hey!! dreamweather here. thank you so much for mentioning me in this!!!! I NEVER thought I would end up on this channel. this means the world, tysm again ❤️❤️
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Pad, you are a massive source of inspiration for the vaporwave community and other niche music genre communities. I am extremely honored to have joined you in your signalwave journey. I hope this video can help out the many artists you showcased, along with other artists yet to be discovered. I’m looking forward to seeing more from you! Keep being an amazing person. We all appreciate your attention and feedback very, very much. LONG LIVE SIGNALWAVE 🗣️‼️🔥🫡 - 171 (channel 71)
this is y ppl w jobs tht keep society runnin dont go online nomore 🕳️ why does every1 alive lie 2 each other man its so insufferable imagine wat u could done with the 5 mins u wasted cant get back... lying and kissin heinie. my WHOLE life bathing in vaporwave since its populariz8tion after 2010 i NEVER HEARD of dis 12hr long overXPlainer & time murderer of a "RUclipsr" making slop(thank u dolan)
ty 4 signing off at the end like ur channel wasn't started a half DECADE after "signalwave" (you would call it broken transmission if u weren't a genZ tumor) was at its actual active state. tumor b like, 6months ago oldest vid: yeah dude I'm signing off with my name bc im definitely not a teen who used bandcamp too much and lives deluded thinking anyone knows im alive, within an ALREADY esoteric community of like no more than 1000ppl. "Wake Up" - Jarrad Wright
Hey man, I just wanted to thank you for sharing that about your dad passing at the beginning. I’ve been there, it’s not easy, it’s been almost a decade since my dad passed away and I’m still not fully recovered; I don’t think it’s something you can ever move on from. You’re one of my favorite channels on RUclips and I’m so glad I found you a few years back, there’s so much cool and interesting music I would’ve never known about had it not been for you and your content. Love you bro.
What a small world, my heart skipped a beat when I heard Paddy name drop you! Keep on being amazing and giving us the good stuff, cya at the next Fang/Laser Highway/music goodness
thank you very much for talking a bit bout my album Wii記憶にとどめる (which translates to "Wii Remember") at 57:15! as a fan of your content since 2020, im very glad you resonated a lot with that release ｡^‿^｡
Wow Pad, this is great. What a great support for the scene. And big shout out for mentioning one of my 150 albums 😅. So good so see all my friends's releases in here.
The Weatherwave subgenre is my absolute favorite. Morris County Meteorological Team is in constant rotation. Reminds me of living with my grandma in the summers in the mid 90s. She'd put the weather checker on and we'd fall asleep.
This was a great video. Pretty much all the important stuff was mentioned and described perfectly. I would like to say thank you as well for shining a light on my work and asking me about the genre on Twitter and most importantly thank you giving a place for people to discover all these wonderful artists and the genre. You clearly have a great love for the genre. I would also like to say An Hour of Climatewave is a joke album I made in 15 minutes using Audacity lol. I wanted to see if anyone would take something really lazy seriously and I made a fake account to buy it and get it on the front page so it was funny to see it got mentioned. It is just one really long weather channel video slowed down with some added reverb nothing else. I despise that album because it is meant to be bad but I guess it works for some listeners and I am happy about that.
This was totally in the back of my mind watching this wonderful video on a genre I know little about.... I kept wondering, how many of these were just done on a whim or ironically constructed. Thanks for the insight and honesty hahaha
excellent watch. pinpointed all the feels that this genre brings out and why it is so special. signalwave is such a comfort to me. thank you for your hard work and service to vaporwave!
HERE WE GO! Before starting, congrats Pad on finishing this. I know you've spent so much time and it probably felt so daunting knowing that making this video wouldn't be an easy task, but you prevailed. Atta Boy!
It's so hard to pick a favorite signalwave project, but Carpet Dust got me through a really strange time. I found their releases in 2022 when my second kid was born 2 months early, and would listen to them when walking home from the hospital at night after visiting with him all day. Now I listen to them early mornings getting ready for the day
i don't make signalwave anymore but this video is so cool, looking back on all the music that used to inspire me is so awesome. amazing video man, thank you for this.
This has been my fav subgenre of vaporwave for many years now, I'm so glad there's new stuff coming out. It takes me to another world, a place of comfort despite the isolating vibes I get from these albums. the late night wanderings in the city I live in kinda feelings, it's just beautiful.
Yes!! That's the thing with signalwave... there is so much more stuff coming out now than ever before, and I hope this video introduces a lot of the newness coming through! really great stuff
Long Live Signalwave! This has been a fantastic deep dive on a niche subgenre. Even though I've presented a few Signalwave albums on tape, there's simply so many other great albums that I've never heard of before that I must listen to in the future! Pad, thank you for your great work as usual -- you've been a great pioneer into discovering hidden gems, and I hope to achieve such a goal like yours some day. ❤
Thank you for making another great video for the signalwave albums!! I’m glad that you enjoy my little album ( 1:06:08 ) ! I was inspired by your video on signalwave five years ago and started making music since then, I hope this video will inspire more people!! Long live signalwave!
A few tracks into The Gas Station Mega Collection as a complete newbie to this genre (only learning about it because of this video) and it's so nostalgic that I'm... emotional. It feels like snuggled deep in my mom or great grandmother's bed, the light's out, slowly drifting off while she watches tv.
Love this! It’s interesting, I find signalwave to be so comforting. It sounds like falling asleep to the weather channel, snuggling up at home to home shopping channel on a snow day, staying up on a summer night listening to the radio, late night TV after signoff. I’m so sad about your dad. He’s out there somewhere with my mom.
