Chuck Person's Eccojams Vol.1 - A3 (Daniel Lopatin)

[@Daniel-be6cj]

A while back, I thought to myself, "the chorus is usually the catchiest part of the song, someone should make a radio channel that plays only choruses". Vaporwave answered my prayers. I can't stop listening to this track.

[@michaeljfan9720]

I know! I appreciate it more, knowing that I really liked the song that this samples, Too Little Too Late by Jojo! It reminds me of my childhood.

[@banjogyro]

Exactly!

[@jwgmail]

You should check out hip hop. That's kind of what sampling is all about

[@ShuyaTheDark]

And in an unfortunate turn of events: TikTok.

[@soyojoo]

@@ShuyaTheDark what 😭

[@michiahsievers9062]

even the shark in the pic is overcome with emotion

[@rhubarbdude3347]

Shark be sinking in the feels

[@Bakutakamine]

You know when you can hear the same thing looped over and over and over and over and over and over again and you don't turn it off you're either crazy or somebody did something right. It's both.

[@viviondioline]

Bakutakamine William basinski

[@donovanhikaru8977]

In the small repeating music loop that is life, we try desperately to grasp onto any meaningful sense of emotion that we can encapsulate and label/feel as "happy", "sad", "exciting", "beautiful", "tragic", "terrifying", but they all happen so quickly intertwining and shifting, that we cannot hold onto these individual feelings for more than a second.. instead, we sit back in awe as our senses are enlightened with the sheer blissfulness of the ever-changing state of the human condition. It's a cycle, a circle, never starting, never ending, only moving.. just like music.

[@AfricanRituals]

lmao u a gay ass niqqa shut ur mouth wit ur big words n shit

[@abbermits8220]

AfricanRituals u tel um

[@deividasjuscius3777]

Le reddit army is here!

[@soppsau]

Devamdoshi leddit armey xDxDXxDxDxD lelelle

[@snowdjagha]

It's just fucking music! Why you're trying to explain it? You don't explain feelings. Stop with that bullshit!

[@SonicOrbit01]

This is so repetitive and yet so addicting..

[@festival3051]

@Beatrice dam! Whoever thought I'd bump into you here Beatrice, so good to see you again!

[@LunaViolet]

ｙｏｕ ｋｎｏｗ ｉｔ'ｓ ｊｕｓｔ ｔｏｏ ｌｉｔｔｌｅ ｔｏｏ ｌａｔｅ

[@JohnPaulBuce]

@@festival3051 be real

[@JohnPaulBuce]

@Tyler H be real

[@Floplikeadeadfish]

B real

[@Mondaigirl]

This makes me feel an emotion I can't even describe.

[@namelessxdread]

I know exactly what you mean.

[@summerheadrush2009]

Me too

[@r1tzy5551]

Nostalgia, this loop brought me back to late 2007 - early 2013

[@drbuni]

@@r1tzy5551 No. In my case, the emotion is rather different from nostalgia.

[@atiron6543]

remember buying cds at the mall

[@nigelmiller5609]

And remember before that it was cassette tapes

[@namelessxdread]

This song reminds me of an old mall in my hometown that has since been torn down and replaced with I think a library.

[@rizzo-films]

@@namelessxdread this music is definitely a liminal space. It's like the distant remnants of a song that once played on the mall's radio that's just eccoing off the walls forever, but it plays at such a low volume that scientists had to record it with highly sensitive equipment and this is what it sounds like after being repaired.

[@TerioBeats]

pepperidge farm remembers

[@emily99]

I keep harmonizing with the melody every time it loops and for some reason I find it so satisfying. Harmony is so nice, man.

[@makugaia8128]

underhaze same.

[@emily99]

One year after posting that comment and I still love this song to death. Glad to see someone else feel the same way :)

[@frostbitebella8840]

@Chris D'oulmeth I still love this song so much it really is like an endless loop

[@BTown55WS]

Same

[@EMOTIONOGRAPHY]

@@emily99 do you still love this song to death 4 years later?

[@mcnugget677]

I discovered this album after finding Nobody Here in my recommended, that song gave me so many chills and almost brought me to tears at some points. But to be honest, this one could probably top that. The thing that chills me so much about this is the sample choices. Every other song on the album sampled classic 60-90s hits, but the thing that sets this one apart is the sampling of two relatively new songs. It made me realise how fast nostalgia is advancing, and how sometimes random moments from just a couple of weeks ago in my life can feel so distant, how I long to have times back that may have only happened a year or two ago. It’s also beautiful and haunting, I’m torn between this and A5 as my favourite Eccojam.

