[O F F I C I A L V A P O R W A V E T H R E A D]

[Willymcmilly]

Y E A H  M O T H E R F U C K I N G  V A P O R W A V E

            
W H A T  I S  V A P O R W A V E ?

Vaporwave is a music micro-genre and art movement that emerged in the early 2010s among Internet communities. It is characterized by a nostalgic fascination with retro cultural aesthetics (typically of the 1980s, 1990s, and early-mid 2000s), video games, technology, postmodern Japanese culture and advertising, and styles of commercial and popular music such as lounge, smooth jazz and elevator music. Musical sampling is prevalent within the genre, with samples often pitched, layered or altered in classic chopped and screwed style. Central to the style is often a critical or satirical preoccupation with consumer capitalism, popular culture, and new-age tropes. The visual style of vaporwave, as seen on album covers and in art videos accompanied by the music, is commonly referred to as "aesthetics" (often stylized as "ＡＥＳＴＨＥＴＩＣＳ").
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T Y P E S  O F  V A P O R W A V E

This is a chart showing the different types of vaporwave music.


M A K I N G  V A P O R W A V E

Most often, vaporwave is made using music production software like FLStudio or Acid Pro along with addons to create eerie synth tracks and dreamlike audio effects. Extra polishing and editing can be done using simple sound-editing software like Audacity.
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[Akio-]

"home" has a lot of good stuff


(links to home - resonance, my personal favorite)


(links to the home - odyssey album 2014)
yes, i unironically enjoy vaporwave.

[SetGaming]

a e s t h e t i c
b o y s

in all seriousness, I also unironically like vaporwave

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU8HrO7XuiE&nohtml5=False

even though that song is a meme it's pretty good past the one minute mark

[Refticus]

v a p o r w a v e is a good meme

[Daswiruch]

i listened to vaporwave mix some time back but it's more fun to M A K E  F U N  O F  T H E  A E S T H E T I C

[hotremox]

https://dmtrec.bandcamp.com/track/jetski-race
this one is a good one

[Willymcmilly]

yes, i unironically enjoy vaporwave.

Ayy my dude, no shame in that.

Personally, I prefer the Internet Club type stuff, specifically IC's album DREAMS 3D, kind of revolving around an oldschool internet_{no stuff} vibe, like you're on someone's geocities page back in '99. You can feel the compression and everything feels so genuine and I think that's what really hits me hard on this one.

[Filipe]

I'm pretty happy that vaporwave is coming back and powerful, I loved the more "techno" musics that was made back in the 80's

[Remurr]

https://files.catbox.moe/p6dg8a.zip

53 wallpapers with retro wave and vaporwave wallpapers ripped from /wg/ earlier tonight. enjoy

"home" has a lot of good stuff

yes, i unironically enjoy vaporwave.

same tho, and home is great

also can anyone tell me what this "aesthetic" is? it's more abstract or super surreal with bright colors and vintage CGI, kind of really obscure and i can't find anything about it and i don't even know if it's the right place to ask about it.... but here's some examples:


or maybe even something like this qualifies

[Willymcmilly]

also can anyone tell me what this "aesthetic" is? it's more abstract or super surreal with bright colors and vintage CGI, kind of really obscure and i can't find anything about it and i don't even know if it's the right place to ask about it.... but here's some examples:


or maybe even something like this qualifies

I'd say it fits in with a sort of 90s-2000s post-internet aesthetic. Reminds me of some of the graphics in Yung Lean's hurt MV.

[Frequency]

this is one of my favorites

what sub-genre would you call that?

[Willymcmilly]

this is one of my favorites

what sub-genre would you call that?

synthwave my dude

[hotremox]

also can anyone tell me what this "aesthetic" is?

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[Trogtor]

synthwave is my homie

[Frequency]

synthwave my dude

1000% chill thank you man

synthwave is my homie

yesssss