MisterTornado: MisterTornado in 2013

MisterTornado 02.14.14	A truly wonderful year it was
Havey 02.14.14	ok a couple things 1. that's a darn beautiful top 3 2. ullmann :' ) 3. a very Tornadian list (this is good) 4. where the FUCK is Exit!?? fuck ur ass bitch (this is bad)
DrHouseSchuldiner 02.14.14	great
MisterTornado 02.14.14	Haha, I knew somebody would mention Exit. It dropped off for me quiet a bit in the coming months, I mean its still great but, not the mindblower it was =[. Still though, those first few listens were alot of fun
Rev 02.14.14	woooh 75, I was just talking to Lux last night Fantastic list
MisterTornado 02.14.14	:O go on...
Rev 02.14.14	i was chatting her up a bit after her last Neon Nights set (which you should check out if you haven't yet, she's always playing killer tunes). I've gotten in touch with her and a few other F500 peeps over the last couple months, really tight group of dudes also get hyped for the next bansheebeat release, I think it's going to be right up your alley ;)
MisterTornado 02.14.14	i had no idea luxury elite was a girl. i know vektriod (aka macintosh plus, 情報デスクvirtual, and too many other aliases to say) is a girl too, looks like the females reppin' the v-wave. yess, i'm really excited to hear it!
Rev 02.14.14	yeah, there's a bunch of ladies in the vaporwave scene, it's cool And I'm really looking forward to putting it out. Definitely my best stuff I've done imo
Tyrael 02.14.14	Rev, vaporwave list pls
MisterTornado 02.14.14	Are you going to put out on Fortune 500 or any of those types of net labels?
oltnabrick 02.14.14	In
Hyperion1001 02.14.14	"i had no idea luxury elite was a girl. i know vektriod (aka macintosh plus, 情報デスクvirtual, and too many other aliases to say) is a girl too, looks like the females reppin' the v-wave." im pretty sure she has almost single handedly carried the torch of vwave after eccojams, which is awesome list >
oltnabrick 02.14.14	#smh
MisterTornado 02.14.14	yup, most definitely. it was the perfect amount of shameless in the way she approached it. i think macintosh plus' cover art and track titles alone contributed to most of its popularity, which is kind of sad because say what you want about the style or some bullshit about how anybody could make it, the actual music itself is alot of fun to listen to without all of the irony and such. its when people start to over-analyze this fun, carefree music that there's problems. honestly "vaporwave" is just taking a sound palette (muzak, synth funk, exotica, etc) and remixing it (slowing down, glitching, looping, etc) to an artist's liking (much like chuck person did with top 40 pop tunes and luxury elite does with retro funk). of course there are artists out there taking the spirit of that somewhere else completely (oneohtrix, ferraro, etc), but all of the aesthetics that were once fun and harmless are now so beyond self-parody now it's embarrassing due to people claiming that this is a legitimate genre of music. and its not. vaporwave is nothing more than a starting point, an idea, a state of mind, for something much larger.
clercqie 02.14.14	Amazing list.
