If you've not heard about Vaporwave before, then you're missing out on a worldwide music phenomenon. I've written about it here about a year ago, but it's just long-winded romanticism. In short, I'd say they're beautiful, hyper-contextualised music. Basically meme music, which is perfect for endless organic discovery. I can't remember when was the last time I repeated a track more than twice - bedroom musicians all over the world are just pumping out good vaporwave non-stop! If cryptocurrency is magic internet money, then Vaporwave is magic internet music.
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I am a vaporwave artist, going to be posting more of my original content here as opposed to Facebook / Tumblr. Making internet money on Steemit is pretty vaporwave. Now if I could only get my 5000 followers on here....
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Post your top 3 vaporwave albums :)
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i'll try living like this - death's dynamic shroud.wmv
Google Glass - Google Glass Remembers the iPod Classic
Gran Turismo 89 - Super GT yeah I know this one is mine but I love it
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Ref:
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Just completing the references....
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Have you written any vaporwave for noobs tutorial before? I think it could score well on google search rankings.. i think the fun about vaporwave (maybe moreso than any other kind of music) is to showcase how one approaches their track / album. It's all about sharing afterall..
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Awesome :D
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It's kind of an oxymoron, bt I'd love to chop and screw these refs >_<
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Do it! It's not an oxymoron at all xD Vaporwave is a post-irony genre..
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Right here brother!
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I would say link to your steemit content on facebook, even if you get a small percentage to come to Steemit, that's a win in my book!
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Maybe I'll try it later today.
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Great! We're the rare species on steemit! I wrote about Steem + Bandcamp recently https://steemit.com/idea/@kevinwong/steem-bandcamp-philosophy-maybe-an-approach-to-tap-into-the-market-of-7-billion-users-by-2025
Let me know your thoughts about how to build a vaporwave community around here :)
There are community features rolling out, and I wanna have more vaporwave artists trying Steemit out. Most of the times we make nothing anyway lol!
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Yeah, I'm very interested. I used to run a vaporwave community of about 3000 people, it was kind of like a facebook clone, but the server costs / maintenance got too big for just me to handle. I would love to take my existing infrastructure and integrate it on the steem blockchain.
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Don't think the Steem blockchain can accomodate media, it's too bloated so the content would merely be links, not content. But I'm sure there are complementary solutions. Recently I've heard about LBRY (another coin, for media content). @heymattsokol is using both Steem and LBRY.
As for Vaporwave and Steem vote, don't you think they're made for each other? xD
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@kevinwon @granturismo89 I love vaporwave! Always excited to find other fans :-D
as far as hosting music content on steem, honestly there isn't a great option right now. I can theorycraft a way to make it work with LBRY and Steem together:
Once LBRY is in open beta, it would be possible to host all the content on LBRY as audio files and then integrate them into a streaming music app. This could tie into Kevin's idea of an upvote-for-access scheme.
In the front end it would be: You click the upvote button and the song starts playing.
In the back end it would be: The app waits for the upvote, then requests the content from LBRY and plays it for the user.
That would work and the user would not need any LBRY tokens or wallet.
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I've been looking into LBRY but can't figure out the right windows syntax to get a wallet, so far no one in the slack has been able to help me out. Just gotta wait for the public launch I guess.
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@kevinwong, i'd like to discuss this more with you, should I just hit you up on steemchat?
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Yup, same handle :)
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Following for the a e s t h e t i c.
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Ｔｈａｎｋｓ
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awesome :)
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Very nice music project! Wish you all the best here!
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You going to pickup the new Com Truise album coming out the 16th? I pre-ordered it a few months back on blue and white marbled vinyl. So far the singles from it are KILLING!!!
Enjoy!!!
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Great tune! Thanks for sharing!
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Thanks @kevinwong I am actually selling the song for .30 steem, check it out here https://steemit.com/steemit/@wvm/my-song-sown-for-steem
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THANK YOU Kevin! For that I will send you my full album! is their an email I can send it to?