[@skc-]

Understood. Time waits for no man.

[@ConsciousThoughts87]

modern art

[@kakarooku]

post-modern art

[@CarlosHenriqueNoronhadeAguiar]

Post-post modern art

[@andrewsullivan6371]

traditional art

[@Kyle_Schaff]

Neo-post-modern modern art

[@ph43draaa]

Art

[@Oneohtrix]

...Do you ever see in your dreams.... .....All the castles in the sky....

[@404waffles]

i actually thought jojo was some hairy male 80s artist because of this song

[@k1001001]

Chad Kroeger

[@Octambulism]

Jojo! I reject my humanity!

[@michaeljfan9720]

@@Octambulism KONO DIO DA!

[@gratielanicu2737]

What does this has to do with Jojo..? The game f mega?

[@michaeljfan9720]

@@gratielanicu2737 No, Jojo is the name of the girl who sings Too Little, Too Late, the song that A3 is sampling.

[@Romnia007]

Be real

[@ThurstonDog]

It doesn't matter anyway.

[@adamthorpe3388]

B Michael Payne you know it's just a little too late

[@Aasmund01]

+yhalothar Be real

[@sycorax4941]

+( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) It doesn't matter anyway

[@viniciuss.custodio9154]

+sycorax You know it's just too little too late.

[@dorontsur]

Whosampled: Chuck Person - Untitled A3 (2010) sampled Castles in the Sky by Ian Van Dahl feat. Marsha (2) (2000) Too Little Too Late by JoJo (2006)

[@namelessxdread]

This was like the second, maybe even first vaporwave song I ever heard. This was back in 2015. I had spent nearly 3 years locked up and when I got out I didn't have a PC or anything, just a phone. I was browsing /wg/ on 4chan looking for wallpapers for my phone. I happen upon this thread of "vaporwave" wallpapers. In the OP there was an explanation of what vaporwave was/is along with links to examples of the genre. I believe the first two songs I heard were, naturally, Macintosh Plus's Lisa Frank 420 and this track. I think the third was bbrainz "Tell Me How It Feels". But immediately when I heard this track A3, I was instantly hit with almost like hidden memories I had as a kid. I was able to visualize them very clearly and the feeling of nostalgia was overpowering. I couldn't explain it and have been a fan of the genre ever since. There is something very cerebral about this genre. It seems to trigger the part of your brain that stores your oldest memories.

[@Kyle_Schaff]

Be real, it doesn’t matter anyway. You know it’s just a little delay

[@MrPranavishere]

This is kind of glorious. In many ways, the tape reminds me much of modernist photography from the early 20th century. A macro shot of a seemingly mundane image, zoomed in until it becomes truly beautiful.

[@GENOSAD]

Proof that we need more vaporwave that samples early-2000s music

[@music6577]

vaporwave peaked with this release sorry

[@JaredtheRabbit]

“Too Little, Too Late” by Jojo, the sample of this song, originally released in 2006, so the mid-2000s.

[@GENOSAD]

@@JaredtheRabbit Shit, my bad, I forgot to consult the guy who knows literally everything before posting my comment.

[@Leff16]

@@JaredtheRabbit The second sample of the song, "Castles in the Sky" by Ian Van Dahl was released in the year 2000 (and 2001 in the UK), so really everyone was right.

[@JaredtheRabbit]

@@Leff16 I know. I pointed out the first sample.

[@gambasTV]

I only learned yesterday, reading "Palm Mall" by Oliver Neale, that this was originally from a Jojo song. went back and listened to that, surprised by how much I loved it as well, but this mix is just spectacular. such a beautiful sample, utterly sorrowful yet immensely cathartic. unforgettable.