I remember when I first found your channel I was going through a pretty rough point in my life. I wanted to escape, you provided that with these albums. Signalwave has become a niche genre that I nonstop talk about and listen to, I've gained 7117 different albums from Bandcamp just from your influence. Thank you, they've been an amazing way to understand not only myself but others
I grew up next to the Santa Catalina mountains is southern Arizona, a mountain range that has radio towers and telescopes and even an old command center for the Titan missile program on it slopes. I was always fascinated by the juxtaposition of all this communication tech at high elevation in these lonely places looking out over endless swaths of desert. I used take photos of them, and even wrote short stories that featured them in the past. It’s so cool that an entire genre has caught up to my once esoteric interest. The sounds match that aesthetic perfectly. Thanks for making these videos!
Long live Signalwave!! It's a Pad video, time to go listen to 50 albums. Glad you covered this more thoroughly! I started off loving traditional vaporwave years and years ago but signalwave has completely captured me, it teleports me to a place that no other music does. As for a new personal favorite, 1450 kHz at Broken Grove by TV2 has spoken to my soul. For anyone who grew up in rural Pennsylvania or the midwest, and wants to be brought back to late nights on the porch hearing the vague sounds of neighbor's TVs and wilderness blending together...I cannot think of a better place.
Such an amazing video… I love your attention to detail. I look forward to catching up on your past videos… didn’t realize I needed a channel like yours but here we are. Thanks for all the hard work and love you clearly put into your projects.
Thank you for introducing me to signalwave. I have been listening to channel 71 and others that you mentioned. My mind is tripping and wow! You have excellent taste in music. Thank you once again. Keep up the great work you do in video content. 🙂🙏👍
My Dad passed same year and month as yours. I’m sorry for your loss and can relate too just disconnecting from most of my emotions during that time, it just never felt real nor does it still. Thanks to you and your channel it introduced me to music like this that I’ve always looked for. This type of music I truly resonate with because I’ve always felt like I’m stuck in this in between state like a waiting room.
its really cool to see you give signalwave some more coverage at length, you put me onto it after a couple of your videos covering some works by some artists in the genre years ago
Awesome video Pad and a hearty thankyou to every signalwave artist relentlessly and tirelessly bringing us the fuzzy, crackly, broken-down sounds of TV and radio that we once thought lost to time. Being another vaporwave artist from New Zealand I have so much respect for TV2; I was blown away at the range of samples she was able to dig up over different projects, stuff that I didn't even know existed like Hawke's Bay regional TV snippets. There's also one album I'd like to mention that I didn't see brought up: WASTED DIGITAL by Western Digital. I don't know how much it's really considered as signalwave, but it's so distant and hazy and really reminds me of visiting Seattle in 2018. Coming in to land on a rainy night at almost midnight, my first time in the continental US, the comfort of driving through the city feeling like I was inside a vcr-classique album cover. The album captures that essence for me and is one of my all-time favourites
Hey Pad, love your videos. I lost my dad 3 months ago, and I also was alone sorting out his things. It's a trip. Been swimming in deep, nostalgic waters. Just wanted to say I feel you and thanks for sharing your experience and how it reverberates through music.
I have a hard time listening to Chuck Person’s Ecco Jams. Listened to it constantly during a dark period, so it stirs up a lot of emotion. Amazing record.
4:00 You know what, I just stumbled on your channel, and subscribed solely because of that approach. Can't wait to find new stuff to dig into, and curious to check the rest of your channel. As much as I love long-form essay and genre dives and stuff like that, I've always had the same reflection, that most people won't go further and actually listen to the artists on their own pages. So yeah, I feel that it's a pretty bold stance to take. Respect!
Really appreciate this comment! Thanks so much for stopping by and hope you find even more music in some of my other discussion videos! There is truly so much great stuff out there. Cheers and enjoy getting lost in all of these albums!
Long Live Signalwave. This is an introduction for me and I look forward to listening to some of the music for the first time. The comments at the end from Daydream Deluxe are interesting to me as I actually do remember the pre-internet world where TV was the dominant media, and so the nostalgia isn't created and imaginary but real.
Thanks for your description of grieving, makes me aware how I suffer the loss of my parents in a more confusing way since their estate has been entirely resolved. The responsibilities of concluding all their stuff were a buffer against the new reality of their absence. My sister and I worked together throughout and that's a good thing considering, but I now miss the emails, messages and decisions we shared.
🎉🎉🎉 oh yes a new video essay from Pad just dropped & it’s about signalwave & lasts more than an hour ?! What a day for us my beloved vaporwave enthusiasts. All love from 🇫🇷
(AST advantage here) This is like a bolt from the blue. It's taking a sledgehammer to the executive dysfunction I've been going through lately. What actually happened was right after I got the album 90% done I became obsessed with old and lost media (hence my current RUclips channel) and it got abandoned. This video will get me to dust off the cobwebs and get it to print. Thank you!
Nmesh "Welcome to the warp zone!" is an amazing album I can't recommand enough, especially since it is video-game themed. I also love how Signalwave can be a way of expressing various different cultures and their television heritage, like with Canal+ albums themed to french television or Kenmore Classic Québec-themed albums. Long live signalwave!
1:06 If it makes you feel any better, your family probably appreciated you tackling those tasks. Nurses talk about it being a privilege to be present at the last few moments of a person's life, and perhaps in a way it's a kind of privilege to stitch the last loose threads from a loved one's life. I'm sure none of this makes your loss any easier to bear, but perhaps it helps you reinterpret the way you coped with the loss.
