Vaporwave was created then destroyed by the internet (2016)
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Re: Vaporwave was created then destroyed by the internet (2016)
#2I've heard this genre called vaporwave, synthwave, and retrowave. Which meme is going to win?
Also for anyone interested, a pretty good resource for retrowave related music, art, and games: https://newretrowave.com/
Re: Vaporwave was created then destroyed by the internet (2016)
#3Vaporwave just morphed into mallsoft.
Re: Vaporwave was created then destroyed by the internet (2016)
#4I've heard this genre called vaporwave, synthwave, and retrowave. Which meme is going to win? Also for anyone interested, a pretty good resource for retrowave related music, art, and games: https://newretrowave.com/
Synthwave‘s cheery, Vaporwave‘s sad/depressed. I never liked the latter for that reason.
Re: Vaporwave was created then destroyed by the internet (2016)
#5I’ll start out by saying I’m an avid fan of vapor/synth/whatever wave. I’ve heard this argument before and I can’t be the only one to think it’s silly, right? A cursory search of Spotify, Bandcamp, or YouTube will show that ALL the “wave” genres are alive and well some 5 years after this article was written. Some artists have moved on to other aesthetics, some artists have continued to produce the same sound they always did. How is this different from any other genre?
Incidentally here’s some sweet tunes! https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1APbMkLxJGgWT88wpKyCIA?si=...
As a side note, I just discovered another “wave” offshoot called “corporate businesswave”. What a time to be alive. https://open.spotify.com/user/blackscholescat/playlist/39pqs...
Re: Vaporwave was created then destroyed by the internet (2016)
#6I've heard this genre called vaporwave, synthwave, and retrowave. Which meme is going to win? Also for anyone interested, a pretty good resource for retrowave related music, art, and games: https://newretrowave.com/
Cool link. Thanks for posting!
Re: Vaporwave was created then destroyed by the internet (2016)
#7Add this to the list of things I'll just never understand. Subreddits with n*100k subs. For what? Something that sounds like tracker music from the 90s?
Re: Vaporwave was created then destroyed by the internet (2016)
#8I've heard this genre called vaporwave, synthwave, and retrowave. Which meme is going to win? Also for anyone interested, a pretty good resource for retrowave related music, art, and games: https://newretrowave.com/
Synthwave‘s cheery, Vaporwave‘s sad/depressed. I never liked the latter for that reason.
That's not true at all. There are plenty of cheery vaporwave songs mentioned in the article itself: saint pepsi [1], macross 82-99 [2] etc. all early vaporwave entries based on city-pop which is as cheery as you can get!
In fact that's probably the most popular remaining evolutions of the genre, both of the mentioned artists are still huge! (multi-million listens on spotify)
Re: Vaporwave was created then destroyed by the internet (2016)
#9I've heard this genre called vaporwave, synthwave, and retrowave. Which meme is going to win? Also for anyone interested, a pretty good resource for retrowave related music, art, and games: https://newretrowave.com/
If we are honest with the cultural aspect of it, vaporwave is the meme of taking old songs, slowing them down, making the time wonky, and occasionally overlaying software sounds or adjusting the phrasing.
Where synthwave describes a much broader range of music with a retro-futurist sound more often than not new original music, and not reliant on sampling phrases from songs outright.
Re: Vaporwave was created then destroyed by the internet (2016)
#10Who else accidentally read this title as "vaporware" instead of vaporwave. Kinda unnerving how that happens when scanning headlines.