What are your favorite Vaporwave albums?

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Gotta say, everyone here is listing some good stuff, real good shit.

dds.wmv is one of my favorites, even have a couple shirts of their albums, one with I'll Try Living Like This and Derelict Mega Tower. Especially love the latter, love imagining in my head climbing up the floors of some unrealistically tall skyscraper with something totally different waiting on each floor, it's fun to throw that album on shuffle for that reason.

Anything by Saint Pepsi is a classic. Also saw Prismcorp's Home listed as well, easily one of my favorite utopian virtual albums.

Anyway, I'll list a few favorites and something (hopefully) obsure to some of the members here.

First off, exotics by vcr-classique, it's jazzy grooves are smooth like silky butter that make you come back for seconds, what more can I say.



Second, ファンタジーモニター by b o d y l i n e, bounces between serene ambience and soft funk that's bound to make ya feel good. Good for those stressful days.



Third, 슈퍼마켓Yes! We're Open by 식료품groceries. Gotta love the feeling of aimlessly wandering through the different aisles and departments of a local grocery store and just taking in the sounds of people and the slightly muffled music being played through the intercoms, it absolutely nails that atmosphere and ambience so perfectly. One of the best that mallsoft has to offer.




And last of my favorite and well-known picks, this is a recent favorite for me but silhouette dreams by synchro//start. Starts off like you're grooving to some tunes in a modern shopping mall but as the album continues you're transported to a future space mall where you'll still be groovin'.



Now for an obsure favorite of mine, アクアティックリゾート by べリキャンディ. Forgot how I discovered it, I think I was browsing blogs for good vaporwave recommendations and stumbled upon this mallsoft beauty. Imagine you're on vacation, you've managed to book yourself at a nice resort, known for it's pool, spa, sauna, and other ammenities. It's nothing fancy, but has a cozy modest vibe going. Hope you enjoy your stay at the Aqua Resort. I know I did, and I'll have to book another visit sometime soon.

 
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I have a lot of random stuff from 2018-2019. As for anything that really stands out to me, this one is a good listen

View: https://dandan.bandcamp.com/album/fuzhi-fangke

Not really sure how obscure anything I have is. I usually just looked for anything new on Bandcamp and downloaded it if I liked it.
 
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One that has always stuck with me is Holograms by 骷. Such a landmark release in terms of how everything was structured to create a specific feeling. I think a lot of vaporwave releases miss the mark with regards to this, because a lot of the time given the sheer amount of music out there, a lot of it tends to solely focus on tropes that are a little stale. The reason this album still sticks with me isn't solely because of the tropes it plays with, but how it sequences it and presents it to me as one complete experience.​



As for most obscure, I would have to say 異常 by midnight王朝. This album is very unsettling for me, and given my unnatural fear of the dark, this didn't help much with curing that. Despite this, I love it to death and think that this artist deserved more discussion while they were active (their supposed final release being a year ago now).​


I absolutely love dark albums like that


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mVds-cztA4
 
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Keygen album from haircuts for men it's simply amazing and it's remember me a lot of when i was younger when I actually opened keygen to listent to the music it has 10/10

And Enchanted Instrumental and Whispers, I like the dreamy like sound it has
 
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