Vaporwave General

Discussion dedicated to everything and anything to vaporwave! It includes Vaporwave sub-genres as-well! In this board share your thoughts, articles, reviews, and news of vaporwave!

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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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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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 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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Greetings. I am wondering... is this Vaporwave or one of its sub-genres? View: https://katjainstitute.bandcamp.com/album/c-a-n Thank you
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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 was listening to Mac DeMarcos 'Salad Days' album (amazing btw) and within 10 seconds of the song 'Chamber of Reflection' I was like "Oh, this feels totally vaporwave"! I guess this could start...
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Post some Vaporwave music videos. Those I have found are often short sadly. father
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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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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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I found this forum exactly because I'm looking for an album. I don't remember the name of the artist, I can only vaguely recall one of the songs, I'm not even sure when it was released. I just...
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I've got access to a tool that produces music with AI. It's quite fun, but I've burnt myself out making dumb parody songs and such. I thought it might be a fun idea for us to collectively create...
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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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@eeempe had a post abt OG Club Penguin and I mentioned something about the new independent version that's been out for a while. There actually was a recent music festival event with different...
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recently i was checking out the official album of the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Olympics, and when i heard the song "Street Thunder" by Foreigner i got a feeling of deja vu like i had heard this...
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(Note: mods, if this is in the wrong place just feel free to move it where appropriate, I know this is the Vaporwave forum but I wasn't sure where else to put it.) Hello! I'm sure most of you...
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...one of the best vaporwave albums I've ever heard. death's dynamic shroud (and death's dynamic shroud.wmv) have been killing it since at least as far back as I'll Try Living Like This and hit...
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share some first time encounters with vaporwave in general.
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I recently made this Future Funk version for the main theme of minecraft: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deMZfk137wU Do you guys know any other games on future funk songs?
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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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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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One of my first introductions into Vaporwave music was this video View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9jTLvl48F0 For some context, this video references an old mmorpg game, Toontown...
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I didn't see a thread for posting individual songs. What are some of your favorites that don't get any attention? This one goes hard:
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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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Favorite vaporwave albums to fall asleep/relax yourself to? even tho my usual "HD rain sounds +10 hours" playlist gets the job done, listening to vaporwave helps a lot too concerning myself, some...
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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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This is a bit niche, but I get a serious nostalgic misty eye from that midi flute you can hear in: The Eye Witness Intro Animal Jam Jamaa Township And plenty of retro games, especially in jungle...
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post nuskool vwave yall View: https://youtu.be/cwPNyRfje0M
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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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Any games, intentionally or not that have a nice vaporwavey style. I'll start first, OUTRUN has too be one of the best arcade games that I played just because of how chill it feels to cruise...
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Don't know if this already a big album but I just found it myself and thought it sounded real snazzy. I like the clean audio and how the album moves from one track to another although that last...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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