Link Rot, Lost Discographies, and the Preservation of Your Favorite Media | Episode 23

Posted on May 3, 2024May 5, 2024 by Utopia District

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EPISODE 023

Link Rot, Lost Discographies, and the Preservation of Your Favorite Media

Released: Friday, May 4th, 2024

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Join us for another great Utopia District podcast! On today’s episode we dive deep into the ever-evolving landscape of digital preservation, lost music treasures, and ever increase corporatization digital media. We embark on a journey through the highs and lows of the world of Blu-ray 4K remasters, separating the gems from the dust and what can go wrong – our nostalgia-driven exploration then heads into the enigmatic world of classic cartoons, unearthing forgotten gems like “The Maxx,” “The Head,” “Spawn,” “Aeon Flux,” and “Cybersix.” Join us as we rediscover these animated wonders and reminisce about their impact on pop culture.

Stepping into the present, we immerse into some new vaporwave albums, as well as discuss the unfortunate loss of discography deletion by prominent vaporwave artists, 骨架的 skeleton, computer dreams, and 天気予報 asutenki’s Bandcamp pages, and what it might mean.

We also revisit some timeless videos and shows that have left an indelible mark on our memories. From the vibrant streets of Brazil with Arnold in Rio during carnival, to the neon-soaked nights of “Miami Vice” and “Moonlighting,” from the interstellar adventures of “Firefly” to the sun-kissed shores of “Baywatch,” and from the mysterious gates of “Stargate” to the iconic VHS’ at Whammy Video in LA, join us for a chat about these cultural touchstones and what made them so great. We also discuss: Showgirls, Troma, VHS collecting, 4:3 vs 16:9, content and the shift of attention span, and lots more!

Lastly, we discuss the importance of archival initiatives like archive.org, soulseek, and the fleeting nature of digital media versus physical. We hope you enjoy joining us along for the ride!

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Deleted Discographies: 天気予報 Asutenki, 骨架的 skeleton, computer dreams

New UD T-Shirt available now!

Max Head Reviews – New Episode (Frutiger Aero vs Vaporwave)

Tape Swap 2024 pics by Celadon Dream Suite

Cybersix

Goodnight Punpun

Whammy Analog Video – VHS Shop

Patrick Nagel Art – Tape Swap 2024 Poster

Albums We Discussed!

Prenoko Album Releases

Aexion – Aesthetic Love

Guests on this Episode!

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Welcome to “Echoes of Media,” where we dive deep into the ever-evolving landscape of digital preservation, lost music treasures, and ever increase corporatization digital media. In this episode, we embark on a journey through the highs and lows of th…

Step into the world of vaporwave video art in this episode as we take you behind the scenes of FlamingoFest 2023 and chat with the four live video artists that created the beautiful visual dreamscapes for the festival. We discuss the artistry of bri…

Welcome to the Utopia District podcast! Join us for a vibrant recap of our vaporwave musical festival in Los Angeles on November 3rd & 4th, FlamingoFest 2023! 🦩 A two-day extravaganza that swept through the heart of Los Angeles! We are so stoked…

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Festival Flashback – Revisiting Tape Swap 4 & ElectroniCON4 (Part 2) | Episode 20

Posted on September 29, 2023September 29, 2023 by Utopia District

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EPISODE 020

Festival Flashback – Revisiting Tape Swap 4 & ElectroniCON4 (Part 2)

Released: September 29th, 2023

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Welcome to the Utopia District podcast! It’s been one month since the amazing festivities during the New York 2023 Vaporwave community weekend, with music fests ElectroniCON4, Tape Swap & Chill 4, Summer Slushy Fest, Music Website Presents, and AFTERWAVE, and we decided to sit down one more time to relive the incredible weekend. Featuring team members Indy, SoylentPie, Mallbert, Prenoko, Jupiter, SnowmanTyler, and Jumper Kimmons, as well as the incredible Yung Shiro & luxury elite! 🌙

Haven’t heard the 2023 community weekend podcast Part 1 yet? Listen here!