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SICK.
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Love all your posts :D
https://steemit.com/meme/@clains/a-e-s-t-h-e-t-i-c-v-a-p-o-u-r
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LOOK WHO IT ISSSS.
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!! ALIVENESS
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WE AIN'T EVEN DEAD. (yet)
And oh shit, Mojojojo upvoted my comment!? I am guilty of watching The Powerpuff Girls as a kid.
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powerpuff girls, cow and chicken, we had cartoon network
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Dexter's Lab, too! Did you ever get into Ren & Stimpy?
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for shure :) truth be told I consumed everything on TV indiscriminately, often multiple channels at the same time :D
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Ya damn American! I kid haha.
I didn't watch a LOT of TV, but what I did watch I was pretty selective about, I got bored really easily. I was typically always on a computer instead.
I got pretty into Japanese anime stuff as a kid, mainly stuff like Vampire Hunter D, Akira, ShadowSkill, stuff like that that I probably shouldn't have watched as a kid.
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We need a Steemit Vaporwave community when the feature comes up xD
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I used to run vaporspace.xyz, I'm looking into rebuilding it on the steem blockchain.
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Write up a post about it :)
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My vests behind your moderation!
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Tape such a perfect release from the scam drama :)
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Btw, have u used chainbb? is forum a suitable format for something liek a vaporwave community, you think?
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might be a good idea with the forum structure, but I still have a problem putting my password into anything but steemit.com :D
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What about keygen jams!? I am 10 years old again, using Usenet, DC++, and DCC'ing shit on IRC.
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"meme music" ok that's very accurate because the youtube comment seccion is filled of ａｅｓｔｈｅｔｉｃ jokes XD
but seriously, is like the crypto on music... building itself from magic internet use.
wait recalling, I think I actually first knew about this genre by a steem post, not yours but one I read in october last year, since then I haven't stopped, seriously. The first one I remember hearing was the whole floral shop album by macintosh plus, then one I highly recommend is all the music form "home" my fav track is 'pixys'
some real good shit going in the vaporwave genre.
btw, I have one rec list vaporwave music on youtube while typing.
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and being honest, as a musician, and artist is just so cool that they mix up everything I like, like old fashioned anime, greek/roman beauty art aesthetic, samples and futuristic tunes with synth, and videogames from childhood.
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Share your top tracks!
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Hahaha I love how random the video is and the song has nothing to do with it! 😆 awkwardly enjoyable.
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LOL awkwardly enjoyable, quite an appropriate description of the experience. I think they're jam-packed with the feels, dontcha think?
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Some serious S*** right there! Love it!
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Please share it far and wide :)
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Never heard of it. Nice sound, I will check out more
Thanks for that
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It's on the uptrend on google searches, although at a smaller magnitude than other genres (which are declining!)
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This is very interesting and new to me! I've never heard of Vaporwave, but the first few minutes and I'm already like damn this is cool! Thanks for introducing me to it, I'm sure I could listen to this during long drives! :D I have just started a new series on Steemit called A Song A Day, so I can share more music here. Steemit needs more music!
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Thanks for sharing it out :) Vaporwave could use more love.
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Of course I've heard about this exquisite music style. Although I am relatively new to this, I have some anthems I wanna share with you guys. Hope that you dont know them. Cheers
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I think every vaporwave listener would know st pepsi and macintosh ;)
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Really digging this Funky/Pop beat @kevinwong
I just got outta my chair and started dancing...
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Share it out :)
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You got It!
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Keep misreading the word with vaporware almost every time it's not changing either!
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It is the music equivalent of vaporware!
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Ow yeah! I just learned about Vaporwave a few weeks ago and I love it! These guys and gals are making some great stuff. Have been playing Hit Vibes by Saint Pepsi on repeat for days on end.
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Saint Pepsi is dope! Hoping we can bring em onboard some time soon ;)
I think now he's rebranded himself as Skylar Spence tho
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This is interesting! Dont think ive heard much of this earlier! Thanks for the share @kevinwong
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Think I only shared minimal house with u back then yea?
