city slickin' by toonville
c a s i n o t r a i n i n g by T e l e + 1
WaterSoft™ by HYDROPLANED INTO A FALSE REALITY!
My first entry in the world of vaporwave was the infamous Adam Harper article "Vaporwave and the Pop-Art of the Virtual Plaza," or more specifically the accompanying mixtape. While I was already a fan of early pioneers like Oneohtrix Point Never and James Ferarro, a lot of the music here felt different. Instead of the dark synth landscapes of early OPN works, or the brightly ironic utopia of "Far Side Virtual," this was the anonymous music that filled all the empty corners of the 90s and early 2000s. Call centers, training videos, cubicles, and lobbies. Despite the exotic trappings of Japanese commercial samples this music was instantly familiar to me. The music that I used to "hate" now intrigued me.
This same feeling was conjured by these three albums which all came out recently in mid July. While vaporwave has evolved in so many directions over the years since Harper's article,
city slickin' by toonville
c a s i n o t r a i n i n g by T e l e + 1
WaterSoft™ by HYDROPLANED INTO A FALSE REALITY!
My first entry in the world of vaporwave was the infamous Adam Harper article "Vaporwave and the Pop-Art of the Virtual Plaza," or more specifically the accompanying mixtape. While I was already a fan of early pioneers like Oneohtrix Point Never and James Ferarro, a lot of the music here felt different. Instead of the dark synth landscapes of early OPN works, or the brightly ironic utopia of "Far Side Virtual," this was the anonymous music that filled all the empty corners of the 90s and early 2000s. Call centers, training videos, cubicles, and lobbies. Despite the exotic trappings of Japanese commercial samples this music was instantly familiar to me. The music that I used to "hate" now intrigued me.
This same feeling was conjured by these three albums which all came out recently in mid July. While vaporwave has evolved in so many directions over the years since Harper's article,
city slickin' by toonville
c a s i n o t r a i n i n g by T e l e + 1
WaterSoft™ by HYDROPLANED INTO A FALSE REALITY!
My first entry in the world of vaporwave was the infamous Adam Harper article "Vaporwave and the Pop-Art of the Virtual Plaza," or more specifically the accompanying mixtape. While I was already a fan of early pioneers like Oneohtrix Point Never and James Ferarro, a lot of the music here felt different. Instead of the dark synth landscapes of early OPN works, or the brightly ironic utopia of "Far Side Virtual," this was the anonymous music that filled all the empty corners of the 90s and early 2000s. Call centers, training videos, cubicles, and lobbies. Despite the exotic trappings of Japanese commercial samples this music was instantly familiar to me. The music that I used to "hate" now intrigued me.
This same feeling was conjured by these three albums which all came out recently in mid July. While vaporwave has evolved in so many directions over the years since Harper's article,
city slickin' by toonville
c a s i n o t r a i n i n g by T e l e + 1
WaterSoft™ by HYDROPLANED INTO A FALSE REALITY!
My first entry in the world of vaporwave was the infamous Adam Harper article "Vaporwave and the Pop-Art of the Virtual Plaza," or more specifically the accompanying mixtape. While I was already a fan of early pioneers like Oneohtrix Point Never and James Ferarro, a lot of the music here felt different. Instead of the dark synth landscapes of early OPN works, or the brightly ironic utopia of "Far Side Virtual," this was the anonymous music that filled all the empty corners of the 90s and early 2000s. Call centers, training videos, cubicles, and lobbies. Despite the exotic trappings of Japanese commercial samples this music was instantly familiar to me. The music that I used to "hate" now intrigued me.
This same feeling was conjured by these three albums which all came out recently in mid July. While vaporwave has evolved in so many directions over the years since Harper's article,