
Spanish: 
Vaporwave cuando escuché ese término por primera vez
Pensé que era el más pretencioso.
Título usado para todo lo que alguna vez he
escuchado
Me pregunté por qué iban a elegir esa palabra
Ni siquiera tiene sentido esa palabra
Ni siquiera existe casualmente la mayoría
La gente que mencioné siempre parece
tener la misma reacción así que rayos es el  vaporwave
Bueno déjame comenzar vaporwave es un género
de musica que se originó en internet
foros como tumblr y reddit en el
principios de 2010 es distintivo no tiene ningún conjunto
ubicado en donde se originó, ya que
comenzó en línea convirtiéndolo en el primer género De la música para estar completamente globalizada.

English: 
vaporwave when I first heard that term I
thought it was the most pretentious
title used for anything that I've ever
heard
I wondered why would they pick that word
doesn't even make any sense that word
doesn't even exist coincidentally most
people I mentioned this to always seem
to have the same reaction so what the
hell is vaporwave
well let me begin vaporwave is a genre
of music that originated on internet
forums such as tumblr and reddit in the
early 2010's it distinctively has no set
location as to where it originated as it
started online making it the first genre

English: 
of music to be completely globalized
it began as an aesthetic that was
popularized by an obsession with 80s and
90s subculture using glitch art early
digital graphic design Roman busts a
fascination with tropical landscapes
Japanese culture and of course the
redistribution of old 80s elevator music
inspired from funk new-age and smooth
jazz this all began in 2010 when two
seemingly random albums with two
distinctively different styles merged
together to create what we now call
favor with an experimental electronic
artist Daniel low patent have known by a
pseudonym OneNote Rick's point never
released a humorous mixtape online under
the alter-ego Chuck person with echo
jams won a series of repetitive 80s hits

Spanish: 
Los Inicios
Comenzó como una estética que era.
Popularizado por una obsesión con los años 80 y Subcultura de los 90 usando arte glitch, juvenil
diseño gráfico digital bustos romanos una
fascinación por los paisajes tropicales
Cultura japonesa y por supuesto la
Redistribución de música antigua del ascensor de los 80.
Inspirado en funk new-age y suave jazz.
todo esto comenzó en 2010 cuando dos
Álbumes aparentemente aleatorios con dos
estilos distintivamente diferentes se fusionaron
juntos para crear lo que ahora llamamos Vaporwave
Favorecer con una electrónica experimental.
artista Daniel de baja patente han conocido por una
Seudónimo de OneNote El punto de Rick nunca
lanzó un mixtape humorístico en línea bajo
el alter-ego Chuck persona con eco
Jams ganó una serie de éxitos repetitivos de los exitos 80's.

Spanish: 
que fueron ralentizados y separados
simplemente repitiéndose en el mismo
coro a lo largo de toda la canción fue
descrito por baja patente para ser sólo una

English: 
that were slowed down and spliced apart
merely repeating themselves on the same
chorus throughout the entire song it was
described by low patent to be just a
simple joke that was something he did
just for fun
regardless it became a small internet
sensation
farside virtual an electronic album
created by James Ferraro used themes of
globalization and internet culture as an
influence to create this mellow upbeat
digitalized ode to a rapidly changing
world
he's too drastically different styles
merged together with a strange largely

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unknown release titled floral shop in
late 2011 a strange synthesis of a t
soul and funk Tunes slowdown chopped up
and repackaged as a bizarre eerie
droning sound that makes the listener
easily uncomfortable a quickly
popularized making the artist vector ID
under the pseudonym Macintosh Plus who
is known already for having a large
number of aliases for several other
independent releases gather a small
niche market for anyone who likes
bizarre 80s elevator music one song in
particular garnered a lot of praise and
popularity and was the esteem every
sufferin cool norcombe Nia and tingle
420 slash gun day are translated into
English computing of Lisa Frank 420
slash contemporary which features a
slowdown Diana Ross song it's your move
droning on the misheard lyrics of it's
all in your head repeated multiple times