[@atomsplitter601]

so, i wrote a whole art analysis essay 💀 bear with me. hopefully this all makes sense lol the lyrics "be real / it doesn't matter anyway / u know ur just a little too late" are originally part of the song "Too Little Too Late" by JoJo. its about an ex partner only being in a relationship w/ the speaker for instant gratification, so the sampled line is specifically the speaker expressing disdain at their ex's attempts to rekindle their relationship so what happens when the sample is lifted from its context and left to be interpreted on its own? the lyrics suddenly become very generalized, not being able to be attached to any particular experience in general. you, reader, likely already picked up on this as ive seen others in the comments note that the line is quite meaningless lyrically. literally what does "be real / it doesn't matter anyway / u know ur just a little too late" even mean, like? 🙄 i also want to note how OPN's use of the sample supports the de-contextualizing. a) repetition. it's difficult to convey a complete idea in a 6-second clip of music. a timeframe of that length containing unique stuff is usually a part of a larger song or a body of work such as an album. repeating the sample for the duration of an entire song forces us to interpret it as its own piece, like a thought-terminating mantra. b) reverb / delay. not much to be said here; this adds fuzziness, adding to the haziness of the sample's meaning when de-contextualized. given the above, what does a3 say about pop music? i think this analysis gives backing to the interpretation of a3 as a critique of the abstract relatability of pop music lyrics. if u give the lyrics of Too Little Too Late a second look yourself, you'll notice that there aren't enough details to make the song about a specific event in an individual's life. whole above i stated the song was about a specific human experience, the lyrics could theoretically apply to many androphiles' experiences with boy trouble. the use of the sample in a3 pushes this to the extreme by giving us this uber-abstracted lyrical fragment devoid of any specifics that could alienate the audience. but because of that its lost the ability for listeners to connect to it based on lyrics, leaving only aesthetics.

[@davidpadua]

all the cat souls in the sky

[@Dooooooor]

lying in bed in a trance-like state with this reverberating through the room is fantastic

[@BlackManta_777]

The song changes pitch and slows down almost imperceptibly

[@connoremsley1692]

Have you heard the analogy of boiling a frog?

[@deirdreb2474]

@@connoremsley1692 huh??? what???

[@connoremsley1692]

@@deirdreb2474 If you drop a frog in a pot of boiling water, it will of course frantically try to clamber out. But if you place it gently in a pot of tepid water and turn the heat on low, it will float there quite placidly. As the water gradually heats up, the frog will sink into a tranquil stupor, exactly like one of us in a hot bath, and before long, with a smile on its face, it will unresistingly allow itself to be boiled to death. What Daniel Lopatin is doing here is quite similar. If the pitch and speed changed any quicker, you would have noticed.

[@CheeseMan78]

First time I listed to this I thought the lyrics where "free will, it doesn't matter anyways, you know its just a little bit gay"

[@slamuel9797]

F R E E W I L L

[@ffgibson5859]

no you didnt

[@waharadome]

@@slamuel9797 WILL!?!?

[@Meowth666]

WEW WEW IT DOESN'T MATTER ANYWAY

[@pm41224]

BE REAL, IT DOESN'T MATTER ANYWAY YOU KNOW IT'S JUST TOO LITTLE TOO LATE

[@evilgary747]

haha

[@penny1992]

Doesn't remotely sounds similar

[@kenollxl2023]

NINODISITULALOW EEEE WEW WEW IT DOESNT MATTER NIEEEEEEEE...

[@herettahuston9457]

When you realize it does matter

[@therhythmic2000]

definitely my favourite track of this album, its just so ethereal and cozy i LOVE IT

[@VerdantAssassin]

When I listen to this song, I feel like I'm in a fighter jet raiding a giant base floating in the sky until a giant portal appears and transports me to another dimension, which is the second half of this song.

[@failinginamerica]

i finally managed to find this on cassette, awesome.

[@failinginamerica]

Dyes_One Discogs

[@failinginamerica]

***** want FLAC?

[@SeeroBoarder]

Jun Puush Of course

[@BitByAnthonyKedis]

Jun Puush Could I possibly get a copy, too? I'll cut the tracks myself if necessary.

[@TheKemoM]

Jun Puush got the link to the FLAC version?

[@ajpgraphics]

Now which is correct? "You know it's just a little too late" "You know it's just too little too late"

[@Axxquix]

Its you know its just a little too late- Wait.. No wait its you know its just too little too late- NO wait AAAA

[@Marrovack]

TO BE REAL IT DOESNT MATTER ANYWAY YOU KNOW ITS JUST A LITTLE TOO LATE

[@ecco1134]

The old black sky filled with stars.......you had a great life.... You're very old but you still love the vaporwave stuff

[@Pangkatt]

Eccojams is a masterpiece, a true masterpiece

[@daltonlm7]

Since 2015, everytime im upset, this song plays inside my head

[@KasranFox]

Be reer, it doesn't matter anyway...

[@anastasiadunbar5246]

Hey free will!

