Nostalgic Soundscapes S01E07 | Eternal Bliss | Windows XP inspired Retro Ambient Frutiger Aero
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- Опубликовано: 30 апр 2024
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Nostalgic Soundscapes Season 1 Episode 7 Eternal Bliss
Welcome! to my new ambient series! in this realm we will explore all different types of nostalgic, retro and older styles of sounds, visuals and emotions ranging from old VHS films to first ever computer sounds/visuals etc.
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My Ambient Series:
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- Nostalgic Soundscapes : • Nostalgic Soundscapes ...
- The Lost Odyssey : • The Lost Odyssey Season 1
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Sony Vegas
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No Midjourney or any other AI’s has been used to make this video happen 
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Some Bliss/XP lore:
"Apparently it’s real! To commemorate the end of support for Windows XP, Microsoft made a video about the photographer who took the iconic picture.
Chuck O’Rear got the image in southern Sonoma County, north of San Francisco. He took it on a Mamiya RZ67 camera with color Fuji Film and a tripod. O’Rear explains in the video:
There was nothing unusual. I used a film that had more brilliant colors, the Fuji Film at that time, and the lenses of the RZ67 were just remarkable. The size of the camera and film together made the difference and I think helped the Bliss photograph stand out even more. I think if I had shot it with 35 millimeter, it would not have nearly the same effect.
O’Rear visits the original site, talks about the dangerous, winding roads in the area, and discusses the process he went through to sell Microsoft the photo. Even then, before anyone in the public had ever seen it, Microsoft valued it so highly that O’Rear couldn’t find a courier service willing to take the liability of transporting it. Eventually Microsoft paid for a plane ticket so he could carry the photo himself to their offices."
I am 99% sure he used Velvia 50. That is why it's so saturated and why the clouds are blown out since Velvia has a famously tragic lack of latitude
@@chrisnielsen9885 These are the words of the photographer himself. The saturation was added in post by Microsoft. You can see the original photo on his website
@@thomasvleminckx If you haven’t shot velvia you probably think the saturation was added but that’s why photogs shot that film because it was wildly colorful
@@chrisnielsen9885 I KNOW the sat was added in post because the photographer said so. You keep speaking authoritatively about his, in direct opposition to the guy who actually made and sold the photo. No offense, but I'll take his word over yours
@@thomasvleminckx sure. I’m only speaking from a position of having shot Velvia for 20 years. What could I possibly know about how it reproduces color, right?
We were blessed to grow up without a smartphone in our hand since birth. The world was different. Things were simpler. Technology has advanced society, but we've also lost something. We've paid a great price for 24/7 phones in our pocket, social media every second, and an internet dominated by commerce and control. I said something similar on another Retrovex video. Shout out to all the 80's and 90's kids out there. Life was better.
Every iPhone has GarageBand for free and the option not to install TikTok, Android phones can emulate almost any old computer your heart desires and the camera could capture the next ‘Bliss’ so it can’t be all bad 😊
@@SproutyPottedPlant It's true, the degree to which some fields which were only accessible to the rich and connected (film, music, etc.) have opened up is amazing. Hopefully some day we'll reach an equilibrium with all of the other things that have come along with it.
@@SproutyPottedPlant iPhone is a walled garden, TikTok was so bad it had to be banned, good luck typing out DOS commands on a virtual keyboard, and the cameras are there only to make selfies, cat, and food photos for Instagram (also data collection).
Yeah now we are all a bunch of addicts. I used to switch smartphone with a caterpillar b30 (a dumb phone) for years and was happy. Now for travel reasons I got back Instagram and smartphone but honestly I'm not happy. Much better without! When I go back I'll surely return to caterpillar. It's some kind of fake light, I call it ''the luciferi effect'', lucifer mean ''light bringer'', but it's a fake light, a scam. When you touch that light you get scammed and you become addicted, this is what happen with Smartphone, we were blinded by that light because it was insanely attractive.
