Coral Records and the #Seapunk Movement
Coral Records is a brand new record label started by Kansas City bred, Los Angeles based, music producer Fire For Effect, who is probably best known for his work with the boundary smashing queer-art performance group, Ssion. The label was started to act as means to expose the world to the burgeoning music genre, lifestyle, and fashion house of “#seapunk.” Supposedly coined by the producer, (and personal favorite twitter personality) Lil Internet, in a dream, #Seapunk is a mostly internet based phenomenon, birthed out of the tumbler and twitter universes as a means to describe a lifestyle aesthetic that is all things oceanic and of the sea.
“The beach to me symbolizes where we came from, since i think we are aqueous mammals. We are more similar to dolphins and whales than apes in my opinion” says Fire For Effect. He goes on to muse, “I imagine a place where stars are bright, galaxies are visible in the night sky on a full moon where all my friends and loved ones are raving for eternity, that is the essence of the beach to me” In contrast to this poetic midnight beach rave, Fire For Effect is also environmentally conscious of the state of our Earth and of its future as we approach massive global shifting in 2012. And it is true, that today and in our short term future our attentions will surely be put on the oceans of the world as both temperatures and water levels rise threatening our aquatic friends and our worlds major cities.
Fire For Effect
Zombelle
Teams
To coincide with the strong conceptual element behind the liquid sounds sampled throughout certain key #seapunk tracks, there is a fully realized visual styling to those who identify with the lifestyle. Name checking the old television show “seaquest dsv“, the movie “Water World” (duh), the Sega Genesis video game “Ecco the Dolphin” and various anime’s like “Ponyo“, #seapunk is a sort of cyber punk meets futuristic Mad-Max on water attitude meant for those who can surf the gnarliest swells of the world wide wave. #Seapunks can be spotted around in bright outfits of green, purple, ultra violet, and sea foam blue, wearing water socks, sporting shell necklaces, hawaiian floral print shirts, and the trade mark look of a true seapunk, dyed aquamarine hair. “definitely a mainstay is my acid washed jacket, which has kept me warm in many a cold warehouse rave” muses Fire For Effect.
Coral Records just put out their first release (Splash001) via their Bandcamp page. The release features some incredible production work from the likes off kilter future steppers, Teams, and Le1f, among others, and comes highly recommended. For just starting out, Coral are keeping themselves very busy, releasing a slew of EP’s and LP’s and are hoping to be pressing vinyl by December. Some of the upcoming releases are by fellow seapunkers Zombelle, Slava, and many more. UP THE #SEAPUNKS!
- Pictureplane
September 17th, 2011 at 11:40 pm
I created this about a month ago…
September 27th, 2011 at 5:12 am
this is so fucking stupid, mollysoda dyed her hair turquoise before you faggots, and that little long haired kid looks like an elf. zombielle looks more manly than him. pictureplane WOULD write this article. just LOL guys..
September 29th, 2011 at 2:18 pm
LOL U MAD BRO
October 1st, 2011 at 5:12 am
fuck you wilson… this is next level
October 2nd, 2011 at 1:38 am
LOOOL wilson unfortunately mollysoda is friends w and completely wavey w the #seapunk movement i #pray4u #sad4u
October 5th, 2011 at 12:40 am
#PRAY4WILSON
#RESTINPARADISE
October 10th, 2011 at 10:18 pm
[...] in the same way witch haus does, in a way that could have only been born from the internet. The Mishka blog did a better write up than I could, so here’s a bit of it: “To coincide with the [...]
October 31st, 2011 at 4:48 pm
lol @ wilson (@MollySodaTryHard)
#STAYWAVEY
November 27th, 2011 at 4:48 am
I would have called it wave-wave
December 5th, 2011 at 5:32 pm
I hereby create the genre “tree house.” And my plant powers are obv super effective against water.
December 14th, 2011 at 9:01 am
[...] influential and forever relevant is always being ahead of what’s good; he can be credited for coining the term #seapunk, making hardstyle, trance music you loved so much from the late 90′s, interviewing artists [...]
January 4th, 2012 at 7:45 pm
Dear Wilson,
calling ppl ‘faggots’ as if somehow that is a bad thing for a human to be = your argument is invalid, regardless of the rest of its content. which is incredibly uptight bullshit anyways.
p.s. gays have the best music, duh
January 4th, 2012 at 10:06 pm
They do.
January 5th, 2012 at 11:49 pm
all bullshit aside the album / concept / music / meme is fresh and interesting.
i’m not gonna dye my hair blue but i will be listening.
January 9th, 2012 at 5:42 pm
gays have the best music [2]
January 17th, 2012 at 12:20 am
Meehhh.
January 18th, 2012 at 12:04 am
this is just another bandwagon for a bunch of faggots to jump on, but i hope you all enjoy this bullshit trend while it lasts. i wonder what could possibly be next. also, fuck that faggot fire for effect, zombelle looks like an addams family reject, and teams looks like a fruity ass nigger.
January 19th, 2012 at 12:03 am
yeah, it’s pretty wet.
January 20th, 2012 at 12:03 am
why.
January 29th, 2012 at 3:19 am
Fuck a seapunk wave, teal haired Sisqo bitch ass men? This is what’s exciting today? #Semenpunks #Queenpunks. Smdh..
January 29th, 2012 at 3:20 am
I’m gay and shit, but.. this is pretty faggoty… Shaking my weave.
February 8th, 2012 at 12:46 pm
What a load of pretentious bullshit.
February 21st, 2012 at 4:15 am
@coffee lol #die
@deadstock mind #sosad #selfh8 #pray4u :-(
March 24th, 2012 at 1:50 am
~~~ SO
~~~ WET
June 16th, 2012 at 4:26 am
ppl on the eastcoast are really bound not to get it/care i think… leik… most of these comments are way focused on gender…toootally irrelevant of the music content the poster mentioned in the article… leik.. chill out nerds
November 25th, 2012 at 5:58 am
[...] that larger pop stars were biting the style of smaller pop stars. The style was called seapunk, and among other things, can be recognized pretty easily by the presence of late 90s vintage CGI featuring both clouds and [...]