[@kakarooku]

Kasran Fox Be Ryu

[@stexem0tarsst]

BE REAL NOW IT DOESNT MATTER ANYWAY YOU KNOW ITS JUST TOO LITTLE TOO LATE

[@adamgreen3555]

As the song goes on I like to open more and more tabs of the song and get lost in the noise

[@jennydeaf9O9]

omg yes me tooo !!!

[@Vap0rL0ve]

All the castles in the sky...sky...sky

[@wretchedheaded7]

I want to listen to this at midnight in the middle of the ocean on a boat by myself

[@suaryps]

music is something man

[@blood_rain]

Daniel Lopatin Disorients You In The Most Entertaining Way

[@alflex621]

this guy has some catchy ass repeats.

[@doggotbitm]

probably my favorite eccojam

[@ΣτέΡγιος-ε8ω]

you know its too little too late

[@tacticalheadlampwithstrap3184]

I’m actually pretty old now. I can remember buying JoJo for this part of the chorus. I keep coming back to this.

[@ThirtyTwelve]

I am somehow in love with this song.

[@NEWTheOswaldMovie]

based music taste

[@kevinpatrickcrowley5505]

Love how this flows into "castles in the sky" - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - reminds me of wandering around in a haze in Brooklyn and Astoria with a broken heart - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - and buggin' out on the LIRR and subway looking out the window at the flow - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - this track would stop me in my tracks with the thought of heavy memories - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

[@xx1slimeball]

obnoxiously underated track

[@Mango-bj2ch]

Always thought the lyrics were: “Anywhere, it doesn’t matter where you’ve been, you knows it’s just a little too late”

[@whiskaselgato8068]

I thought it was: Free will It doesn't ever end You know it's just a little bit GAY

[@St4r_Z0mb13]

"It doesn't matter anyway"

[@furkanyilmaz0]

Be aware It doesn't matter anyway No one's just a little too late

[@ARC_10]

It like as if the ocean waves are singing 🎶 🐬👌

[@sadboys]

Wow this is pure emotion.

[@hensoakira]

W sadboys

[@Possedee]

OHHH MY THIS IS SOOO BEAUTIFUL

[@coinlord420]

All the castles in the sky eyeyeyeyeyeyeye

[@vincentros84]

We will.. it doesn't matter anyway. You know it's just too little, too late.

[@lauramarx8098]

its 'be real' :P

[@NewWaveArch90]

The Sail on Sailor installation by Kristin Oppenheim at the New Museum totally seems like a proto-version of this, an echoed line from a pop song repeated over and over to create a certain hypnagogic atmosphere

[@SangalDigital]

getting draged by water of unusual nostalgic emotions

[@discountchocolate4577]

The first song on this track is like a blackpill in audio form. Feeling hopeless sucks. I'm hoping people who see this defeat the temptation to go full doomer and finds the will to keep fighting. The revolution will come eventually.

[@slamuel9797]

Discount Chocolate I cannot.Their are dark “satanic” forces out there.As well angelic good well forces at play here.Seriously.There is a secret society that gets power from hurting children in ritual sacrifices.But there is good in this world fighting this an exposing this as we speak.A new world is a upon us.

[@Pizza_Rat]

@@slamuel9797 are you ok???

[@wb6930]

@@slamuel9797 Q type beat

[@chrisbrown5863]

Socialist Revolution? I hope so

[@diberhaze]

is this that new be real app all the kids are talking about?

[@MasterIrukaPlays]

life is like this song, it doesnt matter anyway

[@k1001001]

Anyone hear Chad Kroeger from Nickelback instead of JoJo?

[@oculttheexegaming2509]

k1001001 Yes.

[@axiom6031]

🎶 _Big Weld, it doesn’t matter anyway_ 🎶

[@EvenFlowNYC]

Dorks.

[@von111]

?

[@PC10.8]

Are you calling vaporwave fans dorks?

[@boiya1348]

@@PC10.8Yeah you dork, who listens to this weird music it's literally the same thing over and over again lmao.

[@PC10.8]

I could say the same thing about you, anime man. We all have something dorky about us, some people just hide it better than others.

[@boiya1348]

Kevin once said that God hates Dorks and I'm no dork. I'm a elite intellectual.

