User:DoctorWho42/Atmospheres 第1
| Atmospheres 第1 | ||||
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| File:Virtual大気中分析 (2013) album cover.jpg | ||||
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| Released | 1 January 2013 | |||
| Genre | Ambient music Electronic music Muzakcore[1] New-age music Vaporwave | |||
| Eco Virtual chronology | ||||
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Atmospheres 第1 (originally titled Virtual大気中分析) is a 2013 vaporwave album by Eco Virtual. It was self-released on 1 January 2013 via digital file and cassette tape.[2][3][4]
Track listing
[edit]| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Morning Haze" | 1:09 |
| 2. | "Cumulus Fractus" | 2:06 |
| 3. | "Bermuda High" | 2:29 |
| 4. | "Smog" | 0:57 |
| 5. | "Nimbostratus" | 3:01 |
| 6. | "Acid Rain" | 2:24 |
| 7. | "Gradient Winds" | 1:51 |
| 8. | "Tropical Depression" | 2:15 |
| 9. | "Valley Breeze" | 2:29 |
| 10. | "Troposphere" | 1:56 |
Reception
[edit]In his 2015 documentary Vaporwave: A Brief History, amateur vaporwave musician Wolfenstein OS X described Eco Virtual's Atmospheres 第1 "a whole album that combines samples and with completely original music that mimic the sounds normally heard on a weather channel."[5] Rate Your Music's Harley Magoo called the album "[c]lean, comfy, even slightly dark."[1] In their review for Atmospheres 第2, Sputnikmusic's MisterTornado called Atmospheres 第1 a "a breezy and atmospheric take on Weather Channel muzak" as well as "novel in the fact that it was the first album to explore the aesthetics of something as universal as televised meteorology."[6] Tiny Mix Tapes's James Parker reviewed Atmospheres 第1 with "On one level, this is total vwave boilerplate, a perfect clone. And yet there’s something really nice about the conceptual integrity here (the videos, courtesy of EcoVirtualTV work particularly well). Not so much innovative as a perfect realization of the genre’s already extant associations with weather: both its corporate soundtrack and the connotations of climate, ambiance, mood alteration, biomanagement, and perhaps even the stratospheric or transcendent."[7]
Samples
[edit]Eco Virtual sampled from the music of American singer Janet Jackson and English soul band Sade.[8]
- "Bermuda High" samples "Come Back to Me" (1990) by Janet Jackson[8]
- "Smog" samples "Your Love Is King" (1984) by Sade[8]
- "Nimbostratus" samples "I Couldn't Love You More" (1992) by Sade[8]
- "Acid Rain" samples "The Sweetest Taboo" (1985) by Sade[8]
- "Gradient Winds" samples "Kiss of Life" (1992) by Sade[8]
- "Valley Breeze" samples "Love Is Stronger Than Pride" (1988) by Sade[8]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b Magoo, Harley. "Vaporwave Subgenres - Rate Your Music". Rate Your Music. Retrieved 10 October 2015.
- ^ "ATMOSPHERES 第1". Bandcamp. 1 January 2013. Retrieved 26 March 2015.
- ^ "ATMOSPHERES 第1 by Eco Virtual (Album, Vaporwave): Reviews, Ratings, Credits, Song list - Rate Your Music". Rate Your Music. Retrieved 26 March 2015.
- ^ "ECO VIRTUAL - ATMOSPHERES 第1 at Discogs". Discogs. Retrieved 26 March 2015.
- ^ "Vaporwave: A Brief History - YouTube". YouTube. 10 June 2015. Retrieved 2015-10-01.
- ^ "ECO VIRTUAL - ATMOSPHERES 第2 (album review )". Sputnikmusic. 24 April 2014. Retrieved 27 March 2015.
- ^ Parker, James (25 January 2013). "ECO VIRTUAL - VIRTUAL大気中分析". Tiny Mix Tapes. Retrieved 27 March 2015.
- ^ a b c d e f g "Eco Virtual's Sample-Based Music". WhoSampled. Retrieved 6 May 2015.