It's over, Agora.

I believe that anyone who's listened to Lo-Fi music in the early/mid 2010's have at least 10 songs they can phonetically recreate but for sure can't find since a lot of music seems to be getting lost. I'm lucky I've saved at least 1 hour long compilation from Youtube and a couple more tracks cos I really can't find stuff like that anymore. Fuck lofi-girl for switching up and making their own generic music label.

Manifestos (art manifestos doubly so) are always at least a little cringe. That said, cartoonist Gary Panter's 1980 ROZZ-TOX Manifesto is quite interesting and maybe relevant to Vaporwave, etc. I'll post the pertinent bits.

It is unfortunate and unacceptable what vile and lazy do-nothings are given unwarranted credence for mouthing such foul and mean cliches as "rip-off" and "sell-out." They have no understanding of our economy and the time it takes society to go. Confess and shut up! Capitalism good or ill is the river in which we sink or swim. Inspiration has always been born of recombination.

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Business 1. To create a pseudo-avant-garde that is cost effective. 2. To create merchandising platforms on popular communications and entertainment media. 3. To extensively mine our recent and ancient past for icons worth remembering and permutating: recombo archaeology.

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Waiting for art talent scouts? There are no art talent scouts. Face it, no one will seek you out. No one gives a shit.

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Market saturation was reached in sixties - everyone knows that. Fine Elitist Art is of diminishing utility. There is not more reward for maintaining or joining an elite and sterile crew.

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Law: If you want better media, go make it.

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We are born capitalists and manufacturers of alternative goods and services. We are made propagandists.... We call for .... an avant-garde placed squarely in the entertainment field, for archaeologists and synthesizers.

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A current that synthesizes ideas and entertainment ... an anti-media that creates, participates, and services a broader-based lunatic fringe ... An avant-garde that has no mean diversion and stocks the supermarket.

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Capitalism for good or ill is the river in which we sink or swim, and stocks the supermarket.

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You can read the full thing here: http://www.altx.com/manifestos/rozztox.html