[@willmcpherson2]

Accelerationism

[@guy_you_can_trust]

+swell guy dam you too? were you in the original thread last yr about that? dont lie please

[@willmcpherson2]

ᅚ I was in a lot of the /mu/ vaporwave threads in 2012 and 2013

[@CDRIIVE]

+swell guy hey you watch mde ! i saw you on like 200 videos

[@willmcpherson2]

CDRIIVE Visuals Yeah mate I am a big fan of Sam

[@djhelenboste]

What the fuck we just have the same profile pic

[@legendary56]

my favorite eccojam

[@anastasiadunbar5246]

This reminds me of flash loops by anonymized users.

[@ModricoTV]

“Flash loops”?

[@DigiEggz]

Welcome to Valhalla

[@Fanta666]

I wish A4 wasn't on here. Easily the low point of Eccojams (which is almost a compliment given how fucking good Eccojams is).

[@CDRIIVE]

yeah a4 sucks

[@rogerwieand7386]

lies

[@xx_sanic_da_heg_hoge_xx420]

Nah I only wish the first half of B2 wasn't on here... everything else is fantastic while the beginning of B2 is kinda just a mess.

[@cattoproductions7142]

A4 and the beggining of B2 are nightmares that barely fit with the dream that is the rest of the album

[@pkwafflest]

a4 and the beginning of b2 (even the unsettling noisy parts in A8) i think are amazing. gives the album such a unique and unsettling fever dreamish sound.

[@jknkjnkjnkj8967]

E N E M Y S T A N D

[@Akaimayn]

JoJo's emotion in full effect

[@lainsoundtrack8309]

B E A W A R E

[@queque4892]

Finally... this became NOs TAL*gyC*

[@leni4273]

Be real, it doesn't matter anyway, you know it's just too little too la-Be real, it doesn't matter anyway, you know it's just too little too la-Be real, it doesn't matter anyway, you know it's just too little too la-...

[@Marrovack]

yup

[@stripedhyenuh]

Beer wheel, it doesn't matter anyway

[@drifter402]

This is actually two separate tracks which for some reason were labelled as one during a rip.

[@CDRIIVE]

same thing with B2

[@aquinoguh]

he actually mashed up the songs together

[@b.c.5136]

no, this is how the track was on the tape.

[@xephren6557]

in the second bit it sounds like he's saying "oude kaas" which means "old cheese" in dutch

[@ModricoTV]

It’s actually a female voice from a song called “Castle in the Sky” by Ian Van Dahl and Marsha. He slowed it down so it sounded like a man.

[@loadminik]

my Chuck Person favorite!

[@leo.kasper]

my favorite track

[@subliminalguy]

Beautiful!

[@TheGummybearChannel]

The lyrics sound so familiar...

[@SonicOrbit01]

The first half is sampled from JoJo - Too Little Too Late. The second half is sampled from Ian van Dahl - Castles In The Sky

[@vyruss000]

LOL @ Ecco the Dolphin SEGA MEGA-CD cover

[@evilgary747]

Too bad there's no dolphin on the cover.

[@simongoussot274]

JoJo's slowed voice sounds like Maître Gims lmao

[@jennydeaf9O9]

i fake-hate this somg cuz it reminds me of that awful radiopop song that sings "late nights in the middle of june" truly irritating. i love it sm

[@steezemcgee]

the pic looks perf lol

[@fleebertreatise1063]

Keep it up if they person who made this ever reads comments on their reposted music lol

[@bhavyakukkar]

feels like rain

[@avidkites]

If a mirror could make music, this is what it would sound like

[@wononcyka666]

im tempted the smash my phone when listening to this, but then again tempted to make sweet sweet love to it.... i dont even fuckin know bro

[@NigelWinfrey]

+NattyIce Planetside hahaha same

[@CrossJeniel]

I love it

[@ShalomBeats1026]

what a fuckin gem

[@Jochitko]

So fucking good! :D

[@zmanswat9524]

Does anyone know where the ed edd and eddy of this is?

[@riguez3001]

it's the same as circle bob the frozen remix it's repetitive yet so GOOD

[@Honorarkonsul1081]

iam asking myself all the time if my subwoofer is makin some kind of fun with me or somebody forgot to put some drums into this music...

[@Possedee]

CHUCK YOURE MY FUCKING PERSON

[@Lance3015]

2012?? damn

[@hailboognish]

why is this song so fucking short

[@ARC_SION]

Does anyone have mp3s of this album? I've been looking all around with no success at all. This is too good to not have the whole album to listen through.

[@soyboysoyboy]

thanks lance

[@trashw1ngs864]

I actually love this shit. What the fuck.

[@m_5373]

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