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Vaporwave Music Reviews

Community driven vaporwave music reviews.
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Interviews

Vaporwave interviews of vaporwave artists can be view here!
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Eis-T's Vaporwave Landing page

Access source for everything you need and want to know about from the Vaporwave community!
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Here is my Subgenre tier list. Based upon my own opinion and how much merit I think they have. Reply with your own opinions and feel free to ask for my opinions on certain rankings :)
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This is a thread for EVERYONE and ANYONE to self promote their work, post your albums, artwork etc. Also look for the monthly artist producer threads for WIP and feedback plus great...
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This thread is for online vaporwave events. You can find them on twitter, facebook, anywhere really. Post fliers, links, ect. I'll post more events as I find them. Here's some that I found...
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Due to missing some good live streams in the past I figured it would be easier if there were a place that people could post about upcoming live stream events that the vaporwave community would be...
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This page is to post all of my social media links to keep updated on the site and all of my stuff ;D Twitter https://twitter.com/AgoraRoad Patreon https://www.patreon.com/agoraroad Instagram...
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Synthwave music has undergone a rapid and far-reaching transformation in the past two years, both in terms of style and overall quality. As the genre pulls in new producers and fans from diverse...
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Basically vaporwave, but this time it uses songs and imagery from the time Gen Z grew up, hence the name. I can see myself making one with mostly taylor swift and lana del rey songs, as well as k-pop.
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Here's one I made against the gatekeepers of /r/vaporwave vs Agora Road's Macintosh Cafe Travelers
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I know there are 100% electronicon from ESPRIT and there was one around LA back in October but I never actually been to one. Have any of yall been to one and would you fly out to one if it did...
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From the old 8/16 bit era. The tunes were straight up jams, amazing feats of composition on such limited tech and often had very intricate melodies. Plus they were so catchy! View...
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Thread is for the discussion of Mallsoft, a subgenre of vaporwave that focuses on the nostalgic aspect of shopping malls. Think of 猫 シ Corp's "Palm Mall" Share/review music, discuss artists, and...
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The track "I Saw Her" which I find intriguing, has a sample where a speaker just says "I saw her standing" throughout the song til the last section where it says "I saw her standing, her tousled...
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post nuskool vwave yall View: https://youtu.be/cwPNyRfje0M
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Hi, I am starting this thread to discuss the first time that you discovered Vaporwave and how. I'd just like to hear how others came across it and why they got into it. I first time I heard...
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Ok so for some context I am a massive metal head but I also like a fair share of vaporwave as well. I recently listened to the album Zone eater vs Sea of dogs or something like that and I thought...
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So recently, I was thinking about Disillusion, and then I realized something. Anyone knows any games (or mods) about vaporwave or with those aesthetics or "feeling" (or any other similar, except...
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People always say vaporwave critiques consumerism, but if so, how does it actually do so? Does a ten foot solid gold McDonalds logo critique McDonalds if the creator of said statue says it does?
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View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLDbHfhft2M&t=338s No particular direction for this thread, but has anyone heard of the artist "desert sand feels warm at night". His most recent album...
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I found this album while browsing the vaporwave tab in bandcamp and from what i understood it belongs to a subgenre called sovietwave. However it sounds extremely synthwavy to me. Is sovietwave a...
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Vaporwave's defining features these past two years have been the prominence of physical media and the youtube algorithm. Although physical media has genuine use, we have reached the point where...
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So here's a question I've been pondering for a while, and it's something I'd like to get other peoples' opinions on: Is Barber Beats the death of Vaporwave? Let me start off by pointing out the...
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Post some Vaporwave music videos. Those I have found are often short sadly. father
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We all know that Vaporwave loads of branching subgenre's, which creates a really interesting dynamic to me in the Vaporwave scene. So I ask, what is your more preferred style of Vaporwave? For me...
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Congrats! You just landed your dream job that involves developing and/or writing a film about Vaporwave. Not a documentary, but a legit film that could have any premise, it just has to be in the...
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View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_Dwg_x48Rw