I find this genre most interesting to talk about. I was surprised a video this long on it wasn't made earlier. The music gives me a necessary sadness about the past even stronger than the usual vaporwave
Im so glad I stumbled across this video, it brought back my desire to delve into the waporwave/signalwave genre again. I really like the quick and accurate analyses of the different albums :)
As someone who regularly makes signalwave music with other artists trying to push the genre further, this really helps educate myself and inspire me to keep the genre going, thanks pad you a legend for this. Sorry about your dad by the way, I know the feeling best wishes in your healing man.
I've been into this genre for years and it's good to see great stuff coming out. Thanks for uploading the new video, I will check out the album! My memories from 2019... A few years ago, when I saw the video "What is "ひまわり画像"?, I immediately played that album. I wasn't very familiar with signalwave at the time, so that was my first foray into the genre. Fast forward to now, and I'm a Japanese Signalwave artist.
Great video! I loved hearing about the stories you associate with the albums. Though I am a bit sad you didnt talk about Skywaves 2, probably my favourite.
Great video, I've been trying to get more into Signalwave recently, so this is really useful for some suggestions. Best stuff I've heard is Sentinel by TLWS and TEXT by Sport3000, so maybe I'll give these a shot.
even before watching, I just have to say how much I appreciate the dedication you put into creating this type of content. as someone who’s inspired by internet culture and its music, ik this is such a small niche, but ur work really stands out. I love seeing someone so passionate about what they do
LONG LIVE SIGNALWAVE! Thank you so much for this amazing deep dive into a subgenre i've grown to love, and for sharing how it's tied into your own life and personal experience, it really shines in how much the genre means to you and many others
Even though I been completely cancelled from global signalwave community by my own stupid mistakes and bad behaviour, I can't deny how much this genre changes me and, like, shown what is my most peaceful genre to go in. I have been absolutely proud of being a part of this amazing community. My last signalwave albums are more experimental, I connecting various unexpected ideas, samples and aesthetics. For example I got emo signalwave album and two parts of an ultraviolence signalwave inspired by POSTAL Game Series. Idk if anyone of my friends and companions reading this, but I want to say thank you everyone for this This genre truly changed my life, I'm so glad that I have been a part not only of Signalcon 2024, but also of the whole genre. Praise to Pad Chennington. Long Live Signalwave
Normally I'd complain about an hour long video, but I feel like this is a deep dive on one of my favorite genres, thank you. I'll give this a watch soon 😊
Probably, my favorite from signalwave/broken transmission stuff is VVVX Software. More futuristic yet same late 90s - early 2000s nostalgia, even he only has one horror-styled signalwave album "Build 307" and as well his another project with more 80s nostalgia called Sport3000. And my favorite from VVVX is the series of "Ｗｅｂカメラ" (more of early 2000s loungy music for Japanese surveillance cameras) and the EP "i - m o d e" (lo-fier and more nostalgic that it sounds similar to menu music for PS2 / Dreamcast games). It's a really nice video essay about signalwave/broken transmission that you did, Pad, and it's great that signalwave community is still alive and well. Hope you're doing well, Pad.
8:58 My dad is a big fan of Change, and hearing that haunting sample of Let’s Go Together repeated infinitely into the void genuinely spooked me the first time
It's always bliss to hear about these unknown artists and sounds that remind you or create fake memories of a life you never had. It makes a nice thing to have...
Hell yeah another Signalwave video from our boy Pad :D Amazing that you mentionned most of my top 10 albums in my Bandcamp library. Signalwave is a superb and underrated genre that I can't get enough of. The first thing that comes to mind when thinking of signalwave is 傳輸的最後一天(last day of tranfer) by International Telecom, which as i've written as a review on its bandcamp page gives a very nostalgic feeling and reminds me of the times my grandpa would drive me home with classical music in his car that would get very distorted as we'd pass through a tunnel. (it doesn't sound exactly like this but hey maybe i could make my own signalwave haha) Other albums that I love are midnight television by midnight television, somewhat harsh and repetitive sounding (especially the track Blind dates that repeats the same few pop music measures like an alarm clock); "Slideshow" by crt paralysis, which I adore and find nostalgic being a 2000s kid having grew with a DS/Wii/3DS. You didn't mention the fact that each song has their own album art and they all accompany the track with its own visual truly giving lots of different vibes; 愛情のある関係 by ░░disease▒▒. That last one was really cool to find because I expected some super dark, perhaps metal stuff when I looked at the cover but when I took a listen I didn't expect some very chill jazzy sounds; and of course WMCC Weather Channel by Morris County Meteorological Team, the pinnacle of weather channel music. which are the one you talked about. But I wanna mention some others such as Repères by CANAL+ which gives that super mysterious, almost extraterrestrial feel with those samples. I love the calm, detective movie like vibe of the track Attendez; Ｓｋｙｗａｖｅｓ EP by EtheReal Media™ There are two of those EPs but I really like the first one. It really captures a feeling of sadness, loneliness and late night/very early mornings with repetitive, empty, distorted melodies; ＡｔＮｉｇｈｔ by International Telecom and especially its first two songs, ＤａｒｋＬｉｇｈｔ and ＢｒｏａｄｃａｓｔＩｎｔｅｒｍｉｓｓｉｏｎ. This one gives a more hopeful feeling while still having very muted, quiet melodies, almost a lullaby to help you sleep I kinda wanna mention NEXT GEN by CONTOSO, similar to Slideshow it has that y2k nostalgia feel and those crunchy filters as well, although the samples are more groovy and upbeat and it's probably a stretch to call it signalwave; I also wanna mention Castle by 1381 which is medieval-inspired signalwave, kind of a rarity in the scene. It gives you that nostalgia for when the history teacher would put a documentary about knights and kings instead of a regular class on a friday afternoon; Hadn't I been on Bandcamp I probably wouldnt have found all these gems of audio artistic experimentations. Shoutouts to International Telecom for being the name I recognize the most in signalwave music, to CT57 which I always see commenting and supporting other artists' signalwave works (like with reviews on bandcamp), and to liif(i think thats them? havent interacted with them in a while) who is like the one friend i have that likes signalwave too (and who gave me codes for ct57s music 🙏) oh and 1:08:33 Long live signalwave ‼📡🛰
LLSignalwave! thanks again man, left me speechless once again. i've always been interested in signalwave and without even realizing it have been indirectly inspired by asscoiated media(s) and the emotions they envoke (to say the least) throughout my life. Appreciate You always and my condolences +
@@PadChenningtonLatest video on my channel! I've also made a vaporwave song a while ago: ruclips.net/video/4jfhn_94LaQ/видео.htmlsi=1KhHnIPjLMrcBpAF (I'll post on Bandcamp whenever I make enough songs)
@@PadChenningtonLatest video on my channel! I've also made a vaporwave song a while ago (can't post links apparently... I'll post on Bandcamp when I make enough songs)
It's right on my channel, latest video :D I've also made a vaporwave song a while ago, you can find everything with the name "Cyberやぎ" (can't post direct links apparently).
