The origins of vaporwave are pretty discussed due to the fact that it's only an Internet microgenre and thus a lot of it has been lost to time. nobody here isn't actually the first vapor song posted to the internet know, though. The honors go to these two, both before Lopatin's first videos: View: https://youtu.be/nhmRZOkVeRU?si=t4zaVPa1iMrdpDnB
And we can go even further back in time. Boards Of Canada is one of the biggest influences of vaporwave and it can easily be seen how: slow, hauntologic dreamish downtempo full to the brim of samples. But it turns out they were more of an influence, as this old track of them is fully vaporwave. View: https://youtu.be/_p8rcAPPsvU?si=-haQsI5Bnd-Vk_7o
There was also another vaporwave track released in '96 by German techno group Love Inc., but this one's more of a time coincidence. Aside from that, it's so vaporwave it really feels like time travel. View: https://youtu.be/JtubISQ7mdg?si=Rn2f40jjZ7bl5MqD
i forgot where I read it, and I could totally be talking out of my ass, but I remember reading/hearing somewhere that MF DOOM and other music producers were screwing around with cutting and chopping samples back in the early aughts that could technically be considered a proto vaporwave.
i forgot where I read it, and I could totally be talking out of my ass, but I remember reading/hearing somewhere that MF DOOM and other music producers were screwing around with cutting and chopping samples back in the early aughts that could technically be considered a proto vaporwave.
The songs consist of looped samples of popular songs from the 1980s and 1990s distorted by effects such as delay, reverb, and pitch shifting,[14][23] a technique derived from DJ Screw's chopped and screwed technique[14] and likened to a "candy-coloured variation"
of William Basinski's The Disintegration Loops.[25] Most of the lyrics isolated in these loops are lyrics which differ from "overall tone and sentiment" of the original songs and often express negative feelings.
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