I agree anyway, but isn't all, think when you was a kid and perhaps you used to play ps2, mostly of us couldn't play online so bring a friend at home and play togheter and that was a magic moment. Now modern kids plays from their own homes together and isn't the same thing.
Our brain has been atrophied with all this scrollling thing, dopamine addictions, ecc..Also I still remind as a kid that magic moment with Windows xp.
And the 00's!
I have tears in my eyes. I was so hyped to hear the Windows XP ambience theme and it's even BETTER than I'd imagined it would be. I believe in humanity again, if only for a little while. Thank you so much for making this, Retro. God speed. I'm going to rest in the eternal bliss.
I am from 90s, man, I wish I could have a chance to experience these golden times once again. World has become so filled with new technology and all that allegedly important stuff yet when you look back in the past, everything was much more simple and genuine... I really miss those times...
Linux Mint Cinnamon is as close as you can get and Garuda Cinnamon the desktop environment was purposely engineered to look and feel like Windows but I recommend Linux Mint Cinnamon for more of a Windows XP type feeling with some work arounds you can install Steam through either VIA Terminal or VIA Software Manager I find it easier using the Terminal though you can even make it LOOK like Windows XP if you want.
This episode was greatly inspired by the early 2000s, the hopeful future, and the early days of the frutiger aero aesthetic.
5:22 The Bubbles were inspired by the frutiger aero stock images and i decided to credits my supporters in them to show my gratitude.
Having nearly lost my hearing in my right ear, it took a big toll on me and resulted in me not being able to finish this sooner, but after getting better, I had a whole new view on life, how things can always get bad, but eventually things will bounce right back up.
I felt like a new born, full of inspiration, and will, to create meaningful and creative projects, and I definitely don't take things for granted now, every time i am able to hear now I smile, I feel so grateful that I have the ability to experience not only my works but everyone else's, a world without sound would be soul crushing for me.
So this is my message in this episode, no matter how bad it gets, there's always a modicum of hope that things will eventually turn for the better 💙
ruclips.net/video/rjmy3eI8CN8/видео.html here is the original message intro before the cut.
thought it'd be better to separate it to keep the relaxation of the xp intact for your daily needs 💙
I think the 9-11 stuff would be best put in a separate video, as it doesn't really fit the chill vibe you're going for. Thanks again for the chat earlier, and I'm really glad you're feeling better. :)
This is a beautiful message for a beautiful video. Thank you.
Thank you for the amazing video, i hope you’ll get even better soon✨
you are missed. truly the greatest operating system of all time.
College. Still got my HP Pavilion with 60 GB hard drive, 512 MB of RAM, 56k modem, 10/100 ethernet, DVD-ROM drive, and built-in WiFi card. Most laptops at the time needed a separate card inserted to achieve wireless connectivity. XP was a joy to use. How time flies!
Windows XP was as far as my father made it in this world before leaving in 2004 after 74 years. As an IT person it's strange to think of one's parents like this, but I'm glad he got to experience a glimpse of what computers were going to be like at such an optimistic time.
This is exactly how I think about things too. My mother passed in 2021 and it was truly the last year social media still felt like it was only in the series of tubes, not in the world. I feel good knowing that her world wasn't completely turned on it's head before she passed. She experienced nothing newer than 2016 tech. Essentially Windows XP, OSX before it became MacOS, Amazon before robots, iTunes before Apple Music, she still ripped CDs and Blu-Rays like I showed her to, printed recipes, had Cable TV, drove a car without phone integrations or overbearing safety features and organized her photos on her hard drive instead of a cloud. As I discovered this channel and listened to them I made note that all these things she did are things I've missed so much I simply want to unplug from the drama of Moore's Law and live in peace with this ancient, mostly functional technology. Life was good. Thanks for leaving this comment, I needed to write that.
