So, can someone explain properly exactly what the hell Vaporwave is? It just seems to be a thing that retarded drug users listen to.
>>27673328
It's the yuppies go to music while doing drugs.
>>27673328
I don't like Vaporwave but to me it seems like Late 80's/Early 90's music you would hear while shopping for a vase or something
I like it because it's nostalgic. Whenever you see the 90s internet look to it, or hear some old sound in the song, you get whisked back to being a kid playing around on the computer, playing things like the first Petz game or seeing GeoCities sites.
>>27673328
>vaporwave is too deep for him
hahaha you just ousted yourself as a literal moron
>>27673395
We're not all MDMA taking Weed smoking NEETS like yourself.
OP asked a basic question.
>>27673445
i don't do drugs, try again
Feels
Emotions
Everything you need
i think it's mostly 80s music edited to slow speed by people who were born in the 90s and never really listened to the originals.
>>27673328
I don't do any drugs at all and it's by far one of my favorite genres. Future Funk a best
>>27673549
Recommend some albums?
>>27673592
2184 is obligatory.
>>27673328
Some combination of 80's music with elevator music and a hint of avant-garde, resulting in a pile of colored shit. Basically, painted 80's music that should have never existed.
Aesthetic > the music. It's just a meme music genre like sea punk, ocean grunge, cloud rap, etc. Just avoid it because it really only offers one or two food albums out of 1000s.
>>27673852
>he just managed to scrap the top layer of vaporwave
sad
https://soundcloud.com/l_ll_ll_lll_llll_lllll
it's not to be discerned, just listen and dont worry about it
I like the spooky wallpapers that go in line with my solipsism.
Those haunting phrases that tell me the world is one big VR/matrix experience.
There's something so comfy about it
>>27673328
if i remember correctly, your pic related does a pretty good job explaining
its origins are ironic. it was an a e s t h e t i c that ironically glorified the rotten fruits of capitalism that we now know as 80s and 90s elevator music and prewindows xp. it elevated capitalism to culture. it was nin and rage against the machine for the irony-laden early 2010s.
but then something strange happened: we entered the post-ironic age. dfw worshipers took over college campuses. sjw beliefs were nationally disseminated. resigning to capitalism under the guise of compromise became hip.
and in this post-ironic age, v a p o r w a v e became a sincere if confused a e s t h e t i c. we are now stuck in an age where capitalism truly is a culture. our childhood does not consist of memories of our families, it consists of memories of shitty windows games and graphics. our ennui and melancholy is no longer evoked by a quietly babbling brook, but by dolphin olympics and old vr
may death come swiftly to us all
>>27673328
it's just another genre of "broken music" like PC Music or some New Wave or some Tim Kinsella associated material
broken like a good adult swim show or custom frog
Why did vaporwave even come back?
It was a shitty meme back in like 2011-2012 and now it's back.
>>27674193
case in point tbvhmvss
>>27673328
Vaporwave is love. Vaporwave is life.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hI0qMtdfng
is a classic btw
theres also a lot of new moe wave, which is vaporwave with anime instead of the prexp windows aesthetic
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoCOb_OF73Ewzlh0PYLm_tCbYC3kk6tw4
I just like listening to it. I don't really understand the culture around it, what they mean with "aesthetics" etc, but it sounds good and relaxes me.
For some reason it feels pretty comfy to me.
https://youtu.be/ta9BsWN9MJI My favorite by far
>>27674440
Post more pls
>>27674797
Something so comfy about that magenta sunset on a warm quiet night in Miami feel, ya know?
Like life is just simpler.
It's just adolescents wanting to be avant-garde but merely repeating the same "le irony xDD" things that were already being done in mainstream culture through the 80s and 90s.
>>27674797
Same here. Listening to the Miami Virtual album right now. It's the perfect music for when you don't want silence but also don't really want any "real" music (I usually listen to metal).