amazing video! signalwave has gotten me through so many hard nights, and i absolutely recommend that you check out the works of withering spheres, especially their album “phantom pain”.
in 2023, also in November, my father died in the week that wormhole was released. it was one of the last things he listened to. from then on, i have made signalwave in his memory. the connections you've made in this video are incredibly valuable. i feel at ease knowing that signalwave is an anodyne to others in their times of loss too.
Discovering Vaporwave for myself a couple of years back drew me into this weird, yet wonderful world of experimental genres. For that alone, Vaporwave will live forever for me, but I'm also glad that it spawned new subgenres, while being one itself. In the spirit of this: long live signalwave!
Yeah, loss gets better with time, but never really disappears. Lost my dad 2011, which is a long time ago, even so, it still daunts on me from time to time. The mourning period is very important for moving on, so don't ignore it and don't bottle it up your feelings. It's better to let it out. Another thing I've been wondering about - Pad would you be interested in reviewing vaporwave from unknown artists? Either in private or on your channel? Stay strong!
I received a notification from Vapor 95 that you wrote a 28 page article based on the genre never heard of it until like a few moments ago very impressive stuff I've been a fan of vaporwave at synthwave for a very long time now but signal wave is something brand new and here I thought that I just couldn't find any more sub-genres
The Controversial Music Genre of Barber Beats: ruclips.net/video/Bxp4Qos39Zo/видео.html
TYSM for supporting the signalwave community
we love + appreciate you pad homie!
100% ! Thank you all for creating all of these projects ❤️
omg hii
hey!! dreamweather here. thank you so much for mentioning me in this!!!! I NEVER thought I would end up on this channel. this means the world, tysm again ❤️❤️
Hey hey!
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Pad, you are a massive source of inspiration for the vaporwave community and other niche music genre communities. I am extremely honored to have joined you in your signalwave journey. I hope this video can help out the many artists you showcased, along with other artists yet to be discovered. I’m looking forward to seeing more from you! Keep being an amazing person. We all appreciate your attention and feedback very, very much.
LONG LIVE SIGNALWAVE 🗣️‼️🔥🫡
- 171 (channel 71)
this is y ppl w jobs tht keep society runnin dont go online nomore 🕳️ why does every1 alive lie 2 each other man its so insufferable imagine wat u could done with the 5 mins u wasted cant get back... lying and kissin heinie. my WHOLE life bathing in vaporwave since its populariz8tion after 2010 i NEVER HEARD of dis 12hr long overXPlainer & time murderer of a "RUclipsr" making slop(thank u dolan)
ty 4 signing off at the end like ur channel wasn't started a half DECADE after "signalwave" (you would call it broken transmission if u weren't a genZ tumor) was at its actual active state. tumor b like, 6months ago oldest vid: yeah dude I'm signing off with my name bc im definitely not a teen who used bandcamp too much and lives deluded thinking anyone knows im alive, within an ALREADY esoteric community of like no more than 1000ppl.
"Wake Up" - Jarrad Wright
Hey man, I just wanted to thank you for sharing that about your dad passing at the beginning. I’ve been there, it’s not easy, it’s been almost a decade since my dad passed away and I’m still not fully recovered; I don’t think it’s something you can ever move on from. You’re one of my favorite channels on RUclips and I’m so glad I found you a few years back, there’s so much cool and interesting music I would’ve never known about had it not been for you and your content. Love you bro.
❤️❤️ much love josh, appreciate you
Thank you for getting involved in this, homie! And well done on this video, my dude!
appreciate you!!! miss u dawg hope to see ya again soon
What a small world, my heart skipped a beat when I heard Paddy name drop you! Keep on being amazing and giving us the good stuff, cya at the next Fang/Laser Highway/music goodness
thank you very much for talking a bit bout my album Wii記憶にとどめる (which translates to "Wii Remember") at 57:15!
as a fan of your content since 2020, im very glad you resonated a lot with that release ｡^‿^｡
congratulations to you too! I’m a big enjoyer of that album
Why you named your album in chinese???
how did you make the album art
@ 57:44 57:50 57:50 57:50 57:50 57:50 57:50 57:51 57:51 57:51 57:51 vvvisionnnn
@@xaviersatyanarayan964 OK, but why you named your album in japanese? It looks weird.