Kingdom of heaven to your parents and my father (and relatives/ancestors)!.. He also died in 2022 from Covid, almost at 60 (and exactly one month later on this day and in my BD [birthday] and 2 months before his BD began SMO [Special military operation] - symbolic. Replacing the pandemic...). He even then, when it was released, called Win10 - spy (although I learned about NSAKEY - National Security Agency - in old Win in the comments of a neighboring video. Google it. In modern Win, this backdoor via the update channel for comrade major was called BadTunnel. I don't know how now...), he was a technical person (engineer\communications
adio technician) and self-taught in the PC, knew more than many and helped everyone with any question on the PC... Now there is no man in the house (I am weak, as it were) and there is no one to deal with technology\computers\home (I can, but not particularly attracted)... We had a difficult relationship (in his heart, he loved us. The life situation was also not easy - "everything is just like people"), but I miss it... Also for those times when he, the supplier of PC\technologies to the house, was still alive - in 97 ~ he brought a PC with a pirated HL (my first game. Not counting the Minesweeper\Klondike [solitaire]) on a CD-RW and he looked like (reminded me of) Gordon Freeman (also, by the way, Vitalik from iXBT Games. Well, these are local video game reviewers\guru, you don't know. Ironically, now it also in stasis, as soon as all of us [?], and HL3 is now outside the window)...
Коуб: 2ccvoc ("С возвращением, Старина λ" \ CC2PFQVe-8U - "Half-Life 2 - I am the Freeman [3D Trailer]")
* Also check the atmospheric channel about HL: CoreyLaddo...
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Kingdom of heaven to your parents and my father (and relatives/ancestors)!.. He also died in 2022 from Covid, almost at 60 (and exactly one month later on this day and in my BD [birthday] and 2 months before his BD began SMO [Special military operation] - symbolic. Replacing the pandemic...). He even then, when it was released, called Win10 - spy (although I learned about NSAKEY - National Security Agency - in old Win in the comments of a neighboring video. Google it. In modern Win, this backdoor via the update channel for comrade major was called BadTunnel. I don't know how now...), he was a technical person (engineer\communications
adio technician) and self-taught in the PC, knew more than many and helped everyone with any question on the PC... Now there is no man in the house (I am weak, as it were) and there is no one to deal with technology\computers\home (I can, but not particularly attracted)... We had a difficult relationship (in his heart, he loved us. The life situation was also not easy - "everything is just like people"), but I miss it... Also for those times when he, the supplier of PC\technologies to the house, was still alive - in 97 ~ he brought a PC with a pirated HL (my first game. Not counting the Minesweeper\Klondike [solitaire]) on a CD-RW and he looked like (reminded me of) Gordon Freeman (also, by the way, Vitalik from iXBT Games. Well, these are local video game reviewers\guru, you don't know. Ironically, now it also in stasis, as soon as all of us [?], and HL3 is now outside the window)...
Коуб: 2ccvoc ("С возвращением, Старина λ" \ CC2PFQVe-8U - "Half-Life 2 - I am the Freeman [3D Trailer]")
* Also check the atmospheric channel about HL: CoreyLaddo...
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Царствия небесного вашим родителям и моему отцу (и родне\предкам)!.. Он также умер в 2022 от Ковида, почти в 60 (и ровно через месяц в этот день и в мой ДР и за 2 месяца до его ДР началось СВО - символично. Заменив пандемию...). Он уже тогда, при выходе её, называл Вин10 - шпионской (хотя я тут у вас в комментах соседнего видео узнал о NSAKEY - National Security Agency - в старых Виндовс. Гуглите это. В современных Виндовс этот бэк-дор по каналу обновлений для товарища майора назывался BadTunnel. Ща не знаю как...), он был техническим человеком (инженер\связист\радиотехник) и самоучкой в ПК, знал поболее многих и всем помогал с любым вопросом по ПК... Теперь в доме как бы нет мужчины (я слабоват как бы) и некому особо заниматься технологиями\компьютерами\домом (я могу, но не особо прельщает)... У нас были трудные отношения (в душе он любил нас. Жизненная ситуация была также непростая - "всё, как у людей"), но я скучаю... Также и по тем временам, когда и он, поставщик ПК\технологий в дом, был жив ещё - в 97 ~ он принёс ПК с пиратской HL (первая игра моя. Не считая Сапёра\Косынки) на болванке и сам внешне был похож (напоминал мне) на Гордона Фримена (ещё, кстати, Виталик из iXBT Games. Ну это местные гуру\обзорщики видеоигр, вы не знаете. Иронично, сейчас тоже в стазисе, как и скоро все мы [?], а HL3 ща за окном)...