Especially comfy when it's getting dark and rainy and you sit there with a beer working on some stuff (or shitposting).
>>27674053
That one didn't sound very 80s.
>>27673328
I don't care about the memes and shit, I just enjoy the music styleits called personal preference, anon
I can't believe people listen to this crap
you may as well listen to wubstep, it makes just as much sense
>>27674845
You are not welcome in the virtual plaza
I don't know if this is future funk or vaporwave, but this song is my favorite:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rBCT5ROfNQ
>>27673328
I create the drugs in my brain while listening to this song.
SO cash.
>>27673609
That album is too ambient for me. It makes for very comfy background music though, and it gives me more of a cyberpunk feel than any 80s-90s hypernostalgia. However, it's not something I can actively listen to.
>>27674948
(thumbs up)asdass ss sdsd
>>27673907
I've actually went through the "essentials" and only the ambient ones were okay at best.
>>27674383
This guy gets it.
big vapor.wav fan here, I once described it to a friend like this:
"you know how the last stage of grief is acceptance? Vaporwave is that, for neo-liberal capitalism. it's all about ironically embracing how we are utterly controlled by corporate entities and there is nothing left to do about it."
and no, I actually smoked while listening to it once and it was awful. Vaporwave is best perused while sober.
people claim it's just a meme because the circlejerk culture surrounding it has gotten out of hand. It's dissapointing
>>27674383
Guess that explains why it's a fad among internet fascists.
Ironically embracing capitalism's degeneracy.
I got you senpai.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyt_87yCyNw
>>27673328
I thank god everyday for this genres existence. Even if you think the genre is just a meme you can still find so much good old music just googling around with the keyword 'vaporwave'.
>not slowing down your own music to barely recognizable tempos in order to reflect your massive decrease in total mental faculties
best vaporwave
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NghQ_myEPzc&nohtml5=False
>>27674383
I guess it does to you. I am older.
who cares, it sounds good just listen to it
Anyone else only listen to vaporwave on cassette?
>>27674856
I find it strange how people who love metal also have a tendency to enjoy vaporwave. Not that it matters, Im just curious about the correlation.
>>27674908
>found the guy who isn't an emotionally unstable 20 something.
Normie get off my board.
>>27674908
Un A E S T H E T I C Pleb detected
>>27677474
Both genres attract people with autism and/or asperger's.
>>27675603
so it's basically 80's/90's synth with bad photoshops of 80's/90's culture for covers?
>>27677539
Ok, so what's normie approved then? Nigger music?
>>27677594
That and pop/rock bands, along with EDM.
It's pretentious, talentless nonsense made by hacks.
I know because I made a vaporwave EP myself in less than 4 hours, with no knowledge of what to do. I just downloaded audacity and figured it out as I went, editing stock music and old 80's songs. I posted it on reddit and it was very well received. One person analysed a lot, and put more thought into commenting on it then I put into making it.
Is it enjoyable, and does it sound good are the ultimate questions though. I would say for the most part yes. I like futurefunk more than vaporwave, but vaporwave is still fun to listen to. But just like noise music, anyone can make vaporwave. So it is art, but devoid of talent.
You can spot the idiot hipster that's been tricked by vaporwave artists easily. They're the ones that try to elaborate on what it means, and what it is, when it actually means nothing and is nothing but recycled digital garbage.
Pic related, it's a blank canvas at an art gallery. This phenomena of low quality art being praised is present in every medium.
>>27677474
Love vaporwave. Absolutely hate metal.
It's a drastically different aesthetic.
I like the stuff that's made from scratch and sounds like 90s nostalgia but all the faggots taking old songs and slowing them down then calling it vaporwave can fuck off.
>>27677564
Personally I find it more similar to what like Warp or Touch where doing in the 90s.
I could even see shoegaze and krautrock influences.