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🌟 Amazing Weekend Recap Video Edit by SoylentPie (czarship)

Street Drip Photo with Mallbert

RIP ElectroniCON 100% Photo

Google Drive Video & Photo Repository upload folder for website post

🦩 Flamingo Fest IRL – Vaporwave & Future Funk Festival – November 3rd & 4th, Catch One, LA

Tape Swap 4 – Signed Poster Photo

Augnos – Music / Photography

𝟏𝟖 ℂ𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐭 𝓐𝖋𝖋𝐚𝐢𝐫 – 𝙻𝚒𝚟𝚎 ＠ 🅴🅻🅴🅲🆃🆁🅾🅽🅸🅲🅾🅽 （𝟚𝟘𝟚𝟛)

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🌟 Video8 Camcorder Footage of Summer Slushy Fest 2023, New York (by Mallbert)

Vaportorian – Full ElectroniCON Artist Performance Videos

AgroKragle – Electronicon Slushyfest Tapeswap 2023 Weekend Captures

Fortune500

YourFriendShoji

🌟 Ancient Fan Death Studios – SEXUAL TELEVISION: The Movie

VideodromeTV – Instagram | YouTube | Twitch

🌟 Vapor Memory predicting Vaporwave Festivals

Some Tape Swap Videos:

https://twitter.com/brickmasonmusic/status/1695915151642243297
https://twitter.com/CyberSurfer3D/status/1696571662215344229
https://twitter.com/brickmasonmusic/status/1695901018129613254
https://twitter.com/3PeaceSweetz/status/1695910031495921834
https://twitter.com/brickmasonmusic/status/1695883599222841705
https://twitter.com/brickmasonmusic/status/1695904726582215042
https://twitter.com/brickmasonmusic/status/1695859885840220211
https://twitter.com/stardust_surfer/status/1695833254681559545

Event Links!

Vaporwave Tape Swap & Chill Party 2023

Music Website Presents

ElectroniCON 2023

Summer Slushy Fest 2023

AFTERWAVE

Episode Co-Hosts!

Indy
SoylentPie
Mallbert
Prenoko
Jupiter
SnowmanTyler
Jumper Kimmons

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Yung Shiro:

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luxury elite:

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Neon Nights 🌙 Bi-Monthly Live YouTube Show! 🌙

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Unsung Heroes: The YouTube Pioneers Who Saved Vaporwave | Episode 15

Posted on March 14, 2023March 15, 2023 by Utopia District

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Episode 015

Unsung Heroes: The YouTube Pioneers Who Saved Vaporwave

Released: March 15th, 2023

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On today’s episode our conversation revolves around YouTube and the creators that played a crucial role in the continued life and ongoing exploration of the Vaporwave genre. We discuss the extent of YouTube’s place in the cultural resurgence of the genre, and what we owe the people that made the early mixes, and explored the sound.

We will examine how the YouTube platform helped the genre evolve beyond its initial sound & aesthetic, and what the relationship between the platform and the genre means. We recognize the unsung heroes of Vaporwave’s continued existence, and how through YouTube, they shaped and spread the genre. Join us as we explore the significance of YouTube in the Vaporwave movement, and ask the thought-provoking question, would Vaporwave still exist if YouTube did not exist?

Hop on the Utopia District train to find out, through an intriguing conversation on how technology and creativity can shape musical movements, and the potential impacts of online platforms on music cultures.

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Deep Into YouTube

VAPURGATORY – A Documentary About Vaporwave

Nightwave Plaza

WVSQD Linktr.ee

Utopia District YouTube Mixes

Vaporwave YouTuber List:

Follow and support these amazing people!! In no particular order:

ＳoｕnｄＳtａtｉoｎ
Jason Sanders
Sigmund Generous
Hermes Acosta HA
SPLIFF RADIOショー
SoulSearchAndDestroy
Real Love Music
[PATRYK FILMS]
R y a n C e l s i u s ° S o u n d s
Artzie Music
Deep Sea Current
ElFamosoDemon
brokenmachinefilms
Vapor Memory
MrNONSENSE
TriangleMusic
VCR-archive
b r h m
Lucien hughes
DMT/•/TV
FORGOTTEN_VCR
NEOTIC
VHSdreamz
channelsurfing
Sega64
NIGHT ERROR夜のエラー
sunsetcorp
FrankJavCee
retro player one
Sun Levi

VAPOR NEWS

New R23x and Equip Single

INTERNET CLUB featured on Bandcamp Daily

Business Casual raising price for full discog for 3$

ONLINE EVENTS

Vaporshave 2023 – Saturday, March 18th

RELEASE RADAR (Digitals & Upcoming Releases)

Revenaut Cassette Corp.