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Greetings one and all, i'm Mr. Vista/VaporwaveVista a visual vaporwave mix comp creator: I've recently come together with a couple of up and coming vaporwave artists which create music to bring...
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This thread is dedicated to the showcase and appreciation of those obscure retro Japanese commercials found through out the internet. I'll start; View...
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this thread is for discussing and sharing aerowave. a new subset of vaporwave is emerging thanks to early gen z nostalgia for the frutiger aero style: aerowave. inspired by windows 7 and simcity...
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(I hope this doesn't count as some sort of self promo, if it does, please lmk mods.) The Nightwave Plaza online radio station is now taking song submissions again. You can submit your work or...
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I keep seeing many users who discovered Agora Road through the usual means (D.I.T., referrals, ads) yet are unknowing of this site's roots as a Vaporwave related site. In a recent thread some of...
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For those of you that dont know it was a vaporwave news site with reviews and interviews and just suddenly stopped making content. He did make a post about his hiatus and said he was going to...
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There's a big controversy about it on vaporwave Twitter. People are upset about it because of the energy it consumes but I feel like thats the nature of dealing with cryptocurrency. View...
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What was the thing that made you realize you loved Vaporwave? For me, it was Windows96's "Enchanted Instrumentals and Whispers", but yours could be anything from an album, to an image, to an...
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Whats everyone's opinion on this? I mean sampling music from older well know artists is one thing but so sample a small one with barely any following and then to go out of your way to contact a...
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Title Is there any vapor subgenres you just cannot get into it at all? I can respect stuff like faux utopian even though I don't really listen to it that often but it def has a vibe to it for...
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This question came up on chat. What does a vaporwave halloween look like? How can we best emulate it? I intend to set out to answer this question. Please feel free to give criticism (it can be as...
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As the title says, I'm curious. How did you discover vaporwave, and what did you do to discover more artists?
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Hello everyone reading this! Hope ya'll doing great! Idk if this question appeared here but I just wanted to ask about your favourite covers of vaporwave albums :) So... mine probably is cover of...
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Hi everyone! I'm writing a book documenting and analyzing Vaporwave and I wanted to share something I wrote, please let me know what you guys think! "Classical Vapor sounds haunted, like the...
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This is "Windows Nostalgia -マイクロソフト - Celebration!" Its got some Microsoft visual aesthetic https://youtu.be/XELnKYDYmFM
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For anyone who is a vaporwave enthusiast, I highly recommend playing a game called Broken Reality. It's a pixelated game where you, the player, interact with a 3D online chatroom that's plagued by...
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ElectroniCON 2023 NY - anyone coming, up to meet up or just has something to share - post here. I will most likely be there, feels like an opportunity I wouldn't like to waste.
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Found this in a record store in Tokyo. I think this is cool: I don't really see much acknowledgement or vaporwave in the "real world" so the fact that there is listing of essential vaporwave...
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What books give you that Vaporware feeling. Why do you like them and how did you find out about them? For me I'd have to choose R.U. Sirius, St. Jude's, and the internet 24's unknown masterpiece...
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This is a really great interview of 猫 シ Corp. It was so interesting to read that he stumbled upon vaporwave by google searching Floppy disks LOL! Also I never knew that 猫 シ Corp was Dutch! And the...
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View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tct_zir0nJc I'm doing a video art project and am looking for a song with this sort of vibe, repetitive but something that gets progressively more complex...
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https://soundcloud.com/dossydarboss I've little experience but am able to bounce around a lot of sounds and use what I have to my advantage. Need someone who can resonate with my ideas about...
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I can see that liminal space can be a cousin to mallsoft aesthetics and abandoned malls, but I feel like its more paranormal rather than aesthetic. I notice that it has been added to the aesthetic...
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For me it's usually a busy morning in New York, with people in suits going to work and busy offices, but i recon many people think about a leisure day in California, so i was wondering what do you...
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Does anyone have any good recommendations for dark yet still somewhat energetic vaporwave? I'm trying to make a certain video and I have a song picked out for it but I might change it if I find...
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Personally I think this is a fantastic album but the track Zeta feels out of place for me in the album. Sounds like a horror track. The Vinyl pattern is absolutely beautiful. View...
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