新しいコンピュータのOS 98 by 新しいコンピュータのOS 98
After a surge of popularity in 2014, vaporwave itself was left in a flux as many entered the scene, trying their hand at different ideas as a few of them stuck, carving out what was the path of the genre through the future. There was a level of kitsch around the time preceding and up to the middle of 2016, where these developments allowed oddities and bare flitters of expression to bare through.
新しいコンピュータのOS 98, in its simplicity, is an album that feels as if it could be placed in that odd little space between eras. A time when there were no standards set in place yet for what vaporwave should look, feel, sound, or be like. There was no set definition, yet the releases congregating around that time felt to be vapor, just by extension of their saturation in aesthetics popular to that time. A level of creation that straddled between true effortlessness and an attempt to synthesize it, artificially.
With this re-release of the album, we're glad to be able to bring back the oddities, even cult classics of that odd period of time. Short, wistful flickers of a variety of samples, choosing odd textures of sound and interesting concepts that manage to cohere simply by its connection to a time and place. A more insulated area within the genre.
Tracklist
| 1. | オンラインモール/ファッションジュエリー eshopping | 2:52 |
| 2. | ブー | 0:18 |
| 3. | 以降を参照してください | 1:24 |
| 4. | コーナー | 1:57 |
| 5. | 明るい空 (bonus) | 1:44 |
| 6. | ウェルカムビデオ.MP4 (bonus) | 4:19 |
Credits
Originally released February 10, 2015 by STC Records
stcrecords.bandcamp.com/album/os-98
Music and Art by 新しいコンピュータのOS 98
Cassette Design by Cardian松の木
This album was released under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 license and is commercially reissued with permission from the artist.
creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