robertsona 02.14.14	this is a great list, although i feel like i didn't really "get" that lescalleet/lambkin release. i guess musique concrete-ish stuff just sort of doesn't grab my attention (see also: the pisaro from this year)
Amphoteric 02.14.14	I love 43 and 80 so much
Hyperion1001 02.14.14	i actually think there is something a little bit more to vwave than just guileless retro fun. we live in an age where any information, basically almost the entire human history of information is available to us at any time in almost any place, with little more than a few pressed of a button. its like the library at Alexandria except available to everyone. but, in this oversaturation of information it's hard to imagine your ideas and thoughts as unique because you not only have the ability to know that someone else thought of it first, someone else knows the same things you do. it can be disheartening but it can also be invigorating, which i think is exactly what vwave is getting at. these artists have taken communal memories, images of periods and information that people from a certian generational context all remember but in subtly different ways, and exploited it, turning old ideas into a completely new repackaging of information. instead of trying to making something wholly unique, theyve taken the old and made a new narrative out of it, which to me is extremely exciting. there is no longer simply internal memory. physical and virtual memory exists in a sphere outside of the mind now, all collected in a gigantic, communal vat so that ideas and thoughts that may not have even been your own are suddenly personal, and vwave seeks to exploit that external, communal pathway of memory. its not just renewing old ideas in a new way, it's thinking about ways to evoke reactions in a completely different climate, which i support 100%. the constructivists of the post-modern era stared down this pathway decades ago, but now that the technology is there, these guys are taking up the torch
MisterTornado 02.14.14	robert if your talking about pisaro's closed categories in cartesian worlds, i'm right there with ya. that was just dreadful for me. photographs threw me at first, but i couldn't help me feel really touched by the whole "loss" idea (something i was also instantly drawn to with the caretaker), and as i began to listen more and more i uncovered something brilliant. having a thread like that helps with more difficult listens like that
Rev 02.14.14	"Are you going to put out on Fortune 500 or any of those types of net labels?" I'd like to, we'll see what happens haha
PunchforPunch 02.14.14	holy shit awesome post. heil hyperion!
Eloriaz 02.14.14	Bookmarked, MonsieurTornade, for future recs. Very nice work!
MisterTornado 02.14.14	i completely agree hyper that albums like far side virtual and r plus seven have something far more to say about society at large. you bring up alot of good points there, but ideas like that don't have to be attached to a name or genre to be valid. genre's (espically buzzy ones like "chillwave" and "vaporwave") limit the potential for alot of these artists, because then there becomes a standard or definition of how they're SUPPOSE to sound, that limits open ideas and creativity. plus i don't think every artist associated in this scene subscribe to larger contextual notions (certainly not luxury elite or saint pepsi, or even what chuck person represented), which only contributes to pointless, never-ending arguments.
Hyperion1001 02.14.14	agreed, but the constrains of genre have been a problem for musicians since the rise of pop music. and the fact that vwave is actually pretty sonically varied and also completely uninterested with the gender of music (whereas most other genres are almost distractingly colored by gender) is rather exciting people have all the reason in the world to hate on it, and these retro trends (a lot of them are pretty insincere, like "chillwave" etc.) can seem like prerogative bullshit at times, but there are always going to be acts' or even entire genres, that function like that. you just have the find sincerity in the music, which i think is easier than most would believe it to be.
MisterTornado 02.14.14	exactly, finding the sincerity in it. i love the stuff that makes me think about society at large (OPN) and the stuff that makes me groove in my computer chair (luxury elite). sometimes its both, and that's definitely exciting. in a world that thrives on convenience and instant access, people are going to find a way to tag and classify anything, whether we like it or not. its just a matter of artists ascending that and making music on their own terms that really counts.
Chortles 02.14.14	Awesome
Amphoteric 02.14.14	That library of Alexandria comment made me think of the show Cosmos lol
MisterTornado 02.14.14	what a great show
Amphoteric 02.14.14	I have a question: Do you like to visit the Hologram Plaza?
MisterTornado 02.14.14	oh ya, i took a trip there a few months ago. disconscious took me, lots of nice 50s cars and palm trees
Amphoteric 02.14.14	Nice, I can't stop visiting it for some reason, I get sucked into it like a black hole lol
MaskAtTheMasquerade 02.14.14	yo this is good stuff m8 that first track off the gobby ep is all like "S-STICK-STICK-STICK-STICK-STICKUM-STICKUMSTICKUM"
MisterTornado 02.14.14	that's good though, an ideal place to get lost. ya mask, gobby know his way around that sampler
JamieTwort 02.14.14	Fantastic list. Great to see Benoit in your top 10.
