other_life
bioconfused
i used to be really upset about the shift from sample detournement to nicely cleaned up spotify ambient because it felt political but now i can't be bothered. it'd be cool to see small online communities self-consciously continue the sample and collage exploration, though. i found this stuff on rym in 2012 before vaporwave, chillwave or hypnagogic pop were genre tags there looking for sound collage from the 2010's. alex grey (deep magic/dreamcolour, heat wave, dj purple image, d/p/i) is another example of a very interesting evolution. he went from looper jams into screwy collages into something i'd almost describe as 'musique surface digital' (borrowing a term from wakesleep), inscrutable microsampling or unnerving/unlikely macrosampling juxtaposed w atonal electronics