Gold Blu-27: I think it was way back in September of 2024. I was really deep into electronic music like Aphex Twin. Mostly just listening to a lot of Aphex Twin. And I listened to a lot of my music on Spotify. Usually most of the time Spotify gives album picks and I like to listen to those. One day one of the album picks was I’ll Try Living Like This by Death’s Dynamic Shroud. I didn’t know at the time what vaporwave was, I just saw the really interesting cover and pressed play and was like, “Woah what the fuck is this shit? This shit sounds funky! In a good way. Like the cool electronic Aphex Twin way.” And then I just put it inside.
Two weeks later, I guess, you know this video of Nickster who covers the samples of Eccojams Vol 1? What the hell is Eccojams Vol 1? I just start getting more into what the hell vaporwave was and it’s like, “woah this shit is amazing, I could get into this.” And so I think at first I tried working on Sonus because I didn’t feel like FL Studio at the time. I was trying to follow this guy on YouTube who did a recreation of A3 from Eccojams.
After that the first project was called Hands Across America, based on the charity event where people put their hands together from New York all the way to California. And then I just got into that particular era. What if I make music like that? And that’s how Sunny Blu 27 was born. Back then I wasn’t really the kind of person that put dedication into my own projects. So it took about a month or two with the project but most of the production time was in December 2024. After that when January came I published the album and started on my whole vaporwave journey becoming an artist.
Ashley: So when I was in middle school that was when everything was blowing up in terms of the initial vaporwave scene. So I was very familiar with the aesthetics but not really the music. In terms of music, I was mostly a fan of things like the Hotline Miami soundtrack which was of course synthwave, and because of that my main avenue into vaporwave was through plunderphonics. Things like the Avalanches, any kind of sampled music, like Burial, Gorillaz, stuff like that. It’s all that stuff I’d always loved so much.
What got me into making it was my friend was a collector of vaporwave vinyl and cassettes and she got me back into it in 2023 after a long time of just ignoring it for punk rock in the middle. I think what appealed to me most was the punk rock aspect of stealing samples and making them your own. I think that was the most appealing thing as an artist. But as a fan it’s been connecting with other artists that are just incredible and you would’ve never thought you’d be able to talk to them. It’s very interesting As far as my favorite, favorite vaporwave thing of all time. I don’t know if it’s straight up vaporwave, but Replica by Oneohtrix Point Never would be my desert island pick. It’s just perfect. So for me as a fan, maybe one day I’ll have my own Replica.