New Ahero Single – 4K View | Music Video

MERCH MARKET (New Physicals)

DJ Sabrina Booklet

豊平区民TOYOHIRAKUMIN – 5

식료품groceries – 폐점

Dragon Chan World Champion – World Champion Resort

Music From The Episode

Good Girl (feat. Lost Travelerロスト) from[Her Perfumes part 2] by M4

[E S C A P E ] from teertscisum by abdersta

I Got Your Letter – Nmesh.

赤ワインとカミソリの刃 from INFINITE SEX GOD by GLOBAL CHILL

Enter Through the Lobby from Hologram Plaza by Disconscious

DREAMCAST SUMMER SONGS by Devon Hendryx

Lowlights from passion plays by midnight première

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DemoDawg : Twitter

Charavale: Twitter

crispy_doodles: Twitter

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Corporate Takeover: Exploring the Meaning of Vaporwave and Lost Internet | Episode 13

Posted on February 28, 2023March 9, 2023 by Utopia District

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Episode 013

Corporate Takeover: Exploring the Meaning of Vaporwave and Lost Internet

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Individuality has been lost in the corporate playground that is the internet. We talk about how businesses have dominated the internet and its current state. What does this entail for the erosion of our individuality and our online identities?

Welcome to the Utopia District Podcast! Explore with us the numerous facets of the internet that we have forgotten over time. Remember the day when you could customise your desktop and use special media players? We talk about how these things are now just distant memories and how the internet has transformed.

Do you recall the earlier versions of sites like MySpace? We think back on these previous websites and how they changed through time. But what about the future and development of online art? We talk about where the NFT art is at in 2023.

What does the term “vaporwave” signify to you? What is your interpretation of it? We examine the various ways that vaporwave has been interpreted as well as how the internet has embraced it as a subculture. We also talk about the attractiveness of vaporwave and why people feel such a strong connection to it.

Finally, we talk about the disappointing situation of not being able to communicate your vaporwave experience. Although it might be difficult to put your ideas and feelings regarding this subculture into words, we make an effort to do so here.

Join us as we go deeply into the Vaporwave and Lost Internet worlds.

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Episode Discussion Links!

Max Head Reviews – Episode 4 | Hypnospace Outlaw and How Play Made the Early Internet

Our Bandcamp Page!

ElectroniCON Primavera (Spain)

Wizard Toad’s DS Adventure | Deathlance Records

CAPE CORAL – BLU NOTTE

h º r ¡ z º n щ ¡ r e l e s s – HORSEWIRELESS

NFT Tweet

Whitewoods Beachwalk

SpaceHey (MySpace Revival Site)

Spring Break 87 Anniversary Stream

Music from this episode!

회사AUTO – Achikochi

l y n x & Hotel Pools – with you

R∞ – SUNRISE.ORCHID.ROM

Late Arcane – Neo-Pangea

Windows96 – How To See Through Walls

Get Outa Myspace

Halcyon & On & On

Team Members on this episode!

DemoDawg : https://twitter.com/plasticpalms1

DJ Nonn : https://twitter.com/dj_nonn

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Podcast: Episode 8 – Lost Broadcasts and TV Programming

Posted on December 19, 2021December 21, 2021 by Utopia District

Utopia District Podcast : Episode 008

Lost Broadcasts and TV Programming

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You have arrived at Utopia District, the premiere destination for vaporwave, future funk & internet music, art, culture, and community! Feel free to visit our website! https://utopiadistrict.com

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Welcome, and please enjoy your stay!