MisterTornado 02.14.14	and the world overlookin' one of the great music videos of all time ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=AifaiV8NRP8
Gnocchi 02.14.14	There's a lot here that Sput should collectively get into.
oltnabrick 02.14.14	mostly 3 and 80 tho
MisterTornado 02.14.14	yup, dive in folks
Winesburgohio 02.15.14	james ferraro tho??
MisterTornado 02.15.14	dug it but, didn't make the cut. which is kind of sad because i've got NYC HELL on vinyl. have you heard this though? ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9y8XEjt8YEQ ~ hopefully he can only continue doing whatever the hell he's doing here (see second half of track)
Keyblade 02.15.14	Fantastic list as always, good to see Kyary so high dude
hiyabootchie 02.15.14	You sir are correct on #1.
MisterTornado 02.15.14	Have you heard Replica Jac? Whats also fasinating about that Ferraro track is that he originally had the YouTube channel named "Rico Shade" and now it's "Sick Mobb". He's literally changing pseudonyms right in front of us.
MisterTornado 02.15.14	I think so. It's a change up from his more drone and meditative first couple of albums, but still has that atmosphere drilled in
Sleaper 02.15.14	your music taste is freaking amazing! /end fanboyism
Phlegm 02.15.14	thank you mistertornado
ShitsofRain 02.15.14	huge
StrangerofSorts 02.15.14	Nice one dude, got a lot of my own picks on here which makes me feel all cuddly and warm and connected and shit. Prepare for a random scattering of incoherent thoughts: Surprised to see 33 so high though. I just could crack into that thing as much as their individual projects. 9 is dope obv. - checked out the remix LP? Thing's huge. No Bvdub & Loscil: jonny=sad. L. Pierre! No Joy! Ahnnu! Pausal! Lambkin & Lescalleet! Stuff! Return gifts for a fucking awesome list: https://soundcloud.com/cristiane-silva-corten/kristal (Man Asleep by Virlyn grew on me so much last year) http://komu.bandcamp.com/album/sketches-iii (there are 5 of these!) http://simonbainton.bandcamp.com/album/visiting-tides Much luv
JamieTwort 02.15.14	The Hymnal remix album is great. Some of the versions on there are better than the originals.
StrangerofSorts 02.15.14	It includes some amazing names too: never thought I'd see William Ryan Fitch placed up against Squanto.
MisterTornado 02.15.14	33's continuing to grow on me. Love how unsettling it is along with the distance of the whole thing. Feels like your listening to something that's (literally) far away. I'm glad you and Jamie said something about that remix album, because I saw that and figured it wouldn't work. Definitely will check that out now. Still need to listen to that Bvdub & Loscil, so there's hope ;) Thanks for the links, will check out all of those soon (all lovely cover art, always a good sign)
Eloriaz 02.15.14	Love that HNNY track!
MisterTornado 02.15.14	You should check out more from that label, Local Talk. Tons of great house singles and EPs.
Azn. 02.15.14	you are very good at making good lists
Acanthus 02.16.14	Cool to see where you've ended up, remember you in the industrial/futurepop threads a few years back when you just joined. Sadly a lot of this just isn't my thing, though I'm looking for new tunes many these just don't strike my fancy
Typhoner 02.16.14	lot's of great stuff on this list
Lord(e)Po)))ts 02.17.14	this list would be better if like half of the links weren't broken but great list anyway, tonnes of obscurities as usual, even though some of them are awful
MisterTornado 02.17.14	noticed that about the links too, apparently when they have to be moved to another line or are right at the edge of one, the link breaks. they should all work now though
Lord(e)Po)))ts 02.17.14	and by that i mean i LOVE that you shed a little light on stuff that nobody else hears but lists of 20 amazing albums >> lists of 100 albums ranging everywhere from awful to amazing. sampling everything on your lists searching for those GOLD releases that are always hidden in there somewhere in between the 50 mixtapes that are just on here because you found them in the deepest crevice of the internet gets super exhausting.