English: 
over the course of seven minutes
I first listened to floral shop in 2014
at this point vaporwave is still mostly
unknown to mainstream audiences and it
still is in current times I first
thought of this as a humorous gag
something that when necessary last role
too long in the music world it was
essentially a joke on music itself it
literally was a glorification of
stealing other people's art and
marketing it under something else with
foreign languages after observing the
underground movement and noticing 15
year olds finding old obscure funk tunes
to chop up and re-release under false
names and Japanese I then regarded the
genre as genius
going on Bandcamp and looking under the
vaporwave jean or tag you will find
hundreds if not thousands of obscure
bizarre pieces of slowdown stolen music
mostly made by young adolescents in the
basements of their suburban homes all

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across the world it has been described
by some as a digital Punk movement with
ideals that counter most national
concepts of ownership by making
vaporwave an anonymous art for anonymous
people I wouldn't think much of the
genre if it had died out the same year
it was created much like many internet
phrases such as see Punk witch house and
others that existed during the same
period vaporwave continued to grow and
has been for the past half decade but
the question is why are people still
making and still continually listening
to this bizarre and seemingly uninspired
genre the word vaporwave itself is quite
an anomaly it is essentially the
combination of vaporware a business term
to describe a product which is announced
to the public but never actually
released and a Marxist term to describe
a perpetual repetition of ideals which
are not concrete or meaningful and their
philosophy described as waves of vapor
it is very pretentious but that's
essentially the root of where this all

English: 
came from a critique on modern
capitalism great
in 2012 a producer under the pseudonym
Internet Club released multiple albums
that delve into the scheme of capitalism
with releases like modern business
collection and vanishing vision
all of which borrowed elements from
floral shop to create a counterculture
that instead of rejecting corporate
ideals embrace
this in turn sparked a new market by
making vaporwave whole aesthetic
approach based off a redistribution of
old advertisements this ideal for the
genre continued to dominate the tone of
most vaporwave releases with notable
artists such as Cork and others this
gave the genre a bad rap as it seemed to
be stagnant in its development and was
doomed to be an awkward phase of music
which was shallow and meeting and
production quality eventually most

English: 
releases were horribly put together
message just to undermine the true
essence of what does genre was about
most people had already given up on the
genre by this point and believed it to
suffer the same fate that previous
internet born genres went through the
phrase vaporwave as dead seemed to carry
itself around on internet forums and
continued onwards to be the perceived
reality of what was to come for the
genre vaporwave seemed doomed to die in
a pit of irony and cynicism unless
something changed
there had been a growing number of
artists during 2012 and 2013 making
albums mimicking the same sound of early
vaporwave but refraining from delving
into the overuse theme of capitalism in
80s nostalgia these artists were mostly
inspired from a largely underground
producer under the alias skeleton who
released his self-titled album in
October of 2010

English: 
it was a collection of spooky slowdown
songs that influenced a new wave of
artists all of which challenged the
preconceived notion that vaporwave only
had one style and one overarching goal
they succeeded
blank banshee a Canadian producer
redefined their genre by adding a trap
influence with a self-released album
blank banshee 0 a remix of obscure
new-age songs with trap beats and heavy
bass
infinity frequencies a Japanese producer
who started making vaporwave in mid-2012
with his first release euphoria is best
known for his computer trilogy spanning
from 2013 to 2014 the three albums
titled computer death computer decay and
computer afterlife are essentially a
collection of strange eerie repetitive

English: 
loops of elevator music
the off-putting sounds reflect a sense
of emptiness and sterility a reflection
of the soulless existence of modern
technology echo virtual a distinctively
anonymous artist made atmospheres one in
January of 2013 a whole album that
combines samples and with completely
original music that mimic the sounds
normally heard on a Weather Channel
using slow drawn-out melodies that were
meant to be droning and uncomfortable
for the listener it grew in popularity
and the artists remain anonymous stating
that the whole appeal of they have wave
is its use of remaining unknown that in
a world where nothing as private is
refreshing to find something that feels
like it was found in the dumpster of the
thrift shop where it does not matter
where it came from or who made it but
only that it takes you elsewhere

