Writing about vaporwave in 2016 is almost impossible. Neophytes often seem baffled by the genre, assuming they've heard of it at all. Meanwhile, fans insist that vaporwave is dead. How do you write ...

In this accompaniment to his Year in the Online Underground piece, Adam Harper—the premier writer on new, emergent, underground music—reflects on the year in vaporwave and selects his favorites.

Ramona Andra Xavier wants to move beyond music. For the past seven years, Xavier has helped to define vaporwave, a sample-heavy genre of electronic music that repurposes digital relics from the late ...

Soundware maven Bvker says that its ‘80s-inspired packs are among the most popular on its roster, so it’s put together a special vaporwave drum kit, known as Aesthetic, that you can download for free.

The Vaporwave album Conditions at Hickory begins with static, as if you’re tuning in to a 1940s radio broadcast. First and second tracks “Foothills” and “Daily Commute” start out humdrum and benign ...

In the early 2010s, a sense of yearning for the recent past captured the attention of Internet users worldwide. The retro revival set its sights and sounds on the 1980s and ’90s, rebooting the decades ...

A vaporwave and cloud rap beat produced by Dices. Contact [email protected] for more. Dog and owner were killed at ...

FM synthesis is the sound of the 1980s, it’s the sound of shopping malls and Macintosh Plus. It’s the sound of the Motorola DynaTAC, busts of Helios, and the sound of vaporwaveサ閲ユ. The chips most ...