Wow Pad, this is great. What a great support for the scene. And big shout out for mentioning one of my 150 albums 😅. So good so see all my friends's releases in here.
thank you! Yes I was actually surprised to see how many projects you actually have 🤣 keep up the great stuff!!
Wow, 150 albums, and I thought I was prolific with 57 visu-albums in 1.5 years. But do all your songs have videos?
@MrBanana808 no, just a few. Many are only full streams for RUclips
Thank you so much for talking about my album at 1:04:25! This means so much to me! Much love
you got it!! sending the love right back !
Based rainhoe pfp btw
The Weatherwave subgenre is my absolute favorite. Morris County Meteorological Team is in constant rotation. Reminds me of living with my grandma in the summers in the mid 90s. She'd put the weather checker on and we'd fall asleep.
This was a great video. Pretty much all the important stuff was mentioned and described perfectly. I would like to say thank you as well for shining a light on my work and asking me about the genre on Twitter and most importantly thank you giving a place for people to discover all these wonderful artists and the genre. You clearly have a great love for the genre.
I would also like to say An Hour of Climatewave is a joke album I made in 15 minutes using Audacity lol. I wanted to see if anyone would take something really lazy seriously and I made a fake account to buy it and get it on the front page so it was funny to see it got mentioned. It is just one really long weather channel video slowed down with some added reverb nothing else. I despise that album because it is meant to be bad but I guess it works for some listeners and I am happy about that.
This was totally in the back of my mind watching this wonderful video on a genre I know little about.... I kept wondering, how many of these were just done on a whim or ironically constructed. Thanks for the insight and honesty hahaha
Thank you for your hard work. Signalwave is on the rise
and thank you for all of the great music!
yo I luv ur stuff!! 3am Signals is my fav album :3
Thank you for including my first SNRTM album! Didn't expect to see my work featured on your channel
Thank you for all the work you do I was super hyped for this video. Much love brother 💜
appreciate you!! thanks!
Amazing video 💙💜
excellent watch. pinpointed all the feels that this genre brings out and why it is so special. signalwave is such a comfort to me. thank you for your hard work and service to vaporwave!
HERE WE GO! Before starting, congrats Pad on finishing this. I know you've spent so much time and it probably felt so daunting knowing that making this video wouldn't be an easy task, but you prevailed. Atta Boy!
It's so hard to pick a favorite signalwave project, but Carpet Dust got me through a really strange time. I found their releases in 2022 when my second kid was born 2 months early, and would listen to them when walking home from the hospital at night after visiting with him all day. Now I listen to them early mornings getting ready for the day
I love carpet dust! Hope your little one is doing well now
RIP Pad's dad. Sorry for your loss, Pad, but glad you're able to share your love for your pops and weird Vaporwave music with the world.
i don't make signalwave anymore but this video is so cool, looking back on all the music that used to inspire me is so awesome. amazing video man, thank you for this.
Hope to see signalwave grow even more from this video.
Same!
This has been my fav subgenre of vaporwave for many years now, I'm so glad there's new stuff coming out. It takes me to another world, a place of comfort despite the isolating vibes I get from these albums. the late night wanderings in the city I live in kinda feelings, it's just beautiful.
Yes!! That's the thing with signalwave... there is so much more stuff coming out now than ever before, and I hope this video introduces a lot of the newness coming through! really great stuff
Long Live Signalwave!
This has been a fantastic deep dive on a niche subgenre. Even though I've presented a few Signalwave albums on tape, there's simply so many other great albums that I've never heard of before that I must listen to in the future! Pad, thank you for your great work as usual -- you've been a great pioneer into discovering hidden gems, and I hope to achieve such a goal like yours some day. ❤
Can always count on a great shopping list from your videos
enjoy!! 🛒🛒🛒
Thank you for making another great video for the signalwave albums!! I’m glad that you enjoy my little album ( 1:06:08 ) !
I was inspired by your video on signalwave five years ago and started making music since then, I hope this video will inspire more people!!
Long live signalwave!
A few tracks into The Gas Station Mega Collection as a complete newbie to this genre (only learning about it because of this video) and it's so nostalgic that I'm... emotional. It feels like snuggled deep in my mom or great grandmother's bed, the light's out, slowly drifting off while she watches tv.
Love this! It’s interesting, I find signalwave to be so comforting. It sounds like falling asleep to the weather channel, snuggling up at home to home shopping channel on a snow day, staying up on a summer night listening to the radio, late night TV after signoff. I’m so sad about your dad. He’s out there somewhere with my mom.
I remember when I first found your channel I was going through a pretty rough point in my life. I wanted to escape, you provided that with these albums. Signalwave has become a niche genre that I nonstop talk about and listen to, I've gained 7117 different albums from Bandcamp just from your influence. Thank you, they've been an amazing way to understand not only myself but others
I grew up next to the Santa Catalina mountains is southern Arizona, a mountain range that has radio towers and telescopes and even an old command center for the Titan missile program on it slopes. I was always fascinated by the juxtaposition of all this communication tech at high elevation in these lonely places looking out over endless swaths of desert. I used take photos of them, and even wrote short stories that featured them in the past. It’s so cool that an entire genre has caught up to my once esoteric interest. The sounds match that aesthetic perfectly. Thanks for making these videos!
Good video, thanks for posting it.
My dad died in October of that same year. A month before yours. Feel for you brother.
Long live Signalwave!!
It's a Pad video, time to go listen to 50 albums.
