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as an aesthetic genre, emerged alongside its musical counterpart in the early 2010s. It is characterized by a distinctive visual style that often incorporates elements of early internet culture, 1980s and 1990s nostalgia, glitch art, and surrealism.
Let's listen to Veins Real Cold by Contact Lens while we view this thread.
Images often blend elements of reality and fantasy, creating dreamlike or disorienting scenes. There is a heavy emphasis on retro technology and media, such as old computer interfaces, VHS tapes, and early 3D graphics.
Influences from Japanese pop culture, anime, and consumer products are prevalent. It is common to create collages from various digital resources such as old computer assets, memes, and other internet artifacts. There is often an underlying sense of melancholy or irony, reflecting on the ephemeral nature of trends and the passage of time.
Vaporwave explores the blurring lines between reality and virtuality, often creating a sense of disconnection or artificiality.
Vaporwave often critiques consumer culture by repurposing commercial imagery and advertising slogans.
Outrun, also known as synthwave, is another aesthetic that overlaps with vaporwave. Both share neon colors and retro-futuristic elements, but outrun is more focused on high-energy, 1980s-inspired car culture and synth music, often featuring sleek sports cars and nighttime cityscapes.
The aesthetic oscillates between idealized, utopian visions of the past and dystopian, decaying representations of the future.
Images of CRT monitors, early Macintosh computers, floppy disks, and other obsolete tech are common.
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Palm trees, beaches, and tropical drinks are frequently depicted, adding to the escapist, utopian feel.
Ancient Greek and Roman statues, architecture, and busts are frequently used, juxtaposed with modern digital elements.
Not everyone is aware that slapping a waifu on some grid lines is not objectively vaporwave, but we won't talk about that.
It's weird to think about how we used to feel about technology back in those days.
This song paired with this video really conveys the sadness that I feel about it now.
System Focus by Internet Club
New vaporwave artist, released a single just today
nice posting gais :)
>>0x00001c
what makes one sample free and one sample free adjacent?
>>0x00001d
> what makes one sample free and one sample free adjacent?
or more importantly, is it even possible for vaporwave to be sample free at all...
the world may never know.
>>0x00001d
I'd say the biggest difference is sample-free vaporwave actually samples their own original music whereas sample-free adjacent is just stuff that sounds like vaporwave sample material
>>0x00001f
it seems kind of a joke to me that artists who did not traditionally make vaporwave have re-marketed their music ideas as "sample free vaporwave" and then have the audacity to list real vaporwave albums beneath them saying, "this stuff is adjacent to what we do"
>>0x00001c
when in reality it's the other way around.
but to each their own. I'm sure whatever artists did not make these kinda graphics themselves.
>>0x000020
>literal synthwave, chillsynth, and hypnagogic pop is "vaporwave" now
>but music that sounds indistinguishable from 99% of any other vaporwave isnt vaporwave now just because they happened to sample their own original music
