Argentinian Vaporwave Producers

** There will be a Spanish language version of all of these interviews soon, stay posted! **

One thing that I find particularly amazing about vaporwave in the mid-2020s is that it has become a very global movement. The increasing ubiquity of the internet in all corners of the world paired with browser and smartphone-based DAWs and easy access to samples of basically anything, opening up the field to anyone with a sense of nostalgia and love of reverb. And as untouched City Pop samples become as rare as new oil fields, I've found that vaporwave producers outside the United States are particularly well-positioned to tap into their own musical backgrounds in the effort to explore new sounds.

At the end of 2025 I was brought into the Channel 0 signalwave compilation and came to know a quartet of Argentinian vaporwave musicians who had released some music together as Argentum Quorum. Listening to their music, tapped directly from the culture and spirit of Argentina, I was struck by a real curiosity about a country that I didn't know a lot about and I wanted to go deeper. Albums like Argentina by Nahuelsat and LAPA sparked questions and conversations with the musicians as they shared more with me about their home. Which then got me wondering, who else was out there from Argentina and what did they think?

So, in order to better answer that question, I have created a new kind of interview format for the Pool/House. A sort of interview mixtape, pulling in a larger number of people to give their own takes on being an Argentinian in vaporwave. And to better highlight their actual music, for the first time I have also partnered with the excellent B O R T media to make a music mix of the musicians featured here (plus a couple more). I'm really excited to have pulled this together and it's a format I intend to use again in the future to highlight different groups of musicians in the vaporwave community.

As for these interviews, my main takeaway is that the Argentinian vaporwave community is just like the larger vaporwave community in its diversity! People have differing opinions on how much their music should reflect larger themes or societal messages, if at all. Some of them love to tap into Argentinian samples, others mostly avoid it. The existence of vaporwave as an online community means that Argentinian musicians can connect with other people around the world easily even when it's not as easy to find each other in IRL spaces. Hopefully, these interviews can help foster some new connections with vaporwave musicians and fans, in Argentina and around the world!

From B O R T media:

Getting the chance to collaborate with Pool Plants really shook things up for me. It’s easy to get stuck in a loop with the same familiar sounds, and this project challenged me to look beyond the usual 80s American pop tropes. While vaporwave is a genre without borders, it’s never without the cultural flair of its makers. Diving into the minds of these Argentinian creators revealed a unique Latin perspective, from LAPA’s transit-inspired 'metro' stories to Nahuelsat’s incredible pairing of samples with classic Argentine rock. It’s an authentic brand of nostalgia that weaves together influences like Tango and electro-folklore into something that feels both futuristic and deeply rooted in the country's own history.

Visually and sonically, I hope this serves as a 'visual vacation' that captures the spirit of yesterday’s Argentine pop culture. It’s a small, tight-knit vaporwave community over there, but the talent is undeniable. Some tracks lean heavily into the regional experience while others are just really fucking good internet music. My hope is that this mixtape and the Pool/House article help rally this community together. To the artists in Argentina: keep sharing your stories and inspiring others to join the conversation. There is a unique voice here, and it deserves to be heard.

Shout out to C-60, computers for sale, and Unnamed 禁名の者. They didn't make this mixtape, but I dig their music

	Dario Matta "Conceptually, vaporwave itself is a strange mixture between American pop culture, Japanese technology, ‘80s nostalgia, ‘90s nostalgia, old software and hyper-capitalist utopias/dystopias. I find it really interesting to add the “local flavour” of Argentine music, voices and references."
	EAST ACCESS "I first started entertaining the idea of making my own take on vaporwave around 2021. I wanted an extended version of “Eoa” by Vinter in Vegas for my own listening, so I created it in Audacity. I ended up discovering paulstretch, reverb and other effects there while experimenting, and started creating new tracks."
	eccodroid "Like most people, I was introduced to vaporwave thanks to the meme popularity of Floral Shoppe around 2015. It was everywhere, so I decided to give it a listen. Despite finding it pretty haunting, it didn't really click with me at first. It wasn't until I heard DDS.wmv's "I'll Try Living Like This" that I started loving vaporwave and seeing it as a legitimate art movement."
	endlessdream "When I was a kid, I remember Vaporwave being a pretty big thing during mid-2010s. The aesthetic was all over the internet but I was too young to understand it at the time. It was not until 2024 when I first listened to a Vaporwave album, and started digging in the rabbit hole, becoming more and more fascinated with the genre the more I listened."
	ishiiburidai "I try to branch out as much as possible when making my music, going so far as to name my tracks in Japanese, Bhutanese and Nepali. A recent EP I made has the concept of using one Eastern language for every track, which compliments that the songs in it were used for various compilations and the cover reflects that (the butterflies coming from all directions and meeting in the middle.)"
	LAPA "I listened to a lot of future funk mixes on YouTube at my job, but then some situations there changed and workplace became a lonely and boring one. The job suddenly got better but not exactly my feelings of loneliness and strangeness, so future funk wasn’t enough. Mallsoft entered the chat, and that was a BIG change for me."
	Nahuelsat "My personal history with Argentine music starts directly with my parents. They always listened to classics that are still considered classics today (like Soda Stereo, Sui Generis, Los Abuelos de la Nada, Virus, Miguel Mateos, Charly García, Fito Páez, Andrés Calamaro, Patricio Rey y sus Redonditos de Ricota) but also other Latin American artists (like Maná, Ricky Martin, and so on)."
	Trademarks & Copyrights "If I had to name one record that truly made me realize I wanted to devote my life to music, it would be Computer World by Kraftwerk. Hearing that album for the first time when I was eight years old completely changed me. That was the moment when I thought: I want to be a musician."
	Zai Kowen "I started making music in 2013. I began making dubstep, influenced by Skrillex's work, through whom I discovered more artists in the subgenre. I composed all of this under another nickname, "Manustep." Then I left the project in 2016, and later I discovered the nostalgic aesthetic of Vaporwave and Future Funk, which caught my attention."