Glad you covered this more thoroughly! I started off loving traditional vaporwave years and years ago but signalwave has completely captured me, it teleports me to a place that no other music does.
As for a new personal favorite, 1450 kHz at Broken Grove by TV2 has spoken to my soul. For anyone who grew up in rural Pennsylvania or the midwest, and wants to be brought back to late nights on the porch hearing the vague sounds of neighbor's TVs and wilderness blending together...I cannot think of a better place.
its been, well, since that original video that i was a frequenter of ur channel... so cool to find the vapor wave is still rolling
still going strong!
Such an amazing video… I love your attention to detail. I look forward to catching up on your past videos… didn’t realize I needed a channel like yours but here we are. Thanks for all the hard work and love you clearly put into your projects.
Thank you for introducing me to signalwave. I have been listening to channel 71 and others that you mentioned. My mind is tripping and wow! You have excellent taste in music. Thank you once again. Keep up the great work you do in video content. 🙂🙏👍
My Dad passed same year and month as yours. I’m sorry for your loss and can relate too just disconnecting from most of my emotions during that time, it just never felt real nor does it still. Thanks to you and your channel it introduced me to music like this that I’ve always looked for. This type of music I truly resonate with because I’ve always felt like I’m stuck in this in between state like a waiting room.
its really cool to see you give signalwave some more coverage at length, you put me onto it after a couple of your videos covering some works by some artists in the genre years ago
Awesome video Pad and a hearty thankyou to every signalwave artist relentlessly and tirelessly bringing us the fuzzy, crackly, broken-down sounds of TV and radio that we once thought lost to time. Being another vaporwave artist from New Zealand I have so much respect for TV2; I was blown away at the range of samples she was able to dig up over different projects, stuff that I didn't even know existed like Hawke's Bay regional TV snippets. There's also one album I'd like to mention that I didn't see brought up: WASTED DIGITAL by Western Digital. I don't know how much it's really considered as signalwave, but it's so distant and hazy and really reminds me of visiting Seattle in 2018. Coming in to land on a rainy night at almost midnight, my first time in the continental US, the comfort of driving through the city feeling like I was inside a vcr-classique album cover. The album captures that essence for me and is one of my all-time favourites
the evolution of signal wave is forever growing in crazier and crazier ways.
always gonna be a cool sub-genre of vaporwave.
I'm very excited to see what the remainder of this decade brings to the genre!
Hey Pad, love your videos. I lost my dad 3 months ago, and I also was alone sorting out his things. It's a trip. Been swimming in deep, nostalgic waters. Just wanted to say I feel you and thanks for sharing your experience and how it reverberates through music.
Infinity Frequencies for me is the one. All those projects are incredible.
I have a hard time listening to Chuck Person’s Ecco Jams. Listened to it constantly during a dark period, so it stirs up a lot of emotion. Amazing record.
4:00 You know what, I just stumbled on your channel, and subscribed solely because of that approach. Can't wait to find new stuff to dig into, and curious to check the rest of your channel. As much as I love long-form essay and genre dives and stuff like that, I've always had the same reflection, that most people won't go further and actually listen to the artists on their own pages. So yeah, I feel that it's a pretty bold stance to take. Respect!
Really appreciate this comment! Thanks so much for stopping by and hope you find even more music in some of my other discussion videos! There is truly so much great stuff out there. Cheers and enjoy getting lost in all of these albums!
PAD IS BACK WOOOO
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Another amazing video from the legend himself. Your videos have been a source of inspiration for my own music so thank you!
Thank you so much for the kind words! Feel free to share some of your music here as well!
Wonderful video. Exploring genres like signalwave is so fascinating!
Thank you for this, i hope signalwave keeps growing cuz it is a very interesting genre!
As always, Pad NEVER misses with these uploads.
Keep up the good work man!
I needed this channel. Always needed another person to nerd out about obscure internet music in a small cafe in Downtown LA- keep up man.
Long Live Signalwave.
This is an introduction for me and I look forward to listening to some of the music for the first time. The comments at the end from Daydream Deluxe are interesting to me as I actually do remember the pre-internet world where TV was the dominant media, and so the nostalgia isn't created and imaginary but real.
Thanks for your description of grieving, makes me aware how I suffer the loss of my parents in a more confusing way since their estate has been entirely resolved. The responsibilities of concluding all their stuff were a buffer against the new reality of their absence.
My sister and I worked together throughout and that's a good thing considering, but I now miss the emails, messages and decisions we shared.
Haha! I would not have thought it, but I'm in this 😅
gluggaveður: Icelandic for "weather made to be observed from the other side of a window"- I've always adored that.
🎉🎉🎉 oh yes a new video essay from Pad just dropped & it’s about signalwave & lasts more than an hour ?! What a day for us my beloved vaporwave enthusiasts. All love from 🇫🇷
Thank you for stopping by my friend!! hope ya enjoy.
On est la 🇨🇵❤
incredible survey of the genre. it took four hours to finish because I kept opening up tabs to search the music. thank you.
I loved your first signalwave video! Introduced me to Atsutenki back in the day. Cant wait to listen to these newer albums featured ❤❤❤
Long live signalwave!
This stuff rocks. Your channel is so so important in making the best of this whole genre reach me!
Unironically my fav subgenere. Ether-real media’s skywaves 1 and 2 is so good
(AST advantage here) This is like a bolt from the blue. It's taking a sledgehammer to the executive dysfunction I've been going through lately.
What actually happened was right after I got the album 90% done I became obsessed with old and lost media (hence my current RUclips channel) and it got abandoned. This video will get me to dust off the cobwebs and get it to print. Thank you!