English: 
somewhere distant from reality
unfortunately this release was
undermined by the growing size of
meaningless 80s nostalgia until a
largely unknown artists in early 2014
under the pseudonym Hong Kong Express
created a small pan can label with a
20-minute release titled romantic dreams
it's described by the artist as a
mysterious romantic trip through the
neon haze of a night in Hong Kong a
journey of subway carriages and fast
cars a love both lost and found and a
connection between souls it was created
to be intentionally melodramatic and
cinematic as well as being just a simple
side project for a small-time producer
it eventually became the catalyst that

English: 
changed everything about what vaporwave
was dream catalog a record label that
releases music with the philosophy that
designates vaporwave does not to be
about irony or capitalism but about
telling a narrative through music this
revolutionized the way in which concept
albums are created and albums like yes
were opened by groceries we see a simple
collection of sounds normally heard in a
rundown grocery store but changing them
to tell a narrative of escapism and
fantasy a cruel realization of hardships
and monotony in a world that is
constantly moving in changing
dream catalog currently has over 95
releases all of which tell stories of
melancholic dreams or escapism to a
distant world free of isolation and
loneliness the label has helped usher in
a new wave of prolific artists that have

English: 
been pushing the genre in a direction of
positive growth showcasing that
vaporwave is not dead but simply reborn
artists like golden living room an
independent musician who is notable for
creating slow atmospheric ambient music
with actual instruments released a
welcome home on the label in an
interview with Hong Kong expressed he
discusses the development of the album
and states I'm from the old school all
of my dream Easton's are recorded using
a yamaha dx7 vos dd7 an offender concert
series tube amp I also have about five
or six other Yamaha cents plus a bunch
of guitars and other random instruments
like a sitar going back to trap
influence vaporwave we see vapor earth
an underground producer who utilizes
computer sounds as a drum kit to create

English: 
etheral dreamy beats in a popular
release titled mana pool in June of 2014
it pushed the boundaries of the genre
into a more mainstream conventional
style that can be easily appreciated by
casual listeners
all of these artists started something
new in the vaporwave movement it was
only natural for several popular
releases trying to branch out and
redefine the genre to be replicated by
newer less popular artists this began a
new wave of subgenres all of which
embracing the central idea of vaporwave
but focusing on only one particular
aspect
probably the most popular of the
vaporwave subgenres future funk
originated in 2012 with several
underground releases that mimicked a
kind of upbeat funky groove with a
vaporwave twist it was heavily

English: 
influenced by new disco bringing in a
new style of futurism and contemporary
music it was officially branded as its
own genre when a young producer under
the alias st. Pepsi released hit vibes
in May of 2013
what's a collection of remixed 80s pop
hits that were heavy on bass drums and
repeated choruses turning what was
originally catchy soul tunes into
energetic dance beats this release
quickly popularized making future funk
the new sound of vaporwave it's spread
to other artists such as mat cross 82 99
who released sailor wave in December of
2013 a collection of Japanese disco
songs remixed as a funky ode to sailor
young BAE a young producer originating
from Portland Oregon released his
sophomore album bay in July of 2014 a
collection of Japanese pop songs remixed

English: 
with heavy drum and bass and a large
amount of reverb
on the flip side to future funk there is
mal saath it is essentially the
glorification of utilizing elevator
music and his main inspiration it relies
heavily on a lot of reverb and making
the music feel a part of a certain
diocese for a certain location it was
deemed mal soft because of the growing
number of releases particularly in 2013
of music sounded like it was recorded
from a shopping mall his conscience
released hologram Plaza in April of 2013
a collection of droning 80's funk tunes
with heavy reverb and eerie treble
reducer

English: 
this was the release that popularized
the genre and made mall soft a distinct
branch of this vast art movement in
October of 2014
cork released Palma mall a similar
rendition to hologram clouds of a
delving deeper into the soul-crushing
reality of shopping mall consumerism
notable for being a good example of
vaporwave dealing with the theme of
modern capitalist vanity a producer
known for several releases on dream
catalog released Plaza on the label in
early 2015
a collection of drawn-out smooth jazz
tunes creating a sensation of late-night
wandering a journey through a desolate
Plaza all alone

