''Telnet Erotika'' is an

extended play An extended play (EP) is a Sound recording and reproduction, musical recording that contains more tracks than a Single (music), single but fewer than an album. Contemporary EPs generally contain up to eight tracks and have a playing time of 1 ...

electronic Electronic may refer to: *Electronics, the science of how to control electric energy in semiconductors * ''Electronics'' (magazine), a defunct American trade journal *Electronic storage, the storage of data using an electronic device *Electronic c ...

artist

Vektroid Ramona Andra Langley is an American electronic musician from Portland, Oregon. She has released music under her primary Vektroid alias, as well as others, such as dstnt, Laserdisc Visions, New Dreams Ltd., Virtual Information Desk, and PrismCorp ...

released in November 2010.

Inspiration

The EP is dedicated to

Oneohtrix Point Never Daniel Lopatin (born July 25, 1982), best known as Oneohtrix Point Never or OPN, is an American Experimental music, experimental electronic music producer, composer, singer, and songwriter. His music has utilized wikt:trope, tropes from various ...

, Vektroid's inspiration for making the EP, with a remix of her own song " Nobody Here" appearing here (which was itself sampled from

Chris de Burgh Christopher John Davison (born 15 October 1948), known professionally as Chris de Burgh ( ), is a British-Irish singer-songwriter and musician. He started out as an art rock performer but subsequently started writing more pop-oriented material ...

's 1986 single " The Lady in Red"). Music videos for the tracks "Virgin Pegasus", "Surfin GeoCities" and "Video Update" were uploaded to her

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account. Vektroid re-released the EP as ''Telnet Complete'' on April 13, 2017, adding 12 new tracks and an edited version of the first track in the original EP. This version is on her

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page.

Legacy

Due to Vektroid's use of samples taken from the 1980s and 1990s, the EP is considered to be an early example of the

vaporwave Vaporwave is a microgenre of electronic music, a visual art style, and an Internet meme that emerged in the early 2010s and became well-known in 2015. It is defined partly by its slowed-down, chopped and screwed samples of smooth jazz, 1970 ...

genre. On the original

page for release, Vektroid described the EP as "ms-dos wave," her own take on the

chillwave Chillwave (originally considered synonymous with glo-fi and hypnagogic pop) is a music microgenre that emerged in the late 2000s. It is characterized by evoking the popular music of the late 1970s and early 1980s while engaging with notions of ...

genre.

Track listing

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External links

Internet Archive

References

{{Vektroid 2010 EPs Vektroid albums Chillwave albums Electronic EPs Vaporwave albums