>>27673328
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>>27674383
et all
faggots
Vaporwave is internet egos trying to apply some sort of aesthetic to a scene they ripped off and are trying to promote as their original sound. It's about making a name for yourself off the work and originality of others while maintaining a cool kids club to get vapid 16 year old twitter users on your dick.
Just listen to actual 80's Japanese funk instead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIFASfPkw9g
>>27677690
Pleb who couldn't understand the sublime minimalism of something like Rauschberg's white series detected.
Level of dificulty has no bearing on aesthetics.
>>27677690
>recycled digital garbage
That is an excellent description
I love vaporwave
It's basically like chopped & skrewed 80s funk/pop music thats accompanied by its signature aesthic to help give the music an identity.
All the pseudo-intelectual phliosophy people claim vaporwave represents is just garbage and y'all took the bait. It's mostly the fans that associate all these convoluted ideas with the music. No one's sitting in their room slowing down Michael Jackson tracks thinking "ya, fuck capitalism".
I like the first song of this album with the windows theme, https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8oBbJg_PqbU
And that memesong from OPs pic but thats about it for me
>>27677851
None of the vaporwave I listen to is very sample dependent.
It sounds more like the spirtual descendent of people like Terry Riley or bands like Flying Saucer Attack to me.
>>27677851
>It's basically like chopped & skrewed 80s funk/pop music thats accompanied by its signature aesthic to help give the music an identity.
I also read the wikipedia page
>>27678117
https://youtu.be/ta9BsWN9MJI why not enjoy a comfy cruise bidfl
Usually remixed 80's soft jazz thats slowed down/chopped/screwed/pitch shifted into elevator music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unN7QvSWSTo
comfy af desu
>>27677690
>Is it enjoyable, and does it sound good are the ultimate questions though. I would say for the most part yes. I like futurefunk more than vaporwave, but vaporwave is still fun to listen to. But just like noise music, anyone can make vaporwave. So it is art, but devoid of talent.
>You can spot the idiot hipster that's been tricked by vaporwave artists easily. They're the ones that try to elaborate on what it means, and what it is, when it actually means nothing and is nothing but recycled digital garbage.
This anon has the right idea. I enjoy listening to vaporwave, but fucking hate the people who think its some deep statement about capitalism/consumerism of the 90's or some equally dumb shit.
>>27673328
It's meme music for cute little memesters :^)
>>27678700
>I enjoy listening to vaporwave, but fucking hate the people who think its some deep statement about capitalism/consumerism of the 90's or some equally dumb shit.
Where do you get this material anyway? I never see that stuff in comment sections, mostly just memes about aesthetics and anime.
>>27673609
H I T V I B E S
>>27677815
>Kadomatsu
>funk
You don't know shit about anything, I don't think you should be talking.
>>27673328
It's meme music and I'm not talking about top quality memes like "the ride never ends" I'm talking about "le sir Donal xD" memes
>>27677815
i do listen to 80's japanese funk
but i also listen to vaporwave
why are you such a fag
>>27673328
>It just seems to be a thing that retarded drug users listen to.
Well you more or less nailed it in the first post so I'm not sure there's much to add, anon.
I really, really hate weed
>>27678738
frank javcee said that and so did wolfenstein OS X
frank javcee was probably being sarcastic and wolfenstein probably used him as source material
I pity the fool who has never listened to bl00dwave new visuals, or hotel vibes
>>27673549
This. Vaporwave is a gateway to the superior future funk.
Old r&b and funk samples fused with electronic music paired with 80s imagery. It's a satisfying aesthetic and my favorite genre right now.
>>27674383
>and in this post-ironic age, v a p o r w a v e became a sincere if confused a e s t h e t i c. we are now stuck in an age where capitalism truly is a culture. our childhood does not consist of memories of our families, it consists of memories of shitty windows games and graphics
I actually enjoyed that childhood and I don't appreciate having hipster drugged out faggots sneer at it or lather dickless irony over it.
Thanks for infecting those memories forever though.
