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”Hot Takes” is a high energy music discussion podcast featuring vaporwave artist Skeleton Lipstick and vaporwave DJ Yung Shiro 白. Every other Monday, tune in at 9PM ET for interviews, music discussions, and strong opinions! No judgment!
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Monday Jul 31, 2023
Monday Jul 31, 2023
Starring in the latest episode of "Hot Takes": Skeleton Lipstick, YUNG SHIRO 白, and guest of honor Navigateur! Genre-bender extraordinaire and an OG producer from the early days of the independent net-based retro electronic music explosion, Navigateur has produced faithfully throughout the chillwave years, found a degree of success in the synthwave scene, and is featured consistently as a key player throughout the early years of the vaporwave movement. We hardly had a sufficient amount of time to cover the number of topics that we wanted to cover with Carlos, touching on such concepts as SPF420 and Turntable.fm groups in the early 2010's, Navigateur's love of shoegaze and nu-gaze music, and New York City in the 1980's. What you hear here you heard first on "Hot Takes!
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Monday Jul 24, 2023
Monday Jul 24, 2023
For "Hot Takes" episode 52, Mingkurray joined us on the show! Mingkurray, musical artist, visualist, and livestream show organizer, descends upon "Hot Takes" with Skeleton Lipstick and YUNG SHIRO 白 for 120 minutes of inside jokes, insider info, and of course hot takes. Mingkurray's renown transcends many scenes and media, being known for his glitchy vaportrap music, his use of antiquated media like Gameboy Advance cartridges, his decaying digital visual effects, and sprawling livestream URL events. During our episode with Ming, we get to hear about his relationship and work with EDM artist Flux Pavilion. Ming and Shiro share many moments geeking out over Brainfeeder artist Lapalux. Tune in at the very least for a quick overview of Mingkurray's short film and a shoutout to the few other acts in the scene that are also film makers. You heard it on "Hot Takes"!
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Sunday Jun 25, 2023
Sunday Jun 25, 2023
The latest "Hot Takes" episode stars Skelly, Shiro, and highly coveted special guest Datagirl! An extremely skilled DJ, musician, and visual artist, Datagirl has been working silently within and without the vaporsphere, playing club and house shows, dropping albums on labels like Pacific Plaza Records, and creating phenomenal 3D rendered visuals for livestream events, including for 100% Electronica. Our two hours with Datagirl were over before they even began, discussing such concepts as nostalgia for trance and big beat music, controlling the entire music making process from the ground up, and love for the N64 game Paper Mario! Only on the only vaporwave talk show on the internet!
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Friday Jun 09, 2023
Friday Jun 09, 2023
We broadcasted with Luxury Noise for this installment of the show! Longtime friend and supporter of the show, Paul's camaraderie, taste in art, outspoken nature, and experience in the industry made him a picture perfect candidate for a "Hot Takes" guest, and we relished the chance to get his take on everything from production techniques to ElectroniCON 3's food truck situation to Roseanne and Webster. Having gotten his start in the vaporwave movement during the pandemic lockdown era, Luxury Noise has since become a force to be reckoned with, contributing heavily to the Coast to Coast Collective's releases and livestream events, performing at various live parties like Club Genki, and melding genres like breaks and house with vapor soundfonts. As a personal friend of both Skelly and Shiro with great taste in art and music, the two hours with Luxury Noise flew right by, and we made the most of them that we could! We held our chat submitted questions until the second hour, covering a range of topics such as his favorite all-time albums, his favorite Coast to Coast livestream, and memorable moments during his time touring with indie rock band Of Montreal. Paul intimated to us his thoughts on genre hyper-categorization, recording TV and radio shows manually as a child, and the origin of his nickname "Lonely Paul". Don't forget the Chillwavekittens love, the "bad love poetry" line, and of course Luxury Noise teasing his upcoming new release via Pacific Plaza Records. Check it out if you couldn't be there, and be sure to check out the latest Spotify playlists and the public community Discord server as well!