We’ve got a fun episode for you today, so kick back as Indy and the UD team look back over the past 20 years and look at what we’ve lost as a byproduct of shifting to new technologies. Join DemoDawg, Maxemus, AbyssyallSea, Mallbert, and Pizza SLT for on this hilarious and thought provoking chat!

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Discussion Topics

The implications and byproducts that lead to why vaporwave was created

Canadian vs American programming and TV networks

TV Channels in the 50 plus range, extra channel TV packages, jailbreaking satellite feeds

Hanging out at the local video store and running into your peers regularly. Free popcorn

Having to watch things when they air. If you missed it, you have to go to work to find it. Avoiding spoilers at school and the workplace

How Power Rangers and Harvey Birdman got made

Preservation of media. Bootleg and lost media markets. Companies not archiving their own content. Copyright abuse

Scholastic book fair

TV Sitcoms: Scrubs, 3rd Rock From The Sun, Seinfeld, SNL

Respect for resources found at the library

Double Dare, American Gladiator, Legend of the Hidden Temple, Nick Arcade, Uh-Oh, Video and Arcade Top 10

Bill Nye the Science Guy, Carl Sagan COSMOS, NOVA Documentaries

Americas Funniest Home Videos vs Tosh.0 and modern versions

Classic TV: FernGully: The Last Rainforest, Earthworm Jim, Ed Edd and Eddy, Freakazoid, Mummies Alive,Street Sharks, Cow and Chicken, Sky Surfers Strike Force, Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa, Ahh Real Monsters, Samurai Pizza Cats, Superhuman Samurai Cyber Squad

Discussion Links

Utopia District Merch Page!

A Very Vapor Christmas

Watch MXC (Most Extreme Elimination Challenge)

Return of G4TV

G4TV Classic Archive

Toonami Tapes by Nanoshrine

RiP: A Remix Manifesto

Canadian Heritage Minutes: Basketball, House Hippos

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Link Rot, Lost Discographies, and the Preservation of Your Favorite Media | Episode 23

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Link Rot, Lost Discographies, and the Preservation of Your Favorite Media

Interview: VaporVA i2k Festival Directors: Roge_Corp & V4NGOE | Episode 24

Link Rot, Lost Discographies, and the Preservation of Your Favorite Media | Episode 23

Inside the Vaporwave Visual Experience at FlamingoFest 2023 (Part 2) | Episode 22

FlamingoFest 2023 Unplugged – Echoes of a Vaporwave Festival (Part 1) | Episode 21

Festival Flashback – Revisiting Tape Swap 4 & ElectroniCON4 (Part 2) | Episode 20

UTOPIA DISTRICT PODCAST

Festival Flashback – Revisiting Tape Swap 4 & ElectroniCON4 (Part 2)

Interview: VaporVA i2k Festival Directors: Roge_Corp & V4NGOE | Episode 24

Link Rot, Lost Discographies, and the Preservation of Your Favorite Media | Episode 23

Inside the Vaporwave Visual Experience at FlamingoFest 2023 (Part 2) | Episode 22

FlamingoFest 2023 Unplugged – Echoes of a Vaporwave Festival (Part 1) | Episode 21

Unsung Heroes: The YouTube Pioneers Who Saved Vaporwave | Episode 15

Interview: VaporVA i2k Festival Directors: Roge_Corp & V4NGOE | Episode 24

Link Rot, Lost Discographies, and the Preservation of Your Favorite Media | Episode 23

Inside the Vaporwave Visual Experience at FlamingoFest 2023 (Part 2) | Episode 22

FlamingoFest 2023 Unplugged – Echoes of a Vaporwave Festival (Part 1) | Episode 21

Corporate Takeover: Exploring the Meaning of Vaporwave and Lost Internet | Episode 13

Interview: VaporVA i2k Festival Directors: Roge_Corp & V4NGOE | Episode 24

Link Rot, Lost Discographies, and the Preservation of Your Favorite Media | Episode 23

Inside the Vaporwave Visual Experience at FlamingoFest 2023 (Part 2) | Episode 22

FlamingoFest 2023 Unplugged – Echoes of a Vaporwave Festival (Part 1) | Episode 21

Podcast: Episode 8 – Lost Broadcasts and TV Programming