Lord(e)Po)))ts 02.17.14	tl;dr : so much respect for your lists but also u are also making me go bat shit insane over time
oltnabrick 02.17.14	smh
MisterTornado 02.17.14	"between the 50 mixtapes that are just on here because you found them in the deepest crevice of the internet gets super exhausting" If your suggesting there's albums on here strictly for the sake of obscurity, your wrong. There's a reason this list came two months after the year ended; it took a really long time winding it all down to this, and I find something really fascinating in all of these albums. I'm not expecting anybody to like anything here, that's for you all to decide, but everything on here is completely genuine from my perspective.
JamieTwort 02.17.14	Almost everything I've heard on this list ranges from good to excellent. I plan on checking some of the ones I haven't heard today if I get time.
Emyay 02.17.14	theres a lot of cool stuff on here, and a lot of stuff that i have yet to check out but will. that being said, 48 is really bad. bad lyrics and bad vocals. what do you see in it tornado?
MisterTornado 02.18.14	I love the resurrection of a more authentic age of country music, especially compared to today's country sound; a perpetually crossover spectacle of the same glitz and glamour of top 40 pop. If you like the new age of country music for its catchy hooks and shimmering production, that's fine, but I'd personally rather listen to something that takes me through the rolling pastoral west I'd experience every spring break growing up. Plus 'A New Love (Can Be Found)' is one of the most gorgeous tracks of recent years
Relinquished 02.18.14	i really like your descript for exai tornado
Rev 02.20.14	RIP Fortune 500 :'(
treeqt. 02.20.14	list dances between yes and no a lot where the FUCK is Exit!?? fuck ur ass bitch (this is bad) [2]
treeqt. 02.20.14	and i mean YEEEEEEEEEEEEES and GOD NO
MisterTornado 02.20.14	list dances between opinion and opinion a lot R.I.P. but oh Rev, what a way to go out ~ NEW 18 CARAT AFFAIR
MisterTornado 02.20.14	and also I've since fallen in love with Ichiko Aoba, so "0" is easy top 10 material (ok now R.I.P. 2013)
treeqt. 02.20.14	FUCK opinion and opinion a lot they're both fucking gay lmao
Emyay 02.20.14	thats cool what you said about 48. i guess when i see things like "The best thing that's happened to Country in recent years " and your review, it paints this messianic picture of the album. i'm not a country fan at all (although of course i'm open minded and can enjoy any genre if the songs are (imo) good) so maybe i just don't get it.
MisterTornado 02.21.14	If you haven't realized at this point that MisterTornado has extremely terrible and questionable taste at times, then I feel sorry for you and you should consider walking through your own melodramatic backyard forest more often because it's just sitting there and that darkness is begging you back
JamieTwort 02.21.14	Agreed.
JamieTwort 02.21.14	Try RYM, Cap. A lot of this stuff is pretty popular on there (compared to on Sput).
Emyay 02.21.14	kinda the same for me about rym. i don't really have a feel for the site. i guess the charts are where its at?
MisterTornado 02.21.14	Yeah Willis Earl Beal is just pure raw talent. Going to be interesting to see where he takes his sound in the future. 8 is sorely overlooked. Once you've got an account on RYM and start adding other people with similiar taste to your own , the potential only grows of what you can find out there
Emyay 02.21.14	sounds sweet
Amphoteric 02.23.14	R.I.P. Fortune 500, just saw the FB post lol
MisterTornado 02.28.14	18 Carat ended it right
someguest 02.28.14	How is Mrs. Tornado these days? We had a lot of gusts back in the day.
MisterTornado 02.28.14	yup yup, doing swell. how about yourself?
Phlegm 12.07.14	god 2013 was fucking real
oltnabrick 12.07.14	real shitty
Phlegm 01.09.15	best list ever
JamieTwort 01.09.15	Waiting for his 2014 list (on RYM).
ShitsofRain 01.09.15	100
Phlegm 04.23.15	why did listening to music seem so much more exciting in 2013 - _-
Keyblade 04.23.15	cuz the music was more exciting