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25. the immaculate pain of your mind turning to vapor: blank banshee 0 (vaportrap episode)

March 03, 2020 • J DOT RAM

The Virtual Ocean is the “Let’s Listen” vaporwave discovery podcast.

What is vaporwave?

Vaporwave is a music genre (and internet meme) that appropriates mood music from the past while presenting subtle takes on modern-day consumerist culture. The genre has drawn many passionate listeners with its powerful immersion, ambiguous commentaries, and the genre's unique ability to amalgamate with the memes created as its byproduct.

It's a genre with several subgenres that are extremely distinct from one another in sound and style; and yet evoke similar archetypal ideas that say, either explicitly or implicitly, a lot about the modern world.

It's also very, very, aesthetic.

In each episode, we listen to tracks that make up genre and give our thoughts, emotions, and commentary on them.

Vaportrap. The beautiful marriage between the chill, ambient vibes of vaporwave and the power and kinetics of trap music.

But now, for today’s episode.

We will be diving 1000 mph into the first album of the Godfather of Vaportrap, Patrick Driscoll, aka Blank Banshee.

Blank Banshee 0 is a vaporwave treasure, up there with the likes of Macintosh 420’s Floral Shoppe.

This album was released in 2012 and was the first to unearth the sound that would become “vaportrap”, combining the strange samplings that came from the vaporwave world and perfectly melding it into these trap beats; a sound the internet hadn’t heard… until Blank Banshee sculpted it.

Blank Banshee 0 is an album that’s held in high regards to many vaporwave listeners and still holds up as an album to this day because of its innovative compositional takes and its ability to paint very obscure electronic visuals in your head.

You just got to experience it for yourself.

Let’s set sail for Blank Banshee’s world of Blank Banshee 0.