Does anyone else unironically enjoy Vaporwave?

Vaporwave isn’t even a genre. The whole “genre” is just that one album with the statue and the pink background

>One album can't start a genre

It's kinda (in my view) what happened to rock but on a much more extreme level. Rock music started as a specific sound, but now basically anything played on guitars can be declared rock as long as it's not classical or jazz guitar. The idea that punk rock, prog rock, folk rock, noise rock, hard rock, and math rock are all variants/spin-offs of the same genre has turned the "rock" label nearly meaningless.
That being said, the reason rock didn't totally die with the labeling is because rock has existed in the public sphere for around five-six decades which gave us enough rock fans to understand and enjoy the differences, and keep rock alive by performing new stuff and cataloging the old stuff so it isn't forgotten. Vaporwave never got big enough to survive splintering into a million different genres. If vaporwave had stayed consistent for at least a decade before the advent of the millions of subgenres to be created, it would have probably gotten bigger and stayed longer

lookingthroughsheets.bandcamp.com/album/washing-machine-dream

I agree, Vaporwave could have been a generation defining music Titan but it evolved too quickly. It evolved as much as rock did, if not more, but instead of the subgenres evolving throughout multiple decades, it evolved quickly in less than 9 years. It was too malleable for its own good. EDM would be in the same boat if it didn't pace itself

This desu
Might be cool if it gets a revival in a decade or two as a new wave of vaporwave heh
Wonder if it'll be

Blank Banshee shows that vapour wave is a genre with massive potential. 99% of vapour wave is slowed down garbage of better 80's songs but the gems are amazing

yup. just like "rock", theres no distinct sound and were just left with subgenres

music for this feel: dreamcatalogue.bandcamp.com/album/vaporwave-is-dead

can you guys link some top-tier vaporwave?

dds.wmv, Channel 505, Skeleton

新しい日の誕生 had a nice aesthetic but it wasn't really vaporwave, was it?

Vaporwave was my shit back in the days. I think it died because it was all about the vibe and the aesthetic, couldn't innovate and became the repetitions of the same shit over and over.

At this point I firmly believe we should replace "Vaporwave" and it's sub genres with the umbrella term "Aesthetic"

Most "vaporware" is Japanese city pop with a modern beat anyway

Alternative to that, call the original content aesthetic stuff vaporwave and call the spliced up sample shit shit.

Reddit

youtube.com/watch?v=byJLw-dQXHA

well then make your own vaporwave. download audacity, some good 80s pop, load up that 80s pop, slow it down, throw some reverb on it, done.

thank you

It was born dead. That was the whole point of it.

Yes OP, I am sad and tired so I won't write much now but I have loved Vaporwave since it grew out of Seapunk etc and even though it is not as big as it once was I am happy to see so many micro-genres having been inspired by it. While I will never get as many Boards of Canada albums as I want it definitely helps to have artists like Bibio, Amulets, and Hainbach fill in the gaps. OPN will never release as ground-breaking a follow-up to Eccojams but people have been inspired to diversify the textural palette and that warms my heart.

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unironic suggestion: get a budget tape recorder from like goodwill with two speeds, record samples to tape on the higher speed, and record it back to digital on the slower speed. Changing the gain and messing with tone / bias settings can get you that Eccojams A1 sound. Digital time-stretching is okay these days but nothing sounds smoother than analog (magnetic) time distortions