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Thursday May 25, 2023
Thursday May 25, 2023
This week on "Hot Takes", Skelly and Shiro managed to source Leroy Honeycomb all the way from Melbourne, Australia for an evening chat (well, it was evening for us)! A multi-instrumentalist that's been playing since long before the independent electronic music explosion in the late 2000's, Lee is half of the monumental psychedelic vaporwave duo Surfing, and has released music under the names Hawaii94, Neoclone, and Skyraider. We have been wanting to bring on a guest that isn't living in the Americas since the show's inception, and being that he is so skilled and such a dear friend of ours, our top choice as first non-American guests was definitely Leroy! An OG auteur in the chillwave and vaporwave scenes, Lee peeled back a layer and gave us the 411 on the division of labor between he and Penny, the other member in Surfing. He admitted his dislike of metal and top 40 music to us, gave us a crash course on his production flow, and intimated his thoughts on the differences between independent musicians in the US and independent musicians in Australia. Over the course of what felt like a very short two hours, we talked a lot about Lee's collection of guitars and effect pedals, and he warmed our hearts with his story about finally meeting Skelly in real life for the first time after being Facebook friends for years. Despite some notable issues with Leroy's mic, we made the most of it and enjoyed geeking out over Mr. Nonsense's curated content in the early 2010's, discussed the similarities between the goth and vaporwave scenes, and heard about Leroy's techniques that he uses to bring guitar tracking into his electronic work. If you weren't there live, check out the replay of our evening with Hawaii94!
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Sunday May 14, 2023
Sunday May 14, 2023
For our forty-eighth "Hot Takes" episode, Skeleton Lipstick and YUNG SHIRO 白 brought on fan favorite and red hot up-and-comer Patchnotes, covering all kinds of subject matter that night, including but not necessarily limited to his production background (or lack thereof) and love of M83 and Washed Out. Aside from his gentle, enthusiastic affect, Patchnotes is known for his portfolio of vaporwave-infused takes on breaks and dream pop that have been released via Pacific Plaza Records. He's also one of the OG members of the Coast to Coast Collective, which is known for their stellar vaporwave-influenced breaks and house music compilations and short, snappy, high quality livestream events. Rewatch the episode for engaging discussions around seeing Kanye West live and Chris and Kyle's thoughts about genres of music that utilize trap beats; and don't miss Patchnotes' take on classic conversation topics like separating art from the artist and the either/or shoegaze band choice that we love to put our guests through!
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Saturday Apr 29, 2023
Saturday Apr 29, 2023
Segaoctopus was our featured guest during this talk show episode! Renowned for her vapor-adjacent visual art, Segaoctopus has been a highly coveted guest for us to have on "Hot Takes", and we relished getting her input on various animation techniques like rotoscoping and stop animation, making sure to not miss our chance to also pick her brain on favorite anime and Western animated media. A longtime visual artist, Segaoctopus has released several longform digital comic strips and has produced everything from chibi caricatures to rotoscoped animations of various vaporwave acts, such as Equip. As an immensely treasured member of the vaporwave visual scene and creator of the pixel GIFs that we use for our own show, her thoughts, tastes, and opinions were highly sought after, and we didn't waste time in uncovering as much info on Seggo as possible! The live chat drowned us with questions for Segaoctopus, with topics covered ranging from gamer guys to Seggo's recommendations for future guests and on to her ultimate artistic goals for herself. Segactopus gave us the scoop on future plans for Sights, Sounds & Conversations, her livestream series that she runs with Codex صبي Encyclopedia, and a small debate broke out over the difference between jingles and jangles. Don't miss out on a very special midsection segment courtesy of the Wizard of Loneliness, featuring some of his recent vaporwave faves and a special hot take courtesy of him as well. If you couldn't make it the live broadcast, and be sure to follow us on social media, retweet us, and join the public community Discord server!
