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Post-nightcore, also known as nightcore revival, is a genre spawned my /mu/ in 2016 that uses nightcore elements in non-traditional ways (speeding up songs far more than normal, distortion and noise, sound collage elements, unusual samples, and all sorts of other subversive editing tricks.) The first wave was tightly knit, /mu/-based, and mostly died away the same year it began, although some artists stayed active for years and several remain at large. In the time since it's birth and death as a 4chan meme genre, it has become something quite different and cross-pollinated with other experimenal online scenes in an ongoing flow of bandcamp-based plunderphonics creativity, not entirely unlike a microscopic version of vaporwave. [AVAILABLE] Arashi-bu - 終わらないCORE: Oh! What A Nightcore [LOST] forE##/~Ver - BAKABAKADESUCHAN [AVAILABLE] Wato Wato - たわごと-嵐が後に来ました [AVAILABLE] Kyoko-kun - 厳格な肛門刺激 [AVAILABLE] 歳納さん - WITH YOU [AVAILABLE] Albums in One Minute - A Love Supreme [AVAILABLE] MC Ryu - Kurōzā [AVAILABLE] Favorite 水 - March 2nd - April 3rd 2016 [AVAILABLE] ボーイフレンド - A New Kind Of Love [AVAILABLE] Light Syndrome - It's just FiNE day. [AVAILABLE] shy lad :3 - ウォーキング cow [AVAILABLE] Trans Fat - C6H12O6 [AVAILABLE] Terri Howards - Terri Howards EP [AVAILABLE] Plastic Neesound - The Gaga Singles [AVAILABLE] Akarui Gisei Gisei - Akarui Gisei Gisei [FOUND] 泡 - Preliminary Studies (March 11/12, 2016) [AVAILABLE] Nightcore Binaural Beats 2016 - Bird Saw [AVAILABLE] Anomalo - post post nightcore [AVAILABLE] Airashīdesu - Airashīdesu Theme [AVAILABLE] Forefather - Fayum [AVAILABLE] littletinysounds - Forgive me Kabukichō, I Must Leave You Once More[README.TXT] And while you're here read this, it doesn't even touch on the post-nightcore scene but is still probably the best article on the soundcloud NXC culture to date. (Funnily enough, I can think of at least 5 nightcore scenes - OG nightcore (2002-2011,) the new nightcore scene (2011-current,) NXC (mostly 2014-2016 but somewhat ongoing,) post-nightcore (mostly 2016, somewhat ongoing,) and the new tiktok sped up / edits trend, and there's way less overlap between any of them than you'd expect. I'd say there's more post-nightcore/ambient crossovers than post-nightcore/NXC crossovers; despite the superficial similarities, the communities are almost entirely different.) (This YouTube doc is also pretty educational about the short-lived IRL NXC scene (which is again unrelated to the rest of this page but I just had to share.)) For any historians out there, I wasted a day transcribing some first-wave guides ripped from /mu/ archives. I'm sorry. (Unfortunately lost this image due to technical difficulties, will replace when found) Post-Nightcore 2016
Nightcore Revival / Post-Nightcore [AVAILABLE] Arashi-bu - 終わらないCORE: Oh! What A Nightcore [LOST] BAKABAKADESU-CHAN - Bring me the Night: The Waifu EP [AVAILABLE] Wato Wato - たわごと-嵐が後に来ました nvm lolI originally planned to transcribe all of these but that's a fuckin waste of my limited time on earth even by my standards. However, these are the guides (mostly from the OG 2016 scene) that I scrounged up out of /mu/ archives. I hope they prove useful. POST-NIGHTCORE
2nd Wave Nightcore Revival Post Nightcore
Post-nightcore, Nightcore revival
(I could only find this one as a thumbnail since early Desuarchive is spotty, if you have a better version plz email me)
(I could only find this one as a thumbnail since early Desuarchive is spotty, if you have a better version plz email me)
There was also THIS Mega.NZ vault made in 2017/2018 and linked on Plastic
Neesound's bandcamp (presumably he ran it) but it's since been emptied, probably in 2019 or 2020.
We still have the folder names, which is better than nothing and gives us this map of the scene: