until 2018
Gary: Sky Falcon! Welcome
Bri The Beatnik:
↳ Song: "Music." by "Rollergirl!"
Not to be confused with the Y2K eurodance singer RollergirlGary:
↳ Bri The Beatnik @7:04
I have this suspicion there may be numerous rollergirls over the last few decades, tho no evidence to back that up hahaBri The Beatnik:
↳ Gary @7:06
It is an interesting name to choose!DJ Peter:
↳ Song: "Music." by "Rollergirl!"
Gimme the night!Gary: DJ Peter! Hola
Gary:
↳ tim abdellah @6:59
Tim I owe your email a response, it's been a non-stop several days, but I'll be in touch tomorrow!tim abdellah:
↳ Gary @7:09
No worries! I know how it gets!Gary:
↳ tim abdellah @7:12
... and definite YES to a call!Bri The Beatnik:
↳ Song: "i think im safe now ☯" by "to baja"
This is great! Like and ambient tape loop backwardsThreemoons 🌒🌕🌘: Greets all! Winding down work soon; finally starting to hear some thunder soon and praying for rain.
Gary:
↳ Bri The Beatnik @7:15
What I love about this stuff is the amount of playful experimentationBri The Beatnik:
↳ Gary @7:16
Absolutely!Gary: Threemoons! Yeah, I'm sweating it out in the sun room
DJ Peter:
↳ Song: "宇宙の風呂敷" by "SAINT PEPSI"
Maybe the Fabric of space?Bri The Beatnik: I love the whole slowed down 80s R&b/funk references. It made me go through a phase of looking up certain funk soul songs slowed and reverbed on YouTube, they just have that special vibe about them
Gary:
↳ DJ Peter @7:19
Haha, YES! Just changed it, thank youDJ Peter: Or the clothes of space, that might be more laser tag zero-ish
A2B: Good Evening, Gary & Bodegistas!
I've dl'ed quite a bit of vaporwave over the years, mostly from Soundcloud (I have an account there which I haven't used for quite a while now) and on YouTube. Also heard some really good synthwave produced during the 2010's on.
Whoever this Rollergirl is has obviously learned their chops and earned their props from Daft Punk and Madeon.
Gary:
↳ Bri The Beatnik @7:19
The set after this one focuses on some of the quintessential artists/works, and there's a LOT of that there yeah and I love itGary:
↳ A2B @7:20
A2B! Nice to see youchresti: Hi Gary bodega vapor show!
Gary: Thaaaaa ttt Cresti!
Bri The Beatnik: I’m not sure if they still do
it, but for a while one of my local community stations would play Vaporwave between shows
Gary:
↳ Bri The Beatnik @7:24
There's someone I met a couple of years ago who manages a station in Oregon who says puts on an hour or two of vaporwave between DJs hahaBri The Beatnik:
↳ Gary @7:26
Super cool! My station’s in metro DetroitGary: *says he puts
Threemoons 🌒🌕🌘: Huzzah, I hear raindrops on my AC out here in Astoria.
tim abdellah:
↳ Song: "America" by "Eyeliner"
Getting ELO "Time" album vibes here! (These are vibes I like.)Bri The Beatnik:
↳ Song: "Body Glove (Bonus)" by "Eyeliner"
It’s like Danger Zone meets the Seinfeld theme songA2B: This new thing the kids are doing now called "slurmcore" seems to be a progressive trend evolving from vaporwave (although I personally can't get behind it, despite the fact that our beloved station manager plays that stuff on his show on occasion.)
Bri The Beatnik:
↳ A2B @7:30
I never even heard of that before!Gary:
↳ tim abdellah @7:29
One of my early concerts was ELO for their Out of the Blue album -- and yes they played inside a UFOBri The Beatnik:
↳ Song: "daydream" by "ESPRIT 空想"
Perfect soundtrack to a sunny summer eveningtim abdellah:
↳ Gary @7:33
😲 !!! 😲 !!! 😲tim abdellah:
↳ Song: "A1" by "Chuck Person"
Toto too? Toto too!wimpy: Always used to joke with my friends in high school that if I was playing this while getting pulled over I’d be so screwed
Gary: Wimpy! haha
Bri The Beatnik:
↳ Song: "A1" by "Chuck Person"
I was just thinking about Ecco the other day!Gary:
↳ Song: "A1" by "Chuck Person"
en.wikipedia.org...WR: Hello Gary and folks.
I think that Shiloh, who was your guest nearly a year ago, playing underground private release Japanese folk psych, might have some insight on Vaporwave. Have not seen him on a WFMU playlist for quite a while. Looking at what he has favourited, last item was in March '26 during Jessica's program.
