Vaporwave is a music genre that is an extension of an art movement.

In the early 2010s there were some indie dances, such as seapunk, bounce house, or chillwave, and more generally, electronic dance music. This found a nest for Vaporwave.

Vaporwave emerged in the early 2010s and almost reached its heyday from 2014 to 2015. Music creations and artistic works related to vaporwave began to emerge, and now it has spawned a series of sub-cultures and peripheral products.

While there is much variety and ambiguity in the sub-genres and messages conveyed, vaporwave sometimes both criticizes and satirizes post-industrial consumerist society, 1980s yuppie culture, and new age music. At the same time that lo-fi sound quality and Album Art showcase nostalgic artifacts of curiosity and fascination.

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Characteristics of Vaporwave music:

1. Music based on sampling, layering and bending:

Sampling is often It's very random, all kinds of cutting and pasting, layering, laying the foundation for another song under one layer of songs, or changing the classic down pitch and speed, changing the original female voice into a slow and lazy male voice until they sound Ramp like velvet and repeat them to create a lazy stuttering feel.

2. Stir the jam slowly:

Slow down the originally high-BPM dance music into various slow electronic music, and pay great attention to the sound of water vapor surrounded by water mist in the background. , combined with various pauses and rough reconstruction methods used in various early avant-garde concrete music/tape music, changing the classic shredding and twisting its original style.

3. Radio cassette:

However, this is not like the various avant-garde electronic acoustic music in the 20th century that made it difficult for ordinary people to listen. On the contrary, it is an extremely beautiful listening experience. Experience, a romance without substance. On a steamy rainy night in Shibuya District in 1995, a cyberpunk dystopia of the Belle Epoque was re-constructed.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia---Vaporwave