This next question’s a bit more for you personally: when you listen to dds.wmv, what do you listen to and why? Yeah, I’m a fan of the videos I’ve found on Youtube. We’re both self-taught but I think he possesses a better artistic vision for it, especially now that he’s gotten into making videos. He’s been doing it a bit longer than me- since high school. James does the majority of the graphic design, though I contribute occasionally. Had you been doing much graphic design before? James and I were in a band together called The Sailing from 2001 until 2008 (James on guitar, me on keys, both of us sang) and we’ve been making music separately and collaboratively ever since. Yeah, the three of us have all been friends since we were in high school together. Had you all been making music beforehand? It was a feeling of “oh man, I love this part of the song, I wish it went on for like five more minutes.” From there it sort of became an outlet for us to make these weird conceptual mixtapes by isolating our favorite chord progressions and melodies from existing video game music and pop songs and looping them. We decided to share the name death’s dynamic shroud.wmv for our projects even though we were working separately because they were coming from the same place. Around the same time I had become interested in chopping and screwing music from Super Nintendo Games.
Sample-based music is a lot of fun to play around with, but most of the music we’ve made would not qualify as “vaporwave”- we’ve made a lot more music that would probably fall under “shoegaze” or “synthpop” or something.ĭds.wmv got its start when James wanted to show me the music of the Sega Dreamcast game “Shenmue” and how it’s basically an interactive vaporwave album. We have a lot of different projects that we record using a lot of different monikers, so we just thought it would be a lot more convenient to put everything in one spot. Ghost Diamond is basically an umbrella term for all the music James and I make–everything on the Ghost Diamond bandcamp page is made by us (sometimes featuring other people). How do you all decide who comes through Ghost Diamond? As I understand it, you and James run Ghost Diamond Collective, but much of the music on the page has little relation to dds.wmv or even internet music otherwise. What makes the difference between an inspired release and an ordinary one can be hard to articulate, and differs from artist to artist however, in the case of dds.wmv, I think it goes back to the artist’s approach to music-making in the first place.īefore getting into dds.wmv, I had a quick question about Ghost Diamond Collective, the bandcamp page that hosts dds.wmv as well as a number of other artists. More recently, dds.wmv has also featured the work of Keith Rankin, of Giant Claw. I recently had the opportunity to speak with Tech Honors, the artist who co-founded dds.wmv with James Webster. For all of that, there are a few inspired releases and artists that make the genre worthwhile, and death’s dynamic shroud.wmv is one such artist. For example, vaporwave is known for satirizing corporate muzak through sampling, but the parody risks sounding as unaffecting as the original. It’s also often accompanied by excessively conceptual pedantry when one would sooner judge music based on how it sounds. The name itself can be as off putting as an inside joke told in company. For those unfamiliar with the genre, it’s known for its use of samples and “a e s t h e t i c,” which refers to both the visual style and the tenor of the music itself.Īs a style, vaporwave (understandably) receives a great deal of flak. They are an internet-based music project and usually considered vaporwave. Death’s dynamic shroud.wmv is one of those gems found deep in the Youtube wormhole and among the most satisfying of such finds.
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