Gary:
↳ WR @7:39
WR! Shilo and I have been talking about him putting together a Latin American show in the near futureWR:
↳ Gary @7:41
Great! I look forward to it.A2B:
↳ Bri The Beatnik @7:32
Be glad of it. It's pretty lame. They just take a song, slow it down a few keys, then double the BPM's. Not what you'd call an inspiring idea.Bri The Beatnik: So what internet genre were you involved with from 2000-2010 Gary?
chresti: Neighbor s Noise!🏆
A2B: Gary, just out of curiosity, will there be anything on this playlist that was produced with the aid of AMIGA software (that you're aware of)?
Gary:
↳ Bri The Beatnik @7:54
en.wikipedia.org...Gary:
↳ chresti @7:58
Pre-Neighbors Noise! Kaminsky KamoutskiGary:
↳ A2B @7:58
I dunnoKat in the chat: Oh dang, vaporwave! I’ll have to catch up on what I missed. Saw this in the email but spaced out on it.
Bri The Beatnik:
↳ Gary @7:59
Interesting!Gary:
↳ Kat in the chat @8:04
Kat!Bri The Beatnik: I got into a lot of these originals through Vaporwave, or sometimes I’d hear a song and be like: this would make a great Vaporwave sample/remix
Kat in the chat: I also didn’t know that Jesse K used to play this stuff, I came in sometime during the run of Neighbors Noise. Never heard the older show.
A2B:
↳ Song: "Groove City (w/Soul Bells & PROUX)" by "Macross 8...
I happen to have an mp3 archive pack of MacrossPlus soundtracks, some of which feature virtual singer Sharon Apple. (I should've mentioned this to Chris Crash when I last chatted to him on another DJ's chatboard.)
Bri The Beatnik:
↳ Song: "person" by "[algorithm's_dead]"
I didn’t even know what an algorithm was in 2017!Kat in the chat: I wish I didn’t know now, haha
Bri The Beatnik:
↳ Kat in the chat @8:14
Right?!Gary:
↳ Song: "the Jerk Store (Mixtape)" by "Costanza"
f4.bcbits.com...Bri The Beatnik:
↳ Gary @8:17
Speaking of Seinfeld! Haha!Kat in the chat: Seinfeld has been a theme this week. Started off with me explaining “SERENITY NOW!” to my much younger manager at work.
dreamyandseedy:
↳ Gary @7:59
this is interesting. the other day i "wrote" a poem made up of facebook comments.hello Gary hello all, enjoying the sounds!
Gary: Dreamyandseedy, come on in!
Bri The Beatnik:
↳ Kat in the chat @8:19
I just mentioned on a previous chat that I grew up on Seinfeld from a really early age (what happens when you grow up without Cable)Bri The Beatnik: Hey Dreamyandseedy!
Maulydaft: yeah that weird-ass McD's Mac the Knife moon head wacko!
Kat in the chat: Oh yeah that was “Mac Tonight.” McDonald’s trying to glamorize Big Macs for dinner, I guess.
Bri The Beatnik: I had a compilation of Vaporwave edited commercials a couple nights ago, my parents briefly caught it cos they were at the dinner table after I finished dinner
Maulydaft: Embarrassingly, I only found out about Vaporwave a few years ago, but it really DOES invoke my middle childhood in the mid to late 80s! :)
Gary: Maulydaft! Welcome
A2B:
↳ Song: "仮想COASTのクラッシュ" by "architecture in tokyo"
Uh-oh! Enya alert!Maulydaft:
↳ Kat in the chat @8:29
YESSS! "Mac Tonight"!!! LOLGary:
↳ A2B @8:30
Inescapable 90sMaulydaft:
↳ Gary @8:30
Thanks! I'm a longtime listener and seldom commenter LOL Thanks for the fun show :)Bri The Beatnik: Enya but Vaporwave!
A2B:
↳ A2B @8:30
Speaking of which...a month-long belated R.I.P. to her sister Maire Brennan
Gary:
↳ A2B @8:32
Oh no! I didn't know about her passingBri The Beatnik:
↳ Song: "Caligula" by "Windows96"
One word: NightDrive!Bri The Beatnik:
↳ A2B @8:32
Was she the one that sang on that Chicane song? I didn’t know that was Enya’s sister but I could totally see thatA2B:
↳ Bri The Beatnik @8:35
She was best known as a founding member of Clannad.Joe McGasko over on the mothership dedicated his opening set last month to her:
https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/163420
Bri The Beatnik:
↳ A2B @8:39
Interesting! I’ve heard of Clannad but not sure if I ever listened to them. I think it’s a different singer with a similar name I was thinking ofpostconsumer:
↳ Bri The Beatnik @7:24
You're not in Nashville, are you? A friend there tells me they program vaporwave between shows as a rule of sorts...postconsumer: Read about today's show on bluesky and am loving it, btw
Bri The Beatnik:
↳ postconsumer @8:41
No I’m in metro detroitA2B:
↳ Bri The Beatnik @8:40
You may have heard the group's collab with Bono on "In A Lifetime", which was a huge hit in the UK.postconsumer:
↳ Bri The Beatnik @8:42
must be a thing everywhere, then!Bri The Beatnik:
↳ postconsumer @8:42
I guess so! That’s actually pretty cool!Gary: Postconsumer, nice to have you here!