Yo, I'm having a heck of a time trying to find your bandcamp. Did you dust the webs too hard or did I break bandcamp?
@@squigglygibbet if you look for "ＡＳＴAdvantage" you'll find it. Thanks!
Nmesh "Welcome to the warp zone!" is an amazing album I can't recommand enough, especially since it is video-game themed. I also love how Signalwave can be a way of expressing various different cultures and their television heritage, like with Canal+ albums themed to french television or Kenmore Classic Québec-themed albums. Long live signalwave!
1:06 If it makes you feel any better, your family probably appreciated you tackling those tasks. Nurses talk about it being a privilege to be present at the last few moments of a person's life, and perhaps in a way it's a kind of privilege to stitch the last loose threads from a loved one's life.
I'm sure none of this makes your loss any easier to bear, but perhaps it helps you reinterpret the way you coped with the loss.
I find this genre most interesting to talk about. I was surprised a video this long on it wasn't made earlier. The music gives me a necessary sadness about the past even stronger than the usual vaporwave
Im so glad I stumbled across this video, it brought back my desire to delve into the waporwave/signalwave genre again. I really like the quick and accurate analyses of the different albums :)
SIGNALWAVE REPRESENTATION!!!!!! love to see my friends on here
LONG LIVE SIGNALWAVE
@@PadChennington LONG LIVE SIGNALWAVE!!
As someone who regularly makes signalwave music with other artists trying to push the genre further, this really helps educate myself and inspire me to keep the genre going, thanks pad you a legend for this. Sorry about your dad by the way, I know the feeling best wishes in your healing man.
I've been into this genre for years and it's good to see great stuff coming out.
Thanks for uploading the new video, I will check out the album!
My memories from 2019...
A few years ago, when I saw the video "What is "ひまわり画像"?, I immediately played that album.
I wasn't very familiar with signalwave at the time,
so that was my first foray into the genre. Fast forward to now, and I'm a Japanese Signalwave artist.
Pad, your love for music inspires me every day. There’s not a youtuber who I click on faster. Once again, you’ve served the goods.
Great video! I loved hearing about the stories you associate with the albums. Though I am a bit sad you didnt talk about Skywaves 2, probably my favourite.
Yes skywaves 2 is def a banger as well!! thanks for stopping by!
Great video, I've been trying to get more into Signalwave recently, so this is really useful for some suggestions. Best stuff I've heard is Sentinel by TLWS and TEXT by Sport3000, so maybe I'll give these a shot.
even before watching, I just have to say how much I appreciate the dedication you put into creating this type of content. as someone who’s inspired by internet culture and its music, ik this is such a small niche, but ur work really stands out. I love seeing someone so passionate about what they do
LONG LIVE SIGNALWAVE!
Thank you so much for this amazing deep dive into a subgenre i've grown to love, and for sharing how it's tied into your own life and personal experience, it really shines in how much the genre means to you and many others
Even though I been completely cancelled from global signalwave community by my own stupid mistakes and bad behaviour, I can't deny how much this genre changes me and, like, shown what is my most peaceful genre to go in. I have been absolutely proud of being a part of this amazing community. My last signalwave albums are more experimental, I connecting various unexpected ideas, samples and aesthetics. For example I got emo signalwave album and two parts of an ultraviolence signalwave inspired by POSTAL Game Series. Idk if anyone of my friends and companions reading this, but I want to say thank you everyone for this
This genre truly changed my life, I'm so glad that I have been a part not only of Signalcon 2024, but also of the whole genre.
Praise to Pad Chennington. Long Live Signalwave
Thx for popularizing such an underrated genre
Over an hour of Pad Chennington talking about music albums?? Im so ready!
Normally I'd complain about an hour long video, but I feel like this is a deep dive on one of my favorite genres, thank you. I'll give this a watch soon 😊
finally, long live signalwave ❤
Largest coal mine in the world OPENED AGAIN ⁉🗣 CLOSE IT DOWN
Probably, my favorite from signalwave/broken transmission stuff is VVVX Software. More futuristic yet same late 90s - early 2000s nostalgia, even he only has one horror-styled signalwave album "Build 307" and as well his another project with more 80s nostalgia called Sport3000. And my favorite from VVVX is the series of "Ｗｅｂカメラ" (more of early 2000s loungy music for Japanese surveillance cameras) and the EP "i - m o d e" (lo-fier and more nostalgic that it sounds similar to menu music for PS2 / Dreamcast games).
It's a really nice video essay about signalwave/broken transmission that you did, Pad, and it's great that signalwave community is still alive and well. Hope you're doing well, Pad.
VVVX = sport3000 = kanal vier
8:58 My dad is a big fan of Change, and hearing that haunting sample of Let’s Go Together repeated infinitely into the void genuinely spooked me the first time
It's always bliss to hear about these unknown artists and sounds that remind you or create fake memories of a life you never had. It makes a nice thing to have...
Sorry to hear about ur dad. Hope you have let yourself heal from the loss. Great vid!
Hell yeah another Signalwave video from our boy Pad :D
Amazing that you mentionned most of my top 10 albums in my Bandcamp library. Signalwave is a superb and underrated genre that I can't get enough of.