Коуб: 2ccvoc ("С возвращением, Старина λ" \ CC2PFQVe-8U - "Half-Life 2 - I am the Freeman [3D Trailer]")
* Также чекните атмосферный канал о HL: CoreyLaddo...
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Eagerly waiting for this one, I've loved listening to the windows 95 and 98 videos!
thank you! be sure to check out the other episodes if you want to catch up with the lore/story! :D 💙
@@RetrovexAmbient There's LORE?! :0
Same! I have a dedicated playlist for them that I listen to at work haha
There is one thing that is better today and that is now we can use PCs and smartphones to create high quality, beautiful music that take us on a journey to the past for a much more reasonable price ❤
Retrovex, your video has inspired me. This morning I dusted off my "old" 2016 computer, which still had Windows 7 on it. I wiped it, and using an original Windows XP install disc purchased by my dad in 2004, installed XP. It's amazing. Looks and feels exactly the way I remember. And it's all still there. MSN Messenger is installed by default. Windows Media Player is still the cool one you can customize with all sorts of skins. And the desktop... pure "bliss". I still have a few kinks to iron out (upgrading to SP3, getting internet to work, finding audio drivers), but it already looks so good. This will sound dramatic, but it felt like coming home.
Don't connect it to internet if you don't want to get it full of viruses 😬
@@VaporChad. Not at all true if you have the Legacy Update installed, which restores Windows Update and brings its antivirus up to date as well. You will have to download a new browser, as IE8 doesn't work anymore.
Dude you're getting a Dell!!! 🙌
I miss how comfy, nice, straight to the point and no bs XP was. Since then it's been mostly bells and whistles but at its core, XP had all the fundamentals of a perfect OS. Awesome ambient track and the perfect nostalgic trip I didn't know I needed.
Thank you for this, here because a friend linked me to your Windows 2000 one and was hoping there was an XP version too. Found it! XP was one of the main operating systems of my childhood, had an offline tower that I would play any cd game my father had around the house or bought for me in 2008. A good mix of educational games, and RCT + RCT2 mainly, but really enjoyed messing around with Powerpoint and Word. Pinball was great. Sadly the tower went to a family member right before we moved.
Really don't remember the early 2000s because I was the last born of last century, but so far this feels like home.
So. Many. Feels. Reminds me of summer 2002
I grew up on 95/98 then went to school on XP and somehow in 2014 as a senior, they still were running XP at my local high school. Seeing that California hill default background will always be a happy place.
What's funny is that in the Dutch version of XP, Bliss is titled "Ierland" (Ireland). Someone at Dutch Microsoft didn't do their homework!
Excellent timing, I just made some changes to make my Windows 10 look like Windows XP
Based💙
ive had mine look like win98 for a while haha
@@JustinK0 now im curious how thatd look on w10, hahah, what tools did you use?
@@RetrovexAmbient Not to answer for him, but I for one used Open Shell. It also allows you to disguise your Windows 10/11 as Windows 98.
I have Retrobar running on 11 with an XP toolbar skin (also has the classic bubble for usb errors + eject which is nice) and knew complete reskinning was possible but it seemed daunting. Wonder if I could approach without screwing up my computer... or maybe I am overthinking it.
I was born in 2002 and when i used to go to primary school we used to have windows xp as operating systems. Even though the support for xp ended in 2014 and we canr use it anymore (except for some bank machines) i like to go on RUclips and watch some windows xp related videos. Recently my mom bought me a new laptop (due to my old laptop from 2015 gwtting oldee amd dustier by the day) amd i made it to look like windows xp. Icons, stsrt menu, etc etc. I also remember my dad having a windows xp back in the day and playinf solitaire in his bedroom while having techno music in the background.
Those were the days.
