VAPORWAVE A musical genre.
By Aidan Grigsby and Abdullah Ahmed.
Contents What is vaporwave? 3 Examples? 5 Listen. 6 Quick info. 7 Who made it?8 Where? 9 Aesthetic? 10 How do you make VAPORWAVE? .11 About the authors.12
What is V a p o r w a v e ?
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What is it? Vaporwave is a musical genre invented in the early 2010’s that is inspired by Sea Punk, Bounce House, and Chillwave.
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Examples
Classic and popular examples of Vaporwave are Floral Shoppe by Macintosh Plus, 0 by Black Banshee, HIT VIBES by Saint Pepsi, and Telenights by ghosting.
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LISTEN In the following links we have great examples of vaporwave songs to listen to. Cherry Pepsi リサフランク420 / 現代のコン ピュー Hyper Object
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What inspired Vaporwave? Vaporwave was inspired by genres like sea punk, cyber punk, and chillwave.
Where do I find vaporwave. Vaporwave can be found on all music streaming sites such as soundcloud and bandcamp. Due to many complications with sampling vaporwave cannot be found on iTunes, the Play Store, Spotify, etc.
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Who Made It? Vaporwave first originated in the late 2010s as an internet unofficial genre, the first to make vaporwave music were Ariel Pink and James Ferraro. Vaporwave didn’t actually get popular until 2012 when Blank Banshee released an album called 0.
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Where Did It Originate? Vaporwave originated anonymously on the internet in Britain. It happened in the early 2010’s. At first it did not have a name and people would just call it different names.
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What is aesthetic? You might have noticed in this magazine we used a lot of 90’s esc styling. This is the aesthetic of vaporwave. All things 90’s and consumerist. Vaporwave itself is a parody of consumerism , using slowed down parts of other songs. Here are some things you will see in the vaporwave aesthetic a lot.
Sculpted heads are very common in glitchy formats.
Japanese text is also common, representing the rise of Japanese products in the 90’s.
Windows 95 logos are common as well.
CD logos are used to represent the growth of technology from vinyl records to cd’s.
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How do you make Vaporwave Vaporwave is made by using a DAW (Digital audio workstation). All vaporwave includes sampled songs that are slowed and pitched down. Then a beat is added. Good examples of DAWS used to make vaporwave are FL Studio 12 (Aidan uses it), and Ableton Live 9.
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About The Authors.
Aidan Grigsby is an active SoundCloud member who makes music on FL Studio. Although he has attempted Vaporwave before, most of his music is trap beats. He has yet to receive any money from this article or soundcloud. https://soundcloud.com/zxzy/beat_0
Abdullah Ahmed is an active forum researcher. He goes around researching secrets about games that might not be famous. He also constantly mixes music clips to create interesting combinations of sound. He does not receive any profit from his work, he does it for fun.
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