Vaporwave
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Vaporwave (British English: vapourwave) is an electronic music subgenre that originated in the early 2010s and spread over the next half of the decade among various Internet communities. It is characterized by a nostalgic or surrealist fascination with entertainment, technology and advertising of the 1980s and 1990s, and styles of both corporate and popular music such as lounge music, smooth jazz and elevator music. Vaporwave is often interpreted as a critique or reflection on consumer capitalism and popular culture. Its name alludes to vaporware, a term for products, typically computer software or hardware, which are announced but never released.
The visual style of vaporwave (as seen on album covers and music videos) is commonly referred to as aesthetics (often stylized as "ＡＥＳＴＨＥＴＩＣＳ" with fullwidth characters). The style often involves classical sculpture, web design, surrealism, low-poly computer renderings, glitch art, VHS recordings, cassette tapes, Japanese art and cyberpunk tropes.
Vaporwave originated as an Internet-birthed style loosely derived from the work of hypnagogic pop artists such as Ariel Pink and James Ferraro.Daniel Lopatin's 2010 release Chuck Person's Eccojams Vol. 1, Ferraro's Far Side Virtual and Vektroid's Floral Shoppe (released under the alias "Macintosh Plus") are often credited for sparking the beginning and development of the trend, as well as solidifying it as a genre. Vaporwave found wider appeal in 2012, with the release of Blank Banshee's debut album Blank Banshee 0, which introduced his signature fusion style of vaporwave's sampling techniques and trap music known as vaportrap.Saint Pepsi's 2013 album Hit Vibes pioneered the futurefunk subgenre.
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