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Friday Apr 21, 2023
Friday Apr 21, 2023
This week on "Hot Takes" episode 46, after a brief hiatus, Skelly and Shiro pulled Philly area act Geo Metro for the show! Eccentric, well-spoken, and a heavyweight in the Philadelphia independent electronic music scene, it made perfect sense for us to bring Andrew on; and he kept us entertained with his thoughts and stories about Britpop, Bossa Nova, wall-of-sound in music, and his chain-smoking sixty-year-old former roommate from Iraq. A man of many aliases, Geo Metro can also be found online as Aesir Archivist, Bonneville, Mad Gear, and Vimanas. He's released albums on several labels, including Philly's own Virtua94 Records, has released albums in obscure formats like burner phones with the album preloaded, and has performed alongside former guests Mr. Hideyoshi, Toadofsky, Vincent Remember, and Skelly himself at Terminally Chill. Incredibly learned, patient, and knowledgeable, Geo Metro was a picture perfect guest for the show. Over the course of our two hour broadcast, we discussed ego death, the importance of water treatment workers as artists, and airbrushed thugged out Looney Tunes T-shirts. Hot takes kind of took a back burner during our night with Geo Metro, but we did get to hear some trash talk about the Philadelphia noise music scene, discuss the practice of naming samples online, and hear some album recommendations and a thought regarding physical vs. digital media courtesy of "Hot Takes" veteran Indy Advant. If you missed out on our live visit with Geo Metro, why not review it right now!?
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Friday Mar 31, 2023
Friday Mar 31, 2023
On the "Hot Takes" vaporwave talk show this week, longtime vaporwave and vaportrap artist King Quartz agreed to come by for a session! Drawing from myriad influences and scenes, King Quartz brought a lot to the table, regaling us with their perspective on what they consider to be bad art, their thoughts on micro-genres, and their experience with roadside schnitzel and goulash while touring in Germany. Master of many different instruments both analog and digital, Quartz has played and performed in metal music, hip-hop, and vaporwave music too, releasing a couple of highly lauded album in the mid 2010's and recently returning to the live show and vapor dance party circuit! He has albums on Business Casual and Neoncity Records, and he boasts numerous side-projects as well, within and without the independent electronic music sphere. That night, we covered his dislike of Sugar Ray, his story behind writing his favorite song "Sad Cigarette", and the pipeline between instrumental hip-hop music and vaporwave. Come for a rare moment when Skelly and Shiro agree on every album Shiro recommends, and stay for the conversation about where the King Quartz pseudonym originates. How in the world did King Quartz learn to play accordion? You'll have to watch the episode to find out if he'll ever tell!
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Thursday Mar 16, 2023
Thursday Mar 16, 2023
This week on "Hot Takes", we were graced with the presence of one Whitewoods! An OG act from the early chillwave and vaporwave days, Whitewoods spent his two hours chatting us up about his love of CDs as a physical medium, collecting vintage commercial blocks during the Tumblr heyday, and his experience seeing Radiohead live during the "Kid A" tour. Having produced his brand of hypnagogic vaporwave for years, Whitewoods has been an enigmatic and evasive actor in the scene that has inspired many since the early days. Not only has he been creating and releasing music for over a decade, but he collaborated with vaporwave zero up-and-comer Ahero and also totally recut and re-scored the 1989 classic film "The Wizard", trimming the fat and throwing his own unique audio/visual spin on the film. His album "Spaceship Earth" is considered by many to be a genre-defying tour de force and a staple in the independent net-based retro electronic music scene. During our visit with Whitewoods, we discussed the value of newer music that re-contextualizes older music, Whitewoods let us in on some production techniques that he uses to create that trademark warbled sound of his, and then he turned interviewer towards the end when he asked the bois how they met and became friends. It wouldn't be an episode of "Hot Takes" without its imperfect charm, but you should rewatch the episode if you want to hear about how Whitewoods feels about acts like Boards of Canada and Tom Petty. He may have shouted out some of his recent favorite album purchases, and there may or may not have been special promo for upcoming Terminally Chill and Vaporspace StL shows. Don't miss out episode 44 of "Hot Takes"!
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