I introduced a co-worker to vaporwave and now he is addicted.

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I know metal have a lot of silly sub genre stuff going on, but nothing is more silly than electronic music genres. A whole strange scene will develop around vaporwave and then 5 years from now no one will even remember what it was or be able to stand to listen to it.

electronic music (why aren't we calling it E-Music?) is weird man
 
friday said:
I know metal have a lot of silly sub genre stuff going on, but nothing is more silly than electronic music genres. A whole strange scene will develop around vaporwave and then 5 years from now no one will even remember what it was or be able to stand to listen to it.

electronic music (why aren't we calling it E-Music?) is weird man
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You can say the exact same thing about country music, or any genre really. Every genre has a lot of sub-genres.

Meanwhile I think I'm becoming addicted to vaporwave and that Seinfeld track is amazing!
 
friday said:
I know metal have a lot of silly sub genre stuff going on, but nothing is more silly than electronic music genres. A whole strange scene will develop around vaporwave and then 5 years from now no one will even remember what it was or be able to stand to listen to it.

electronic music (why aren't we calling it E-Music?) is weird man
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So basically exactly like metal? Or are people still listening to 'Pirate metal'.
 
I'm confused but... I really like a lot of this. Very chill sounding music. The Seinfeld one is straight out of a Sim City game.
 
friday said:
No you really can't.
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Yes, you can. Sorry.

Appalachian
Bluegrass
Cajun
Honky-tonk
Nashville
New country
Old-time
Traditional
Swing

... I could go on and on.

Or jazz? Acid, bebop, bossanova, chamber, cool, Dixieland... again, huge list of sub-genres. That's just from Googling.
 
Barajas_201 said:
Has he
(or you)
heard this gem?

TANUKI - BABYBABYの夢
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Holy shit this song is intoxicating.
 
AyaisMUsikWhore said:
So would Neon Indian be Chillwave or Vaporwave? Or neither?

I've always associated him with the former.
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They were chillwave, but with "VEGA INTL.", I'd say he's gone synthpop, for the better. The best string of songs in 2015 was "Slumlord", "Slumlord's Re-Lease", and "Techno Clique."

And to everyone getting vaporwave confused with synthwave or 80s inspired electronic music, there is a difference. Early vaporwave e.g. in 2012 is focused a lot on slowing songs down and changing the beat behind them to make it seem you're in a haze. Nowadays, the tag is a bit more nebulous with microgenres such as vapor-trap or ambient vaporwave i.e. 2814's album. Future Funk is Vaporwave except the samples are from funk and disco instead of R&B and pop. Basically, vaporwave as it is is a micro-genre in electronic music and anything derivative of it is practically a nano-genre. However, since a lot of albums in the genre use elements from one nano-genre and apply it to another, this classification has gone to hell and back.

TL;DR: Vaporwave -> slowed down and remixed R&B jams and pop what not.
Future funk -> Slowed down and remixed funk and disco
But, this shit doesn't matter because it's all bullshit anyway. Just call it vaporwave and be done with it.
 
I have quite a bit i've bought from Bandcamp, I still don't get the genre though. The track names, album names, and art are just so random.

I have an album on Bandcamp called something like Wolfenstein OSX.exe and art is some random VHS anime character.
 
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