ガンツ フェルト – オーシャンビュー

Recommendation: ☹


Is gangster vaporhop a thing? Well, I guess it is now. オーシャンビュー1 by ガンツ フェルト2 is classic-style vaporwave that uses aggressive hip-hop for some source material instead of easy listening or adult contemporary. The majority of tracks are original material by the artist, in addition to a few repetitions of select sampling cuts that were taken from music by Soulja Boy, to whom the album is dedicated. Several tracks have trap-based percussion, and others have gunshot sound effects (e.g. “ティール”). Unfortunately, オーシャンビュー comes across as too steeped in irony to be a rewarding listening experience, latching onto the vaporwave tropes without really pushing to make something new. The idea of using gangster hip-hop in vaporwave hasn’t been explored all that much, but it just isn’t well-executed here. It comes off as something put together in a weekend for a joke among friends rather than something fleshed out, and the Soulja Boy samples don’t ameliorate that any further. That album artwork though? Pretty cool, if cliché.

 

Tracklist


1. truth – (0:10)
2. blessed – (2:22)
3. ティール – (2:36)3
4. YouTubeがヒット – (1:16)4
5. 夢のBAPE – (3:43)5
6. CCC – (2:42)
7. リム – (2:21)6
8. 巻き寿司 – (2:28)7
9. ~着メロ~ – (0:58)8
10. touchscreen.wma – (2:02)
11. Matcha Whip – (3:01)
12. wisdom – (1:32)


 

1Japanese translation: “Ocean view”
2Japanese translation: “Ganzfield”
3Japanese translation: “Teal”
4Japanese translation: “(YouTube) hits”
5Japanese translation: “(BAPE) of dreams”
6Japanese translation: “Rim”
7Japanese translation: “Sushi roll”
8Japanese translation: “Ringtone”

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