May windows xp's legacy live on.
2001-2014.
My grandpa gave me an old laptop from 2004 fairly recently and to my surprise, it was actually a pretty much completely functional Windows XP machine. :D
It was basically a time capsule of the late 2000s when I received it as that was when it was last seriously used. The battery is also somehow not dead.
The whole thing is in shockingly nice condition and it's an excellent addition to my collection.
Technically Microsoft was still supporting XP as late as around 2018 for the US Navy, however, it cost like $9 million a year to pay for it. And I guess there was a British Royal Navy ship running Windows ME around the same time frame
This track slaps...in a very blissful way.
Windows XP has been and will always be my favorite OS forever
I want a game with this setting... Can you imagine how awesome?!
nice vide, ive always loved these relaxing y2k and frutiger aero videos. yet another reason why i prefer living in the present cause having access to these kinds of playlists is the best
Please please please make one for Windows Vista. I’ve waited years to hear something like this for this specific vibe XP gives… same with the other Windows Nostalgia videos, and I really think you might create something I could only imagine hearing in my dreams.
I am begging you for a windows vista soundscape.
51:25
Clippy cameo
Can you spot all the Clippy appearances? 📎👀
X that mf
Was clippy in Office XP? 🤓
Its like looking through a window into the past, of fuzzy warm memories of a simpler time. The wars in 2003 sadly changed everything.
Yes, that *other* time a global superpower invaded a smaller country on false pretenses.
Absolute madlad. These Nostalgic Soundscapes are unironically some of the best ambient I've ever heard. The memories...
Reminds me of the film Demolition Man where, in the future, they play this serene sound like in your video and all is well.
Section through 20:10 to 21:16 is absolutely beautiful
Oh no. Retrovex did it again, with the operating system that I personally have a lot of fond memories from my earliest childhood days. Suppose I'll be working on my portfolio website with this in the background, eh?
This is the vision of the past that Windows XP gave us. And hopefully this is where it rests now after its demise.
YES FINALY 💚
Your work is getting better and better !
Used windows XP from first computer our family bought in 2004 until august of 2012. Sometimes we help to fix some computers and when someone with older cheaper computer wants us to do full reinstallation they get XP. Today there are peoples out there still using XP.
Weird, everyone was raving in the comments how they were looking forward to this episode in particular, but it's performing the worst of all the OS'es so far.
Also, at 05:44, SKYCORP is one of your donors?? THE Skycorp? Awesome! Not surprised Smithers O'Neil is into this
You always surprise me with your creativity, keep up 🖤🤘
This is the one I was waiting for. Your crowning achievement. I love your ambience soundscapes and this is my new favorite. You're the GOAT.
Remember This Hill with the Internet Explorer sign on it especially with the island with the Three Palm Trees.
That intro gives me goosebumps every time.
BEST OS THEY EVER HAD!
That's just absolutely gorgeous. 💙💚🤍
I was looking forward to this one!
love it or hate it, xp had the most consistent UI out of all windows versions
I've found peace.
This is so freaking cool!!!
I CAN´T WAIT FOR IT 💛💚💙❤
ME TOO!
🤍🤍💙💙💚💚💛💛
XP was a head of its time
I love the 95 and 98 versions, and this is one of the best ones you've done. Thank you.
That's a very good soundscape, nice background, and that music reminds me a bit of Jean-Michel Jarre's "Waiting for Cousteau". It's awesome and good work.
Fellow "Waiting for Cousteau" fan here. Can agree.
Man... what a September that was in the beginning. I still vividly remember (as a kid) how global connectivity paused for quite a while after. Really one of those world-changing moments.
Thanks!😌
💙 Thank YOU!
These are very relaxing. Please do one for Windows Vista next.
Great RetroVX! There are some excellent premises!
Thank You.
As someone that grew up with Windows 98, and had used Windows 3.11 and 95 as well, it makes me feel old to realize that XP is over 20 years old now. People who were little kids when they used it as their first OS are now adults. I guess I was practically a kid myself... would have been around 15 when it got released. I actually had to look it up, I did not realize it was 2001. It had a rough start though, it was very bloated for the PCs at the time. It took a couple service packs, and hardware manufacturers catching up, for it to be usable. It was at least a few years later that I actually upgraded to it myself.