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I guess so but some of the tracks seem similar to this mix. But I've heard vaporwave before as you had mentioned it earlier... and I looked it up! :)
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Cool tune. Make sure to tag "boombox" in your tracks for an automatic resteem! upvoted!
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You have something setup for that? Awesome ;)
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I really like the 80s influences of vaporwave the a e s t h e t i c is just so clean.
If you like vapor wave check out some genres like LoFi, Fonk, future soul and future funk.
It is not all about mac plus. Artists like Saint Pepsi and Blank Banchee have some fantastic tunes going.
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I prefer the future funk variants :) well for being able to listen it with others anyway!
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Haha Ik ik. If you are into some of the future funk/soul and don't hate hip-hop Soulection Radio is a group to check out. Saturday at 10 EST on Beats 1!
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thanks for sharing :-)
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Thank you :)
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I love this! Thanks @kevinwong for introducing me to this genre!
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Np, just wanna share, coz i think it's underappreciated!
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Hello my friend
Happy day ... beautiful music
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You got me at "meme music"!
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it really is!
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How cool! I had never heard of the Vaporwave until now! Thanks for the post, always cutting edge @kevinwong !
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No prob, share it out!
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Sounds a lot like old school lounge house :-)
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The genre is actually quite undefined. Sometimes i call it elevator / shopping mall music lol
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Haha yeah, electric lounge music is very broad and it fits to any environment that requires relaxing.
I was listening to it last night. I found those Chinese pop vocals very interesting. I had no idea that Chinese female pop vocals may sound so "westernized" and cool. My ignorant concept of Chinese pop was limited to what I heard in some videos that sounded far from anything we hear in pop here.
Although Chinese death/black metal bands sound exactly like Western ones. Like Chthonic for example. Not sure if you know them but they are awesome.
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Interesting indeed!, would like to know more about this! :D
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It's basically hyper stylised plunderphonics :) Usually comes together with a title and image that makes them more meme-ish!
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What is plunderphonics? lol, i must dig more into this to understand :D :D
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Thanks for writing about it. Think you should consider an article about mixing.
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Yup considered it now :) I wish steemit supports other embed formats though!
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You've pulled me down a LOOONG LONG rabbithole. so far im loving it.
Is Macintosh Plus a good place to start?
I'll be listening to this with the right vibes like it's supposed to be enjoyed.. If you know what i mean.. hehehe
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Macintosh Plus is classic vaporwave. Google "vaporwave essentials"
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I've never heard of this! Thank you so much for the exposure. I'll be jamming this all day for the next week.
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Jam it up, share it out! :) thanks for checkin it out
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This shit is smooth!!!
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Glad you enjoyed it! Keep sharing!
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SAINT PEPSI is my FAV. Thanks to you @kevinwong
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sharing this with my vaporwave producing friend to get him on steemit this post and comment section is lit
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Thanks for dropping by @vincent4384 - it's lit af indeed! Message me up when they're around. Keep sharing!
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foshoooo followed you btw
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New synth wave, Classical and Vaporwave are probably the only kind of music I listen to over the past 2 years.
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Same lol, been more than 2 years too!
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fuel for posts
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Nice work! This reminded me a little of Clean Bandit:
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It actually has seeped into mainstream music! At least, aesthetically :)
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I am new to Vaporwave. I am about less than 10 minutes in right now after just reading about this term. Is there any Vaporwave artists that have some of their audio in flac and wav for free to allow remixing?
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Great and rare article found on steemit platform.
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interesting.....upvote and resteem....it
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No quite vaporwave but it has elements of different genres that are inspired by vapor https://steemit.com/music/@wvm/photo-of-me-working-on-sown-in-las-vegas
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This is sweet, thanks for sharing!
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What anime is this?
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Great post, was not familiar with vaporware. Thanks @kevinwong!
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