67. a scholarly safari to a better time: pangeapedia plus by daniel white (hypnagogic episode)

The Virtual Ocean

When the internet came to the world, the world became much smaller.
The power to gain information through technology gave many optimism for the future. If you were in elementary school school in the late 90s and the early 2000s, chances are you've experienced learning through software.
Pangeapedia Plus by Daniel White takes the sound of what appears to be 90s educational software and takes us back to the optimism that pervaded the earlier parts of the information age.
While we don't reminisce romantically on computer class as young elementary students in the American school system, this album takes those memories and sonically presents it to us as something sweet, curious, and truthfully: it was a true time of innocence.
Let's set sail for Daniel White's Pangeapedia Plus.
https://dwhite914.bandcamp.com/album/pangeapedia-plus?action=gift&fan_id=309873&recipient=Digital%20Sex
https://www.instagram.com/pangeaworks/
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Vaporwave is an art aesthetic that embodies the anxiety, disillusionment, and nihilism of the modern world.
In music form, vaporwave dives deep into these unconscious anxieties, manifesting sounds from past decades - warping them, manipulating them, and summoning the ghost of the good times that were promised by modern capitalism, but never came.
Vaporwave is an expression of the pains of the collective modern unconscious, taking the form of heroin-level escapism, ecstasy-inducing pop music, or dystopian ambient worlds.
Because of its internet-based nature, its aesthetics have evolved so rapidly, further reflecting the chaotic subconscious of the modern mind.
Vaporwave captures the modern unconscious of humans raised by the internet succinctly and understanding this art form matters.
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