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and not so a steam genre by casual
vaporwave listeners but still important
in the history of its creation this
sub-genre was originally synthesized on
subreddits by initially making a
combination of C Punk and grunge music
unfortunately this category of music
tended to be overwhelmed with cheap
ironic releases without much effort put
into them one album in particular though
got some praise for its release on the
business-casual label and was storm
memories by sea dogs in October of 2014
the effect is essentially digitalized
noise to mimic the sounds of the ocean
and of early 90s alternative rock
similar to Sonic Youth or My Bloody
Valentine it puts the listener in a
trance while simultaneously creating a
bizarre droning sense of unease it is
not just the sounds of the ocean of the

English: 
very being of it on August 16 2014 dream
catalogue released what is to be known
as their most controversial release in
their library it was titled floral shop
2 and was produced by a then-unknown
the darkest future it was essentially an
intentional mess of an album
there is a split decision between fans
of the genre and resulted in many online
debates about whether or not this album
was complete shit or genius Hong Kong
expressed later posted an explanation of
the creation of his concept album by its
creator revealing to be dark pyramid a
producer on the dream catalog label
known for releasing electrical tear
drops and a heart full of love both of
which dealing with the theme of Android
consciousness and love in it he mentions
earlier this week after exploring the
new vaporwave ultra guy that has been

English: 
floating around online I was listening
to one of the recommended albums in the
classics section namely new deluxe life
I was wondering to myself as I was
listening what is this shit well vapor
wave can be very challenging at times
this album just seemed to push the
boundaries of experimentation further
out than I had ever heard within the
genre before to the point of becoming
absolute crap unlistenable I wonder do
people like this album because they are
truly interested in such inaccessible
challenging and experimental music this
led to even further thought on the
subject how important is the aesthetic
presentation to vaporwave as a genre do
we enjoy things more if it is presented
with interesting imagery and less so if
it is presented with something that is
aesthetically displeasing the darkest
future is the trend I see in music as we
head further into the abyss vaporwave at
his course ultimately not a form of
music but the first true post music
genre that has grown from being more

English: 
than the tiniest niche into something of
its own scene while there have been
other forms of post music in the past
even decades ago vapor wave is the first
scene of its kind to really take it to
the next level to the point where
someone like vector ID receives high
praise for slowing down a Diana Ross
sample and creating weird sounding loops
out of it what is innovative now is
vaporwave because of its presentation
the music becomes more than just a song
and instead something larger than that
this is ultimately the next innovation
and music and people who say vaporwave
is dead are completely off-base I say
instead that music is dead and may
vaporwave continue to live
whether or not you agree with him on the
stance of music is irrelevant what's
important is that vaporwave finally
started to be converse is not a new
genre but an art movement in general and
2015 Hong Kong express and frequent
collaborator and co-owner of the dream
catalog label telepath known for as

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etheral dreamy releases created 2814 a
dystopian concept album with all
original music using drawn-out piano
chords blade runner-esque synthesizers
and a heavy bass track
this release has slowly become the
essential vaporwave album hopefully
taking over the role floral shop has
dominated for several years furthering
that vaporwave is not a joke
but a legitimate art form to quote Hong
Kong Express he describes vaporwave in
these terms
not every album has to be completely
unique or have a heavy concept behind it
and I'm not against heavy sampling if it
is done inventively
but if you're just treating vaporwave as
any other genre like house or drum base
and trying to copy a formula because he
think it has to be that way then it
shows a complete lack of inspiration I
think the most important thing to aim

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for in vaporwave as a producer is to
make something cinematic in effect make
the listener feel inexplainable feelings
which is helped by the Surrey ality of
the music culture is so fast-paced now
that all this music is just passing
noise disposable almost and I like that
aspect of it a lot I love going on
soundcloud and just listening to the
stream knowing I may never hear these
songs again and they will just disappear
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