Bri The Beatnik:
↳ A2B @8:42
That does sound familiarpostconsumer:
↳ Gary @8:43
I'll have to listen to the mix from the beginning once its final! :)Bri The Beatnik: I did have a light nightmarish fever dream the other night where the Teletubbies were singing Imagination’s “Body Talk” in slow motion
A2B:
↳ Bri The Beatnik @8:46
Sounds like you probably fell asleep while tuned in to WFMU.Kat in the chat: LOL Bri you were well prepared for this
Bri The Beatnik:
↳ A2B @8:49
Lol! I did have a nightmare once when waking up from a ‘FMU metal showBri The Beatnik:
↳ Kat in the chat @8:49
Lol!chresti:
↳ Bri The Beatnik @8:46
Sounds entertaining!Bri The Beatnik:
↳ chresti @8:50
It was actually quite funny compared to the actual horrible nightmares I had that night, sandwiched inbetweeen. I think back to myself “why did I think THAT was a nightmare?” lol!Bri The Beatnik:
↳ Song: "花 １９９２" by "Software Hotline 電気の自宅"
Oh yeah I also got into City Pop through Vaporwave, and through City pop I got into yacht rock! LolMaulydaft:
↳ Bri The Beatnik @8:42
Hello Neighbour! My family lives in Windsor and I spent nearly all of 2025 there! (Just found out some people call Windsor the "unshaven armpit of Canada" Yes indeed! LOLBri The Beatnik:
↳ Song: "Eccochamber [Moon Woman S.O.S.]" by "Limousine"
Ooh Mac Demarco sampled this!Bri The Beatnik:
↳ Maulydaft @8:55
Awesome! I haven’t been back to Canada since 2017 but would love to go back!A2B: Geez, where's Chris Crash now? Practically half this playlist is right in his wheelhouse!
Kat in the chat: “Microsoft (ft. Sony)” 🤣
Kat in the chat: The artist names and track titles are half the fun
Gary:
↳ Kat in the chat @9:19
IndeedKat in the chat: And you get to read them out loud!
Maulydaft:
↳ Kat in the chat @9:19
totally!A2B:
↳ Song: "Microsoft (ft. Sony)" by "Z:/ Drive"
There's an artist I stumbled on on YouTube who makes musical compositions with the Microsoft media library. Not sure if this is the same one, but it's likely that there are others out there who do this kind of thing.Bri The Beatnik: I miss the sound of old Smooth Jazz, Vaporwave revives it
A2B:
↳ A2B @9:24
In fact, I did find out that there are actually others who do this kind of thing.postconsumer:
↳ A2B @9:29
do tell! I'm sitting here trying to google it and getting frustrated... :)A2B:
↳ postconsumer @9:30
As I mentioned in the first comment, he posts his compositions to YouTube, so look for him there.postconsumer: sorry I must have missed the comment. Did you give the artists name?
A2B:
↳ postconsumer @9:33
I've since forgotten it. If you search "music made with microsoft media library", you might find him.tim abdellah:
↳ Song: "Loading..." by "Pizza Paizuri"
Weather Report "Teen Town"?A2B:
↳ Song: "We remember because you don't" by "Nyetscape"
Is this the same artist known by listeners of our beloved station manager as Eggynyet?Gary: Kids! Historians! Situationists! Stick around after this mushy mushy for Sam Segal's always already stout out and about If You Lose Your Horse! Tonight's episode: "As If It Had All Been for Horses" wfmu.org...
Bri The Beatnik:
↳ Gary @9:45
Beautiful Horses by Bloodbath69 and Tv Girl is sort of Vaporwave?A2B:
↳ Kat in the chat @9:19
The other half is figuring out the sources being sampled.Bri The Beatnik:
↳ Bri The Beatnik @9:48
*Bloodbath64Bri The Beatnik:
↳ Bri The Beatnik @9:52
Just cos it has a “Horse” themeBri The Beatnik: It is interesting that most of these are Japanese
Kat in the chat: Thank you Gary! This was fun!
tim abdellah: Compelling stuff - this set flew by! Thanks Gary! G'nite everyone
Bri The Beatnik: Thank you Gary! And thanks for translating everything for us! Appreciate it!
A2B: This was a nice break from your ususal format, Gary! Thanks for this!
Gary: Night and thanks, everyone!