Is vaporwave dead?

I hope so. It's shit. It's basically the crappiest, lowest effort "music" and a bunch of "artists" telling each other that they love each others' music because they are insecure that the whole genre won't be taken seriously otherwise.

>>74126832
this and also it's literally just sjw'ized chopped & screwed

but just for the memez:
https://dreamcatalogue.bandcamp.com/album/vaporwave-is-dead
https://antifur.bandcamp.com/album/vaporwave-is-dead-again

It's still going. It's just that a lot of the ones with real talent only have 1-2 EPs out.

Unless you're Macross 82-99, his last album was banger.

No, all the insincere memers moved on and the only people making it are the ones who actually care about it.

>beep beep boop
>this sounds cool ill post it to my soundcloud
>beep beep... beep boop beep
>omg this is cool too! ill post to my soundcloud
>beep... beep beep
>GUYS CHECK OUT MY THIRD SONG

>>74126867
I second this. It's still a relaxing genre to listen to at night, and the use of sampling is great too.

yer it ded a.

I got into it too late, what are some essentials?

potentially

>>74126807
I still unironically love this album

I dont get the Japanese thing

>>74127150
Me too, it has some really good tracks. Still one of my go-to albums when I want to chill completely.

VAPORWAVE IS D E A D
VAPORWAVE IS A L I V E
起死回生

The thing is that this album actually has some thought and effort put into it but everyone else just thinks that they can make some shitty slow synth melody and repeat it for 3 minutes and call it a "vaporwave" song. They even use "vaporwave" as an excuse against people criticising their shit ("its not bad thats just what the genre is like").

>>74126807

Yeah for the last 5 years.

>>74126807
The aesthetic is dead but the sampling technique will never go away.

>>74127477
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>>74126807
I unironically like vaporwave but don't really like floral shoppe. pic related is best vaporwave album

>>74127068
should be some vaporwave essentials in here https://pastebin.com/7Syxr4rZ

link is from the sharethreads

>>74127535
Am I wrong or is this genre more about the album covers and videos having a lot of pink, purple and DUDE LMAO JAPANESE LETTERS, rather than music itself?

>>74126807
best current album that stems from vaporwave:
https://comtruise.bandcamp.com/album/iteration
"but that's synthwave"
well, that's all I got

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>>74127487
There's some great vaporwave out there though, albeit amidst a lot of shit, I've been listening to these lately
Christtt's No Lives Matter (2016)
Death's Dynamic Shoud.wmv's Classroom Sexxtape (2016)
Death's Dynamic Shoud.wmv's I'll Try Living Like This (2015)
Then there's the classics, Eccojams, James Ferraro, Nmesh, Giant Claw, vaperror and of course everything else by Vektroid.
>>74127535
that shit sucks
this is the best vaporwave album

>>74127565
>synthwave
>chillwave
>simpsonwave
Please stop

>>74127579
Thanks for sharing, I'll check these out

>>74127565
listening to this
just sounds like some groovy synthpop, I'm not seeing the connection to vapourware

>>74127558
yes you're wrong

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>>74127588
trapstep
dubgrind
popfunk
lofi-hiphop
ambientwave
tigerwave
nuwave
oldwave
fagwave
tastywave
bestwave
worstwave2017toptennotclickbait

>>74127636
Then why do they rely on that so much? It's like they need to remind people that it's vaporwave using visual cues.

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>>74127657
I hate to use this word because it's become a meme, but it's part of the aesthetic of the genre, just like dark covers with scrawled looking text on the cover is part of the aesthetic for metal covers, and a dude playing an instrument against a dark background with text in a sans serif font is part of the jazz aesthetic.
You'll always find exceptions to the aesthetic, albums in any genre that don't conform to the visual aesthetic of the genre, and vaporwave is no exception. Take the cover to Christtt's No Lives Matter for instance as an exception.

>>74127603
it's a far connection: it was a reaction to vaporwave, vaporwave took 80's music and slowed it down and did a bunch of weird music, but then com truise was like: I'm just gonna make stuff like it's the 80's but better mixed. and was often paired with vaporwave during cyanide sisters because more sampling but he slowly moved away from that.

>>74127731
I want to contradict you but damnit you are right

>>74126861
him and Vektroid are still churning out great stuff

>>74126867
this

>>74127770
Are you sure? I'm usually wrong about things.

>>74127579
true

>>74126807
No question
But in my opinion, it is kill because of the aesthetics thing, and not the music

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can't speak for the music but the aesthetics are in mainstream shit now

>>74127903
what are these from?
I'm guessing the second is from a kpop video.

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>>74127579
2814 is one of my favorites, death's dynamic shoud is pretty fucking good too. you a fan of amun dragoon?

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>>74127903
to be honest if the second one is vaporwave aesthetics, then so was Twin Peaks in 1990.

>>74127949
I listened to that a while ago and I think I liked it, but I don't remember anything about it.
I'll give it another listen.

>>74127949
this is like rebranded 90s ambient techno

is all vaporwave basically just other genres but rebranded to fit "aesthetc" criteria?

>>74127922
both are from the same video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQxtwvLUByM
there are others with a similar look but i'll spare you

>>74127954
maybe but i can almost guarantee kpop producers are looking at what's currently trendy in the west instead of an almost 30 year old tv show

>>74127558
That was the meme crowd, they've since moved on to peddle their shit elsewhere and the genre has returned to being created by people who actually care about the music not just A E S T H E T I C

>>74128039
There's nothing more to vaporwave than just aesthetics anon.

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Nothing will ever top this. It's only equalled by Birth of a New Day and MEGA.

>>74128015
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQxtwvLUByM
cheers
I don't know how to feel about this; I've always thought of vaporwave as anti-capitalist and quite subversive, but then being appropriated by commercial pop doesn't really affect it in any way seeing as it's only the visuals that they can appropriate. Also vaporwave appropriated commercial pop from the 80s and 90s and corporate muzak too, so it's hard to take issue with vaporwave itself being appropriated.

>>74128148
>Computer noises the album

>>74128148
Vaportrap is what killed Vaporwave