Espera mucho tiempo por este ambiente. gracias.
This is the ambient video that I was waiting for! I'll add it to my old MP3 player for listening while sleeping :)
same :)
I thought I was the only one who still had one!
00:50 leads to something amazing!
Very excited about this one!
After this, will you continue this series? Maybe with a Windows Vista Frutiger-Aero inspired episode?
Tis a secret 🤫
@@RetrovexAmbient Sony Playstation ambience? Retro-consoles inspired soundscapes? (:
Beautiful
Takes me back to 2002, watching my parents computer loading up slowly with windows media player automatically opening up playing "Like Humans Do" by David Byrne. I immediately closed it and played me some 3D pinball or some Sonic games that my uncle bought before getting exposed to the internet. Nostalgia. Good memories.
You should really do other OS based videos and video game consoles after this.
Wonderful work 😊
1 minute 10 seconds in and I can already tell this is a masterpiece
Thank you, I really needed this
This was exactly what I needed when I needed it most. Been looking forward to XP and it's somehow more beautiful than I was hoping for. Thank you for this.
great job! I love it!
You are a treasure! Glad you're back and feeling well.
When this comes to Bandcamp, can you make a version available without any SFX? I'd love to hear the music completely isolated like the previous two ❤
If THIS was the sound it made when you used it, it would be an Apple product LOL. It would cure everyone's headache in the conference about the release of the new MacOS too...
Amazing man, keep up the good work. So Nostalgic
Hearing this makes me feel young again😊
recently I set up a windows xp machine after enjoying your soundscapes so this is a nice turn of events
Can't wait :)
Amazing !
Parts of this remind me of Roger Daltrey's version of "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me" from _The Lost Boys_ soundtrack, so much so that I found myself singing it in my head!
This series has been a masterpiece! Such a great find in 2024. Keep up the fantastic work!
I liked the solemn background music looping during the Windows XP installation time. I also wanted to listen to this music all the time, even though I should have wanted to finish the installation and use the PC as soon as possible. Are there plans to remix that music?
AMAZING, can't wait frutiger aero - vista ambient.
so much fun watching this!
this is wonderful
Another great job! 😀
Vista one is going to be interesting!
I cried hearing this. This brings tears to my eyes, remembering my old family pc when I was four. Life hits different now as a 14 year old
Absolute perfection. I love this one. Now I cannot wait to hear Longhorn
Absolutely beautiful music my fren,brings back old memories 😢
Amazing. I listen to these everyday.
Epicness to the fullest
Best one you've done!
Youve been making incredible stuff. I have loved this series! Great message as well.
This is amazing! 🎉
🙏💙 thank you sincerely!
Wow what a cool video. Sounds wonderful too.
Gonna be epic
This is perfect
These are inventive, and enjoyable! Nice work!
Babe, we have guests coming over. Please put on the new Retrovex Ambient
It's glorious. I do feel better while listening:-)
masterpiece
remember when using computers was an offline experience. i think it was better. no distractions, just you and the system, exploring the mysteries of the system. no search engine to hold your hand. if you couldnt get something working, it was like this big mystery trying to figure out which part of the system to go into and solve it. and then when you solved it your family would think you're such a genius and a computer whiz kid
This is exactly how i imagined it, my childhood! I imagine Vista or 7 is probably next?
This is awsome, great work again I can't wait for windows vista/7, which speaking of, how far do you plan to take this series? I imagen to keep that nostolgic wave this has all been riding on windows 7 seems like the last microsoft os you could do though I personally wouldn't mind also seeing a windows 8 or 10 though it would hit diffrent.
Yeah windows vista and 7 would be the last nostalgia trips for me. I was disappointed that this XP one didn't include the actual full welcome theme...
When Windows 10 starts taking lysergic acid and reminisce about its youthful XP days.