Chuck Person's Eccojams Vol. 1

Chuck Person's Eccojams Vol. 1
Studio album by Chuck Person
Released August 2010
Recorded 2009–2010
Genre Vaporwave, plunderphonics[1]
Length 55:46 (normal speed)
Label The Curatorial Club[2]
Producer Daniel Lopatin

Chuck Person's Eccojams Vol. 1 is an album by electronic musician Daniel Lopatin (a.k.a. Oneohtrix Point Never), credited pseudonymously as Chuck Person, that saw limited release on cassette in August 2010. The album is credited with pioneering the musical genre and aesthetic style known as vaporwave.[3][4]

Music

The album consists of what Lopatin terms "echo jams": looped audio pieces which typically sample micro-excerpts of 80's pop songs or other forms of popular music and "slow them down narcotically" with effects such as echo and pitch shifting added in a manner reminiscent of chopped and screwed styles.[5][6] Critic Simon Reynolds has characterized these works as "relat[ing] to cultural memory and the buried utopianism within capitalist commodities, especially those related to consumer technology in the computing and audio/video entertainment area".[7]

Release

In 2009, YouTube user "sunsetcorp" uploaded tracks A2, B4, and A4, titled "angel," "nobody here," and "demerol" respectively. These tracks are uploaded in full, except "angel", which was uploaded as an excerpt.[8] In his Reddit AMA session, Lopatin confirmed that "sunsetcorp" is his YouTube account.[9]

Two initial versions of Chuck Person's Eccojams Vol. 1 were released: the original tape rip, later considered obsolete due to it being recorded in the wrong pitch; and another, subtitled "Asterite Edition," which is an attempt to reproduce the tape in the highest quality possible. Asked about the possibility of an accompanying Volume 2 seeing release, Lopatin alluded to having “multiple volumes of eccojams in the cryotank set to defrost in the distant future.”[5]

In 2016, Lopatin released a remastered edition of the album for digital download.[5]

Track listing

Side one
No. TitleSample used Length
1. "A1"  "Africa" by Toto[10] 2:44
2. "A2"  "Only Over You" by Fleetwood Mac[11] 4:02
3. "A3"  "Too Little Too Late" by Jojo and "Castles in the Sky" by Ian Van Dahl.[12] 6:32
4. "A4"  "Morphine" by Michael Jackson.[13] 2:05
5. "A5"  "Everybody's Been Burned" by The Byrds.[14] 3:04
6. "A6"  "Lonely" by Janet Jackson.[15] 3:00
7. "A7"  "The Four Horsemen" by Aphrodite's Child.[16] 2:28
8. "A8"  "My Love Is Waiting" by Marvin Gaye and "Hearsay" by Alexander O'Neal.[17] 5:13
Side two
No. TitleSample used Length
1. "B1"  "Don't Give Up" by Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush and "Sweet Little Mystery" by John Martyn. [18] 4:54
2. "B2"  "Gypsy" by Fleetwood Mac and "Love T.K.O." performed by Teddy Pendergrass. [19] 4:56
3. "B3"  "Baker Street" by Gerry Rafferty and "Separate Lives" by Phil Collins and Marilyn Martin. [20] 4:35
4. "B4"  "The Lady in Red" by Chris de Burgh. [21] 2:19
5. "B5"  "Me Against the World" by 2Pac. [22] 3:04
6. "B6"  "These Dreams" by Heart. [23] 2:33
7. "B7"  "Woman in Chains" by Tears for Fears, "Letter from Spain" by Electric Light Orchestra, and "Catch and Don't Look Back" by Womack & Womack. [24] 4:27

References

  1. ↑ Bowe, Miles. "Band To Watch: Saint Pepsi". Stereogum. Retrieved 26 June 2016.
  2. ↑ "TCC01". The Curatorial Club. August 8, 2010. Retrieved 22 October 2015.
  3. ↑ Ward, Christian (January 29, 2014). "Vaporwave: Soundtrack to Austerity". Stylus.com. Retrieved February 8, 2014. External link in |publisher= (help)
  4. ↑ Parker, James. "Datavis + Forgotten Light Prism Projector". Tiny Mix Tapes. Retrieved February 8, 2014.
  5. 1 2 3
  6. ↑ Reynolds, Simon (July 6, 2010). "Brooklyn's Noise Scene Catches Up to Oneohtrix Point Never". The Village Voice. Village Voice, LLC. Retrieved December 8, 2015.
  7. ↑ Reynolds, Simon. Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past. Faber and Faber Ltd, June 2011, ISBN 978-0571232086
  8. ↑ "sunsetcorp". YouTube. Retrieved 22 October 2015.
  9. ↑ "Reddit AMA - sunsetcorp?". reddit. Oct 8, 2013. Retrieved 22 October 2015.
  10. ↑ "Untitled A1". WhoSampled.
  11. ↑ "Untitled A2". WhoSampled.
  12. ↑ "Untitled A3". WhoSampled.
  13. ↑ "Demerol". WhoSampled.
  14. ↑ "Untitled A5". WhoSampled.
  15. ↑ "Untitled A6". WhoSampled.
  16. ↑ "Untitled A7". WhoSampled.
  17. ↑ "Untitled A8". WhoSampled.
  18. ↑ "Untitled B1". WhoSampled.
  19. ↑ "Untitled B2". WhoSampled.
  20. ↑ "Untitled B3". WhoSampled.
  21. ↑ "Untitled B4". WhoSampled.
  22. ↑ "Untitled B5". WhoSampled.
  23. ↑ "Untitled B6". WhoSampled.
  24. ↑ "Untitled B7". WhoSampled.

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