The first thing that comes to mind when thinking of signalwave is 傳輸的最後一天(last day of tranfer) by International Telecom, which as i've written as a review on its bandcamp page gives a very nostalgic feeling and reminds me of the times my grandpa would drive me home with classical music in his car that would get very distorted as we'd pass through a tunnel. (it doesn't sound exactly like this but hey maybe i could make my own signalwave haha)
Other albums that I love are
midnight television by midnight television, somewhat harsh and repetitive sounding (especially the track Blind dates that repeats the same few pop music measures like an alarm clock);
"Slideshow" by crt paralysis, which I adore and find nostalgic being a 2000s kid having grew with a DS/Wii/3DS. You didn't mention the fact that each song has their own album art and they all accompany the track with its own visual truly giving lots of different vibes;
愛情のある関係 by ░░disease▒▒. That last one was really cool to find because I expected some super dark, perhaps metal stuff when I looked at the cover but when I took a listen I didn't expect some very chill jazzy sounds;
and of course WMCC Weather Channel by Morris County Meteorological Team, the pinnacle of weather channel music.
which are the one you talked about. But I wanna mention some others such as
Repères by CANAL+ which gives that super mysterious, almost extraterrestrial feel with those samples. I love the calm, detective movie like vibe of the track Attendez;
Ｓｋｙｗａｖｅｓ EP by EtheReal Media™ There are two of those EPs but I really like the first one. It really captures a feeling of sadness, loneliness and late night/very early mornings with repetitive, empty, distorted melodies;
ＡｔＮｉｇｈｔ by International Telecom and especially its first two songs, ＤａｒｋＬｉｇｈｔ and ＢｒｏａｄｃａｓｔＩｎｔｅｒｍｉｓｓｉｏｎ. This one gives a more hopeful feeling while still having very muted, quiet melodies, almost a lullaby to help you sleep
I kinda wanna mention NEXT GEN by CONTOSO, similar to Slideshow it has that y2k nostalgia feel and those crunchy filters as well, although the samples are more groovy and upbeat and it's probably a stretch to call it signalwave;
I also wanna mention Castle by 1381 which is medieval-inspired signalwave, kind of a rarity in the scene. It gives you that nostalgia for when the history teacher would put a documentary about knights and kings instead of a regular class on a friday afternoon;
Hadn't I been on Bandcamp I probably wouldnt have found all these gems of audio artistic experimentations.
Shoutouts to International Telecom for being the name I recognize the most in signalwave music, to CT57 which I always see commenting and supporting other artists' signalwave works (like with reviews on bandcamp), and to liif(i think thats them? havent interacted with them in a while) who is like the one friend i have that likes signalwave too (and who gave me codes for ct57s music 🙏)
oh and 1:08:33 Long live signalwave ‼📡🛰
Awesome video!!!! Another classic. Love signalwave and the community. Keep doing your thing, brotha 📺💯🫡
Liked the video now and will watch later my guy
love yah brutha
appreciate you big dawg hope all Is well!
Long Live SignalWave
Great stuff as always Pad, my wishlist has grown quite a bit thx to this video
Damn that is a lot of albums.
YOU ARE ALOT OF ALBUMS
LLSignalwave! thanks again man, left me speechless once again. i've always been interested in signalwave and without even realizing it have been indirectly inspired by asscoiated media(s) and the emotions they envoke (to say the least) throughout my life. Appreciate You always and my condolences +
I missed your vids, happy to see you again on my feed.
thanks to you, im getting lots of soulseek downloads
I'm so excited to watch this while staying up late thank you Pad Thai 🙏🏿
fantastic video - I find it amusing that the aesthetics of the genre is so desolate, that even the letters of the track titles are socially distanced.
Interesting, I've started making signalwave and here you are talking about the genre :D
post some of your stuff here!!
@@PadChenningtonLatest video on my channel! I've also made a vaporwave song a while ago: ruclips.net/video/4jfhn_94LaQ/видео.htmlsi=1KhHnIPjLMrcBpAF
(I'll post on Bandcamp whenever I make enough songs)
@@PadChenningtonLatest video on my channel! I've also made a vaporwave song a while ago (can't post links apparently... I'll post on Bandcamp when I make enough songs)
It's right on my channel, latest video :D I've also made a vaporwave song a while ago, you can find everything with the name "Cyberやぎ" (can't post direct links apparently).
amazing video! signalwave has gotten me through so many hard nights, and i absolutely recommend that you check out the works of withering spheres, especially their album “phantom pain”.
always love these videos, thanks for sharing pad. Also long live signalwave
in 2023, also in November, my father died in the week that wormhole was released. it was one of the last things he listened to. from then on, i have made signalwave in his memory. the connections you've made in this video are incredibly valuable. i feel at ease knowing that signalwave is an anodyne to others in their times of loss too.
I wanted to make a long talk on signalwave as well because no one has made one. Glad to see that fixed
I have never been into the signalwave, but watched this video entirely! Really interesting video. Maybe I'll check out some releases in the future.
Discovering Vaporwave for myself a couple of years back drew me into this weird, yet wonderful world of experimental genres. For that alone, Vaporwave will live forever for me, but I'm also glad that it spawned new subgenres, while being one itself. In the spirit of this: long live signalwave!
Long Live Signalwave!!!!
Thanks for watching!!
Yeah, loss gets better with time, but never really disappears. Lost my dad 2011, which is a long time ago, even so, it still daunts on me from time to time.
The mourning period is very important for moving on, so don't ignore it and don't bottle it up your feelings. It's better to let it out.
Another thing I've been wondering about - Pad would you be interested in reviewing vaporwave from unknown artists? Either in private or on your channel?
Stay strong!
I received a notification from Vapor 95 that you wrote a 28 page article based on the genre never heard of it until like a few moments ago very impressive stuff I've been a fan of vaporwave at synthwave for a very long time now but signal wave is something brand new and here I thought that I just couldn't find any more sub-genres