Ishkurs Guide to Electronic Music

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Going through a phase exploring this stuff. The nostalgia trips are real for me, find myself fascinated by the creativity.

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“Vaporwave is inseparable from the internet,”

Vaporwave is an internet-based microgenre that is characterized by distinct low-fidelity, or lo-fi, beats skillfully paired with heavy sampling of existing media to produce music that sounds refurbished, post-modernized, retro and futuristic – all at the same time.

“The whole appeal of vaporwave is its use of remaining unknown, that in a world where nothing is private, it is refreshing to find something that feels like it was found in the dumpster of a thrift shop where it does not matter who it came from or who made it only that it takes you elsewhere, somewhere distant from reality,”

Vaporwave has an extremely distinguishable aesthetic characterized by its use of vintage computer imagery and its satirical appropriation of old media and the romanticizing of ’80s and ’90s consumerist culture.

Vaporwave also is a music and art genre that gained traction in 2010. Vaporwave artists steal, download, rip and record digital relics of the 1980s and 1990s, which include everything from Kmart Muzak to shampoo commercial footage. The resulting art pieces function both as an homage to and a critique of the late 20th-century capitalism that helped spawn them.

“In a sense, when we mine this old material for content, we're reading love letters to ourselves from the past,”

Bandcamp links

https://bandcamp.com/tag/vaporwave?tab=all_releases
https://bandcamp.com/tag/synthwave?tab=all_releases

Edit Note: Vaporwave as well as other forms of synthwave depend on the artwork to help the listener understand the experience. Without the artwork it all sounds like electronic beats.